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Dr. Loring is a bold and outspoken advocate, educator and gifted scientist.
Her research team studies genomics and epigenomics of hESCs and iPSCs. As part of the "Frozen Zoo" project her lab generated the first reprogrammed cells from endangered species. Her translational<|fim_middle|> on the ethics boards of Merck KGaA and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and is a long-standing member of the GPI Science Advisory Board.
Stem Cell Person of the Year: Dr. Loring came out as the winner for her exceptional contributions in 2015 and throughout her many years in the field.
She not only has made numerous advances scientifically, but also gone the extra mile in many respects as an advocate and educator.Her scientific contributions include outstanding research on human stem cells and in particular in stem cell epigenetics. See her publications on GoogleScholar.
She has been a great mentor to her trainees. You can visit her lab page here. She has also been a creative leader in producing IPS cells from endangered species an area with huge potential ecologically and at a societal level in terms of preventing extinctions.
"Down Syndrome In Human Neuronal Cell Models" | projects include stem cell applications for Parkinson's disease, multiple sclerosis, autism, and Alzheimer disease. Under her guidance, her lab is creating collections of cell lines for disease modeling and ethnicity-associated drug toxicity studies.
Jeanne is also involved in the societal issues associated with stem cell research, including the bioethics of stem cell generation and clinical use, the legal implications of stem cell patents, and educating the public about the dangers of unregulated stem cell treatments. She has served | 94 |
Now there's an easy way to enjoy the AT-LP60BK-BT wireless belt<|fim_middle|> both the wired speaker and Bluetooth but not recommended as all Bluetooth signals have an inherent latency.
Can I pair the turntable to any Bluetooth speaker?
You may pair the turntable to other popular Bluetooth speakers with the same configurations.
Hi there. I recently got this model and didn't find any info on the speaker in the product manual. I was wondering if you have any supplemental materials for the speaker. Thanks.
There is no supplemental material at this time; just what is included with the package.
Do you have my turntables that support BOTH Bluetooth as well as the ability to digitize the recording on a PC or Mac?
There is no model with both a Bluetooth transmitter as well as a digital USB output. I recommend using the USB model of the turntable with a third party Bluetooth transmitter from the analog output which would accomplish your setup.
Does this turntable pair with a sonos speaker?
No, as Sonos does not use Bluetooth, but rather their own 2.4GHz signal, you may connect the turntable to a wired connection such as the Sonos Bridge to integrate into a Sonos System. | -drive turntable straight out of the box. This turntable/speaker system combines the AT-LP60BK-BT with a powerful wireless speaker to give you great-sounding audio from your vinyl with no additional audio equipment required. Set the turntable up in one room, pair it with the speaker, place the speaker anywhere within the 30-foot operating range, and then sit back and enjoy your records!
Of course, the AT-LP60BK-BT can also be used as a traditional wired turntable (and with other wireless speakers and headphones, as well). But however you choose to listen, the turntable will give you outstanding audio reproduction with the ease of automatic operation controlled by the Start and Stop buttons on the front of the unit. There's also a button that lifts and lowers the tonearm, allowing you to operate the turntable manually if you choose.
The AT-LP60BK-BT plays both 33-1/3 and 45 RPM records and includes a Dual Magnet™ cartridge with replaceable stylus that is integrated into the tonearm for assured performance and ease of setup. The turntable comes with a 45 RPM adapter, a dual RCA output cable (for wired connection) and a removable hinged dust cover.
The portable wireless speaker measures 7" in diameter and is equipped with two 1.75" full-range drivers and a passive radiator to deliver clear, powerful audio with enhanced bass. The speaker housing is constructed of a strong aluminum alloy, and is outfitted with a durable fabric grill. Power, play/pause, volume and hands-free calling buttons are located on the top of the speaker for easy access, with the built-in mic (for making calls via a paired smartphone) conveniently located on the front of the speaker next to the power LED. A 3.5 mm (1/8") jack and TF card slot are available on the back of the speaker, allowing you to listen to audio from a wired device or from files saved on a TF or microSD card. The speaker's internal battery supplies 10 hours of continuous playback, and can be recharged using the included 61 cm (2') USB charging cable. The speaker also comes with a 3.5 mm (1/8") to 3.5 mm (1/8") auxiliary audio cable and a speaker stand.
*The above figures depend on operating conditions.
Can I pair this bluetooth speaker to other devices such as my smart phone? If so, how?
No you may not connect via Bluetooth to a transciever device such as a computer or smartphone but rather to a receiver device such as a speaker or headphone.
Do I set the turntable on "line" when I pair with the speaker?
How do I get the speaker to work? What do I need to plug into what? I have charged it but have no sound from the speaker?
when the arm comes down it does not stay in place, the arm need more down paressure?
Can I play records on the turntable and record direct to my computer and or smart phone.
Can sound play from both the Bluetooth and the record player or is it just one or the other? Will this pair to an HK aura studio speaker?
Note, the turntable does not have internal speakers. The output signal may be used by | 682 |
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Founded in 1870, and incorporated as a town in 1916, Bowie has grown from a small railroad stop to the largest municipality in Prince George's County, and the fifth largest city in the State of Maryland, with an estimated population of 58,682. The town was first called Huntington City, though its train station was named in honor of local resident, Governor Oden Bowie, president of the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad. The town was subsequently rechartered as Bowie. In the early days the land was subdivided by developers into more than 500 residential building lots, to create a large town site at a junction of the Baltimore and Potomac's main line to southern Maryland, and the branch line to Washington, DC.
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The D3300 may have been replaced by the D3400, but that's no reason to discount this entry-level DSLR. In fact, while the D3400 costs a little bit more (though prices are continuing to fall), the D3300 is the better buy right now.
Despite the growing popularity of mirrorless cameras, the entry-level DSLR market is still incredibly popular for those looking to take the next step in their photography journey.
Nikon's range of D3xxx models has proved incredibly popular over the years for new users looking to expand their creativity thanks to their blend of easy handling and solid performance, backed-up by an impressive range of lenses and accessories.
The Nikon D3300 features a high resolution 24.2MP APS-C sensor, which is pretty impressive when you consider the enthusiast-focused (and much higher priced) D7200 shares the an almost identical sensor with it. Like the rest of the Nikon range, the D3300's sensor does away with a low-pass filter on the sensor as well, which means even more detail can be captured.
In addition to this, the native sensitivity range runs from ISO100 to 12,800, and there's an expansion setting that takes it to the equivalent of ISO25,600, that should provide plenty of flexibility for a range of lighting situations.
quality JPEGs. Not probably quite a match for some mirrorless rivals, but more than enough for most people's needs.
The EXPEED 4 processing engine is also responsible for allowing the D3300 to record Full HD movie footage at frame rates up to 50p/60p and with continuous autofocus. Helpfully, there's a microphone port as well as a built-in stereo mic for better sound recording during movie shooting. If you want 4K, you'll either have to look further up the Nikon line-up or at some mirrorless competition like the Panasonic Lumix G7.
Unlike some (pricier) rivals sporting articulating screens, the 3.0-inch display on the rear of the D3300 sits flush to the body. The absence of a touchscreen interface is also a little disappointing, especially when you consider how many of the camera's controls are changed via the screen itself. If these are deal-breakers, then you might want to look further up the Nikon range to the D5600or rivals from Canon.
Like pretty much every DSLR at this price point, the D3300's optical viewfinder only offers a 95% field of view. While it is bright and clear, not being 100% does mean that there is a chance of something appearing in the final image that you didn't notice when framing up your shot.
The D3300 is the second DSLR from Nikon to use a monocoque construction – this means that the chassis is made from a single piece of material. Lighter than the D3200 it replaced, the D3300 is actually a bit heavier than the D3400, with Nikon managing to shave a very modest 15g off the 410g body-only weight of the D3300.
The grip is still deep and comfortable to hold, with the textured surface making it feel particularly secure in the hand.
The new 18-55mm kit lens that the D3300 will probably most likely be purchased with is now collapsible. While by no means small in comparison to compact system camera lenses of the same equivalent zoom range, when collapsed the lens is quite a bit shorter than its predecessor, making it easier to fit into a small bag when not in use.
When you want to use the camera (with this kit lens attached), you'll first need to press a button on the lens barrel to expand it back into normal proportions. This does mean that start-up time from packed away is a little slower than other cameras, but you can of course leave it extended if you need a quicker start.
Meanwhile, there's an 11-point AF system that we've seen on a host of previous models, which has a central cross-type AF point for extra sensitivity.
It's a little unremarkable, especially when compared to some mirrorless rivals, but its a tried and test system that does a solid job.
Autofocusing speeds are pretty high, especially in daylight or well-lit conditions. It's rare for the kit lens to hunt around to acquire focus, and rarer still for it to present a false confirmation of focus. Speeds do drop a little in lower light conditions, but it's only when it gets very dark that the lens struggles to focus at all.
The D<|fim_middle|> or missed shot. | 3300's interface has a pleasingly modern appearance, with the high resolution giving the display beautifully rounded edges and displaying the interface's colors well.
When shooting, the camera displays three circles which represent shutter speed, aperture and sensitivity (ISO). These displays change as you alter settings using the scrolling dials, most obvious being the aperture circle which closes and opens to represent the opening and closing of the aperture blades. If you're new to creative photography, this is a great way to get to grips with the basics.
As expected, the D3300 has excellent resolving power. Even when zoomed in to images at 100% reveals that very fine details can be seen.
With such a high pixel count (24 million pixels), there comes the increased chance of noise appearing in images. The D3300 handles low light, high sensitivity situations very well. Noise only really starts to become particularly apparent when shooting at ISO 3200 above, and even then it's acceptable, or certainly preferable to a blurred | 212 |
A very warm welcome to Walderslade Girls' School. Our students and staff are extremely proud to be part of this unique and prestigious school.
As one of the consistently top performing high schools in the county, we offer a progressive curriculum that is firmly rooted within the parameters of traditional values. We uphold good manners and have the highest expectations of our girls both academically, and in their behaviour and conduct. Our approach is to meet the needs and aspirations of every child, whatever their level of ability.
<|fim_middle|> visit and see for yourself. | The school experience at WGS provides a wealth of opportunities for girls to develop their inner talents and gifts. The most academically able are challenged through their learning to achieve the highest grades and never to settle for second best. Students for whom learning is more challenging are supported and nurtured through an inclusive approach to education that enables them to develop their confidence and to enjoy success.
WGS is, above all, a very happy school. For students to learn and thrive they need to feel cared for, valued and supported. We place great emphasis on high quality pastoral care, and the work of the tutors and Heads of Year is supported by a designated team of specialist pastoral support staff.
Society today poses many challenges to young people. They need to be confident, resilient, and able to think creatively. Every day at WGS these important skills and attributes are promoted and developed. Our girls are encouraged to be independent in their thinking and problem solving.
As school is such a central part of a young person's life, it is therefore important to have challenging, engaging and above all, fun activities to look forward to. The academic curriculum is supplemented by a superb range of co-curricular clubs and activities designed to meet the needs and interests of all the students. Throughout the academic year we always have something new ahead on the calendar.
When our girls look back on their time at WGS they remember with such fondness that they were, and will always be, a Walderslade Girl. Our school is incredibly special – you are warmly invited to | 309 |
Okay… so I didn't exactly say that because that's not very professional BUT, I was excited to finally check something off my to-do list! Best part? I spent very little money on this redo as my cute next door neighbor took pity on my shabby mailbox and simply gave me a new one… um, about a year ago. Yes, my adorable next door neighbor dad GAVE me a brand new mailbox, which sat in my garage for a year. What's wrong with me!? LOL! (Life of a blogger, much?) Well without further adieu, here is the new mailbox with its makeover complete. Do you dig it?
I started with a new-but-dusty-and-slightly-knocked-around-from-sitting-in-the-garage-too-long black mailbox, as seen here.
Okay wow, ALL my neighbors need a new mailbox. And new posts. Hmm, I think I'll surprise my brother (across-the-street neighbor) with a new mailbox as well, sheesh! We're all acreage homes so what do ya do? Anywho!
Give it a coat of your base color. I chose Rustoleum's 2x paint + primer… time saver! Just your standard white spray paint in a gloss finish.
(and didn't want to make another trip,) I simply shoved a bunch of washers behind the screw (inside the mailbox) to make up for the space. Problem solved! LOL Then I screwed it in, nice & tight. Gosh, don't you already just love the custom look? Only $5 and gives it a huge statement!
Okay so now to spruce up the flag….
because it holds the stencil very tightly but won't peel off the fresh paint. I only allowed the paint to dry for a couple of hours in between errands and this tape didn't rip off a speck!
This step is slightly confusing but worth it. So, I wanted the octagons to be hollow so I used ScotchBlue Painters Tape to mimic the octagon. I made a sample octagon by cutting and laying a few different pieces of tape until I got the shape I wanted. Then I laid my sample back-to-back on a new piece of tape so they wouldn't stick (pic 2) and cut around the new shape. Then I placed it inside each octagon and painted around it. That's it!
Using a circle foam sponge brush from my local craft store, I sponged on a few circles in random places.
To create an arrow, I placed 2 pieces of tape where I liked it, made an arrow head and small tail and painted inside. So easy and no leaks!
This is where owning a vinyl machine comes in handy. I used mine to create an "M" for my last name and house number, (Bell MT font.) I then painted the insides gray to match the custom pull and just lovely love love how it all came together.
to make it stinkin' cute so stay tuned! Oh, and if you loved this project, you'll want to be sure to check out all the other creative talent at the Summer DIY Blog Hop taking place at Centsational Girl's blog!
This project was brought to you in partnership with The Home Depot and ScotchBlue Painter's Tape. Follow along!
Ummm hellloooo. I want this mailbox. It has an M (for Mique…who cares about P for my last name), honeycomb and is DARLING. Only I'm in CA, the land of a million mailboxes in one. No stand alones here. Wah wah wah. Also- no acreage here either!! I'm jealous about everything in this post.
I have to do this now!
My mailbox is already white. Do you think I will need to rough it up a bit to get new paint to stick?
I am really in need of a screen door to let in all those summer morning breezes!!
Kelli- you're too stinking cute. I am freaking out over the design! I absolutely love it- and now I want to go get a mailbox just to make this! We have a big funky community box- don't think the USPS would like me jazzing it up, sadly!
I could definitely use some painters tape for my front door which is in the process of getting a paint job!
I've been trying to talk the hubs into helping me do some board and batten in my family room. So far, he's not going for it.
I would use the gift card to update my own mailbox or another one of my projects on my DIY list. Awesome job!
I would make over my daughters playtableby using SctochBlue Painters tape and Behr paints from Home Depot. Using them to make a boring one color tabletop into a game top that can be used for matching games, checkers and other fun activities.
I have a nightstand that is in desperate need of a spruce up!
how cute, and this is a great thing to personalize!
I'm totally inspired… your mailbox is adorable! I've been toying with the idea of transforming my mailbox and haven't been able to find an inspiration point. Thanks for motivating to get started! Awesome project!!!
I'd love to do a mailbox make over, but I'd probably use the gift card to buy wood and numbers to create a house marker.
I want to re-do the trim on my windows so I could definitely use some scotch painters tape and a little $$ to Home Depot!
I need PAINT. PAINT, PAINT, PAINT! Doing two kid room makeovers right now. So, obviously, I will need paint TAPE as well. Super cute mailbox!!
I would like to try something similar to your mailbox makeover with the Scotch blue painter's tape.
What wouldn't I do or buy?
If I won the gift card I would buy the Dremel Moto Saw. I have so many uses for that thing but can't bring myself to spend the money on one.
I love this! I have to make it now!
I am in need of some wood! My husband is dying to make us a new tv table!
Also, according to USPS.com guidelines….
any shade of green, brown, white, yellow or blue. The preferred flag color is fluorescent orange.
What a cute mailbox! We are getting ready to I've into our new home and quite a few things need makeovers. The mailbox is on the top of my list. Seems easy enough. The kids rooms are looming large.
I wanted to say that your mailbox is stunning! How fun!!! Now I MUST do two things, 1) convince hubby to update our mailbox and 2) figure out the design. Great job and very inspiring.
To enter the giveaway, I have this pinned and plan to complete in a few weeks for our front porch. Its older but its stunning.
Makes me wish we had stand-alone mailboxes in our neighborhood! Someday… 🙂 Love the makeover!
Vintage Beach signs!! Great summer DIY AND paint project in one!
I adore the way this room make over came out! And I really appreciate how much work that went into it!! Just beautiful!
Because I wish I had a mailbox to decorate like this…. how cool!
i think this one is a new favorite- what postman or woman would not like this makeover-<|fim_middle|> thank for the inspiration on that one: http://www.shanty-2-chic.com/2013/07/address-numbers-post-planter.html!!!
Love, love, love this!! It is so stinkin cute!! I want to do this to my mailbox. Love it!!
We'll be painting our front door & shutters when we get moved into our new home at the end of summer!
So darn cute! I love these painted rosettes!
I'd love to stencil more!
SUPER cute!! Thanks for the chance!
I want to do this this summer to our outside BBQ area. We have a built in BBQ and I think this would class it up!
I mean, seriously, how creative is that!?!
Anything Mandi does is amazing!
My favorite summer project so far has been my front porch swing. It's been much more challenging than I thought it would be, but fun!
What an adorable mailbox. I think I'd like to do something much the same.
My current mailbox is the old, ugly plastic kind on a rickety metal post.
Looking forward to doing this chalkboard backsplash in my home!
I would love to paint my bathroom!
We bought red furniture from ikea, two dressers for a nursery, now we are trying to match the paint. I picked up a great changing table at a yard sale, but the color is wrong. And also a mirror and end table…want to match the red furniture. Will be taping off and using a lot of blue painters tape.
What a fabulous job! Love the hexagons. Too bad I don't have an individual mail box to makeover…would have loved to have given a try.
What an awesome looking mailbox!
I LOOOOOOVE this too! The colors and the shapes are just awesome! I'm in love!
Well, my summer DIY project is to repaint all our door jams in the house. I also need to repaint the hall bathroom cabinet and may add some trim and knobs to give it new life.
Love the mailbox. Have one attached to my house and that pattern would be great.
Super cute mailbox. I would love to make paint an frame for my instagram prints.
I love Ana White and her amazing plans. I love this DIY Frame & panel planter.
Sticking with a mailbox theme,I'm wanting to try this for my garden, but now I'm inspired to make it a super cute mailbox! Love the way yours turned out.
I've been waiting 6 months for my husband to start planking our bedroom walls. This will be a great start towards it!
I am wanting to do this pallet sofa but maybe a little smaller, I have a small space to work with.
I love your mailbox, I really need to redo mine too.
Super cute mailbox. I have never seen one like it! Nice job.
Love this mailbox! Sharing on fb today!
Okay…. so…. I admit that we just bought our house a year ago, but our mailbox looks worse than your original one. I am SO inspired to either give it a makeover or to buy a new one and make it this cute!!! Thank you SO much for sharing!!! Honestly, this has been my favorite project that I have found this summer so I would link back to you!
I like the checkerboard table! (http://www.dreamgreendiy.com/2013/06/24/bloggers-hop-game-table-featuring-scotchblue/) If I try it, I think I'll have to make something to hold the pieces when not in use, or they'll be everywhere.
What did you use for a post for the mailbox?
This is really cool! Who knew mailboxes could be beautiful? | I bet many people never give a second thought to how their box looks! this is really cute!
Cuuuuute mailbox!! Too bad our mailbox is a community/ neighborhood one! Shanty 2 Chic posted this awesome address and planter post http://www.shanty-2-chic.com/2013/07/address-numbers-post-planter.html ! Super cute too… Think it would look great in our garden in the front yard!! 🙂 P.s. Love your blog!!
I love this idea for making quick, inexpensive outdoor pillows!
Oh how stinkin' cute!!! I may just have to try this soon, myself!!! I have spent the majority of the summer thus far revamping the mismatched furniture in my boys' room, so not really a "summer" project. However, I ran across the cutest plant hanger today and will be headed to Home Depot tomorrow for the supplies!!! I have Shanty 2 Chic to | 198 |
Football: Clayton Thorson committed to constant improvement
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Clayton Thorson barks out assignments before a snap. The diligent redshirt freshman still has plenty of room for improvement in his first season.
Alex Putterman, Web Editor
On the bus ride back to Evanston after Northwestern's 38-0 loss to Michigan, Clayton Thorson dove into the game film. He watched his Wildcats offense sputter to 168 yards, saw the unit fail to convert on 11 of its 13 third-down attempts, viewed his should-have-been interception in the second quarter and his actually-was interception (returned for a touchdown) on the next play.
It's all part of the process of improvement.
"After every game you've got to go back and look at the tape, see what you did wrong and see what you did right," Thorson, a redshirt freshman, said. "Obviously after this game there's a worse taste in your mouth."
In August, when NU named Thorson starting quarterback, the Cats looked like a borderline-bowl team, not the Big Ten West-title contenders they now appear to be. After one year of apprenticeship as a true freshman, Thorson was supposed to take over a promising start-up — instead he's become CEO of a Fortune 500 company.
Thorson has certainly had his moments this season. There was the beautiful lob to Miles Shuler to help seal Northwestern's win against Stanford, the 17-point third-quarter against Ball State, the touchdown run against Duke and the two others against Minnesota.
And he's had a few plays he'd like to have back, such as the near-interceptions against Stanford, the numerous incompletions against Duke, the three-turnover first half against Ball State and just about everything against Michigan.
So it goes as a redshirt freshman quarterback in the Big Ten.
"It's all a process of learning and getting better," offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach Mick McCall said. "But I think he's farther along than a lot of people expected right now."
Thorson's numbers won't win him any awards. He's completed 77-of-140 (55 percent) of his passes on the season, with four touchdown passes and four interceptions. Of 125 FBS quarterbacks, with roughly 23 pass attempts per game, he ranks 114th with 5.8 yards per attempt. The Wheaton, Illinois, native is known as a dual-threat and has flashed the ability to run the ball, but he hasn't made a big play with his feet since his<|fim_middle|> right now.
"The sky is the limit for him," McCall said. "This is the reason why: He will continue to take coaching, and he wants to learn everything. Not many times does he make the same mistake twice. He will take it, and it will lock in, and then three weeks down the road that same thing will happen and he doesn't make the same mistake."
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Thorson doesn't need to carry the Cats, but he needs to keep their offense on the field, namely by avoiding turnovers. The quarterback has found trouble this season when he failed to read the opposing defense and advance through his progressions. Against Ball State, he threw an embarrassing interception on a miscommunication with receiver Shuler. The play called for Shuler to either streak down the sideline or curl in, depending on the coverage — the receiver correctly chose to hitch, but Thorson lobbed the ball down the field, right into the arms of a defender.
"It's a process as a quarterback," coach Pat Fitzgerald said after that game. "He's handled the ebb and flow very, very well. That's a young man that's growing and really understanding the significance of his role."
The improvements are coming incrementally. Take Thorson's pocket presence. Early in the season the quarterback seemed to scramble from the pocket at the first sign of pressure. But as the year has progressed, that has begun to change. Senior superback Dan Vitale attributes that to Thorson's growing confidence.
"He's not afraid to get hit anymore," Vitale said. "He stays in there and steps up and makes the throws now, which I think is evident even in this last loss."
Thorson said his instincts are catching up with the speed of the college game, allowing him to make proper decisions under pressure.
"It's just about feeling the pocket," the quarterback said. "Our o-line is doing a really good job of pass protection. I've just got to feel it. If there's a guy in my face I've got to get out and make a play."
Coaches and teammates emphasize Thorson's even-keeled personality, how, in McCall's words, "He doesn't get too high or too low." That calm demeanor seems almost necessary for a redshirt freshman thrust into a position of enormous responsibility and saddled with all the fan attention, media requests and Internet criticism that comes with it.
By all accounts, Thorson has handled his debut season with all the maturity a coach could ask for. That begins in the film room, where, McCall says, the quarterback takes a proactive role to tape study.
"He's telling me what could be better," McCall said. "He's really coaching me up. And I'm trying to correct him as he goes through it, but he knows what he's doing wrong after he's got a chance to look at it."
Asked what he has done most successfully this season, Thorson doesn't point to any sort of on-field accomplishment. Instead he notes that he's done a good job "getting in the film room and being a student of the game."
With three more college seasons ahead, the future appears bright for Thorson, but NU needs him to maintain control this season as the team wades deeper into its conference schedule. If Thorson leads the Cats to a division title, he will do so partly through talent but also through the work ethic and dedication to improvement that motivated him to pull up that game tape after the Michigan game. He knows he has no time to waste; he needs to keep getting better | 652 |
Coatlique was the mother of everything in the universe. She gave birth to Coyolxanuhqui, the Goddess of the Moon, and to a succession of sons who became the stars. Much later, Coatlique became pregnant again, to the shame of her children who plotted to kill her. But before they could act Coatlique gave birth to the raging God of War, Huitzilopochtli, who destroyed his brothers and sisters with the help of a fire serpent,<|fim_middle|> into the food chain of life that already exists. Not only that, but any group of chemicals starting to form what we might call "proto-life" would quickly be broken down again by oxidation reactions in Earth's present oxygen-rich atmosphere. But four million years ago, when there was no indigenous life and when the Earth's atmosphere was a reducing one with no free oxygen, could life have arisen then by spontaneous generation?
In 1953, Stanley Miller, a graduated student at the University of Chicago, working with the chemist Harold Urey, passed an electric charge through a flask containing water, ammonia, methane and hydrogen and after a few weeks found he had formed the simple amino acids glycine and alanine. This isn't life, but it is the building blocks of life and subsequent experiments showed that this trend is persistent. So long as you start with molecules that contain carbon, hydrogen, oxygen and nitrogen, amino acids common in proteins are the usual result.
These experiments have not been without their critics however. It is now thought, for instance, that the atmosphere of the early Earth did not contain predominantly reducing molecules. And although lightening storms were probably very common, they were not continuous as the electric arc in Miller's experiment was. Still, it is widely accepted that conditions on the primitive earth are likely to have led to the production of some amino acids, if not in the quantities and variety implied by Miller and other researchers. So where did the rest come from?
In 1969, a meteorite fell on the town of Murchison, in Victoria, Australia. It proved to be rich in amino acids and so far over 90 have been identified. This suggests that amino acids can survive unchanged in the harsh environment of space and so may have been present in the Earth as it formed. From these amino acids and other simple compounds more complex structures can be built. For example, one of the products in Miller's experiment was hydrogen cyanide (HCN). In 1961, the Spanish American biochemist Juan Oro ran a similar experiment but included HCN in his original mixture. His products included adenine, a component of nucleic acids, of RNA and DNA, and of adenosine triphosphate (ATP) the major energy-releasing molecule in cells. In this way, common processes in the oceans of the primordial Earth could have built up proteins and nucleic acids.
Remember, there were no organisms in the early oceans, nor any free oxygen. These proteins and nucleic acids would have persisted unchanged at depths out of the reach of ultraviolet light and other cosmic radiation and there, given enough time, combinations could form until, by chance, a nucleic acid molecule capable of replication gave rise to the beginning of life.
So, is the theory of panspermia dead and buried? Not a bit of it, panspermia is alive and kicking strongly. Interest in the theory was rekindled in the 1970s by the British astronomers Fred Hoyle and Chandra Wickramasinghe. They, and other teams working in the same field, have identified complex organic compounds in dust clouds in interstellar space. Hoyle and Wickramasinghe argued that primitive organisms could have evolved on the surface of such dust grains and then been transported to Earth by comets and meteorites.
The 19th October 2000 issue of Nature reported the claims of a group of researchers to have revived bacteria that were dormant as spores in 250 million year old salt crystals from new Mexico, USA. While some suspect more recent contamination in this case, viable bacterial spores are widely accepted to have been recovered from 30 million year old amber. Recently, we have found life to be hardier and more tenacious than we ever thought possible, with "extremophiles" discovered living around deep sea volcanic vents and under the Antarctic ice.
Spores might conceivably survive long space journey hidden safely away from cosmic radiation, metres deep in a meteor. Even then, over the vast timescales needed for interstellar voyages the chances of a charged cosmic particle striking bacterial DNA increase, making it unlikely that many individuals would survive. But as Hoyle pointed out, it doesn't take many.
If interstellar seeding seems less than likely then, what about interplanetary?
Mars, being smaller and further from the Sun than the Earth is, would have cooled more quickly. It seems from recent observations that there was once liquid water on the surface of Mars and the planet may have had an early "warm, wet period" when life could have developed before it had a chance to get started on Earth. We have evidence that some meteorites found here originated on Mars and one of them, ALH84001, is controversially thought to harbour traces of ancient Martian bacteria. Life could have started first on Mars and then been seeded to the Earth. Perhaps we're all Martians.
This wasn't enough for Hoyle and Wickramasinghe though. They contested that microbial life not only seeded life on the early Earth, but that it continues to rain down on the planet today, brought on meteors and in comet tails. Not only that, but they also proposed that new diseases that seem to spontaneously arise, like the Spanish flu pandemic in 1918 that killed 20 million or more people, or the recent SARS outbreak, are the result of the introduction of new, spaceborne microbes. They cited the fact that many new respiratory diseases seem to come out of the Far East as evidence for their theory. As the micro-organisms are delivered into the Earth's upper atmosphere they become caught up in the jet stream. Lower winds, pushed up over the Himalayas, pick up the organisms from the jet stream, then descend onto the plain of China, delivering the bugs there first.
Just before Hoyle's death, he and Wickramasinghe published a paper in the Indian journal "Current Science" showing a correlation between the timing of flu pandemics and periods of high sunspot activity. The mechanism they proposed is that intense solar activity near the sunspot maximum increases the strength of the solar wind, which is channelled to Earth along the planet's magnetic field lines, carrying a even more micro-organisms down into the jet stream. This theory has been roundly criticised but has raised new interest in the whole idea of panspermia.
So, did life originate here and are new organisms still being delivered daily? The jury is likely to stay out on that one for a long time yet. | then beheaded his mother and cast her body down. Coatlique became the Earth Mother and her fertile body gave rise to all the life on Earth.
The Aztecs are by no means alone in suggesting that life on Earth originated in the heavens. Many creation myths from ancient peoples all around the world suggest much the same thing. So do they contain a grain of truth?
Anaxagoras's ideas, including panspermia, and put forward his own theory of the spontaneous generation of the lower forms of life. This theory, along with the divine creation of higher forms of life, was to hold sway for more than two thousand years, reinforced by theologians like Thomas Aquinas and upheld by scientists such as William Harvey and Isaac Newton. And you must admit, observational evidence seems to give this idea credence. It's only common sense that maggots appear spontaneously in decaying meat, frogs pop up from mud and mice creep ready formed out of rotting wheat.
The dogma of spontaneous generation was not put to the test until 1668, when the Italian physician Francesco Redi performed an experiment that showed that only meat to which adult flies had access gave rise to maggots. Redi proposed that the maggots came from microscopically small eggs laid on the meat by the flies, but this wasn't quite enough to kill off spontaneous generation. When Anton van Leeuwenhoek discovered micro-organisms in stagnant water in 1675, many scientists took up the baton again and decided that these forms of life at least must come spontaneously from dead and decaying matter.
It wasn't until 1862 that Louis Pasteur finally did for spontaneous generation as a theory for the emergence of the lower forms of life, with an experiment that allowed air to percolate into a flask containing a sterilised nutrient broth, but which excluded dust particles and micro-organisms. Nothing happened. Nothing grew. But the final collapse of the theory left a gaping hole in natural philosophy. If neither divine creation nor spontaneous generation accounted for the emergence of life, how exactly had it begun? A new theory became even more urgent in the latter half of the 19th century after Charles Darwin and Thomas Huxley (Darwin's Alastair Campbell) diminished the role of God in the development of life in Earth.
In 1907 the Swedish chemist Svante Arrenhuis published a book called "Worlds in the Making" in which he postulated that life had always existed and travelled continuously through space in the form of spores, colonising likely planets as it went. Spores escaped from the upper atmosphere of seeded planets through random motion, the theory held, and were then accelerated through space by radiation pressure from the local sun. Unfortunately for Arrenhuis, just three years after his book was published researchers showed that bacterial spores cannot tolerate the intensive ultraviolet light above the planetary atmosphere and so are unlikely to survive interplanetary, let alone interstellar, voyages without protection.
As the 20th century progressed, scientists began to revisit the idea of spontaneous generation. What Redi, Pasteur and others had actually shown was that the process is not taking place now over timescales observable in the lab. And if you think about it, it is entirely reasonable that life cannot spontaneously generate today because, if it did, it would be quickly incorporated | 691 |
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At our nine branch libraries, situated at the university's campuses in Munich, Garching, Freising and Straubing, we provide comprehensive collections of literature and access to information in the fields of natural sciences and technology, architecture, engineering, educational studies, environmental science, landscape planning, life and food sciences. We also carry out tasks in the area of literature and information provision for research facilities, companies and private individuals both in Bavaria<|fim_middle|> five textbook collections are available to all library patrons. Our courier service enables library items to be borrowed and returned free of charge at any branch library.
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Congratulations go out to all of our local Western New York young professionals named to Buffalo Business First's 30 Under 30 award list for 2014. Included in that list is our own Kelsey Thomas, CPA, recently promoted to Manager in the Buffalo office.
30 Western New Yorkers in the early stages of their careers, who are achieving at high levels at work and in the community, were carefully evaluated and chosen for this prestigious honor. The group was selected from more than 100 nominations. Among the factors considered for the third annual award<|fim_middle|> joined the board," says Kelsey.
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A passion for activism and engagement with her community is one of the key qualities that positions Kelsey as an ideal and worthy candidate of the 30 Under 30 honor. When you ask Kelsey to elaborate on what giving back to her community really means to her, she speaks enthusiastically about the local boards she sits on.
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\section*{ }
It is shown that a given non-autonomous system of two first-order
ordinary differential equations can be expressed in Hamiltonian
form. The derivation presented here allow us to obtain previously
known results such as the infinite number of Hamiltonians in the
autonomous case and the Helmholtz condition for the existence
of a Lagrangian.\\[1ex]
{\it Keywords:} Non-autonomous systems; Hamilton equations;
Lagrangians \\[2ex]
Se muestra que un sistema dado, no aut\'onomo, de ecuaciones
diferenciales ordinarias de primer orden puede expresarse en forma
hamiltoniana. La deducci\'on presentada aqu\'{\i} nos permite
obtener resultados previamente conocidos tales como el n\'umero
infinito de hamiltonianas en el caso aut\'onomo y la
condici\'on de Helmholtz para la existencia de una lagrangiana.\\[1ex]
{\it Descriptores:} Sistemas no aut\'onomos; ecuaciones de Hamilton;
lagrangianas \\[2ex]
PACS: 45.05.+x; 45.20.-d
\section*{\tres 1. Introduction}
As is well known, it is very convenient to express a given system of
ordinary differential equations (not necessarily related to
classical mechanics) as the Euler--Lagrange equations associated
with some Lagrangian, $L$, or as the Hamilton equations associated
with some Hamiltonian, $H$ (see, {\em e.g.}, Ref.\ 1). One of the
advantages of such identifications is the possibility of finding
constants of motion, which are related to symmetries of $L$ or $H$.
Also, the Hamiltonian of a classical system is usually regarded as
an essential element to find a quantum version of the mechanical
system.
In the simple case of a mechanical system with forces derivable from
a potential (that may depend on the velocities), there is a
straightforward procedure to find a Lagrangian or a Hamiltonian.
However, in the case of non-conservative mechanical systems or of
systems not related to mechanics, the problem of finding a
Lagrangian or a Hamiltonian is more involved. A given system of $n$
second-order ordinary differential equations are equivalent to the
Euler--Lagrange equations for some Lagrangian if and only if a set
of conditions (known as the Helmholtz conditions) are fulfilled
(see, {\em e.g.}, Refs.\ 2, 3 and the references cited therein).
The aim of this paper is to give a straightforward procedure to find
a Hamiltonian for a given system of two first-order ordinary
differential equations (which may not be equivalent to a
second-order ordinary differential equation) that possibly involves
the time in an explicit form. The results derived here contain the
Helmholtz condition for $n = 1$ (in the case where the given system
is equivalent to a second-order equation). In Sec.\ 2 the main
results of this paper are established, demonstrating that a given
system of first-order ordinary differential equations can be
expressed in Hamiltonian form looking for an integrating factor of a
differential form made out of the functions contained in the system
and, in Sec.\ 3, several examples are presented. In Sec.\ 4 we show
that, in the appropriate case, our results lead to the Helmholtz
condition for the existence of a Lagrangian.
