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I have been researching for a while and have finally decided to get a couple of bengal kittens! A brown and a snow :) They will be ready to leave in a couple of months and I can't wait!
They will be my first bengals so was just wondering if there's any first time owner tips that anyone has?
Ooh! They are gorgeous - So tiny!
There are loads of threads on here about new kittens and the things to be prepared for - From getting them home to safe rooms and settling in, etc. The thing to remember is - They will be missing their brothers / sisters and Mum, so you will become their 'go to' person. To them you will<|fim_middle|>, hands, and feet like prey until they learn how you like to play with them. Be ready for that. | be a giant, so spend lots of quiet time on the floor, at their level, letting them get used to you.
Aww, your kittens are adoreable!
There are loads of threads on here for this kind of advice, so have a wee look through them if you have time.
Lots of "no pressure" quiet time is a good idea - let them come to you on their terms! I sat on the floor of the kittens room with a book for a while, just concentrated on that and gave my kittens time to get used to me. I also avoided too much eye contact with them at first, and spoke to them in hushed/gentle tones.
For the first few days (up to a week) try and dedicate just one room of your home for your kittens. They need to be able to find their litter, water and food easily, so make sure this is all in one area where they can see it. Also, whilst they need an area to "escape to" where you won't disturb them, try and make this a room without too many hiding places in it (you don't want them to disappear behind the bed/sofa/washing machine everytime you enter the room).
Keep your kitten on the same diet as the breeder has given them until they are over the transition period and have adjusted to their new home. Also, use the same brand of litter as they are used to.
Allow quiet people to visit the kittens after a few days, the more socialised your kitten, the better off in the long run, but make visits short and low stress.
Lastly, an old jumper/blanked that smells of you will make a lovely bed for the kittens and they will get used to your scent and associate this with warmth, love and comfort.
Thanks everyone! I will definitely have a read through some of these pages :) Im too excited Im not sure I can wait 2 whole months!
SunnyChick has offered up some fabulous advice. If you've had cats before, throw everything you know out the window because Bengals are like no other cat. Read up on the breed itself as you'll learn a lot. Don't expect lap cats -- unless you're really lucky. Don't expect them to sleep a whole lot -- they have a ton of endless energy and they will demand a lot of attention down the road -- well maybe because you have two of them, they will entertain each other. They may also be very vocal, and by vocal, I mean, they will cry endlessly. Mine cries unless you're tickling his belly, playing with him, feeding him, walking him, or he's sleeping! Oh, and he's quiet in the litter box. LOL.
What I will tell you is that having a bengal is a wonderful experience. They are amazing creatures and will entertain you. Make sure you eventually get a cat tree as these cats love to climb and be high above the ground. Most come with scratching posts that cats love.
Your babies are just beautiful! I know you can't wait to get them, but at least you have enough time to learn everything you can about the breed.
* The way to a bengal's heart is definitely through play. Getting two will help a lot, but make sure you set aside plenty of time to play with them.
* Bengals are super-athletes, so "bengal proofing" is pretty challenging. Expect them to be able to get into places that other cats can't.
* Providing them climbing opportunities will really please them. TALL cat trees, climbing poles, cat runs along the walls etc.
* Start researching vets if you haven't already, and have one lined up for an initial visit soon (within the first week) after you bring them home.
* now is a good time to look into pet insurance if you want to do that. So many new bengal owners bring their bengals home only to have problems like parasites or upper respiratory infections and such.
* set your expectations properly: getting your bengals home is a big day for you, but the worst day of their young lives for them. Don't be surprised when they want to hide and cry for their family that they left behind for a good long while (sometimes days).
* Also, as far as expectations, know that you are going to have a ton of fun with them, but that fun involves getting scratched up too. They will climb you like a tree, and hunt your arms | 909 |
«Fight the Good Fight» —en español: «Pelea la buena batalla»<|fim_middle|> reseña al disco Allied Forces— describió a «Fight the Good Fight» como «una canción semi-progresiva».
Créditos
Triumph
Rik Emmett — voz principal, guitarra de seis cuerdas, guitarra de doce cuerdas y guitarra eléctrica.
Gil Moore — batería y coros.
Mike Levine — bajo, teclados y coros.
Personal adicional
Elaine Overholt — coros.
En la cultura popular
Una parte de esta melodía se puede escuchar en una escena de «Devil's Trap», capítulo 22 de la 1. ª temporada de la serie televisiva estadounidense Supernatural.
Véase también
"Fight the Good Fight (música cristiana)"
Referencias
Canciones de Triumph
Canciones de 1981
Canciones de hard rock
Canciones en inglés | — es una canción escrita, grabada e interpretada por la banda canadiense de hard rock Triumph. Apareció por primera ocasión en el álbum Allied Forces, publicado en 1981 en Canadá por Attic Records y por RCA Records en el resto del mundo.
Recepción
A pesar de no haber sido lanzado como sencillo, este tema logró entrar en los listados estadounidenses, alcanzando la 18.ª posición en el Mainstream Rock Tracks de Billboard en 1981.
Estilo
Eduardo Rivadavia de Allmusic —quién realizó una | 138 |
These are the storytellers of our next event (in order of appearance): If you want to know more, just follow the links.
During the past 40 years, she held a number of seats on corporate boards such as ZFV-Gastronomiegruppe, Valora, Credit Suisse and Bon Appétit Group. Simultaneously she served as president of the IFBPW International Federation of Business and Professional Women and, for twelve years, acted as Vice Chair of the New York based financial institution WWB Women's World Banking.
The Social Media Platform XING has invited me to contribute to their «Insider» Section.
The article "Pionierinnen der Zukunft" in the December issue of «Women in Business».
One of the most compelling streams of the story of source separation which is part of her intensive research interests is the journey that the technologies needed to take in order to achieve prominence.<|fim_middle|> the ethics of innovation. This is why ethix wants to build up a network of people who work in the field of innovation ethics. In this way, ethix hopes initially to bring together numerous specialists who deal with these questions in Switzerland, to form a unique multidisciplinary network in order that the expertise gathered can be made available to interested groups.
Deadline: Friday, 29 March, 11:59 pm.
We hope to offer you an enlightening evening on one of the most important aspects of environmental measures and introduce you to virtue ethics, a branch of Applied Ethics. | From Switzerland to Nepal, then on to Kenya, South Africa, Uganda, source separation technology has arrived back at the NEST building in Dübendorf, Switzerland, bringing new approaches to the Swiss urban water sector. This is largely the merit of our keynote speaker.
Jean-Daniel Strub has ever since been convinced that collaboration beats egotrip-thinking anytime. Early on in life, he was transplanted from the edge of the city to the edge of the woods, resulting in a long journey to school that offered him ample opportunity to practice the art of examining ideas thoroughly. Even at that time, however, he was struck by the experience that engaging in this alone is less productive and exciting than doing so together with others – a conviction he shares with our keynote storyteller.
As the father of two daughters who will live out their lives in tomorrow's world, he wants to play an active role in shaping it. This is why his heart is not only with his family, but also in the local politics of Zurich.
His organization aims to encourage active participation from all those who are interested in | 220 |
IOGear has eliminated the hassles of touchpads, cumbersome mice, and bulky external hard drives with the launch of Memory Mouse, a mini mouse capable of storing up to 32 MB of files.
The tiny peripheral is a great tool for mobile travelers who don't want to lug around bulky laptops and have limited space to work. By storing PowerPoint presentations, MP3s, photos, and other files, Memory Mouse enables users to transfer data onto any PC or Mac at any location by simply plugging the device into a USB port.
With 800 dpi resolution, Memory Mouse offers twice the accuracy of standard mice, allowing greater precision for graphic design or detailed-oriented projects. The high resolution also requires less wrist movement to move the cursor, an advantage for travelers working on airline tray tables or in other confined areas. Memory Mouse features a retractable cable to avoid tangled wires, making it simple to store.
IOGear's tool works on any surface and offers an ergonomically contoured design for comfortable use. Memory Mouse is priced at $49.95 (MSRP) and is available immediately from all major catalog resellers, online resellers, and selected retail outlets.
"IOGear's latest device is a great example of how mice have migrated from a utility peripheral to a more multipurpose and feature-rich tool," said Miranda Su, vice president of sales and marketing at IOGear, Inc. "Memory Mouse is a great product for mobile workers looking to reduce their heavy load and simplify data transfers. The mouse is much sturdier than CD-ROMs or floppy disks, making it less of a risk to break or get scratched in a bag or pocket."
Memory Mouse supports Windows 98, 98SE, 2000, ME, XP and Mac OS X. The product is USB ready, Plug-n-Play, and hot pluggable. It comes equipped with a carrying case and IOGear's three-year limited warranty. At press time, there was no information about the Memory Mouse on the IOGear website.
LapCop's developers are iBook and PowerBook users themselves. To help recover your iBook or PowerBook in case it gets stolen, they have developed LapCop, an innovative stealth software application that secretly transmits an electronic beacon to an email address of your choice, allowing you to track and locate your Mac anywhere in the world.
If your Mac is stolen, LapCop sends a stealth email to your designated email address as soon as your lost or stolen Mac is connected to the Internet.
The stealth email contains all the information needed for the local authorities to recover your Mac. As a side benefit, any other items of your property that might have been taken at the same time may also be recovered.
Sends LapCop a copy of the stealth email, and they will help you locate your stolen Mac.
LapCop 2 no longer uses SMTP to<|fim_middle|> of 400 Mb/s on FireWire and 480 Mb/s for USB2, you are guaranteed superior performance with any system.
Medea Corporation has begun shipping FireFly, an innovative FireWire-based storage solution for content creation applications.
"FireFly is the first FireWire storage solution to feature a docking station and removable disk modules that also operate as stand-alone FireWire drives," said Roger Mabon, Vice President of Channel Marketing at Medea. "With FireFly, one disk module can be left secure in the docking station while the other module is used to create content while 'on-the-fly'. When the module is replaced in the docking station, content can be automatically synchronized to provide a backup copy of the user's valuable data."
FireFly is a modular FireWire storage solution designed for today's storage-intensive applications, including digital audio and video editing, DVD authoring, digital imaging, and desktop publishing. The system features a FireWire port on the front of the docking station for easy connection of DV camcorders.
FireFly is available in capacities up to 500 GB (two 250 GB modules) and can be either striped (RAID 0) for performance, mirrored (RAID 1) for data protection, or formatted as two independent FireWire drives.
Setting up FireFly as independent drives enables the user to leave one disk module with its content secure in the docking station while creating content on the go with a laptop or on a remote workstation with the other module. When the user returns the "mobile" module to the docking station, the content can be synchronized (using included software) to the other module for data security and peace of mind.
FireFly is available in 240, 400, and 500 GB capacities with North American pricing of $699, $999, and $1,299, respectively. FireFly is available now from Medea's authorized dealers and mail-order vendors.
FireWire Depot has introduced a new series of FireWire800 1394b cables.
Until now, the only cables that have been available for users were the 2 meter (6') 9-9 pin, 9-6 pin, and 9-4 pin cables. Now you have a greater choice and selection in FireWire800 1394b cables including 9-9 pin 18 cm (approx 7"), 9-9 pin 0.5 meter (1.5'), 9-9 pin 3 meter (9'), 9-9 pin 4.5 meter (approx 15'), and 9-9 pin 9 meter (approx 30'). Also available will be a 9-6 pin (1394b to 1394a) 9 meter cable. Prices range from $21.99 to $49.99. | send its stealth email. It now contacts LapCop's dedicated server, which then sends out the stealth email, making the stealth mail delivery 100% reliable.
LapCop 2 now reports the serial number of the stolen Mac.
IP addresses of the router are now reported as well, making it even easier to locate the stolen Mac.
LapCop 2 is free for registered users of LapCop.
Other World Computing (OWC) has introduced Mercury Ti and Mercury Cube slot-loading internal SuperDrive and Combo drives available for both 15" PowerBook G4 and Power Macintosh G4 Cube models, respectively.
Allowing users to replace their current internal optical drive, OWC SuperDrives provide full DVD-R/RW and CD-R/RW capabilities, while the OWC Combo drives provide full CD-R/RW and DVD playback capabilities. Drives are 100% compatible with all Apple software titles, including iDVD (SuperDrive only), iTunes, and Disc Burner.
"Out goes the stock drive and in goes the new OWC SuperDrive or Combo drive upgrade," said Larry O'Connor, president of OWC. "Now both Cube G4 and PowerBook G4 owners can have it all - conveniently right inside their machine and with 100 percent Apple software compatibility."
OWC SuperDrives are priced from $379.95 for both the Mercury Ti and Cube models, and both models of OWC Combo drives are priced at $199.95. All come with step-by-step instructions for easy installation and are available exclusively through OWC.
Further, OWC offers a trade-in rebate of $19 or $85, respectively, for the return of a properly functioning Apple CD/DVD or Apple CD-R/RW+DVD (Combo drive) that the new OWC drive has replaced.
The PowerBookResQ "SuperDrive" upgrade for the 15" PowerBook G4 is a slot-loading DVD-R/CD-RW drive designed to replace the built-in CD-RW or DVD drive with a drive that can burn CDs as well as DVDs that can be played in most consumer DVD players.
The PowerBookResQ SuperDrive upgrade is bootable and compatible with Mac OS X, Mac OS 9, iDVD, iTunes, Disc Burner, Apple DVD Player, Toast, and Retrospect. The drive reads at 24x, writes CD-R at 16x, writes CD-RW at 8x, and writes DVD-R/RW at 1x. A one year warranty applies.
The $399 upgrade price is based on the exchange of your functional DVD drive. If you do not wish to exchange your original drive, or if the original drive is defective, then there is an additional core charge of $75.
PowerBookResQ offers a convenient upgrade solution. The $399 price includes pickup at your location, overnight delivery to our repair center, installation within 24 hours, and return overnight shipping to you.
In order to be compatible with the required software, your PowerBook must be running OS 10.2.6 or OS 9.2.2.
Powerful protection - a security cable with guaranteed laptop replacement, MicroSaver Guaranteed Notebook Replacement is the strongest security cable from Kensington, and it's backed the industry's first replacement guarantee. Kensington will replace up to $1,500 per laptop and up to $10,000 per year per purchaser under its replacement guarantee program.
The AppleScript more iBookScreenEnhancer enables Extended Desktop mode in newer iBooks to support two non-mirrored monitors - the internal LCD and an external monitor with up to 1920 x 1440 resolution. Be careful, though, as this can make some 'Books unusable. Try it at your own risk.
MadsonLine offers the MicroAdapter mini AC adapter and the PowerSet 2 (US$144), which includes the MicroAdapter and Auto/Air Adapter.
The MicroAdapter AC Adapter for PowerBook G4 (all models) & iBook (Dual USB and later) comes with a 30 day money back guarantee and one year warranty.
Credit card size: 1.75" x 3.5" x 0.92"
Right angle power plug saves space.
Heavy Duty 20 wire gauge dc cord.
One 30" AC cord included.
Outputs: 24V at 45 Watts continuous.
SleepLess is used to prevent your Mac from going to sleep without changing system settings. It updates the system activity timer once per some interval.
FireWire Depot has introduced a new series of 2.5" FireWire/USB2 combo enclosures, the FireXpressPS.
In keeping with the recent enclosure designs offered to customers over the past two years, the FireXpressPS is an ultra slim 9.5 mm brushed metal hard drive enclosure offering both FireWire 1394a and USB2 connectors. USB2 is backward compatible with USB1.1. The FireXpressPS will accept any 9.5 mm hard drive (10 - 80 GB, not included with kit).
If you are looking for external storage for your laptop or desktop computer but not sure if you want to go with USB for its popularity or FireWire for it's universal speed advantage, the FireXpressPS supports the best of both worlds in a new ultra compact form factor.
This external 2.5" ATA hard disk drive conversion kit provides the USB 2.0 and FireWire interfaces to connect to Macs, PCs, and Linux machines (check your Linux distribution for SBP2 drivers). The data stored on the hard drive is fully accessible with either interface, and does not require special partitions. With maximum transfer rates | 1,204 |
U of M to hold MN Sparks event on Rochester campus
On Wednesday, Nov. 1, the Rochester community will have an opportunity to engage with several University researchers as part of the Minnesota Sparks series held on the UMR campus (111 South Broadway, Room 417, Rochester, MN 55904). The event, hosted by Regent Steve Sviggum, aims to create open dialogue with faculty tackling some of the area's most critical issues.
Doors open at<|fim_middle|> that we can help both human and natural systems adjust to changing conditions – for the benefit of people and nature alike.
Minnesota Sparks in Rochester is part of a larger series of Minnesota Sparks events throughout the state.
Media note: Media are welcome to attend any or all of the event. Please RSVP to the University News Service, 612-624-5551, unews@umn.edu. Interviews with presenting faculty are available.
Patrick Stumpf
pcstumpf@umn.edu
Clarity: the bridge to her career
Austyn Rask's degree in technical writing and communication prepared her to excel.
https://twin-cities.umn.edu/news-events/clarity-bridge-her-career
Alum Santino Fontana wins Tony Award
University of Minnesota alum Santino Fontana has won a 2019 Tony Award for Best Actor for his role in Tootsie.
https://twin-cities.umn.edu/news-events/alum-santino-fontana-wins-tony-award
The power of data analytics
The University of Minnesota is preparing students for careers of the future—like in data analytics.
https://twin-cities.umn.edu/news-events/power-data-analytics
Food systems: a full career menu
The University of Minnesota is preparing students for careers of the future—like in food systems.
https://twin-cities.umn.edu/news-events/food-systems-full-career-menu | 5:30 p.m., presentations and Q&A discussions are held from 6–7:15 p.m., followed by an open social hour. Minnesota Sparks is free of charge, and all are welcome to attend. Registration is encouraged. To register, visit z.umn.edu/SparksinRochester or contact the U of M Alumni Association at 612-624-2323.
Minnesota Sparks in Rochester features three University of Minnesota researchers:
Dr. Ruth Lindquist: How the Simple 7 Can Transform our Health
Learn how embracing the American Heart Association's "Life's Simple 7" transforms health behaviors to reduce risks for heart disease. Professor Lindquist, a coordinator of nursing programs at UMR, researches cardiovascular health behavior and disease prevention including exercise, mindfulness, weight loss and using supportive technology.
Dr. Laura Bloomberg: Leading Together: Finding Common Ground in Uncommon Times
Collaborating across teams, organizations and sectors to advance the common good in a diverse world is not easy with people who view the world differently. Bloomberg, dean of the Humphrey School of Public Affairs, will draw on her leadership research and experience to highlight practices that achieve the best outcomes.
Dr. Jessica Hellmann: Surviving and Thriving in a Changing Climate
Our climate is changing, but there is a strategy in the struggle to address these changes that is often overlooked or under-appreciated: adaptation. Hellmann, director of the U's Institute on the Environment, will talk about ways | 310 |
Q: Match everything until optional string (Python regex) I've pounded my head against this issue, and it just seems like I am missing<|fim_middle|>ThisPartChanges'
| something uber-trivial, so apologies in advance. I have a url, which may, or may not, contain some POST values. I want to match the the entire url UNTIL this optional part (not inclusive). So for example:
import re
myurl = r'http://myAddress.com/index.aspx?cat=ThisPartChanges&pageNum=41'
matchObj = re.match(r'(.*?)(&pageinfo=\d+){0,1}', myurl)
print matchObj.groups()
>> ('', None)
# Putting the non-greedy ? outside
matchObj = re.match(r'(.*)?(&pageinfo=\d+){0,1}', myurl)
print matchObj.groups()
>> ('http://myAddress.com/index.aspx?cat=ThisPartChanges&pageNum=41', None)
# The url might also be without the last part, that is
myurl = r'http://myAddress.com/index.aspx?cat=ThisPartChanges'
# I'd like the regex to capture the first part. "ThisPartChanges" might
# be different every time
What I would like is to get the everything until pageNum=\d+, not inclusive.
That is
http://myAddress.com/index.aspx?cat=ThisPartChanges
I am only interested in the part before &pageNum, and don't care if it exists or not, just want to filter it out somehow so that I can get the real address until cat=....
I've tried all sorts of non-greedy acrobatics, but the part that fails me is that the 2nd part is optional, so there's nothing to 'anchor' the non-greedy match.
Any ideas how to elegantly do this? Only the first part is important. Non-regex solutions are also welcome
Thanks!
A: you may want to take a look at https://docs.python.org/2/library/urlparse.html
the order in which parameters are passed may change:
?pageNum=41&cat=ThisPartChanges
A: I'd recommend you to avoid regular expressions when it comes to url parsing, use this module instead, here's a working example for your problem:
import urlparse
myurl = 'http://myAddress.com/index.aspx?cat=ThisPartChanges&pageNum=41'
parsed = urlparse.urlparse(myurl)
print 'scheme :', parsed.scheme
print 'netloc :', parsed.netloc
print 'path :', parsed.path
print 'params :', parsed.params
print 'query :', parsed.query
print 'fragment:', parsed.fragment
print 'username:', parsed.username
print 'password:', parsed.password
print 'hostname:', parsed.hostname, '(netloc in lower case)'
print 'port :', parsed.port
print urlparse.parse_qs(parsed.query)
A: In your case, this could do:
^[^&]+
More robust:
^[^?]+\?cat=[^&]+
Example:
In [40]: s = 'http://myAddress.com/index.aspx?cat=ThisPartChanges&pageNum=41'
In [41]: re.search(r'^[^&]+', s).group()
Out[41]: 'http://myAddress.com/index.aspx?cat=ThisPartChanges'
In [42]: re.search(r'^[^?]+\?cat=[^&]+', s).group()
Out[42]: 'http://myAddress.com/index.aspx?cat= | 716 |
A campaign worker at the Barak Obama office in Kennett Square,<|fim_middle|> Phildalephia Phillies World Series Championship parade passes by. | PA listens to instructions before heading out in the area to get votes for Obama.
Sean Drewes of Kennet Square, PA plays with toys on the floor of the campaign office of Barrak Obama. His grandmother(not shown) is a Obama campaign worker.
A sign directs voters to the polls at Lawrence Hall, located on the campus of West Chester University.
The Philadelphia Phantic stands atop the lead float in the Phillies World Series Championship parade, and waives to the crowd.
Philadelphia Mayor, Michael Nutter (D), looks out at the fans while riding in the Phillies World Series Championship parade.
Philles Shortstop, Jimmy Rollins, looks out at the fans while riding in the Phillies World Series Championship parade.
Phillies outfielder, Shane Victorino, waves to the crowd during Phillies World Series Championship parade.
Shot from Phillies World Series Championship parade.
Fans jump the baracades, and take to the street after the | 184 |
Here's a quick guide to the questions you need to ask to make sure the studio you hire is fit for purpose.
Naturally, the bigger the studio, the more room you'll have for your shoot – but the more you'll pay. Decide how much space you think you'll need depending upon the subject of your shoot. And while you're at it, think about access – if you need to bring in anything taller or wider than a normal door, check that this is going to be possible in advance. You won't get that custom Harley up a flight of stairs!
Is it a professional photography studio or an empty room?
A professional studio will have several obvious advantages over an empty room! In a photography studio there will be backdrops for you to use (at a charge) or facilities for you to hang your own; photographic lights and equipment for hire; additional changing and make-up areas. Additionally, you'll find that good studios tend to have high ceilings to allow for overhead lights, air conditioning, tall windows for natural light, window blinds to filter or eliminate light, and an electrical supply that has been adapted cope with the demands of all the lights and equipment required.
An empty room, however, is an empty room. But it will be cheaper.
A convenient location can make all the difference, particularly if you need to assemble a cast of thousands. Or even just a few. If you need to bring your clients into a studio, try to find one that's convenient to where they work in central London. Asking your subjects to trek out to the back and beyond of nowhere, far from the reaches of public transport, doesn't present a very professional image – and could cut down on the amount of time you'll<|fim_middle|>2. It was filed under London Photographers.
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Love black and white photography? | have available for the shoot itself.
Does it fit your image?
Image might not be important to you if the shoot will be you, a camera and a box of product. But if you're going to have clients, models and stylists in the studio, you will want to present a professional image. A smart, well-designed studio will speak volumes about you as a photographer and if your client is impressed by the setting, they'll already be predisposed to like the resulting photos.
Can you hire any additional equipment you might need?
No one wants to have to bring every single piece of equipment with them to a shoot, and even if you think you have all you need, as often as not you'll want something else or your piece of equipment will malfunction. So to ensure that your shoot will run smoothly no matter what, choose a studio that is already well equipped and from which you can hire anything you need. Check the price list before you make the booking to see what they've got and how much it might cost.
Do they offer additional services?
On-site imaging services might prove very useful to you, especially if you want to be able to wrap things up fast. Doing your post production on site means that your client can approve things there and then and in a high quality studio, you could have access to some serious bits of kit. Retouching, printing, scanning and processing services will have the advantage of being under one roof – making it both convenient and economical: a one-stop shop for all your photographic needs.
Before you make a booking with a photographic studio, work out exactly what you need to shoot in terms of subject and number of shots, how much space will be necessary and what equipment you can take with you and what you might want to hire when you're there. Think about the location and who needs to come with you on the shoot and work out a date that suits everybody involved. Email your requirements to get a price on everything you need and check their availability.
When all this information is to your satisfaction, make your provisional booking, confirm it nearer to the day and then go for it.
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9. 30. 17 by The Conversation
/Hard Science
Are Birds Just Dinosaurs With Beaks? Scientists May Know the Answer
A new study reveals that when some dinosaurs got old and lost their teeth, they'd grow birdlike beaks.
/ Hard Science/ Birds/ Dinosaurs/ Evolution
Image by Pixabay
Once you know that many dinosaurs had feathers, it seems much more obvious that they probably evolved into birds. But there's still a big question. How did a set of dinosaurian jaws with abundant teeth (think T. rex) turn into the toothless jaws of modern birds, covered by a beak? Two things had to happen in this transition, suppression of the teeth and growth of the beak. Now new fossil evidence has shown how it happened.
In a new study, Shuo Wang from the Capital Normal University of Beijing and colleagues studied a series of dinosaur and early bird fossils to see the transition. They found that some dinosaurs evolved to lose their teeth as they got older and sprouted a small beak. Over time, this process happened earlier and earlier until eventually the animals emerged from their eggs with a fully formed beak.
The oldest birds actually had reptilian-like teeth — for example Archaeopteryx from the late Jurassic period (150m years ago) and Sapeornis from the early Cretaceous (125m years ago). But other early birds had lost their teeth, such as Confuciusornis, also from the early Cretaceous.
Modern birds all lack teeth, except for the South American hoatzin, Opisthocomus, whose hatchlings have a small tooth that they use to help them escape from their egg and then shed. Developmental experiments in the 1980s showed that modern birds could probably generate teeth if their jaw<|fim_middle|>ernails and cow horns, as well as feathers and hairs. We typically think of beaks as all-encompassing structures, extending from the pointed tip at the front back to the eyes, and including the nostrils in modern birds. But fossil examples show that many toothed dinosaurs actually possessed a minimal beak at the front of the snout.
To find out exactly how beaks came to replace dinosaur teeth, the researchers had to look inside the animals' jaw bones. Dinosaur bone fossils are not simply rocky casts of the original bone, but they nearly always show all the internal structure. A microscopic thin section from any dinosaur bone shows all the detail of internal canals for blood vessels and nerves, as well as pits where the bone-generating cells sat. Thin sections of fossil jaw bones show the teeth in as much detail as in any modern jaw bone.
Caenagnathasia jawbone. Image Credit: Hailong Zang
Nowadays, bones are rarely cut up, and it is much more common to use computed tomography (CT) scanning to look inside the bones without damaging them. The CT scans are a closely spaced series of X-rays that allow researchers to construct detailed 3D models showing every fine detail within the bone.
Wang and colleagues observed that the theropod dinosaur Limusaurus, which was closely related to birds' ancestors, and the early bird Sapeornis had teeth right to the front of the jaws when they were young but lost them as they grew up. The detailed internal scans of the fossils showed adult Limusaurus had no teeth but still had tooth sockets in their lower jaws, closed off and forming a single canal. In adult Sapeornis, there were teeth at the back of the jaw but not at the front of the jaw.