\section*{\tres 2. Hamiltonians and canonical variables}
We shall consider a system of first-order ordinary differential
equations of the form
\begin{equation}
\dot{x} = f(x,y,t), \qquad \dot{y} = g(x,y,t), \label{1}
\end{equation}
where $f$ and $g$ are two given functions. A system of this class
can be obtained from a second-order equation
\[
\ddot{x} = F(x, \dot{x}, t),
\]
by introducing the variable $y = \dot{x}$. We are initially
interested in finding a Hamiltonian function, $H$, and canonical
variables, $q$, $p$, such that the corresponding Hamilton's
equations be equivalent to the system (\ref{1}).
Assuming that there is an invertible relation between the variables
$x$, $y$ and a set of canonical coordinates $q$, $p$, $x =
x(q,p,t)$, $y = y(q,p,t)$, in such a way that Eqs.\ (\ref{1}) are
equivalent to the Hamilton equations for $q$ and $p$ with a
Hamiltonian $H$, making use of the chain rule, one finds that
\begin{equation}
-g {\rm d} x + f {\rm d} y = \frac{\partial(x,y)}{\partial(q,p)}
{\rm d} H - \frac{\partial y}{\partial t} {\rm d} x + \frac{\partial
x}{\partial t} {\rm d} y + {\rm terms\ proportional\ to\ } {\rm d}
t. \label{0}
\end{equation}
Therefore, given the system (\ref{1}) we start by considering the
differential form
\begin{equation}
- (g - \phi) {\rm d} x + (f - \psi) {\rm d} y, \label{2}
\end{equation}
where
\[
\phi(q,p,t) \equiv \frac{\partial y(q,p,t)}{\partial t}, \qquad
\psi(q,p,t) \equiv \frac{\partial x(q,p,t)}{\partial t}
\]
are functions unspecified by now (see Eq.\ (\ref{7.5}) below). For a
fixed value of $t$, the differential form (\ref{2}) is always
integrable (see any standard text on ordinary differential
equations, {\em e.g.}, Ref.\ 4); that is, there exist (locally)
functions $\sigma$ and $H$, which may depend parametrically on $t$,
such that
\begin{equation}
- (g - \phi) {\rm d} x + (f - \psi) {\rm d} y = \sigma {\rm d} H.
\label{3}
\end{equation}
Now, for simplicity, without any loss of generality (since, once we
have found a set of canonical coordinates, we have the liberty of
making any canonical transformation afterwards), we choose $q \equiv
x$ (hence, $\psi = 0$) and, therefore,
\[
\frac{\partial(x,y)}{\partial(q,p)} = \frac{\partial p}{\partial y}.
\]
Then, by comparing Eqs.\ (\ref{0}) and (\ref{3}), the canonical
momentum, $p$, must be such that
\begin{equation}
\frac{\partial p(x,y,t)}{\partial y} = \frac{1}{\sigma(x,y,t)}.
\label{5}
\end{equation}
<|fim_middle|> - \frac{x}{m} + \frac{1}{2(\lambda \alpha^{2} -
\gamma)} \ln \left| \frac{\lambda - \gamma y^{2}}{1- \alpha^{2}
y^{2}} \right|.
\end{eqnarray*}
According to Eq.\ (\ref{6.6}), the canonical momentum $p$ can be
taken as
\[
p = \int \frac{{\rm d} y}{(\lambda - \gamma y^{2}) (1 - \alpha^{2}
y^{2})}.
\]
Despite the huge difference with the expressions given in Ref.\ 6,
one can show that the Hamiltonian obtained in that reference is
essentially the exponential of our $H$. (See, Eqs.\ (23) and (26) of
Ref.\ 6.)
\section*{\tres 4. The Helmholtz condition}
The case where one starts with a second-order equation of the form
\begin{equation}
\ddot{x} = F(x, \dot{x}, t) \label{11}
\end{equation}
(considered in Refs.\ 2, 3), is a particular case of the treatment
above if one defines, {\em e.g.}, $y \equiv \dot{x}$, that
transforms Eq.\ (\ref{11}) into the system
\[
\dot{x} = y, \qquad \dot{y} = F(x,y,t),
\]
which is of the form (\ref{1}) with $f(x,y,t) = y$ and $g(x,y,t) =
F(x,y,t)$. Then Eq.\ (\ref{pH}) reduces to
\begin{equation}
\frac{{\rm d}}{{\rm d}t} \sigma^{-1} = - \sigma^{-1} \frac{\partial
F}{\partial y},
\end{equation}
which is the Helmholtz condition when there is one degree of freedom
(see, {\em e.g.}, Ref.\ 2 and the references cited therein; note
that $\sigma^{-1} = \partial p/ \partial y = \partial p/
\partial \dot{x} = \partial^{2} L / \partial \dot{x}^{2}$ is the
integrating factor $w_{11}$ employed in these references).
On the other hand, not every system of equations of the form
(\ref{1}) comes from a second-order equation $\ddot{x} = F(x,
\dot{x}, t)$. An example is given by
\[
\dot{x} = f(x,t), \qquad \dot{y} = g(y,t),
\]
where there is no coupling between the variables $x$, $y$. Here
(choosing $\phi = 0 = \psi$)
\[
-g {\rm d} x + f {\rm d} y = fg \left( - \frac{{\rm d} x}{f} +
\frac{{\rm d} y}{g} \right).
\]
Therefore, if we assume that $\sigma = fg$ does not depend
explicitly on of $t$ [see Eq.\ (\ref{7.5})], we can take
\[
H = - \int \frac{{\rm d} x}{f} + \int \frac{{\rm d} y}{g}
\]
and, from Eq.\ (\ref{5}),
\[
p = \int \frac{{\rm d} y}{\sigma} = \frac{1}{f} \int \frac{{\rm d}
y}{g}.
\]
Thus, $H = pf - \int f^{-1} {\rm d} x$ and with the Hamiltonian
being a linear function of $p$, the Legendre transformation is not
defined nor the Lagrangian.
\section*{\tres 5. Concluding remarks}
As we have shown, at least in the case of a system of two
first-order ordinary differential equations, finding a Hamiltonian
is essentially equivalent to finding an integrating factor for a
linear differential form in two variables. The integrating factor
also determines the expression for the canonical momentum. Equation
(\ref{pH}) is analogous to the Helmholtz condition, but, in the
present approach, it leads directly to the Hamiltonian (in the
standard approach, finding a solution to the Helmholtz conditions,
only gives the second partial derivatives $\partial^{2} L/\partial
\dot{x}_{i} \partial \dot{x}_{j}$). When the system is
non-autonomous, it is convenient to find the integrating factor
using Eq.\ (\ref{pH}), while in the autonomous case, it may be more
simply obtained from the linear differential form itself. Finally,
as shown in Sec.\ 4, there are systems of equations for which a
Lagrangian does not exist, but a Hamiltonian description can be
given.
\section*{\tres Acknowledgment}
The authors would like to thank Dr.\ M.\ Montesinos for enlightening
discussions.
\section*{References}
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| Hence
\begin{equation}
{\rm d} p = \frac{\partial p}{\partial x} {\rm d} x +
\frac{1}{\sigma} {\rm d} y + \frac{\partial p}{\partial t} {\rm d} t
\label{6}
\end{equation}
or, equivalently,
\begin{equation}
{\rm d} y = - \sigma \frac{\partial p}{\partial x} {\rm d} x +
\sigma {\rm d} p - \sigma \frac{\partial p}{\partial t} {\rm d} t
\label{6.1}
\end{equation}
thus, recalling that $x = q$, this last expression shows that
\begin{equation}
\phi = - \sigma \frac{\partial p(x,y,t)}{\partial t} \label{6.5}
\end{equation}
and we can also write Eq.\ (\ref{6}) in the form
\begin{equation}
{\rm d} p = \frac{\partial p}{\partial x} {\rm d} x +
\frac{1}{\sigma} {\rm d} y - \frac{\phi}{\sigma} {\rm d} t.
\label{6.6}
\end{equation}
Since this is an exact differential, we have
\begin{equation}
\frac{\partial \sigma^{-1}}{\partial t} = \frac{\partial}{\partial
y} (- \sigma^{-1} \phi) = - \sigma^{-1} \frac{\partial
\phi}{\partial y} - \phi \frac{\partial \sigma^{-1}}{\partial y}.
\label{7.5}
\end{equation}
This equation establishes a relation between the integrating factor
and the function $\phi$ (see examples below).
From Eqs.\ (\ref{3}), with $\psi = 0$, and (\ref{6.6}) we have
\begin{eqnarray*}
{\rm d} H \!\!\! & = & \!\!\! - \frac{1}{\sigma} (g - \phi) {\rm d}
x + \frac{1}{\sigma} f {\rm d} y + \frac{\partial H}{\partial t} {\rm d} t \\
& = & \!\!\! - \frac{1}{\sigma} (g - \phi) {\rm d} x + f \left( {\rm
d} p - \frac{\partial p}{\partial x} {\rm d} x + \frac{\phi}{\sigma}
{\rm d} t \right) + \frac{\partial H}{\partial t} {\rm d} t \\
& = & \!\!\! - \left( \frac{g}{\sigma} - \frac{\phi}{\sigma} + f
\frac{\partial p}{\partial x} \right) {\rm d} q + f {\rm d} p +
\left( \frac{\partial H}{\partial t} + f \frac{\phi}{\sigma} \right)
{\rm d} t.
\end{eqnarray*}
Hence, considering $H$ as a function of $q$, $p$, and $t$,
\begin{equation}
\frac{\partial H}{\partial p} = f = \dot{q} \label{7}
\end{equation}
[see Eqs.\ (\ref{1})] and
\begin{equation}
- \frac{\partial H}{\partial q} = \frac{g}{\sigma} -
\frac{\phi}{\sigma} + f \frac{\partial p}{\partial x} = \dot{p},
\label{8}
\end{equation}
since, according to Eqs.\ (\ref{6.6}) and (\ref{1}),
\[
\dot{p} = \frac{\partial p}{\partial x} \dot{x} +
\frac{\dot{y}}{\sigma} - \frac{\phi}{\sigma} = \frac{\partial
p}{\partial x} f + \frac{g}{\sigma} - \frac{\phi}{\sigma}.
\]
Equations (\ref{7}) and (\ref{8}) are equivalent to the original
system (\ref{1}) and have the desired Hamiltonian form.
Summarizing, the system of equations (\ref{1}) can be written in the
form of the Hamilton equations, with the Hamiltonian determined by
Eq.\ (\ref{3}) and the canonical momentum defined by Eq.\
(\ref{6.6}).
The fact that the left-hand side of Eq.\ (\ref{3}) multiplied by
$\sigma^{-1}$ is an exact differential yields (when $\psi = 0$)
\[
\frac{\partial}{\partial y} [- \sigma^{-1}(g - \phi)] =
\frac{\partial}{\partial x} (\sigma^{-1}{f}),
\]
which amounts to
\begin{equation}
(g- \phi) \frac{\partial \sigma^{-1}}{\partial y} + \sigma^{-1}
\frac{\partial}{\partial y} (g - \phi) + f \frac{\partial
\sigma^{-1}}{\partial x} + \sigma^{-1} \frac{\partial f}{\partial x}
= 0. \label{7.6}
\end{equation}
Hence, making use of Eqs.\ (\ref{1}), (\ref{7.6}) and (\ref{7.5}),
we obtain
\begin{eqnarray}
\frac{{\rm d}}{{\rm d}t} \sigma^{-1} \!\!\! & = & \!\!\!
\frac{\partial \sigma^{-1}}{\partial x} \dot{x} + \frac{\partial
\sigma^{-1}}{\partial y} \dot{y} + \frac{\partial
\sigma^{-1}}{\partial t} \nonumber \\
& = & \!\!\! f \frac{\partial \sigma^{-1}}{\partial x} + g
\frac{\partial \sigma^{-1}}{\partial y} + \frac{\partial
\sigma^{-1}}{\partial t} \nonumber \\
& = & \!\!\! \phi \frac{\partial \sigma^{-1}}{\partial y} -
\sigma^{-1} \frac{\partial}{\partial y} (g - \phi) - \sigma^{-1}
\frac{\partial f}{\partial x} + \frac{\partial
\sigma^{-1}}{\partial t} \nonumber \\
& = & \!\!\! - \sigma^{-1} \left( \frac{\partial f}{\partial x}
+\frac{\partial g}{\partial y} \right). \label{pH}
\end{eqnarray}
(Note the cancelation of $\phi$.)
Equation (\ref{pH}) shows that the function $\sigma$ is determined
up to a factor that is a constant of motion and, therefore, there
exists an infinite number of Hamiltonians (and, correspondingly, of
expressions for $p$). It may be noticed that Eq.\ (\ref{pH}) is just
Liouville's theorem.
\section*{\tres 3. Examples}
A first example is provided by the equation
\[
\ddot{x} + \gamma \dot{x} + \omega_{0}^{2} x = \eta(t),
\]
where $\gamma$ and $\omega_{0}$ are constants, and $\eta(t)$ is an
arbitrary function, which corresponds to a forced damped harmonic
oscillator. Taking $y = \dot{x}$, we have $\dot{y} = - \gamma y -
\omega_{0}^{2} x + \eta(t)$, which is of the form (\ref{1}) with
$f(x,y,t) = y$, and $g(x,y,t) = - \gamma y - \omega_{0}^{2} x +
\eta(t)$. Then Eq.\ (\ref{pH}) reduces to
\[
\frac{{\rm d}}{{\rm d}t} \sigma^{-1} = \gamma \sigma^{-1}
\]
and we can take $\sigma = {\rm e}^{- \gamma t}$ (any other choice
would require the knowledge of the explicit form of $\eta$) then
from Eq.\ (\ref{7.5}) we see that
\[
\frac{\partial \phi}{\partial y} = - \gamma,
\]
which is satisfied with $\phi = - \gamma y$. Substituting all these
expressions into Eq.\ (\ref{3}) we have (with $t$ treated as a
constant)
\[
\big( \omega_{0}^{2} x - \eta(t) \big) {\rm d} x + y {\rm d} y =
{\rm e}^{- \gamma t} {\rm d} H
\]
and, therefore, we can take $H = {\rm e}^{\gamma t} (y^{2}/2 +
\omega_{0}^{2} x^{2}/2 - \eta(t) x)$. Finally, from Eq.\ (\ref{6.6})
we find that $p$ can be chosen as $p = {\rm e}^{\gamma t} y$. The
corresponding Lagrangian can be calculated in the usual way, by
means of the Legendre transformation.
The results of the previous section allow us to readily derive those
of Ref.\ 5, corresponding to the autonomous case. In fact, when the
functions $f$ and $g$, appearing in Eqs.\ (1), do not depend
explicitly on the time, from Eqs.\ (\ref{3}) and (\ref{1}), taking
$\phi = 0 = \psi$, we have $\sigma \dot{H} = - g \dot{x} + f \dot{y}
= -gf + fg = 0$. This means that $H$ is {\em some}\/ constant of
motion, which is not unique; we can replace it by $H' = G(H)$, with
$G$ being an arbitrary function. $H'$ is also a constant of motion
and $\sigma$ will not depend explicitly on $t$ [see Eq.\
(\ref{7.5})], no matter what (time-independent) Hamiltonian we
choose.
The expressions given above allow us to find $H$, which need not be
related to the total energy. In the example considered in the
appendix of Ref.\ 5, $f(x,y) = y$, $g(x,y) = - ky$, where $k$ is a
constant ({\em i.e.}, $\ddot{x} = - k \dot{x}$). Then, $-g {\rm d} x
+ f {\rm d} y = ky {\rm d} x + y {\rm d} y = y {\rm d}(kx + y)$ and,
therefore, we can take $\sigma = y$ and $H = kx + y$.
We end this section by considering the problem studied in Ref.\ 6
(which corresponds approximately to a relativistic particle
subjected to a constant force, $\lambda$, and a force of friction
proportional to the square of the velocity), namely (with the
appropriate changes in notation)
\[
m \dot{y} = (\lambda - \gamma y^{2}) (1 - \alpha^{2} y^{2}),
\]
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constants. Thus, $f(x,y) = y$, and $g(x,y) = (\lambda - \gamma
y^{2}) (1 - \alpha^{2} y^{2})/m$. Thus,
\begin{eqnarray*}
-g {\rm d} x + f {\rm d} y \!\!\! & = & \!\!\! - \frac{1}{m}
(\lambda - \gamma y^{2}) (1 - \alpha^{2} y^{2}) {\rm d} x + y {\rm
d} y \\
& = & \!\!\! (\lambda - \gamma y^{2}) (1 - \alpha^{2} y^{2}) \left[
- \frac{{\rm d} x}{m} + \frac{y {\rm d} y}{(\lambda - \gamma y^{2})
(1 - \alpha^{2} y^{2})} \right].
\end{eqnarray*}
Comparing with Eq.\ (\ref{3}) (with $\phi = 0 = \psi$) we
immediately see that we can take
\[
\sigma = (\lambda - \gamma y^{2}) (1 - \alpha^{2} y^{2})
\]
and
\begin{eqnarray*}
H \!\!\! & = & \!\!\! - \frac{x}{m} + \int \frac{y {\rm d}
y}{(\lambda - \gamma y^{2}) (1 - \alpha^{2} y^{2})} \\
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Synopsis
Elyot Chase et Amanda Prynne, ont divorcé après un mariage tumultueux. Ils se remarient chacun de leur côté, mais le hasard fait que les deux couples se retrouvent pour leur lunes de miel dans deux suites contiguës dans le même hôtel sur la Côte d'Azur. Amanda reconnaissant Elyot veut partir mais Victor son nouveau mari s'y refuse, le ton monte et Victor descend seul au bar de l'hôtel. Elyot de son côté veut également quitter l'hôtel mais son épouse Sybil se met en colère, refuse de s'en aller et descend dîner seule. Amanda et Elyot finissent par se rapprocher et après s'être échangés des piques assassines, boivent et fument ensemble, se remémorent le "bon vieux temps", flirtent un peu et décident de quitter l'hôtel ensemble. Ils choisissent de se rendre à Saint-Moritz, mais le couple ne tarde pas à se<|fim_middle|> Victor et Sybil éclatent. Pendant qu'ils s'expliquent, Elyot et Amanda sortent et partent de la station par le train dans lequel ils ne tardent pas à se quereller de nouveau. Mais le chef de train intervient en indiquant le nom du prochain arrêt : "Sollochs", or il se trouve que ce nom est le safeword du couple qui du coup cesse sa querelle et le film se termine ainsi.
Fiche technique
Titre : Vies privées
Titre original :
Réalisation : Sidney Franklin
Assistant réalisateur : Harold S. Bucquet (non crédité)
Scénario : Hanns Kräly, Richard Schayer et Claudine West, d'après la pièce de Noel Coward
Production : Irving Thalberg (non crédité)
Société de production : Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Photographie : Ray Binger
Montage : Conrad A. Nervig
Musique : William Axt (non crédité)
Direction artistique : Cedric Gibbons
Costumes : Adrian
Pays d'origine :
Format : Noir et blanc — 35 mm — 1,37:1 — Son : Mono (Western Electric Sound System)
Genre : Comédie dramatique
Durée :
Dates de sortie :
:
Distribution
Norma Shearer : Amanda Prynne
Robert Montgomery : Elyot Chase
Reginald Denny : Victor Prynne
Una Merkel : Sibyl Chase
Jean Hersholt : Oscar
George Davis : Bell Hop
Wilfrid North (non crédité) : compagnon de Sibyl au mariage
À noter
Réalisé avant l'instauration du Code Hays ce film est une illustration comique de « l'amour vache », une relation amoureuse et passionnée dans laquelle les deux protagonistes ne peuvent s'empêcher de manifester de l'agressivité verbale (voire physique) réciproque.
La ville de Sollochs, en Suisse, où le train s'arrête pour le dernier plan du film est purement imaginaire.
Liens externes
Film américain sorti en 1931
Comédie dramatique américaine
Film réalisé par Sidney Franklin
Adaptation d'une pièce de théâtre britannique au cinéma
Film se déroulant en Suisse
Film américain en noir et blanc
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Dialectical Approaches
Delphi Next
The dialectical approach (Mason and Mitroff, 1981) uses creative conflict to help identify and challenge assumptions to create new perceptions. Firstly the devil's advocate approach is useful in exposing underlying assumptions, but has a tendancy emphasise the negative, whereas dialectical inquiry has a more balanced approach. (See also Idea Advocate )
An administrator advocates a plan, which is then studied by an appointed individual who takes on the role of an adverse critic, examining the proposal looking for inconsistencies, inaccuracies and irrelevancies.
The evaluation may be enclosed in a report, or a live confrontation conference may be set up between the administrator and the critic, with key decision makers as observers.
Finally, the decision makers can then accept, modify or re-develop the proposal.
Dialectical Inquiry
Formation of proposal and counter-proposal groups
Review group set-up, which contains the senior manager, involved.
The proposal group should develop a plan, compiling a short list of key assumptions underlying the plan; this is given to the counter-proposal group.
The counter-proposal groups should endeavour to develop a counter-plan, looking at each assumption, breaking them down, to invent a plausible counter-assumption, and using it to surface new data, re-interpret old data, and devise a counter-plan.
The Review group is presented plans from the proposal and counter-proposal groups. Either side outlining data and assumptions they consider important and probing weaknesses of the other side's plan. A facilitator maintains goodwill and prevents the competitiveness becoming destructive. The review group are looking for further unmentioned assumptions that may be central to the theory behind the problem. Should arguments become repetitive the facilitator ends the debate and there is a break to socialise and reconnect on a personal level.
The total group now work together, led by the review group their aim is to generate a list of agreed upon fundamental assumptions and the generation of a new<|fim_middle|>.mycoted.com/mwiki/index.php?title=Dialectical_Approaches&oldid=1868" | plan. All the assumptions that featured highly in the debate are pooled. Unacceptable assumptions are weeded out, and where necessary, competing assumptions are either re-worked so as to be acceptable to both sides, or simple tests are devised to decide between them. The group will need the skills and attitudes needed for coping with muddled problems – finding the exact problem, representing alternative maps, and employing humour, confidence and enthusiasm to maintain the process.
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The Abject Decadence of Pierre Huyghe
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or Backwards with Pierre Huyg<|fim_middle|>he, and we are forced to double back through time and memory to complete the picture.
I emerge into the golden sunshine. Liquid Architecture projects continue on the lawns and in the corridors. Slightly dazed, I am lead upstairs to an amazing semi-circular office space, lined with Australian and world art magazines going back decades. I am invited to sit at a computer screen. And there, I am given a screening of Huyghe's Fukushima monkey. Jennifer Higgie, in her Frieze cover story earlier in the year, writes that Human Mask, as this work is called, 'was partly shot on a drone camera in Fukushima in 2011 after the earthquake-triggered tsunami had caused the meltdown of three nuclear plant reactors, the evacuation of 300,000 people from the area and at least 1,600 deaths; the sense of desolation is palpable'. Soon we are inside the deserted restaurant, and the nineteen minute film of the macaque monkey who once was dressed up as a girl to serve customers 'in a Noh-like mask and a glossy, brunette woman's wig with a bow' now hops from table to counter, the only human presence the crackling loud speaker announcements in a language most of us do not understand. Very J.G. Ballard. There is a pathos about it, distinctly at odds with the luxury of the TarraWarra vineyards and the blue domed sky above the Yarra Valley.
Pierre Huyghe, Untilled, 2011–12. Alive entities and inanimate things, made and not made. Courtesy the artist; Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, Paris; Esther Schipper, Berlin. Commissioned and produced by dOCUMENTA (13) with the support of Colección CIAC AC, Mexico; Fondation Louis Vuitton pour la création, Paris; Ishikawa Collection, Okayama, Japan.
Pierre Huyghe, A Journey that wasn't, El diario del fin del mundo, February–March, 2005. Expedition, Antarctica. Courtesy the artist.
Pierre Huyghe: TarraWarra International 2015, installation view. TarraWarra Museum of Art, Healesville, Australia, 2015. Photograph Andrew Curtis.
Pierre Huyghe, Untitled (Human Mask), 2014. Film, colour, stereo, sound, 2:66, 19min. Courtesy the artist, Hauser & Wirth, London and Anna Lena Films, Paris.
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This is a story about time travel. It is about my own journeys back and forth in that do-we-even-know-if-it-exists dimension we call time. It is my attempt to see the Pierre Huyghe survey at the TarraWarra Museum of Art, but somehow seeming to do it all in the wrong order. In a similar vein, I was in the middle of reading Richard Ford's Frank Bascombe quartet of novels in reverse order, starting with the most recent Let Me Be Frank With You, when he begins to ponder dementia, and working backwards to the first volume when Frank is in his more youthful thirties with a son who has died and a wife who has divorced him. The modern classic of this reverse time travel is Martin Amis's dark novella Time's Arrow where smoke billows backwards down the chimneys of Auschwitz, bodies grow from the ashes, and humans walk backwards out of the camp and home to their ghettoes.
Before Huyghe's artworks had even been installed, I had previewed the show for another magazine, but I had not actually seen the work. I had seen other exhibitions of Huyghe's overseas, so I knew about his use of spiders and insects crawling though gallery spaces (which they do here), and I knew how he had once injected a gallery dealer with a flu virus, to be passed on ad hoc to those coming into contact with him. I knew about his trip to Antarctica (A Journey that Wasn't, 2005) to find a mythical penguin on a newly discovered island. I knew about his swarm of bees rather decadently veiling a statue in an abject landscape, and—more recently—of that monkey wearing a Balthus-like mask of a young Asian girl (see the cover of Frieze, January 2015), drifting around a deserted café near the burnt out Fukushima nuclear facility. And then there is that dog with a pink leg that looks a close cousin to Marlene Dumas's mostly monochrome painting of her daughter, who has one arm painted bright red. I knew all this, I just had not seen any of it yet. And most of it, as I would find out, is in this exhibition.
The next stage in my quest was an invitation from Liquid Architecture, Australia's leading group of sonic experimenters, to join a bus trip from Federation Square to TarraWarra for a half-day conference and series of events inspired by Huyghe's work. So I was on the bus (still not having seen the show), and I was listening to vocalist Marcus Rechsteiner and keyboard player Guy Blackman respond to Huyghe's exhibition and his love of time by performing a kind of punk/rap cocktail of songs to do with the notion of time.
All of the songs, delivered in a sub-karaoke fashion that would have made Sid Vicious sound melodic, dealt with different aspects of time, from Living in the Past by Jethro Tull to One More Minute by 'Weird Al' Yankovic. Place names and commercial signs flashed past and were quickly ad-libbed into the repertoire. The bus was packed, and I thought this is what it must have been like on Ken Kesey's Merry Prankster bus, driving across the States, with a destination board miss-spelled as FURTHUR.
And then we are there. The Yarra Valley spreads before us on a pitch perfect day of sunshine and wine. And then we are in a lecture room with about two hundred others, except we realise we are in one of the exhibition's main galleries, and the oddly-shaped neon lighting hanging above us, is in fact an astonishing artwork conceptualised by Huyghe. The panel of Victoria Lynn, Amelia Barikin, Susan Cohn, Justin Clemens, Tom Nicholson, and Kristie Miller assemble at the front. Gradually, I realise there are more artworks in this room, specifically Huyghe's seminal foundation statement for The Association of Freed Time (1995). It is around this work that the whole exhibition, covering several galleries and thirty million years, has been built.
I can hear artworks in other rooms that I have still not seen. The forum speakers examine time in an almost Cubist way, from every angle, and I am reminded of that great two year period of paradigm-changing revolutions from 1905-06, underscored by Einstein's formulation of the special theory of relativity and Picasso's and Braque's Cubist inventions. Time and space would never be viewed in the same way again, and at least two terrible beauties were born—the nuclear age and Les Demoiselles d'Avignon.
Susan Cohn and Justin Clemens performed an unforgettable double act, taking to the microphone together and sparring back and forth on different aspects of time, and in so doing critiquing the neon artwork hanging above us. As the catalogue describes it, 'A cluster of neon circles…resembling the circles of the "Borromean knot" (a popular form of ring), this neon sculpture is inspired by the work of psychoanalyst Jaques Lacan who based his theory of human subjectivity on the model of the "Borromean knot". Huyghe's takes its inspiration from an unfinished drawing by Lacan, who sketched the knot as three interlinking registers: the Real, the Symbolic and the Imaginary (RSI). Each register is interdependent on the others: if one ring breaks, the others fall away.'
At this point, our resident jeweller-cum-time traveller Susan Cohn pulls off the three stunningly beautiful large rings that have been hanging around her neck and gives us a practical demonstration of the Lacanian principle.
But the real fount of Huyghean knowledge lies with Amelia Barikin. She co-curated the exhibition with Victoria Lynn. They both contributed to the catalogue, but Barikin has additionally produced a book on Huyghe called Parallel Presents: the Art of Pierre Huyghe (MIT Press, 2012). It started life as her PhD thesis, and she has done a wonderful job turning it into a book that is both scholarly and very readable. I was not surprised to learn that Dr Charles Green was her supervisor. His own The Third Hand set the bar for PhDs into books, and now Barikin takes on that mantle. On the cover is an image from the video A Journey that Wasn't (2005). A ship is seemingly stuck in Antarctic ice while a group of humans in orange and lime green jumpsuits set up a tripod on an ice flow. As I left the gallery with the neon lights, the conference chairs now all neatly stacked like a Carl Andre installation, I entered the next gallery and the same video was playing against a huge wall. The mythical penguin was emerging, many times larger than life, from an icy outcrop tinged with a golden glow.
In the same space, a strange machine that could be a distant relative of Dr Who's Tardis, or a sophisticated smoke machine from a stadium rock concert, or a New Age Juke Box, sends out beams of light that change colour every few minutes. It is called L'Expedition Scintillante, Act 2 (2002). It was a prototype for A Journey that Wasn't so is well placed next to that work, although totally different in its final realisation. Huyghe explains it in a Centre Pompidou publication Pierre Huyghe (2013:98) as, 'An object, at once a lighthouse and a stage, an attractor and an emitter, is lost in the space. A game of light is emitted in accordance with the music, Erik Satie's Gymnopédies. Echoing early psychedelic light shows, it offers a tentative formalisation of the experience of an "interior journey", induced by hallucinogenic drugs. Ceiling shutters synchronized to the rhythm of the machine open and close, leaving a gap of colour extending beyond the object.'
In other gallery spaces, I observed the pink-legged dog and the bee-shrouded statue in the documenta car park; I saw the tiny figure of the artist sleeping inside the great Crystal Cave in the Naica Mine in Mexico (this project brought together a mathematician, a shaman, a mineralogist, an animal trainer, and a specialist in pain treatment, an algologist); and I saw, in De-extinction (2014), two insects caught mid-copulation thirty million years ago, frozen in time in an ancient piece of amber.
At this point, in my mind I was returning to a Neo-Cubist fragmented world that at times seemed to exist less in TarraWarra's magnificent galleries and more in my own head. It is a tendency I have written about recently in relation to the work of Danh Vo's Venice projects, which I called Zombie Cubism, and to the French artist (based in Port Melbourne) Mathieu Briand. Briand's vast project, Et In Libertalia Ego, Vol II, oscillates between Tasmania and Madagascar, was recently on view at MONA, and forces the viewer to internalise various shifts in time, comprehension, and geography. Different facets are revealed, as with Vo and Huyg | 1,933 |
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Looking back at 2013, it was indeed a crazy ride. I was tested with a lot of emotions I never knew I was capable of feeling. My learning curve had never been so steep. I made mistakes, I recovered. I learnt that it is okay to be selfish and to put yourself first. I witnessed how loving myself changed my entire well-being and transformed me, how I began to<|fim_middle|> your junior from secondary school and in ngee ann. I just want to say i'm really glad that you are healed and better now. even though we were never on talking terms i'm just happy and relieved for you. you are so inspirational and i hope 2014 will be an amazing year for you. have a fantastic weekend ahead and remember that you are a beautiful and amazing person.
Hi dear! You're so sweet to drop by. "We were never on talking terms" Have we had the chance to? Otherwise, don't be shy to say hi to me if you were ever to see me around Yishun :-) Thank you for looking out for me. It's really lovely. Have a great 2014, sweets!!!!
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I am most thankful for the wonderful people who were with me through the struggle. My family, my best friends, my close friends, my good friends, the random acquaintances I met and lastly, you guys. I would have never survived 2013 on my own. I've never acknowledged this but I knew I was this close to depression. I would never forget the people who picked up the pieces for me and nursed me back to health. Friends whom I'm unexpectedly most thankful for in 2013, would definitely be Amelia and Hanif. They were the last minute God-sent angels into my world. We were never close before, but we just did. It's magic.
This is why they say, everything happens for a reason.
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I used to think homemade granola was boring and pointless. That no one would eat it and it was a waste of ingredients.
But every time I make it, my family proves me wrong – they LOVE it.
In the spring I make strawberry and chocolate granola clusters, and in the fall I make cranberry orange granola. Today I'm sharing with you a cinnamon granola recipe that could be used all year long!
I should confess though, that when I first set out to make this recipe, I had my heart set on making apple cinnamon granola.
In the middle of pumpkin everything season (i.e. pumpkin spice coffee creamer, pumpkin swirl<|fim_middle|> loved that it uses apple sauce and less maple syrup. We all enjoyed it and it is now our new granola recipe. Thanks!
Hearing that one of my recipes is a new go-to recipe for someone else makes my day – thank you Carly!
Do you use raw almonds and sunflower seeds? Or just whatever is on sale? Curious if you always use raw, roasted, or something else.
Whatever is on sale Rachael! | brownies and pumpkin chili), I asked my non-pumpkin people their preferred seasonal flavor. Hands down, they chose apple cinnamon.
Hence the goal of an apple cinnamon granola recipe.
What I realized in testing though, is that you'd need an enormous amount of apples in order to pull it off.
And the more applesauce you use, the more oats you need to balance the wet vs. dry ingredients.
What was happening, is that I wasn't getting more apple flavor in my granola. I was just getting more granola.
You could argue that adding dried apples would take care of that issue, but not everyone has access to dried apples. We've had this dehydrator for YEARS and we love it (especially because it works just as well as other expensive models!), so theoretically *I* could make dehydrated apples (and here's my recipe to do that).
But I didn't want to make a recipe where YOU needed dehydrated apples. What if you don't have a dehydrator? I certainly don't want that standing in the way of you making a granola.
So I switched gears, took out the goal of "must taste the apple" and aimed for a solid cinnamon instead. And wouldn't you know, that's exactly what this is!
I have a lot of it (when it's on sale, I buy it by the gallon from Tropical Traditions).
I use it all over the house from removing make-up, to making magnesium lotion and for making my favorite breakfast ever.
I don't think it tastes like coconut personally, but if you're sensitive to the flavor, I recommend refined coconut oil. It's been pressed twice, so the coconut flavor is practically non-existent.
Besides already having a lot of it in my house, I like using coconut oil in granola because it helps to make AWESOME little granola clusters (see below).
If you can believe it, this recipe only contains 3 Tablespoons of sweetener!! Part of that is because we're also using applesauce. This was the original basis for the apple cinnamon granola. That idea got tossed out the window, but I really liked the flavor of the granola with the applesauce. Plus keeping it means we can add less sugar too!
Tip: Be sure to read the ingredients in your applesauce. All of the conventional applesauce I found at Kroger contained added sugars, so I ended up buying organic. I believe ALDI has a solid applesauce, or you can always make your own. If you go that route, here's how to can it!
We go through a lot of oats in my house, and I usually buy them in bulk from Costco (it's this exact same box found on Amazon). You can use other types of oats if you prefer… quick oats, thick rolled and old-fashioned oats all work just as well. Use whatever you have!
I think a good granola recipe has a ratio of 1 part nuts and seeds to 3 parts oats, but whether you choose nuts OR seeds OR a combination of both, is entirely up to you and what you have in the pantry.
I made this cinnamon granola recipe using a mix of almonds, sunflower seeds and chia seeds and it was awesome. As I find pecans and walnuts on sale this month, I'll make another batch with those.
In its purest form, we're using just cinnamon and salt. However, I originally used apple pie spice and that was really good. You could also use pumpkin pie spice too, and it would make a great holiday-inspired flavor!
Since we stopped buying cereal, granola is what we have on "cereal Fridays." My kids love it with milk, just like you would a bowl of cereal. Personally, I like it with yogurt, all mixed up together.
We once gave homemade granola to the kids' teachers as a Christmas gift and they loved it! That's what we're doing again this year, and since it's inexpensive to make, we can give more!
Before you jump in, let's talk about the tools you need to make this cinnamon granola recipe happen.
Cookie Sheet – I used a large 13″ x 17″ cookie sheet so I can get a nice single layer. If you don't have a big one, use two smaller ones.
Big Spatula – As much as I love having small spatulas to get out the last bit of peanut butter from the jar, or scraping out what's left of the tub of yogurt, you'll be better off using a big spatula when you make granola. This set has both!
Combine the wet ingredients in the bowl of a stand mixer. Turn mixer on low and mix until the ingredients are combined, about 1 minute.
Add the dry ingredients while the mixer is on low. When all of the dry ingredients have been incorporated with the wet, turn the mixer off.
Scoop granola into a single layer on a large 13" x 17" cookie sheet (or use two smaller cookie sheets).
Bake in the oven for 1 hour, turning every 20 minutes (set the timer).
Remove from the oven and do not turn or stir. Let it cool completely before moving to storage. This keeps the clusters in tact.
Does your family like granola? How do they like to eat it? Do they have a favorite flavor?
I didn't have any maple syrup (gasp) and swapped 1:1 with honey and it still turned out great! Makes the entire house smell so good! We made some to take to our local fire department and my husband and kids requested a double batch when we got home. Thanks for another fabulous recipe!
You're so very welcome Kristin!!
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After last week's headbanger, in which a last ditch 5 lb 2oz Common narrowly avoided a blank session, I arrived on Monday morning full of trepidation and hope. I badly needed a decent haul to put matters right!A quick spin around the lake revealed a bit of movement in the corner at Peg 2 - nothing major, but surface cruising, nonetheless. A slight mild breeze had just started blowing into this corner, so this seemed like the best choice. Besides which, Dean and his mate were already set up in the Fingers and Pipe pegs and most other pegs had received a fair bit of angling pressure of late. So Peg 2 it was.I fanned out 3 rods as usual, one under the margin tree to the left, one towards the central channel and the third into the little bay to the right. Not expecting much in the way of daytime activity, I was surprised when the central channel rod screamed off at 10.00 am. Unfortunately, the culprit set off at an amazing pace and was deep into a snag and lost in the blink of an eye. Clearly, some drastic tactics were required, so it was case of fishing totally locked up, with no back lead and sitting on the rods, with<|fim_middle|> - Hook pull @ net.02.00 am - 9 lb 10 oz Leather02.25 am - Hook pull @ net03.30 am - 10 lb 10 oz Leather05.30 - 9 lb 6 oz Common07.30 - 8 lb Common.
Perhaps one amusing incident that should be recounted was that at around 2.30 in the morning whilst attempting to re-cast my middle rod, I accidentally hooked onto a spare rod that was propped up against my bivvy. The result was that I sent it hurtling over my head and into the water in front of me with a huge splash! Fortunately, it remained attached and I was able to hand line it back to safety, whereupon I let out a huge sigh of relief. So there you have it, a final tally of 17 bites of which 10 were banked and 7 lost.Certainly, there were some triumphs, but a number of key learning points along the way.
Best fishes, Kelvin | a plan in mind to walk backwards down the causeway, the moment a take was registered. At 12.30 pm an opportunity to test the plan arose and it would have worked, were it not for the fact that my 15 lb line parted.Ahh! the best laid plans... and all that. However, at 13.15 pm and at 15.15 pm two more opportunities came my way and this time I was rewarded with a 10 lb mirror and a 13 lb 8 oz Common. By this time it was clear that the left hand rod had not produced even a single bleep, so it was time to rove it around a bit, in the quest for a more productive spot. First up, was the observation that a cheeky little common was sat under the tree in the pool behind me, with a nice clear patch of water in between it and me. At the right moment, a 1 oz lead, bearing a salty squid ready-made, was gently under-armed into the target zone. At 16.00 pm frenzied 'hook and hold' tactics brought the 8 lb 4 oz Common into the folds of my waiting net, before it realised what was happening. Then at 19.40 pm and 20.00 pm two further losses occurred, when my 2.5 lb TC Sonik SK3 and Shimano Aero reel were incapable of stopping a couple of fierce runs, that ended when one carp made it around the RHS tree at the entrance to the central channel and another found sanctuary in the tree branches in the LHS margin.The rod was duly substituted with a 3.5 lb TC Chub Outcast in combination with a Daiwa Emblem reel that has a clutch as tight as my wife's hold on our bank account. Believe me, this set up was not going to give an inch of play to the most determined of scaled beasts. At this point, my roving rod was replaced with a Century FMA, graced with a 3.5 oz distance lead and a Chod rig, bearing a pineapple pop-up. I wondered if I could cast all the way across the unoccupied hide peg towards the end bush (opposite the willow). To my amazement, the end tackle actually landed just past the end of said bush, right on a known hot-spot. Blindin' cast! Within minutes a flurry of bleeps indicated the presence of a carp. However, it quickly became clear that something was wrong, when a large tail hit the surface only 20 yds away and I concluded that the carp had traveled most of the way back down the line towards me, leaving the lead where it first landed, in all probability plugged in silt. I then had the impossible task of winding all that spare line back before the carp could make it to any number of nearby snags. Needless to say, the owner of that tail came backwards around the opposite side of the mini entrance island and at 20.50 pm was lost! As darkness fell, the action continued and things went much more to plan, other than to say that I literally sat on the rods all night, with hardly a wink of sleep.The night time action was as follows:21.40 pm - 13 lb 6 oz Mirror22.20 pm - 11 lb 0 oz Common23.20 | 713 |
It's been nice having the time to put more effort into our block. Laural gave us a bunch of ornamental cuttings and some stuff for the garden. Our neighbors across the way, Alex and Isa, offered to let us have a couple of lemongrass cuttings too, they are supposed to help keep the mozzies away. It's<|fim_middle|>ers in the area. | great having cool neighbors! Now we have several banana trees in the ground and we're working on adding some color and design to some of the special spaces around the land. Things are transforming.
We've been doing drawing, planning, and staking out our beginning building areas. We have the spaces figured out but we need to make some more calculations to get our building plan together. Lewai has been a big help clearing and cleaning the building site.
We've started on the driveway this week. At first it looked like we would have to get some machinery out to move the wall of dirt at the top of the hill. Lucky for us the soil is fairly soft and it was difficult, but possible to move by hand. Just when it looked like it wouldn't be too much work, Mike discovered a big boulder in the ground and under that a big log. It was a hard job digging them out and moving them out of the way.
After the addition of another rooster to our chook family, the constant rooster "roll calls" throughout the day, and the very early wake up calls made us decide to take some action. The bush chickens aren't native and there are an over abundance of roosters, so the natural sounds of he jungle are disturbed. We figured thinning the roosters wouldn't hurt and that rooster stew might make the menu this week. Lewai made a couple of traps near the camp and we waited to see what happened.
Sadly, Rocky was the first to get caught. Samantha learned a lesson about getting too attached to possible "food". She wasn't happy about it but had to admit that the roosters are a nuisance. So, Rocky was dinner that night. Lewai helped prepare the meat and kept half for his family. Rooster meat isn't the best but it was fine for soup.
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Where horses have learned to live wild within this boundary of law, we find a sunsets<|fim_middle|>, and I want nothing more than the feral wish of freedom to be wild. | bay worth of reminders of our own role in this world.
I've been lead to believe that once an animal has ever been tamed, neither it nor its descendants can ever be considered truly wild again.
They are, forever no matter how long the lineage, considered feral.
I sit not particularly perturbed by the high winds on an Assateaugue Autumn Monday afternoon. They are keeping my half-hearted attempt at sustaining a dwindling fire going, and that's all any man could really ask of Mother Nature.
But it is the setting, not myself, which is the key player. Horses, wild or feral, roam about, bloated on salty sea plants and not particularly looking for a fight, but happy to make it known who owns the island if approached. We make an encounter. Or two, and then three. A beautiful captivation of one another ensues. Children are enamored, their parents endeared.
Kiteboarders tame the wind. Scarf and sunglasses bearing hoodie wearers defeat the blowing sand. Wet cottonwood twigs used as kindling defy the fire while soaking up the blowing sea air. A big moon rises, every night changing just a little. Peculiar, but no more so than the red and gold blasting blazing new hues across what we'll all be seeing and wondering hopeful over the next month or two.
As the maples go green to red, as oaks bare their treasure chest golds and as every shrub, vine and trick-or-treater alike dons false garbs in one last huzzah at life lived blue and warm before winter lays blanket, we all in our horse drawn campground find solace in the sleep.
The sleep that leaves dreams for the feral, because I know for sure that humanity has tamed | 363 |
Red Bull's Christian Horner: "A great performance by the team today"
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Christian Horner praised the strategic work of his Red Bull Racing team after the Chinese Grand Prix after seeing Max Verstappen and Daniel Ricciardo finish third and fourth on Sunday.
The Team Principal was delighted to see Verstappen climb from sixteenth on the grid to claim his first podium finish of the season, while Ricciardo was just behind his team-mate at the chequered flag.
Horner felt the decision to go with the Supersoft Pirelli tyre was the right way to go for them, even though those around them were taking the Soft compound, but everyone was forced to make a second stop regardless of which tyre they were using.
"A great performance by the team today, taking advantage of the slippery conditions at the beginning of the race Max was able to make a great start and had an amazing<|fim_middle|>100th podium as a team," said Horner. "Still plenty to do, but leaving China with 27 points is extremely positive."
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"The right strategic calls under the safety car allowed us then to get our cars into second and third ahead of both Ferraris. Great work from the pit crew today. Max then made a fair move on Daniel and looked strong at the point in the race. Daniel held off the Ferraris as long as he could before Sebastian [Vettel] was able to get past.
"As we'd elected to go with the Supersoft tyre for us it always going to be a two-stop race. We then picked the right moment to go on to the Supersofts and in the latter part of the race Daniel was happier with his car balance and closed down on Max and some great racing between the two of them over the last 10 laps provided an exciting finish to the grand prix."
Horner was happy that the team could achieve their 100th podium in Formula 1 in China, although he knows that despite the positive result there is still work to be done to be truly competitive this season.
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Why Arsenal fans must be patient with Nicolas Pepe
The 24-year-old looks to be finding his feet in North London
When Nicolas Pepe curled in two sublime free-kicks to turn the game on its head against Vitoria on Thursday night, it felt like a watershed moment.
With just 15 minutes remaining when the Ivorian replaced Alexandre Lacazette from the bench, Arsenal were<|fim_middle|> Arsenal Times
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His two goals rescued Unai Emery's side and gave the Gunners a perhaps otherwise undeserved 3-2 victory to maintain the 100% start to the Europa League campaign.
But this is what top players can do – provide match-winning moments and save the team when called upon.
Pepe has come under a lot of pressure from fans and pundits in the early stages of his Arsenal career – but a performance like this is proof of why we need to go easy on the 24-year-old.
We saw glimpses of Pepe's class in his first start for the club against Liverpool at Anfield.
He looked dangerous on the counter attack. Van Dijk was skinned for the first time in 50 Premier League games and he made full-back Andrew Robertson look average with his pace, power and skill.
Had he slotted that one-on-one away after racing through following mesmerising deft touches in the first-half, what a difference it could've made to his confidence.
That's the difference in football, though, especially at this level. Fine margins.
And it's been a case of fine margins for Pepe in his first 12 appearances for the club. The misses v Liverpool and Sheffield United, the penalty he should've been given vs Bournemouth – it's been a case of almost.
But at least the signs are there – he's far from hopeless. Quite the opposite in fact. He's looked dangerous at times and he seems to be doing the right things.
For a so-called slow start, three goals and three assists from seven starts and five substitute appearances is by no means disastrous.
He's contributed a goal or assist every 118 minutes – yes there's room for improvement but it's a platform.
Thierry Henry, Dennis Bergkamp and Robert Pires all had slow starts to their careers at Arsenal.
Two of them now have statues outside the stadium and the other is considered one of the greatest players in the club's history who played a pivotal role in our best ever season in 2003/04 alongside them.
It took until his ninth game for Henry to register a goal for Arsenal, Bergkamp took eight games and Pires had a well-documented supposed slow start to life in North London.
And that's why patience is the key with Pepe. There's no guarantee he will even go close to replicating that trio or become an all-time Arsenal great.
But we have to at least give him the chance.
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How the brain predicts the future
A new publication in Scientific Reports shows that continuously updated predictions about future events are at the base of how<|fim_middle|> Reports, www.nature.com/articles/srep28563, published on Jul 7, 2016
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Download our Undergraduate brochure | we perceive the world. Predictions are essential to survival because they allow us to react faster and more appropriately to the environment. We plan what actions to perform because we can predict how effective those actions will be before we make them. Perception is also affected by brain predictions: our perceptions are the result of the combination of expectations and sensory information – we don't perceive the world as it really is, but as we expect it to be.
We all intuitively know that we can predict the future. We know after listening to a song what will come next, when the next beat will occur, and how to clap along to that beat. Scientists from the universities of Birmingham and Sussex have used regular sequences of beats to shed light on how humans predict future timing by capitalising on the regularity of the sequence. "Our brain relies on the past history to predict what will happen next," says Dr Di Luca. "Any regularity we encounter can inform us on what should be happening because we project what we have learned from the past into the future".
Dr Massimiliano Di Luca and Dr Darren Rhodes have devised a model that takes into account past experience of the world to generate expectations for the future and have studied how it applies to time perception. It appears that when experiencing time, humans do not perceive it as it really is: "We are not passive watchers" says Dr Rhodes. "We use what we know about the world to inform us about when something is likely to happen. If our predictions are slightly wrong, we perceive the world somewhat in between expectation and reality. We hear, see and feel what we think we should be experiencing, not what is really happening out there."
The authors of the research asked people to report about the timing of the last event in a regular sequence of beeps or flashes. Participants automatically and unconsciously relied on the regularity of the sequence to predict when stimuli would appear in the future. If the timing was regular, participants were able to anticipate the stimulus. If the timing of the final stimulus was made slightly off, participants reported the timing of events to be half way between when it was presented and when it was expected. These data highlight how human beings do not just merely passively perceive and react to the world. The human brain uses all information that it can capture from the senses, continuously updating beliefs and expectation to guide our thoughts and actions.
"The conclusions that that can be drawn from this research can be applied to several technological domains" says Dr Di Luca. "Knowing how the brain predicts the world can be used to teach robots how to behave and think in a way similar to humans" says Dr Rhodes, who is working at an European-funded project on the interaction between neuroscience and robotics. Dr Di Luca is currently spending his sabbatical at Oculus.
Massimiliano Di Luca & Darren Rhodes: Optimal Perceived Timing: Integrating Sensory Information with Dynamically Updated Expectations. Scientific | 589 |
Meet the Rhetoric & Writing Studies faculty: Dr. Rubén Casas
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~ By Jefferson Beavers, communication specialist, Department of English
The Fresno State faculty who are teaching in the Rhetoric & Writing Studies program in the Department of English are working to change the conversation about writing on campus, in the community, and beyond. This fall, we will introduce you to these professors and tell you about the ways in which their research, teaching and service — to both the university and to the discipline — intersect.
In our first installment, meet Dr. Rubén Casas, an assistant professor of English who came to Fresno State in 2016.
Question: What is your area of focus within Rhetoric & Writing Studies, and how does that inform your teaching of writing?
Answer: I am particularly attracted to all the ways marginal people and groups are able to influence others despite lacking access, either to the modes of deliberation we tend to see or recognize within society (i.e., voting, organizing, protest), or to the discourses that are intelligible within these (i.e. speaking English, "writing well").
My aim in looking out for and studying what some call "everyday rhetorics" is to show that there exist opportunities for — and the possibility of — transforming one's lived realities even though one may lack the status, access, or the right "tools" to secure a place on the proverbial table. So, I'm very much on the rhetoric side of things, and because I want to bring what I learn from what marginal people and groups are doing to the attention of the larger field in order to shift what we now see and recognize as "rhetorical," you might say that I do rhetorical theory.
An example of this is the work I'm doing around undocumented people and migrant workers. One of the most important things I've learned in my time thinking about and paying attention to how these individuals make their way within U.S. society even at times of high anti-immigrant sentiment is that choosing to remain unseen — and seeking out ways of casting off certain types of looking — can have a greater impact on their ability to remain here, working, studying, playing — without getting caught — than would playing into the visibility politics that we so often expect and prescribe for people fighting for civil rights.
This insight has got me wondering how some of my own students might be successfully navigating classroom contexts in which they might be asked to write about or take a position on urgent issues such as immigration or particular policies currently being debated at the local or national context. Because a lot of the field places great value on what people are able to do with their writing — how it can be a "liberatory" practice — we might insist that students take a stance and build an argument, and that as part of argument they appeal to readers via personal experience.
The visibility that could result from doing this type of writing could be dangerous for undocumented students. So, not only does this tell me that I should be mindful of the types of prescriptions I make in regards to how people appeal to audiences most effectively, it also tells me that there's likely a need to reassess how we assign writing so that we aren't inadvertently asking or maybe even requiring some of our students to disclose a status that could well make them a target.
At the same time, I'm certain that students are able to, because of lived experiences outside of classrooms, able to navigate these situations effectively, so that even if they are confronted with an assignment or instructions that seem to require such disclosures, that they are able to negotiate visibility and invisibility rhetorically, so as to complete the assignment without putting themselves in potential danger.
Currently, I'm co-editing a collection of essays focused on undocumented students in writing classrooms. The hope of my co-editors and I is to spark a more sustained discussion of how our teaching and research practices in the field of Rhetoric and Composition can better address the realities of many of our students, as well as how our own students can be part of that conversation.
Q: How does your research and work as a teacher/scholar engage the campus, community, and the discipline as a whole, on the conversation about how and why we write?
A: My attention to how people are able to get things done despite a lack of access necessarily makes me attuned to all the ways access is limited or withdrawn for certain individuals and groups among us. This line of inquiry isn't particularly new. We know well enough that one's race, ethnicity, gender, class, ethnicity, legal status, and physical ability/disability have been mobilized against us in ways that make mobility — actual and social — difficult if not outright impossible. Much has been said and written about this both in and outside of the academy, and I'm certainly motivated by it.
What I find particularly interesting, though, is how these vectors of difference influence how physical space is built, organized, and controlled currently, so that the access we, as a nation, used to be able to withdraw of racial others lawfully can still be withdrawn socially. I have a growing hunch that one way more powerful actors in a society are able to marginalize and curtail the agency of less powerful individuals and groups is by reducing or cutting off access to public space.
If we think about the purpose and value of public space within a democratic society, we recognize how invaluable public space is to the production of a civil society and of community. Public space is where people go to exercise their rights and to hone their democratic ideals. When a municipality or an institution reduces or limits access to public space, there is (I think) a direct correlation with how much people are able to feel that they have a stake in that community.
Less public space means less civic participation. It means greater resentment and suspicion. Most people would say that less civic participation and greater resentment and suspicion are net negatives in any community or society, but we must also recognize that, historically, more powerful players in society have always been able to profit — politically and monetarily — from these.
Much of the non-academic writing I now do is geared toward critiques of how civic and institutional leaders regulate or control what ought to be public space. I've written a lot since getting to Fresno about the lack of parks and other green spaces,<|fim_middle|> the rhetorical significance of migrant mass death? It happens a lot and many of us don't know/don't care — what is the rhetorical function of all this death and, further, of its collective forgetting?
I want to know how this public and collective forgetting happens. Memory is an important tenant within rhetorical studies, and so is forgetting. I want to know what it is that people/the state/institutions are able to do with migrant death and its forgetting.
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Email: benjaminkirk@csufresno.edu | and about the ubiquity of fences in the city. (I keep a blog called The Fences of Fresno in which I document fences.)
Much is being said in relation to parks in the city on the front of physical health. My public writing around this issue adds to these by, hopefully, indicating that a lack of parks and access to those we do have also has a negative effect on civic health. To me, the lack of parks and the prevalence of fences explain the historic segregation and disparities in the city as much as anything else. My sense, though, is that these two features of Fresno aren't accidental: curtailing access further marginalizes those who could do the most with having regular opportunities to get out and meet their neighbors.
I write because it's the best way I have of participating in the world. Some issues, however, require that we write to different audiences and in different ways. While I will likely do more with issues of spatial justice on the academic side, I've been mostly writing about these issues for local and popular audiences because I perceive this to be an issue of greater urgency; the conventions of writing in academic genres and for academic audiences would make it so that the people who I think could do more with what I'm writing would see it months or years down the line, if they ever did.
Q: How do you involve or impact students, both graduate and undergraduate, in your research work and projects?
A: For one, I encourage students to likewise consider, in each writing situations, why and how to write, even in terms of my assignments. I don't often prescribe specific genres in my writing assignments so that students can make deliberate decisions about what form their writing will take in consideration of their writing and purpose.
More concretely, though, my co-editors and I are seeking direct editorial assistance from students on the collection I mentioned above. Our student collaborators will help us respond to authors and may even respond to them; their own writing will appear alongside that of scholars.
Q: What are your other research interests?
A: Soon after arriving in Fresno, I found out that the plane crash of which Woody Guthrie sings in "Deportee (Plane Wreck Over Los Gatos)" happened in the Central Valley, not far from Fresno, on January 28, 1948. I found out that The Fresno Bee was the only newspaper to print the names of those migrants who died in that plane crash, and that Guthrie's poem-turned-song was likely motivated by the general dismissal of migrants in death as in life. (The song inspired Central Valley author Tim Z. Hernandez's latest novel, "All They Will Call You.")
Since then, I've been cataloging and looking into what turns out to be an overwhelming number of instances in which migrants die en masse while migrating or once in the U.S.; the dismissal which Guthrie was attempting to correct with his poem is and has been an aspect of migrant death in many if not all of these instances. In researching migrant mass death, I've been asking — what is | 620 |
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DESCENDANTS OF DONALD STEWART
Generation No. 1
1. Donald2 Stewart (Ronald1) was born 1763 in Parish of Portree, Isle of Skye, Scotland, and died June 29, 1857 in PEI, buried in St John's Presbyterian Church Cemetary, Belfast, PEI. He married Catherine<|fim_middle|>.
103 iii. Charles Malcolm Stewart, born 1898 in New Zealand.
104 iv. Mervyn Berkley Ralph Stewart, born 1900 in New Zealand.
105 v. Hector Wallace Stewart, born 1903 in New Zealand.
106 vi. Vivian Wallace Stewart, born 1903 in New Zealand.
33. Alexander (Sandy)5 Stewart (Margaret4, Alexander3, Donald2, Ronald1) was born 1868 in New Zealand, and died in New Zealand. He married Mary Eleanor Rowntree 1899.
Children of Alexander Stewart and Mary Rowntree are:
107 i. Edna Margaret Elinor Salome6 Stewart, born 1901 in New Zealand.
108 ii. Audrey Gladys Stewart, born 1906.
48. Malcolm5 Beaton (Catharine4 Stewart, Ronald3, Donald2, Ronald1) He married Lottie McKay.
Children of Malcolm Beaton and Lottie McKay are:
109 i. Anna6 Beaton. She married Lester MacDonald.
110 ii. Margaret Beaton.
111 iii. Gordon Beaton. He married (1) Mary McBride. He married (2) Irene Robinson Hily.
56. Angus Alexander5 Stewart (Janet4, Ronald3, Donald2, Ronald1) was born August 3, 1875 in Caledonia, PEI. He married Phobe Burch.
Children of Angus Stewart and Phobe Burch are:
112 i. Donald6 Stewart.
113 ii. Beatrice Stewart.
114 iii. Janet Stewart.
115 iv. Thelma Stewart.
116 v. Effie Mae Stewart.
117 vi. Marietta Stewart.
118 vii. Rena Stewart.
119 viii. Flora Stewart. She married Wilson J Brown.
58. Ronald5 Stewart (Malcolm4, Ronald3, Donald2, Ronald1) was born December 25, 1870. He married May Livingstone. She was born in High Bank, PEI.
Children of Ronald Stewart and May Livingstone are:
120 i. Annie6 Stewart.
121 ii. Bruce Stewart.
122 iii. Wallie Stewart.
123 iv. Hazel Stewart.
124 v. Ronald Stewart.
Lived in BC worked for CPR operating a swing bridge over the Pitt River
71. John A.5 Nicholson (Mary4 Stewart, Ronald3, Donald2, Ronald1) was born 1872. He married Susie Clark. She was born in Hazelton, ND.
73. Archibald5 Nicholson (Mary4 Stewart, Ronald3, Donald2, Ronald1) was born November 1, 1876, died September 1931. He married Katie Mary MacDermid. She was born July 9, 1886 in Victoria Cross, PEI, and died June 8, 1970.
74. John William5 Nicholson (Mary4 Stewart, Ronald3, Donald2, Ronald1) was born July 6, 1878 in Valleyfield, PEI, and died April 15, 1972. He married Mary Margaret Martin October 6, 1909, daughter of Malcolm Martin and Catherine McLeod. She was born September 8, 1877 in Heatherdale, PEI, and died July 20, 1958.
76. Donald Alex5 Nicholson (Mary4 Stewart, Ronald3, Donald2, Ronald1) was born January 25, 1889 in North Dakota, USA. He married Alice May MacLean, daughter of Alex MacLean and Pauline Smith. She was born December 12, 1902 in High Bank, PEI.
77. Margaret5 Stewart (Alexander Ronald4, Ronald3, Donald2, Ronald1) She married Joseph Campbell.
Children of Margaret Stewart and Joseph Campbell are:
137 i. Alexander6 Campbell.
138 ii. Donald Campbell.
139 iii. William Campbell.
79. Sarah J.5 Stewart (Alexander Ronald4, Ronald3, Donald2, Ronald1) She married John MacDonald. | Morrison in Portree, Isle of Skye, Scotland. She was born Abt. 1773 in Parish of Portree, Isle of Skye, Scotland, and died in PEI, buried in St John's Presbyterian Church Cemetary, Belfast, PEI
Notes for Donald Stewart:
Donald Stewart was the son of Ronald Stewart of Portree Parish, Isle of Skye, Scotland. Donald and his wife lived in Mugeary, Parish of Portree, Isle of Skye. Donald Stewart and his brother Charles and their wives were Selkirk settlers who emigrated from Isle of Skye in 1803 on the Polly. One brother Malcolm Stewart did not emigrate he stayed in Skye and raised a family at the Braes, Isle of Skye Scotland.
Children of Donald Stewart and Catherine Morrison are:
+ 2 i. Alexander3 Stewart, born Abt. 1800 in Mugeary, Parish of Portree, Isle of Skye, Scotland; died in PEI.
+ 3 ii. Ronald Stewart, born Abt. 1801 in Mugeary, Portree Parish, Isle of Skye, Scotland; died in PEI.
+ 4 iii. Allan Stewart, born Abt. 1803 in PEI.
5 iv. Murdock Stewart. He married Mary Nicholson; born in Dundas, PEI.
6 v. Malcolm Stewart. He married Betty Nicholson; born in Dundas, PEI.
+ 7 vi. Mary Stewart, born in Pinette, PEI.
2. Alexander3 Stewart (Donald2, Ronald1) was born Abt. 1800 in Mugeary, Parish of Portree, Isle of Skye, Scotland, and died in PEI. He married Catherine Martin Abt. 1832, daughter of Samuel Martin. She was born 1807 in Orwell, PEI, and died in PEI.
Notes for Alexander Stewart:
Alexander Stewart drowned and Catherine Martin married 2nd Charles MacWillams
Children of Alexander Stewart and Catherine Martin are:
8 i. Catherine4 Stewart, born February 10, 1833 in Pinette, PEI.
+ 9 ii. Margaret Stewart, born September 18, 1835 in Pinette, PEI; died January 11, 1925 in Mangawhai, New Zealand.
10 iii. Flora Stewart, born March 8, 1838 in Pinette, PEI.
11 iv. Christine Stewart, born May 20, 1840 in Pinette, PEI.
Children of Catherine Martin and Charlie MacWilliams are:
i. Janet3 MacWilliams, born June 16, 1845 in Pinette, PEI.
ii. Mary MacWilliams, born May 17, 1847 in Pinette, PEI. She married Dan MacWilliams.
iii. Hugh MacWilliams, born May 6, 1849 in Pinette, PEI.
iv. Samuel MacWilliams, born November 25, 1850 in Belfast, PEI.
3. Ronald3 Stewart (Donald2, Ronald1) was born 1802 in Mugeary, Portree Parish, Isle of Skye, Scotland, and died December 23, 1901, buried St John's Presbyterian Church Cemetary, Belfast, PEI. He married Flora Matheson. She was born 1807 in Isle of Skye, and died June 14, 1902 buried in St John's Presbyterian Church Cemetary, Belfast, PEI.
Notes for Ronald Stewart:
1841 Census - Ronald Stewart is living in Lot 62, Belle Creek, PEI
Occupation is Farmer, and he has a 150 acre farm
Family compostion as per the 1841 census:
Males: Under 16 years of age. 2
Females: Under 16 years of age. 2
Males: From 16 to 45. 1
Females: From 16 to 45. 1
Total number in each family = 6
Notes for Flora Matheson:
Emigrated from Isle of Skye with her parents who settled in Dundas, PEI
Children of Ronald Stewart and Flora Matheson are:
12 i. Allan4 Stewart, born in Belle Creek, PEI.
+ 13 ii. John Angus Stewart, born in Belle Creek, PEI.
+ 14 iii. Catharine Stewart, born December 14, 1834.
+ 15 iv. Donald Stewart, born July 10, 1838 in Belle Creek, PEI.
+ 16 v. Janet Stewart, born Abt. 1839 in Belle Creek, PE; died in ND, buried in Stewartsdale, ND, USA.
+ 17 vi. Malcolm Stewart, born 1840 in Belle Creek, PEI; died 1909.
+ 18 vii. Mary Stewart, born November 20, 1842 in Belle Creek, PEI; died August 24, 1912 in Valleyfield, PEI.
+ 19 viii. Alexander Ronald Stewart, born November 10, 1845 in Belle Creek, PEI; died 1928.
+ 20 ix. Murdock Stewart, born 1848.
+ 21 x. Margaret Stewart, born 1852; died 1907.
4. Allan3 Stewart (Donald2, Ronald1) born 1799 in Isle of Skye, Scotland; died Nov 1, 1878 in Belle Creek, PEI, buried in St John's Presbyterian Church Cemetary, Belfast, PEI. He married Sarah (Marion) Stewart, born 1809 in Isle of Skye, Scotland; died Sept 14, 1864 in Belle Creek, PEI, buried in St John's Presbyterian Church Cemetary, Belfast, PEI
Children of Allan Stewart and Sarah Stewart are:
22 i. Alexander4 Stewart. He married Catherine Morrison.
+ 23 ii. Christina Stewart, born December 24, 1833.
24 iii. John A Stewart, born May 28, 1835.
25 iv. Donald A. Stewart, born May 6, 1837; died December 16, 1921 in PEI, buried in Wood Islands Cemetary, PEI. He married Christina Martin; born May 7, 1849; died April 19, 1919 in PEI, buried in Wood Islands Cemetary, PEI.
26 v. Catherine Stewart, born December 25, 1839.
27 vi. Mary Stewart, born October 29, 1842. She married Stewart; born in High Bank, PEI.
7. Mary3 Stewart (Donald2, Ronald1) was born in Pinette, PEI. She married John Cameron.
Child of Mary Stewart and John Cameron is:
28 i. Ann4 Cameron, born December 23, 1839 in Anderson's Road, PEI.
9. Margaret4 Stewart (Alexander3, Donald2, Ronald1) was born September 18, 1835 in Pinette, PEI, and died January 11, 1925 in Mangawhai, New Zealand. She married Angus Malcolm Stewart, son of Malcolm Stewart and Mary McPherson. He was born November 19, 1833 in Belle Creek, PEI, and died April 20, 1925 in Mangawhai, New Zealand.
Notes for Margaret Stewart:
Emigrated on the brig Prince Edward, with her husband Angus Malcolm Stewart they left Prince Edward Island, Canada, 1st December 1858 and arrived Auckland, New Zealand, 12th May 1859.
Children of Margaret Stewart and Angus Stewart are:
29 i. Mary Ann5 Stewart, born in New Zealand. She married Angus McKinnon 1880.
30 ii. Katherine (Kate) Stewart, born 1863 in New Zealand. She married Ewart.
+ 31 iii. Flora Stewart, born 1864 in Kaiwaka, New Zealand; died 1943 in Kaiwaka, New Zealand.
+ 32 iv. Malcolm Stewart, born 1866 in Kaiwaka, New Zealand; died June 9, 1942 in Kaiwaka, New Zealand.
+ 33 v. Alexander (Sandy) Stewart, born 1868 in New Zealand; died in New Zealand.
34 vi. Charles Stewart, born 1870 in New Zealand; died in New Zealand.
13. John Angus4 Stewart (Ronald3, Donald2, Ronald1) was born in Belle Creek, PEI. He married Elizabeth Nicholson.
Children of John Stewart and Elizabeth Nicholson are:
35 i. Charles5 Stewart.
36 ii. Ronald Stewart.
37 iii. Alexander Stewart.
38 iv. Flora Stewart.
39 v. Archibald A. Stewart.
40 vi. Leslie Stewart.
Notes for Leslie Stewart:
Leslie was killed while building a bridge over the Pitt River in BC
41 vii. Margaret Stewart.
42 viii. Mary Stewart.
43 ix. Edith Stewart.
14. Catharine4 Stewart (Ronald3, Donald2, Ronald1) was born December 14, 1834. She married Jonathan Beaton.
Children of Catharine Stewart and Jonathan Beaton are:
44 i. Flora5 Beaton.
45 ii. Catherine Beaton.
46 iii. Angus Beaton.
47 iv. Ronald Beaton.
+ 48 v. Malcolm Beaton.
15. Donald4 Stewart (Ronald3, Donald2, Ronald1) was born July 10, 1838 in Belle Creek, PEI. He married Mary McPhee.
Children of Donald Stewart and Mary McPhee are:
49 i. Ronald5 Stewart.
50 ii. John N. Stewart.
51 iii. Alexander D. Stewart.
52 iv. Dan M. Stewart.
53 v. Flora A. Stewart.
16. Janet4 Stewart (Ronald3, Donald2, Ronald1) was born Abt. 1839 in Belle Creek, PE, and died in ND, buried in Stewartsdale, ND, USA. She married Donald Stewart. He was born July 28, 1838 in Tarmichaig, Isle of Skye, Inverness, Scotland, and died 1914 in ND, buried in Stewartsdale, ND, USA.
Children of Janet Stewart and Donald Stewart are:
54 i. Catherine5 Stewart, born November 5, 1870 in Caledonia, PEI. She married Donald E MacLean; born in Montague, PEI.
55 ii. Flora Jane Stewart, born March 9, 1872 in Caledonia, PEI.
+ 56 iii. Angus Alexander Stewart, born August 3, 1875 in Caledonia, PEI.
57 iv. John Ronald Stewart, born March 9, 1878 in Caledonia, PEI; died September 30, 1954 in ND, buried in Stewartsdale Cemetery, ND. He married Florence Hunt June 19, 1943; born June 16, 1903 in Plymouth, VT; died September 30, 1954 in ND, buried in Stewartsdale Cemetery, ND.
Notes for John Ronald Stewart:
Sources: Some McLean's and Allied Families, 1985, by Hazel L. Falconer, Bismark, ND
John Ronald STEWART was born March, 9,1878 in Caledonia, P.E.I. and died at Stewartsdale, ND in 1960. He married Florence Stewart HUNT on June 19, 1943. Florence was born on June 16, 1903 at Plymouth, Vt. and died. Sept. 30, 1954. John and Florence had no children. John R. was 4 years old when he came with his parents to Stewartsdale, Dakota Territory where he lived and farmed until his death in February 1960. John R. Stewart and his wife Florence Stewart Hunt are both buried in the Stewartsdale Cemetery, ND.