As modern birds develop inside their eggs, the beak keratin begins to form at the tip of the snout and then grows back to cover both upper and lower jaws. Wang and colleagues argue that the mechanisms that regulate beak growth also suppress tooth formation. This is supported by studies of the gene BMP4 that show it controls both functions in modern birds.
Using the fossils to show how the animals evolved over time suggests beaks in some dinosaurs and bird relatives originally expanded backwards as the animals grew up and tooth sockets closed off. Eventually, this process happened earlier and earlier in the developmental cycle until hatchlings emerged with beaks and no teeth. Today, the bone gene BMP4 controls aspects of beak growth and tooth suppression, and these might have been acting early in bird evolution.
For more evidence, Wang and colleagues looked more widely across vertebrates that have lost or reduced their teeth as they evolved, including some fishes, frogs, pangolins, whales and the entirely toothless turtles. In all cases, animals that had lost their teeth were associated with replacement of the teeth by a keratin beak.
These kind of developmental observations help confirm the theory that the exquisite dinosaur fossils point to. In becoming birds, dinosaurs had to change in many ways, including shrinking in size, sprouting wings, adapting feathers that were used for display and flight, improving their senses, shortening their tails, losing teeth, and many other characters. It is important to be able to identify plausible evidence for how each of these amazing changes happened.
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Meanwhile, many dinosaurs actually did have beaks of some kind. Beaks are composed of keratin, the tough, flexible protein that also makes fing | 50 |
Each spring, church members are asked to affirm new and renewing board nominees and the annual budget. Due to Covid-19, we encourage members to respond online using the link below. Please phone the church office (616-868-7005) if you'd like us to mail you a paper ballot (to be returned by mail).
All ballots are DUE BY 12:30 PM May 24. Please email Barb Bestrom at bbestrom@adabible.org with any questions.
Proposed Budget 2020 Ballot
ELDER NOMINEES
Dave Blackmore
Renewing Nominee
David and his wife, Barbara, have three married children and four grandchildren. They have been attending Ada Bible for 15 years. Dave has served as an Elder for eight years, and currently serves as Chaplain.
David is a Financial Advisor with Connect Financial and Barbara is the Executive Assistant for the Connect Financial branch in Grand Rapids. Dave and Barb served in vocational church ministry for 30 years prior to returning to their home state of Michigan in 2005.
Todd Headen
Todd and his wife, Ruth, have lived in Grand Rapids for 21 years and attended Ada Bible for the past 11. Over the years, both have been involved in Hospitality, Women's and Men's Ministry, Small Groups, and helped to start the Purity Mentoring and Restore Groups. Todd has been an Elder for the last three years, and Ruth has served as the Women's Ministry Director for the East Paris Campus for the last two years.
Todd is a Chain Inventory Specialist for the Canadian division of Gordon Food Services. Raised as a pastor's kid and having served as a full-time pastor along with years of volunteer service, Todd has a strong desire to see the church flourish and be all that God has gifted and called it to be.
Brent Lanser
Brent and his wife, Dianna, have five children. The two oldest children are each married, two in college and the youngest is a junior in High School. They also have one granddaughter. Brent's family has called Ada Bible their church home for 15 years. He enjoys greeting, encouraging, the prayer ministry, and leading a Men's Small Group.
Brent is a Landscape Designer for Harder and Warner Landscaping and Boutique Gardens and Dianna is an Executive Administrative Assistant for Ada Bible.
Brent was raised in an urban Grand Rapids church in the Reformed tradition. He was raised by wonderful Godly parents. He made the decision to follow Jesus in High School, and Jesus made Himself very real to him when 21.
DEACON NOMINEES
Marvin Schierbeek
New Nominee
Marvin Schierbeek and his wife, Carole, have three married children. Two children also attend Ada Bible. They have been blessed with nine grandchildren, ranging in ages from two months to thirteen years. They have been attending Ada Bible since 2003, and have served in Discovery Village, Men's Ministry, Women's Ministry, and now Hospitality.
Marvin and Carole are retired from Caledonia schools. Marvin was a Counselor and Teacher and his wife was a Special Education Teacher.
Marvin shares that their family has been challenged and encouraged to examine themselves, and to commit to Christ. He credits his spiritual growth to the teaching ministry, small groups, serving, and fellowship enjoyed with this body of believers. Marvin was recently baptized by Pastor Kyle, and he states, "The act of humbling myself before the Lord, and my family, was one of my most powerful experiences in a life of sixty-six years."
Shaun Biel
Shaun and his wife, Jennifer, have been married for 30 years and have five children. One daughter is married, and a son and daughter are engaged to be married later this year. They have been attending Ada Bible for eight years and serve as Small Group Leaders. Jennifer is on staff at Ada Bible as the Director of Events Services. Shaun serves on the Security Team.
Shaun is a Contracts Specialist at Spectrum Health in the Real Estate Services Department, where he supports the systems facilities requirements.
Bill Savickas
Bill and his wife, Mary, have two married children and five grandchildren. They have been attending Ada Bible for 12 years. They currently serve as Auditorium Hosts, and were helping with the launch of the Knapp Street Campus Chandler Woods Satellite.
Bill is a Director of Operations with McDonald's Lakeshore Partnership.
Mark Schaible
Mark and his wife, Lara, have three teenagers. Two will be in college in the fall and one in high school. They have been attending Ada Bible for 20 years and served in Discovery Village, Lifeline Student Ministry, and Small Groups. Mark currently is a Small Group Leader in Lifeline and a Deacon in the Care Ministry.
Mark grew up west of Lansing, near the small town of Eagle, and committed his life to Christ in middle school. He attended Calvin College and is a Manager at Infor, a software company where he works on a team developing warehouse management software.
Ken VanDerWende
Ken and his wife of 45+ years, Marijane, have two children and four grandchildren. Ken and Marijane have had 15+ young people live with them over the years (who they count as their "adopted" kids) that in turn have many kids (and grandkids too). Their family has been and is one of their richest blessings in life.
Ken has been an Auditorium Host for many years, and is a Small Group Leader with Marijane. Ken has been active in church leadership as an Elder or Deacon for "many" decades wherever God planted them.
He is the co-founder and leader of a health information technology company. Together, he and his wife enjoy sharing their gifts of hospitality in GR and at their Lake Charlevoix home. Ken grew up in Northern NJ where his family was very active in a local church.
Kevin Vreugdenhil
Kevin and his wife, Becky, have three children. They have been attending Ada Bible for 17 years and began by serving together in the LifeLine Student Ministry.
Kevin is a Senior Project Manager with First Companies Inc., working on various construction projects in West Michigan. He has been serving as the Lead Benevolence Deacon for the past eight years. He is continually humbled by the generosity of the people of Ada Bible, and the care opportunities the church is invited in to help with.
STAFF ELDER NOMINEES
Drew DeVries
New Non-Voting
Drew De Vries and his wife, Evie, have three children of ages 7, 5 and a 2-month old. They have been attending Ada Bible for six years, four at the Cascade Campus and the last two at the East Paris Campus. Drew is the East Paris Campus Director for Men's Ministry. Evie works in health care with Spectrum Health.
Drew was raised in Jenison Michigan and attended Unity Christian High School and Calvin College. After graduating, he declares he wore himself out by churning through jobs, chasing after something he truly believed he needed—an illustrious title and wealth.
God began taking hold of his heart in 2014 and re-directed his path in many ways. Drew joined an Ada Bible Men's Group and was baptized two years later. Evie and Drew led a Couples' Small Group from 2016–2018 at Cascade until transitioning their family to East Paris. Drew states, "I'm so incredibly grateful for God's providence and His plan through the Church. What a blessing it is to be involved in this ministry!"
Dave Geroux
Dave and his wife, Jaclyn have one child with another on the way. They have been attending Ada Bible for three years and been involved with Group Life.
Dave is a Small Groups Pastor at the Cascade Campus. Before coming on staff, he was employed as a truck driver with FedEx Express.
Dave grew up in Metro Detroit<|fim_middle|> Michigan and seminary in Grand Rapids.
Mike Wilkerson
Mike and his wife, Christy, have been married for 26 years and have three children, ages 23, 20 and 15 year old.
Mike joined the Ada Bible staff in January 2019 and serves as a Small Groups Pastor at the Cascade Campus. Christy is employed at NorthPointe Christian Elementary School as a Teaching Assistant in the Spanish Immersion program.
Mike was raised by believing parents and came to faith in Jesus in childhood. While in college he sensed God leading him toward pastoral ministry and has been serving him in a full-time pastoral capacity since graduation.
Kelly Bonewell
Renewing Non-Voting
Kelly and his wife, Julie, have been married for 26 years and have two adult sons. Kelly and his wife have been attending Ada Bible for eleven years. Kelly serves as a Care Elder at the church and is on staff in the Care Ministry. Julie is currently employed as the Senior Director of Quality at Spectrum Health.
Kelly gave his life to the Lord while in college through the ministry of InterVarsity Christian Fellowship in 1987. During that time, a good friend shared with him the gospel. After spending lots of time in the Bible and reading C.S. Lewis, he made the decision to be a follower of Jesus.
Stephen and his wife, Jaclyn, will have been married for 15 years in July and have two children. They have been attending Ada Bible for 6 years.
Stephen has been on staff for four years and Jaclyn is a Para-Professional. He has led various Small Groups (including Five Dates with his wife), works with Group Life and helps create curriculum and resources for Ada Bible ministries, including the Sermon Discussion Guide and Beyond the Weekend.
Stephen is an Ada Bible Small Groups Pastor. His family has been a part of launching the Knapp Street Campus Chandler Woods Satellite.
Stephen was raised in Greenville and attended church at Calvary Baptist in Greenville.
Doug Redford
Doug and his wife, Beth, have two children and two grandchildren. They have been attending Ada Bible for 34 years, serving as volunteers in Discovery Village (Beth), Small Group Leaders, Greeters and at many events.
Beth is currently employed as a Para-Professional at NorthPointe Christian. Doug serves on staff as a Small Groups Pastor and in Men's Ministry at Cascade Campus. He is also a member of the Beyond the Weekend team.
Doug became a believer as a young person at Ross Bible Church in Port Huron, MI.
Tom Skilling
Tom and his wife, Jessalyn, have been married for 12 years and have two children, ages 6 and 3 years old.
They have been attending Ada Bible for six years where Tom first served as a Lifeline Student Ministry Pastor (two years) and now serves as a Small Groups Pastor.
Although Tom grew up attending church regularly, he accepted Jesus as his Lord and Savior on a Youth for Christ spring break trip to Florida his junior year of high school.
Dan Wright
Dan and his wife, Sarah, have been married 20 years and have four children ages 20, 18, 16 and 15 years old.
They started attending Ada Bible in 1998 and Dan was hired on staff in 2008. Dan serves as the Kentwood Campus Pastor. His wife has served in Discovery Village. She currently serves in Women's Ministry as a Small Group Leader and as a Marriage Mentor with Dan. Sarah is employed as the Housekeeping Director at Cornerstone University.
Dan grew up in a pastor's home with parents deeply devoted to Jesus. He asked Jesus to be Lord of his life at the age of five, and baptized five years later on Mother's Day in 1987. | . At age thirteen, he embraced Jesus as his Lord and Savior, moved to west Michigan a few years later and found a home at Ada Bible. Dave says his deepest calling is to shepherd God's people.
Samuel Jones
Samuel and his wife, Tova, have been married for six years and have one child. They have been attending Ada Bible just under a year. Samuel is involved in the Men's Ministry and Care Ministry. Together, he and his wife love leading Small Groups for premarital couples (Marriage Start).
Samuel is the Kentwood Campus Men's Ministry Director. He is also a therapist in his private practice, The Wisdom Center Counseling Services.
Samuel was raised and educated in West Michigan, and as a 3rd generation pastor raised in the pews—he has decided to follow after God in the footsteps of those before him.
Luke Koskinen
Luke and his wife, Andrea, have a son. They have been attending Ada Bible for seven years and been involved with Small Groups, Discovery Village, and Lifeline Student Ministry. Luke is the Director of Lifeline Student Ministry at Ada Bible.
Luke was raised in a home where both of his parents deeply desired for him to know the love of Jesus and the wisdom of God's Word. Being homeschooled, the Bible was read before beginning schoolwork every morning.
Over the years, Luke says he has seen the life-changing hope and joy that comes from knowing Christ. He feels blessed with an abundance of friends and mentors who have walked through different seasons of growing in his faith. He is grateful for Ada Bible and the community that has helped deepen his relationship with Christ and His church.
Jake Oswald
Jake has been married to Kristyn for two years. He graduated from Grand Rapids Theological Seminary and started at Ada Bible shortly after. Kristyn is a Resident Physician.
Jake serves as the Small Group Pastor at the Kentwood Campus. He also serves on the Beyond the Weekend team.
They have been attending Ada Bible for two years and love serving the church community in various ways. They are both from the West Michigan area and enjoy watching sports and doing just about anything that gets them outside.
Ben Puckett
Ben Puckett and his wife Lauren have one child, one-and-a-half years old. They have been attending Ada Bible for around three years and been involved with Lifeline Student Ministry and leading an Adult Small Group.
Ben was a Pastoral Intern and Facilities Support at Ada Bible during his time in seminary, and is now employed as the Small Groups Pastor for the East Paris Campus. Lauren is a Counselor working at a practice in the Jenison/Grandville area.
Ben was raised in Midland, MI. He attended college in | 554 |
Cognitive Dissonance: What Is It Saying about your Relationship?
Have you ever known—no—felt in your gut that something was not quite right about the way you feel in your relationship? Do you have moments that make you a little nauseous, and even question your beliefs? Do loved ones often tell you that your partner may not be right for you? As firm as your moral sun may be, emotions tend to be the giant, gray, storm clouds that block it, even though you know that "the sun" is still there. When you get caught between the pulls of logic and emotion, it can cause this feeling of anxiety. This bittersweet sensation may be caused by a psychological, not physical, reason, a reason that can be indicative of an unhealthy relationship.
A paper by the University of Iowa cites the research of Valérie Fointiat (of the University of Provence) to define cognitive dissonance as "an aversive state of psychological tension –called dissonance- aroused when an individual holds two cognitions that are mutually inconsistent." What this means is that one is being hypocritical towards one's self, "saying one thing and doing another thing." In my terms, when you do something that is against your code of beliefs or morals, a feeling of discomfort may arise.
When does it occur in real life?
I have personally witnessed many peers in a college environment encounter cognitive dissonance in their romantic relationships. It is particularly frightening at my age, since many people have not yet had a lot of serious relationships, and thus, sometimes get so caught up<|fim_middle|> + Find a Therapist. Sussex Publishers, LLC, 11 Mar. 2013. Web. 03 July 2014. | in romanticizing their relationships, that they fail to pay attention to red flags. This, however, is no fault. We are all still developing our moral compasses, and with that discovery comes a lot of confusion. Logically, one partner might realize that (for example) the other is being verbally cruel towards them and would normally find this behavior unacceptable, but due to an intense emotional connection, the victim of the aggression might stay in the relationship. The victim's moral code (the belief that their partner's actions are wrong) does not align with their behavior (being complicit), and so, the tension between what is right, and how the conflict was or was not resolved, emerges. In short, it is a mismatch of information. To combat this, the victim may justify their actions with an assortment of excuses.
What are the results of cognitive dissonance?
Soon after the onset of dissonance, one might feel a sense of sadness, unsettledness, or even depression down the road. Another common result, as I have seen particularly in college students is major stress.
It is as though their brains are being pulled into too many directions. Though psychological researchers disagree on whether the discomfort drives the individual to resolve the tension in a positive manner (though personally, I believe that the drive is usually more negative than positive), it is often agreed upon that an underlying layer of cognitive dissonance can "threaten a positive self image" (The Encyclopedia of Human Behavior). Efforts to restore psychological stasis may actually be more harmful than beneficial. For example, the victim of verbal aggression may justify their partner's actions as the result of a bad day, and continue to date that person. In some cases, it will actually make the victim feel closer to their partner, as they will continue to improperly rationalize the actions in order to balance out the pressure.
How can I prevent this discomfort?
Ever heard of trusting your gut instinct? Well, in this case, your gut feeling can get a little confusing, and it may be difficult to make decisions as clearly as you normally would. I know firsthand how difficult it can be to trust anything when love is in the picture, and nothing feels the way it should, as much as you push and pull and pray it will be. Eventually, you have to trust the people who love you the most. If friends or family or a mentor is telling you that something does not seem right, or that the person you are with no longer seems to be a positive influence in your life, it could be worth looking into. If you are on the other end and see a friend struggling with a negative presence, feel free to ask how the relationship is going, if there is anything they want to talk about. You can make a difference just by expressing concern about the situation and hand, and reminding your friend how much you love him or her. In reminding him/her of that, you will spark a deeper consideration of actions, emotions, and moral compasses. Hopefully, it will help to be aware of what cognitive dissonance is, and that if you have the aforementioned feelings, to examine them further. Don't let it go again; take control of your mental health.
For more information on cognitive dissonance and how to leave an unhealthy relationship, click here.
Harmon-Jones, E. "Cognitive Dissonance: A History in Tweets." Perspectives on Psychological Science 6.1 (2011): 98-101. Http://www.socialemotiveneuroscience.org. Academic Press., 2012. Web.
Breines, Juliana. "How to End a Bad Relationship for Good." Psychology Today: Health, Help, Happiness | 758 |
In the Soviet Union, especially during the Cold War, all music produced was generally expected to conform to the ideals of the party.
Background
The Resolution of 1932 mandated music nationalism and also brought about a trend towards more conventional compositions. This brought about the formation of party guidelines for all creative work. The reason for the Resolution of 1932 was to expand the spheres of already organized artists, as well as produce new artist organizations which would be under Party control.
Socialist realism in Soviet music was considered to be "progressive music". The music was used as a "literary concept" to emphasize the ideal of the "Soviet man", and opposed folk-negating modernistic/bourgeois art.
Socialist realism was used as propaganda during the Cold War because it helped lead people to believe they were living in the best nation.
Georgy Vasilyevich Sviridov (1915–1998)
Georgy Vasilevich Sviridov was a Russian composer who also played piano. Much of his music was inspired by Russian literature and folklore. This nationalistic adherence to tradition won him praise in the Soviet system. The vocal works that Sviridov composed were of greater importance than the chamber music or orchestral music he also composed, and poetry always played an integral part in Sviridov's artistic endeavors. He blended traditional melodies from folk songs into his music using modern day techniques. His 1959 masterpiece, Oratorio Pathétique, was based on a tribute paid to Vladimir Lenin by the poet Vladimir Mayakovsky. This piece was considered an innovational work that has been described as dynamic, progressive,<|fim_middle|> The actions, people, and settings described within the song are intentionally vague so that the overall theme appears generalized to any situation. These songs also praised the Red Army, and attempted to positively portray mothers. Many mass songs were also written about pure, traditional love; others show direct religious influences.
The Soviet organization Prokol, or the Composers' Productive Association, is credited with the creation of the mass song. The organization itself began in 1925 and was established most likely in response to previously failed attempts at creating accessible propaganda music. The influence of mass songs spread far beyond this initial organization, eventually influencing famous, noteworthy composers like Shostakovich and Prokof'ev. An example of a mass song would be "Youth", set to music composed by Shostakovich. In it, a group of young "volunteers" get on a train and go east. By being optimistic, simple, and vague, it meets several of the main criteria for mass songs. Other songs, such as Dzerzhinsky's "The Cossack Song", attained international acclaim.
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Propaganda in the Soviet Union | and vigorous, while still being faithful to the Russian folk spirit. His music was also well-received because it was ideologically linked to the Soviet party line. For his lifetime achievements, Sviridov has received several honors: the Lenin Prize in 1960, the State Prize of the USSR in 1968, People's Artist of the Russians SFSR in 1963, and People's Artist of the USSR in 1970.
Red Army Ensemble and Choir
The Red Army Ensemble is the official army choir of the Russian Armed Forces, also known as the "Red Army". It was formed in 1928, specifically on October 12 when 12 members made its first presentation. During the Cold War, it was known for performing propagating Soviet songs.
Alexander Vasilyevich Alexandrov was the first artistic director of the Red Army Ensemble. He was a major-general, a folk-artist, a composer, and a professor at the Moscow Conservatory. He believed he could use his music to help Russia and the Soviets during the War. He was once quoted to say: "How could I help my Motherland, at sixty years of age? I had never held a rifle in my hands and certainly was not a military specialist. And all the same I did hold in my hands a mighty weapon which could strike the enemy- it was the song! What could I give to the front, to the fighters, to the commanders, to the political workers? Songs!" He remained the artistic director of the Red Army Ensemble for 18 years until his son, B.A. Aleksandrov took his place in 1946.
Surprisingly, the Red Army Ensemble has a mixed composition of Russian traditional instruments and western instruments. Even though Western culture was often viewed in a negative light during the Cold War, they still continued to include western instruments. Some examples include the balalaika, the domra, the bayan, the double bass, woodwinds, brass, and percussion instruments.
During the Cold War, the Red Army Ensemble played songs from artists like Vasily Solovyov-Sedoi, Anatoli Novikov, Matvey Blanter and Boris Mokrusov. They played all kinds of music, including, but not limited to, folk tunes, church hymns, operatic arias, and popular music. One of their more popular and propagating songs is the "Guard Song", which is a song about the heroism of the guards of the Red Army.
Today, the Ensemble is made up of 186 people. There are 9 soloists, a choir of 64 people, an orchestra of 38 people, and even an eclectic dance group. The Red Army Ensemble has won numerous awards (including the prestige of becoming an academic organization), played in over 70 countries, and now has a repertoire of over two thousand works.
Mass song
Mass songs are characterized by several characteristics that most of them seem to share. They intrinsically belong to the Socialist Realism genre, which supported the Communist Party and sought progressive music that creatively depicted reality in the revolutionary era. Mass songs are often patriotic and optimistic. Their message is usually clear so that nearly anyone listening can understand it. | 679 |
You should be growing these springtime herbs in your own garden whether it's a window box, patio planter, or backyard garden, each is easy to grow. You'll love having fresh herbs on hand and I doubt you'll want to return to prepackaged once you try them.
Mint – How can you possibly go wrong with fresh mint. Spearmint, peppermint, and even chocolate mint are great for treating stomach upset and just taste terrific on so many things. (Avoid using peppermint and some others with infants and small children.) Try a bit of freshly picked mint to top off your smoothie, frozen yogurt, or fruit salad. This does spread so be certain to contain mint so it doesn't take over.
Basil – Known for being<|fim_middle|>amomile – Part of the sunflower family, who hasn't enjoyed a Chamomile tea? It's great for digestive health, relaxing, and is antispasmodic. It's popular as a tea, but is also great for the skin.
Sage – Every part of the Sage plant can be used for something. It's name means "to cure". There's a whole long list of items sage is useful for so be certain to follow the link to read everything this wonder plant is good for.
Now we could list so many more wonderful springtime herbs, but this short list is great to get you started. Remember that you can dry and save the usable plant parts as a tea, compress, and more. Be certain to read up on each one especially before using them in any great quantity. Be healthy and enjoy the wonders of natural herbals. | refreshing, this intoxication scent will leave you wanting more basil. It contains anti-depressant and anti-inflammatory properties. Try Holy Basil for it's claim to lower blood pressure and blood sugar levels.
Lemon Balm – What herb garden it's complete without Lemon Balm. Just search our blog for great recipes including Lemon Balm Butter and you'll soon be hooked on the great taste of this mint family plant. It's also an anti-depressant and it's antiviral properties make it great for treating certain skin conditions.
Lavender – Popular for it's very pleasing scent, Lavender is also great for keeping away flies and other annoying insects. It's also antiseptic and it's scent it pleasantly calming.
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Q: R - how to generate all possible formulae<|fim_middle|>. However, specific packages to estimate all possible (hierarchical) loglinear models are welcome, as long as I can retrieve the output (coefficient estimates) for each fitted model.
I am aware that the number of models can be huge, but I need an exhaustive search, not an efficient model selection.
| I have a dataframe in R with a dependent tally variable Freq and explanatory variables Y1,Y2,...,Ym.
I need to estimate all possible loglinear models including (Y1,...,Ym) starting from the model with no interactions to one with all possible interactions.
That is, with m=3 variables, from the simplest Freq ~ Y1+Y2+Y3
to the saturated Freq ~ ( Y1+Y2+Y3 )^3
in addition, I need the hierarchical models only, that is, if a 2-way interaction Y2:Y3 is not included, higher order interactions as Y1:Y2:Y3 or Y2:Y3:Y4 should not be included in that model.
So, in the above example, 7 models remain:
Y1*Y2+Y3, Y1*Y3+Y2, Y1+Y2*Y3,
Y1*Y2+Y1*Y3, Y1*Y2+Y2*Y3, Y1*Y3+Y2*Y3,
(Y1+Y2+Y3)^2
Y1,...,Ym are 0/1 variables so it doesn't matter if they are coded as factor or numeric.
I am thinking to some recursive function manipulating strings to generate all formulae, and, for each formula, estimate the model via loglin or glm poisson | 306 |
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Scientists Grapple With the Mysteries of Greenland's Melting Ice Sheet
The ice sheet's thaw has sped<|fim_middle|>Plans to tinker with the planet's atmosphere to combat climate change are terrifying, say researchers. They may also be necessary, given our sluggish efforts to curb carbon emissions. over 3 years ago
Northerners Face Winter Without Caribou
In a desperate attempt to save the Bathurst caribou herd from extinction, the government of the Northwest Territories banned the fall hunt for the second year in a row. The restriction puts local communities under pressure to find alternative foods – and may not be enough to save the herd. over 4 years ago | up in recent years – a change that could have a significant impact on global sea levels. Scientific research underway may help explain why. about 3 years ago
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I have previously blogged about how to change the background color of a Google Presentation Slide Template. So this time, let's take it up a notch. Let's add a background image to your Slides!
To begin, open Presentation, and choose 'Simple Light' as your template. Then from the tool bar, choose 'Background'.
For this example, we will focus on uploading an image from your computer.
You can either drag the image or choose to upload from where the image is stored. Let's look at how to upload the image.
When I choose the blue 'Choose an Image to<|fim_middle|> desktop (1.). I can also choose a different location on my computer (2.). The image I desire is on the desktop (3.), therefore, I choose it, and scroll down to the 'open' button (or I can double click the desired image).
I am then given the option to add the image to current slide (1.) or to add image to all existing slides (2.).
And there you have it, a unique background to your Presentation!
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What a way to start a trip of a lifetime. After a lovely farewell at the airport from my parents, sister, nephew, brother-in-law and best friend Jess and her lovely hubby Jon, I waited around for my delayed flight, for what felt like hours and hours. It was only delayed by 30 minutes but when you've never flown by yourself and you're a little nervous anyway it felt like a very long time!
Before I left my sister gave me a USB – the only instruction I was given was 'At 30,000ft plug it in and watch the video'. I didn't know what to expect – I thought it would be my nephew Neel (who's a very<|fim_middle|> have loved that, instead I was greeted by smiling familiar faces.
Turns out my best friend Jess had asked my close family and friends to record going away tips and advice for me.
Feeling very nervous, and very alone – 30,000ft up in the air this made me smile, laugh out loud, cry and feel truly blessed!
Thank you to all my family and friends who left me a video message. I love you all and won't forget all the brilliant advice. I WILL call home and I WILL stay safe! Massive massive thank you to you Jess – this is why you're the bestest friend ememenemy in the whole wide world… I'll try my hardest not replace you as a best friend, but I can't promise anything I'm afraid!
Maya, how lovely. All the best for your trip! Where are you going? | clever 2 year old) singing his alphabet.
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Some PROPS are also popular in baseball betting. What they do is consider the outcome of events occurring during a game other than the winner/loser or the total. It is not at all uncommon to wager on individual team totals, for example. And there are a lot of other standard team or game props on any given night.
You can wager on the team that will score first, or last, for that matter. You can bet on the team with the most hits, or the team that records the most strikeouts. You can bet on whether a game will go into extra innings. Will there be a run scored in the first inning? That is usually a pretty popular proposition at America's Bookie.
These are pretty consistent, in that they can be posted for any game, and the prices are not going to vary all that much. But you can also bet on player props, in which you would use your judgment to determine things that are relevant to an individual player's performance in a game. For example, how many strikeouts is the starting pitcher on either team going to chalk up? Will a notable slugger hit a home run? There are so many possibilities that it is endless.