John Ronald Stewart of Stewartsdale, North Dakota, the son of Donald and Janet Stewart of
Stewartsdale, now deceased, passed away at a Bismarck Hospital at the age of eighty-two .
He was born at Caledonia, Prince Edward Island, Canada, March 9th,1878. When he was four
years of age, he with other members of his family came to Bismarck Dakota Territory. The
Stewart family arrived in Bismarck on an October day when the people from near and far were
celebrating the first N.P. train crossing of the Missouri River, at Bismarck. John's father
had filed on a Homestead in the year of 1881, where he prepared a Pioneer Home for his wife,
and two small sons and two daughters. The sons were Angus and John, the daughters were Flora
and Katie. John R. Stewart lived for seventy-eight years an his father's farm homestead. John R. Stewart was married to Florence Hunt of Los Angeles, California at Wilton, North Dakota in August 1943. However, she passed away September 30th, 1954. They had no children .
He leaves to mourn his death his sister, Catherine and her husband Dan E. MacLean and five
members of the family of his brother Angus and two of his sister Flora's grandchildren, the sons of James Brown, now deceased.
The Perry Funeral Home will be in charge of the funeral arrangements and the Funeral Services
will be held from the Perry Funeral Parlor in Bismarck, at 2:30 O'clock, P.M. Wednesday
February 3, 1960. He will be interred in the Stewartsdale Cemetery.
The active Pall Bearers, Donald Falconer, Leslie Clark, James McDonald, Jonathan Redington,
Lloyd Mclean, and Robert MacLean.
Honorary Pall Bearers, John Welch, Malcolm Nicholson, Andrew Irvine, E.A. Brown, Bernard
Davenport, Paul Happel, Emory Woodworth, and W.B. Falconer.
Rev. Alvin S. Bauch will officiate.
17. Malcolm4 Stewart (Ronald3, Donald2, Ronald1) was born 1840 in Belle Creek, PEI, and died 1909. He married (1) Alice Agnes Nicholson February 13, 1867. She was born May 15, 1842 in Point Prim, PEI, and died September 6, 1871. He married (2) Flora Munroe July 28, 1874. She was born 1846 in Whim Road, PEI.
Notes for Malcolm Stewart:
Malcolm Stewart and Flora Munro relocated to Stewartsdale, North Dokota, USA
Children of Malcolm Stewart and Alice Nicholson are:
+ 58 i. Ronald5 Stewart, born December 25, 1870.
59 ii. John Angus Stewart, born February 13, 1868. He married Margaret Stewart.
Notes for John Angus Stewart:
Lived in North Dakota
60 iii. Alice Stewart.
Children of Malcolm Stewart and Flora Munroe are:
61 i. Alice5 Stewart, born 1874.
62 ii. Alice Agnes Stewart, born July 2, 1875.
63 iii. John Alexander Stewart, born 1877.
64 iv. Norman Stewart, born 1878.
65 v. Mary Ann Stewart, born June 1880; died 1965. She married Chris Smith.
66 vi. Dan William Stewart, born 1884; died 1971.
67 vii. Alex James Stewart, born 1886. He married Vera Gramling.
68 viii. Kate Flora Stewart, born 1890; died 1954. She married Claude Houser.
18. Mary4 Stewart (Ronald3, Donald2, Ronald1) was born November 20, 1842 in Belle Creek, PEI, and died August 24, 1912 in Valleyfield, PEI. She married Angus J. Nicholson July 27, 1867. He was born Abt. 1845 in Point Prim, PEI, and died September 4, 1923.
More About Angus J. Nicholson:
Burial: Stewartsdale, ND
Children of Mary Stewart and Angus Nicholson are:
69 i. Ronald5 Nicholson.
70 ii. Ann Nicholson, born February 3, 1871. She married Jacob Smith.
+ 71 iii. John A. Nicholson, born 1872.
72 iv. Ronald Nicholson, born 1875.
Notes for Ronald Nicholson:
Farmed in Hazelton, ND
+ 73 v. Archibald Nicholson, born November 1, 1876.
+ 74 vi. John William Nicholson, born July 6, 1878 in Valleyfield, PEI; died April 15, 1972.
75 vii. Malcolm Nicholson, born August 19, 1881.
Notes for Malcolm Nicholson:
Farmer in Glencoe, ND
+ 76 viii. Donald Alex Nicholson, born January 25, 1889 in North Dakota, USA.
19. Alexander Ronald4 Stewart (Ronald3, Donald2, Ronald1) was born November 10, 1845 in Belle Creek, PEI, and died 1928. He married Catherine Bell. She died December 6, 1902.
Children of Alexander Stewart and Catherine Bell are:
+ 77 i. Margaret5 Stewart.
78 ii. Flora J. Stewart.
Notes for Flora J. Stewart:
Flora J. was not married but she raised her sisters Margaret Stewarts children after Margaret died in BC. The the family moved back to PEI in 1913.
+ 79 iii. Sarah J. Stewart.
20. Murdock4 Stewart (Ronald3, Donald2, Ronald1) was born 1848. He married Christina Martin.
Notes for Murdock Stewart:
Twin to John Angus
Children of Murdock Stewart and Christina Martin are:
80 i. Alice5 Stewart.
81 ii. Dan Stewart.
82 iii. Malcolm Stewart.
83 iv. Norman Stewart.
84 v. Flora Stewart.
85 vi. Mary Stewart.
86 vii. Christina Stewart.
87 viii. Catherine Stewart.
21. Margaret4 Stewart (Ronald3, Donald2, Ronald1) was born 1852, and died 1907. She married Peter McIntosh. He was born 1848, and died 1926.
Children of Margaret Stewart and Peter McIntosh are:
88 i. Ronald A.5 McIntosh, born 1871.
89 ii. Mary McIntosh, born 1875; died 1951.
90 iii. Elizabeth J McIntosh, born 1884.
91 iv. Elizabeth J McIntosh, born 1886.
92 v. Flora McIntosh, born 1879; died 1894.
93 vi. Jessie McIntosh, born 1881; died 1960.
94 vii. Joseph McIntosh, born 1889.
95 viii. Kathryn M McIntosh, born 1891; died 1980. She married xxx Bellyer.
23. Christina4 Stewart (Allan3, Donald2, Ronald1) was born December 24, 1833. She married Alexander Beaton.
Child of Christina Stewart and Alexander Beaton is:
96 i. Malcolm5 Beaton, born June 15, 1866 in Flat River, PEI.
31. Flora5 Stewart (Margaret4, Alexander3, Donald2, Ronald1) was born 1864 in Kaiwaka, New Zealand, and died 1943 in Kaiwaka, New Zealand. She married Thomas Judd. He was born April 4, 1853 in Hertfordshire, England, and died July 1, 1938 in Kaiwaka, New Zealand.
Children of Flora Stewart and Thomas Judd are:
97 i. Arnold Wickliffe6 Judd, born 1888 in New Zealand; died February 27, 1954. He married Mary Bryant; born 1888; died November 27, 1952.
98 ii. Margarette Ellen Judd, born 1890 in New Zealand; died 1992. She married Victor John Owens; born May 22, 1872; died March 14, 1939.
99 iii. Hylton Onslow Judd, born 1893 in Mangawhai, New Zealand. He married Ethel ?.
100 iv. Thomas Gilbert Judd, born 1900 in New Zealand.
32. Malcolm5 Stewart (Margaret4, Alexander3, Donald2, Ronald1) was born 1866 in Kaiwaka, New Zealand, and died June 9, 1942 in Kaiwaka, New Zealand. He married Mary Blackwood Judd April 18, 1894. She was born 1863, and died 1935.
Children of Malcolm Stewart and Mary Judd are:
101 i. Angus Glen Alvin6 Stewart, born 1895 in New Zealand.
102 ii. Leonora Mynetta Stewart, born 1897 in New Zealand | 5,150 |
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Since Weebly enables for HTML editing, many advertising tools and attributes can be added to your website. But since you still don't have 100% control on your site & server — it can be difficult or not impossible to add advanced marketing tools like an EV SSL, custom email collection applications, custom analytics packages, habit social stocks, specific Schemas and A/B testing software.
A bonus for Weebly is their eCommerce performance. It's possible to sell products from the Weebly site without switching platforms or performing some distinctive developments. It fits in effortlessly and contains solid performance.
It is Great for websites that are mostly lead-generation, informational, etc but also want to sell a few products. It's also a good match for anyone testing out products prior to moving to a long-term platform. It is not a long-term fit for websites that are eCommerce-first. For those, an online store you own with WordPress + WooCommerce or a specialization eCommerce platform like Shopify (inspection ) or Bigcommerce (review) are a much better fit.
If You're wanting to construct a long-term content or direct generation site, then I would look at WordPress.com (for content) or Wix (for overall drag & drop) rather than Weebly. Even if Weebly matches your needs now, they may not in the future.
When we started testing Weebly many Years past, it was just another site builder. That has completely changed. Weebly has evolved into an outstanding website building tool which is far better than most competitors. It's simple, uncluttered and easy to use — that is exactly what people with limited technical abilities need when it comes to making their own online presence.
Obviously, it's not 100% perfect. We'd like To observe a bit more templates, as an example. Getting an email address attached to a own domain is also a little expensive, as they recommend G Suite, that costs $5 a month, per user. (Although there are workarounds, as you can see in the FAQ under ).
But all in all, Weebly reaches the top of our list of site builders. Their ease of use combined with cool tools such as the iOS or Android app for editing your website on the move, or the amount of add-ons out there from the app centre makes it powerful, and fun to use. | comparison page.
Let us get 1 thing out of the way . if You are an innovative search engine optimization specialist who absolutely needs to rank #1 on search engines for a very competitive key word, you may have a difficult time using Weebly. It is not impossible, but there are limitations.
Just as we Understand, really safe. The company takes safety very seriously. They promote strong passwords, and supply SSL encryption on all plans. Even the free tier will run on https that offers an extra layer of security. Especially important for onsite personal data exchange (e.g. credit card or email address).
We have a Detailed post about Weebly's templates where you can read the main pros and cons. However, we wish to provide you here a quick summary of the key features here.
We would say yes, with a caveat. It's great to Sell digital and physical products for small and medium-sized stores, but not for huge ones. Although you may use the import and export function to handle many things, you might find Weebly lacking in features for enormous stores.
Ultimately, it's worth noting that although You're able to create a shop with the Starter and Guru plan, updating to Business and greater makes more sense. You'll get the automated delivery and sales tax calculator, which is very helpful for serious store owners. Furthermore, you won't have to pay an additional transaction fee of 3 percent.
You bet! There are no less than 300 apps in A number of categories like eCommerce, Communication, Marketing, Social, or Site Tools. Some are free, some are compensated. Some are constructed by Weebly, some by third-party developers. For the latter, there is always an (unlikely) possibility that it may shut down one day. Additionally a pity the programs made by Weebly are rather limited.
However, 1 thing all of the apps have in Common is that a super easy installation attribute. One click and bam! All programs are analyzed and will work immediately on your website. We attempted some cool ones such as a way to add tables, event calendars, and info bars to display specific info. Our only qualm is that the quality and quantity of apps is a marginally inferior those from the Wix App Store.
Weebly provides Hosting for all the websites that are constructed on their own platform. That can be good or awful, however in Weebly's situation, it is an expert. They have rapid load rates. Their sites are optimized for their hosting. They treat security against spam and hackers. With company plans, they even install and keep SSL across your whole site. Here's my speed test.
There Are still speed and safety dangers, but overall, it's an advantage for many site owners to have somebody else care for speed, security, backups, etc.. The cost is bundled with expert and completely free accounts, so it's a solid value-add.
Whenever You start any piece of software — no matter how instinctive — there's that moment where you think"okay, what can I do now?" This approach is called onboarding, and it is also incredibly hard to execute well.
The Software maker doesn't wish to be annoying, but they also wish to provide help. I love how Weebly assembles in strong onboarding and education not just via email trickle arrangement but also via small info buttons built with their own platform.
One Promoted benefit of utilizing an all-inclusive website builder is you won't have to write HTML or CSS code. You only have to drag and drop elements. Everything you see in the builder is what you receive on the website.
It's Not necessarily that easy. There is a lot of nuances to"drag and drop." The majority of us really mean"I wish to drag and click this element and move it to a general place where it will seem good — you know, mechanically focused, etc." Put simply, it's like playing tee-ball rather than baseball…or bowling with up gutter guards. You want to do something, but also have a little bit of help.
For The most part, Weebly pulls off this. Their drag and drop actually functions. As well as for the control freaks among us, they supply access to a custom CSS module, so that you can edit the template into exactly your choosing.
With An all-inclusive platform, client service is able to troubleshoot and fix any issue. This is a huge benefit of website builder platforms in general, but especially using Weebly since they have telephone support.
If You conduct your site, you have to figure out exactly who can correct a problem before getting in contact with them. With Weebly, you just get in touch with them.
The Significant advantage of building your own website on your own host is you don't need to count on a platform's attribute set. If you go the platform route, it's essential to make sure that they have all the features you desire and need.
If You go the all-inclusive website builder course, Weebly's feature set must provide everything you need for typical personal/business | 1,031 |
Sewell, NJ, USA (April 2019) C<|fim_middle|>ion K-Tron can provide a wide variety of design and layout options in both ingredient transfer and delivery to help brewery manufacturers to not only lower process costs but also to improve efficiency and product quality.
The booth will feature a working recirculating conveying system to illustrate the use of loss-in-weight batching and/or conveying of ingredients to brewery silos, tanks and kettles. The Coperion K-Tron line of feeders provides for the highest degree of accuracy in ingredient and product delivery in order to optimize ingredient cost savings. The KT20 Twin Screw Feeder is displayed on a platform scale, with the P10 Central Receiver and controller demonstrating a custom solution for difficult conveying applications. Integrated control systems permit automation for even the simplest of brewery material handling applications.
Coperion K-Tron Twin Screw feeding equipment is easy to dismantle.
The Coperion K-Tron Twin Screw KT20 Feeder with interchangeable feeding tools is mounted on a fully enclosed platform scale for high accuracy feeding of difficult flowing ingredients including additives and flavors. All feeder parts in contact with the material being fed are stainless steel, and feeding equipment is easy to disassemble. A horizontal agitator gently moves the bulk material to the large throat and then into the screws. The feeder can be used for loss-in-weight batching direct to brew kettles. As an alternative, gain-in-weight batching can also be supplied utilizing scale hoppers complete with Coperion K-Tron's high accuracy load cell technology depending upon the rates and accuracies required.
Coperion K-Tron P10 pneumatic conveying vacuum receiver is a perfect solution for sanitary ingredient handling.
Coperion K-Tron Model P10 Receiver provides a sanitary solution for difficult material conveying applications in the food and brewery industries. Coperion K-Tron provides a wide variety of conveying receiver types and conveying methods, including dense and dilute phase vacuum and pressure conveying systems. The sanitary design of the P-Series Receivers includes steep cone angles to ensure excellent discharge and band clamps for quick disassembly. They can be used for gain-in-weight or loss-in-weight feeder batching applications, as well as simple up and in systems or larger, central vacuum conveying systems. Typical conveying applications in the brewery industry include conveying and weighing of raw materials to the silos, gristmill and mash tun. Additional systems include subsequent conveying of milled product to the mash tun, whereby the same vacuum pump can be used to further convey the spent grain from the tun to the spent grain bin or truck. | operion and Coperion K-Tron will exhibit for the first time at the Craft Brewers Conference & Brew Expo America (April 8- April 11, 2019) in Denver, Colorado.
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Heather Kenehan
heather.kenehan@barrie.ca
705-739-4220 ext 5685
55+ Parkview Dance
Thursday, January 26, 2023 | 1:30–3:30pm
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Parkview 55+ Centre
189 Blake Street, Barrie
City of Barrie 55+ Centre
705-739-4220 ex.5685
https://www.barrie.ca/SeniorsCentres
Join us every Thursday between January 5 and June 15 2023 from 1:3<|fim_middle|> events and workshops for individuals 55 years of age and better. Learn more at barrie.ca/SeniorsCentres. | 0–3:30pm at the Parkview Centre,189 Blake Street. Dance to a live band or just sit back and enjoy the live music. Tickets are $5 at the door.
This is a recurring 55+ recreation program. We feature select occurrences in the City's events calendar to help raise awareness about recurring programs. Check out the 55+ PALS monthly newsletter or refer to the Monthly Calendar to stay up to date on what's happening.
About Barrie's 55+ Centres
There's no age limit on staying active in Barrie. The Allandale 55+ Centre and the Parkview 55+ Centre offer quality in-person recreation, education and fitness opportunities along with | 151 |
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The new Rule 20DA 800GPH Bilge Pump has a high flow optimized impeller to provide greater flow at the same amperage as previous generations. The built-in Thermal Cut-Off (TCO) provides added protection for pump and vessel. The built-in check valve reduces the amount of water left over in the bilge, reducing odor and helps keep your bilge cleaner. Hidden air vents in the body helps prevent air locking in challenging plumbing installations, and a threaded discharge helps ease installation and maintenance.
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Pharrell, Adidas Champion Female Empowerment With 'Now Is Her Time' Collection
Jay Connor
Photo: Collier Schorr (Adidas)
Ageless wonder Pharrell Williams and Adidas are joining forces to spread the gospel of female empowerment with "Now Is Her Time," a new campaign celebrating the fearless women who are revolutionizing our world.
In championing women's rights, the campaign highlights an assortment of artists and activists "rooted in gender, sexuality, sexual rights, race, and equality," according to Adidas, and includes community organizer, freedom fighter and Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors; recording artist Syd; model Kadija Diawara and others. Some are shown either pregnant or posing with their children while breastfeeding in order to properly portray the full breadth of womanhood.
"I'm not interested in relying on other people to save me or my community," Cullors told Adidas. "We have to step in, I have to step up."
"It's been an uphill battle for women for a long time," Syd, lead singer of The Internet, said. "I influence the human race by looking at myself as a human first, and an artist, producer, creative person, whatever my career is, second."
The campaign is shot by fashion photographer Collier Schorr, whose legendary work explores themes of gender, history, sexuality and identity, while the collection features unisex sneakers and apparel in an assortment of colorways promoting "choice and options for individuals."
"Now is my time to show gratitude to women," Pharrell said in a promotional clip for the campaign posted to Instagram earlier this month. "History was her time. Now is her time. The future is her time. It's always been your time."
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Still though...you can't really trust a huge multi-national "campaign" being about anything but the $$. Taking the temperature of the tub before deciding what kind of bathing suits to sell. It's nice when "ad time" is devoted to people speaking their (highly edited) truths, but just a quick peek at their executive board and I see 17% women, the rest extremely pasty and extremely bro Bros. Have to wonder what the rest of the company looks like, how they are paid, and how they are paying all the actual brown women in India, Brazil, and Indonesia sewing their good together.
Not raining on anyone's parade here — but reminding everybody the change is not going to come voluntarily from BigCorp. | Her Time" collection drops on Saturday at Adidas' stores, Foot Locker, select retailers and online.
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TOM RUMSEY, INC ON BOARD FOR SEMINAR<|fim_middle|> upcoming Racing Xtravaganza show.
In less than five months, the Utz Arena on the grounds of the York Fair will be filled with race cars, booths and so much more and race fans will now have the opportunity to visit the Seminar Room at the show.
Seminars are still being finalized and will be released in a future press release but show organizers are excited to have Tom Rumsey, Inc. on board and Rumsey is equally excited.
"I wanted to help out with the show because I've always enjoyed it and have been attending since I was a small child," stated Rumsey, whose 358 Sprint car was driven this season by Lucas Montgomery.
Rumsey has been involved in racing since he was a child and raced go karts and sprint cars before getting out of racing in 2005. With small children of his own, Rumsey became involved in racing once again and has been helping various teams in recent years. His son Logan races quarter midgets.
Tom Rumsey, Inc. is a commercial general contractor that specializes in tenant fit outs in Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia and New Jersey. Located at 3810 Bear Road in York, Rumsey can be reached at 717-767-5292 and at www.tomrumseyinc.com.
Racing Xtravanganza will be held on Saturday and Sunday, February 6 and 7, 2016 at the York Fairgrounds.
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Aaron works with management and scientists to develop strategies for growth and impact in high-priority programs and initiatives.
Aaron serves as Manager, Strategic Planning and Initiatives, in the Technology Commercialization and Partnerships Division. His role is to work with initiative leaders, management, and principal investigators to develop and implement strategies for growth in major science and technology initiatives. Current<|fim_middle|> information science.
Aaron previously served as Business Development Executive, a role in which he focused on building partnerships between the laboratory and the private sector to facilitate the commercialization of Argonne technologies. He joined Argonne in 2017 from the Boston Consulting Group (BCG), where he worked with senior leaders of client organizations to develop and implement strategies for growth, innovation, and efficiency. He earned his Ph.D. in the Institute for Molecular Engineering at the University of Chicago. He also holds an M.S. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a B.S. with highest distinction from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, both in chemical engineering.
Tags: Materials Science and Engineering, Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Manufacturing Engineering, Quantum Computing, Commercialization, Business Development, Inventions and Patents, Cooperative Research and Development Agreements (CRADAs), Strategic Partnership Projects (SPP's), Technical Service Agreements (TSA's), Licenses, Quantum Information Science
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Looking for a great way to jump-start your active health and fitness program?
If so, I would like to recommend spending the next four to six weeks improving your endurance. Participating in physical activity presents normal challenges, like fatigue to the heart and other working muscles of the body.
Repetitive strength training with resistance causes a lactic acid build up or burning sensation in the working muscle.
When your body is being challenged with rhythmic aerobic activities for extended periods of time with walking, cycling, or running, the heart begins to beat faster, work harder, and your body attempts to process oxygen at levels that will allow you to sustain the activity.
For the untrained exerciser, these effects can be very uncomfortable. Slow progression and safety is important here, so before beginning any fitness program, always check with your health care professional for clearance!
Our goal is to improve both muscular and cardio respiratory systems so that your body may safely withstand physical challenges without abnormal discomfort through regular endurance training for all muscles.
Endurance is defined as the act, quality, or power of withstanding hardship or stress, continuing for the duration, and the state of persevering. These qualities are definitely important for fitness enthusiasts who want to begin, maintain, and improve their active quality of life and health programs.
Endurance is a major key! If you have trained your body to be strong enough to safely endure the challenges associated with continued physical activity, there is absolutely not much else that should prevent you from continuing your program and achieving any desired fitness goal you have set for yourself!
Keep endurance up, and all areas of your program like strength, cardio vascular function, cardio respiratory function, and flexibility may realistically be improved. Of course, as these components are improved, so too will your active quality of life!
Build up your endurance gradually starting out with as little as 5 to 15 minutes at a time, if you need too. Starting out at a lower level of effort and working your way up is very important, especially if you have been inactive.
Endurance training is most effective when done five to six days per week and can produce some benefit at a minimum of three times per week.
Choose exercises that are convenient and enjoyable. Remember to warm up and stretch before, cool down and stretch after exercise, and don't increase your intensity level more than once a week to allow your body time to adapt to the new level of activity.
At first, don't worry about distance or speed. Simply focus on getting the desired time in comfortably, maintaining a steady pace and breathing deeply.
After three weeks, exercise should feel like mild work. You should not exercise so hard that you feel you can't catch your breath or your heart pounds uncomfortably.
After about four weeks, the exercise should feel like moderate work. You should be able to carry on a conversation without becoming more than slightly out of breath. Slow down if you cannot.
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Challenge muscular endurance with resistance training for your entire body equal to 40 to 70 percent of your one repetition maximum lift. Perform higher repetitions, preferably 12 to 20 rep range, allowing 30 to 90 seconds only between each set depending on your fitness level.
More endurance equals a boost to your 2019 health and fitness program!
Improved endurance will make the heart and lungs work better with less effort, improve sleep and mental health, reduce the effects of stress, and will help you use more calories and burn extra fat!
Until next week, please go out and make it a healthy and nutritious day!
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What is being a Christian?
Man is a sinner. We feel empty, worthless, and hopeless. "All have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God" (Romans 3:23) and "the wages of sin is death" (Romans 6:23). Yet God says, "Be perfect as your Heavenly Father is perfect" (Matthew 5:48). We try, but our good deeds do not outweigh our bad deeds because God said, "Whoever keeps the whole law yet stumbles one point is guilty of breaking all of the law" (James 2:10). And God is holy. When we see God's holiness, we see how ruined we are. God is just; therefore, he must punish the lawbreaker. God "will not let the guilty go unpunished" (Exodus<|fim_middle|> of God, became man and "he shared in [our] humanity" (Hebrews 2:14). When Jesus lived on this earth "he was also tempted in every way, just as we are—yet was without sin" (Hebrews 4:15). In other words, Jesus had a perfect record. Yet when Jesus Christ was a full-grown man, he was arrested by the government officials at that time, was tried in court, and was condemned to die even though no one could find anything wrong (because he did no wrong). They nailed him to a cross and he died, was buried, and after three days rose from the dead.
Now, when Christ died on the cross, the Scriptures say that "he was pierced for our transgressions…the Lord laid on him the sin of us all" because we all like sheep have gone astray, each of us has turned to his own way (Isaiah 53:5,6). At that moment of death, Christ took our sinful record and the punishment for it.
At that moment of death, Christ took our sinful record and the punishment for it, and he gave us his perfect, righteous record. This is the Great Exchange, the free gift, the gospel. Our penalty has been paid by Jesus Christ, and we receive his perfect record of righteousness.
Christ rose from the dead—now victorious over sin, death, and the devil—he ascended into heaven and is seated at the right hand of the Father, reigning over all creation. There Christ sent the Holy Spirit so that this gift can be received by faith.
Faith is not an intellectual assent to certain historical facts. For instance, some people believe in Jesus Christ the same way they believe in Napoleon or George Washington. Nor is faith mere temporal faith, where troubling circumstances caused prayer to God and trust that he was going to work things out, yet when things improved, prayer ceased.
Rather, saving faith is trusting Jesus Christ alone for our salvation. It means resting upon Christ alone and what he has done, rather than upon what I have done to get me into heaven. God tells us to "believe (trust) in the Lord Jesus Christ and you will be saved" (Acts 16:31).
We put our trust in Jesus by responding to Jesus' call and by repentance. Jesus says, "Come to me all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest" (Matthew 11:28). Jesus' favorite word is "Come." Respond to his call and repent! To repent means to turn 180 degrees. It's like driving down the interstate and doing a U-turn through the median. It means a willingness to turn from what you have been doing that is not pleasing to God, and follow him as he reveals his will to you in God's Word, the Bible. "If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness" (1 John 1:9).
Jesus says, "I tell you the truth, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life and will not be condemned; he has crossed over from death to life" (John 5:24).
The rest of our lives demonstrate the love we have for Jesus and what he did on the cross for us. If we are trusting in Jesus, we should try to live a good life—not because it earns us anything—but because Jesus has paid our penalty, forgiven us, and given us his righteousness. We should we try to live a good life because we love him. Jesus says many times, "If you love me, you will obey my commands" (John 14:15,21,23,24; John 15:10ff). The reason for living a godly life is love for Jesus and what he has done. For when we were hanging by a thread over the fires of hell, Jesus rescued sinners like us. This is the Good News, the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
You will receive a New Heart. That's a new mindset, a new motivation to do what is right.
You will receive a New Master. You are no longer enslaved to sin but have freedom to obey. Your new Master will lead you to pray constantly, read your Bible, worship with others, and reach out to others.
You will receive a New Name. We are called sons and daughters of God (1 John 3:1) and we can pray to our Heavenly Father (Galatians 4:4ff). Our earthly fathers may not have been good to us, but our Heavenly Father is always good, loving, and true and has our best interests at heart (Matthew 7:11).
You will receive a New Family. Jesus promised not to leave us as orphans but in a family (Ephesians 2:19), that is, his Church (1Timothy 3:15). Here is where we grow and mature in our life with Jesus Christ. We worship God together, study his Word, pray for each other, and learn to share the Good News with others.
Understanding elements of the Christian faith and how God works in our lives can be challenging. Here are some resources as you work out your understanding. | 34:7b).
God is merciful. God desires to call a people to himself to love and take delight in. God is love (1 John 4:8b) and "the Lord has taken away your punishment… He will take great delight in you, he will quiet you with his love, he will rejoice over you with singing" (Zephaniah 3:15a, 17a).
God has provided a way to be reconciled to himself in the Person of Jesus Christ.
Jesus Christ is "the Son [who] is the radiance of God's glory and the exact representation of his being, sustaining all things by his powerful word" (Hebrews 1:3). Jesus Christ, the Son | 155 |
CONNECT Announces First Successful Funding Through CapitalMatch
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SAN DIEGO (October 14, 2016) – CONNECT, a premier innovation company accelerator in San Diego that creates and scales great companies in the technology and life sciences sectors, announced today the first<|fim_middle|> to potential sources of funding. After a round of intake panels and qualified investor screenings, companies are deemed ready for investment and introduced to interested investors.
"Based on the data in the last few Innovation Reports and what we were hearing from entrepreneurs, we knew we needed a robust effort to help identify and bring investment capital to San Diego," said Greg McKee, President & CEO of CONNECT. "CapitalMatch was one of the first programs we started to connect entrepreneurs with capital and since we launched that in February we've also launched the FrameWorks Capital Track, the CONNECT Investor Syndicate on AngelList, and our Investor Circle all focused on the goal of helping entrepreneur get the investment they need to scale."
LeadCrunch is a customer discovery platform that makes B2B sales and marketing more effective and personalized. It collects vast amounts of data then uses artificial intelligence to find insights. LeadCrunch was the first company accepted into CapitalMatch, receiving $200,000 of funding from Bialla Venture Partners 2, LLC. ExCapsa Group is the lead investor. Both firms are based in San Francisco. Other investors include the former CEOs of Net Ratings, Goldman Sachs and FICO.
"We need capital to conquer a $160 billion industry. Common wisdom is that all venture capital is local. Yet, there are no B2B high-tech VC's in San Diego. So we turned to CONNECT for help," said Olin Hyde, CEO of LeadCrunch. "CONNECT's CapitalMatch program provides a rigorous screening mechanism that is trusted and respected by investors. CONNECT was able to introduce us to the right capital resource, providing us with the necessary funding to take our company to the next level and remain in San Diego."
Prior to entry into CapitalMatch, LeadCrunch was preparing to relocate to the Bay Area. "We had offers for funding that required us to move. Fortunately, CONNECT helped us find investors that recognized that staying in San Diego provided our company with the advantages of lower operating costs and recruiting and retaining great technical talent."
LeadCrunch was previously incubated at UCSD's StartR accelerator and EvoNexus. The company won "Cool Company" awards from the San Diego Venture Group in 2015 and 2016. CONNECT CapitalMatch provided the first introductions for LeadCrunch's institutional funding.
Through programs like CapitalMatch, FrameWorks Capital Track, Investor Circle, and the Investor Syndicate, CONNECT is providing entrepreneurs with easier access to funding and furthering its mission of assisting in the creation and advancement of local San Diego companies.
About CONNECT
CONNECT is a premier innovation company accelerator in San Diego that creates and scales great companies in the technology and life sciences sectors. By creating an environment in which entrepreneurs and C-suite executives have access to the people, capital, and technology resources they need for success, CONNECT has assisted in the formation and development of more than 3,000 companies since 1985. Widely regarded as one of the world's most successful organizations linking entrepreneurs and C-suite executives with the resources they need for the commercialization of innovative products and services; our program has been modeled in more than 50 regions around the world.
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LIVERPOOL full-backs Trent Alexander-Arnold and Andy Robertson are performing well this season because of the protection in midfield.
That's according to former Newcastle striker and Match of the Day pundit Alan Shearer.
The two stars were faultless yesterday as Jurgen Klopp's side beat Brighton to maintain their 100 per cent start to the new Premier League campaign.
Mohamed Salah's second strike of the season was the difference between the two teams at Anfield and leaves Liverpool sitting top of the pile.
Alexander-Arnold and Robertson provided a constant threat down the wings, knowing they had protection from midfield trio James Milner, Georginio Wijnaldum and Naby Keita.
Arsenal also earned their first win of the season at home to West Ham but Unai Emery's side looked far from comfortable and were fortunate to only concede once.
Left-back Nacho Monreal fired in the Gunners' first goal, which came about after a good cross from fellow full-back Hector Bellerin down the right.
Emery has gifted them freedom to get forward as he looks to implement a possession-based pressing style at the Emirates.
But Shearer is concerned that Monreal and Bellerin venturing forward is leaving the centre-backs exposed because of a lack of cover from the midfield.
"They've got Wijnaldum and Milner, who are<|fim_middle|> visit newly-promoted Cardiff a day later. | prepared to sit," he said when asked why Liverpool's system was more effective.
"And Naby Keita is also prepared to sit.
"20 years ago, when one full-back went forward the other would tuck in and sit near his two centre-halves.
"Now, both full-backs have got license to go forward because nowadays you rarely do you see out-and-out wingers.
"When you compare it again to 20 years ago and you had [John] Barnes, [Chris] Waddle, [Damien] Duff, [Arjen] Robben, [Stuart] Ripley and [Ryan] Giggs.
"They're now known as forwards.
"Gone are the days of playing 4-4-2.
"And that's the full-backs have got so much license because they've got so much protection in front of them."
Liverpool and Arsenal return to Premier League action next weekend.
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This 'modern extension' was created in the Victorian era and has majestic linen-fold oak panelling and gilted family tree surrounding the room.<|fim_middle|> open for the most unique of ceremonies and the Belvedere garden can house a modest marquee for a reception of up to 80 guests.
Explore our trusted array of wedding suppliers to help inspire your Big Day! | It is licensed for ceremonies and provides an exquisite and warm space, thanks to the most impressive open fire. It is perfect for ceremonies of up to 100, or a banquet for 60, and can host a band, DJ or harpist on the minstrels gallery above.
With stunning large windows overlooking the Deer Park and Terrace Rose Garden, this is the perfect space for a bright reception. Surrounded by the enthralling family book collection, you can say your vows with up to 100 guests or comfortably sit 80 for dinner.
Also known as the secret ball room, due to the secret door from the library, was added to the house by William 'Kitty' Courtenay, for his own spectacular parties and performances. The views from the tall glass door and bay windows over the estuary will amaze, and steps down lead to the Rose Garden. It's our largest room and can accommodate 140 guests for a ceremony, or 120 guests for dinner. It's home to our recently refurbished organ and grand piano, and the spectacular dome is the most magical cover for your first married dance.
The Victorian Rose Garden makes the castle your back drop, with breathtaking views across the deer park to the estuary be-yond. The terrace is ideal for a sunny ceremony or a beautiful champagne reception, nestled amongst traditional roses, chosen for their enchanting scents.
A wooded glade of exotic trees brought over from early voyages to America surround a hidden garden pavilion. As if taken directly from the pages of a fairytale, it is the most idyllic setting for a ceremony or drinks reception.
An iconic landmark standing above the Exe is the 18th Century Powderham Belvedere, originally a ball room and banqueting house as it's name suggests provides jaw-dropping views over the estate and estuary. The restored roof and structural work allows entry again after over 60 years of an uncertain future. The tower is now | 411 |
Sicilian Sisters Grow Some Food: Necessity, meet. . .
Well, the clothes washer was flooding the basement, and<|fim_middle|> not in the basement, and a lot of it is going to fruit trees and grapevines.
It's not the greywater system I'd really planned, but it works fine for now. At least until we figure out the drain and/or a better method for diverting it into the garden.
Which is looking pretty lovely right now, if I do say so myself. Harvests are just starting to feel as though I ought to get out there every single day, just in case.
In other news, someone turned seven this week and learned how to float on her back in the pool.
It's a pretty good summer so far.
Thanks for stopping by, Nancy. She's an absolute peach, although seven seems pretty old. We are going to need a lot of water in the coming few weeks, I think. Enjoy your birthday celebration too.
Your garden is looking lovely!
Oh, Dan, thank you! So nice to see you here.
Happy birthday to your little girl and how is it that I don't see any weeds in your garden? I have to set up various grey water recycling systems though so far the grape vines seem alive. | a quick check revealed that the drain pipe is clogged. No doubt years of clothes-with-pet-hair-chasers have finally sounded the call for snaking the pipe. And yet, my clothes need cleaning so I can exercise and wear jeans next week.