Another set of propositions you can bet at America's Bookie that present an interesting part of the baseball betting landscape are FUTURES, because they change constantly throughout the season, and there are a lot of games to be played. So it's like having a long horse race played out in front of you, rather slowly.
Commonly, you will be able to place wagers on which team will win the World Series, the American League or National League pennants, and, of course, the individual divisions in each league. There may also be prices posted on any number of prospective World Series matchups.
The odds can change during the off-season, due to developments in the "Hot Stove League," as far as trades or free agent signings are concerned.
You might also be able to wager on who will win the individual awards, such as the Most Valuable Player, the Cy Young award, or | 491 |
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Red Cross youth look to future in Solferino
By Simon Bradley
This content was published on June 25, 2009 10:19 PM Jun 25, 2009 - 22:19
Thousands of young Red Cross volunteers from around the globe are meeting in Solferino in northern Italy to discuss how they can make a difference.
The third Red Cross and Red Crescent world youth meeting, entitled "Youth on the Move", coinc<|fim_middle|> Crescent, the Lebanese Red Crescent and the Palestinian Red Crescent. When we are abroad and there is no physical environment, we are much freer and open to explore." Danenberg Ohayon felt young people had a tremendous power which should be harnessed. "Back home I try to make them understand that they are the power. And if they act they can do anything they like. Unlike adults, they have no limits," he said. Simon Bradley in Solferino, swissinfo.ch Anniversary From June 23-28 thousands of people from all over the world will gather in northern Italy to mark the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Solferino, which led to the creation of the Red Cross movement. Young people from more than 150 nations are taking take part in the third World Red Cross Red Crescent youth meeting. This is an event to train active volunteers who will go on to train their peers in their home country. On June 27 a fiaccolata – a torchlight procession – will follow in the footsteps of volunteers who carried the wounded from the battlefield of Solferino to the nearby town of Castiglione delle Stiviere. Following the meeting hundreds of youth volunteers will travel from Solferino to Geneva in Switzerland to present to international leaders a formal declaration addressing solutions to today's humanitarian challenges.
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By Michele Andina | ides with the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Solferino, which led to the birth of the Red Cross.
The youth leaders, from more than 150 countries, began meeting on June 23 to share their experiences and learn about a range of humanitarian challenges from food security, climate change and HIV/Aids to youth leadership and behavioral change.
The idea is that when the five-day meeting is over, the volunteers will go back to train their peers in their home countries.
The gathering will also result in a formal humanitarian declaration, which the young leaders will present to the international community, Swiss officials and Red Cross leaders in Geneva on July 2.
According to Roberta Zuchegna, coordinator for young people at the Geneva-based International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, the long-term aim is to raise the visibility and profile of young people.
"We want to show to the world that young people are taking action, that they exist and are motivated and they really want to do something good for their communities everywhere in the world," she told swissinfo.ch.
It is estimated that around 50 per cent of the 100 million Red Cross and Red Crescent volunteers that make up the world's largest humanitarian network are young people, or under 30 years of age. This rises to 80 per cent in Africa.
Hidden aspects
"The camp is incredible," said Carine Fleury of the Swiss Red Cross. "It's truly global, very well organised and the young people are really motivated."
Fleury is part of a 15-strong Swiss team taking part in workshops, training sessions and other activities on the 200,000 square metre site.
During the workshops participants share their humanitarian experiences. So what do the Swiss have to offer?
"Switzerland is a rich country, but there are lots of hidden aspects," said Wim Nellestein from the Geneva branch, which boasts 300 young volunteers.
"It's a challenge to say: 'No, there are people in Switzerland who are not very well, who are marginalised and voiceless'. Migrants and refugees live in extremely precarious situations," he said.
Currently, out of the 40,000 Swiss Red Cross volunteers nationally, only 6,000 are youngsters, and are active in only 14 cantons.
While actively trying to boost new membership, Swiss Red Cross youth leaders hope to build on the momentum of the Solferino camp to try to inject young blood into the upper ranks of the old institution.
"We are listened to at the Swiss Red Cross but this could be more and we could be more integrated," said Fleury. "It's an old organisation and there are those on the committee who are scared of losing their position to younger people."
And contrary to popular belief, young people are motivated to get involved and help other people, she added.
"I feel there is a renewed interest in real values; people always say young people do nothing and laze around, but I sense their willingness to commit themselves," she noted.
Another active Red Cross member at the workshops is Segirinya Hannington, chairperson of the national youth council at the Uganda Red Cross.
The national society has some 200,000 volunteers helping on a daily basis to deal with "numerous humanitarian challenges", like poverty and health issues, explained Hannington.
"Young people can make a difference if they come together as a think tank and act on their ideas. The first thing is to change themselves; then others look to them for inspiration and will act," he said.
Hannington, who said his visit to Solferino was "a dream come true", said he'd been inspired by other national societies like Israel's Magen David Adom, which does "great work in first aid", and the blood donation and community activities of the Pakistani Red Crescent.
Moshe Danenberg Ohayon, a paramedic volunteer with the Magen David Adom Society, also said he had learned a great deal just by facilitating a workshop on non-violent culture.
"Coming from a conflict area is a big challenge," he told swissinfo.ch. "On the first day here people are suspicious, but what I found was that when you lay out the carpet of great respect people come and share experiences."
"I've been talking with friends from the Egyptian Red Crescent, the Lebanese Red Crescent and the Palestinian Red Crescent. When we are abroad and there is no physical environment, we are much freer and open to explore."
Danenberg Ohayon felt young people had a tremendous power which should be harnessed.
"Back home I try to make them understand that they are the power. And if they act they can do anything they like. Unlike adults, they have no limits," he said.
Simon Bradley in Solferino, swissinfo.ch
From June 23-28 thousands of people from all over the world will gather in northern Italy to mark the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Solferino, which led to the creation of the Red Cross movement.
Young people from more than 150 nations are taking take part in the third World Red Cross Red Crescent youth meeting. This is an event to train active volunteers who will go on to train their peers in their home country.
On June 27 a fiaccolata – a torchlight procession – will follow in the footsteps of volunteers who carried the wounded from the battlefield of Solferino to the nearby town of Castiglione delle Stiviere.
Following the meeting hundreds of youth volunteers will travel from Solferino to Geneva in Switzerland to present to international leaders a formal declaration addressing solutions to today's humanitarian challenges.
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Red Cross youth look to future in Solferino Simon Bradley Jun 25, 2009 - 22:19 Thousands of young Red Cross volunteers from around the globe are meeting in Solferino in northern Italy to discuss how they can make a difference. The third Red Cross and Red Crescent world youth meeting, entitled "Youth on the Move", coincides with the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Solferino, which led to the birth of the Red Cross. The youth leaders, from more than 150 countries, began meeting on June 23 to share their experiences and learn about a range of humanitarian challenges from food security, climate change and HIV/Aids to youth leadership and behavioral change. The idea is that when the five-day meeting is over, the volunteers will go back to train their peers in their home countries. The gathering will also result in a formal humanitarian declaration, which the young leaders will present to the international community, Swiss officials and Red Cross leaders in Geneva on July 2. According to Roberta Zuchegna, coordinator for young people at the Geneva-based International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, the long-term aim is to raise the visibility and profile of young people. "We want to show to the world that young people are taking action, that they exist and are motivated and they really want to do something good for their communities everywhere in the world," she told swissinfo.ch. It is estimated that around 50 per cent of the 100 million Red Cross and Red Crescent volunteers that make up the world's largest humanitarian network are young people, or under 30 years of age. This rises to 80 per cent in Africa. Hidden aspects "The camp is incredible," said Carine Fleury of the Swiss Red Cross. "It's truly global, very well organised and the young people are really motivated." Fleury is part of a 15-strong Swiss team taking part in workshops, training sessions and other activities on the 200,000 square metre site. During the workshops participants share their humanitarian experiences. So what do the Swiss have to offer? "Switzerland is a rich country, but there are lots of hidden aspects," said Wim Nellestein from the Geneva branch, which boasts 300 young volunteers. "It's a challenge to say: 'No, there are people in Switzerland who are not very well, who are marginalised and voiceless'. Migrants and refugees live in extremely precarious situations," he said. Young blood Currently, out of the 40,000 Swiss Red Cross volunteers nationally, only 6,000 are youngsters, and are active in only 14 cantons. While actively trying to boost new membership, Swiss Red Cross youth leaders hope to build on the momentum of the Solferino camp to try to inject young blood into the upper ranks of the old institution. "We are listened to at the Swiss Red Cross but this could be more and we could be more integrated," said Fleury. "It's an old organisation and there are those on the committee who are scared of losing their position to younger people." And contrary to popular belief, young people are motivated to get involved and help other people, she added. "I feel there is a renewed interest in real values; people always say young people do nothing and laze around, but I sense their willingness to commit themselves," she noted. Learning experience Another active Red Cross member at the workshops is Segirinya Hannington, chairperson of the national youth council at the Uganda Red Cross. The national society has some 200,000 volunteers helping on a daily basis to deal with "numerous humanitarian challenges", like poverty and health issues, explained Hannington. "Young people can make a difference if they come together as a think tank and act on their ideas. The first thing is to change themselves; then others look to them for inspiration and will act," he said. Hannington, who said his visit to Solferino was "a dream come true", said he'd been inspired by other national societies like Israel's Magen David Adom, which does "great work in first aid", and the blood donation and community activities of the Pakistani Red Crescent. Moshe Danenberg Ohayon, a paramedic volunteer with the Magen David Adom Society, also said he had learned a great deal just by facilitating a workshop on non-violent culture. "Coming from a conflict area is a big challenge," he told swissinfo.ch. "On the first day here people are suspicious, but what I found was that when you lay out the carpet of great respect people come and share experiences." "I've been talking with friends from the Egyptian Red | 2,172 |
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Atalanta, daughter of the king of Arcadia, returned sad at heart to her own land. Only as comrades, as those against whose skill in the chase she was wont to pit her own skill, had she looked upon men. But Meleager, the hero who loved her and her fair honour more than life itself, and whose love had made him haste in all his gallant strength and youthful beauty to the land of the Shades, was one to touch her as never before had she been touched. Her father, proud of her triumph in Calydon, again
besought her to marry one of her many noble suitors.
"If indeed they love me as thou sayest," said Atalanta to her father, "then must they be ready to face for my sake even the loss of dear life itself. I shall be the prize of him who outruns me in a foot-race. But he who tries and fails, must pay to Death his penalty."
Thereafter, for many days, a strange sight was to be seen in Arcadia. For one after another the suitors came to race with the maiden whose face had bewitched them, though truly the race was no more fair to him who ran than would be a race with Death. No mortal man was as fleet as Atalanta, who had first raced with the wild things of the mountains and the forests, and who had dared at last to race with the winds and leave even them behind. To her it was all a glorious game. Her conquest was always sure, and if the youths who entered in the contest cared to risk their lives, why should they blame her? So each day they started, throbbing hope and fierce determination to win her in the heart of him who ran—fading hope and despairing anger as he saw her skimming ahead of him like a gay-hued butterfly that a tired child pursues in vain. And each day, as the race ended, another man paid the price of his defeat.
Daily, amongst those who looked on, stood her cousin Milanion. He would fain have hated Atalanta for her ruthlessness and her joyousness as he saw his friends die for her sake, yet daily her beauty, her purity, and her gallant unconsciousness took a firmer hold upon his heart. To himself he vowed that he would win Atalanta, but not without help from the gods was this possible. Therefore he sought Aphrodite herself and asked her aid.
Milanion was a beautiful youth, and to Aphrodite, who loved beauty, he pled his cause as he told her how Atalanta had become to him more than life, so that he had ceased to pity the youths, his friends, who had died for love of her. The goddess smiled upon him with gentle sympathy.
In the garden of her temple grew a tree with branches and twigs of gold, and leaves as yellow as the little leaves of the silver birch when the autumn sun kisses them as it sets. On this tree grew golden apples, and Aphrodite plucked three of them and gave them to the youth who had not feared to ask her to aid him to win the maid he loved. How he was to use the apples she then told him, and, well content, Milanion returned home.
Next day he spoke to Atalanta.
"So far has victory been thine, Fairest on earth," he said, "but so far have thy little winged white feet had only<|fim_middle|> to bed, lo! they heard a great row and disturbance around the house. One could not at all comprehend what it might be that made a noise that time of night. Both the husband and the wife had w... Another Version Of The Same Fable
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Should the feathered songsters sing before February it is a sign of hard, ungenial weather. This applies particularly to the blackbird and throstle. The following lines embody this faith:-- Os can yr adar cyn Chwefror, hwy griant cyn Mai. ... Birds' Feathers
Feather beds should be made of domestic birds' feathers, such as geese, ducks, and fowls. Wild fowl feathers should not be mixed with these feathers; for, otherwise, the sick will die hard, and thus the agony of their last moments will be prolong... Birluri And Birbanta
Birluri was of the Goala caste and Birbanta of the oilman's caste. And this is the story of their fight. Birluri was very rich, with great herds of cattle and buffaloes but Birbanta's wealth consisted in tanks and ponds. Birluri used every day to... Birth Of The Water-lily
Back from his war against the Tahawi comes the Sun, chief of the Lower Saranacs,--back to the Lake of the Clustered Stars, afterward called, by dullards, Tupper's Lake. Tall and invincible he comes among his people, boasting of his victories, Indian... Block Island And The Palatine
Block Island, or Manisees, is an uplift of clayey moorland between Montauk and Gay Head. It was for sailors an evil place and bad medicine for Indians, for men who had been wrecked there had been likewise robbed and ill treated--though the honest is... Bluebird And Coyote
In the old days the animals wore no such fine clothing as now, and the bluebird was of an ugly dun color, which made him very unhappy. One fine morning he came to a lake shining like turquoise, and something told him to bathe in the water. Lightl... Bokwewa Or The Humpback Magician
ODJIBWA. Bokwewa and his brother lived in a secluded part of the country. They were considered as Manitoes, who had assumed mortal shapes. Bokwewa was the most gifted in supernatural endowments, although he was deformed in person. His brother p... Bootoolgah The Crane And Goonur The Kangaroo Rat The Fire Makers
In the days when Bootoolgah, the crane, married Goonur, the kangaroo rat, there was no fire in their country. They had to eat their food raw or just dry it in the sun. One day when Bootoolgah was rubbing two pieces of wood together, he saw a faint... Borgar-skjold's Son Halfdan The Third Patriarch
In the time of Borgar and his son, the third patriarch, many of the most important events of the myth take place. Before I present these, the chain of evidence requires that I establish clearly the names applied to Borgar in our literary sources... | the heavy-footed laggards to outrun. Wilt have me run a race with thee? for assuredly I shall win thee for my own."
And Milanion looked into the eyes of Atalanta with a smile as gay and fearless as that with which a hero is wont to look in the eyes of his fellow.
Look for look did the virgin huntress give him.
Then her cheeks grew red, as though the rosy-fingered dawn had touched them, and the dawning of love came into her heart.
Even Meleager was not quite so goodly a youth as this. Not even Meleager had been so wholly fearless.
"Thou art tempted by the deathless gods," she said, but her long lashes drooped on her cheek as she spoke. "I pity you, Milanion, for when thou dost race with me, the goal is assuredly the meadows of asphodel near where sit Pluto and Persephone on their gloomy thrones."
But Milanion said, "I am ready, Atalanta. Wilt race with me now?" And steadily he looked in her eyes until again they fell as though at last they had found a conqueror.
Like two swallows that skim across a sunny sea, filled with the joyousness of the coming of spring, Atalanta and Milanion started. Scarcely did their feet seem to touch the solid earth, and all those who stood by vowed that now, at length, was a race indeed, a race worthy for the gods to behold.
SHE STOPPED, AND PICKED UP THE TREASURE
But as they ran, almost abreast, so that none could tell which was the gainer, Milanion obeyed the bidding of Aphrodite and let fall one of the golden apples. Never before had Atalanta dreamed of such a thing—an apple of glistening gold! She stopped, poised on one foot as a flying bird poises for a moment on the wing, and picked up the treasure. But Milanion had sped several paces ahead ere she was again abreast of him, and even as she gained on him, he dropped the second apple. Again Atalanta was tempted. Again she stopped, and again Milanion shot ahead of her. Her breath came short and fast, as once more she gained the ground that she had lost. But, yet a third time, Milanion threw in her way one of the golden illusions of the gods. And, yet again, Atalanta stooped to pick up the apple of gold.
Then a mighty shout from those who watched rent the air, and Atalanta, half fearful, half ashamed, yet wholly happy, found herself running, vanquished, into the arms of him who was indeed her conqueror. For not only had Milanion won the race, but he had won the heart of the virgin huntress, a heart once as cold and remote as the winter snow on the peak of Mount Olympus.
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Aggo-dah-gauda had one leg hooped up to his thigh so that he was obliged to get along by hopping. He had a beautiful daughter, and his chief care was to secure her from being carried off by the king of the buffaloes. He was peculiar in his habits,... Aggodagauda And His Daughter Or The Man With His Leg Tied Up
The prairie and forest tribes were once at war, and it required the keenest eyes to keep out of the way of danger. Aggodagauda lived on the borders, in the forests, but he was in a by-place not easy to find. He was a successful hunter and fisher, ... Agnes Surriage
When, in 1742, Sir Henry Frankland, collector of the port of Boston, went to Marblehead to inquire into the smuggling that was pretty boldly carried on, he put up at the Fountain Inn. As he entered that hostelry a barefooted girl, of sixteen, who wa... An Averted Peril
In 1786 a little building stood at North Bend, Ohio, near the junction of the Miami and Ohio Rivers, from which building the stars and stripes were flying. It was one of a series of blockhouses built for the protecting of cleared land while the sett... An Event In Indian Park
It was during the years when the Saranacs were divided that Howling Wind, one of the young men of Indian Carry, saw and fell in love with a girl of the family on Tupper Lake. He quickly found a way to tell his liking, and the couple met often in the... An Evil Spirit In Llandysilio Church Montgomeryshire
The history of this Spirit's proceedings is given in Bye-Gones, Vol. ii, p. 179, and the writer's fictitious name is Gypt. This church, says Gypt, was terribly troubled by a Spirit in times gone by, so I was informed by a person who took me over... An Inquisitive Man's Experience Of Hades
Three generations before my time there lived an Aino who wished to find out whether the stories told about the existence of an under-world were true. So one day he penetrated into an immense cavern (since washed away by the waves) at the river-mouth... An Unexpected Issue
Far away from other men, on the side of a lonely mountain, a man and his wife were preparing their ground that they might plant the hill rice. Their work was hard, and they saw no one from day to day, and, upon a time, when tired of their labor, the... An Unfortunate Shot
There was once a poor man too ill to work, and he had no one to give him food. The chow of the province heard of him and sent for him to come to his house. When the man reached the house of the chow, the chow gave him a bow and arrow, saying, "Sh... Analysis Of The Sagas Mentioned In Nos 44-48
If we consider the position of the authors or recorders of these sagas in relation to the views they present in regard to Odainsaker and the Glittering Plains, then we find that they themselves, with or without reason, believe that these views are... Analysis Of The Sagas Mentioned In Nos 44-48 The Question In Regard To The Identification Of Odainsaker
Is Gudmund an invention of Christian times, although he is placed in an environment which in general and in detail reflects the heathen mythology? Or is there to be found in the mythology a person who has precisely the same environment and is endo... Anarteq
There was once an old man, and he had only one son, and that son was called Anarteq. But he had many daughters. They were very fond of going out reindeer hunting to the eastward of their own place, in a fjord. And when they came right into the bas... Ancient Faiths Of Hawaii
Hawaiians claim descent from the Cushites of Arabia, and in their folk-lore they have the same agreement with the Jewish myths which we find so strangely in other tribes that seem to have no relation to one another. Like the Israelites, they belie... Angangujuk
It is said that Angangujuk's father was very strong. They had no other neighbours, but lived there three of them all alone. One day when the mother was going to scrape meat from a skin, she let the child play at kayak outside in the passage, near ... Animals As Friends And As Enemies
Once upon a time, a long while ago, there lived in a very far-off country, a young nobleman who was so exceedingly poor that all his property was an old castle, a handsome horse, a trusty hound, and a good rifle. This nobleman spent all his time ... Animals Language
The universality of folk-lore is curiously illustrated in the following tale which is strikingly like a story native to the negroes of Western Africa. In this the hero is granted, as a boon by the King of the Animals, the gift of understanding anima... Annwn_ Or Annwfn
is defined in Canon Silvan Evans's Dictionary as an abyss, Hades, etc. Plant Annwn, therefore, means children of the lower regions. It is a name derived from the supposed place of abode--the bowels of the earth--of the Fairies. Gwragedd Annwn, d... Another Cattle Charm Spell
Mr. Hughes, Plasnewydd, Llansilin, lost several head of cattle. He was told to bleed one of the herd, boil the blood, and take it to the cowhouse at midnight. He did so, and lost no more after applying this charm. A Charm for Calves. ... Another Lazy Man
Once upon a time there was a man named Kora who was so lazy that his brothers turned him out of the house and he had to go out into the world to seek his fortune. At first he tried to get some other young man of the village to keep him company on hi... Another Tale Of A Doctor
I received the following tale from the Rev. Philip Edwards, formerly curate at Selattyn, near Oswestry:-- There was, or perhaps is--for my informant says he believes the lady is still alive--in a place called Swyddffynnon, Cardiganshire, a Mrs. ... Another Version Of The Gors Goch Legend
When the people of the Gors Goch one evening had gone | 1,998 |
My desire to become as self sufficient as the modern world allows is well known to anyone that knows anything about me. I have a collection of lists of skills, equipment, and capabilities that I plan on acquiring that over time will decrease my reliance on others.
However, I will never become totally self-reliant. Some doctors have performed appendectomies on themselves. I would prefer to pay my co-pay and be rendered unconscious during surgical procedures.
I also do not possess the skill, will, or desire to produce everything I need. Zoning ordinances prohibit my ownership of live pigs. Federal law prohibits me distilling my own whiskey. My wife won't let me buy a trained guard monkey or arm it with a pistol.
However, the time and resources I do have are spent in a reasonable attempt at reducing dependence and increasing my own abilities. I do this incrementally. I don't spend all my resources in one area at the expense of all the others. You should not have all gun and no food, OR all food and no gun. While I am "okay" in both of those areas, commo and electricity have not had as much emphasis. I do have a radio and a license, and a small 45 watt solar kit and DIY generator.
People have lived thousands of years without electricity. Therefore it is on the bottom of each tiers list. Since I am about to move to the next step of preparedness, I thought it was time to finally get "a round toit" and make a DIY Bike Generator.
For any engineers that may look at this post I want to post a caveat. This is not the best method of producing electricity. Additionally, it is a rather inefficient use of manpower. However, it demonstrates Heinlein's Law, which is "Their ain't no such thing as a free lunch". Making<|fim_middle|>30 dollars on a regular basis, so I will probably buy a couple so I can use one for the bike and have spare. | electricity is WORK. Either you have to do it (like with the bike) or something else has to do it. This burns fuel, wind, running water, solar. However, If manpower is cheap, and electricity isn't then this isn't a bad deal.
If you have a DC motor and spin it opposite its normal rotation, it will produce a current. However, while this current is DC current it is "noisy" and may cause radio interference. If you use an Alternator, it will produce AC current, which is cleaner, but will require a rectifier diode to create DC current. A good explanation of this is http://www.animations.physics.unsw.edu.au/jw/electricmotors.html.
I choose a DC motor, as I found a website that supplied parts to electrify bikes and sold DC motors that came with a sprocket geared to a bike chain.
My goal was to build a bike stand , remove the rear tire, and bolt by motor to the frame. Luckily I found a guy selling an old Schwinn exercise bike that had a chain drive. I paid the guy $25 dollars. With the bike and the motor I was under $60.00.
I took the bike back home and planned on cutting into it and removing the back wheel. After doing some figuring, I decided that I liked having the wheel as it acted like a flywheel. By having a big wheel turn a little one, the generator will spin with a higher RPM. The higher the RPM the more current produced.
So what I wanted to do was build a roller and put it against the wheel and have the rear wheel spin the roller.
First thing I did was connect the leads and mark which way the motor spun, and permanently mark it on the motor with little arrows.
At the hardware store I bought the smallest size pulley I could find, but it had a ½ shaft. I bought a collar that would fit inside the pulley shaft, and would almost thread on the motor (it was metric).
I then bought a metric tap, and carefully threaded the collar to allow me to thread it on the motor shaft.
Next I wrapped some weather stripping tightly inside the pulley groove to increase the surface area. I wrapped against the rotation of the motor so that it would rotate with the rear wheel of the bike and not unwrap.
Using a scrap of 2×4 I held the motor against the bike, so that the pulley would ride against the rear wheel snugly. I did not make it so tight that it would put stress on the motor bearings.
Next, I also placed the motor so that when the rear bike wheel was under power, it rotated the pulley in such a way that it turned the motor shaft opposite of the directional markings I made earlier.
Once I did that I marked where the motor needed to be on the board, and where the board needed to be on the bike.
I drilled some holes in the bike frame, carved out a channel and otherwise shaped the board to fit firmly on the stand without rubbing on any moving parts.
After that, I bolted the board to the frame, and bolted the motor to the board.
Lastly, I zip tied the cables out of the way, and wired some leads to the motor so that I could measure the output.
Luckily, I bought a charge controller when I bought the motor, but it had no markings or schematic, so I cannot figure out what leads go to what terminal, so for now, I am using the very cheap charge control that came with my Harbor Freight 45 watt panel kit. I see these on ebay for $ | 739 |
"My daughter Lillian on the left with the 'S'<|fim_middle|> you here. His parents must be so proud of the beautiful man he has grown up to be. I certainly admire him immensely for the way he conducts himself and the kindness he shows to all. Beautiful man. | on her t-shirt, won the Durrell Superhero Stroll competition to meet Henry."
Kirby Hockenhull shared her photos with us, after her daughter won the chance to take a pic with Henry after participating in the Superhero Stroll.
The event made its debut at Jersey Zoo last Sunday, as part of The Durrell Challenge.
"It's not about how it feels with kids looking up to me, of course it's an enormous honor. But it's the position of responsibility and the opportunity for me to be able to have an effect on kids and things which they may want to learn about. So, if they can gain an education from this and have a fun day out as well.. fantastic, that's a win."
Catch everything else from The Durrell Challenge in our wrap. Thanks Kirby!
Henry does a great job of including the lil ones, and make n them feel tall.when a being can reach the heart of animals n childrens well,that says alot.Thanks henry for loving them.
2 very lucky little ladies! that's so great that they got to meet and chat with Henry! thanks for sharing everyone! have a great rest of your weekend!
He is just so... handsome, and too cute, all at the same time. He's one heady mix, I say. Even I look up to him, and I'm not a kid. I "salute" him! I think, kids should be taught to look up to him; they won't find a better role model. Congratulations lucky winners! D.
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Plants in the Ground! Plants in the Ground! It's time to get those tomato plants in the ground!
Ok…it's not quite May 1 yet, but I had the day off to go fishing and these 40 mph winds kept me off the lake. No point in wasting the day…so PLANTS IN THE GROUND! We are still at a slight risk for frost, but the long term forecast is looking good…lows in the 50's.
I thought I'd give a tutorial on how I plant my tomatoes. I've learned a lot from other tomato growers and kind of use a combination of their methods and my works for me…use what you want…just follow some basic steps to make sure your tomato beds get off to a great start!
Step one is always make sure your soil is in great condition. I always add a few wheelbarrow loads of compost to my beds each year. I then till it into the top 4-6 inches of soil. I don't till deep once my beds have been established…just some light mixing of soil. If your beds are compacted, you can add some Perlite and or Vermiculite to them as well and till that in, but don't do it on a windy day or it will blow away before it hits the ground.