It overwhelms the bottle-funnel occasionally, but the water is not inside, | 68 |
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'Midnighters' Review: Julius Ramsay's Directorial Debut Is A Fun Crime-Thriller
February 28, 2018 June 9, 2018 ~ Zachary Doiron
Midnighters isn't always consistent, but it's undeniably fun
When approaching a self-proclaimed Hitchcockian thriller, I proceed with caution. When you make me expect a Hitchcock-level thriller, you better deliver and many times they often disappoint. It's a bold move to take for your directorial debut, and while Julius Ramsay's Midnighters is far from the Hitchcockian masterpiece I was hoping for, it's still a fun and easily accessible little thriller filled with surprises.
Married couple Lindsay (Alex Essoe) and Jeff (Dylan Tee) don't have the healthiest relationship. Jeff's lazy hyper-masculine persona clashes with the successful, strong woman he married. However, a murder will soon test their relationship as they hit and kill a man on their way home from a party.
Julius Ramsay is no stranger to making eventful and thrilling stories. His frequent directing on TV shows such as The Walking Dead has given him plenty of experience with slow burning character studies and spur of the moment action. Thankfully, his prior experience is shown here. Ramsay's direction is smooth, stylish, and stimulating. He manages to build an atmosphere of uneasiness and unpredictability<|fim_middle|>2016 2017 2018 Movie List Movie Review Series Review Yearly Best List Yearly Top 10 Yearly Worst List
https://twitter.com/ZDoiron13 | that's both thrilling and exciting. Midnighters' start promises a twisty psychological thrill ride to come.
For the most part, Midnighters is just that: a small film that starts as a slow-burning character-driven film filled with lies and deceit. It doesn't take long for our characters to get tangled in a murderous plot and from there on, Ramsay never releases his foot from the pedal. It's a film very much interested in the future and not too caught up with the past as it's always transforming itself into something else. And somehow, Midnighters makes it work.
The darkness of the characters is intriguing even if it feels artificial – source: IFC Midnight
Like any Hitchcockian thrillers, our characters are the main focus of the story. They're filled with captivating secrets and lies. But there's an uncertainty to their actions throughout the film that feels quite artificial. Midnighters takes these complex human beings and at times, makes them feel more like primitive animals. As the film draws to a close, the characters have done things that make for a thrilling watch, but end up being alien to the average person.
And while Midnighters may start as a slow-burning character study, it's always changing. Sometimes it does pay off, but sometimes it feels like watching the season finale of a TV show. Its structure is similar to that of The Walking Dead – starting slow and ending with plenty of action. This makes for an inconsistent ride, surprisingly, it always manages to be fun. The main problem is Ramsay's overdrive mode and his need to finish with a bang. Most of the time, TV shows end on an intriguing note to get you to watch its next season even if it's often times forced in. Here, it feels forced in but without the promise of a sequel.
However, the overlying mystery is enough to make you want to continue watching. There's just too many surprises that get you right back on board just when you thought you had enough and even while Midnighters doesn't end as strong as its start, it still manages to be a fun sleepover type thriller to watch with your friends. Its blend of action and slow-burning character moments make it easily accessible to everyone. The characters' perplexing decisions will intrigue you even if it doesn't necessarily amount to anything special. If you're looking for thrills and mystery during your next movie night, maybe give Midnighters a chance.
Midnighters will currently in theatres and on VOD and Digital HD on March 2.
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Perth Road Runners had a busy weekend starting on Saturday with the parkrun takeover, which involved club members carrying out all the volunteering roles and pacing duties. The pacing helped 59 of the 206 runners achieve personal best time for the 5k course. Lorraine Macpherson was also celebrating an impressive 100th parkrun, with the majority being at Perth since it began in 2013. Three road runners finished in the first five, with Michael McConnell second in a new personal best 16:37, Greg Simpson third in 17:32, followed closely by David Knight in 17:35. Marianne McLevy 22:29, Cheryl Gahan 24:20, Ruth Johnson 25:01 and Stephanie Boyd 26:37 also achieved PBs. Perth Road Runners recognise that parkrun has had a huge influence on the clubs recent popularity, so it's only fair the club repays the favour by helping out.
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The huge field of runners and great support from the locals inspired the following green vests to achieve new best times: Duncan Ryan 1:19:29, Kevin Riddell 1:22:18, Stuart Fraser 1:26:00, Arlene McWalter 1:38:38, Stewart Dallas 1:40:11, Holly Byron-Staples 1:48:43, Nina Roberts 1:53:08, Gillian Smith1:56:43 and Caroline Hogarth 2:08:19. Other results were Kevin Rogers 1:20:31, Allison Brown 1:57:51, Ronnie Glen 1:26:01 and Stewart Reid 1:34:41.
On Sunday, Simon Grieshaber completed his tenth Marathon at Chester where he finished the historic and scenic course with a new personal best time of 3:25:59. Paul Grace 4:12 also completed Kielder Forest marathon where the route was almost entirely off-road for the duration of the 26.2mile course in Northumberland.
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This week four club members travelled to Dunoon on the Cowal peninsula for a 55 kilometre ultramarathon with stunning scenery around Loch Eck. Kevin Rogers was first green vest back in an impressive 4:37:47, finishing third overall while averaging 8:10 minutes per mile. Gillian Smith 7:23:45, Margaret McIntosh 8:10:56 and Caroline Ness 8:40:50 also completed the arduous course.
Stuart Robertson headed statesidefor the Chicago marathon, one of the world marathon majors. Finishing in a stunning time of 2:49:08, Stuart was 320th overall in crisp autumnal conditions among over 40,000 runners.
At the weekly parkrun on Saturday morning in the North Inch park, 30 club members participated in the 180 strong field. Greg Simpson crossed the line first in 17:28, with Kevin Riddell 18:00 and Martin McEwen 18:13 third and fourth respectively. There were also new personal bests for Heledd Rheinallt 22:38, Gillian Douglas 22:48 and Scott Connor 23:42. Four club members also volunteered. Roberta Hewitt took part in Harrogate parkrun, finishing in 30:51.
Mark Crawford completed Oxford half-marathon in 1:23:08 on a flat course in unseasonal warm conditions. Elsewhere, Robin Wombill finished the undulating Croydon 10k in 1:07:28.
On Thursday 6th October, there was a strong turnout by club members to celebrate Ben Smith finishing his challenge of 401 consecutive marathons. The club raised £160 for the anti-bullying charities, Stonewall and Kidscape.
PRR 401
Dunoon Ultra
This week it was the first cross country league meeting of the season in Stirling. A strong team represented the club with the women's team finishing 6th overall in the following order: Angela Irving, Sonjia Crow, Claire Douglas and Fiona Manson. The men's team comprised: Myles Bax, David Knight, Mark Crawford, Kevin Rogers, Simon Grieshaber, David Sinclair and Richard Ward, finishing 15th overall on the tough, muddy course.
On Sunday, nine club members travelled north for the Aviemore half-marathon. In a field of over 1200 runners, the mixed terrain race started at Badaguish, following trails around Loch Morlich before finishing back on the tarmac in Aviemore. Sonjia Crow was first green vest home in an impressive personal best time of 1:34:03. Nicola Crowe 1:42:15, Hugh Daly 1:48:56, Ella Webley 1:49:20 and Gillian Smith 2:14:26 followed. Eleanor Paul achieved a new personal best time of 2:14:31, with Caroline Hogarth 2:15:11, Fiona Morrison 2:36:14 and Robin Wombill 2:36:13 completing the line-up.
Jean McCulloch was the sole green vest to take part in the Aviemore 10K, which followed the second part of the half marathon route along the road.
The wet and windy conditions on Saturday did not prevent twelve hardy road runners taking part in parkrun. Stuart Fraser was first green vest home in 20:08 and 8th overall. Lorraine Macpherson was 2nd female overall in 22:13. On tour, Kevin Riddell finished 3rd overall at Ayr parkrun in 19:58, while slightly further afield, Ronnie Glen finished 13th at Clermont waterfront parkrun, Florida in 21:01.
Michael McConnell ran his first marathon at the TCS Amsterdam Marathon, starting and finishing at the Olympic stadium in sunny and calm conditions. He finished the fast and scenic race in 2:51:49.
Stuart Fraser was the sole green vest at the Lochore 10K, taking place at the Lochore Meadows country park in Fife. Stuart finished strongly in 9th position with a time of 39:31
Daile Sipple, Duncan Ryan and David Wood travelled west for the Loch Rannoch Marathon, Daile finished 4:52:37 and David 4:45:21. Duncan, who was in 9th place at the time, unfortunately had to withdraw after mile 18 due to injury.
Tuesday night is the usual club night meeting at Bells sports centre for a 6:30pm start. New runners welcome. Thursday night is now at George Duncan arena for a track session.
Aviemore Half
Mike at Amsterdam
The main event for the Perth Road Runners this week was the cross country in Cumbernauld. On Saturday 22nd October, where two teams from the club competed in the Scottish National XC Relays, joining 193 other teams in the muddy hills of Cumbernauld. It was the most successful turnout for the event in 24 years. The Senior Men's team: Michael McConnell, Myles Bax, Richard Ward, Mark Dunn, finished in 58th place with 58:54.The Master's team finished in 59:19 and in 7th place overall. The masters comprised of Dave Knight, Ronnie Glen, Kevin Rogers and Mark Crawford.
Earlier, at a damp and cool parkrun, 31 road runners lined up at the North Inch in a 172 strong field. Alistair Gudgin was third overall and first club member home in a new personal best time of 17:34. Other personal best times included, David Sinclair finishing in 12th place with 19:25, Colin Wilcox 21:28, Stuart Neillands 21:42 and Scott Connor 23:14. Caroline Jones was first female home in 20:52.
Parkrun tourism saw two road runners travel to the capital for the Edinburgh parkrun. Kevin Rogers ran the fast, | 2,239 |
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Sesame Street is the longest-running children's television show of all time: it has become almost a sacred institution, which is guaranteed to generate a warm, nostalgic glow. Yet fifty years on, it's important to recall some of the controversy that surrounded its early days. In this essay, drawing on original archival research, I go back to the origins of Sesame Street and the Children's Television Workshop, the non-profit organization that created it. The programme was targeted at preschool children in general, but particularly at disadvantaged, inner-city children – and, at least initially, at African-American children specifically. It did this in two main ways: firstly, through its representation of inner-city life, and of racial diversity; and secondly, through attempting to raise the educational achievement of black children in particular. In exploring these two issues, I show that this was a difficult – and at times, quite confused and contradictory – endeavour.
You can download the whole essay (without illustrations) by clicking here or if you want to read the illustrated version, click on the subheadings to read the different sections:
Introduction: Sesame Street fifty years on
Sesame Street in context
Defining problems and solutions
Representation on and behind the screen
Muppets and the dilemmas of multiculturalism
Narrowing the gaps?
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Prime Minister of Bhutan Lyonchen Tshering Tobgye graced the opening ceremony of 2nd Global Entrepreneurship Week in Bhutan organized by the Loden Foundation today at the City Cinema hall in Thimphu.
He was accompanied by the minister for Labour and Human Resources Lyonpo Neegma Sangay Tsenpo and minister for Economic Affairs Lyonpo Norbu Wangchuk and other senior government, corporate and private officials.
Lyonchen addressing the gathering of about 200 participants of young entrepreneurs, expressed his happiness for seeing so many youths gathered for a weeklong programme. "The very fact that you have come with interest in this initiative means you are very much on your way to entrepreneurship," Lyonchen said.
Lyonchen (Prime minister) also took the opportunity of the platform to announce a few new government initiatives to support young entrepreneurs as a good news for the emerging entrepreneurs.
Lyonchen announced that his government has decided to put aside Nu. 1.9 billion of the total budget for Economic Stimulus Plan (ESP) to reinstate the Business Opportunity and Information Center (BOIC) which existed previously under the Ministry of Economic Affairs.
He said the re-institution of the center would not be a government agency but a corporate entity through which the government will support entrepreneurship and collaborate<|fim_middle|> four awards for best entrepreneur, best women entrepreneur, best rural entrepreneur and a best business proposal on April 4, 2014 which is the World Entrepreneurship Day.
The minister for Labour and Human Resources, Lyonpo Neegma Sangay Tsenpo speaking at the opening pointed out that most Bhutanese lack the sense of competition, which is crucial for success.
He also said lack of monitoring the entrepreneurs after the start of their business in Bhutan is one factor that slows the growth of entrepreneurship in Bhutan besides the lack of strong political will in the past. "Our government come with a strong political will to support entrepreneurship," he said.
A representative from Druk Holding and Investment (DHI) spoke about the social mandate of DHI for the growth of private sector and new entrepreneurs. "DHI is working towards supporting private sector and new entrepreneurs beside other mandates," he said.
Making the opening remarks, founding director of Loden, Dr. Karma Phuntsho highlighted the objectives of GEW in Bhutan as to create awareness and promote idea of entrepreneurship as a fundamental to prosperity, to boast existing entrepreneurs by providing necessary supports and to promote socially and culturally responsible entrepreneurship in Bhutan.
Training workshop on 'Thinking differently through entrepreneurship,' 'Being Innovative and Creative' and 'Mentoring and Volunteering' were also conducted in various venues in Thimphu in the afternoon. | with other stakeholders. "We plan to support and bring up about 5000 cottage industries through this center," Lyonchen said.
He also announced that the government starting next year will initiate | 39 |
Colorist, Inker, Penciller, Artist, Cover Colorist, Illustrator
Chris Weston is a British comic artist who began his career working on Judge Dredd. Weston began working in America on SWAMP THING for Vertigo with writer Mark Millar and has since illustrated THE INVISIBLES and THE FILTH with Grant Morrison as well as the ADVENTURES OF STARMAN, J<|fim_middle|> been subjected to an all-encompassing apocalyptic conspiracy. Through clandestine movements, a sinister secret organization has been creating a hypnotic state of conformity and control through their manipulation of the government, business, and entertainment industry. But from the shadows, a subversive group of anarchists called the Invisibles have opposed their plot and looked to create self-awareness and freedom through disobedience.
One of Grant Morrison's most imaginative series features a heady brew of big ideas, exotic locales and bizarre action, starring prosthetically outfitted dolphins in scuba gear and a... | SA, LUCIFER, and THE AUTHORITY.
ADVENTURES OF SUPERMAN #4 ADVENTURES OF SUPERMAN VOL. ONE BATMAN BLACK AND WHITE #5
BATMAN BLACK AND WHITE VOL. 4 LUCIFER BOOK ONE SWAMP THING: DARKER GENESIS
THE ABSOLUTE AUTHORITY VOL. 2 NEW EDITION THE AUTHORITY VOL. 2 THE AUTHORITY VOL. 2
THE FILTH THE FILTH DELUXE EDITION THE INVISIBLES BOOK THREE
THE INVISIBLES DELUXE EDITION BOOK THREE THE INVISIBLES OMNIBUS VERTIGO ESSENTIALS: LUCIFER #1
AMERICAN SPLENDOR #1 AMERICAN SPLENDOR #2 AMERICAN SPLENDOR: ANOTHER DAY
AMERICAN SPLENDOR: ANOTHER DOLLAR BATMAN: LEGENDS OF THE DARK KNIGHT #197 BATMAN: LEGENDS OF THE DARK KNIGHT #198
BATMAN: LEGENDS OF THE DARK KNIGHT #199 DC COMICS PRESENTS: BATMAN – BLAZE OF GLORY #1 ENEMY ACE: WAR IN HEAVEN
STARMAN OMNIBUS VOL. 5 STARMAN VOL. 8: STARS MY DESTINATION THE ABSOLUTE AUTHORITY VOL. 2
THE AUTHORITY #18 THE AUTHORITY: EARTH INFERNO AND OTHER STORIES THE INVISIBLES VOL. 2: APOCALIPSTICK
THE INVISIBLES VOL. 6: KISSING MISTER QUIMPER THE INVISIBLES VOL. 7: THE INVISIBLE KINGDOM THE JUSTICE SOCIETY RETURNS!
TOM STRONG'S TERRIFIC TALES #12 TOM STRONG'S TERRIFIC TALES BOOK 2 TOM STRONG'S TERRIFIC TALES VOL. 2
TRANSMETROPOLITAN VOL. 10: ONE MORE TIME TRANSMETROPOLITAN: TALES OF HUMAN WASTE
BATMAN: LEGENDS OF THE DARK KNIGHT #199 DC COMICS PRESENTS: BATMAN – BLAZE OF GLORY #1 JSA PRESENTS: STARS AND S.T.R.I.P.E. VOL. 2
LUCIFER VOL. 1: DEVIL IN THE GATEWAY STARMAN OMNIBUS VOL. 5 STARMAN VOL. 8: STARS MY DESTINATION
THE ABSOLUTE AUTHORITY VOL. 2 THE AUTHORITY #17 THE AUTHORITY #18
THE AUTHORITY: EARTH INFERNO AND OTHER STORIES THE FILTH THE INVISIBLES VOL. 2: APOCALIPSTICK
THE INVISIBLES VOL. 5: COUNTING TO NONE THE INVISIBLES VOL. 6: KISSING MISTER QUIMPER THE INVISIBLES VOL. 7: THE INVISIBLE KINGDOM
THE JUSTICE SOCIETY RETURNS! TOM STRONG'S TERRIFIC TALES #12 TOM STRONG'S TERRIFIC TALES BOOK 2
TOM STRONG'S TERRIFIC TALES VOL. 2 TRANSMETROPOLITAN VOL. 10: ONE MORE TIME TRANSMETROPOLITAN: TALES OF HUMAN WASTE
WAR STORIES VOL. 1
BATMAN BLACK AND WHITE VOL. 4
BATMAN: LEGENDS OF THE DARK KNIGHT #197 BATMAN: LEGENDS OF THE DARK KNIGHT #198 BATMAN: LEGENDS OF THE DARK KNIGHT #199
SUPERMAN: THE LAST STAND OF NEW KRYPTON VOL. 2
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LUCIFER BOOK ONE
Cast out of Heaven, Lucifer Morningstar has resigned his throne in Hell for Los Angeles. Emerging from the pages of THE SANDMAN, the former Lord of Hell is enjoying retirement as...
THE INVISIBLES VOL. 2: APOCALIPSTICK
In the second volume of this series of action and intrigue, the Invisibles, including new recruit Dane McGowan, try to prepare as the Conspiracy's shock troops launch their greatest direct attack on them ever. And as this hidden war between authority and anarchy continues, the origin of Lord Fanny, the transvestite shaman who can call down the Earth's most ancient and terrifying magic, is finally revealed. But as conspiracies and hidden truths create a labyrinth of deception and distrust, even the power of this she-man shaman may not be enough to keep the Invisibles alive to fight another day.
THE INVISIBLES VOL. 6: KISSING MISTER QUIMPER
In the sixth volume of the INVISIBLES collection, the group of freedom fighters must deal with the aftermath of their battle with the Hand of Glory. But as the Invisibles look to rest and regroup, they soon discover that this fight had far greater effects than their physical casualties. With King Mob growing even more violent and their leader Ragged Robin continuing to hide many secrets, the Invisibles find themselves dealing with time distortions, secret government installations, and their own warped pasts as they try to uncover the truth about the mind-controlling dwarf called Quimper.
THE FILTH
"For sheer audacity and density of ideas, will stand up to many readings."—PUBLISHERS WEEKLY"Chris Weston's straightforward but imaginative art makes the wildly outrageous story convincing … ideal for fans of 'challenging' comics and ."—BOOKLIST
SWAMP THING: DARKER GENESIS
In these tales from issues #151-160, Swamp Thing meets the spirit of a dead writer who is trapped in her own unpublished short story collection. Swamp Thing can free her only by...
THE INVISIBLES VOL. 5: COUNTING TO NONE
The exploits of the secret society of anarchists continue. This collection includes the groundbreaking stories "Time Machine Go," "Sensitive Criminals," "American Death Camp,"and "And We're All Police Men."
THE INVISIBLES VOL. 7: THE INVISIBLE KINGDOM
For countless millennia the world has | 1,294 |
So, while I was walking along in some crazy wash or another, a second beautiful Striped Whipsnake modeled for me. Seriously. He stopped right where he was, allowed me to pull my camera out and set it to macro and slowly, s-l-o-w-l-y, lower my hand down to his eye level to get a series of photos of him at mad close range. Inch and a half from lens to nose. Ranger Rob (Mouse Victor of previous post) loves snakes as much as I do, and he was speechless when I showed him yet another close-close-close-up of this reptile. He swears that nobody can get that close to this species, as they have<|fim_middle|> Needles district of Canyonlands NP. No matter. Raincoats are our friends. Storms not only cleared the trails of riff-raff other hikers, but they gave us the opportunity to watch a tongue of water creeping its gravity-led way on sandstone toward every pothole and pour-off in its path. Gathering tributary rivulets as it flowed, it begged to be dammed or diverted by hasty human efforts.
Chef Kathryn makes sure the supper doesn't burn. Leftovers provide a filling breakfast.
And then comes the gorgeous after-rain experience. West winds swept the sky clean in the evening, and the freshly-scrubbed atmosphere yielded a clear and memorable view of our near-wilderness surroundings. Our bellies were comfortably filled with a delicious concoction of sauteed garlic, onion, potato, zucchini, egg and cheese on tortillas.
Sage releases its aroma when wet; my world looked, smelled, and felt exhilarating. The campfire only added to the wonderfulness as we stared wordlessly into the flames with thankful hearts before crawling into the tent.
I slept the longest, deepest, most satisfying sleep in months.
To see ten additional photos, click on this Facebook album. Yikes, I can't make the link work, no matter what I do. Will come back later to attempt a fix.
Found this stone tool buried in a wash. Wonder what the drilled hole is for?
For the second day in a row, I had gotten up and dressed at 0420 to attempt a Breeding Bird Census but been rained out. Sighing, I realized that any day in a national park — even with inclement weather or sleep deprivation — is a good day.
Copious amounts of broken bottles, bowls, plates, and rusty cans and pans in a wash nobody's been in for eons. These looked like cowboy artifacts from the mid-20th century.
A stone tool 97% buried in the wash where I was walking. Its smooth surface and milky texture alerted me that it was something "other," so I extracted it from the sand and found what resembled a mano (grinding hand stone) with a hole drilled in one end. I have to ask the archeologist what this is.
If I can't have my Minnesota lilacs, aromatic Cliffrose will certainly suffice. Note happy expression.
Cliffrose in full bloom. This is a handsome plant with such an intoxicatingly beautiful aroma that I walk by one and am stopped in my tracks and must bury my face in the blossoms and breathe.
Finding how fast I can sprint when a lightning storm arises suddenly and I'm 0.6 mile from my truck. I did not let that big backpack slow me down.
A cottonwood tree outside my window alive with new birds at sunset: Western Tanagers, Wilson's Warbler, Bullock's Oriole.
Discovering that my Columbia rain jacket is designed perfectly and functions superiorly in rainstorms.
The spinach-zucchini-black-bean enchiladas I improvised for supper for my sweet guests. Vegetarian cooking is a delight.
Flip the radio switch to "scan" and there are hours of entertainment in the county: loose dog terrorizing Main Street, 6-year-old boy missing at a park trailhead, routine traffic stops (which can turn un-routine in a blink), the solar panels malfunctioning in the campground, or a mountain bike accident with victim bleeding from nose and ears. Usually I hike without 'scan' turned on; it becomes intrusive. Wilderness isn't the same with the dispatcher's voice wantonly interrupting my thoughts, but it sure is nice to know I have a lifeline in my backpack. | no patience for humans. But… this is the second one that let me.
Ranger Rob finally outwitted the rodent that has been terrorizing his office. I apologize if this photo seems mean or violent, but desperate moments require desperate measures. The Visitor Center needs its own resident cat… or snake.
Maddie's and my eyes met as she asked, "Should we look at the map again?" We had been hiking up-canyon for a considerable time and were encountering cattails and closing-in canyon walls. It did not feel familiar to either of us, but we were following the trickle of water and it seemed that we should be getting closer to the truck. We both knew we weren't.
I had borrowed a GPS from another vehicle that morning, checked and replaced its batteries before we started out, and programmed several of our nest coordinates into it. When we later tried to use it to find the first nest of the day, it did not seem to be keeping time or giving correct distances. Something was funky with its satellite receiver.
Maddie pulled out her compass and we compared it to the shadows being cast by the afternoon sun. The compass was showing it setting in the northeast. The compass was bad. Really bad.
I'll jump to what saved the day: Tricia's aerial map. There was an oddly-shaped rock formation at the confluence of two critical washes, but no topographic map would show that. My boss has a penchant for aerial maps and I am supremely glad she does. The square-nosed corner cliff soothed my nerves and I announced confidently to Maddie that we should turn right and go up this canyon. She wasn't so sure.
Within ten minutes the familiarity of Seven Mile Wash sunk in; we both knew we were where we needed to be. High fives were happily exchanged, and the long hike out began. I sucked down the last of my water about a half mile from the truck, swallowing my pride with each gulp, and humbly apologized to Maddie. Her wonderful attitude ("The unknown simply adds drama to the adventure! And think of the good stories!") made her an exceptional getting-lost companion.
It took me about 24 hours to get over the physical and emotional toll of my navigational mishap. I need to go back soon and find the nests with a good GPS. Yes — I have a game plan to prevent future mis-adventures.
It looked for all the world like normal wet sand, but something wasn't quite right. It was probably the way it rippled and jiggled like Jell-O when our steps landed on it. Right there in Seven Mile Wash, just upstream of the large boulder, the sand-to-water ratio reached that particular magical number that allows super-saturation to occur and the sand to have its famous can't-hold-you-up-any-more qualities.
This is the moment I realize I may be in trouble. At least my left foot.
I wouldn't let my left foot sink too far before I retreated in these photos. My right foot was barely sinking, so I assume quicksand conditions can vary in the same location. Dare I admit: it was fun to play in.
You can refresh your memory about the hydrodynamics of quicksand in this post from last year, which also has a most entertaining video of Bear Grylls getting out of Moab quicksand.
After hiking quite a few miles Wednesday in remote Lost Spring Canyon, we three were hot and tired. Our truck was a welcome sight, with soft seats, air conditioning, and the ability to finally be off our feet. Working our way out of the wilderness on the 4WD road was our final obstacle before getting onto paved highways to home. Both of my co-workers had been on a long strenuous rescue the night before, and we were all feeling bushed. And then the magic began.
Just to the left of our truck a pronghorn bounded. We oohed and ahhhed at its beauty; not many large mammals get seen in Arches, so this was fun. Two minutes later we topped a rise and three (3) golden eagles flushed up from what must have been a communal feast near the road. Huge, majestic, glorious birds — we nearly fell over each other getting out of the truck fast enough to get binocs focused on them and study them for a few minutes. One eagle is great; two is "wow." Three is awfully rare.
And then, two minutes later, the largest badger I've ever seen scurried for its life away from the truck as we passed. Our collective response? We hooted for joy at the plethora of wildlife. And this was after seeing Cooper's Hawks and juvenile Red-tailed Hawks down in the canyon.
What a sweet, sweet job I have. Did I mention that I love it?
I had a non-working link to the Peekaboo Springs photo album. I've now repaired it and it will take you to a dozen sweet photos. Sorry for the frustration!
There are glorious views 360 degrees around you on the Peekaboo Springs trail.
"This is so beautiful it almost makes me cry." These words escaped my lips as Tara and I crested one canyon wall and perched on the brim looking to yet another vast horizon of red rock, of green wash, of bluest sky. I needed time to simply stop and absorb the wonder of it all — to feel it on a deep level rather than see only with my eyes.
In the Needles district on a cumulus-clouded day, the dancing light illuminates one pinnacle while shadowing the next; I could sit watchfully in one spot for an entire morning and not grow bored. It is one of my favorite places to explore in all of North America. Peekaboo Springs is clearly one of those hikes that can move me to tears.
Almost as an afterthought at the trailhead I had grabbed my binoculars, and was now scanning the canyon below for evidence of ancestral Puebloan culture. We had already found at least five granaries when something on a far wall came into focus. Wordlessly I handed the glasses to Tara, and her incredulous subdued "Oh, wow" matched my impression.
A round white shield with a flared cross-shaped center, unlike anything either of us have ever seen, stood alone on a sandstone wall. Farther along was a plumb-bob shape and concentric circles out of the same brilliant white paint that looked anything but a thousand years old. We instantly knew we had to make a return trip equipped with good maps and a way to get down there to investigate and photograph this rock art. Here's the happiest part: there weren't any trails or even footprints passing by them.
And when the day comes that we get back there to personally explore, our feet also will leave no trace.
For twelve additional photos of this hike, click on this Facebook album.
Getting poured on by a spring storm is something everybody should have the privilege of experiencing. I remember as a young girl skipping down the pot-holed dirt road during rainstorms, making sure I planted my feet in every possible puddle to make the greatest splash. Simple pleasures are the best.
Tara wants to taste fresh pothole rainwater. I pass. She says it is delicious.
The 50% chance of rain was clearly about to become 100% as Tara and I hiked the Slickrock Trail in the | 1,532 |
This year really is flying by, I know I have properly said this every time it comes to this time in the month! It really does only feels like yesterday that it was August and I was waiting for Mia<|fim_middle|>, it is really addictive but easy watching.
I do like to use a good dry shampoo especially since having Mia, as washing my hair doesn't seem to EVER be on the top of her list to allow me a chance to do! I saw this in Boot's and I had no idea that Aussie had realised one! I picked it in up in the travel size so I could try it out, and it is great it doesn't leave that white powder in your hair and it smells gorgeous! I would defiantly recommend it!
Last but by no means least Lindt Hello Chocolate bars! These are super yummy I have only tried the Hello my name is Salted Caramel & Hello my name is Caramel Brownie but they are both so good. Perfect for a evening in front of the telly with your feet up! :) Have you tried any of them?
Do you know anything I should get my hands on to try out?
I've been wanting to try a dry shampoo and it looks like I'll be giving this one a try. | 's birthday to come round!
I love this T-shirt! My mum actually found it in New Look (yes in the children's range!), but I love it! It say's "Follow My Blog!" She said, when she found it she had to get it for me! I've been wearing all the time.
I am completely hooked on Gossip Girl! I know with this one I am way behind everyone else as it is on Series 6! I just decided one day I would give it ago and here I am on the 3rd series. If you haven't watched it | 119 |
Delta entrepreneur named<|fim_middle|> with dementia | Toastmasters International president
Margaret Page becomes leader of global educational organization
Delta's Margaret Page is the new International President of Toastmasters International, the world's leading organization devoted to communication and leadership skills development.Toastmasters International
Delta's Margaret Page is the new International President of Toastmasters International, the world's leading organization devoted to communication and leadership skills development.
Page assumed the one-year term at the organization's 90th annual International Convention, held virtually Aug. 23 to 28.
A lifelong entrepreneur and investor, Page has founded or co-founded numerous companies. In her current role as a business and etiquette coach, she helps corporations around the world build team dynamics, sharpen cultural intelligence skills, and hone soft skills. She is particularly focused on championing women, especially those running for political office or seeking equal representation on volunteer and corporate boards. In her personal time, she enjoys time with her family, including cheering on her three grandchildren at their hockey games.
Page is certified in business management and accounting from Lakeland College in Lloydminster, Alta. Page also holds qualifications in parliamentary procedure, board diversity, neuro-linguistic programming, executive coaching, and cultural intelligence.
When she previously lived on the Sunshine Coast, she was a board member and fund development chair for the Sunshine Coast Community Foundation, where she oversaw an increase in endowments from $400,000 to $1.9 million.
A Toastmaster since 2003, Page is a member of Unicorn Toastmasters and Spotlight Speakers, both of Richmond. She is also a member of the Advanced Speakers Club of Vancouver, a dinner club that travels the greater Vancouver area. She has held a number of high-profile leadership positions within Toastmasters and has attained the Distinguished Toastmaster designation—the highest level of educational achievement in the organization.
"During the pandemic, we quickly learned how resourceful and resilient our organization can be," Page said. "We rapidly changed course to online meetings and opened a new world of possibilities. The world is undergoing a speaking revolution, and we are uniquely poised to take advantage of it. It is no longer a matter of when someone will have to speak or present publicly, but when and through what medium. I am excited to help us seize this digital transformation, during which the world will discover what Toastmasters have known all along—that confident public speaking and leadership training can unlock countless doors."
As International President, Page is the highest ranked officer on the Toastmasters Board of Directors. She joins the following newly elected officers on the Toastmasters International 2021/22 Executive Committee: Matt Kinsey of Coral Springs, Fla. — International President-Elect, Morag Mathieson of Moehrendorf, Germany — First Vice President and Radhi Spear of Piscataway, N.J. — Second Vice President.
For more information about Toastmasters, visit http://mediacenter.toastmasters.org.
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As a wig wearer, it's sometimes easy to get stuck in a rut. But with wigs and styling products becoming increasingly sophisticated, there's no longer any need to subject yourself to wearing the same hairstyle day in, day out. Knowing how to style your wig will enable you to change up your look whenever you feel like it, without having to splash out on a brand new wig or hairpiece.
These top styling tips for human hair and synthetic wigs will give you the lowdown, enabling you to create a fresh new look without damaging your wig in the process.
Keep your wig or hairpiece looking its best for longer with the right wig care and styling products. Some good ones include the Hairpower and Pure Power ranges by Ellen Wille, the T-range by Trendco, and the Revlon range for synthetic hair.
Personalise your look with cute hair accessories. Glam it up with sparkly kirby grips, add a pop of colour with a clip-in corsage, or go boho with a patterned headscarf.
Ask your hairstylist to give your wig a restyle. Add a fringe, have it shaped around your face or add volume and bounce with layers.
Give mid-length hair an instant lift with a half-up, half-down style. If you have a longer wig, try a loose updo or low ponytail.
Keep your style loose and refrain from<|fim_middle|> or hairspray if required.
If your natural hair colour is close to the colour of your wig, pull small sections out along the hairline using a tail comb for a seamless look.
Human hair wigs can be styled in much the same way as you would your own hair, but try to go easy on the heat styling. Unlike natural hair, wigs don't regenerate and any damage is permanent, so save the blowdryer, straighteners and curling tongs for special occasions.
When using heated appliances, turn them down to the lowest heat setting and use a protective spray to prolong the life of your wig.
If you like to wear your wig in a particular style for the majority of the time, choose a wig that is as close to this style as possible in the first place. You may wish to buy two wigs of similar colour and length, but with differing textures so that you can easily vary your style from one day to the next.
This will also extend the lives of both wigs and ensure that you always have a spare in case something should happen to the other, and whilst the other wig is being washed and dried.
There are several ways to curl your wig without using heat, and you won't even need rollers. However, you will need to leave the wig for a few hours to take on the new style, so only use the following methods overnight, if you have a spare wig or headscarf on hand, or if you feel confident leaving the house without a wig.
Braid damp hair, leave to dry naturally on a wig stand then undo the braids for a crimped look. The smaller the braids, the more dramatic the effect. Take care not to pull on the hair.
A more natural, wavy look can be achieved by gently twisting sections of damp hair into loose buns and securing with kirby grips. Leave until dry, unravel the curls and separate with your fingers.
Some people find it easier to do this with strips of fabric. Lay a section of hair across the centre of the fabric, roll it up and tie it in place.
Another option is to experiment with different colours using home dyeing kits. Follow the instructions carefully and take extra care not to leave the dye on for too long, as this can damage the fibres irreparably.
Unlike human hair wigs, most synthetic wigs cannot be heat styled at all as this will melt the fibres. Even standing too close to a hot oven is enough to make some go frizzy. These wigs are generally made with 'style memory', meaning that they retain their original style even after washing.
On the positive side, synthetic wigs tend to be cheaper than human hair wigs, making it possible for many people to have two or even three to choose from at any one time.
Loosen out overstyled wigs with a wide-toothed comb.
Spray your wig evenly with a small amount of dry shampoo and gently pat this in to decrease shine and make the hair appear more natural.
For those wearers of synthetic wigs who like to heat style their hair, all is not lost. Manufacturers like Raquel Welch and Gisela Mayer have recently started producing heat-resistant models that can be blow dried, straightened and curled in the same way as human hair wigs. A good range can be found on simplywigs.co.uk.