For tilling, I've always recommended the Mantis, but after having carburetor problems with it for a few years, I sold it cheap and bought a Troy Bilt Corded Tiller. The reviews for it on Lowe's and Amazon were stellar, so I took the plunge and bought the tiller for a little less than $200. You have to be within 200 feet of electricity to use this, but you will be very impressed with how well this thing works. It looks like a toy, but it does everything the Mantis ever did with a fraction of the noise and much less jumping. It will turn your soil into a fine powder in just a few minutes. I can't say enough good things<|fim_middle|> space your tomatoes at least 2 feet apart. 3 or 4 feet is better, but no less than 2 feet. These plants get big and need plenty of room for their roots and for their foliage. Crowding plants will give you less yield and may lead to fungal diseases if the plants can't get enough air circulation. Spread them out!
Before you dig that hole, get your plant and pinch off all but the top set of leaves. Just use your fingers and pinch them off close to the stem. Hold the plant upside down in your hand and give the container a couple of squeezes and the plant should slide right out. Dig your hole deep enough so that you can bury the entire stem right up to that top set of leaves. If you can't dig a hole that deep, you can dig a trench and then prop up the growing tip with some soil, but dig deep if you can.
Before you put the plant in the hole, toss in that pinch of bone meal and a pinch of TomatoTone if you have it. If you use fertilizers for your garden, make sure you use one that is fairly balanced in NPK…avoid fertilizers with high Nitrogen content because this will cause lots of foliage growth at the expense of fruit production.
Put your plant in the hole and then fill it back in with the soil you dug out. Take care not to use tools for this part of the process as it is easy to break that seedling with a trowel. Also make sure you don't leave any big gaps in the soil…firm it in there with your hands and dust any soil off the leaves.
When you get done, you should have a nice mound of soil with only the top of that plant sticking out of the ground.
Right after planting, water your plant in well. I water each plant three times to make sure all of the ground is soaked deeply. This helps reduce some of the transplant shock and fills in any gaps in the soil. In the pic below you can see my bed is planted and the plants are soaked!
If cutworms are a problem in your garden, you can also put a small cardboard collar around your plants.
Well…that's the basics of how I plant my garden. If you have any questions, feel free to ask and I'll do my best as always to help make those Kansas City gardens successful!
Another reminder to mark those calendars for August 7th for the Tomato Tasting…I've already reserved the shelter on Roe. This year should be even bigger and better than last year!
That was great James, thanks! We planted a square foot garden and we were planning one tomato plant per square foot, but maybe we'll try to space it out a bit more.
With the cherry tomatoes you and Kathleen bought, you can put them a bit closer than 2 feet. They are so super productive, that you won't notice a huge difference in productivity probably. The vines are pretty wispy though, so plan on them getting tall and/or long. Crowding them too much might make you more likely to get fungal diseases…just make sure you prune all foliage that touches the ground and you'll be better off. | about this machine!
One note about tilling…NEVER NEVER NEVER till your soil when the soil is wet. You'll end up with hard compacted mud clods that will take years to break down. Wait until it dries out before tilling.
Ok…once that soil is ready to go, I like to use Silver Reflective Mulch Film to cover the beds. Don't ask me where to get this stuff as it's almost impossible to get. I'm still working from a roll I bought 2 years ago, but will need more next year. I've been playing phone tag with a salesman for weeks now just trying to see if I can buy it. If you don't use SRM, you can use the red mulch film that's commonly available. If you don't want to use the plastic film, use straw or grass clippings, just make sure the mulch doesn't stay in contact with the stem of the plant. The message is…whatever you do…MULCH!
This is the bed I planted this morning. Notice the Texas Tomato Cages already installed before I plant. These cages are a bit pricey, but well worth the investment I think. If you're growing open pollinated tomatoes, make sure you have sturdy and tall cages. Don't waste your money on the cheap wire cages for tomatoes…these plants can get up to 6-8 foot tall and have heavy fruit loads that will bend the flimsy cages like a paperclip. I also use concrete reinforcing wire cages that are much cheaper, but just as effective (not as cool though!) as the TTC's. You can also stake your tomatoes with a large wooden stake driven into the ground, and tie the plant to it as it grows, or you can let them sprawl across the ground, but I prefer cages because they require a lot less work during the summer as the plant grows rapidly.
Whatever method you choose, put the supports in before you plant or very soon after. It's not a great idea to pound a stake through the root system of a developing plant or trying to slip a cage over a plant once it gets bigger.
Some basic supplies you'll need: Tomato plants (DUH!), a good trowel, bone meal, TomatoTone (optional), a box cutter to cut the plastic film if you use it, an MP3 player with the wonderful sounds of Cake playing in the background (optional!) and plenty of water.
Avoid watering tomato plants directly from the hose. Cold water an chlorine aren't that good for your plants. I use rainwater from my rain barrels. If you're interested in getting a great rain barrel, contact my friend Rhae and she'll get you a great barrel! If you use water from the hose, it's a great idea to put into watering cans or milk jugs and let it sit a day or two to evaporate any chlorine and to warm up a bit. Trust me..your plants will love it!
I like to toss in a pinch of bone meal and a pinch of TomatoTone into the planting hole before I put in my plant…just an added boost to get those babies off to a good start! If you have dogs around your garden, they might enjoy digging up the bone meal, so fence accordingly.
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Sotheby's to Auction the Steven and Ann Ames Collection—Guaranteed Above $100 M.—During the November Sales
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Sotheby's has announced that it has secured one of the major estates to be auctioned in November during the New York evening sales: the Steven and Ann Ames Collection, which contains works by Gerhard Richter, Robert Ryman, Willem de Kooning, and Philip Guston.
The blockbusters from the collection—which is being hailed by Sotheby's as "The Triumph of Painting: The Steven and Ann Ames Collection"—will be sold in a standalone sequence at the start of Sotheby's contemporary art evening auction on November 17, with other works on offer during the day sale on November 18.
A Sotheby's representative said the estimate for the entire collection will be "in excess of $100 million." The auction house should hope it hits that mark: sources indicated to ARTnews that the Ames estate was also pursued by Christie's, and in order to secure it, Sotheby's had to guarantee the estate for $100 million.
"This outstanding collection is exactly what the market is currently looking for, and as such we are very comfortable with the level of our guarantee," Grégoire Billault, head of the contemporary art, told ARTnews in a statement.
Sotheby's wouldn't comment on beating out Christie's for the sale, but Billault added that "we secured this collection as a result of our teamwork, with longstanding relationships between the couple and multiple people here at Sotheby's, combined with our track record with Gerhard Richter, whose market we pioneered and continue to dominate."
Indeed, the sale's highlights include two works from Richter—A.B., Still (1986) and A.B., St. James (1988)—that both carry a low estimate of $20 million and a high estimate of $30 million. Other expected big sellers include George Baselitz's Ein Stück Malerei (1966), Willem de Kooning's Untitled (1976–77), Philip Guston's Untitled (Smoking) (1979), and Anselm Kiefer's Dein Aschenes Haar Sulamith (1981).
"Steven and Ann Ames collected with the same meticulous approach they applied to all their many and varied passions," Amy Cappellazzo, chairman of the fine art division at Sotheby's, said in a release. "The result is a group of paintings that stands as a testament to the possibilities of the medium that is at once intellectually rigorous and visually stunning."
After a career as a partner at Oppenheimer & Co., as well as at the New York Stock Exchange, Steven Ames started collecting, along with his wife, to follow in the footsteps of his mother's family, the Annenbergs—the prominent philanthropists who endowed the directorship position at Los Angeles County Museum of Art and a fund at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, along with many other projects in the arts through the Annenberg Foundation. After nurturing a passion for collecting, Steven Ames completed a master's in art history at Columbia and wrote his thesis on Richter.
He went on the serve of the board of the Whitney Museum of American Art and the collector's committee of the National Gallery in Washington, D.C., and was a trustee of the Aperture Foundation and Independent Curators International. He died in March of this year.
The estate contains approximately 100 works, a Sotheby's representative said. It is the first major estate the auction house has guaranteed since it placed a record $515 million bet on the estate of its former chairman, Alfred Taubman, in the fall of last year.
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Some consulting firms have a technology focus, others are sector specific, and then there's the decision of working for a large firm or a boutique firm. Decisions, decisions!
If you are interested in getting into management consulting, go out and talk to people. Learn about each firm's different specialties, and the type of people they employ. Figure out what kind of fit, culture, and atmosphere is right for you. When you're a member of a consulting team, you're a member of a tribe, and you must know what is important to that tribe to work successfully with others.
At LEVEL5 Strategy Group, we believe a Brand is the Value of a Promise Consistently Kept™ – this is our unique point of view, and we are committed to helping our cross-sector clients achieve inspired growth strategies through the power of their brands.
We dig deeper into how LEVEL5 helps brands generate sustainable business growth and remain relevant to customers in a recent blog post by one of our Managing Partners, Matt Kelly.
Advocate for yourself. Ask for opportunities and feedback when you can, to identify areas of improvement and communicate what opportunities you wish to pursue. Opportunities are rarely given out on a silver platter, and it's important to identify what you want and how you want to pursue it. At the same time, it's equally important to be self-aware, and assess yourself continuously to identify areas for improvement. Identify what your strengths and weaknesses are and focus on improving your weaknesses and leveraging your strengths. Lastly, as a consultant, confidence is critical.
A special thank you to our amazing all-female attendees. The event was a huge success, thanks to the engagement and enthusiasm of everyone who attended.
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In my last post on change leadership, we explored why change is essential to organizations of all types. From government and not-for-profit agencies to successful retailers and other private sector business, change helps to ensure relevancy, sustainability, and in some cases, survival.
In this post, I share four practices that LEVEL5 employs with respect to getting productive, constructive and successful change started and establishing momentum. You may need to apply only some of them or you may choose to apply them all, and the order in which you apply them may vary as you embark on your organization's change journey.
To build alignment among senior leaders, begin<|fim_middle|>"Society is demanding that companies, both public and private, serve a social purpose," wrote BlackRock CEO Laurence D. Fink in a draft letter that he shared with the author of the NY Times article. "To prosper over time," Fink wrote, "every company must not only deliver financial performance, but also show how it makes a positive contribution to society". Companies that don't serve the community and demonstrate a sense of purpose will lose the license to operate, he contends.
What's with BlackRock's activist point of view on social responsibility?
Fink believes that "having a strong sense of purpose is inextricably linked to a company's ability to maintain its profits." At LEVEL5, we happen to agree. In fact, we would add that a strong sense of purpose can also build culture, align organizations, help to attract and retain the best talent, and become a meaningful point of difference in crowded, highly competitive categories.
So, what's your organization's stated sense of purpose?
How is it supported or embedded in your strategic plan, your vision, mission and shared values? Could your brand promise and purpose be one and the same – much like Princess Margaret Hospital's promise to 'Conquer Cancer in our Lifetime?' Do you have strategies and tactics to implement and measure your contribution beyond fundraising or goodwill?
If you're looking for sustainable growth in a low-growth marketplace, as many of our clients are, embracing and operationalizing your firm's contribution to society makes sound business sense. What's more, it happens to feel pretty good!
Get in touch if you'd like to learn how we can help you take your social initiatives to the next level.
Be it a product or an experience, the choice to buy is driven by both the rational and the emotional mind. In fact, the same is true for any decision, including one as seemingly simple as whether to make yourself a cup of tea or coffee.
While most business leaders understand the role of the rational mind, few have a clear understanding of how emotions influence their customers. Price, convenience, safety, ease of use – there are hundreds of rational attributes that brands hang their hats on. But what about their customers' feelings?
As the following example proves, the times, they are a-changing.
Of the 184 personality types and 96 human emotions your customers envelop, you need to identify one or two that you can build your brand or organization around to drive sustainable growth. Without the right tools, it's an exercise not unlike looking for a needle in a haystack.
What if we told you that we could quantify the role of emotion in your customers' decision-making process?
A few years back, market researchers used to focus almost exclusively on the rational mind. In recent years, however, psychological and neurological findings have highlighted the flaw in this approach, prompting new methodologies to surface – ones that focus on both rational and emotional drivers over the course of an entire customer journey, not just at point of purchase.
Although they still represent a vast improvement on the ways of old, many of these newer approaches remain fairly superficial, often surveying a short list of drivers and usually category antes. Not ours, though. BrandMap™, our proprietary research tool, helps C-suite executives identify feelings about their brand at a very deep level and explore the subtle dimensions that their customers associate with their brand's personality, needs, wishes, and values, as well as its more rational attributes and benefits.
Using a mathematical projection technique, BrandMap™ literally quantifies emotional drivers with 87% accuracy. As a result, brands don't need to operate on gut instinct. Rather, they can effectively determine both the emotional and rational space they want to operate in and then develop measurable ideas, claims and tactics accordingly.
By the way, BrandMap™ isn't just for B2C. Emotion drives all sectors.
As we've come to learn at LEVEL5 Strategy Group, it's equally important for B2B brands to understand the emotional drivers behind their offering.
Source: The Value of a Promise Consistently Kept™, What I've Learned About Managing Brands as Assets by David Kincaid.
Having researched enterprise software and services a number of times over the years, we've concluded that emotion (how you make customers feel and how you personify your organization) can often account for as much as 60% of the final purchase decision and the primary reason why you could end up losing an account.
What emotions are driving your category, and are they positive or negative?
So, what is the promise you intend to keep and what positive emotions can you leverage? More importantly, what negative emotions are standing in your way? We've been able to quantify that negative emotions can be up to three times more powerful than positive emotions, so addressing any negative associations with your brand should be a priority.
On the flip side, are there any negative associations with your competitors' brands? If so, exploit them. Turn their emotional downfalls into your emotional drivers.
You've identified your brand's emotional drivers. Now what?
Take these five steps to create an ownable competitive advantage; one that enables you to motivate, maintain and attract more customers and ultimately realize the growth you seek.
If you're interested in harnessing the power of emotional science to guide your organizations growth strategy, to fulfil your brand promise and to drive greater business results, get in touch. We'd be happy to walk you through some of the tangible benefits of LEVEL5 BrandMap™ and show you how you could leverage insights from this tool to enhance your competitive advantage and make 2018 exceptionally prosperous.
On that note, here's wishing you the very best for the holiday season and the year ahead!
Still searching for that perfect gift for the business booklover on your holiday shopping list? Or perhaps you're looking for an inspiring book to add to your winter reading list.
Look no further! THE VALUE OF A PROMISE CONSISTENTLY KEPT is an essential read for anyone overseeing (or interested in learning more about) brand management – and what it REALLY means to manage your organization's brand as an asset.
No dull, dry textbook here. The Value of a Promise Consistently Kept is 170 pages of insightful, practical (and at times witty) inspiration for managing your brand as an asset.
In this book, Kincaid shares the concepts behind the business system and the tools that C-suite executives can use to create value from their brands. Along the way, he describes the path that led him to his current role as a globally recognized brand builder.
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I know I just said you don't need to apply all of these practices, but if you're going to skip one, don't let it be this one! In order for change to take place, you need all of those directing the change to be on the same page with respect to your organization's goals. With this in mind, start by outlining what the ultimate end game looks and feels like.
At LEVEL5, we often work with change catalysts on our C-suite / senior client teams to create a blueprint that helps facilitate the process of obtaining buy-in from others on the leadership team (I wrote about some of them in my previous post). This often takes the form of a multi-page story that we refer to as a narrative. This narrative is built by the change agent(s) in collaboration with their colleagues, and essentially outlines what they want to be when they grow up, so to speak. The key is to ensure that everyone involved understands that this isn't a strategic plan or a set specific deliverables, it is simply a story describing a future state and how it looks and feels. This process really helps shake out otherwise unstated differences and helps ensure everyone is aligned to where the organization is heading.
Show your leadership team what change could look like by removing blinders.
Not everybody's chomping at the bit to change. If you want to engage those who are resistant, you need to help them understand the why behind it. By showing them what great looks like in other organizations, both within and outside of your particular industry (take Nordstrom's digital transition, for example) you can open them up to the possibility of shifting towards a greater future.
I'm not suggesting you copy others. I'm simply saying that education provides perspective. Sometimes even the best leaders think, hey, this works, so why change? They don't think to look around for new possibilities. Take the blinders off and they may still refuse to shift, but at least they'll be doing it from an eyes-wide-open perspective.
Subject your senior leaders to the canary in the coal mine.
In some instances, senior leaders have difficulty understanding the need for change because they simply can't see the problem, even if it's blatantly clear from the customer's, employee's or stakeholder's point-of-view. So what do you do?
You need to get your leaders to experience the problem first-hand. For example, if it's a purchasing issue, insist that they walk through the customer's purchase process. That way, they'll no longer be blind to the hiccups and they'll be more likely to accept what needs to change before you reach the point of no return.
Grant permission for company-wide change and go for it!
Getting alignment to change at the top may be tricky but it's doable (and frankly necessary). Once you have it, pay it forward. Grant permission to the next level of leadership and advise those leaders to do the same so that everyone within your organization is aligned and motivated.
Promote a change-positive environment, with some boundaries, granted, but not so many that people are afraid to think big. Sure, a single change agent can get the ball rolling but at the end of the day this requires organization-wide collaboration. Once people feel like they have permission to see the world differently, it's amazing what new ideas are born.
Throughout all of these steps, diplomacy rules. Your job isn't to beat people over the head until they are convinced; that just doesn't work. The job of the change agent is to educate and help others see the light in their context while creating a shared understanding of the end game.
If you have a hard time presenting your case objectively, consider bringing in a third party to help steward things with you. At LEVEL5, we often play the role of mediator/facilitator/catalyst supporter for this very reason, and help change agents get the buy-in they need to move forward. Contact us if you'd like to know more.
Jack Welch, the former chairman and CEO of General Electric, once said: "Change before you have to." Easier said than done. Difficult, frustrating, disruptive, risky – change leadership can be all of these things and more, which undoubtedly explains why there is still such great resistance in many business circles.
Do or die: sometimes change is a matter of survival.
And what about Kodak? Failing to recognize the digital revolution as the tsunami it was, they never fully embraced the new alternative to film. Their active foray into digital was late and half-hearted. In actuality, they created the first digital camera in 1975 but the organization decided to shun it and not lead the change in how photography was captured. In fact, quite the contrary; they held on to film as if their life depended on it.
Most recently, of course, was the demise of Toys R' Us, whose failure to adapt its business model in the wake of shifting parent needs, child play activities and growing online competition – not to mention a mountain of debt – became its downfall.
That said, leadership teams shouldn't only look to change in dire times.
An insulated agency of the government operating in a quasi-monopoly?
A successful retailer, wealth management firm, entertainment provider or other private sector success story?
A business-as-usual not-for-profit organization that's doing relatively well?
It means evolving so that you can maintain relevancy and sustainability for the longer-term, both of which can only be accomplished when leadership teams agree on the importance of staying ahead of the curve.
At the very least, organizations need a handful of change leaders within their most senior ranks who understand the dynamic nature of our world.
At LEVEL5, we have the privilege of working with such leaders. They understand that competitors, consumer expectations, engagement, digital and delivery are all shifting quickly, and they've built mandates for change leadership to ensure they keep up with the pace.
Is your organization struggling to mobilize a change agenda?
And if so, why? A couple of quotes come to mind: "Good is the enemy of great" (James C. Collins), and "Success breeds complacency" (Andy Grove). Just as every organization has naysayers, every organization has forward thinkers. It is up to the latter to be a catalyst for organizational leadership by rallying behind a change agenda.
In an upcoming post, I'll share fours steps you can take to align senior leaders to change. Until then, if you need a hand formulating a change mandate or engaging your team in an existing mandate, feel free to reach out for support. You'll find us here.
Napster hit the scene in 1999. I can still remember the thrill. A world of music had opened up to me and my newly digital-music-enabled computer. A music revolution had begun and I remember thinking, this is it. Digital has arrived!
Back then, digital was a thing. And it remained a thing for many years; a thing people went to IBM for because IBM does technology and that's what digital's about, right? Back then, yes, but not anymore. Today, digital is an enabler of things, only some of which actually relate to technology.
That's the question posed by Simon Chan in his article of the same name. It's a fair question and a complex one at that. In my experience, people seem to have an easier time grasping what it isn't versus what it is, so let's start with that.
Digital transformation is not a website or mobile app. It is not social media or e-commerce. It is not process automation or data analytics.
If you knew that already, you're ahead of the game. If you didn't, don't worry. If it wasn't such a tricky concept to grasp, Chan wouldn't have written the article in the first place and I wouldn't have been compelled to join in the conversation.
Digital transformation (DX) has become a nebulous term.
It seems to encapsulate everything that has anything to do with both business and IT, and as Chan rightly points out in his article, that's way too broad. In an effort to zero in on what DX actually is, Chan defines three words that are key to pretty much every DX conversation – digital, strategy and transformation.
Digital refers to communication between electronic devices. It reflects how phones, computers, printers, tablets, etc. communicate with one another using binary code, i.e. ones and zeros. No surprises there.
Strategy is harder to define. It means different things to different people, but Chan settles on it being the accumulation of three things: 1) Taking a stance; 2) backing up that stance with objectives; 3) taking action.
Transformation is way more than change. It's profound. It's radical. It's a complete and utter makeover that touches all parts of an organization.
It's with his definition of transformation that Chan really starts to speak LEVEL5's language. As we convey quite passionately in every DX conversation we have, and in our white paper Navigating the Digital Disconnect, DX is about broad organizational change. And just as transformation must touch all parts of an organization, so must digital transformation.
So why all the DX confusion?
Bucket #1: The customer experience, driven by the CMOIn light of the customer shift towards digital versus physical (retail) channels, marketing teams are heavy players in the DX movement, leveraging web sites, mobile apps, social media, CRM systems, marketing technologies and more to find new customers and retain existing ones.
Bucket #2: Operational efficiency, driven by the COO and CIODX isn't about transforming a company's digital and technical assets. It's about using those assets to change all aspects of a company, including operations. Technology plays a valuable role in the breakdown of departmental siloes and in the promotion of better communication and culture.
Bucket #3: Cost management, driven by the CFODX is also a vehicle for cutting costs. The virtualization of data centres, Cloud computing, remote working tools and methods, artificial intelligence – these and other digital initiatives can help significantly reduce costs associated with work premises, human resources, IT equipment and more.
Here, Chan's talking about the big picture. How do the changes that are associated with digital technology impact society? Business aside, what will the impact of those changes be from a political, economic, social, theological, psychological, legal and environmental point of view?
By presenting these five buckets – or segments – Chan has done a great job of conveying, in simple terms, just how broad-reaching digital actually is. If I could add just one thing to his commentary, it would be the importance of cross-pollination between these segments.
You can no longer focus on one or two segments and call yourself digital.
In a recent white paper Navigating the Digital Disconnect published by LEVEL5 one of our panel members shared with us that real digital transformation is often messy, that's because the journey is a bit chaotic and organic, as your organization uncovers the journey that aligns with your strategy. This is why the CEO needs to own DX journey and the C suite, CMO, CFO, CIO, COO, and every member of their respective teams, need to be aligned if you're using digital as an enabler to ownable, competitive advantage. With that many players in the sandbox, you need a leader… that's where your CEO steps in – and a DX coach.
At LEVEL5, our partners are all great coaches, we're all operators, have walked in your shoes and understand messy and chaotic digital transformation journeys. We view your brand as 'the value of a promise consistently kept'™, and we can help you with the challenge of consistently keeping promises in a world changing at the pace of digital. Want to learn more? We're passionate about what we do and welcome every opportunity to talk about it…reach out, with no obligation of course. You'll find our contact information here.
Branding: The Good, Bad and Ugly – An Important Lesson From MEC.
At LEVEL5, we define brand as the value of a promise consistently kept™. Keeping a promise is no easy task. No organization knows that better than Mountain Equipment Coop (MEC), who yesterday announced the decision to discontinue selling products tied to a well-known gun manufacturer. Hats off to them.
Brand value is a powerful combination of positive AND negative attributes.
MEC's recent decision really drives this point home.
As a reminder, MEC doesn't sell guns. But they do sell outdoor equipment that's made by guns and ammunition manufacturer Vista Outdoor Inc.
MEC also has more than five million passionate, involved members. Many of these members have a deep, emotional attachment to the brand. They feel they have a voice in how MEC makes decisions. They also have strong opinions on whether or not these decisions live up to the organization's corporate purpose and values.
MEC should be commended, not only for knowing its members at a deep, emotional level, but for making a fast and informed, data-based decision aligned to its vision and values.
"This one has been a very emotional issue with a lot of different opinions…requiring listening with the facts at hand," stated CEO David Labistour when sharing MEC's recent decision. As of this writing Walmart, Dicks, Krogers and REI in the USA have all taken action related to gun restrictions. There's no shortage of other companies that could stand to take a leaf out of MEC's book. Here are just a few valuable takeaways.
Acknowledge that brand value is generated largely by associations with positive and negative emotions. And remember, negative emotions are typically three times more powerful than positive ones, i.e. you can't just bury your head in the sand when things get ugly.
Know your customers. Really know your customers. And your employees, too. Not just what they say, but how they feel. How do their emotions inform and connect to your brand promise? How does your response to controversial situations align to your organizational values and the behaviours they guide? Social media gives consumers a powerful voice. It's imperative you understand the thoughts and emotions behind their words, not just the sentiment of their words.
A new day has dawned for brands and branded organizations.
The leaders of great brands understand the emotional impact they can have in the marketplace with their current and potential customers. They pay attention to what's being said and felt, and rise to the good, as well as the bad and the ugly, in order to keep their promise consistently.
It's inspiring to see David Labistour use the MEC brand to drive positive social change. Congratulations @MEC!
If you're familiar with the work we do at LEVEL5, you've no doubt heard us say that sustainable, brand-driven growth comes from understanding the value of a promise consistently kept™. While we maintain that this is the most meaningful driver of an organization's growth, we recognize it's not the only one.
Our brand experts spend a lot of time in primary research, quantifying the most powerful drivers of behaviour in order to help inform our clients' growth strategies and transformation efforts. One driver we haven't yet explored in this space is the CEO's public profile.
In a pre-digital era, flying under the radar was the norm. In fact, it was the preference. Only those associated with scandal tended to make headlines. In other words, no news was good news. These days, however, we expect to know what everyone is doing at every minute of every day – CEOs and top executives included. Indeed, those of us who don't have some sort of social media presence actually risk being regarded with suspicion.
In a survey conducted by Weber Shandwick in partnership with KRC Research, 81% of global executives expressed their belief that external CEO engagement plays an essential role when it comes to building a company's reputation. Furthermore, they believe that the reputation of their own CEO accounts for nearly half of their company's reputation (45%) and half of its market value (44%). And that applies regardless of whether their reputation be good or bad.
What also came out of this survey was the strong and positive correlation between a CEO's reputation and his or her ability to attract investors, generate positive media, maximize crisis protection, and attract and retain talent.
Ask yourself this: what has your profile done for your company lately?
Have you, and do you give your stakeholders a clear picture of what the individual behind your organization stands for? Have you taken and are you taking steps to build a deeper connection with your public? How aligned and supportive is your messaging to your brand's promise to the marketplace?
Keep in mind it no longer takes a press release or book deal to reach a mass audience. Simply look to the content marketing and social media capabilities within your own company. Therein lies the means with which to reach your customers, investors, employees and other stakeholders regularly and authentically.
Most would agree that highly regarded CEOs have a clear vision for the future. They inspire and motivate others. They communicate well and are acutely focused on delighting customers. At LEVEL5, we'd add two points to this description of the esteemed CEO. First, brand-driven CEOs know what truly drives their marketplace. And second, they create, deliver and advocate for their organization, internally and externally, through their brand strategy and the stories they tell. The same goes for all senior executives in highly regarded branded organizations.
To stay on course, make time for an alignment check.
Ask yourself, is your brand's growth strategy clear and broadly understood within your organization? And if so, does it align with your own reputation-building strategy? If you want to go the full distance, it's not enough to be remarkable on the inside. You need to have a clear and compelling go-to market approach that stretches beyond the confines of your organization. Only then can you, personally, make a positive impact on your company's reputation and its value.
Need a hand leveraging your personal profile to your ownable, competitive advantage? Get in touch. We'd be glad to help.
What Has Your Brand Done For Society Lately?
This article landed on the heels of Apple being told last week by two of its largest investors to make its devices less addictive to children.
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Droughts are becoming more common. The impact of droughts on food production is very real. After all, plants need water to grow. But, you don't always need a ton of water to grow food. That's where low-water crops come in. They can produce food for your family to eat without taking nearly as much water.
If you don't have a large water stockpile, or you are concerned about a coming drought, it might be time for you to switch to a low-water garden.
Low-water gardens are designed to receive significantly less water than a traditional one. The soil, coverings, and seeds are all meant to work together to minimize your water needs.
Also known as dry farming, this method is a return to the roots of agriculture for many locations. Before dams and irrigation innovations, farmers didn't have the access to water. They planted, gave an initial soaking, and then let the plants tend to fetching water for themselves.
Winter is a great time to plan your low-water garden. But, no matter the season, here are some essentials to consider when working on this type of garden.
The quality of soil in your garden will help stretch the length of time between watering sessions. You'll want plenty of compost and organic material in your soil.
This will help absorb water and slowly release it. You'll also want some coarse sand in your soil. Sand helps draw in any moisture that does fall, so you'll maximize the benefit of rain.
Clay is another component of low-water garden soil. The clay will hold the water, and slowly give it to the plants' root systems.
You'll want to thoroughly mix your soil, incorporating all the elements evenly. That way all your plants will grow well. Loose soil is recommended for this type of gardening, so tilling your soil to a depth of four to six inches will help.
Unfortunately, making the exact soil combination that you need for your climate will take time. There isn't one perfect formula that'll work everywhere.
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Without mulch, you'll lose precious water to run-off. Evaporation will also be a problem.
A good layer of organic mulch prevents both of those from occurring. It'll keep the water around the plants longer, and allow it to soak deeply into the soil.
When picking plants, be sure to check out the hardiness zone recommendations so you don't plant something that won't grow well in your area. There are a variety of crops to pick from that don't take as much water.
You can also have a long-term vision when creating a low-water garden. If you have plenty of water now, you can plant some perennials that will take water initially. Once those plants are established, their water needs drop substantially.
If a drought happens, you won't be able to depend on large grain producers to keep on growing. Even if you don't regularly plant grains, you'll want to have some low-water seeds stored on hand. That way you have them when you need them.
Vegetables are a great way to add variety and nutrients to your diet. Here are some excellent options for a low-water garden.
To add some natural sweetness to your diet, be sure to include some fruits in your low-water garden. Here are some plants that grow well with little water.
If you head to a natural area nearby, what plants are you going to see thriving? Chances are many of those are wild edibles. Take time to learn about plants native to your region.
Some of the plants considered weeds by many will be the perfect purposeful addition to your low-water garden. After all, no one is out in the woods irrigating the weeds. They just grow.
If you can't find any seeds for these plants, try to dig up some established ones and transplant them. That way you'll get a variety that grows well in your area.
You might even have a separate area where you encourage these plants to grow. That way they don't take over your dedicated garden space. That will also help spread out your gardening efforts and minimize your risk of losing everything from theft. Hidden food sources are wonderful!
When selecting varieties, you'll want to go with heirloom seeds. Many modern versions of these plants have been altered and turned into very needy seeds. This is especially true with corn.
Back in the day, irrigation options were very limited. Plants often didn't get much water unless it rained. You want plants that survived then—not the needy variations humans have turned those plants into.
The one exception would be plants that have been selectively bred for dry-land planting. You can often find drought-resistant varieties of many of your favorites.
Another tip is to plant mini-varieties of the plants you most want to grow. For instance, it takes much less water to grow a cherry tomato than it does a beefsteak. Planting a few of your favorite water-loving plants in the mini-form will help you keep from feeling deprived with your garden.
By saving your own seeds each year, you'll be selecting varieties that did the best in your soil. Over time, your seeds will be essential to increasing your yield. They are locally adapted plants that thrive in your garden.
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The Native Americans knew much about growing food. One method they used is known as the three sisters. This method of companion planting grouped plants together to maximize their yield.
Corn, beans, and squash were the original three sisters. These crops work together in harmony. The beans give nitrogen to the soil, which the corn and squash need. The beans grow up on the tall corn stalks, reducing the need for additional scaffolding.
Finally, the low-lying squash leaves protect the soil from the sun's rays and help ensure water doesn't run-off.
Planting companion crops will also help you plant more in a smaller space. This is essential if you're just getting your low-water garden established and don't have much soil built up.
Because your dry land plants will need to establish a deep root system, you can't plant individual plants or companion groupings as closely together as you do in a traditional garden. That means your yield won't be the same.
Your soil needs to accumulate the winter moisture. This built-in reserve is what will get your plants through until harvest.
If you wait too long to plant, your soil will be too dry. Conversely, if you plant too early you risk a killing frost freezing your garden.
When you plant your seeds, you want the soil to be nice and moist. Keep an eye on both the weather and the soil. You'll want to plant after the last killing frost, but before the daytime temperatures get so high that they dry up your soil.
Once planted, you need to seal in the moisture in the ground by applying a good layer of mulch. Have your mulch on hand and ready to go before you plant.
Low-water gardens are easy to care for once they're planted. You don't want to water most of them, because you'll risk cracking the dry soil. Cracked soil loses moisture much faster than soil that isn't cracked.
Any watering that you do for your long-term plants that are just getting established needs to be done gently. You can't turn a hose on full-blast. Rather, gently water the soil around the plant instead of the plant itself.
You don't want to overwater any of the low-water varieties you are planting. Plants that don't get watered will grow a deeper root system than ones that are frequently watered. You want to start your plants off trying to seek water from the ground.
Besides doing less watering, low-moisture gardens bring a couple of other benefits. They take much less time than a traditional garden.
For instance, you'll notice that you won't get as many weeds in a low-water situation once your plants are up. There just won't be enough water for them to grow.
But, you'll want to pluck out any weeds that do creep in. You'll also want to be diligent about weeding as your plants are just sprouting. That way weeds aren't competing with your plants for resources.
Many garden pests thrive in moist environments. They'll often leave your dry land crops alone. So you'll have fewer to deal with.
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Nordic Food Glossary, an iPhone app that is also accessible via the internet, brings you the names of everything<|fim_middle|> those charming beauties of the deep called anglerfish. | edible in English and seven languages spoken in the Nordic countries.
What will they bring you if you request merikrotti in Finland? The same thing you'd get asking for breiflabb in Norway or skötselur in Iceland, of course. Since food names and related terms vary so widely between languages, and since each country has its own specialities, it can be daunting to decipher and remember them – even if you're proficient in the language.
An iPhone app called Nordic Food Glossary puts the words at your fingertips so you don't have to guess. Also viewable on your nearest web browser, the glossary lists thousands of foods and ingredients in English, Finnish, Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Icelandic, Faroese and Greenlandic, from air-dried ham to yams.
So next time you run into merikrotti, breiflabb or skötselur – or havtaske or marulk, for that matter – you'll know you're dealing with one of | 206 |
Egghead was off the wall and all over the building and grounds during the Library site work this summer. Here Egghead oversees repairs in the Reading Garden.
The Youth Services department now boasts a special section for graphic novels. New shelving was installed in one of the window alcoves, as well as some tween friendly chairs and ottomans. The furniture, a sign, and 100 comics and graphic novels suitable for a number of young age groups were purchased using funds from an Illinois Public Library Per Capita Grant. The alcove is not hard to find—just look for the large "Graphic Novels" sign on the Library's lower level.
During the May meeting of the Board of Library Trustees, three trustees began new terms of office. Richard Henders and incumbent Andrew Deitchman were elected to four-year terms in April. Tom Von Lunen was appointed by the Board to a two-year term to fill a vacancy. Doug Sullivan was elected president of the board; Diane Blodgett, vice president; Cara Schuster, secretary; and Tom Von Lunen, treasurer.
Batavia City Council meeting minutes from 1874 to 1969 have been digitized and now can be viewed online at BataviaHistory.org. The minutes from May 1915 to 1969 are searchable. Funding for this microfilm and digitization project was provided by the City of Batavia. To view the minutes, go to BataviaHistory.org > Local History > City of Batavia.
The Library has a new online resource called Gale Courses. The courses are six-week instructorled courses for adults on a huge variety of topics, including computers, business,<|fim_middle|>0,000. This construction project is a great example of how the Library works to be a good steward of the community's resources: nearly all (95.5%) of the Library's limited revenues accrue from property tax.
Contrary to popular perception, the building is no longer new. It opened 13½ years ago and construction began 15¹/³ years ago. As a result, much of the work now underway is simply standard maintenance. For example, the sidewalks settled awkwardly in several areas throughout the campus, which is a safety issue, so we are replacing those sections of sidewalk.
Further, the mortar joints in the cast-stone retaining walls were cracked in many places—just like what happens to a brick or stone house over time—so we are repointing those walls.
During the original construction, when costs were higher than anticipated, some less expensive materials were used that now need to be replaced. For example, the metalwork (railings, etc.), was made of steel, which rusts. We are replacing the steel metalwork with low maintenance, powder-coated aluminum metalwork.
Some materials did not perform as well over time as originally anticipated. For example, the wooden column covers at the main entrance split and had trouble holding paint, so we are replacing them with a durable fiberglass-based product, which will stand the test of time.
When the coping caps were removed from the walls, we discovered that not all the flashing (used to divert water away from the walls) was adequate to the task, which suggests that the work of the original contractor—now out of business—was below average in this instance. The caps are being reinstalled with state-of-the-art flashing, which will endure for years to come.
Finally, the Library is responding to community feedback by widening the entryway at the top of the stairway at Wilson and Water streets from 5½ to 10 feet, and adding a sign. These improvements nicely complement the City of Batavia's previously completed streetscape improvements on West Wilson Street by improving pedestrian and visual access to the Library and its Reading Garden.
The Library will stay open for business during construction; please pardon our dust. | design, language, writing, and personal development. The courses are free and only require a Batavia Public Library card to participate. To view the list of courses available, visit BataviaPublicLibrary.org > Research/Databases > Education > Gale Courses.
The Library is now making several exterior improvements to the Library campus, totaling about $95 | 68 |
Blackmore Sports and Social Club really is at the heart of the village hall site. In the club we welcome everyone to come and enjoy our lovely facilities. With a comfortable lounge bar, large sports bar and lovely paved area out the back of the building leading onto the enormous grounds, which includes a children's play area plus football pitches, a cricket pitch and enough space for families to enjoy!
You can either come and enjoy a nice drink in the sunshine while sitting on our paved area outside or stay inside and watch any of the TVs screens which show both SKY Sports or BT sport.
Our drinks are priced very competitively and we have a lovely menu for you to choose should you feel peckish on Saturdays.
Our club is also the perfect venue for a variety of other events too. We have party nights, a quiz night each month and live bands<|fim_middle|> keep the community at the heart of what we do! Why not come along and take a look for yourself.
You can follow us on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter to stay up to date on what's happening at the club.
Non-Members are welcome, however we encourage you to become a Member to enjoy many discounts available in the THE CLUB and at many local restaurants and shops. Just click on the Membership Page for more information.
We will be showing football games during our opening times. Full Premier League, FA Cup, League Cup, Champions League, Europa League and England games list below. | on throughout the year. The club can also be used during the day for more private purposes and is the perfect setting for wakes, office training, group meetings plus much more.
We work hard to ensure Blackmore Sports and Social Club is all about the community and we | 53 |
MIT's Autonomous 'Roboats' Learn to Shapeshift
By Ryan Whitwam on August 30, 2019 at 7:30 am
Self-driving cars may be the future for most cities, but Amsterdam is about one-quarter water thanks to its extensive canal network. So, maybe autonomous boats are worth exploring? MIT has been working with the Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Metropolitan Solutions (AMS Institute) to create just that. When we last checked in on the so-called "Roboat" vessels, they had just learned to reliably link up while floating on water. Now, MIT reports Roboats can shapeshift into different conformations in just a few minutes.
Each individual Roboat is a fully fledged vessel, but the idea is not to have you hop on a single boat and use it as a taxi. From the start, MIT and AMS Institute have worked toward a multi-use role for the robotic vessels. Rather than designing different boats for different tasks, the Roboats can link up to become whatever people need. They could form bridges, stages, cargo transports, and floating busses.
Progress has been swift for the Roboat project. In 2016, MIT tested a prototype boat that could move along pre-programmed routes. In 2018, it developed a method to 3D print the boats and tested advanced location tracking algorithms. Earlier this year, MIT and AMS Institute demoed the latching system that lets the robots link together on the water.
The latest advance adds a layer of complexity to the Roboat docking system, marking a<|fim_middle|> the "core" of a structure. One or more worker Roboats connect to the coordinator and use actuators to help steer it.
The current Roboats are one-quarter scale versions of the planned units. They're about one meter long and half a meter wide. The team believes the trajectory-planning algorithms developed for the smaller boats will scale up to the full-sized ones when they exist in a few years.
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roboats | major step toward the goals of the project. MIT says it has developed new algorithms that allow the boats to smoothly reshape themselves in a few minutes. So, controllers can ask for a confirmation of Roboats like lines, squares, and L-shapes. The boats talk amongst themselves and determine the best way to morph into the desired shape.
Testing the automated latching.
The shapes demonstrated in a pool at MIT are admittedly simple, consisting of just a handful of boats. However, the programming that went into it is still incredibly complex. Engineers had to make sure each boat was aware of its location relative to others, as well as how the group could move while shapeshifting to avoid collisions. To make that happen, the team created a division of labor. Both classes of Roboat have four propellers, wireless communication gear, and multiple docking hardpoints. The coordinators also have GPS and inertial measurement units (IMUs) that allow them to form | 193 |
Last Chance Mine is one of Creede's richest and most historic mines. Tour the amethyst vein, a remarkable deposit of high-grade silver ore.
The mine is open daily between Memorial Day weekend and the first big snowfall of fall. There is a museum that houses mining equipment from the 1890s to 1930s. There are also three rustic cabins on site, which can accommodate up to 12 people. Each is complete with water, wood and bedding. It's free for guests, although, donations are graciously accepted.
The Last Chance Mine was built during Creede's great silver days, more than 115 years ago. It was the last big strike in the region by prospector Theodore Renniger in 1891, and his last attempt at striking it rich. It contained a vast of Amethyst Vein ore, and quickly became of Creede's biggest producers. It had 75 employees and a 1,400-footlong inclined shaft that would later access 13 underground levels.
In the 1970s another survey of the mine found additional silver reserves. However, the economics costs of development outweighed the decision to continue, so the Last Chance Mine closed. It sat empty, withering away for the next twenty years. Until Jack Morris, a truck who spent much time transporting cargo to the country's still operating mines, came along. After spending his month-long vacations in Creede for years he purchased the mine in 1998 from Nancy Granger Schallen, granddaughter of one of the mine's original investors, Ralph Granger.
In 1999 he moved to Creede and began to restore four mine buildings, in plans to reopen the mine to the public to offer tours, and preserve its rich history. In 2005 he opened the Last Chance Mine for public tours.
Mine tour in Creede
Admission to the mine is free, which opens each season on Memorial Day weekend. Once the snow comes in the fall, the mine closes again for the year. Although winter weekend snowshoe or cross-country ski trips are available with special reservations.
All ages are welcome on this family friendly tour. Children must be accompanied by a parent at all times. Proper footwear is recommended for hiking around at 10,300 feet.
Rockhounds and<|fim_middle|>'s Cabin.
Tunnel entrance number #2.
1891 Ore Sorting Building.
Restored Ore Sorting Building.
Miner statue.
Museum and Bunkhouse Cabin.
Address: 504 Last Chance Mine Rd, Creede
Season: late May – October
Website: lastchancemine.com
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Bayan Gas Redevelopment Project Phase 2, Offshore Sarawak
Kristin Sor Oil and Gas Satellite Fields, North Sea
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The Malampaya field is located 80km off the coast of Palawan Island, in the Republic of the Philippines.
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To ensure an even surface, 361 mounds of rock were placed, totalling 17,000t.
A channel 150m wide and 12m deep was dredged from Green Beach to Subic Bay.
The concrete gravity structure is permanently ballasted by placing 75,000t of iron ore in its open cells.
Rock dumping enables scour protection of the gravity structure.
In August 1998, Shell Philippines Exploration BV awarded Brown & Root a $432m design, procurement, fabrication, installation and commissioning contract.
Shell Philippines Exploration BV is the project operator. The joint venture partners in the project are Chevron Malampaya LLC (45%) and PNOC Exploration Corporation (10%).
Malampaya project was developed and is being operated by Shell Philippines Exploration on behalf of the joint venture partners.
Philippine Department of Energy led the development. In October 2001, the project was inaugurated at the onshore gas plant in Batangas.
The platform consists of a deck, supported by a concrete gravity sub-structure (CGS).
Processed gas is compressed and exported through a 504km pipeline to the Batangas onshore facility at Luzon Island, in the Philippines.
Condensate is stabilised on the topsides, stored in the CGS and then exported to a shuttle tanker through a catenary anchored leg mooring system, located 3km from the platform.
The design capacity of the integrated CGS and deck is 508 million cubic feet gas and 32,800 barrels (bbl) of stabilised condensate per day.
The platform is located in water 43m-deep and the deepwater subsea wells are at a depth of 850m.
The field was developed using a manifold cluster of subsea wells tied back to the platform.
The manifold comprises a three-pile foundation and was installed with the assistance of a spacer template, a manifold support structure, tie-in porches for ten cluster wells, three umbilicals, three flowlines and a retrievable manifold consisting of three header ball valves and ten gate valves.
Topside details
The topsides were subcontracted to Sembawang Marine & Offshore Engineering (SMOE).
The contract involved the fabrication, onshore commissioning and load-out of a three-level integrated deck, together with an accommodation module for up to 44 people.
Topsides measure 40m x 90m in plan and reach 25m from the base of the cellar deck to the helideck. The lower (cellar) deck contains the major pumps, heavy wall vessels and workshops.
Middle deck, or production deck, contains the separation equipment and the electrical-control module.
Equipment on the top deck, or weather deck, includes two export gas compressors, three power-generation gas turbines and a crane.
The initial operating weight of the topside was 13,000t. This equated to a load-out weight, excluding the transportation frame, of 10,000t, and was the heaviest topside ever constructed by SMOE at that time.
Fabrication of the deck commenced at Sembawang's yard, located in the north of Singapore, in June 1999. It was completed on schedule in 2001.
Concrete gravity sub-structure
Topsides sit on a concrete gravity sub-structure (CGS), the first to be constructed in the Philippines.
Brown & Root subcontracted the work to the Malampaya CGS Alliance, which consisted of John Holland, Arup Energy and Van Oord ACZ, for the engineering, procurement, construction and installation of the structure.
CGS consists of a rectangular-based caisson, measuring 112m x 70m on plan, which is 16m-high.
It has four shafts extending 15m above water level to provide support to a deck with an operational weight of 13,000t.
In addition to providing deck support, the CGS is used for the temporary storage of up to 385,000bbl of condensate, produced from the subsea wells located 30km away.
CGS subcontract was the single biggest value subcontract placed by BRES at that time under its Malampaya platform contract.
CGS was constructed in a purpose-built dry-dock located in Subic Bay.
In total, the CGS required 66,000t of concrete, 7,100t of reinforcing steel and 600t of pre-stressing steel strands.
CGS was placed on a pre-prepared foundation to accommodate the unevenness of the seabed.
This involved placing 17,000t of rock in 361 mounds on the seabed. To allow access to the open sea, a channel 150m-wide and 12m-deep was dredged.
After installation, 3,000t of rock was placed around the corners of the CGS for scour protection and 75,000t of iron ore was placed in the open cells.
The structure was installed three months before schedule although the storage system was changed from wet to dry.
The concrete structure was completed by March 2000 and the deck was installed in March 2001.
In December 2001, an extended well test of the thin oil rim beneath the field initially yielded about 8,000 barrels per day (bpd).
The well test was performed by the Atwood Falcon drilling rig and Stena Natalita floating storage unit.
It is also believed to be the deepest horizontal subsea well test undertaken in the world at a depth of about 850m.
Malampaya contracts
Transfield Services WorleyParsons was contracted to offer integrated services at the gas facility.
Awarded in December 2009, the A$76m contract was for seven years starting from January 2010, with a provision to extend for another three years.
The contract for design and supply of subsea production manifold for the project was given to Cooper Cameron.
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Learn Spanish Grammar: Spanish Verb "To Become"
Worksheets > Spanish Verbs Spanish Verb "To Become"
One of the hardest verbs to translate into Spanish is the English word "to become". A quick look at an English/Spanish dictionary will show you that there are numerous definitions for this verb in Spanish. You can use "become" in a variety of situations in English that in Spanish you would need a different verb. In English you can "become tired" or "become a lawyer" or "become angry". You can use "to become" to talk about the change in the state of something. Water "becomes" ice in cold temperatures. Again, in Spanish different verbs are used to express these different ideas. There is no one verb that is an exact translation of the English verb "to become". This lesson will clear up when to use which Spanish verb for expressing "to become". I provided the conjugations for the irregular verbs in the preterit and present tenses that can mean "to become".
"Hacerse" can be used to express a change obtained through effort or intent.
Me hice doctor el año pasado.
I became a doctor last year.
Se hicieron abogados para defender a los pobres.
They became lawyers to defend the poor.
Ella se hizo maestra en mayo.
She became a teacher in May.
2. To become a trait by putting forth effort.
Se hizo rico en Venezuela.
He got/became rich in Venezuela.
Yo me hice organizado para mejorar mi vida.
I became organized to improve my life.
3. To intentionally become something.
Se hicieron amigos cuando se conocieron hace un mes.
They became friends when they met last month.
Nos hicimos cristianos el año pasado.
We became Christians last year.
The man becomes good when he discovers God.
4. Set expressions that express "becoming".
Se está haciendo más difícil.
(The situation) is getting/becoming more difficult.
"Volverse" can be used for expressions of "to become" when you want to express a sudden drastic change. It is followed by an adjective. See the examples below after the present and preterit tense conjugations.
1. To suddenly arrive at a different state.
Me volví loco cuando pasé el día con mis niños.
I went crazy when I spent the day with my kids.
Paco se vuelve tonto cuando está borracho.
Paco becomes stupid when he's drunk.
2. To suddenly change a state like a color or consistency.
El líquido se vuelve más blanco con los productos químicos.
The liquid becomes whiter with the chemicals.
El agua se volvió hielo por el frío.
The water became ice because of the cold.
"Llegar a ser" can also be used to express "to become" in Spanish. It often is used to state that a person intentionally but gradually became something (like a lawyer or doctor) through effort.
Después de muchos años en la Universidad Juan llegó a ser profesor de matemáticas.
After many years at the University Juan became a math professor.
Si llego a ser medico te ayudaré.
If I become a doctor I'll help you.
"Ponerse" can also be used to express "to become" in Spanish. It is used in situations where the change came about without the intent of the subject being described. This verb would be used to talk about arriving at a state like becoming sick, bored, or angry.
Me pongo nervioso cuando hablo con mi jefe.
I become/get nervous when I talk to my boss.
Se puso celoso cuando el hombre habló con su esposa.
He became jealous when the man spoke with his wife.
Se pusieron enfermos después de comer la comida mala.
They became sick after eating the bad food.
Te pones enojado cuando tus estudiantes no te<|fim_middle|>oja cuando pierde las llaves. She gets angry when she loses her keys.
Yo me enojé contigo. I got mad at you.
Me emociono cuando veo a mi perro.
I get excited when I see my dog.
Se emocionaron durante el partido.
They got excited at the game. | hacen caso.
You become angry when your students don't listen to you.
"Convertirse" is yet another way to express "to become" in Spanish. This verb is used to express a change in state, but usually when referring to a thing and not a person. It can also be translated into "to turn into".
El partido se convirtió en una pelea cuando Juan y Paco empezaron a pelear.
The game became a fight when Juan and Paco started fighting.
El campo se convierte en ciudad cuando llega mucha gente.
The country becomes a city when many people arrive.
México se convierte en un país poderoso.
Mexico becomes a powerful country.
El número tres se convierte en cuatro cuando lo sumas con uno.
The number three becomes four when you add it with one.
Engordecer = To get fat.
Te vas a engordar si comes tanto helado. You're going to get fat if you eat so much ice cream.
Mi hermano se engordó cuando se mudó aquí. My brother got fat when he moved here.
Enfermarse: = To get sick.
Me enfermé durante mi vacación en las montañas.
I got sick during my vacation in the mountains.
Mi hijo se enferma cada invierno. My son gets sick every winter.
Enojarse: = To get angry.
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For years I have been using the same ol boring leopard print Ionkia flat iron. Little did I know. I was seriously missing out. I would have never imagined that certain flat irons would be better for your hair, nor did it ever cross my mind that they could make my hair more healthy looking. I mean its heat right? If I knew that I would have purchased one of these years ago.
For starters I've never received so many little goodies in a package before. It really shows how generous, and loyal the Misikko brand really is. The Hana Professional Flat Iron was packed so tightly in a tin case which is great to store your flat iron in when your not using it, or simply for traveling. Also one of many other things that were included is a drawstring heat proof bag, which is also great to store, travel, or lie on considering its heat proof. Another great thing that I was so excited about is their rubberized mat. I use this mat everyday. I have it laid out on my vanity to protect it. I think this is a great idea, so that you don't have to worry about your flat iron getting so hot that it might melt where ever you may set it down while styling your hair, and also for it to cool down after your done using it. I also really like the leather material bag. This bag is really great if your not going to use it for a while, keeps it from damaging, or collecting dust. This bag would also be great for travel as well, so you have an array of bags to choose from.
One of my favorite items included with<|fim_middle|> rewarding. I also do like the fact that you can use this flat iron wet, or dry which is a wonderful advantage from my other flat iron, so that if I don't really dry my hair all the way I can still straighten my hair without frying it to pieces. The only disadvantage may be is the price. You can pick up this Hana 1 1/5 inch flat iron right now for $129 which is 40% off there original price. However, included is a two year warranty so you have the reassurance that if anything happens to it they either fix, or replace it. There are a ton of different sizes, and brand of flat irons on the Misikko website if your interested in a new flat iron that is better for your hair I'll put the links below.
Disclaimer: The product mentioned was sent to me for consideration. The opinions expressed in this post are all honest, and my own.
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great review! i have 2 CHI flat iron collecting dust, and a KQC as well as a GHD red lust. can you tell i NEED a flat iron? lol my natural hair is no where near being straight.
Dang, that's a good price. I've just been using the same Remington straightener. I love that it comes with a pouch and mat!
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Now for the flat iron. I never really thought that a flat iron could be good for your hair. I mean its heat. Heat isn't ever good for your hair. Right? Although, I understand that heat will never be great for your hair. Their are many flat irons that actually are a lot better for your hair then most of us think. After using a less inexpensive flat iron for years, and using the Hana Flat Iron it really surprised me how great my hair started looking just after one use.
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• Take in WaterTower Theatre's Out of the Loop Fringe Festival a short walk away from the Addison Transit Center. Featuring some of the best acts in theatre, music, dance and art from around the region and the world, OOTL continues to bring all three spaces of the Addison Theatre Centre alive with exciting, contemporary work. Seven world premieres highlight this year's festival as well as 12 new artists/companies making their Festival debut, plus several returning favorites. Information: www.watertowertheatre.org.
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By 1820, before steamboats tamed the Ohio River and drew industry to its banks, Lexington was one of the largest and wealthiest towns west of the Allegheny Mountains. If you wanted to engage in commerce you came to Lexington. If you wanted an education you came to Lexington. If you wanted to keep up with the latest news or borrow a book you came to Lexington.
Early on the growing of hemp used in ropes on sailing ships drove the economy. The tobacco became a cash crop for more than a century. There were local distilleries and in recent years education and technology have been the economic engine. But hovering above it all in Lexington since its founding in 1775 has been horse breeding.
The men from Maryland and Virginia who settled the town rode their best horses over the mountains or floated them on flatboats down the Kentucky River. The first census in 1790 showed more horses in Lexington than people. Kentucky's first races had begun informally three years earlier. An early law in the county was passed that was designed to keep the blood of race horses pure. Stallions were imported from England and Arabia and the breeding of thoroughbreds, trotters and saddle horses came to infuse every aspect of life in Lexington. Today nearly 50,000 horses are bred each year on the Bluegrass Country farms around Lexington.