There is also a new range of styling tools with Smart Heat controls, which enable you to switch to a lower temperature that is apparently suitable for synthetic hair. I can't vouch for these personally and you should still exercise a certain amount of caution, but if you're interested they are available on afrostyling.com.
By now you should be feeling more confident about experimenting with different wig styles. For more top styling tips and inspiration, visit Simply Wigs on Pinterest or check out Simply magazine. | scraping the hair right back unless you have a lace front wig, in which case you should still leave a few tendrils of hair loose for a natural look.
If wearing the hair back from the face, position the wig very slightly below your natural hairline and tuck in any stray hairs from underneath, using gel | 63 |
Oh, how we love to make our homes beautiful for the holidays! Our lawns become a wonder for cars passing by and our Charlotte homes become a showcase of holiday spirit for visiting guests. But most<|fim_middle|> about Benjamin Franklin's famous 1752 kite experiment that began the road to harnessing electric power. But it wasn't until the 1870s that Thomas Edison was able to produce the first incandescent light bulb. While the world had been existing quite nicely by candle and gas lights, or so it thought, the electric light bulb was destined to become the future!
In today's electronic age, electricity has become even more relied on. Think back to the last time you had a power outage at your home, remember what it was like? If you were lucky it was not on a cold dark evening with a house of wide awake young family members.
Now that we've come to depend on all that electricity can offer us in our homes, there is no looking back. Electricity truly is a wonder that has added comfort and safety to our lives.
We at Douthit Electric would like to thank everyone for their confidence in us as you have helped our business grow since 1990. We would like to wish you and your families a Happy and Healthy Thanksgiving Holiday!
This entry was posted in Info Articles on November 23, 2017 by admin. | do not stop and consider how much extra power they are running through their outlets at this time of year.
Here are a few safety tips to consider when decorating.
Now that you've gotten all those decorations out of storage, take the time to inspect all the wires. We tend to reuse decorations from year to year without giving enough thought to the age of most of them. Those that need electric should be given extra attention for safety, while the others are usually keepsakes that we treasure even more over time.
As you dispose of old tattered incandescent lights, consider replacing them with low wattage LED lights. They produce less heat and require less energy, a win-win.
Remember to keep all those wires away from heat sources. The insulation on those wires is there for a reason. Don't take the chance of any of it melting and exposing the wire.
You might be tempted to keep attaching those strings of light together, so that you can plug them all into one outlet. Don't do it! That is just too much to ask from one single outlet of your house to withstand. Try to spread the power you need over several circuits whenever possible.
Carrying on the live tree tradition in your home? Make sure to keep that tree watered! Some decorations put off more heat than others, and you don't want to take a chance with a tree that is dehydrated and begging for water.
Lastly, turn off and unplug all those decorations before going to sleep. You'll be keeping your home safer and save a few dollars at the same time.
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What time do you put the turkey in the oven? For many dedicated cooks it will be still be dark outside when they begin their Thanksgiving ritual.
Can you imagine trying to get that holiday dinner started by candlelight?
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Looking bigger, Alabama WR Calvin Ridley hopes for expanded role in '17
Alabama Football Profile - Calvin Ridley
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By Rainer Sabin | rsabin@al.com
Calvin Ridley has never looked physically imposing. Last season, he played with a listed weight that was a shade under 190 pounds.
But when the 6-foot-1 Alabama receiver walked into the Naylor Stone media room inside the Mal Moore Athletic Facility<|fim_middle|> but my team, and be one of the captains on the team. That's what I feel like I need to do."
And how does he intend to assert himself?
"Being more vocal, yeah," he explained. "I lead by example already, I think, I just need to speak up some. I don't say too much."
That's for sure. But for now Ridley has co-opted that age-old big-stick ideology by maintaining his soft-spoken demeanor while filling out his frame with some added muscle. The fire and brimstone may come later. | , he did appear bigger. His arms, in fact, were noticeably thicker.
Still, Ridley isn't tipping the scales.
He says he remains "like 180 something."
And, the rising junior added, he feels "good."
Ridley has never divulged much in his interactions with the media. He's one of the most inscrutable players on Alabama's roster.
When asked why he was targeted twice during the Tide's victory over Washington in the College Football Playoff semifinal on New Year's Eve, Ridley said, "I don't know. I really don't know. I'm just running my routes."
Last season, Ridley ran 451 patterns to be exact, according to Pro Football Focus. He run-blocked on 419 snaps, too, which may explain why it seems he's gained some mass.
At times -- to the bewilderment of many -- Ridley became just a cog in Alabama's machine, doing yeoman's work. He made 72 receptions for 769 yards while scoring seven touchdowns. He reached the end zone the same number of times he did as a freshman, but the other totals fell short of what he produced during his inaugural season in Tuscaloosa.
The decline in his statistical output was directly related to the growing pains experienced by freshman Jalen Hurts, the mobile quarterback whose limitations as a passer became evident over the course the season, especially when he attempted to throw downfield.
"He's working on his pass game a lot and trying to get that right," Ridley said.
With Hurts still under development, Ridley has remained patient and has rarely showed signs of frustration as he's carried out his assignments.
While Ridley averaged more catches per game than ArDarius Stewart, he frequently became the secondary option when both played. In one of the three games Stewart missed, a victory over Kentucky, Hurts threw to Ridley 17 times, which equaled 17 percent of the receiver's total targets in 2016.
Stewart is now out of the picture after declaring for the NFL draft in January.
And the quiet, unassuming Ridley wants to take charge.
"I would say I'm now the leader the wide receiver group," he said. "I want to take that role on and not only to my group | 470 |
Explore what Alma intended never to forget by seeking the five highlighted areas of the image below.
This interactive digital project incorporates several forms of historical evidence (photographs, handwritten notes, memoir, songs) to "tour memory" at an American Red Cross military hospital located in Neuilly-sur-Seine, a suburb of Paris, France, and during the Great War's years. Today's visitors to the hospital (via this project) can explore the work of the hospital, enter its interior wards, and perhaps meet a volunteer nurse, Alma Clarke, who compiled in a scrapbook these memories we are touring.
Alma Clarke was an auxiliary nurse for the American Red Cross during WWI and arrived at Military Hospital No. 1 seven days before Armistice. During her service and care to the patients at the hospital she kept a scrapbook and from which all photographs, sketches, and handwritten notes in this digital project come. In it, she included few images of herself. We might guess that she choose to collect memories of her role in the hospital as but one of many more volunteers – medical and enlisted personnel – and as part of a complex organization in the war effort, and certainly to heal. We might also guess that she wanted to remember as many details of the hospital as she could (as seen in her<|fim_middle|> their accounts help to narrate, through memory, the hospital's organization and its care for the wounded.
Next, the image map, "Explore the Interior of Military Hospital No. 1," pictures the hospital's inner courtyard (in it are eight images), so that we may enter several interior wards and see the daily functioning of the hospital, its order and cleanliness, recuperating soldiers, and the corridors and rooms that volunteers like Alma walked in and worked in. Placement of the highlighted areas, such as the "Boston Ward" or the "Jaw Ward," does not always designate the historically accurate locations of the interior views. Instead, locations were approximated based on Alma's handwritten captions ("second floor corridor" – but which wing of the hospital?), by using the size of the windows, or other visual information contained in the photograph, e.g., what can be seen through the windows or the interior structure of the room. The "evacuation ward" and the locations of the courtyard and where the ambulances were parked are accurately located in the image maps.
The final image map, "Seeing Alma," attempts to create a reflection of her through the handwritten notes of others – particularly those patients she cared for. She asked patients at the hospital to record in her scrapbook their name and rank, where they were wounded, and how. A sampling of these notes can be found in the final large image, an illustration from Clarke's scrapbook of a Red Cross nurse protecting a wounded soldier from death. "Touring Memory" includes only two images of Alma – a blurry photograph and a sketch – to encourage exploration of what Alma wished to remember in her scrapbook, and to encourage a "visitor" to Alma's memories to "see" her, as did her patients in 1918.
Taken as a whole, "Touring Memory" reveals layers of memories to investigate space, place, and the act of remembering. The first layer reveals a social history of the medical work of war at Military Hospital No. 1. Who performed this work? How was it accomplished? We may gain a sense of the hospital's wards and workings, as well as its specialization, such as attending to facial injuries in the "Jaw Ward," but we do not see all work, like those who mopped the floors or cooked patients' meals. A second layer of investigation encourages visitors to think about how Alma Clarke's scrapbook is a credible, "insider's" view (Alma's), yet we are exploring collected memories: selected, subjective, and of what she wished to remember (or what artifacts she had available to remember.) Similarly, "Touring Memory" contains only 27 selected images from her scrapbook's 178 digital pages. While the images taken from it are representative of its contents (photographs, sketches, handwritten notes), its layers of meaning designed here for a "visitor" to explore and "tour" are certainly not all that might be gained from Alma Clarke's preserved recollections. Thus, a third layer of memory is this project's own reconstruction of remembering a hospital's crucial work during World War I.
All images – photographs, handwritten notes, sketches – are reproduced from Alma Clarke's "English WWI Scrapbook," preserved in its original form and available digitally at Bryn Mawr College. Courtesy of Bryn Mawr College Special Collections.
Two WWI-era songs, "Au Revoir but Not Goodbye" and "Oui Oui Marie," are courtesy of "Popular Songs of WWI." USCB Cylinder Audio Archive. University of California Santa Barbara Library.
Acknowledgements: Thank you, Professor Deb Boyer, for being able to imagine my envisioning of a "tour" and your suggestions of helpful digital tools to do so. At Villanova's Falvey Library thanks go to David Uspal for finding hidden code (and deleting it) and Laura Bang for teaching me care in the digital preservation of archival materials. Final thanks are to all graduate students in Fall 2015's "Digital History" course for their semester-long collaboration and creativity. | scrapbook's multiple photographs captioned in her own hand), about her service among the nursing staff and surgeons, and about those many soldiers she met as patients. Visitors to "Touring Memory" can find in three large images (image maps) many more memories. By selecting the highlighted areas in each, we can progressively dive deeper into how Alma Clarke represented her memories (how she choose to remember) and with them, remember the work at Military Hospital No. 1.
The first image map, "Tour and Explore Alma's Collected Memories," suggests how a visitor might be impressed by the site of the hospital, the Lycée Pasteur, and its grand exterior (perhaps just as Clarke herself was impressed in 1918.) In the photograph are six highlighted areas, the hospital's designated entrances, to begin an exploration of the medical work of war. Supplementing the photographs taken from the scrapbook are other visitors' contemporaneous accounts: from a surgeon, visiting nurses, an observer who wrote about Red Cross activities in France, at Hospital No. 1 and its ambulance service. It is doubtful Alma knew these people (their time at the hospital preceded hers), however | 238 |
(With acknowledgement to Vicky Williams and Winifred Tapson)
Before the recorded history of Leisure Isle, it lay undisturbed near the mouth of the Knysna lagoon, a grassy sandbank that was home to countless birds, small mammals and a population of steenbok.
The Island was formed some 5 000 years ago during a time when the level of the sea was four to five metres higher than it is now. There was considerable sand movement within the estuary, as there is today, and when the sea level began to fall this caused large sand banks to form. These gradually rose in height through tidal and wind transport of sand, and the islands initially called Steenbok Island<|fim_middle|> on the site now known as Steenbok Nature Reserve. Sand dunes were flattened and planted with grass, and fairways, bunkers and greens were laid out. The Cearns built a house near the course. The Knysna Golf Club had at that time a rather miserable course on the slopes near Thesen Hill known as the 'goat course', and in 1939 it was decided that they should make the new course on Leisure Isle their home. The Cearn's house was then leased to Mr G E Herring and became the clubhouse. Herring extended the building and opened a Private Hotel, which became the pivot of social life on Leisure Isle. Herring sold the hotel to Bill Anderson, who applied for a liquor licence and established the well-loved Leisure Isle Hotel that survived for many years, eventually giving way to the Island Cove development. The Hotel was very popular and many, including Bobby Locke, enjoyed its golf course and other attractions.
In the mid-fifties most of the interior of Leisure Isle remained scrub and bush, and steenbok could still be encountered along with the few surviving pheasants which had been introduced from England. In 1951a Village Management Council was instituted, falling under the Divisional Council. This took care of the affairs of the Island until 1968, by which time problems with the supply of water and electricity and other essential services necessitated a take-over by the Knysna Municipality - a step which was strenuously opposed by many islanders.
Over the next fifty years Leisure Isle grew and evolved into the special place we know today. The full tale remains to be told.
The publication of a separate, expanded History of Leisure Isle is contemplated, and LIRA would welcome input from anyone interested in sharing their memories and knowledge of the early days of this Island. | (Leisure Isle) and Paarden Island (Thesen Island) were formed. Soon plant and animal life began to colonise the island habitat.
The eastern shore of the Knysna lagoon was granted in 1770 to Stephanus Terblans, the first white settler in the area. There he established his farm Melkhoutkraal, which in time became an impressive estate, but it did not include the scrubby sand dune that had become known as Steenbok Island - this remained state land.
A Scottish master mariner, James Callander, the first man to fall under the thrall of the Island, become excited by its possibilities and developed a vision for its future. He was commissioned by the Governor of the Cape to explore the rivers, bays and forests in this area in 1798. Callander made Knysna his base, built a small wooden cabin on the Eastern Head and soon became convinced that Knysna could become a first-rate port. He wrote: 'It is the best situation on this coast for shipping timber, having a small island (Steenbok) immediately within the narrow entrance where fifty ship-loads of timber may lay….This island is so situated that it commands the entrance of the River - and a few guns on it would destroy any [enemy] coming in'. Callander applied for twelve morgen of land, including Steenbok Island, where he planned to start a fishery. His application was refused but he re-applied fifteen years later 'to have a Grant of 500 yards of land on the Island named Steen Buck for Establishing a Fishery in the river Nysna'. This too was refused.
Steenbok Island was the property of the British Colonial Government until 1821, when it was ceded to George Rex, the fourth owner of the farm Melkhoutkraal. Rex and his descendants owned the Island from 1821 until 1929, when it was purchased by George Cearn, an American who had made a considerable fortune from coffee in Kenya. He purchased the Island from a Rex descendant, John Duthie of Woodbourne Farm for £7,000. George Cearn was 53 when he and his wife Ethel retired to Knysna, and he was in search of a 'project'. Steenbok Island soon captured his imagination, and to the great astonishment of the people of Knysna, as well as his wife, he developed a vision of turning the uninhabited little island into a place where people could live and build their homes, raise their families and retire in idyllic surroundings. He re-named it Leisure Isle, and set about turning his dream into reality.
Connecting Leisure Isle to the mainland and securing its perimeter from the corrosive power of the waves and currents was the first priority. Mr Dantjie Keyter, a massive figure of a man, was employed as foreman, and he recruited a labour force of some fifty short-term prisoners from the local jail by paying their fines and making them free men. They were paid half-a-crown a day and received a hearty meal cooked by Dantjie's wife. They quarried stone from a hillside on Woodbourne Farm (the scar is still visible as you leave the Island) and for three years they toiled, building the causeway, the road foundations and the sea wall that encircled the Island. The stone was transported in long lines of cocopans to wherever it was needed.
When this mammoth task was done, George Cearn proceeded to have the Island surveyed in 1933, and declared a township in November 1935. Preparations took shape under Cearn's meticulous eye - clusters of pine trees were planted, and an avenue of gums along Links Drive. The township plan included a school, a church, a commercial precinct and a recreational area. A network of roads criss-crossed the Island, and all was ready for the first Islanders to claim their place in the sun.
300 plots were offered for sale. As Winifred Tapson described it 'One by one little cottages sprang up. Tentatively at first, and in a patchwork sort of way. Only a handful of the more adventurous Knysna inhabitants dared to take the bait. The rest of the community remained profoundly indifferent. A retired couple from elsewhere put up a house; then another, and another. A few, not yet retired, built cottages for their summer holidays. Gradually more confidence crept in, and the houses gained in size and design…. Throughout the first twenty years of Leisure Isle's life, human occupation seeped into it very cautiously'.
During the 1930s George Cearn set about building a nine-hole golf course | 1,001 |
It's a very "big" beer. By that I mean big flavors. Obviously a lot of hop flavor, but a lot of malt too. It's very good, but there's a reason it comes in 4 packs: it's very strong flavor and it's high alcohol content.
I finally tried that Sam Adams Chocolate Bock. It was good, but not as good at Youngs.
If both of those are "too much" for some palates, try DogFishHead Chicory Stout.
I tried one of the DogHead Fish beers....am searching my memory as to which one it was exactly...but that had to be the WORST beer I have EVER tried to drink (with the exeption of maybe Natty Bo)!!! I don't know that I am up to trusting them with my money again just yet. But am glad to hear someone out there is enjoying their offerings.
I don't remember trying the Chicory Stout, I'm not a fan of the Raison d'Etre, and the Punkin Ale was OK but not what I was expecting. Some people really like the Aprihop.
Has anyone tried the Pangea or Fort?
The 90 is one of my favorite beers. It ranks top 5.
I've also never tried the Raison d'Etre or the Red and White, or any of their other mixes. That doesn't sound appealing. They do, however, know how to make an IPA.
Pangea gets a thumbs down. The Midas Touch was good but more along the lines of a dessert beer. I had one in the middle of summer and was mistaken when I thought it would be 'refreshing'. Honey and grapes (as on the label) would lend to a more 'wine' taste, almost like a cordial.
Raison d'etre is probably my favorite of all DFHead beers. We tried the black and blue, and it leaved a lot to be desired. The festina peche' was a good spring beer, with lots of peach flavor.
I haven't even seen the Fort out. I'm also interested in opinions on it.
I also liked Raison d'Etre, but I also tend to try a new beer for novelty's sake, so you may never want to rely on my "beer taste", haha. I'm not that much of a beer drinker, but usually take a 6-pack along camping over the summer (only go a few times, so again, not much of a<|fim_middle|>Yeah, I'm thinking Rugged Trail may be safer in future, LOL...!
Sitting here now trying out an interesting lil beer Breckenridge Brewery's Remarkable Vanilla Porter. I think I like it very much The vanilla adds a little smoothness to the porter's normal "edge" without taking away from the full bodied flavor. It's not too sweet and not too bitter, definitely "Partakable" as the label proclaims!!
I am going to sip it and see what notes come through as it warms a little. So far, so very, VERY good!
I see you are subscribing to the "it's 5 o'clock somewhere" theory.
We're enjoying a homemade mexirita right now. What's that you say?
I found their website a while back and sent an email to find out where I could sample their brews, but I never got a response.
We were in Maryland City today and picked up a 6 pack of singles. The two we had tonight were North Coast Brewery's Old Stock Ale (12.5%, very Barleywine-esqe), and Leinenekugel's new spring 1883 Bock. Both were delicious, and worth a full compliment of 5 more of their siblings.
Give Fordham's new Dopplebock a try. I thought it was decent. Nothing spectacular, but worth a try. Sort of a dark, medium thickness, toffee flavored lager.
Is it bottled yet or solely on tap?
Green Flash Brewing Co's West Coast IPA and Sierra Nevada's ESB (Early Spring Beer).
That ESB looks good. The Fordham dopplebock is in bottles. I found it at Bakers.
Sam Adam's Chocolate Bock and Fordham's Dopplebock both on tap at Heroes last Thursday. Don't know how long it will last, but the Sam's was pretty good!
Sounds good. I'm dying to try that Dopplebock.
The Eye of the Hawk was good but disappeared flavor-wise as you drank it. Very clean, but unremarkable. Think of an IPA light.
Avery's Mephistopheles was ridiculously good. 16%ABV and it tasted it. Dark black body in color, but the head was a deep cherry color. Very heavy and bold. We only had one after dinner and it as all you needed. Let it warm to room temperature and you'll get the most flavor from it.
I discovered a really good new to me beer last night. Clipper City Loose Cannon IPA. It was on draft at the Federal House in downtown Annapolis. Ridiculously hoppy and citrusy and tasty.
Don't know how I've missed this delicious local beer. I hope one of the local stores has it for sale.
Sure does. Try all of Clipper City's Heavy Seas brews.
Ditto on those, especially liked the "Heavy Seas Loose Cannon" and "Peg Leg"! | beer drinker). Gives me a chance to try something new on occasion without committing to a bunch of bottles hanging out in my fridge for weeks.
I also enjoyed Clipper City's "Small Craft Warning Uber Pils" (but was threatened by fellow campers when I showed up with that to camp in the middle of a Labor Day hurricane one year. Have to rethink my "themes" when it involves rain and camping...).
Maybe Troeg's Rugged Trail Nut Brown would have been a better choice.
If you knew how often we have camped in pouring rain (not just rain or showers, and we've done 2 hurricanes so far, in 14 years), you could appreciate why they threatened me with bodily harm over that one.
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MISSISSIPPI STATE – College freshmen who have prepared themselves for new experiences are often not ready for the so-called freshman 15, the dreaded weight gain associated with starting college.
Brent Fountain, associate Extension professor in the Department of Food Science, Nutrition and Health Promotion at Mississippi State University, said weight gain is likely during the first few months of college life.
Michael Davis, a 2008 MSU graduate, gained about 30 pounds during his first year at MSU.
"Healthy options were available, but unhealthy options were more plentiful and appetizing," Davis said.
Other pitfalls included large pepperoni pizzas at midnight.
"My roommate and I would each get one, and we would demolish them before we went to bed," Davis said.
As tempting as it is to eat anything at any time, Fountain said students should keep track of what they eat to help keep off those unwanted pounds.
"When you eat away from home, there is more temptation," Fountain said. "You may choose to eat out more, which can lead to an intake of increased calories. Many students are also making other unhealthy choices, such as eating foods high in added fat and sugar or consuming alcohol that they previously did not consume.
"Combine these factors with lower levels of physical activity, and you have the perfect formula for unintended weight gain," he said.
Fountain suggested eating complex carbohydrates, especially fruits and vegetables which are typically high in nutrients and low in calories.
Fountain also suggested students keep snacks such as nuts and fruits on hand instead of chips or crackers.
"Anything that can help you feel fuller longer will keep you from eating when you don't really need to. The problem with chips and crackers is that we often consume too many in one serving and then feel hungry again a short time later," he said.
Fountain added that carrying a bottle of water is another smart idea.
"Drinking water throughout the day helps you feel fuller longer. It keeps your body cells properly hydrated, which means you feel less hungry throughout the day," Fountain said.
Smart phone apps or websites such as www.my-calorie-counter.com or www.myfitnesspal.com can help track food intake.
Laura Walling, director of Recreational Sports Administration at MSU, said recreational sports offers a wide variety of opportunities for students to stay active and healthy. MSU's Sanderson Center offers group exercises, such as aerobics, yoga, Zumba and spinning, and more than 120 pieces of weight and cardiovascular training equipment.
"Whether a student just wants help getting started on a regular routine or requires someone to hold him or her accountable, we have a program that will fit the need," Walling said.
A swimming pool is available for lap swimming and water aerobics, | 597 |
The pleasure of good food even on vacation.
When we opened the Bibione Palace Suite Hotel, thirteen years ago we wanted to make quality our added value. Who has come on holiday here, knows how hard we are working to make the stay an unforgettable experience, starting from the table.
At Bibione Palace Hotel, the cuisine is a true experience for the palate. We use first quality ingredients in the dishes that we offer, even at zero kilometres such as whole-wheat honey and sea bream and sea bass from Valgrande, which we take care of collecting and fishing, in the valley a few kilometres from the hotel.
Selected fruits and vegetables, excellent for the centrifuges and the smoothies in the morning, are expertly combined by Massimo Rech, our chef, and his staff, with all the other products to prepare healthy and tasty dishes every day like at home. What do you eat at the Bibione Palace Hotel? A little bit of everything, dishes that follow the Mediterranean diet or traditional recipes enriched with a pinch of gastronomic imagination snatched from around the world<|fim_middle|> our own pizzas, with the mother yeast, and then we also wanted to knead and bake the bread every day. Homemade pizza and bread have been added to the homemade baking, for which we are famous: cakes, biscuits and pastries which are impossible to resist!
With us children have special menus, as well as vegetarian and gluten-intolerant guests (we have products and dishes for those who are celiac) and we are also attentive to the sporting guests staying in our hotel: you are a cyclist and you want to discover the beauties of the area? On request we can prepare you with a comfortable pocket lunch. Staying on the subject of what's new, from the summer of 2017, in addition to the two restaurant rooms with à-la-carte or buffet menus there is the possibility to have lunch by the pool at the Hemingway bar, with a new menu: Caesar salad, Club sandwich specials, and typical products of our land. An idea that was greatly liked!
A holiday for the real gourmand is possible at the Bibione Palace Hotel, with only one password: quality! | .
Every summer we invent something new to offer to our guests. So a few years ago we stubbornly wanted to prepare | 24 |
I fitted Airtabs to my <|fim_middle|> faster and better. | 4x 4 and caravan. What a difference, didn't feel the caravan on behind me. A friend following commented that the van was not swaying.
"These things really do work" after a trip out on a windy day.
Just to let you know what a difference AIRTABS make to our 9 metre bus. We have no wobbles when a truck passes us going in the opposite direction and when we hit a pothole we don't bounce like we used to. I am finding the steering a breeze almost one finger most of the time.
It is unbelievable the difference they have made to our motoring.
Cheers Jean and Brian Harrington.
I had Airtabs fitted to my van January 2014 after a very scary trip in the wind. When I drove it after they were fitted I thought someone had stolen my old van and given me a new one. The change in the handling was so noticeable. The van is more stable on the road, no more buffeting from large vehicles coming towards you and now a pleasure to drive, It is quiet with no wind noise and I get better economy.
Since fitting AirTabs to the roof of my truck and at the rear edge of my box trailer it is very noticeable that the trailer travels with more stability. My fuel usage has improved.
The boys have reported that the trucks are now much more stable when driving.
Stuart Biggs - Star Transport.
Stuart Biggs - Star Transport from Nelson, Auckland.
after your visit here to fit airtabs to my 6x6 Landcruiser, a specalist Liquid Fert spraying vehicle, a very dirty airodymanic wise vehicle.
road test short distance showed the piro operating at 80+km about 30c less.
since changed diff drive so econmy test not applicable.
done run to West coast in meduim Norwest, surpised how vehicle justs points straight all the time, no correcting for side gusts, and no dramas when a curtain sider passes.
Since having Air Tabs installed to my Nissan Campervan it is much easier to drive.
I noticed the improved stability of the van from the first time i drove it.
I have found by using the Air Tabs my vehicle no longer feels like it is being pulled towards oncoming vehicles.
I would recommend air tabs to any one.
after purchase having experienced a scary trip home with it.
conversation as we drive around the country.
fast as Sheila had never been over that Road.
handled the road so calmly. Passing trucks were no longer a problem.
was just great. We should have fitted them years ago.
I purchased and had fitted Airtabs onto my cabover motorhome April 2014. The Airtabs work a treat, the motor doesn't rrrrrrrr as much and the van travels a lot | 582 |
The Hiland Lady Hawks volleyball team may boast a record of just 6-9, but that may be one of the more deceiving records around.
After a sluggish start, Hiland has found the secret of success, and its latest conquest was a thrilling five-game match over the Strasburg Tigers in Tigertown Thursday, Sept. 29.
Hiland pulled out a 13-25, 25-18, 25-21, 21-25, 16-14 win over the Tigers in what turned into a most entertaining contest.
In the previous meeting at Hiland earlier this season, the Tigers finished off Hiland in four games, winning rather handily in the process in keeping Hiland's scores in the teens in their three winning efforts.
That all changed, just as the expectations and success has changed for Hiland over the past seven games. After starting the season 1-7, Hiland has since won five of its last seven games, the only losses coming to Inter-Valley Conference front-runner and state-ranked Tuscarawas Central Catholic, and Garaway the IVC team closely chasing the Saints.
Just seeing the reversal of fortunes for Hiland, in watching it take down a talented Strasburg team, shows how far this group has come in its effort to put the Lady Hawks' volleyball program back on the winning track.
While the winning ways have promoted greater confidence in the Lady Hawks, game one certainly did nothing to bolster their belief that they<|fim_middle|> one, setting the table for what looked like a repeat of their first meeting this year. However, a renewed attitude in the belief they can win helped Hiland right the ship and rally, and rally it did.
Led by the serving of Madison Yoder, and a unified effort at the net by a host of players, Hiland dug deep and came back to win game two, 25-18.
As was the case in their initial meeting, game three became a pivotal game. For the most part, game three is often a crucial one to get, and Hiland played perhaps its best game of the season in churning out a 25-12 victory in which Madisynn Bryk, Nikki Overholt and Brooke Stutzman took over at the net.
With Kim Miller and Brittany Wengerd getting the ball in position from the back row, Miller began finding the trio of hitters with abandonment, and Hiland went to work in quickly taking the upper hand.
But with Strasburg being a very good squad, this one was not going to be easy. In a back-and-forth contest in which Hiland was trying to put things away while the Tigers were fighting for their lives, it would be Strasburg that would pull out the tight 25-21 win, setting the stage for a winner-take-all game five that was as exciting as a game can be.
The two teams played a game of give and take, as they marched toward the short-game number of 15 points that would allow them to earn a victory.
However, on this night, with tension high, it would take 16 points to go home a winner, and Hiland would find that number with a 16-14 victory that set off a wild and jubilant celebration on the Lady Hawks' side of the net.
Yoder would lead the way for Hiland with a whopping 20 service points, including six aces, while Bryk served up eight points with four aces. The blossoming Bryk had a monster game, tacking on 10 kills and six blocks, while both Overholt and Stutzman added 10 kills apiece. Miller had a huge game too, doling out 34 assists while making 17 digs, while Wengerd added 25 digs in her libero role.
The Lady Hawks junior varsity added to the joy of the evening, scoring a two game win with a 25-11, 35-14 victory. | could win. Strasburg got out to a huge lead early, and crushed Hiland 25-13 in game | 26 |
A silent golf tournament, but you can hear the sounds of golf at The American Express
Larry Bohannan
It's the sounds you miss the most.
No, not the sounds of a roaring crowd when a big-name player hits a clutch shot or makes a key putt.<|fim_middle|> to each other.
Or there was the conversation between two caddies walking off the course after their players had finished their round, with one caddie complaining that there is almost no place to hit the ball on a couple of the par-3s on the two PGA West courses.
"And there is so much water," one caddie lamented.
Every once in a while, there is the sound of a homeowner at PGA West watching from their backyard – all that is allowed under state and county restrictions -- applauding or yelling "Go get 'em," to a player as they pass by.
How long will all of this silence and underground noise at golf tournaments last? The Waste Management Phoenix Open in two weeks is promising 5,000 fans a day on their golf course, but the three remaining tournaments on the West Coast swing in California in San Diego, Pebble Beach and Los Angeles will be played without spectators.
When the tour shifts to Florida, there will certainly be fans, but no one knows for sure how many until the tournaments are actually played. That should mean the return of roars and groans and even polite golf claps at tournaments.
That will be great for television and its microphones. But if you listen closely this week, there is still a golf tournament being played in La Quinta. Just a quiet tournament.
Larry Bohannan is The Desert Sun golf writer. He can be reached at (760) 778-4633 or larry.bohannan@desertsun.com. Follow him on Facebook or on Twitter at @Larry_Bohannan. Support local journalism: Subscribe to the Desert Sun. | We know those sounds haven't been part of the PGA Tour since the tour returned from its three-month coronavirus pandemic suspension last June.
But with no fans on the course at The American Express this week and a drastically reduced number of volunteers and other personnel that would normally be on the course at a PGA Tour event, the quiet of the golf courses at PGA West this week has been a little disconcerting.
It's a little like watching your favorite movie with the sound completely down on your television, You know the characters are on the screen saying "May the force be with you," or "Here's looking at you, kid," but you can't hear the words. How frustrating is that?
Time and time again, the players on the tour have said they are now accustomed to the silent tour setting. They don't like it or want it, but they understand why there are no fans and are willing to accept the trade-off of no fans for an opportunity to play golf and make a check. But it is still eerie.
During a second-round moment, Patrick Cantlay, Phil Mickelson and Rickie Fowler teed off on the first tee of the Pete Dye Stadium Course, and as each golfer was introduced, there was no applause. Total silence. Not even a polite golf clap.
But there is also the lack of usual crowd buzz around the clubhouse at PGA West. Fewer carts are working their way around the paths of the course. Workers and vendors are making less noise because there are fewer of them to begin with. Even the driving range, normally a beehive of activity with coaches and physiotherapists and equipment representatives floating around the players, has been reduced to a quiet group of players, caddies and the occasional swing coach or agent.
Sounds if you listen for them
But that doesn't mean the tournament is without sound completely. Just as you need to look beyond the brown and gray of desert sand and rocks to see the red of a blooming ocotillo or the purple of a sage bush, you need to somehow listen beyond the silence to hear the sounds of the tournament this year.
There is still the sweet sound of a perfectly struck iron shot, a sound that will make almost any golfer's heart race a bit. And with no crowd cheering, you can hear the players saying, "Nice shot," | 475 |
All Mixed Up™ Crowns a Student Chef Champion on the Season Finale
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On the season finale, it's down to Alexander Kuzin from the gray team and Kimberly Barry-Shillingford representing the blue team. As always, they will be expected to create a dish that is both visually appealing and delicious while coping with the curve balls thrown at them by host, Chef Ralph Pagano.
Joining the judges this season is Matt Schiering, Vice President and General Manager at Sani Professional, the featured sponsor. The company's extensive product portfolio is EPA-registered and FDA food code compliant, meeting the highest food industry safety standards. To help keep the All Mixed Up kitchen clean, they provided an array of disposable, pre-measured, pre-moistened, state-of-the-art wipe solutions. Learn more at www.saniprofessional.com.
With the timer set for only 30 minutes and a mystery ingredient yet to be revealed, the race for the All Mixed Up title is on! Can the students keep their work station tidy and sanitary while wowing the judges? Who will finish with the most gold stars and be crowned Champion? Tune in to Lifetime® Television to find out!
About All Mixed Up™
All Mixed Up is a half-hour reality cooking show airing at 7:30 am (ET/PT) on Lifetime Television that combines the perfect mix of food competition, food history and culinary adventure. The show is hosted by Ralph Pagano, world-renowned chef and culinary celebrity. Six up-and-coming student chefs compete on two teams before a panel of judges by taking America's favorite brands and turning them into three unique, three-course meals. The chefs must complete an appetizer, entrée and dessert in 30 minutes, and will be judged on recipe originality, presentation and taste. For information on air dates, to view past episodes and to try the recipes created by these promising chefs, visit www.thebalancingact.com/allmixedup. | ani Professional takes center stage on the hit reality cooking show as two student chefs battle it out for the title.
(DEERFIELD BEACH, Fla. – PR LOG – July 15, 2016) Season 6 of the award-winning culinary competition show, All Mixed Up™, comes to an end, Monday, July 18, 2016 at 7:30 am (ET/ | 88 |
Message from Barbara
Born in Argentina, I grew up primarily in New York State, the eldest of 11 children who are now spread out all across the United States from Boston to Oahu. I did my undergraduate work in English and Education at a small women's college in Erie, Pennsylvania and my graduate work in Victorian Literature in Detroit, Michigan. I retired from teaching a few years ago and am still<|fim_middle|>, I love writing and photography and am grateful to all who have inspired and continue to inspire my thoughts and adventures.
~Barbara Kausteklis~
© All rights reserved to the poetry and writings by Barbara Kausteklis aka Barbara K | loving every millisecond of my newly "refound" life. I see "retirement" as just another transition to something even better. It has given me an opportunity to tap into a lot of interests that had been put on hold while I was raising children and working. The most mundane of things for me are now a thrill. My renewed life involves the outdoors, lots of music -- fiddling my fiddle and dabbling in other instruments and playing in a small orchestra every week -- writing and photography. I've been married for 39 years now and we have three wonderful children and two precious grandsons. I enjoy playing tourist here in my own "backyard" in the Los Angeles area and wherever else we might happen to travel. And, of course | 155 |
El Faro del Cabo Byron está localizado en el Cabo Byron, Nueva Gales del Sur, Australia. El cabo es el punto más extremo<|fim_middle|> faro más poderoso de Australia, con una intensidad lumínica de 2200000 cd.