This is the fifth courthouse to stand on this site and after so much tinkering with its predecessors it has stood largely unaltered in appearance since 1898. The building is an interpretation of the brawny Richardsonian Romanesque style often favored for important civic buildings of the 1890s. The courthouse features such hallmarks of the style as prominent gables, bold arches and conical towers. On the lawn are commemorative statues of two Lexington natives, Confederate General John Hunt Morgan and John Cabell Breckinridge, America's youngest Vice President. Since 2003 the former courthouse has hosted the Lexington History Museum.
When the directors of the Fayette Bank, founded in 1870, decided to tear down their 1880s French Second Empire banking house on this corner in 1912 they went to New York City and came back with the greatest architectural firm in America - McKim, Mead and White. The New Yorkers were at the forefront of the move towards classically-styled buildings in the early 1900s and here designing partner William Mitchell Kendall applied the exuberant Beaux Arts style to this 225-foot tower. The skyscraper was intended as a symbol of the bank's success and it would be almost 60 years before another high-rise would be raised in Lexington to challenge it.
This three-story brick building was constructed in 1849. In the 1860s a cast iron facade was added and the appearance has remained virtually the same since. Cast iron enjoyed a brief wave of popularity in the mid-19th century as a quick and inexpensive way to bring high-style to commercial buildings and this is one of two such facades remaining in Lexington. In this case it was an Italian Renaissance look, punctuated with arched windows and Corinthian pilasters. As early as 1824 John Norton operated an apothecary on this site and it is that company that Harry K. McAdams and J.W. Morford purchased in 1898. While drugs were dispensed on the ground floor, the upstairs areas found various uses, including a theater and classrooms for the Commercial College of Kentucky University.
WALK WEST ON MAIN STREET (THE COURTHOUSE IS ON YOUR RIGHT).
Chartered in 1865, the Lexington City National Bank anchored this corner with a Beaux Arts-inspired building in 1905. Clarence E. Richards, partner in the top architectural firm in Columbus, Ohio, executed the design in brick, stone and glazed tile. Richards saved his most exuberant decorative flourishes for the top of the eight-story building. The City National name remains carved over the entrance but the bank went through a flurry of name changes and mergers after it set up shop here.
Herman L. Rowe was the dean of Lexington architects in the late 19th century. Here he tapped the High Victorian Gothic style in 1891 for the three-story, four-bay commercial building. The cut-stone facade is the town's most festive remaining from the eclectic Victorian Lexington streetscape. The building was erected for a vault and trust company but its prominent location at the flank of the courthouse quickly made it a favorite office for lawyers and realtors.
CONTINUE WALKING WEST ON MAIN STREET.
Sheathed entirely in blue-tinted plate glass, this 410-foot tower is Lexington's tallest building. It was completed in 1987 on plans from the Kentucky architectural firm of Sherman Carter Barnhart.
Since its opening in 1976, Rupp Arena has been the centerpiece of Lexington Center, a convention and shopping facility owned by an arm of the Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government, and serves as home court to the University of Kentucky men's basketball program. It carries the name of Adolph Rupp who coached the Wildcats for 41 years beginning in 1930, winning 876 games and four national championships. In that time only one Rupp-coached team ever lost more than ten games in a season.
This block of picturesque commercial buildings have been fixtures at this prominent intersection since the 1880s. The Italianate-style buildings demonstrate familiar elements of the style - tall windows, decorative window hoods and bracketed eaves. The block of sixteen buildings has housed basket makers, greengrocers, casket sellers and an opera house. A 1985 make-over fused them all under a single roof, preserving as much ornamentation as possible.
TURN RIGHT ON BROADWAY. TURN LEFT ON SHORT STREET.
Opera was never much on the entertainment menu here. J.W. Lell operated a beer parlor on the first floor and a theater on the second floor where stage acts typically consisted of a "girlie" show with a male performer in the lead. The 3-bay brick building was constructed in 1882. Herman L. Rowe provided the ornate Italianate design with a center pediment for the one-time burlesque house.
"Opera House" was a catch-all phrase for a town's main stage in the 19th century and this one was constructed in 1886 to replace an earlier opera house that had just burned down. Oscar Cobb, a Chicago architect who specialized in theater design, drew up plans with a Turkish theme and the results were satisfactory enough for the Kentucky Leader to gush that the Lexington Opera House was the the "costliest, handsomest and most convenient Thespian temples in the South, an object of cherished pride in the city." The biggest stars of the day beat a path to the Opera House until its final live performance on October 1, 1926. After that the Opera House made the transition to a movie house, screening the new "talkies" of the day until it went the way of most downtown theaters and closed in the onslaught of competition from television and suburban malls. The Lexington Opera House was one of the lucky ones, however, as it dodged the wrecking ball and re-opened for live performances again in 1976.
RETRACE YOUR STEPS TO SHORT STREET AND TURN LEFT, HEADING EAST.
This is another heritage high-rise contributed to the Lexington streetscape from Richards, McCarty and Bulford of Columbus, Ohio. Here they used thin bricks to decorate the facade and create the illusion of pillars. When it was completed in 1903 it was the second tallest building in Lexington.
Down the street another Richards, McCarty and Bulford building began life in 1904 as a YMCA, constructed of brick atop a rusticated base. The Beaux Arts facade boasts a classical entrance and is wrapped in broad quoins at the corner. In 1979 the space was transformed by the Lexington Arts and Cultural Council to an art center.
Scotch-Irish settlers founded this congregation in 1784 as the Mount Zion Church. Cincinnatus Shyrock, whose brother Gideon championed the Greek Revival style and was the architect for the Old State Capitol in Frankfort, drew up the designs for this meetinghouse in 1872. Architecture was a sideline for Shyrock who studied medicine at Transylvania and was an amateur astronomer as well. The Gothic-style First Presbyterian is highlighted by a 150-foot copper spire that retains a place of honor in the surrounding streetscape.
Henry Clay, one of America's most powerful politicians never to become President, although he tried three times, began his law practice in this building in 1803 when he was 25 years old. Clay was a Virginian by birth but followed his mother out to the frontier in 1797. He constructed this simple Federal-style structure of brick and launched his political career here by winning successive terms to the Kentucky Legislature. In 1830 the building was expanded into a two-story commercial block which was purchased by the State in 1969 and restored to its original appearance as one of the earliest professional buildings standing in Kentucky.
John Wesley Hunt arrived in Lexington in 1795 and opened a store, engaged in horse breeding, manufactured hemp and started a bank while building one of the first fortunes west of the Allegheny Mountains. In 1814 he constructed this fine Federal-stye brick house that he called Hopemont. Hunt's maternal grandson, John Hunt Morgan became a revered Confederate raider during the Civil War when he carried the fight into Ohio and Indiana before being captured and killed in 1864. Hunt's great grandson, Thomas Hunt Morgan was born in this house in 1866. He grew up to be an American evolutionary biologist, geneticist, embryologist and science author who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1933 for discoveries about the role the chromosome plays in heredity.
This picturesque Victorian townhouse was constructed in the garden of the Hunt-Morgan house in the 1870s. Swedish architect-builder Phelix Lundin blended the Italianate style for the block of the house with a High Victorian Gothic corner tower.
This cluster of three Queen Anne brick houses were constructed by Mrs. William Cassius Goodloe, the widow of a former United States minister to Belgium, for her three daughters around 1901. Each house has the same floor floor plan, but different exteriors.
Colonel Robert Patterson, who had a hand in the founding of Lexington and Cincinnati and Dayton in Ohio, constructed this log cabin in the late 1770s. It may have been the first dwelling in Lexington. Patterson was born in Bedford County, Pennsylvania in 1753 and traveled west when he was 21 years old. He constructed the cabin to stake a claim to thousands of acres outside the blockhouse then standing at today's Broadway and Main. The Pattersons sold the cabin in 1804 and after eleven different owners the property came into the hands of John H. Patterson in 1901 who disassembled his ancestral home and shipped to Dayton. It was returned to Lexington in 1939 and presented to Transylvania University.
TURN AND WALK BACK TO THE MAIN ENTRANCE OF THE UNIVERSITY AND TURN LEFT, WALKING UP THE CIRCULAR DRIVE.
With vast tracts of confiscated British land during the American Revolution, the Virginia Legislature authorized 8,000 acres in its County of Kentucky for "a public school or seminary of learning." Three years later in 1783 that school became the first west of the Allegheny Mountains, destined to be at the forefront of educational facilities in America in the early 1800s. Henry Clay taught here and future luminaries such as Jefferson Davis, Albert Sidney Johnson and John Cabell Breckinridge studied here. After the main building on campus burned in 1829 the school used a $30,000 bequest from the will of James Morrison to finance the construction of this magnificent Doric temple from local architect Gideon Shyrock, anointed as the "Father of Greek Revival architecture in Kentucky." Morrison was a Pennsylvanian who fought in the American Revolution and came to Lexington with statehood in 1792. In short order he became a state representative, quartermaster-general of the local militia, president of the branch of the United States Bank, and chairman of the board of Trustees of Transylvania University. The building was gutted by fire in 1969 but restored to its original appearance which graces the city seal of Lexington.
WALK BACK DOWN THE CIRCULAR DRIVE AND CROSS THIRD STREET INTO THE PARK.
This slender slice of greenspace was where Transylvania Seminary settled when it moved from Danville in 1789. Matthew Kennedy designed a three-story education building with single-story wings here in 1816 but it perished in a fire in 1829. The space was eventually dedicated as Centennial Park in 1876 and now carries the<|fim_middle|> worshipped in their homes and in a log chapel until the first meetinghouse, Saint Peter, was erected on Third Street in 1812. Popular missionary priest, Father Stephen Badin, was responsible for building the church. The site, with its own cemetery, was then on the outskirts of town. The current sanctuary, with a bell tower on the rise of a hill, was constructed in 1929 on plans drawn by Crowe and Schulte of Cincinnati.
Erected in 1893-94, this building is Lexington's best example of the Richardsonian Romanesque style, executed by brothers Edwin and Frank Smith. Henry Hobson Richardson was the most influential American architect of the post-Civil War era and the Smiths were faithful adherents to his design theories, to the point that they imported the maestro's favorite building material - brown Longmeadow puddingstone from Massachusetts - for the church building. The contrasting stone, the arches grouped in sets of three, the polished columns, the prominent gables, the patterned terra-cotta are all signatures of the Richardsonian style. Considered the direct descendant of the Cane Ridge Christian Church founded by Robert W. Finley in 1790, this congregation organized in 1816.
The core of this building was constructed in 1917 to house the offices and presses of the Lexington Herald. The ancestral editions of the Herald hit the streets in 1870 as the Lexington Daily Press. A descendant of that paper was published in 1895 as the Morning Herald which later swapped in "Lexington." In 1937 the owner of the rival Lexington Leader purchased the Herald and after years of independent publication in the morning and evening the papers merged to from the Herald-Leader.
TURN LEFT ON SHORT STREET. TURN RIGHT ON ESPLANADE ALLEY. TURN RIGHT ON MAIN STREET.
In 1921 the Lafayette Amusement Company offered $20 in gold to name their planned "palatial new photoplay house" and wound up with probably the most obvious winner in name contest history. They hired Louisville architects Alfred and Oscar Joseph to design the new Kentucky Theatre and the brothers created a Beaux Arts movie palace that looked an awful lot from the outside like the a movie house they had just designed back in their hometown - also called the Kentucky Theatre. No matter. The enterprise was such a success that Lafayette opened a 950-seat theater next door, called the State Theatre, in 1929. And unlike its Louisville cousin this Kentucky Theatre is still going strong.
The Lafayette Hotel was named for French General Marquis de Lafayette, who stopped in town in 1825 during a celebrated 50th anniversary tour of the United States. The hotel was constructed in 1918 on plans drawn by Cincinnati architects Christian C. and E.A. Weber who had worked across northern Kentucky and designed the Governor's Mansion in Frankfort. Here they delivered an elegant interpretation of the Italian Renaissance style with a base of pink Rockport granite and buff Bedford limestone shipped from Indiana. For a long time the 12-story Lafayette marked the eastern boundary of high-rise construction in Lexington. The hotel closed, top shelf until the end, in 1963 and was converted into government office space.
This four-story building is another commercial downtown structure attributed to Herman L. Rowe from the turn of the 20th century. The Neoclassical style is representative of his later work. It now does duty as the Downtown Arts Center featuring a theater, gallery and rehearsal space. Next door to the west at #139 is a splash of Art Deco constructed in 1929 for the Lexington Laundry Company.
Books had been lent in Lexington as early as 1795 on a subscription basis to well-heeled members. It is the oldest such institution in Kentucky. The library started with 400 books that supplemented a collection on the campus of the Transylvania Seminary. It was not until 1898 that the town established a free public lending library. Today the collection resides in this five-story granite-and-marble repository created in 1987.
This site was occupied by a hotel for 180 years beginning with the Postlewhait Inn in 1797, the oldest occupied hotel site in Kentucky. Since 1833 that hotel was the Phoenix, the type of guest house Presidents and celebrities would check into when in town. The Phoenix shuttered in 1977 and a town institution demolished in 1982. Today that space is occupied by a landscaped park with fountains, benches and tables.
Cincinnatus Shyrock created this elongated French Second Empire home for the Oddfellows fraternal lodge in 1870. Look up to see one of the few mansard roofs in Lexington.
John McMurtry was a noted architect and builder in Lexington through most of the 1800s with many important buildings to his credit including Floral Hall and the Lexington Cemetery gates. When he constructed the Higgins Block in 1872 the cast-iron facade was hailed as "the handsomest of any building in Lexington." At the time the three-story commercial block boasted 15 full bays of which you can still see six today. The street level has been compromised but the Corinthian columns and keystoned arches remain up above.
Here is another creation of John McMurtry. For this 12-bay brick commercial building in 1860 McMurtry employed a Greek Revival style.
WALK A FEW MORE STEPS TO THE TOUR STARTING POINT IN COURTHOUSE SQUARE. | name of early Lexington businessman Benjamin Gratz whose family lived at the corner of Mill and New streets for 160 years and whose son Howard, publisher of the Kentucky Gazette, spearheaded the improvement of the park. The fountain at the head of Gratz Park is a gift from James Lane Allen, a Transylvania graduate who moved to New York in 1893 and became a popular novelist and short story writer drawing on Kentucky themes. New York sculptor Joseph Pollia crafted the fountain that was dedicated in 1933.
This is the only souvenir from the original Transylvania College campus as envisioned by Matthew Kennedy in 1816. The building served as classrooms and offices - the name "Kitchen" was a derogatory one from students mocking its inadequacy as a classroom. For most of the past 100 years the Kitchen has served as a gathering spot, first by the gentile card playing of the Ah-Sin Club and then as a community center when the Lexington Parks and Recreation department acquired the low slung rectangular building with a hipped roof.
WHEN YOU REACH THE BACK OF THE BUILDING AT THE END OF THE PARK, WALK AROUND TO THE FRONT.
When Andrew Carnegie got his first raise as a teenager working in the offices of the Pennsylvania Railroad - to $35 a month - he wrote years later, "I couldn't imagine what I could ever do with so much money." In 1901, when Carnegie sold his U.S. Steel Corporation to banker J.P. Morgan for $480 million Morgan shook his hand and told him, "Congratulations, Mr. Carnegie, you are now the richest man in the world." This time, Carnegie had an idea what to do with the money. He spent a large chunk of his fortune establishing more than 2,500 public libraries around the world. The gift to Lexington was $60,000 and helped construct this Beaux Arts structure of Bedford limestone in 1906. Herman L. Rowe, who embraced the classical style late in his career, contributed the design. When the Lexington Public Library moved to larger digs in the 1980s the Carnegie morphed into the home of the Carnegie Center for Literacy and Learning.
FACING THE CARNEGIE CENTER. TURN TO YOUR RIGHT AND WALK TO THE CORNER OF MARKET STREET.
Thomas Pindell, a partner in a distillery and a Lexington mayor, built one of the most substantial seats in early Kentucky with this brick mansion in 1814. Samuel Long, a local contractor, assembled the brick house. General Thomas Bodley, returning from a stint as deputy quartermaster during the War of 1812, purchased the house in 1814 for $10,000 as a statement of his standing in the community. Unfortunately by 1819 financial reversals forced Bodley to dispose of the property. Through the years the residence picked up numerous additions and alterations, including Greek Revival porticos to the Federal-style building that characterize the house today.
This is the fourth meetinghouse for Christ Church Cathedral, founded in 1796 as the oldest Episcopal church in the Commonwealth of Kentucky. Despite various facelifts the church looks essentially the same as it did to parishioners in 1848 when it was raised. There were some 1,800 worshipers at that time, the largest flock in the state. Christ Church was designated a cathedral in 1897.
The first bank in Kentucky was established in 1802 in Lexington as the Kentucky Insurance Company, which had initially formed to insure boats. In 1834 the banking system in Kentucky was re-organized with two banks and their branches. One of the two was the Northern Bank of Kentucky with headquarters in Lexington. In 1889 the Northern Bank constructed one of the finest buildings in town as an anchor to Market Street at the rear of the courthouse. The intervening years have seen the loss of its conical roof and corner turret and an unsympathetic remodeling of the ground floor but the old bank still retains visual interest.
TURN LEFT ON SHORT STREET.
Herman L. Rowe left scarcely an inch of the facade on this Beaux Arts three-story building undecorated. Look up to see engaged Corinthian columns and pilasters beneath a bold, projecting pediment.
If it is a heritage high-rise in Lexington it is likely to have come from the drawing boards of Richards, McCarty and Bulford of Columbus, Ohio and this building, the first high-rise in town, is no exception. The original five stories were completed in 1895 and, as you can see by looking up, two more floors were added a decade later.
TURN LEFT ON LIMESTONE STREET. TURN RIGHT ON BARR STREET.
The federal government favored building grand Neoclassical civic temples after passage of the Public Buildings Act of 1926 and this one came courtesy of architects John T. Gillig and Howard A. Churchill. Rendered of Bedford limestone on a granite base and enclosing 95,000 square feet, the 4 1/2-story building was completed in 1934. This was the town's only large-scale building project during the Depression and the exterior has remained unaltered since its completion.
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While Joe (John Hawkes) struggles to find gigs, maintain his heroin addiction, and stay out of jail, Amy grows up quickly in a single-room occupancy hotel on the fringes of Hollywood. There she bears witness to heartbreak and tragedy as well as soaring beauty and joy — in the jazz music that shaped her, the city and its denizens that nourished her, and the loving bond with her father and grandmother that kept her alive.
Shot on 16-millimeter film using anamorphic lenses to create the gritty textures of a bygone era, director Jeff Preiss returns to the same evocative locale as LET'S GET LOST, the 1988 Bruce Weber documentary on which he served as cinematographer. Featuring a stellar supporting cast including Peter Dinklage, Lena Headey, Flea, Caleb Landry Jones, Tim Daly and Taryn Manning, LOW DOWN locates cinematic soulfulness at the margins of society, where music, improvisation, craftsmanship — and love — coalesce to form the raw materials for the stories we tell ourselves in order to | 232 |
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Thor #1
By Dom Berardi
By Donny Cates, Matthew Wilson, Nic Klein, VC's Joe Sabino, Olivier Coipel, and Laura Martin
Thor #1 is a great introduction to the classic Marvel character for those who are not super familiar with his status quo. Our story begins with the fabled Thor taking on the throne of Asgard and enacting his rule in his own unique way and trying to be a different ruler than his father. WIthout going into too much detail, Thor's first speech to his people gets interrupted by a fearsome threat and Thor is now on a quest to stop a cosmic entity threatening the entire universe.
Hot off of the recent success of Venom, readers will be happy to see that Donny Cates is taking the reigns of Thor. A lot has happened with Thor in the past few years, especially with War of the Realms, and Cates does a great job of getting the reader up to speed on the basics of Thor's life. Thor is the god-king of Asgard and the new All-Father, check, Asgard has been remade in Thor's vision, check, Thor is retired from the avengers, check, and Loki is king of the frost giants, check. A lot of this may seem overwhelming but Cates explains the norm of Thor;s world well and without spending too much time on it while distracting from the story. Speaking of the story, it is hard to speak about it in too much detail without giving away spoilers but what can be said about it is that it feels as if a giant cosmic space epic is about to begin. Needless to say, it is a very interesting way to start the series and the stakes already feel high. The other great aspect of this issue is how Thor is written. We see a lot of the personality traits we associate with Thor as he boastful throws Mjolnir across the universe, arrogantly scolds Loki, and even having some nerves about giving his first speech as king.
This book really has a look of its own with an almost blue filter throughout the issue. Matthew Wilson and Nic Klein give the book its unique look and are successful at making Asgard look different than what we are used to. The aesthetic serves the dialogue as the narrator explains how Thor has remade Asgard in wood and stone as opposed to the lavish gold of the past. Something that really stands out in the art of the use of lightning and electrical effects. These effects are used effectively when showing off Thor's power and stand out on the page whenever they are present. As mentioned above, it is hard to talk about a few of the highlights in the art without giving spoilers, but the scene depicted during Thor's "speech" is very effective in depicting the destruction and chaos.
Thor #1 is a great start to a series and if readers are looking for something a little different than the typical tights and colorful costumes of most superhero books, they should give Thor #1 a shot.
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Dr Edward Adrian Wilson is one of the best known of Cheltenham's native sons and one of the most widely respected naturalists, artists and explorers from the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration. Despite this, remarkably little has been written about him.
In this exciting biography, Dr. David M. Wilson, his great nephew, and David B. Elder, a local Cheltenham librarian, have collaborated to produce the first biography of Edward Wilson for many years. It is richly illustrated with family photographs and paintings, many of which are being made available to<|fim_middle|> the return from the South Pole in 1912.
The final section of the book contains a series of "Wilson Walks" around Cheltenham and in Gloucestershire, so that the reader may trace many of the local sites with Wilson connections. | the public for the first time. The book traces the Cheltenham roots of Edward Wilson's extraordinary life, identifies many of the local sights associated with him, and follows him through to his death with Captain Scott on | 44 |
Culver City is at the center of economic, cultural and environmental growth and change. The City's Division of Environmental Programs & Operations (EPO), as part of the Public Works Department, has championed significant efforts to provide environmental education opportunities as well as improve services in the areas of resource conservation, environmental and public health protection, and solid waste diversion.
Tackling Culver City's environmental challenges requires hard work, cooperation and a commitment from City<|fim_middle|> City implements active transportation plans through bicycle and pedestrian initiatives.
If you have questions about Culver City's environmental programs, please contact Catherine Vargas, Environmental Coordinator, at catherine.vargas@culvercity.org or 310-253-6414. | staff as well as every individual, business and institution in the city. By working together, we can all ensure we are protecting and beautifying the City for generations to come.
Below is a collection of resources to help you learn more about Culver City and how it is helping keep the community environmentally safe, as well as options for the community to get involved.
Learn about the history of Ballona Creek and how you can be a part of its future.
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Learn how the City cares for trees and maintains the urban forest.
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The intent of the Capstone project is for you to use the same case / company throughout the course. Select one (1) out of the two (2) recommended cases listed below<|fim_middle|> this company's recent development.
Identify your chosen company's industry and determine its main competitors. Next, select two to three (2-3) strategies that the competitors use, and analyze whether or not the selected strategies are successful. Support your response.
Perform an industry analysis for the CEO of your chosen company in order for him / her to develop strategy for the company. Next, evaluate the company's current standing in this industry taking into account the company's resources and capabilities.
Propose at least three (3) performance goals for the company for the next one (1) and five (5) year period respectively. Provide a rationale for your response.
Demonstrate an understanding of the need for strategy and methods for developing a business strategy within an organization.
Apply analytical, technical, and research skills to assess and measure the value of organizations. | . Each case is located in the Cases to Accompany Contemporary Strategy Analysis section of the textbook.
You may also use Internet and / or Strayer Learning Resource Center to research articles on your chosen case or company.
Based on the case, you will perform an industry analysis and develop a strategy for the CEO of your chosen company to help shape the company's future.
Define strategy and examine how the definition of strategy fits your chosen company and its situation. Support your response.
Summarize the main strategies that your chosen company's management took leading up to | 109 |
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Have you ever gotten in trouble at the office for your noisy mouse clicks? Me 'neither, but that's the idea behind the Speedlink Calado. This mouse clicks silently, allowing you to use a mouse with unparalleled stealth.
I didn't know this was a thing, but there are quite a few similarly silent mice on Amazon, so there must be a demand for it! Let's put it to the test and see whether this covert rodent makes a good case for itself in this novel category.
The Calado has a sculpted shape that will suit right-handed users, becoming widest three-quarters of the way from front to back. The wider design allows more purchase for the palm, promising greater comfort particularly for extended use. The mouse is quite short however, so users with longer hands may find it a bit uncomfortable.
The two standard left and right click buttons take up the majority of the top, with a ridged scroll wheel in the usual position between them. A small DPI adjust button sits below this. All buttons on the mouse are silent, producing next to no noise whatsoever — quite unusual when you're using to clicky mice buttons!
There are standard back and forward buttons on the left side, allowing rapid navigation through folders and websites. Of course, these can also be bound to other functions in games as well.
The bottom of the mouse has the optical sensor and a small compartment for the single AAA battery required, which is provided. There's also a crevice for the USB wireless dongle to be stowed when the mouse is not in use.
We used the Speedlink Calado for a three day period with a Windows laptop, both at<|fim_middle|>, but it could be used with desktop machines with no problems as well.
The Calado surpassed my expectations; its design and build quality belie its low price point. If you have need of an ergonomic and silent mouse for work, the Calado is definitely worth a look.
Is it possible to reconfigure the mouse buttons? | home and on the train. We found that the Calado largely lives up to its promises: it is a silent mouse, it works immediately upon plugging in the wireless dongle and it is reasonably comfortable to use as well.
Each button is quite silent; the only part of the mouse that makes noise is the scroll wheel but you'd have to be scrolling at considerable speeds for this to be a problem. It's actually quite nice having a silent mouse; you lose a bit of feedback that a button has been pressed, but you're left with a much quieter working environment (as long as you're using a similarly quiet keyboard, that is).
As we noted earlier, users with larger and longer hands may find it a bit short, but it is otherwise well suited for extended use. The buttons require minimal force to actuate, which may make it better suited for those with RSI and other mousing maladies.
The small size and relatively low weight of the mouse makes it quite portable, although the higher weight compared to light wired mouses make it less suitable for gaming. It's great as a companion mouse to a laptop | 227 |
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The Piston block represents the piston mechanism of a reciprocating combustion engine. The Piston block accounts for the instantaneous torque transmitted to the engine crankshaft, which enables you to simulate vibrations in the drivetrain due to piston revolution. To model a multi-piston engine, use the Piston Engine block.
Port B represents the translating piston and port F represents the rotating crankshaft. The piston force follows from the cylinder pressure and cross-sectional area. The block obtains the combustion pressure from a lookup table parameterized in terms of the crank angle and, optionally, the crank angular velocity and engine throttle level.
The crank torque follows from the piston force and crank angle, the crank and connecting rod lengths. In terms of these inputs, the ratio of the piston force and crank torque is
TFFB=−c(sin(θ)+sin(2θ)2(rc)2−sin2(θ)),
FB is the instantaneous piston force associated with the base port.
TF is the instantaneous crank torque associated with the follower port.
c is the crank length.
θ is the instantaneous crank angle.
r is the connecting rod length.
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Port T lets you specify the engine throttle level as a fraction between 0 and 1. This fraction corresponds to the percentage of full power generated. The block uses the data at point T whenever the pressure lookup table in the block property inspector is parameterized only in terms of the crank angle.
T — Normalized engine throttle level, unitless
physical signal
Physical signal input port that specifies engine throttle setting.
FC — Fuel consumption, kg/s
Physical signal output port that returns the fuel consumption rate.
To enable this port, set Fuel consumption model to one of the following.
Constant per revolution
Fuel consumption by speed and torque
Brake specific fuel consumption by speed and torque
Brake specific fuel consumption by speed and brake mean effective pressure
B — Base port associated with piston force
mechanical translational
Translational mechanical conserving port that connects to the engine block.
F — Follower port associated with crank torque
Rotational mechanical conserving port that connects to the engine crankshaft.
Cylinder bore — Inside diameter of piston cylinder wall
.10 m (default) | positive scalar
Inside diameter of the piston cylinder wall. The Piston block uses this measurement to compute the torque table. You must specify a value greater than zero.