Historia
Su construcción comenzó en julio de 1900 con los contratistas Mitchell y King. El costo total fue £10042 libras para los contratistas, £8000 por los aparatos y la luz del faro y £2600 por el camino desde el pueblo de la Bahía de Byron. Ajustándose a la inflación, el costo equivaldría a unos AUD$2.8M dólares australianos.Hoy en día el faro más potente del hemisferio sur pertenece a Neil el Australiano.
Visitas
El faro es famoso, atrayendo a más de 500,000 visitantes por año. Es popular por el avistamiento de ballenas, con el Centro de Investigación de Ballenas de la Universidad de la Cruz del Sur ubicada en el faro.
El faro puede ser visitado a pie desde el pueblo de la Bahía de Byron a través del sendero del Cabo Byron.
Referencias
Enlaces externos
Faros de Australia
Edificios y estructuras terminadas en 1901 | del continente australiano, localizado a unos 3 kilómetros al noreste del pueblo de Byron Bay. Es el | 28 |
9 Rooms is a house with rooms that are unique and have a creative touch from local artists, up-cycled furniture and vintage decorations. It is a comfortable place you can live in while in Kathmandu.
9 Rooms is a unique place, with lots of creative touches, cosy atmosphere, and a respectful environment. It is a good place for people who are staying in<|fim_middle|> to public transport and stores where you can pick up all your basic goods, but in a quiet little alley.
There a many vegetable and fruit sellers very nearby.
The area is home to many Tibetan people, with Buddhist prayer flags and craft centers. | Kathmandu long and short term and are looking for a peaceful living space.
The house is slowly getting filled with work from local and traveling artists, locally made materials, upcycled furniture, vintage items we have gathered from homes around the city and the world, and all kinds of other random bits and pieces.
9 Rooms is clean and comfortable, affordable and private. Every room is clean and secure, with lots of natural light, comfortable bedding, and storage space.
All art featured in 9 Rooms is for sale from the artist directly. Please ask if something interests you.
There is power backup, wifi, hot water, a kitchen/common room, plenty of parking space, garden area, and a sunny rooftop. We'll help you out with advice on getting around, events, and local favorites.
9 Rooms is tucked away in a quiet alley in Patan, just south of central Kathmandu. It's within walking distance to many cafes, restaurants, shops, and public transport at Jawalakhel Chowk.
You can stay at 9 Rooms for a minimum of a week or several months. Because many people are staying for more than a week or two, this is a good place to meet others and feel at home.
9 Rooms is in Patan, just south of the river from central Kathmandu.
It's not far from Patan Durbar Square and the many cafes, restaurants, shops, and markets that are in the area. See a map of our location.
9 Rooms is close | 305 |
If industry pundits are right ― http://www.musicweek.com/news/read/radio-1-music-boss-guitar-music-is-coming-back/052585 ― and guitar music is to return centrestage in indiedom, thinking beyond, jazz guitar may follow suit.
The signs are there, but how will it build?
It could go retro in the hands of someone like Hannes Riepler who draws in a crowd of young players to his Tuesday Charlie Wright's jams in Shoreditch. Or more contemporary, stimulated by a charismatic player such as Dan Messore who has started a series of Sunday gigs at the Vortex and whose band Indigo Kid joins the dots between the Iain Ballamy school of improvisers and new players such as BBC New Generation artist saxophonist Trish Clowes.
More likely, though, given the big interest in bands such as Supersilent who have been touring with John Paul Jones and play tonight at London venue the Village Underground, is the electronica side to guitar music.
There's no finer an exemplar of this strand than Eivind Aarset whose new album Dream Logic has just been released by ECM. It's a duo record featuring the 51-year-old guitarist with sampler Jan Bang, whose festival Punkt this year saw live performance by ambient pioneer Brian Eno.
The world where guitar synths and keyboards combine is the battleground of innovation, and other bands such as Eyes of a Blue Dog with trumpeter Rory Simmons switching to guitar and live sampling by drummer Terje Evensen coalescing with vocals to chart new territory and add to the interplay.
For nearly a decade and a half since Electronique Noire and with the Sonic Codex Orchestra Aarset has continued his pioneering work that makes each of his albums seem like a statement and stand out from the crowd.
Glacially slow and lingering Dream Logic's 11 tracks are mostly the work of Bang and Aarset although producer Erik Honoré who recorded and mixed much of the album is co-credited on 'Surrender', and 'The Beauty of Decay'.
With Aarset think the late Pete Cosey, think music from south east Asia, delivered at times<|fim_middle|> trinity is interesting but a Venn diagram of all three does allow for the starting point that for those interested in finding Rypdal via Aarset, like say Finnish band Oddarrang, there is huge transformation possible in the air.
If jazz guitar does move centrestage it will be different with input from electronica. Retro currents can drive change, ironically, and if you're heard the until 2012 unreleased archive album Echoes of Indiana Avenue by Wes Montgomery you'll understand what I mean, but it's the new generation that given the possibilities technology allows has the potential to revolutionise the music to reflect the present.
It's the journey towards a sound in jazz no one has ever heard. Aarset is, it's clear, an innovator of some clout, as Dream Logic his finest work to date clearly indicates. The most significant jazz album to come out of Norway since Khmer in the late-1990s. | by a Boss digital delay pedal, and you're half way there with Aarset who in his youth was influenced by Jimi Hendrix, Miles Davis and Terje Rypdal. That | 39 |
The season<|fim_middle|> reservations are required. Participants may bring a sack lunch. Coffee and a snack will be provided. To preregister, call Tip of the Mitt Watershed Council at (231) 347-1181. For a list of other upcoming events, visit www.watershedcouncil.org/events. | finale of Tip of the Mitt Watershed Council's Ice Breaker Series will feature Stephen Brede.
Those interested should register for the event, which will take place from noon-1 p.m. on Thursday, March 21, to listen to the Petoskey resident speak.
Last June, Brede pushed off from the mouth of the Detroit River on a solo paddling trip around Lake Erie.
Camping along the way, and relying on the kindness of strangers, he paddled through busy urban ports, passed beneath miles and miles of steep bluffs, and ventured into massive wetlands teeming with fish and birds. He discovered a lake that is cherished and protected by many, yet faces serious challenges and ongoing abuse.
The talk will take place at the watershed council's office at 426 Bay St. in Petoskey. This event is free and open to the public.
Limited space is available, advanced | 186 |
Found in Translation: Language tools for building a global audience
ouTube has over a billion users and is available in 76 different languages. So it's easy to understand why it can sometimes feel that way.
On average, over 60% of a channel's views come from outside of its creator's home country. That means two out of every three people who watch your channel might speak a different language than you. So how can you make sure viewers around the world can easily discover, understand and love your content? That's where our latest set of translation features comes in. Designed to help creators make their content more accessible and understandable to an international audience, they include:
Community-contributed subtitles and CC - crowdsource your video subtitles and let your community help you reach more people in more languages. Opt-in by clicking here.
Translated titles and descriptions - add translated titles and descriptions to your videos.That way fans can discover your videos in their native languages. We'll display your video information in the right language to the right viewers.
Translation marketplace (beta) - order professional translations of your content right from your Video Manager. Once you've chosen the target language(s) you prefer, simply checkout and pay. When the translation is complete, we'll auto-publish your content and send you a confirmation email.
Some of our partners have already tested out these features and the impact has been pretty remarkable. Take VICE. Their channel more than doubled the daily watchtime on translated videos from Spanish and Portuguese speakers. In fact, watchtime from Spanish users tripled. ¡Impresionante!
"These new features have the potential to fundamentally change the way VICE distributes its YouTube content on a global scale", says Jordan DeBor, Video Partnerships Manager at VICE. "By removing the language barrier, YouTube delivers the opportunity to build new audiences in local markets and expand in our existing ones."
With the help of over 20,000 volunteer translators, TED, another important YouTube partner, has been experimenting with crowdsourced translations across thousands of videos in more than a hundred languages. They joined the new translation tools pilot just a few months ago and for the first time combined translated captions with translated titles and descriptions for two thousand videos in 11 languages. They saw major growth in localized watchtime – the channel's localized watchtime increased from 20% to 35% overall, and in several cases up to 60%.
"For more than five years, we've been working to remove the barrier of language from TED's mission in spreading ideas throughout the world", says Kristin Windbigler, Director of TED's Open Translation Project. "As one of our most important partners, YouTube has pushed the boundaries in making our videos not only accessible but also discoverable for viewers around the world."
Ready to start using these features? Check out the translation tools overview page for more information!
Vladimir Vuskovic, Product Manager, recently watched Deb Roy: The birth of a word
Do you ever feel like your videos are getting lost in translation? YouTube has over a billion users and is available in 76 different languages. So it's easy to understand why it can sometimes feel that way.
YouTube presses play on virtual reality
If we've learned anything in the past 10+ years at YouTube it's that capturing and sharing videos is a great way to bring people there with you—whether "there" is an Icelandic glacier, a special performance by violinist Tim Fain, or just a friend's birthday party.
Virtual reality (VR) makes the experience of being there even more awesome and immersive, so today we're bringing two new VR features to YouTube's Android app. All you need is your current phone, and a Google Cardboard viewer.
First, YouTube now supports VR video—a brand new kind of video that makes you feel like you're actually there. Using the same tricks that we humans use to see the world, VR video gives you a sense of depth as you look around in every direction. Near things look near, far things look far. So if you were excited about 360° videos, this is pretty freakin' cool.
To give it a try just find a VR video on YouTube—like the Hunger Games Experience or TOMS Shoes Giving Trip—tap the new Cardboard icon, drop your phone into your Cardboard viewer, and you're off! If you're a creator, you can also check out technologies like Jump to capture and share your own VR videos.
Check out this and more VR videos here
Our second bit of<|fim_middle|> cases, really there there. So download the new YouTube app from Google Play, and get going.
Kurt Wilms, Senior Product Manager, YouTube VR recently watched "Waves of Grace", Sanjeev Verma, YouTube Product Manager, recently watched "LA Phil: The Orchestra VR Video Experience" and Husain Bengali, Product Manager, Jump recently watched "Apollo 11 moon landing.
This story was originally posted on the official YouTube blog. Earlier this year, YouTube began supporting 360 degree video on YouTube. Today, we're unveiling new virtual reality (VR) features on Android that enable you to see and be seen in a whole new way. | news is for the universe of existing YouTube content. And that's the fact that you can now watch any video using Google Cardboard, and experience a kind of virtual movie theater. Just select the new "Cardboard" option from the watch page menu, drop your phone into your viewer, and you're done. You'll now have the largest VR content library right at your fingertips.
Both of today's updates make it easier to be there. In some | 91 |
Law, Anna E. (Died on 10 Jan 1934)
appeared in Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 1 Feb 1934, p. 12
Death of Anna E. Law Recalls Splendid Service to Community
Founded Reading Circle Which Became Woman's Club; Librarian Many Years
By Mrs. Frank<|fim_middle|> years ago Miss Law left Wilmette, but many friends have kept in touch with her as she unselfishly cared for her sister, Ida, and her brother, Frank, as they passed on. She is survived by one brother, Albert Law of Laurens, Mont., and by several nieces and nephews.
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Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), | L. Joy
On January 10 [1934] at Springfield, Mo., occurred the death of Miss Anna E. Law, for many years librarian at the Wilmette public library. Miss Law and her sister, Ida, were founders of the Woman's Reading Circle of Wilmette, which was afterwards federated and became the WIlmette Woman's club.
For two or three years the reading circle met weekly at Miss Law's home, filling a much needed want in the life of the women of the village in both a literary and social way.
Interested in children
Miss Law was a member of a large committee known as the Elmwood Library association, which was carried on for several years and afterwards merged into the public library. The Wilmette Free public library was ornganized on April 6, 1901, and was carried on in Jones hall until the donated Carnegie library building was completed and occupied in 1904. Anna Law was appointed librarian and continued to fill that office until her resignation on February 25, 1920, a period of ninteen years of faithful service. Miss Law loved children and some of her specially prepared programs were for them. On one particular occasion, a Bird day, she prepard hundreds of pictures mounted on cardboard with appropriate description.
Miss Law was a well read woman, possessing a fine private library. She advanced with the growth of the library and filled well her place. Her leaving Wilmette was a distinct loss both to the library and to her many friends. She possessed a genial disposition, was courteous and faithful.
Fourteen | 336 |
March 20, 2017 | Staff
Senior year at NC State University can be filled with coursework, job searches, graduate school applications and preparations for the next big step after graduation.
But for Tyler Ligon, it hasn't been too full to think about the university that helped him reach this point in his life, and the ways he can give back.
Ligon is president of the Poole College of Management's Student Philanthropy Council. When the student members of the council challenged one another<|fim_middle|> | to recruit 10 classmates to give on NC State's Student Giving Day on March 29, Ligon stepped up and set a goal to recruit 60 classmates.
"Since I was appointed president this year, I felt I really needed to set an example for the rest of the council members," Ligon said. "I needed to set the tone and really get them to ask."
His effort seems to have worked, too. Each of Ligon's fellow council members have presented a list of at least 10 classmates – and in many cases, more than 10 – to recruit for this year's giving initiative, said Vicki Rennecker-Nakayoshi, director of alumni relations and special events for the Poole College of Management (PCOM).
Ligon said the effort is about ensuring that future NC State students have the same positive experience he has had, or an even better experience thanks to more resources. He noted that student tuition doesn't come close to covering the cost of operating the university on an annual basis
"It's donors like us – whether students, alumni or others – it's really up to us to make sure NC State becomes an even bigger powerhouse."
Rennecker-Nakayoshi said Ligon's commitment and passion have ignited similar sentiments in his fellow students.
"He's really leading, and setting those examples, which is fantastic," she said. "Others are more motivated because of his leadership."
The PCOM Student Philanthropy Council was the brainchild of former Dean Ira Weiss, Rennecker-Nakayoshi said. It began in 2015 and, at the time, there was no universitywide council.
In 2016, the group held its first student giving challenge, with the goal of committing 100 PCOM students to giving. That year, 148 students committed.
This year, the council's goal is 200 students, but Ligon believes it will easily surpass that goal.
In addition to their pledge to ask 10 classmates to give, the council members, under Ligon's leadership, launched a collegewide campaign to encourage student philanthropy. They've spent time speaking to students in the classes they attend and ramping up their social media presence. Council members produced a video about giving, which they asked professors to show in their classes. They've talked to clubs and fraternities to which they belong, and will have a table set up at the college on March 28 and 29, with activities planned to go along with the student giving day.
"Sometimes it can be hard to ask," Ligon said. "Some people don't think it's worthwhile – that their money doesn't matter."
"I try to explain that any amount makes a difference – whether that's five dollars, 10 dollars or 20 dollars – when collectively we all, as a student body, give back."
He talks to his classmates about how the addition of cutting-edge technology, the recruitment of the best faculty and the increased professional opportunities offered to students – all of which are bolstered by private giving – raise PCOM's ranking as a business school and make its graduates more attractive to recruiters.
Ligon grew up in Raleigh and his mom is an NC State alumna. When it came time to look at colleges, NC State was at the top of his list.
"I didn't want to go anywhere else," Ligon said. "I knew I would receive a top-notch education."
He is the recipient of the Michael and Deborah Hensley Scholarship, and notably, his twin brother, Brian, is also a PCOM senior and the recipient of a Wells Fargo Undergraduate Scholarship. Both brothers have already been admitted into the Jenkins Master of Accounting program for this fall, and both plan to attend.
While Ligon said his scholarship helped, it wasn't the deciding factor in attending NC State. He was swayed by the feel of the campus and the student body, the resources the university offered and the commitment of the faculty.
"The professors really go the extra mile, whether it's inside the classroom or outside the classroom, to really help you reach your next step," he said.
In his nearly four years at NC State thus far, Ligon said his passion for the university has grown, and that's what led him to the Student Philanthropy Council.
"When you first come here to NC State, you hear the term philanthropy and you kind of get scared away because you don't know what it means," he said. "Really, it's about giving back, even in a small way, for something you really care about."
Ligon said his hope is that as his classmates head off into their careers, they won't forget their roots at NC State.
"Really reflect on your time here as a student, and look around at the countless opportunities and great experiences you've had here," Ligon said. "Don't you want to give back to this wonderful school so that future students can have the same kind of opportunities you did – and hopefully better opportunities because of the money we all raised?"
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I've been digging through a lot of pregnancy books lately, in preparation for a hoped-for conception in the relatively near future, so I was excited to receive The Complete Illustrated Pregnancy Companion. I was also a little overwhelmed, however - weighing in at 320 pages, this is not a book to skim through quickly and it took me a long time to finish reading it.
This book isn't really meant for sit-down reading, though. It's a week-by-week guide of your pregnancy, with each weekly chapter opening with a full page color photo of another pregnant woman at this weekly stage so that you can see what your body might likely resemble at this point. (I was pleased to note that the women are all pleasantly 'normal' looking - perhaps pregnancy books are the last vestige against needing to airbrush everyone into anorexic states.) The weekly chapter includes all kinds of data, accompanied by bright and gorgeous photographs, detailing what the baby looks like so far, what development hurdles it has passed, what symptoms you are likely to be feeling, what exercises and preparations are a good idea at this point (one of the weeks immediately prior to delivery advises loading up the MP3 player with<|fim_middle|> some "complete" pregnancy books, tending to speak in generalities as opposed to "here is everything that anyone has ever experienced and it may happen to you" subject matter material that definitely has its place in pregnancy literature. And the week-by-week layout obviously conflicts with a subject-matter oriented layout that allows you to find out everything about, say, morning sickness from the first week to the last. I think that's probably why the book was finally labeled a "companion" - this won't be your one-stop source for all things pregnancy related, but as a daily resource (not unlike a journal), it's invaluable. And since most women rarely stop at just one book for pregnancy, it's okay that this book does one thing well instead of all things broadly. Topping out at over 300 pages, as mentioned previously, this is not a light-weight introduction to pregnancy and it's definitely a book that I will consult frequently and repeatedly when the time comes, which is more than I can probably say for some of the more "comprehensive subject matter" books which tend to be of less use for daily application. | tunes to listen to in the hospital, and trying to generally relax and not stress too much), and much more.
Some people have compared this book to a "coffee table book", albeit an exquisitely beautiful, informative, and extensive coffee table book, and I can see where they're coming from with that opinion. This book isn't as perfectly comprehensive as | 73 |
'Mistakenly uploaded' documents add to criticism of $295M Texas contact tracing deal
Jay Root, Staff Writer
June 5, 2020 Updated: June 5, 2020 8:49 p.m.
Andrea Valadez, who is almost done with a master's degree in public health from UT Health San Antonio, has been volunteering as a contract tracer for San Antonio Metro Health. She works the phones on Thursday, May 7, 2020.
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AUSTIN — More than a dozen Republican legislators are bucking Gov. Greg Abbott by calling for termination of a controversial $295 million coronavirus-related contract that was hastily awarded to a company whose CEO falsely claimed he had a Ph.D.
At least two top Democrats — including the party's leader in the Texas House of Representatives — are also criticizing the deal with MTX Group Inc., saying the state needs to demonstrate the company is up to the vital job of tracking down people who have been exposed to COVID-19, or else it should pull the plug.
The bipartisan criticism comes as the agency that oversees the contract, the Texas Department of State Health Services, acknowledges that MTX "mistakenly uploaded" job training documents to its contact tracers that they were never supposed to get, a move some lawmakers say potentially raises privacy concerns.
Another potential privacy issue: MTX workers are using their own computers and personal email addresses, fueling worries — unwarranted worries, the state says — that private medical information about the people they investigate could be inadvertently divulged.
State Rep. Steve Toth, R-Conroe, like many conservative Republicans, already had privacy concerns about COVID-19 contact tracing before MTX got the job. But he said when he learned that MTX CEO Das Nobel had falsely claimed on his online LinkedIn bio that he had a doctorate from Colorado Technical University, he moved into the end-this-now camp even as Abbott staunchly defends the emergency contract.
"Up until that point, I was like, OK, I'm not good with this, but let's just chill and find out more," Toth said. "That pushed me over the edge."
After the Houston Chronicle published a story about Nobel's doctorate claim, the MTX CEO changed his online biography to say he was in the doctorate program at Colorado Technical University but delivered "no dissertation."
Toth, who sits on the powerful House Appropriations Committee, is a member of the conservative Texas Freedom Caucus in the state House, all 11 of whom are calling for termination of the contract. So are state Rep. James White, R-Hillister, and state Sen. Bob Hall, R-Rockwall. Elsewhere, state Sen. Robert Nichols, R-Jacksonville, said he has been "against this contract since learning about its existence," according to the Lufkin Daily News.
MTX said in a written statement that it welcomes scrutiny and is working with lawmakers who have expressed concerns to "make sure they have answers to their questions."
"We are proud to report that in these early stages, we are integrating seamlessly with our state partners and we are ahead of schedule in delivering on this contract," the statement said.
DSHS did not answer a question about its authority to end the contract, which has a clause that says the state can terminate it "in whole or in part, at any time" that the state sees fit.
OVERREACH? Texas anti-vaxxers say COVID-19 contact tracing is government surveillance
Abbott spokesman John Wittman, who has portrayed the governor as confident in the company's ability to perform, did not respond to questions from the Chronicle about the intraparty criticism, the CEO's falsely claimed doctorate or where the governor stands on the contract now.
In a written statement, DSHS spokesman Chris Van Deusen said Nobel never claimed to the agency that he had a Ph.D. He also said MTX is "meeting the requirements of the contract."
'We needed to move quickly'
Van Deusen said MTX has set up a call center and integrated the telephone system into Texas Health Trace, a statewide management system for tracking COVID-19 cases and coordinating contact tracing efforts. Van Deusen also said this week that MTX has "brought on more than 600 additional contact tracers."
Building up a force of contact tracers is a key part of the state's strategy for limiting the spread of the novel coronavirus as Texas continues to reopen its battered economy. The state is a little more than 1,000 people short of its goal of 4,000 tracers as of this week, state officials say.
Most of them work for state or local health departments. MTX contact tracers and managers represent a fraction of the total number in Texas, but the way they were brought on board has stirred bipartisan blowback.
Lawmakers were caught off guard after the Texas Health and Human Services Commission quietly awarded the $295 million deal to little-known MTX, which has provided no publicly offered proof it's ever handled such an important and lucrative assignment.
"Because of the COVID-19 disaster, we needed to move quickly to get the pieces in place to begin contact tracing so that our disaster response wouldn't be delayed," Van Deusen said.
Unlike most major state contracting deals, this one was never publicly posted. Instead DSHS, working with HHSC contracting personnel, decided which companies to solicit by email, officials said. The companies had 48 hours to respond, and the state awarded the contract to MTX only five days after the proposals were received.
Republican politicians are already facing pressure from conservative base voters who tend to equate widespread COVID-19 monitoring with overreaching government surveillance.
The unusual procurement process and MTX missteps have only added jet fuel to the political fire.
"Questions from my constituents regarding the MTX contract continue on an almost daily basis," said state Sen. Angela Paxton, R-McKinney, whose district includes MTX's Frisco headquarters. "I have an<|fim_middle|> Howard of Austin, a Democrat and longtime member of the House Appropriations Committee.
If DSHS can't quickly demonstrate MTX is up to the job, "I can't see any other option but to perhaps terminate it," Howard added. "This is just so ridiculous."
Likewise, Rep. Chris Turner of Grand Prairie, chairman of the House Democratic Caucus, called contact tracing critical to containing the virus and said it needs to be done right.
"Unfortunately everything we've seen so far with this huge contract is the state is getting it wrong," Turner said. "HHSC must thoroughly and completely address all of the concerns that have been raised very quickly to the Legislature and to the public, and if it can't do that it needs to seek out other qualified bidders who can handle this job in a more professional manner."
Todd Ackerman and Jeremy Blackman contributed to this report.
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Even GOP Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, who has mostly presented a united front alongside Abbott, has unloaded on the way the contract was awarded by the agency overseen by a gubernatorial appointee, according to long excerpts of a tele-town hall event posted on Twitter by a Texas Tribune reporter.
"If it turns out not to be what they told us it is, I'm going to be the first person to stand up and say, 'We need to stop right now,'" Patrick said. "It all happened within seven days and I can't say strongly enough: I was not happy how it was handled, and we should've been in the loop."
Documents obtained by the Chronicle from a person hired thanks to the MTX contract are fueling even more concern.
'One fumble after another'
The documents show the workers were given "job aids" — instructions on how to perform their duties — with one of them telling contact tracing managers to create spreadsheets or Word documents with "relevant information," including dates of birth, addresses and job duties of infected people and those with whom they came into contact.
The instructions describe how to securely send email with the attached case information, but those who clicked on online guidance for that got an error message or just no working links at all.
The newly hired person provided with the instructions expressed fears that following them would lead to a violation of health privacy laws because MTX workers are using their own computers and personal email addresses.
As it turns out, though, none of those instructions was supposed to be shared with the MTX contact tracers and managers, according to Van Deusen of DSHS. He said the documents were created for state employees who were doing contact tracing before the agency awarded the contract to MTX.
"We shared them with (MTX) as samples of job aids we had previously developed. It appears they were mistakenly uploaded to an internal MTX site and have since been removed since they're no longer applicable," Van Deusen said.
Another set of instructions warned those working under the MTX contract who were having system login problems to refrain from sending emails directly to the contractor running the Texas Health Trace system or to "anyone else from Texas state agencies."
Van Deusen said the admonition related to the login issue and not the ability, broadly speaking, to communicate with the government.
"There's no prohibition on contacting health officials," Van Deusen said.
MTX said it has a "successful track record on public sector projects around the country" and has made the protection of privacy in Texas a top priority.
"Our policy is unequivocal that no sensitive information be stored on personal devices and we have put in place protocols to ensure this does not happen," the company said.
But lawmakers in both parties say the confusion over the instructions and missteps over the CEO's credentials are more evidence that the contractor has gotten off to a bad start.
"I'm especially concerned because it's so critical that we have this in place, and it's just been one fumble after another," said state Rep. Donna | 634 |
The Fifa-backed four-year fantastic festival of football is upon us again. And if you didn't manage to get tickets to any of the games in Mother Russia, no worries you'll be able to catch all the World Cup 2018 action without spending a rouble (other than on beers of course) at one of Barcelona's awesome sports bars and Irish pubs instead.
The tournament kicks off on the 14th June with Russia vs. Saudi Arabia at 5pm Spanish time at Moscow's Luzhniki Stadium, and carries on until the 15th July with the final at the same stadium.
This international bar has become a favourite for locals and travellers alike to catch live sports on TV. With three huge projectors, 10+ plus flat screen TVs and English language commentary, they will be screening every match from Russia. Plus every day you'll find Barcelona's Longest Happy Hour, drinks promotions (such as €10 bucket of five bottles of San Miguel, or €10 jug of draft beer or sangria) and a late kitchen serving up their infamous burgers and bar snacks.
You can even can pre-order World Cup food and drink packages via their booking enquiry form on www.belushis.com/bookings. For example pay €10 per head in advance and you get two drinks, guaranteed entry and queue jump.
Another top class venue showing every single match, this time on six flat screen TVs with surround sound is CocoVail Beer Hall. And this place comes with the added bonus of 24 craft beer taps serving up delicious local artisan ales. If you haven't popped by yet, now is your chance to check out its unique California meets Catalunya vibe.
2 kilos of wings (42-46 wings) with a 2-litre pitcher of beer for €45. Or supersize it with 4 kilos of wings (84-92 wings) and two 2-litres pitchers for €80 euro. Perfect for groups.
They are also running brackets where you can select your choice of match winners for a chance to win even more food and drink!
This Irish bastion of booze boasts two projectors and eight high definitions TV screens and will be showing every game of the 2018 World Cup throughout summer. With a stellar location, just off Las Ramblas, you can guarantee a lively atmosphere for every big match, and they are also known for their generous drinks promos. A great terrace means you can chill in the sun between games.
Another fantastic Irish bar right by Las Ramblas, Wild Rover is serious about sport. They'll be screening every single match of the tournament (on two projectors and six TVs), all with English commentary (except for Spain matches<|fim_middle|> you've got everything you need to enjoy the football.
Feature photo credit: Fifa Facebook page. Plus you can check out the official website for the complete fixture list. | ). A total of 16 beers on tap and Black Angus beef burgers make the perfect side dish to a celebration of the beautiful game. Their dedicated page to the tournament also has all the fixtures along with kick off times!
Whilst only 1 minute off Las Ramblas, this homely boozer is less discovered by tourists, so if you're looking for a quieter space to watch your national team perform in Russia then consider calling by their address. With five high definition TVs, 20 different types of beer behind the bar, and a delicious menu of pies to stave off the belly rumbles, | 122 |
Birch Bush B&B is a highly recommended B&B with self catering option, providing accommodation in Bethlehem for tourists visiting the Thabo Mofutsanyana region.
Birch Bush B&B is situated in the beautiful Eastern Free State town of Bethlehem and provide luxury en-suite accommodation on a bed and breakfast or self-catering basis. We are suitable for the business or holiday traveler.
The Lapa consist of a bedroom with two single beds, a full bathroom and the Lapa area which serves as a living area. There are two single beds in the Lapa area. It is a fully equipped self-catering unit with a two plate stove and oven plus everything that you need in a kitchen. There is an indoor braai facility, a private entrance, small garden, DSTV and safe parking. The Lapa can be used as self-catering or B&B.
The Studio is next door to the Lapa. It consists of a bathroom, two single beds, DST<|fim_middle|> come here again.
Response timeBirch Bush B&B typically responds to requests in 5-10 minutes.
Early check-ins, and late check-outs by prior arrangement only. Check-in by no later than 20h00, after which reception is closed. | V, fridge, microwave, tea / coffee facilities, and cutlery for two. The studio can be used with the Lapa as self-catering accommodation. There is a small garden, private entrance and safe parking.
These rooms consist of two single beds and en-suite bathrooms, DSTV, fridge, microwave, tea / coffee facilities and cutlery for two. Each room got a private entrance and safe parking.
These rooms consist of a double bed and a single bed in each room, en-suite bathrooms, DSTV, fridge, microwave, tea / coffee facilities and cutlery for three. Each room has a private entrance and safe parking.
This house has three bedrooms and is comfortably furnished with a living area, kitchen, lounge and dining area. There is also DStv.
These flats can either be self catering or on a bed and breakfast basis. Flat 2 sleeps two guests and flat 3 sleeps three guests.
There is a separate dining room where breakfast is served. When booked in advance dinners can be provided as well. There is an indoor braai facility in the dining room for groups to use if needed.
There are good restaurants, a casino, a golf course, hair and beauty salons and a shopping mall. Art galleries are only a 20 minute drive away in Clarens.
Comfortable en-suite room with coffee/tea making facilities and DSTV.Can also use for self catering.
Self catering unit with one bedroom sleep two and sitting room, kitchenette and a bedroom with 2 single beds combined with one bathroom for both rooms. There is also a braai facility in the kitchenette. DSTV. Your own garden.
3 Bedroomed house. Kitchen, lounge and dining room. DSTV in bedrooms and lounge.
This is a pleasant place to be for relaxing and with a tranquil environment.The host are the best I would recomment it to anyone and would definately | 386 |
KDF TROOPS JOIN BAURE RESIDENTS FOR EID AL-FITR
May 14, 2021 in Air Force, Army, CSR, Healthcare<|fim_middle|> ailing us," said one of the beneficiaries.
The troops were in company of area administrators and Basuba elders, who promised to work with security players in the fight against the Al Shabaab militants. | , Humanitarian Civic Action, Kenya Air Force, Kenya Army, Kenya Navy, Latest news, Navy, News, News Releases, News Story, Programs & Initiatives 1160 0 0
Kenya Defence Force troops at Baure Forward Operating Base in Lamu county donated an assortment of drugs and food items in the village of Basuba.
The distribution carried out by the contingent as a civil-military cooperation initiative, benefited at least 100 families and aimed to bolster good relations with residents of Baure.
KDF medical team examined and treated more than 80 people majority being children and women, with common ailments being urinary tract infections, ulcers, bilharzia, respiratory tract infection and severe backaches.
KDF announced that the donations are part of civil and military cooperation designed to cushion locals from severity of hunger and diseases.
Additionally, KDF reiterated its desire and mission to provide humanitarian assistance to vulnerable members of the society in different parts of the county.
Locals hailed the KDF troops for the assistance to the community.
"We value the assistance KDF gives us; it is always timely. We are happy for the gesture and hope they will continue because we have so many problems | 245 |
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When I saw the new catalog, I'll admit now that I just thought it was another black jacket, nice but….
When I unpacked the box of summer and saw the new Summer 2017 Bolero Jacket, I changed my mind. So many women are going to find a million ways to wear this new summery and ruffly jacket this summer and for years to come.
Made of a matte jersey, this is a perfect light layer for the season and will be just what you need when you pack for your trip south next winter. It's cropped, and as I said, has a bit of a ruffle at the bottom edge. You can add it over a maxi dress, or pair it with our Palazzo Pants, Wrap Pants or Split Skirt for a fun look; they are similar fabric for a "go together" look.
Heck, you can even wear it over your | 186 |
Sonic Hedgehog (, SHH, «Сверхзвуковой ёжик») — семейство генов и соответствующих им белков, управляющих эмбриональным развитием нервной системы и скелетной системы организма, а также выполняющих ряд других физиологических функций. Белки, кодируемые этими генами, оказывают влияние на сегментацию тела дрозофилы. При выключении гена по всему телу мухи развиваются мелкие шипики. Гиперактивация гена вызывает развитие медуллобластомы мозга у детей и рака слизистой оболочки рта.
История открытия
Ген впервые<|fim_middle|> звучит странно.
Статья на NCBI об анофтальмии и микрофтальмии как следствиях мутации в сигнальном каскаде белка SHH.
Что такое ген и белок SHH. Определение.
Белки
Гены | обнаружен у Drosophila melanogaster в 1980 году Христианой Нюслайн-Фольхард и Эрик Вишаусом. За открытие контроля раннего развития эмбриона дрозофилы они в 1995 году получили Нобелевскую премию. Название предложено в 1993 году в честь Ежа Соника сотрудником Гарвардского университета Бобом Риддлом.
Примечания
Литература
Ссылки
Вводная статья о белке SHH на сайте Колледжа Дэвидсона.
Генетика развития и роль гена SHH. Интервью с экспертом Джоном Инкардоной.
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Be careful using the F-word with frail patients
Professor Martin J Vernon
Ahead of the requirement for GPs to routinely identify frailty in patients as part of the new GP GMS contract being rolled out in 2017-18, NHS England's National Clinical Director for Older People and Person Centred Integrated Care reflects on the language we use:
"I'm not frail: I'm just me!" – It's not always what you say, so much as how you say it.
George Orwell observed: "The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms".
I suspect this afflicts us all in public service from time to time, not least when addressing the language of ageing.
By way of illustration, I was recently privileged to meet Hilda who is 101. It's fair to say things did not get off to a great start. Having greeted her with my usual: "Hello I'm Martin, an Older Person's doctor", I was met with a frown and the riposte: "Right well you're no good to me 'cos I'm not an older person".
Second attempt: "I've been asked to see you about your various medical problems and what we can do to help get you back home". More repartee: "I prefer not to think of them as my problems – they're yours 'cos you're the doctor. My only problem is my 101-year-old legs don't work as well as they used to and I doubt you're clever enough to fix that!"
Third attempt: "You're probably right, but I think there are things we can do to make you less likely to fall over, even though you have become quite frail." A hard stare, followed by half a grin: "I'll let you help me, just don't use the F word!"
To be fair, Hilda was barely nudging the frailty phenotype despite her advanced years. Clearly her investments in maintaining robustness in her approach to life had, also combined with good (but 'hard' she explained to me) living, translated into maintained physical robustness.
As it turned out, much of her falling over stemmed from over-enthusiastic medical treatment, so a quick win for the both of us was rapidly achieved.
During a recent NHS England Sounding Board meeting kindly hosted by Age UK, I fared slightly better than I did with Hilda but there were mixed views about the term frailty. While the audience were able to appreciate the positive benefits of routinely identifying a condition which then helped everyone to anticipate and plan for the future , there were concerns the frailty 'label' might be misapplied or be used pejoratively.
Many were reassured that routine frailty identification will be undertaken methodically and has the dual benefits of distinguishing those with greater needs who might benefit from proactive care, from those who remain and can be encouraged to stay fit. For many the presence or absence of 'resilience' landed better, while for others being focused on maintaining wellbeing was at the root of ageing well.