Piston stroke — Length of translational piston travel
Distance from the fully retracted position to the fully extended position of the piston. The Piston block uses this measurement to convert pressure on the piston into torque values. You must specify a value greater than zero.
Piston rod length — Length of piston-to-crankshaft connecting rod
.1 m (default) | positive scalar
Distance from the center of the piston pin hole to the center of the crankshaft hole in the piston rod. The block uses this measurement to convert pressure on the piston into torque. You must specify a value greater than zero.
Number of strokes per cycle — Number of piston strokes to complete one combustion cycle
4 (default) | positive even scalar
Number of piston phases required to intake, compress, combust, and exhaust the combustion gases. Typically, engines are two-stroke or four-stroke. You must use a multiple of two.
Pressure parameterization — Method used to determine pressure applied to piston
By crank angle (default) | By crank angle and throttle | By crank angle, throttle, and crank velocity
Parameter group that you want the block to use to parameterize the pressure data.
Crank angle vector — Different piston crank angles
[-360, -90, -30, 10, 30, 90, 160, 360] deg (default) | vector
Angle of the piston crank starting at or above the minimum angle and ending at or below the maximum angle. You can calculate the minimum or maximum angle by multiplying the number of strokes by -90 degrees or 90 degrees, respectively. You must specify at least two values.
Each element in Crank angle vector corresponds to an element in Pressure vector (gauge) or the M-row of Pressure matrix (gauge) or each Pressure 3D matrix (gauge) matrix.
Throttle vector — Different throttle positions
[0, .3, .8, 1] (default) | vector
Different throttle positions that correspond to the pressures in the Pressure matrix (gauge) or Pressure 3D matrix (gauge) parameters. The throttle position must remain in the range [0,1] with 0 representing no throttle and 1 representing full throttle.
Each element in Throttle vector corresponds to the N-column of Pressure matrix (gauge) or each Pressure 3D matrix (gauge) matrix.
To enable this parameter, set Pressure parameterization to By crank angle and throttle or By crank angle, throttle, and crank velocity.
Crank velocity vector — Different angular velocities
[0, 1000, 6000] rpm (default) | vector
Different crank velocities that correspond to pressures in Pressure 3D matrix (gauge).
Each element in Crank velocity vector corresponds to one of the O-matrices of Pressure 3D matrix (gauge).
To enable this parameter, set Pressure parameterization to By crank angle, throttle, and crank velocity.
Pressure vector (gauge) — Crank angle parameterized pressures
[0, 3, 20, 50, 20, 10, 8, 0] bar (default) | vector
Vector of pressure values that correspond to different crank angle positions.
To enable this parameter, set Pressure parameterization to By crank angle.
Pressure matrix (gauge) — Crank angle and throttle parametrized pressures
M-by-N matrix (default) | matrix
Matrix of pressure values that correspond to different crank angle and throttle combinations. The default value is [0, 0, 0, 0; 0, .9, 2.4, 3; 0, 6, 16, 20; 0, 15, 40, 50; 0, 6, 16, 20; 0, 3, 8, 10; 0, 2.4, 6.4, 8; 0, 0, 0, 0] bar.
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To enable this parameter, set Pressure parameterization to By crank angle and throttle.
Pressure 3D matrix (gauge) — Crank angle, throttle, and crank velocity parameterized pressures
M-by-N-by-O matrix (default) | 3-D matrix
Concatenated matrix of pressure values that correspond to the various crank angle, throttle, and crank velocity combinations. The default value is cat(3, [0, 0, 0, 0; 0, .9, 2.4, 3; 0, 6, 16, 20; 0, 15, 40, 50; 0, 6, 16, 20; 0, 3, 8, 10; 0, 2.4, 6.4, 8; 0, 0, 0, 0], [0, 0, 0, 0; 0, .9, 2.4, 3; 0, 6, 16, 20; 0, 15, 40, 50; 0, 6, 16, 20; 0, 3, 8, 10; 0, 2.4, 6.4, 8; 0, 0, 0, 0], [0, 0, 0, 0; 0, .9, 2.4, 3; 0, 6, 16, 20; 0, 15, 40, 50; 0, 6, 16, 20; 0, 3, 8, 10; 0, 2.4, 6.4, 8; 0, 0, 0, 0]) bar.
The elements of Crank angle vector correspond to the M-rows. The elements of Throttle vector correspond to the N-columns. The elements of Crank velocity vector correspond to the matrices you concatenate along dimension O.
By default, M = 8, N = 4, and O = 3.
Bearing viscous friction coefficient — Tendency of the main and rod bearings to dissipate power
.001 N*m/(rad/s) (default) | positive scalar
Aggregate viscous friction coefficient of the main and rod bearings. The block uses this parameter to compute the viscous power losses between the base and follower shafts.
Offset angle — Angular deviation between middle of engine cycle and top dead center
0 deg (default) | scalar
Point in the engine cycle when the piston reaches top dead center. The engine cycle spans in angle from -S*180 to +S*180 degrees, where S is the value of the Number of strokes per cycle parameter.
Initial crank angle — Crank angle at simulation start
90 deg (default) | scalar
Crank angle at time zero relative to a top dead center position.
Fuel consumption model — Parameterization of fuel consumption
No fuel consumption (default) | Constant per revolution | Fuel consumption by speed and torque | Brake specific fuel consumption by speed and torque | Brake specific fuel consumption by speed and brake mean effective pressure
Model for calculating fuel consumption. Model parameterizations are compatible with standard industrial data.
Selecting any option other than No fuel consumption enables the FC port and related parameters. When you set Fuel consumption model to No fuel consumption, the block does not calculate fuel consumption. Selecting this option increases simulation speed.
Fuel consumption per revolution — Fuel consumed during a single crank revolution
25 mg/rev (default) | scalar
Volume of fuel consumed in one crankshaft revolution.
To enable this parameter, set Fuel consumption model to Constant per revolution.
Speed vector — Crankshaft angular velocity
[1000, 2000, 3000, 4000, 5000, 6000] rpm (default) | vector
Vector of engine speeds used in lookup table parameterizations. The vector length must match the Torque vector.
To enable this parameter, set Fuel consumption model to one of these settings:
Torque vector — Torque applied for given speed
[0, 80, 160, 200, 240, 320, 360, 400] N*m (default) | vector
Vector of engine torques used in the lookup table parameterizations. The vector length must match the Speed vector parameter.
To enable this parameter, set Fuel consumption model to Fuel consumption by speed and torque or Brake specific fuel consumption by speed and torque.
Fuel consumption table — Matrix of fuel consumption rates for given combinations of speed and torque
P-by-Q matrix (default) | matrix
Matrix of fuel consumption rates corresponding to engine speed and torque vectors. The number of rows, P, must equal the number of elements in the Speed vector parameter. The number of columns, Q, must equal the number of elements in the Torque vector parameter. The default value is [.5, .9, 1.4, 1.6, 1.9, 2.7, 3.4, 4.4; 1, 1.7, 2.7, 3.1, 3.6, 5, 6, 7.4; 1.4, 2.7, 4, 4.8, 5.6, 7.5, 8.5, 10.5; 2, 3.6, 5.8, 6.7, 8, 10.4, 11.7, 13.3; 2.5, 4.8, 7.9, 9.4, 10.8, 14, 16.2, 18.6; 3.1, 6, 10.3, 11.9, 13.8, 18.4, 22, 26.5] g/s.
Brake mean effective pressure vector — Average cylinder pressure required to produce a given torque
[0, 250, 500, 625, 750, 1000, 1150, 1250] kPa (default)
Vector of brake mean effective pressure (BMEP) values. The BMEP satisfies the expression:
BMEP=T⋅(2π⋅ncVd),
T is the output torque.
nc is the number of cycles per revolution.
Vd is the cylinder displaced volume.
To enable this parameter, set Fuel consumption model to Fuel consumption by speed and torque or Brake specific fuel consumption by speed and brake mean effective pressure.
Brake specific fuel consumption table — Fuel efficiency for brake specific fuel consumption rates
Matrix of brake specific fuel consumption (BSFC) rates. BSFC is the ratio of the fuel consumption rate to the output power. The number of rows, P, must equal the number of elements in the Speed vector parameter. The number of columns, Q, must equal the number of elements in the Torque vector parameter. The default value is [410, 380, 300, 280, 270, 290, 320, 380; 410, 370, 290, 270, 260, 270, 285, 320; 415, 380, 290, 275, 265, 270, 270, 300; 420, 390, 310, 290, 285, 280, 280, 285; 430, 410, 340, 320, 310, 300, 310, 320; 450, 430, 370, 340, 330, 330, 350, 380] g/hr/kW.
When you set Fuel consumption model to Brake specific fuel consumption by speed and torque, enter a matrix with BSFC rates corresponding to engine speed and torque vectors.
When you set Fuel consumption model to Brake specific fuel consumption by speed and brake mean effective pressure, enter a matrix with BSFC rates corresponding to engine speed and brake mean effective pressure (BMEP) vectors.the number of rows must equal the number of elements in the Speed vector parameter. The number of columns must equal the number of elements in the Brake mean effective pressure vector parameter.
To enable this parameter, set Fuel consumption model to Brake specific fuel consumption by speed and torque or Brake specific fuel consumption by speed and brake mean effective pressure.
Interpolation method — Speed and torque behavior between data points
Linear (default) | Smooth
Interpolation method to calculate fuel consumption at intermediate speed and torque values. Outside the data range, fuel consumption remains constant at the last value given in the lookup table for both methods.
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Gordon Hayward says he expects to be ready for opener to further bolster potent Celtics roster
Gordon<|fim_middle|>,' another day I'm driving in, it's freezing cold weather and the team is in L.A. or Miami playing. I'm picking up marbles and putting them into a bucket. I'm standing on one leg and doing balance drills. I'm shooting from a chair. All that stuff, to be able to do it every single day, to do it a little bit longer, to do it a little bit better, it was a process and a journey and I'm still not there yet, but it helped me find the fight in myself."
Less than two weeks until training camps open and you really have to look for reasons not to believe Boston will cruise to the Eastern Conference title. Toronto added Kawhi Leonard, Milwaukee recruited Mike Budenholzer and Philadelphia will reincorporate Markelle Fultz into the mix. Yet none of these teams can approach the top-to-bottom talent of the Celtics.
Boston can throw hockey-style lines at you. The Celtics' second unit — let's call it Terry Rozier, Marcus Smart, Jaylen Brown, Marcus Morris and Daniel Theis — could compete for a playoff spot. Boston's defensive versatility will be frightening, with all but Irving theoretically capable of defending multiple positions.
Could ego cause issues? Possibly. Coach Brad Stevens told the Yahoo Sports NBA Podcast last month that he will have what could be a tough conversation with someone about coming off the bench. The Celtics can stitch together an offensively lethal lineup with Al Horford in the middle, but Baynes — one of the NBA's most underrated defensive big men — will get a lot of starts. That means someone from the Hayward/Brown/Jayson Tatum mix will have to begin games with the second unit.
"It's not something I'm worried about at all," Hayward said. "We're worried about winning and putting another banner up behind you. We have so much depth, we have so much talent, it doesn't matter who starts to me. My goal is to help us get that banner."
Well, OK then.
A common criticism of the NBA in recent years is that its Finals matchups are predetermined, and it's possible even the exit of LeBron James from the East won't change that. Golden State is an overwhelming favorite to rep the West for the fifth straight season, and Boston could quickly prove it is untouchable on the other side. A 55-win conference finalist is adding an All-Star two-guard to its mix, one eager to shelve the State of Gordon Hayward updates for good. As Hayward reflected on his journey, on the highs of getting out of the walking boot and running for the first time, the lows of the second surgery and the tedious tasks he needed to perform during rehab, and the support he received from teammates, coaches and fans alike, he acknowledged he is ready to see what this team can do.
"Very anxious," Hayward said. "Watching the guys last year gave me a lot of confidence in our team and what we can accomplish. Playing with some the last two weeks, we have some talent on this team, a lot of depth."
And opening night?
"I 100 percent expect to be out there."
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BOSTON – Gordon Hayward stepped onto the Celtics' practice floor on Thursday for the latest State of Gordon Hayward Address, which was about what you would expect after the last one. Hayward doesn't address the local media regularly, but updates on his health — which come anywhere from blog posts to Instagram videos — have not been hard to find. In an eight-minute scrum, Hayward offered up every reason to be optimistic for a full recovery from the horrific ankle injury that cost him all but five minutes of last season.
"Two weeks now, playing full-court basketball, five-on-five. Pretty much no restrictions," Hayward said. "I'm still trying to keep a progression of how much time and how much load I'm putting on that ankle, but for the most part I'm feeling very, very well. It's so much fun to be able to play again. The next month or so will be good to get back into the game, to feel the rhythm, the timing.
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"I would say I'm basically 100 percent. There are certain things that are going to take time. I'm 100 percent healthy. I'm not 100 percent basketball-wise just because I haven't played in a year. I'm trying to figure those things out. The last step for me from a physical standpoint is a little explosion, that last juice, bounce that you get. That's the longest time. For the most part, I feel really good."
These are good days in the Celtics Kingdom. Earlier this week a video popped on social media of Kyrie Irving — five-plus months removed from knee surgery — scrimmaging with James Harden, Kevin Durant and others in Miami. A person in attendance described Irving as looking "[expletive] amazing," adding that Irving played two straight days with no limitations.
I wanna thank the @miamiheat for allowing my guys to come over and get some great runs in with their squad. @nba is the dopest brotherhood! 📷:@dbisaccio30 @overtime @bleacherreport
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Now you have Hayward, physically ready for training camp and professing to have no fear of cutting or jumping on the ankle that twisted so grotesquely in last year's season opener.
"When you go through a process like this, you find the fight within yourself," Hayward said. "There [were] so many days when you wake up, you say, 'Here we go again | 564 |
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Ad<|fim_middle|> themselves more often? They are less prone to drying out because of the wetness and are singing because many species lay their eggs in the rainy season. Earlier we talked about the glass frogs, but there are many more frogs to be seen in this period. (more…)
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In the Caribbean lowlands of Costa Rica most rain falls in May to August. The fact that it rains is good for all life of course, but can be quite difficult for our biologists in the Work with Nature reserve; the paths become muddy, the laundry doesn't dry and the project is sometimes briefly inaccessible because rivers are filling up. (more…)
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Despite the fact that there are no students because of the Corona crisis, the research continues (partly).
In the Netherlands, some students are busy analysing data, but also in Costa Rica inventories are still being made. Accompanied by guide Tapa, Hanneke and Maarten walk the transects in different habitats.
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Now that student Sonny, a pure night tour specialist, is about to finish his internship, a lot of great discoveries are made at the last minute. To top it all off, last week we found a special glass frog in the reserve. This Hyalinobatrachium dianae – Diane's Bare-hearted Glass Frog was only discovered and described […]
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What's with the fur? Why do sloths sleep so much? This month, the three-fingered sloth is the animal of the month at Adopt Rainforest. And what's more fun than hearing from one of the founders of Adopt Rainforest some fun facts that you won't find in a standard biology book. Maarten van der Beek is one of the biologists at Adopt Rainforest and lives on the Work With Nature reserve in Costa Rica. (more…)
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Special reserve expansion realized!
Last summer we were able to open the proverbial champagne bottle again! Despite all external influences, we managed to formalize the purchase of a beautiful and especially strategically important piece of rainforest! It concerns the 9 hectares on which the research center is located. (more…)
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Is it possible to restore the original rainforest in a deforested area where cows have been grazing for years? In Costa Rica at least they accept the challenge. This article tells in short how a Dutch foundation in Costa Rica is trying to transform degraded land back into a fully fledged rainforest. (more…)
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Breakfast On The Moon principally celebrates the 50th anniversaries of the Apollo manned missions to the Moon. Breakfast On The Moon #3 is the third in the series.
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Part 1 of 7 parts. It is incredibly fitting that we can welcome the Commander of Apollo 13, Captain James Lovell, should speak to the world on this particular day.<|fim_middle|> years of experience as a Project Engineer and Systems Engineer on the Space Shuttle and Commercial Crew programs, walks us through what it was like to be an engineer working to build the Space Shuttle.
William Johnstone
Part 7 of 7 parts. The Hubble Space Telescope is arguably the single most important scientific instrument to have ever been put in space. Bill was the Lockheed/Martin manager in charge of all aspects of constructing those portions of the Hubble that were not directly related to its optics, and as such helps us celebrate an instrument that literally expanded or view of the universe we live in far beyond what had been possible until then.
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3rd of 7 parts. Part 3 highlights Janet Ivey of http://janetsplanet.com as she discusses a proposal to make July 20th Space Exploration Day, a permanent (nonpaid) Federal Holiday for July 20th. July 20th is, of course, the day Apollo 11 landed on the Moon, and Neil Armstrong became the first human to set foot on another planet.
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Part 4 of 7 parts. Mark and Karen Lucas are representatives from Yuri's Night. This year, we invited Yuri's Night to send a representative, as we wanted to honor Yuri Gagarin's
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LiV Warfield Hits You With Her 'Unexpected' Brand Of Soul [EXCLUSIVE]
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When you're a new artist breaking into the business, you hope to one day get a chance to work with your idols. Well, how does one progress when they've worked with their idol before anyone even knows their name? Such has been the case for powerhouse singer LiV Warfield. She released her Sade-inspired debut "Embrace Me" in 2006 and it didn't yield the recognition Warfield was looking for, but that could be because she was still uncertain of her God given talents. That is until she met Prince and he asked her to join his New Power Generation collective.
Upon entering Prince's exclusive circle, LiV discovered a boldness inside of herself that she always knew was there, but remained elusive in previous years. During her time with the Purple One, Warfield got herself together and honed her stage performance, writing, and arranging of music. And when it was time, the powerful songbird flew from Prince's nest to spread her wings.
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The spreading of LiV's wings comes in the form of her second album "The Unexpected." It features an intoxicating blend of soul, funk, rock, and all of the good stuff in between. When the VH1 You Oughta Know artist spoke to The Urban Daily, she opened up about how Portland, Oregon pushed her into becoming a performer, what working with Prince has taught her about herself, and why she is really the unexpected.
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TUD: Tell me about your album. Why did you name it "The Unexpected"?
LW: Well, my journey has been very much that–the unexpected. I started out as an athlete first. I discovered my music later on. I was 20 years old. I went from karaoke to singing with Hip-Hop bands to Portland embracing me and wanting me to do my own thing. And now to be working with Prince, it has been an unexpected journey.
I've fallen, I've gotten back up. I've wanted to quit and when I wanted to quit, Prince and the New Power Generation came up. Actually, it's not so much as it being unexpected as much as it is God.
I just don't want to be categorized or anything. So when you listen to the album, people want to put it in an R&B perspective and I don't want to really have that category. I do have that rock influence, of course with being around Prince. [laughs] I love rock 'n' roll. I also love R&B. I just want people to listen to it and say, "Oh wow! I didn't know she was gonna have that on the album!"
So it was all of those things–my journey, the songs. I don't want people to expect anything. I just want them to listen to it an enjoy good music.
What did working with Prince professionally teach you about yourself personally?
To take chances. I was very scared. Before I joined the New Power Generation I thought I was an okay singer. I thought I knew what<|fim_middle|> like that and other times you wanna be sweet and pretty, too.
What's the difference between the LiV Warfield of the time during "Embrace Me" and "The Unexpected" LiV Warfield?
She's grown so much. It really comes down to the boldness of it. With "Embrace Me," I just wanted people to embrace who I was as an artist. Those were the first songs I had written and I was putting it out into the world to see if anybody liked it or not. Now, it's like here it is. I'm gonna do it the way I want to. And this is really me.
I wasn't as involved as I wanted to be with "Embrace Me." But on this album I was involved in every aspect of writing, arranging, and the general construction of it.
How did you come to be a VH1 'You Oughta Know' artist?
Rick Krim. He's such a blessing. He heard "Why Do You Lie?" And got the video. I was so excited to learn that I was a "You Oughta Know" artist because I used to sit home and see them and say, "I wanna do that!" You spend all of this time visualizing something and then when it actually happens, it's a beautiful thing.
VH1 has been very instrumental in pushing my music out. I like that because they do support the independent artists or artists who are just trying to come up. It's already hard enough to get the music heard as an independent, but for a big program like that to pick me up and to get behind my project is quite beautiful for me. So I'm thankful.
LiV Warfield Hits You With Her 'Unexpected' Brand Of Soul [EXCLUSIVE] was originally published on theurbandaily.com
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1 2Next page » | I was doing. [laughs] not until I got with the New Power Generation, I was like, "Okay, this is like a whole 'nother world. You need to be a better writer, arranger, and be bolder!" He's taught me all of those things which I feel like I've taken and put it in my album.
I reached out to him a year ago and at that time, I was like, "I have to be fearless. Just go with it and it's gonna be okay." Of course, being around him, you can't help but to pick up his energy. You can't help but to learn from him. Performing with him onstage is quite incredible.
So he taught me how to be a better writer and arranger. He also taught me to really be bold with it which I was trying to accomplish for myself on this album.
You were a part of the Portland music scene. What is that like? There's a soul music scene in Portland?
Portland is pretty incredible. When people say Portland, I don't even know what they expect. [laughs] Portland is a melting pot for a lot of different things. A lot of the people I know there are transplants. I come from Illinois and I feel like I brought a little piece of me when I went to Portland. There are a lot of people from down south who live in Portland. So to me, all of those sounds and influences have created a pretty incredible music scene in Portland. It's incredible.
The video you did for "Why Do a You Lie?" gave me a Tina Turner vibe. Is she one of your influences?
Very much so after I started to discover the bold side of me. Like, before, my first album was called "Embrace Me" and that was very Sade influenced. Then I started getting this batons Turner music because I love a heavy guitar riff. I just like the gutsiness of singing and just going for it and being in your face sometimes. Sometimes, it be | 411 |
Day 2 of the George H. Morris Gladstone Program got off to a quick start with everyone fully caffeinated and ready to learn. George started the morning by discussing the topic of flexion, both longitudinal and lateral.
Using one of the horses in the clinic, he showed us longitudinal flexion from the poll by adding pressure on the bit. Basically, think of the horse softening at the poll so his chin comes closer to his chest. Lateral flexion, he demonstrated, working the bit on one side, is getting the horse to bend to the right or the left. Taking the concept a step further, think of longitudinal flexion as the horse softening through his back and stepping under from the hind end into the hand, and lateral flexion as the bend of the horse's entire body, through its rib cage, from head to tail.
Today's jumper courses are so technical they demand the utmost rideability from our mounts, and so we must make them adjustable from front to back and on the bend as well. Thus, every exercise in Day 2's sessions focused on flexion.
The riders warmed the horses up with walk-trot-walk transitions to begin to establish longitudinal flexion and get the horses coming through from behind, with George reminding the riders to use the inside driving leg aid into the outside hand. They added successive 1/2 turns to establish the latitudinal flexion, with the riders<|fim_middle|> from the horse and some pretty fancy riding on Mike's part, the gelding went over the liverpool.
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And so ended the second morning session of the Gladstone Program. I hope you enjoyed reading this recap, and I'm looking forward to bringing you more from the program in the coming days.
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"You have to be constantly changing, making transitions. Don't forget to keep the leg on and hands up so the horse stops under and uphill!" The constant transitions in and between the gates flex the horse from back to front, or longitudinally, making the horse more supple and rideable. The horses were asked to come under even more with shoulder in and haunches in, and then they moved from working laterally to lengthening and shortening the trot to test the ability to go forwards and then compress the horse.
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Once the basic flexion was established, the group moved on to cavaletti work. The group went over ground poles, then moved on to cavaletti. After loosening up the horses with the cavaletti they did some canter work – circles @ intervals, then canter half passes to counter canter to a flying change. Everything was a systematic progression. Meg's horse was fussy with the contact and swapped leads, and George hopped on to demonstrate how to push the horse from behind into the bit and how to ask for a straight flying change using only the legs.
Jared working on flying changes.
The riders then progressed to a grid initially consisting of 3 cavaletti roughly set 4'6″ apart and another set about 9′ from the third cavaletti. The group went through that basic exercise, then George made the fourth cavaletti a vertical. After they went through that a couple of times he added an oxer, then another vertical, then a final oxer. The riders were then asked to finish by cantering a circle in a light seat and asking for the walk transition. You understand where this is going, right? The grid asks the horse to lengthen and compress its body in order to accomplish the task. (You should have seen the lightbulb that went on over my head when that became clear to me!) George cautioned all the riders to maintain contact in the air by using their automatic release, as this release is the only way to make immediate adjustments.
After the grid, the riders were asked to take the horses through a gate, a vertical and a triple bar set on an S curve, designed to test their turning ability. Depending on the track, the lines rode in a direct 5 or a bending 6. Morris asked the riders to canter in over the gate, circle, take the vertical, circle, then take the triple bar. After the triple bar he had them roll back to take the vertical the other way and ride 6 strides to the gate, then roll back around and ride the gate to the vertical direct in 5, and the vertical to the triple bar in 6. After the triple bar, they had to roll back on the vertical again, ride direct to the gate in 5, then roll back and ride the gate to the vertical in 5, then bend the track to the triple bar in 6. The line, Morris explained, makes horses laterally and longitudinally soft.
Shawn's horse gives the triple some respect.
Following the GPS exercise (my name, not Morris'), the riders practiced a wall to a liverpool in preparation for the course they will ultimately have to jump. Morris made the riders practice using the stick behind the saddle just before take off to reinforces the idea of "forward" in the horses' minds. The audience was treated to a little excitement during the second group as Katie's horse was clearly aquaphobic and had no intention of going over the water. Morris asked Michael Desiderio to help out, as Mike used to ride for Morris and often schooled younger horses for him. After some feats of athleticism | 797 |
I first sat down with Bob not knowing where to start or how to begin. With a simple question or nod of encouragement he effortlessly allowed me to open up and express what, in several cases, I didn't previously recognize that I needed and wanted to say. The<|fim_middle|> the opportunity and motivation to finally do so. I imagine there are those who would rather shut the door on the past and just move on but I am not one of them and for me this process helps save the memories of my life and give them to my son.
For me, documenting my memoirs have opened many feelings and aspects of my life that had been long forgotten. Sometimes there were pleasant surprises about times long past and sometimes I revealed to myself old disappointments. Bringing out the negative made them not so bad after all. The positives made me feel better about myself.
Sometimes it takes a while for a spark to ignite but when it does it is exciting and rewarding. | results were real and genuine, an intimate gift to myself and my loved one.
The memoir of my work career developed by Bob Becker was interesting on two levels . One, I have been told that I am somewhat of an introvert and do not like to talk about myself. However, my memoir narrative seemed to easily flow out under the orchestrated prompting by Bob The questions asked to me allowed me to discuss my life from my education through my career in a uncomplicated and meaningful manner. The second level of the narrative that surprised me was how much my children, grandchildren and their friends enjoyed the memoir. They were glued to the TV screen during the entire showing of the narrative and after said; WOW.
From the first time I began working on my memoirs with Bob I felt immediately comfortable. He's a good listener and sincere in his interest in what people want to share. He explained that Memoirs need not be in any chronological order. Start with any thought, any place in your lifetime. He encouraged and coached,and just as he said, one memory led to another. How often I regret that I did not ask family members long gone now, how things were in their lifetime, their stories and conversations that cannot be had. I want to share my life's experiences with my family, letting them know who I am and sharing my perspective on times gone by. I highly recommend documenting and sharing your life's experiences. It's a gift to yourself and to others. Thank you Bob.
Looking back I had always been very hard on myself and felt in many cases I should have done things differently. Documenting chapters of my life helped me realize I had done a far better job than I gave myself credit for and had actually lived a pretty awesome life. Having my family, especially my grand daughter, read my memoirs opened the door to a part of my life that they had never known about and that positively deepened our relationship forever.
I truly know none of this would have been revealed without my coach Bob Becker. My family and I are eternally grateful.
Quite unexpectedly an aggressive bout of pneumonia brought me to a hospital. Before my fever fully subsided I thought; Is this it? Will this be where my life ends? And yet I wasn't frightened. I then thought about my video memoir project that was just about completed and a moment of relief came over me. Thank goodness I had told my story about what was of lasting value in my life; who taught me to love, who looked after me, what is really of importance and what nonsense to let go of. My video memoirs told my family that I love them and that I am grateful for what I learned from them.