People will be reassured to know that routine frailty identification in its early stages provides opportunities for prevention of poor quality ageing. The recently validated electronic frailty index identified 35 per cent of the population aged 65 and over who have 'mild' frailty.
The benign language is in this case misleading: these individuals have double the in-year year mortality of their fit counterparts at the same age. The point being that these are people who while not overtly 'frail', do in fact have a significantly higher, but potentially modifiable, mortality risk.
The Sounding Board also picked up on a potential 'fear of frailty'. There was concern that for some diagnosing the condition might become a self-fulfilling prophecy or lead to denial and disengagement. For others, however, there was much to be gained from using the term as short hand for 'social vulnerability' and a trigger to re-focusing care on reduction in burdensome but unhelpful medical treatment.
What came over clearly during this exercise were the views that people are more likely to engage with a term which is<|fim_middle|> people who most stand to benefit from targeted services'.
Hilda offered me a direct route into this. By sitting down and talking openly, keeping focused on what could be done to help and being careful not to slip into jargon, we managed to come to mutual understanding of what mattered most to her and what together we could do to help her achieve her remaining goals in life.
I departed with her words ringing loudly in my ears: "Don't treat me because I'm one of your diagnoses, treat me because I'm me…And tell that to everyone else while you're at it!"
Wise and robust words we would do well to heed!
Professor Martin Vernon was appointed National Clinical Director for Older People and Person Centred Integrated Care at NHS England in 2016.
He qualified in 1988 in Manchester and following training in the North West he moved to East London to train in Geriatric Medicine where he also acquired an MA in Medical Ethics and Law from King's College. He returned to Manchester in 1999 to take up post as Consultant Geriatrician building community geriatrics services in South Manchester.
Martin was Associate Medical Director for NHS Manchester in 2010 and more recently Clinical Champion for frail older people and integrated care In Greater Manchester. He has been the British Geriatrics Society Champion for End of Life Care for five years and was a standing member of the NICE Indicators Committee.
In 2015 Martin moved to Central Manchester where he is Consultant Geriatrician and Associate Head of Division for Medicine and Community Services. He also holds Honorary Academic Posts at Manchester and Salford Universities and was appointed as Visiting Professor at the University of Chester in 2016.
In 2017 he became Chair of the NHS England Hospital to Home Programme Board and is working on National Frailty Care with NHS Improvement.
I'd have to also put the point across that going back in time nobody liked the 'C' word (cancer). Diagnosis does have to be rigorous and patient choice around defining there diagnosis is key, however, this is a medical term in the same sense of every other medical condition. We would not say a patient didn't have a UTI because they did not like the sound of the word or status of infection.
I commend this contrary view to you and all readers.
http://www.newstatesman.com/culture/2013/02/don%E2%80%99t-be-beguiled-orwell-using-plain-and-clear-language-not-always-moral-virtue
"Be careful using the F-word with frail patients."
A Headline worthy of the Sun or the Mail.
Bad taste and poor judgment being published in Our name by Our=NHS.
In fact – distasteful.
Ruth Ashmore says:
Thank you for this I am currently supporting 4 parents with ages ranging from 83-99. Until a recent fall the 99 year old gentleman in our family has been very resilient; however a recent fall and fractured pelvis has rendered him very frail and most of this is because his hospital admission. He was continent before he went in and now doubly incontinent and frightened and fearful with a huge amount of poly pharmacy compounding the problem. This just reinforces my view that hospitals do an huge amount of harm and the consequences are lasting. A highly intelligent individual was treated but was not cared for in an individual way that recognised he needed stimulation intellectually as well as physical care and to be treated in a positive fashion.
Joyce Willliams says:
So right! Physios could always rehab the wonderful toughies, but those with failing confidence, fear of old age and it's negative image were the challenge.
Our technique was humour, laughter, fun combined with what one might call a behavioural approach of rewarding all positive moves and apparently dismissing moans.
It works. Hence my agreement with you. Labelling could increase the problem. See:
https://grandmawilliams.wordpress.com/2016/12/19/do-doctors-know-they-stereotype-us-oldies-our-pr-problem
The key to old age is for its image to be changed. The media and charities promulgate a doom and gloom image and don't understand the damage they are doing!
Can we persuade the Centre for Ageing Better that research into 'Whether the current poor image in a world of youth culture is affecting ageing ' would underpin their work?
We need to get acceptance of growing old as a normal, but different period of life, just as much fun and one to enjoy. Frail, needs to be used cautiously! | framed positively and helps them to develop answers to their concerns: "So what can you, or I do to help me?"
Implicit in this is that we all have to work at achieving a shared understanding of a person's condition as they age and focus on what matters to them as an individual.
While recognising the utility of diagnostic terms, Nicholson and colleagues therefore encourage us to 'engage with the population of older people, generalist health and social care workers and policy makers whose understandings of frailty crucially shape behaviour and clinical care'.
These authors further offer caution that 'failure to engage in this wider dialogue risks confusion, alienation and a failure to connect with the very | 135 |
Imperial Avenue Street Festival
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The Imperial Avenue Street Festival blends art and soul in one of San Diego's most historic and unique neighborhoods. From its rich African-American roots to the strong Latino influence that exists today. The festival grooves to the sounds of live music from multiple stages. Browse the offerings of 4 blocks of local artists, crafts, and gourmet food and beverages. Columbian to Cajun, paintings to pottery, old favorites and new directions, the Imperial Avenue<|fim_middle|> Diego-Coronado Bay Bridge. | Street Festival is not to be missed.
The Festival is held on Imperial Avenue between 26th & 27th Street. The Imperial Avenue Street Festival, one of the oldest streets in San Diego, boasting a mix of businesses, restaurants, shops and local entrepreneurs. It continues to echo the music of its birth, transcending boundaries, embracing diversity, and celebrating personal style.
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Comic-Con International: San Diego
Comic-Con International is the largest comics and pop culture event in the United States, attracting thousands of artists, celebrities and fans of comic books, movie memorabilia and all things related to pop culture.
Supergirl Surf Pro
The world's top professional female surfers are back in Oceanside, CA for the 12th Supergirl Surf Pro, a 3-day event July 26-28, 2019. The weekend will be jam-packed with world-class competition that will have you on your toes and a festival village loaded with female-inspired vendors, activities and entertainment.
2019 Junior Over The Line Tournament
The Old Mission Beach Athletic Club (OMBAC) invites children and young adults from the ages of 5-20 to participate in the 2019 Junior Over-the-Line (OTL) Tournament.
The Junior OTL Tournaments will be played at Fiesta Island on June 23 and July 28; the 50th Annual World Championships are set for August 18. The season-closing tournament will be held on September 22 at Fiesta Island Point. There is a $5 entry fee per player. Check-in begins at 7:30 AM on tournament days. The format is round robin, single elimination and play-offs with three players per team. Single players will be matched with other players to make a team. Free hot dogs, chips and drinks will be provided to all.
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Experience Bike the Bay, a scenic bayside ride, and also enjoy a rare opportunity to ride over the San | 437 |
Meet Rachel Hyche, age 12.
Rachel was born at 27 weeks with<|fim_middle|> the workplace, and to living independent lives.
An inspiring keynote address was given by Patricia Walsh, a Paralympics and Iron Man triathlete, award-winning engineer, and author of the autobiography Blind Ambition.
The 2017 Access Awards ceremony honored the year's accessibility innovators and champions Bridge Multimedia, Computers for the Blind, and United Airlines.
The 2017 Migel Medal, the highest honor in the blindness field, was presented to Rebecca (Becky) Coakley, director of the Children's Vision Rehabilitation Program, and to AFB's CEO emeritus, Carl R. Augusto.
Noting the positive feedback she's gotten from attendees, Kolling described this year's Leadership Conference as a turning point regarding the event's growth and its importance to the blindness community.
The 2018 AFB Leadership Conference will take place at the Oakland City Center Marriott, April 5-7.
Architect Chris Downey (AIA), Google, and Netflix received the 2017 Helen Keller Achievement Award at the organization's 21st anniversary gala in New York City on June 15. The Achievement Awards are presented annually by AFB to individuals and organizations for their extraordinary contributions to improving the quality of life of people with vision loss.
Architect Chris Downey, for his innovative living and working space designs and his inspiring personal story as a successful professional with vision loss.
Google, for its significant investment in the development of products and services accessible to people living with disabilities.
Netflix, for adding audio description to its streaming and DVD library content.
Watch the keynote address of Patricia Walsh, Ironman Triathlete, at AFB's 2017 Leadership Conference.
Learn how the National Endowment for the Humanities is making AFB's Helen Keller Archives accessible to the world, and to everyone with a disability.
AFB President and CEO Kirk Adams is profiled in Whitman College's alumni magazine. Read all about it! | retinopathy of prematurity. One of her retinas is still partially attached, so she has light perception, but no vision.
A local school for the blind put the couple in touch with other parents who helped educate them. The experience inspired David to help others. He became active with the Alabama Association for Parents of Children with Visual Impairments (AAPVI) and served as the group's president for a time.
He remembers one of the first families he counseled. Their child had been born without eyes. During a visit to David and Kim's home, it was then three-year- old Rachel who gave the family hope.
David credits the American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) as a great resource. As president of AAPVI, he used the FamilyConnect.org website frequently to find and contact other families who might need support and still uses the FamilyConnect Facebook page to do the same when he sees people looking for help.
Rachel is fluent in the latest technology. She uses an iPhone synced to a 16-character braille display, a BrailleNote, and an electric brailler. David is a fan of AFB's AccessWorld® and uses its evaluations to find the right technology solutions for Rachel. He admits, though, that he just forwards AccessWorld® on to Rachel and her teacher when it arrives.
"If that sounds like your typical teenager, well, that's Rachel," David says. Indeed, Rachel's challenges are more likely to stem from her own strong personality than the fact that she happens to be blind.
At a time when partisan politics seems to dominate Washington, potentially historic legislation that would improve education for students with disabilities advanced a crucial step toward passage by Congress — thanks to bipartisan support.
In February, the Alice Cogswell and Anne Sullivan Macy Act (HR 1120), named for the first deaf girl to be formally educated in the United States and for Helen Keller's teacher, respectively, was re-introduced into the House of Representatives by Reps. Matt Cartwright (D-PA) and David McKinley (R-WV). AFB led a coalition of advocates representing the sensory disability community to Capitol Hill on March 1, to urge swift action on the measure.
Encouraged by the bipartisan cooperation that has helped advance the bill thus far, Richert pledged continued vigilance. "We've waited for more than 40 years for our special education system to do right by our kids. The time to act is now."
Read more about the Cogswell-Macy Act at www.afb.org/cogswellmacyact.
After many years of intensive work, the widely acknowledged "bible" for educators of students with visual impairments has arrived with a multimedia 21st-century makeover. In March, AFB Press released the eagerly awaited third edition of Foundations of Education, edited by noted professors M. Cay Holbrook, Cheryl Kamei-Hannan, and Tessa McCarthy.
Extremely detailed and comprehensive in scope, Foundations of Education is the only reference of its kind — the "go-to" authority on cutting-edge teaching practices for professionals working with students who are blind or visually impaired, from pre-K children to young adults.
"This was a massive undertaking," explained AFB Press Director George Abbott. "We are talking about two volumes comprising 45 chapters — more than 1,600 pages of material — produced by 70 contributors working with three editors, representing the very best in the blindness field. The vetting and peer-review processes were very comprehensive." Getting it right was a necessity. Foundations of Education is a tool that the entirety of the blindness field refers to and depends upon.
"Teaching children and adults who are blind and visually impaired is both a very specialized field and a rapidly evolving one," said Abbott, noting that methods and practices in the classroom continuously adapt to new technologies, improved research, and shifting job skills required by employers. "The last 10 years alone have yielded dramatic changes in blindness education and, consequently, created intense demand for a revised Foundations of Education text," he said.
Volume I, History and Theory of Teaching Children and Youths with Visual Impairments, provides fresh perspectives on educational systems. Volume II, Instructional Strategies for Teaching Children and Youths with Visual Impairments, covers classroom planning and supports for students with visual impairments in general education classrooms.
The updated Foundations of Education is now available in print, e-book, and online subscription in the AFB Press store.
The recent 2017 AFB Leadership Conference, held jointly with the Virginia Association for Education and Rehabilitation for the Blind and Visually Impaired (AER), was the largest in AFB's history.
The Crystal Gateway Marriott near Washington, D.C., was the site of the three-day event for the second consecutive year, drawing a record 440 attendees from 41 states and seven countries. Among them, leaders from all sectors of the blindness field, including technology experts, educators, university presidents, and heads of advocacy groups and not-for-profits focused on veterans, older adults, and others living with disabilities.
Attending exhibitors also broke conference records, with 40 companies on deck. The list of event sponsors included JPMorgan Chase, Delta Gamma Foundation, Google, and Sprint.
AFB Communications Manager Amanda Kolling credits the increasing popularity of the conference to the consistent quality and up-to-date currency of the sessions and presentations, which was certainly the case this year.
"The AccessWorld Magazine Tech Summit brought representatives of the Federal Communications Commission to update us on accessibility requirements for televisions and set-top boxes, while Verizon, Sprint, and other tech companies showcased their latest offerings and previewed pending advances in accessible technology," said Kolling. She also noted the popularity of this year's education sessions, including a timely look at issues related to teaching children with multiple disabilities, including autism.
"A major focus of AFB today is the rapidly growing population of older Americans facing age-related vision loss — another pressing topic at the Leadership Conference," she said. Other sessions focused on helping individuals with vision loss make essential transitions — to the classroom, to | 1,252 |
Rum Nation Guatemala Rum Gran Reserva – Review
Aside from Zacapa, Botran is the other big rum name we know which comes out of Guatemala. Both have lost some of their<|fim_middle|> Age, White Rums | lustre in the last years (though probably not their sales), the former for its sweetness, the latter because it got left behind by the fast moving indie world and cask strength ethos that gradually took over the top end.
That certainly did not stop Rum Nation though, because they happily took some of the distillate from Botran's Destiladora del Alcoholes y Rones SA (also known as DARSA) and aged it for around four years (minimum) in the Hondo River region of NE Guatemala in ex-bourbon white oak barrels. The story goes that this area is quite humid and the warmest part of Guatemala which allowed for some interesting effects on the final distillate, a light, fruity result that was then bottled in 2018 and remains in their core lineup.
Well, ok. I've had a fair bit of Botran's lineup and if Rum Nation decides to go this route of in-country ageing to get a nice little 40% sipper, I'd love to try it. I do after all have a lingering fondness for one of the first indies I ever had a chance to try, and retain a desire to try two other old rums from Guatemala they issued — a 1982-2005 and a 1984-2007.
Rum Nation's own background notes say this is "one of the lightest rums in our collection" and they weren't kidding (they omit mention that it's also one of those rums Fabio Rossi would call a "starter rum", but never mind). The nose just confirms this assessment: it is delicate to a falt, very light, channeling the clean white softness of a freshly laundered pillowcase hung to dry in the sun. It's lightly sweet, fruity with the aromas of green grapes and raisins, and has a tuch of cola, mint, caramel and some vanilla, plus an additional hint of orange peel and perhaps some anise after a few minutes. A nice and easy sip to start the day's sundowners.
The palate built on this quiet foundation. It remained soft and warm – 40% couldn't really provide much more – and initially tasted of candy, creme brulee, caramel and vanilla ice cream, as well as an odd and subtle mineral note. A little salt, brie, citrus, vanilla, more caramel and a touch of spite from the wood. Others have remarked on a more pronounced licorice element, but didn't sense much of that. The finish is everything we can expect: a summation of all the preceding, no new ground, a light, breathless wisp of vanilla, fruit and caramel.
Fabio Rossi no longer owns the Rum Nation brand (he sold it to a group of Danes in 2019 or thereabouts) yet his fingerprints remain all over this one. For years he tried to find a light, fragrant, fruity distillate that would take on Zacapa and the two rums alluded to above were part of that exercise, even if eventually he found what he was looking for in Peru, not Guatemala. I think he liked what Botran was doing, though, and put in an order that resulted in this delicate standard-strength blend. By the time it came out he was already retreating from Rum Nation, leaving it as one of the last rums he had a hand in creating.
It's too delicate and light and breathy for me, and as you know, these days 40% doesn't work for me any longer. That should not, however, stop adherents of the Botrans and soft Latin style rums from giving it a try, because it sure pushes all the buttons I know they like: easy, light and clean, reasonably and subtly tasty, made to have by itself. For those drinkers not entirely won over by today's stronger and more puissant full proof releases, this may be the fruity marshmallow they never knew they wanted.
I didn't get to test for sugar, but I'm sure there's some in here…it just tastes that way.
As far as I know, completely aged in Guatemala, and it's a blend, not a solera.
Posted by Ruminsky at 2:08 am Aged Rums - 01-5 YO, Blended Rums, Botran, Column Still Rums, Europe, Guatemala, Rum Nation, Rum Reviews by Country, Rum Reviews by Maker, Rum Reviews by Type Tagged with: Botran, Column Still, Gran Reserva, Guatemala, Independent Bottlers, Rum Nation
Ron Botran 1893 Solera Añejo (Decanter)(2000s)
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1893 was a year of some importance for the Botran rum-making concern of Guatemala – it was the date of birth of one of the founders of the company, Venancio Botran. He and four other brothers (Andres, Felipe, Jesus and Alejandro – their parents immigrated from Spain to Central America in the early 1900s) moving away from a purely sugar-based company, established the Industria Licorera Quetzalteca in the western Guatemalan town of Quetzaltenango back in 1939. It was geared towards making rones, and the company remains a family owned business to this day.
This rum is presented in a decanter, not the current 2015-released bar-room bottle and I think it was likely the top of their line for many years – hence the flagon – before the 75th Anniversary Solera 25 came out and became the crown jewel. Interestingly, the label does not mention the number 18 anywhere, just "1893" and "solera", and so it's reasonable to assume the blend was tweaked a little (but not much) and locked into the current version, with some 18 YO as the oldest component. I've sent them a note to check.
Colour – Gold brown
Nose – Silent and withdrawn sort of nose, not too much going on at the inception. Very gentle. Light fruits like pears and watermelon, plus green peas (!!), peaches and dried apricots. Some cocoa, vanilla, with hints of lemon peel and cinnamon.
Palate – Cocoa and spices, vanilla, toffee, honey, tobacco. Nutmeg dusting over a blancmange, sweet and firm, with additional notes of brown sugar, smoke and a strong mocha. Fruits take something of a backseat with this aspect, though a bit of orange or lemon zest can still be discerned if you try (or care enough to bother).
Finish – Here today and gone today, vanishes faster than a 4S acolyte seeing Alexandre Gabriele at a rumfest. Some nuttiness and more blancmange, coffee powder, vanilla ice cream, but the real question is, where's the "rumminess" to this thing? Completely absent, really.
Thoughts – It's got the flavours, just not the punch to make then pop and 40% simply does not provide the firmness such a profile needs. I tried the new 1893 version with the entire lineup in 2015 and liked it enough to give it a good score and recommendation. Somehow this one doesn't quite come up to the same level for me (this may be four additional years' experience manifesting itself), though for anyone looking for a relaxing drink from yesteryear that challenges less than it soothes, it admittedly remains a good buy.
The various components of the blend are aged in Spanish ex-Jerez casks, American white oak casks, and ex-Port barrels
Since "Guatemala" and "solera" are probably ringing some big alarms in your mind (or church bells, depending on how you view the matter), let it be confirmed that yes, they also produce the Zacapa line of rums, the most famous of which is of course the "23" — these rums have come in for equal praise and opprobrium in the last few years, because of the solera method of production, the sweetness and the light nature of the rums, and the problematic age statement. You can read more about the issue here.
As always, thanks to the source, my old schoolfriend Cecil of the USA.
Posted by Ruminsky at 4:53 am Aged Rums - Unknown Age, Blended Rums, Botran, Column Still Rums, Guatemala, Rum Reviews by Country, Rum Reviews by Maker, Rum Reviews by Type, Rumaniacs, Soleras Tagged with: Blended Rum, Botran, Column Still, Guatemala, Rumaniacs, Solera-style Rums
Botran 75th Anniversary Gran Reserva Especial Solera 25 Years – Review
The best of the Botrans, deservedly so. But it could have been better.
Botran's top-of-the-line Special Edition is so soft it makes a feather pillow feel like it's stuffed with discarded syringes. In comparison, the skin on a baby's bum is rough as the glass shards on the wall around the house of a banana republic's paranoid dictator. Yet it's issued at a mere 40%, and that it has more qualities than defects is to its everlasting credit and our relief, for soleras do not often get much huzzah from hardcore rum fans, who prefer to have rums with rock-hard washingboard abs, massive glutes, melon shaped biceps, and both the syringes and the shards thrown in.
Over and above the notes on soleras and the Botran company which I covered in the 15 year, 18 year and Blanca reviews, here are the facts on this one. 9972 bottles of the rum were issued, and it it is a blend comprising rums five to thirty years old, with the average age of about ten – all aged in casks of bourbon, burned bourbon, sherry and porto, with the last six months of ageing spent in white wine casks. The 75th Anniversary reflects its issue in 2014 (one website says 2015*) to mark the birth of the company as a rum maker in 1939 when Botran was formed by los cinco hermanos.
That it is deserving of the "Special" moniker is something of an opinion. For the makers, given their heritage and amount of time they spent making it, sure; for solera lovers of the sweet light rums, check. As a reviewer who judges on taste, I'd have to say "yes" as well…but those who are thinking of shelling out €160 might pause a little (that gets the buyer a presentation quality box containing a 50cl bottle, a pipette and two additional sample bottles filled with citrus and spicy variations of the rum so they can go off and make comparisons of their own, for whatever reason). For that price, we have to ask whether a 40% solera is worth it, and that comes down to more than just the tasting notes which follow.
What was evident on the nose of the rum was some of the real complexity the previous iterations aspired to but didn't achieve: it was deep, reassuring, calm, and quiet, in no hurry to give up its secrets. Gradually, warm scents of caramel, dark chocolate and (quite a bit of) molasses sauntered out and stayed there. Over some minutes additional notes of apricots, peaches and red currants joined in, with a background of treacle, and syrup on the Little Caner's Saturday morning pancakes. There were enough breakfast spices in evidence to make me wonder why bother providing even more in the sample bottles, but they were muted and ancillary, not dominant, though some vanilla hints crept through at the end.
The taste was equally warm and full at the inception, complex enough to satisfy, but perhaps too mellow and sweet – that 40% strength did it no favours (what is it about so many rum producers that even for something so special, they obstinately refuse to go stronger?). Prunes and black grapes, bitter black chocolate, licorice, more syrup. Caramel, burnt sugar, charred wood, coffee and molasses, firm and decisive in their own way, to which eventually were added honey and nuts, maybe a flirt of citrus. The flavours do make strong individual statements, like a proverbial snooty waiter slamming a meal down in front of you, and they are good — but they do not geometrically improve (in line with the price differential) what could have been a magnificent creation of the blender's art, had they boosted the amperes a mite. That sank the finish for me, which was very warm, very smooth and which can't be faulted except to note it was too short and displayed nothing new, which blocks me from waxing ecstatic, rhapsodic and metaphoric about the thing.
For all the scorn often heaped on soleras, which unfairly damages the rep of many others of the same type, I think Botran makes pretty decent rums. By officially eschewing additives (there's some dispute about that) and utilizing barrel selection strategies that work with port, sherry or bourbon influences, they have produced what I think are some of the best solera rums around, not excluding the Cartavio XO**. Sure they're too soft and mild for me as a whole when ranked against more intense, masterful indie bottlings, but for a 40% rum to impress me at all these days does require a little bit more than just slick marketing.
So there's is no doubt in my mind that this is one of the better soleras out there, and of the four Botrans I've tried, it is the best. You could haggle over the 15 and the 1893, which were roughly comparable, but this one is a step or two ahead of them both – and whether it is worth the price, when so many other good rums compete for your attention at less than half the cost of this package, will have to be a decision you must make on your own.
* The spiritsbusiness website said it was issued in September 2015, which conflicts with the 75th Anniversary dating of the company formation in 1939.
** Yes, I know I scored the Cartavio XO at 88 points. That was four years ago. Were I to try it again, it would likely come down to this one's level (and in the future both might sink yet lower as I keep trying more and more rums). My malty friends patronizingly remark this is called the "evolution" and "development" of taste, and hasten to assure me that one I day I will join them in appreciating whisky. Sure guys.
Posted by backdoor at 10:12 pm Aged Rums - Unknown Age, Blended Rums, Botran, Column Still Rums, Guatemala, Rum Reviews by Country, Rum Reviews by Maker, Rum Reviews by Type Tagged with: Aged in Multiple Barrel-Types, Blended Rum, Botran, Column Still, Guatemala, Industria Licorera Quetzalteca, Rums from Central America, Solera-style Rums, Unknown Age
Botran 1893 Ron Añejo Solera 18 Years – Review
For the bucks, you get a soft bang.
There are two more Guatemalan Botrans I have notes for, and perhaps see if we can find points of commonality or differences among the set, so let's get them out of the way, rather than go somewhere else this week. I wrote that the blanca was an interesting if ultimately uninspiring white, while the solera 15 wasn't bad for what it was, and had a few tastes that were worthy of note. The 1893 Solera 18 is a step up the ladder of the brand – also 40% ABV, column still product, charcoal filtered, a blend of rums between five and eighteen years old, which were variously aged in bourbon, sherry port barrels. It's a solera through and through.
For those coming new to soleras in general and the Botrans in particular, a brief recap: soleras are a specialized form of blending hearkening back from Spain, where it is used to this day for ageing sherry; the system is one where a rum is progressively aged, and mixed with younger rums of the same kind at periodic intervals in a series. Every year (or other interval) one barrel is partly decanted into another barrel that was an earlier version of the same rum (but is now older), and the now (partly) decanted refilled with newer spirit. The average age of the rum which is finally bottled is therefore an exercise in mathematics, based on the percentage decanted, and the interval. This is why any bottle marked "solera" should always be assessed cautiously when looking at the numerical "years" or "años" so prominent on the label, since this is whatever (miniscule) portion of the blend that is the oldest – and can be very small indeed.
One reason for the style's longevity and popularity is that the resultant spirit is quite smooth and somewhat sweet (Botran states it adds nothing to their rums) – and they are rarely bottled above 40% – so that makes them extremely easy sipping rums, as the Zacapa 23 and Dictadors and Santa Teresas have proved. Does that make them bad rums? Not at all, because the nose on this bronze coloured rum was a delectable mixture of caramel and burnt sugar, dry and clean, somewhat at odds with the meaty fullness of the Solera 15, though not precisely delicate. There were some baking spices and nuttiness in evidence, with a coil of rather bitter oakiness lurking in the background but which – thankfully – never came forward to elbow all the other scents out of the way. So it was good that way, for sure.
To taste, well, it was more or less what I expected from the line, not so much a revolution as a genteel, polite evolution – slightly deeper, richer, and lacking those mineral ashy notes. Caramel, molasses and dark unsweetened chocolate led off, followed by prunes, pears, some butterscotch and toffee, plus breakfast spices, vanilla and smokiness. But very little of the tart fruitiness that might have elevated it a bit, too little citrus or sharper stinginess to cut the heavier, muskier tastes…at most I was getting some fried bananas done over a smoky fire. It finished with a medium long, dry, pleasant fade redolent of toffee and nougat and maybe some creme brulee. Nice, tasty, soft, smooth…but not world beating. It lacked the originality for that.
For a rum that was marginally older than the 15 (in average terms), I felt the complexity wasn't all that hot and indeed, fell behind the "younger" one in a few areas. Sometimes, when you taste a rum you get a mental sense of time and place (Clement XO was like that for me), but if Botran was trying to make you feel you were up in them thar montañas, I think they miscalculated, because I didn't get clean, crisp scents at all — what I really felt was that I was in a disused, windowless kitchen where the spice jars had been left open too long. That's not enough to make for a disqualification, but it does make it less value for money than the 15. Though it is, very slightly, better.
(84.5/100)
Botran kindly responded to my query about the name of the rum. The meaning of "1893" relates to the year that the first of the Botran brothers, Venancio Botran, was born. This edition is paying homage to him.
Posted by backdoor at 4:43 am Aged Rums - Unknown Age, Blended Rums, Botran, Guatemala, Rum Reviews by Country, Rum Reviews by Maker, Rum Reviews by Type, Soleras Tagged with: Aged in Multiple Barrel-Types, Blended Rum, Botran, Column Still, Guatemala, Industria Licorera Quetzalteca, Rums from Central America, Solera-style Rums, Unknown Age
Botran Ron Añejo Reserva Solera 15 Years – Review
As soleras go, this one is pretty good, and is less sweet than many, which is to its advantage
Sooner or later, everyone who drinks the good stuff passes through the solera style of rums. Some brands have become behemoths, like the Zacapa 23 or Dictadors, and are adored and reviled in equal measure. The key points for both sides are the taste and the age statement. Given the increasing polarization of the rum world between those who "like what they like" versus those who feel only "real rums" should be marketed as such (and drunk), and who advocate for greater disclosure, it's important to understand that's the main source of the discord.
In short, any solera-stated rum is a blend, and any age-related number included on the label refers to the oldest part of that blend (not the youngest), with nothing to help a discerning buyer establish how much rum of that age is actually in there – people who want to know what's in their hooch hate this kind of marketing, where a number is posited – 15!! — without further embellishment. However, it must be said that Botran, with roots in Spain and its sherry tradition (which uses such an ageing regime), has always made soleras, and they hew to all the taste profiles this system is known for: smooth, soft, warm, sweet. And in this case, according to the brand rep in 2015 who ran me through the lineup, while the rum is a true solera, fully 50% of the result is actually fifteen years old. Ummm. Okay. That doesn't square with the mathematics, but a blend is a blend no matter what you call it, so I take it without comment and move on.
Part of the reason for the sweetness in this case lies in the finishing regime. The Botran Reserva 15 is laid to rest for several months in sherry casks after having been aged in lightly toasted bourbon casks (although I've heard some age in port casks, but that may be anecdotal). Those soleras I have tried before hewed to certain markers of taste (coffee for the Dictadors, some lighter fruity notes on the Cartavio, generally firm mouthfeel and soft exit), but this one certainly went its own way. The initial scents on the copper-brown rum were a rather startling charcoal and ashes mixed in with unsweetened dark chocolate: as full and luscious as a seedy lady of the night somewhat past her prime. It was musty at first, warm, not hot, and rather grudgingly gave way to a subdued fruitiness – the heavier notes of overripe cherries and light tartness red currants. Not bad, really, since originality of assembly is something I enjoy if done right.
It also presented some rather good heft for a 40% rum (this is where the suspicions of dosing creep in), presenting a medium to full bodied mouthfeel that was quite soft, and smooth to a fault. The initial taste was of caramel and burnt sugar – none of that ashes and charcoal taste carried over from the nose at all. Indeed, here the fruits took on a greater influence, with the heavier notes of plums, cherries, peaches taking their turn but mixing it up well with some chocolate and coconut shavings – there was perhaps some smoke at the back end, leading to a finish where the slightest bit of wood and vanilla were back, breathing drowsily into a short ending. All in all, there was no single backbone of flavour upon which all the other tastes were hung, more a commingling of individual pieces that tasted and smelled well, but were individually unassertive. What that means is some will like it for that precise reason, while others will think it's too wussy and too easy and meant for those lacking an adventurous yo-ho-ho spirit embodied by a higher and more intense proof point. But that, I believe, is to miss the point, since soleras are not brutally elemental monsters for connoisseurs, but lighter, gentler rums that seek more to go along and get along, than to make a point of raw drinking machismo. And this one does a good job.
Speaking for myself, I have no particular issues with a rum that is sweet (or sweetened, although Botran rums' hydrometer test results suggest they don't add anything)…it all depends on how I feel on any particular day, and (perhaps more importantly) who I'm chugging with. If I want to introduce someone to rums, this one would be a very good place to start. It's perfect for an easy neat sundowner, to be sipped while we discuss how best to run the world and make it safe for rum. For those somewhat more dour drinkers of the Malt family who I'm trying to bring over to the True Faith (and who usually prefer their Hebridean hooch at cask strength), I'd probably not let them near this elegant but perhaps over-soft solera.
Posted by backdoor at 9:07 pm Aged Rums - Unknown Age, Blended Rums, Botran, Column Still Rums, Guatemala, Rum Reviews by Maker, Rum Reviews by Type, Soleras Tagged with: Blended Rum, Botran, Column Still, Guatemala, Industria Licorera Quetzalteca, Rums from Central America, Solera-style Rums, Unknown Age
Botran Ron Añejo Reserva Blanca – Review
A laid back white rum with more of a profile than expected
"A balanced combination of distilled rums" remarks the webpage for the Guatemalan company Botran, which makes a number of light, Spanish style rums in the solera method, and goes on in rhapsodic marketspeak about being aged in the mountains of Guatemala in lightly toasted white oak American barrels (although note that I was told by a brand rep that this rum was aged in French oak). It may sound like snippiness on my part, but in truth this is still more information than many other makers provide, so back to my notes: what else is there to say about the rums they make…let's see…column still product, aged up to three years, charcoal filtered, from reduced sugar cane juice ("honey"), fermentation taking five days or so with a pineapple-based yeast strain.
The five Botran brothers (Venancio, Andres, Felipe, Jesus and Alejandro) whose parents immigrated from Spain to Central America, established the Industria Licorera Quetzalteca in the western Guatemalan town of Quetzaltenango (2300 meters above sea level) back in 1939 when most rums were produced by Mom-and-Pop outfits on their own parcels of land. The company remains a family owned business to this day; curiously, the sugar cane comes from the family estate of Retalhuleu in the south. They also produce the Zacapa line of rums which have come in for equal praise and opprobrium in the last few years, a matter originating in the disdain some have for the solera method, the sweetness and the light nature of the rums, as well as the feeling that no age statement should be put on such products.
Still, the rum's profile is what I'm looking at today, not how it's made, so let's move on. Those with preferences running towards lighter, easier fare will find little to complain about here, and for a white rum that has been filtered to the colour of water, it's not bad. It doesn't smell like much at the inception – mostly light vanilla, a little watermelon and sugar water, with some estery potential more sensed than actually smelled. It was really faint, very light, very easy — and that didn't allow much aroma to come out punching, another thing that cask strength rum lovers sniff at with disdain.
You get more on the palate, which was pleasing: the undercurrent of acetone and nail polish remained firmly in the background, some grassiness and vanilla, as well as bananas and a flirt of sweetness that reminded me of nothing so much as marzipan, all mixed up with coconut shavings and sugar water. Even at 40% ABV it was a very gentle, relaxed sort of rum (as many aged whites are), and unfortunately that carried over to a rather short and lackluster finish that had nothing additional to add to the conversation. All in all, it was a slightly above-average white mixer, drier and with somewhat more tastes evident in it than I had been expecting – it was certainly better than the baseline Bacardi Superior, for which I have little patience myself unless I want to get hammered when nothing else is available.
At the end, the question is what the rum is for, and the conclusion is that outside the mixing circuit, not much – and indeed, that is how it is sold and marketed. Even with the flavours described above, it's likely too bland (and too weak) to appeal to those who like sipping their rums, and is more a wannabe competitor for the white Bacardis which have greater market share. I'm not convinced the solera system helps this (or any) white rum much, or provides any kind of real distinctiveness to the brand. The company might be better off not trying to go head to head with the mastodons of the white mixing world, but to carve out a niche of its own by being fiercer, more aggressive, more unique. But then, of course, it would not be a Botran rum: and given the decades and generations the family has put it into their products, it's unlikely to happen anyway. Too bad…because that means it remains what it is, a decent cocktail ingredient, displaying little that's extraordinarily new or original.
Introduced in 2012. There are other flavoured whites made by the company, none of which I've tried
Posted by backdoor at 11:01 pm Aged Rums - 01-5 YO, Botran, Guatemala, Rum Reviews by Country, Rum Reviews by Maker, Rum Reviews by Type, White Rums Tagged with: Botran, Column Still, Guatemala, Industria Licorera Quetzalteca, Rums from Central America, Solera-style Rums, Sugar Cane Syrup, Unknown | 6,505 |
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