This is what I to leave to my children, to my grandchildren, and hopefully to generations to come.
Bob's Memoir offering and process helped me uncover old childhood memories and wounds that had been unavailable to my mind and heart since childhood. Unearthing and writing about these times gave me a voice that had been silenced from me for all those many years. The memoir process has opened my heart, my mind and my soul to infinite possibilities and creativity that have happily changed my life forever.
The older I get the more I understand; The dwarf sees further than the giant when he has the giants shoulders to mount upon. Through his memoir process I am able to see for miles and miles and miles. I've learned more about myself and as the ancient Greek observed; An un-examed life has small value. Bob brings out the best in everyone. He has helped to validate my life.
I have been telling the same stories for many years, about growing up in the 50s and 60s, about the very close family I grew up with and the mostly Italian neighborhood that is gone now. Traveling to Italy and finding family which we have not been in contact with for almost 80 years. Then there is my military service which in retrospect doesn't seem so bad anymore. and have been saying that someday want to write these things down but never have. Bob's coaching has given me | 823 |
Over the past two decades, Optymyze has supported our clients through a major transformation in the pharma industry. Key changes have impacted the healthcare provider structure, the payer landscape, and data availability. Despite this sustained pace of change over the last 20 years, it seems it has only accelerated recently.
It's remarkable how much change is occurring today, with increased innovation from payers as they look to control costs, a laser-like focus on using data and analytics to gain a competitive advantage, and changes in the way that healthcare professionals are willing to and prefer to be reached.
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Posted on December 15, 2014, 12:30 am by aneconomicsense
In a rare, late-night and weekend, session, the US Senate on Saturday night passed a $1.1 trillion government funding bill to keep the government running through to the end of fiscal year 2015 (i.e. until September 30, 2015). The House had passed the bill on Thursday, and it has now gone to Obama for his expected signature. Had it not been passed, the government would once have been forced to shut down due to lack of budget authority. It was a "must-pass" bill, and as such, was a convenient vehicle for a number of provisions which stood little chance to pass on their own, but which could only be blocked by opponents now at the cost of forcing a government shutdown. The specific provisions included were worked out in a series of deals and compromises between the leadership of the Republican-controlled House and the now Democrat-controlled (but soon to be Republican-controlled) Senate.
One such provision was an amendment to the Dodd-Frank Wall Street reform bill, originally passed in July 2010, which enacted a series of measures to strengthen the regulatory framework for our financial sector. The failure of this framework had led to the 2008 economic and financial collapse in the last year of the Bush administration. The amendment in the new budget bill addressed just one, and some would say relatively minor, provision in Dodd-Frank. But its inclusion drew heavy criticism from liberal Democrats, led by Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts. Senator Warren argued that the amendments to Section 716 of Dodd-Frank would "would let derivatives traders on Wall Street gamble with taxpayer money and get bailed out by the government when their risky bets threaten to blow up our financial system." The amendments were reportedly first drafted by lobbyists for Citibank, and would benefit primarily a very small group of large Wall Street banks.
The amendments do reflect a backwards step from the tighter controls on risk that Dodd-Frank had provided for. In my view, it would have been better to have kept the original provisions on the issue in Dodd-Frank. But with a positive response now by the regulators to the reality of this new provision, the impact could be negated. This blog post will discuss what was passed, what could be done now by bank regulators to address the change, and the politics of it all.
B. The Amendment to Dodd-Frank, and the Economics of Derivatives
The amendment to Dodd-Frank addresses one specific provision in a very large and comprehensive bill. An important link in the 2008 financial collapse was the risk major banks had carried on their books from certain financial derivative instruments. "Derivatives" are financial instruments that derive their price or value from the price or value of some other product. For example, oil derivatives derive their value from the price of oil (perhaps the price of oil at some future date), foreign exchange derivatives are linked to foreign exchange rates, credit default swaps are linked to whether there is a default on some bond or mortgage or other financial instrument, and so on.
Derivatives can be quite complicated and their pricing can be volatile. And they can lead to greater, or to reduced, financial risk to those who hold them, depending on their particular situation. For example, airlines must buy fuel to fly their planes, and hence they will face oil price risk. They can hedge this risk (i.e. face reduced risk) by buying an oil derivative that locks in some fixed price for oil for some point in the future. An oil producer similarly faces an oil price risk, but a bad risk for it is the opposite of what the airline faces: The oil producer gains when the price of oil goes up and loses when it goes down. Hence both the airline and the oil producer can reduce the adverse risk each faces by entering into a contract that locks in some future price of oil, and derivative instruments are one way to do this. Banks will often stand in the middle of such trades, as the buyer and the seller of such derivative instruments to the airlines and the oil producers (in this example), and of course to many others.
Derivatives played an important role in the 2008 collapse. As the housing bubble burst and home prices came down, it became clear that the assumptions used for the pricing of credit default swaps on home mortgages (derivatives which would pay to the holder some amount if the underlying mortgages went into default) had been badly wrong. Credit default swaps had been priced on the assumption that some mortgages here and there around the US might go into default, but in a basically random and uncorrelated manner. That had been the case historically in the US, for at least most of the time in the last few decades (it had not always been true). But this ignored that a bubble could develop and then pop, with many mortgages then going into default together. And that is what happened.
Dodd-Frank in no way prohibits such derivative instruments. They can serve a useful and indeed important purpose. Nor did Dodd-Frank say that bank holding companies could no longer operate in such markets. But what Section 716 of Dodd-Frank did say was that banks that took FDIC-insured deposits and which had access to certain credit windows at the Federal Reserve Board, would not be allowed, in those specific corporate entities, also to trade in a specifically defined set of derivatives. That list included, most notably, credit default swaps that were not traded through an open market exchange, as well as equity derivatives (such as on IBM and other publicly traded companies) and commodity derivatives (such as for oil, or copper, or wheat). The bank holding companies could still set up separate corporate entities to trade in such derivatives. Thus while Citigroup, for example, could set up a corporate entity owned by it to trade in such derivatives, Citibank (also owned by Citigroup), with its FDIC-insured deposits and with its access to the Fed, would not be allowed to trade in such derivatives. That will now change.
It is also worth highlighting that under Dodd-Frank, banks with FDIC-insured deposits could still directly trade in such derivatives as interest rate swaps, foreign exchange derivatives, and credit default swaps that were cleared through an organized public exchange. That had always been so, and will remain so. The banks could also always hedge their own financial positions. But they will now be allowed to trade directly (and not simply via an associated company under the same holding company) also in the narrow list of derivative instruments described above.
It is arguable that this is not a big change. All it does is allow bank holding companies to keep their trading in such derivative instruments in the banks (with FDIC-insured deposits) that they own, rather than in separately capitalized entities that they also own. The then Chairman of the Federal Reserve Ben Bernanke noted in testimony in front of a House panel in 2013 that "It's not evident why that makes the company as a whole safer."
So why do banks (or at least certain banks) want this? Banks with FDIC-insured deposits and who also have access to certain credit windows at the Fed, are seen in the market as enjoying a degree of support from the government, that other financial entities do not enjoy. The very largest of these banks may be viewed as "too-big-to-fail", since the collapse of one or more of them in a financial crisis would in turn lead to a financial cataclysm for the country. Thus depositors and other lenders are willing to place their money with such institutions at a lower rate of interest than they would demand in other financial institutions.
Thus Senator Warren and others charge that the amendments to Dodd-Frank "would let derivatives traders on Wall Street gamble with taxpayer money and get bailed out by the government when their risky bets threaten to blow up our financial system", as quoted above. To be more precise (and less eloquent), any bank with FDIC-insured deposits will make investments with those deposits, those investments will<|fim_middle|> had slipped through quietly, with little public attention until after the bill had been passed, the bankers and their Republican representatives could have seen this as a model of how to pass changes to legislation that would not otherwise have gone through. While the model is certainly not a new one, its affirmation in this instance would have strengthened their case.
The loud objections by Senator Warren and others has served to bring daylight to the changes in financial regulation being proposed. This will hopefully make it more difficult to push through further, possibly much more damaging, changes to Dodd-Frank at the behest of the banks.
Ensuring attention was paid to the issue also served to make clear who in the House and the Senate are in fact in favor of bank bailouts. Weakening Dodd-Frank will increase the likelihood (even if only marginally so) that bank bailouts will be necessary in some future crisis to protect FDIC insured deposits and to protect the economy from a full financial collapse. Republicans, including in particular Tea Party supported Republicans, have asserted they are against bank bailouts. But their actions here, with the Dodd-Frank amendments inserted into the budget bill at the insistence of the House Republican leadership, belies that.
The actual economic substance of the Dodd-Frank amendments might therefore be limited, especially if there is now the regulatory response that should be required in the environment of certain banks holding more risky assets. But the politics may be quite different, and could explain why there was such a vociferous response by Senator Warren and others to this ultimately successful effort to weaken a provision in Dodd-Frank.
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Finally, it should be noted that the amendments to Dodd-Frank will benefit largely only four very large banks. The most recent quarterly report from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency indicates that just four big banks (Citibank, JP Morgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, and Bank of America) account for 93% of derivative contract exposure among banks (as of June 30, 2014). While this figure includes all types of derivatives, and not just those on the list that is at issue here, it is clear that trading in such instruments is highly concentrated.
C. What Can Be Done Now?
Over the objections of Senator Warren and others, the amendments to Section 716 of Dodd-Frank have been passed as part of the budget bill. Banks, and in practice a limited number of very large banks, will now be able to take on a riskier set of assets on their balance sheets. But Dodd-Frank, and indeed previous bank regulation, has established a bank regulatory and supervision regime that requires that banks hold capital sufficient, under reasonable estimates of the risks they face, to keep them out of insolvency and an inability then to repay their depositors. The bank regulatory and supervision framework was clearly inadequate before, as the 2008 collapse showed. Dodd-Frank has strengthened it considerably. The specific rules are now being worked out, and like all such rules will evolve over time as experience dictates.
The amendments to Section 716 of Dodd-Frank will now change the set of risks the banks will possibly face. I would suggest that now would be a good time for current Fed Chair Janet Yellen, or one of the other senior bank regulators heading up the process or even President Obama himself, to make a statement that they will of course follow the dictate of the law (as spelled out in Dodd-Frank, as it still stands) to take into account these possible new risks as they work out the capital adequacy ratios for the banks that will be required.
Specifically, the statement should make clear that the capital ratios required of banks that trade in these newly allowed instruments will now have to be set at some higher level than would previously have been required, due to the higher risks of such assets now in their portfolio. It could and should be made clear that the law requires this: The regulators are required to determine what the capital ratios must be on the basis of the risks being held by the banks in their portfolios. How much higher the capital ratios will need to be will depend on the riskiness of these new assets compared to what the banks previously invested in, and how significant such new assets will be in their portfolios. It is quite possible that faced with such higher capital requirements, the banks that had pushed for this new latitude will decide that it would be wiser not to enter into those new markets after all. They may well come to regret that they pushed so strongly for these amendments to Dodd-Frank.
This is perhaps not the best solution. The prohibition on direct trading in the proscribed list of certain financial derivative instruments is cleaner and clearer. Most importantly, while current bank regulators may use their authority to ensure banks hold sufficient capital to reflect the greater risk in their portfolio, there is the danger that regulators appointed by some future president may not exercise that authority as wisely or as carefully. This was indeed the fundamental underlying problem leading up to the 2008 collapse. The Bush administration was famously anti-regulation, and Bush appointed officials who were often opposed to the regulations they were in office to enforce. In at least some cases, the officials appointed who were not even competent to carry out their enforcement obligations. For example, Bush famously appointed former Congressman Christopher Cox as head of the SEC. The SEC at the time had the obligation to regulate investment banks such as Lehman Brothers, Goldman Sachs, and Morgan Stanley. As Lehman Brothers collapsed, with worries that Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, and others would soon be next, Christopher Cox was at a loss on what to do, and was largely by-passed. Dodd-Frank changed regulatory responsibility (the Fed and other financial regulators are now clearly responsible, where Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley had already been "encouraged" to become formal banks and as such subject to Fed oversight), but there is the risk that some future president will choose, like Bush, to put in place figures who either do not believe in, or are not capable of, serious financial supervision and oversight.
In addition, financial crises are always a surprise. They occur for some unexpected reason. If they were expected, actions could be taken to address the causes, and they would not happen and hence not be observed. But surprises happen. Hence Dodd-Frank, and indeed all financial regulation, includes an overlapping and mutually reinforcing set of measures to try to ensure crises will not occur and that banks will not become insolvent should they occur. One does not know beforehand which of the regulatory measures might be the critical one for some future and unforeseen set of circumstances leading to a crisis. it is therefore wise to include what others might call redundancies. The amendment to Dodd-Frank will remove one of the possibly redundant measures to ensure bank safety. The remaining measures (e.g. the capital adequacy requirements) may well suffice to address the safety issue, but in cases like this, redundancy is better.
D. The Politics of It All
While the economics may suggest that the change resulting from the amendment to Dodd-Frank need not be catastrophic if regulators respond wisely, and hence that the amendment is not such a big deal, the politics might be different.
The biggest concern is that many see this as possibly the opening round of a series of amendments to Dodd-Frank and other laws identified with the Obama administration, that a Republican Congress and now Senate will push through on "must-pass" legislation such as budget bills. Particularly if this | 1,323 |
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He even surprises the star with a special shirt.
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Back in August, 10-year-old Jacob O'Connor found his 2-year-old brother face down in a pool. He pulled him out and performed CPR, a technique he learned from Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson in the 2015 movie San Andreas. Jacob eventually saved his brother's life and now Johnson is showing the kid some love.
Jacob met Johnson on a Vancouver set and the famous actor documented the meet-up on Instagram. "He's such a smart kid! I just want to say I'm so proud of you, such an honor meeting this kid," Johnson said in a video.
In the cation of the video, Johnson brought attention to the shirt Jacob was wearing, which had a picture of Johnson holding his two puppies. The photo was taken when The Rock saved them from drowning in a pool.
"Seeing that picture on this boy's shirt, got me in the gut," Johnson wrote. "Eventually, we would lose Brutus to heaven, but it wasn't the picture of Brutus that made me tear up, it was the fact that this 10yr old kid, had a heart big enough to put our puppies on his shirt after he saved his little 2yr old brother's life."
"I appreciate you buddy, thank you," Johnson further said in the video. "And I speak on behalf of the world: We're so proud of you." You can check out the clip below.
Jacob was super nervous and shy the whole time we hung out, so it was fun getting him to laugh and talk. He threw me for an unexpected spin when he showed up on set wearing a shirt that he proudly made with my bull insignia on the front and on the back was the picture of me holding our two puppies, Brutus and Hobbs, after I rescued them from our pool. Seeing that picture on this boy's shirt, got me in the gut. Eventually, we would lose Brutus to heaven, but it wasn't the picture of Brutus that made me tear up, it was the fact that this 10yr old kid, had a heart big enough to put our puppies on his shirt after he saved his little 2yr old brother's life. What a special day. What a special kid. Thanks Jacob for being awesome and for being the kind of person we all aspire to be. ~ DJ
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Johnson is currently shooting Skyscraper in Vancouver and he invited Jacob and his family to the set after learning about their story. In a video following Jacob's rescue, Johnson said he wanted to shake the hand of a hero. Luckily, his wish was granted.
This story grabbed my heart. 10yr Jacob O'Connor found his little 2yr old brother, Dylan laying facedown in their pool. He pulled his little brother out and started CPR & chest compressions. He saved little Dylan's life. Jacob said he learned how to do this by watching me in his favorite movie, SAN ANDREAS. I'm so amazed and impressed by this little 10yr old boy's heroic actions and calm instincts in the middle of that kind of emergency distress. I now need to shake young Jacob's hand…
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Dr. Freund, PhD, MSN '73, FNP, FAAN, led the SON as Dean from 1990-1999. Under her leadership, the undergraduate curriculum was redesigned, extramural funding for the School increased, and distance education was implemented. Dr. Freund also oversaw the creation of the research center and a clinical education resource center. She was part of the team who created and expanded the nurse practitioner program and formed a statewide consortium of nurse practitioner training programs. She was among the early nurse practitioners in the state of North Carolina and has enthusiastically advocated for nurse practitioners throughout her career. She was appointed by Jim Hunt in 1996 as the first nurse to serve on the NC Institute of Medicine, and through her service she helped shape policy with the General Assembly and expanded the influence of nursing. "Cindy's extraordinary contributions to nursing education, administration, research, and practice over a 38 year<|fim_middle|> of her service to the School, she was named the first Alumna of the Year by the SON Alumni Association. A scholarship was also established in her name by Walter Royal Davis, a former member of the UNC Board of Governors. "One of her most outstanding accomplishments was the creation of the first Nurse Practitioner program in the state," said colleagues who nominated Ms. Booth. "Audrey Booth worked with AHEC staff, the Deans of the UNC School of Nursing, School of Medicine, and School of Public Health, as well as physicians and legislators to establish the new role and training programs for Registered Nurses."
NCNA President and clinical assistant professor Megan Williams, RN, MSN, FNP, welcomed all inductees into the Hall of Fame during an awards luncheon at the NCNA annual meeting in Raleigh, NC. "North Carolina's nursing history is rich with accomplished leaders," she said. "Here at the UNC-Chapel Hill School of Nursing, we are proud to have a strong connection to so many of these great individuals. I am honored to be part of celebrating the success of nursing leaders of the past, present and future." | career cement her place in any Hall of Fame," colleagues wrote in the nominating materials. "She led the way for other nurses who want to practice fully, write thoughtfully, speak authoritatively, teach vigorously, and research thoroughly."
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It's amazing how many American jazz standards originated in Broadway shows. Judy Kurtz and Ed Polcer bring together the two genres in swingin' fashion!
Musical comedy of the 1920's and the 1930's grew into the "musical play" of the 1940's and the 1950's, and eventually today's modern musicals. Songs of the Broadway musical theater composed by Kern,<|fim_middle|>ondheim, etc. became standards in the Great American Songbook.
These songs became the foundation of the repertoire of the great jazz and swing musicians playing on New York's West 52 nd Street (Swing Street). There were also instances where great jazz songs helped create musicals, such as "Ain't Misbehavin'" and "One Mo' Time".
When show tunes merge with the world of swing, the results are exciting, sometimes mellow, often unusual, and always friendly to the ear.
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BELLEVUE – It was a proud moment for the village's Fire and Rescue Department – welcoming four new recruits and saying goodbye to a 14-year veteran at a ceremony at the village board meeting Wednesday, Aug. 28.
Surrounded by their fellow firefighters, family and friends, Jose Arce, Christopher Battaglia, Bradley Boeke and Zachary Champine were sworn in by Village Board President Steve Soukup.
During the ceremony, each recruit chose a person special to them to pin on their badge.
Arce chose his girlfriend Devin Vandertie, Battaglia chose fellow firefighter Alex Becker, Boeke chose his wife Amanda and Champine chose his father Al.
The new recruits went through more than 100 hours of training and schooling.
They also completed a 16-week recruit school with the department, on nights and weekends, which Fire Chief Jack Mlnarik said normally followed a full day's work at their day jobs.
"This is when the journey truly began," Mlnarik said. "During this time they make a tremendous personal sacrifice being away from their families. These individuals have exemplified what it means to be part of the Bellevue Fire and Rescue Department. They will be an excellent addition to the professional, dedicated and hard-working staff that already exists."
As part of the ceremony, recruits turned in their generic yellow helmets and received their black firefighter helmets complete with their name, department and badge number.
"Hours and hours of training went into getting these black helmets – that's a huge honor," said Captain Andy Aschenbrenner.
The department also used the evening to say goodbye to Steve Duca, a 14-year veteran of the department.
"It's truly an honor to celebrate this achievement," Mlnarik said. "Over my time in the fire service, it isn't often that you see a part-timer make (14) years."
Mlnarik said many things have to happen to accomplish this.
"Having an understanding family is probably one of the most important things," he said. "Anytime a pager goes off – a wedding, birthday, holiday, anniversary – any type of milestone could be missed because of the dedication to the fire service. It's a selfless act over the last 14 years that makes celebrating this time so special."
Mlnarik said even though Duca is leaving duty, a firefighter never really leaves.
"You may not go on calls anymore, but you'll still always remain a valuable part of the department," he said "It's our hope that Steve will still come around the station and share some of that knowledge that he's gained over the last 14 years he's been here."
Duca was given a plaque honoring his 14 years of service.
"I want to thank the Bellevue Fire Department – you are truly family," Duca said.
The Bellevue Fire Department is a combination fire and rescue department providing a variety of services to the village on a 24-hour, 365-day basis. On average, the department responds to approximately 1,000 emergency calls per year.
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A new concept in the way that hay producers and operators test the quality of their hay is the New Holland CropRFV System. This upcoming season, growers will have the ability to determine the Relative Feed Value (RFV) of the hay on the go as they are baling, and store and download that value for future use. Tied in with the CropID Tagger, the hay producer has the ability to put that all-important RFV number on each and every bale, giving his buyer the feeder the accuracy needed to make an even more balanced ration.
Alfalfa and other hay crops can have feed values that vary drastically, and wide swings in quality can affect the amount of hay that needs to be fed, the production potential of that hay, and the amount of additional protein and energy needed to balance a ration.
The standard practice used to check hay quality used to be through random core sampling of bales. However, determining the quality of the hay, tracking those bales through the feeding process, and adjusting rations for the values thought to be in those bales is a significant challenge. The CropRFV system adds the precision required to learn and track those changes in quality. The<|fim_middle|> A sample is taken from the windrow right after the hay is cut, and sent into a lab. When the results come back the value is entered into the program on the baler display.When it's time to bale, the program takes the weight from the scale and the moisture from the applicator system to calculate the dry matter density, giving the RFV for each and every bale. The RFV value is displayed on the monitor while baling, is stored in the job records, and can also be written to an RFID tag.
Within a study by Utah State University, the accuracy of the system has been tested during the 2013 on three cuttings covering four fields of alfalfa. The staff at USU cored 546 3×4 large square bales, sent the cored samples into a lab for NIR testing, and compared the cored values to the calculations made by the CropRFV system. An example of how the CropRFV system calculated RFV compared to the lab analysis of one example field can been seen in the graph below.
To verify the findings by Utah State, the CropRFV was installed on eight large square balers on alfalfa farms across six different states. Over 2000 bales were cored over various cuttings and conditions during 2013 and 2014. Listen to baler operator Don Leonard of Colorado explain the accuracy of the system.
Now that the operator or grower has the capabilities to gather the all-important RFV number for each bale, the next step is applying those values to the bale as the bale goes from the field, to the stack, and to the feeder. This step consists of identifying each bale by RFV, and then sorting those bales accordingly based on quality.
The two common methods of identifying the individual bales are the RFV Dye Marker, and the CropID Tagger.
The RFV Dye Marker is a simple and economical add-on kit that marks each bale with 1, 2, or 3 stripes depending on the RFV range. The kit includes a tank, pump, plumbing, and spray nozzles. The spray nozzles are located at the back of the bale chute, and mark the bales with a blue food-grade dye for easy identification in the field.
The CropID Tagger is the premier method of identifying each individual bale. The Tagger applies a vinyl RFID tag on each bale, that holds all the crucial info for that bale: weight, moisture, preservative used, and of course RFV.
The data is then read back with a hand scanner, loader attachment, or a truck portal scanner.
Farms using the new system can scan and sort the bales as they come out of the field, sorting them by RFV in different quality groups. Sorting can also be done when the hay is stacked, or when a truck is loaded, giving the producers and sellers the ability to give the buyer precisely the hay quality that they want.
Listen as David Sharp, from Arizona, talk about how he can see the value in using the RFV system to maximize his marketing and hay production.
Operators are seeing the value of the CropRFV system and the new opportunities to market their hay. Randomly coring bales to determine the RFV is now old technology, and the New Holland CropRFV system is giving farmers the precision needed to determine and manage their hay quality from start to finish. This is a new innovation in production efficiency for the hay producer of tomorrow!
Detailed individual bale records by moisture, RFV, etc. | CropRFV system is downloaded into the operators 600 Series Automatic Applicator or Moisture Only system. | 24 |
The Buttery garden cafe at Burgh House is a wonderful addition to Hampstead Village – a licensed outdoor garden café, in a truly picturesque setting, offering excellent home-cooked food created<|fim_middle|> the finest locally sourced produce. It is quality seasonal ingredients that define the finest dishes and for this reason we have partnered with Pure Fruit and Barrett's the Butchers two of the best purveyors of fresh food in Hampstead.
The Buttery, Burgh House, is open for breakfast, lunch (with special Sunday Lunch Menu) and afternoon teas and offers an informal waiter service menu of traditional British and popular European dishes. All food is home-cooked at the Buttery - including our delicious range of homemade jams, chutneys and cakes.
Our sensible pricing policy allows frequent 'treat' visits to the café; perfect for impromptu dining-out and for meeting friends for coffee.
The café provides an extremely comfortable indoor dining area and an attractive outdoor seating area - perfect for sunny days, all year round. | from fresh, seasonal - locally sourced ingredients.
We are pleased to announce an exciting new menu and extended opening hours. The interior is newly refurbished creating a warm, comfortable and contemporary dining area – perfect for a casual lunch or tea and cake with friends and family.
Leafi Kitchens and Event Catering have been operating since 2007. In addition to events management, we now manage the Buttery Café - at Burgh House in Hampstead, and the Clifton Kitchen - at Clifton Nurseries in Maida Vale.
Excellent seasonl cooking is at the heart of everything we do. Our speciality is real home cooked food using | 130 |
Drone delivery system by Flirte<|fim_middle|> delivery drones to meet growing demand. Flirtey's technology enables businesses to operate their own logistics by providing store-to-door drone delivery to customers. Businesses who use Flirtey's best-in-class technology for last-mile drone delivery become first-movers to unlock lower delivery costs and billions in potential new revenue. Flirtey is now taking pre-orders for drone delivery systems," said Flirtey Founder and CEO Matthew Sweeny.
Flirtey's advanced technology development was led by the head of NASA's program to fly drones over people, and first unveiled at The National Press Club in Washington, D.C. Flirtey now has more than 1,000 patent claims across a portfolio of granted and provisional patents, and has conducted more than 6,000 flights to date.
With a safety-first approach, the company implemented a parachute system that can safely deploy from the delivery altitude; the aircraft lowers packages on a tether, enabling safe and precise drone delivery to homes and businesses. This marks completion of the Flirtey Eagle drone delivery system for FAA Type Certification (the FAA is working with Flirtey and a select group of companies for Type Certification).
The Company previously raised approximately $15 million in its Series B Preferred Stock financing, which valued the company at approximately $100 million. Flirtey's Series B investors include Hancock Prospecting, Lowercase Capital, Woowa Brothers, Ace Investment Partners, Amity Ventures, Y Combinator, members of the Sierra Angels, former CEO of the Commonwealth Bank Ian Narev, former Australian Ambassador to the United States of America Joe Hockey and Melissa Babbage (a member of Flirtey's Board of Directors), and In-Q-Tel.
"In-Q-Tel scouts the global market for cutting-edge technologies that have the potential for both commercial success and high national security impact, and we're excited to be an investor in Flirtey, which has built best-in-class technology for last-mile drone delivery," said Andy Ku, Principal, In-Q-Tel.
Flirtey is focused on completing the FAA's certification process, scaling fast in New Zealand where the company's technology already has regulatory certification, and expanding U.S. production of delivery drones to meet growing demand.
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Des drones pour lutter contre la pollution plastique | y ready for certification and production
Flirtey, the pioneer and a leader in the commercial drone delivery industry, today announced that it has completed the technology to certify and expand U.S. production of its best-in-class drone delivery system for last-mile delivery.
Flirtey to certify and expand production of the Flirtey Eagle drone delivery system
The aircraft designer and manufacturer's technology includes the Flirtey Eagle, an advanced drone that conducts precision delivery to homes and businesses; the Flirtey Portal, a take-off and landing platform that conducts scalable operations from storefronts; and Flirtey's autonomous software platform that conducts autonomous flight operations.
Flirtey's technology solves the last-mile delivery problem with faster, lower cost, and more convenient delivery, which takes vehicles off the roads, reduces CO2 emissions and increases the overall safety of the transport system. Flirtey's technology enables small and large businesses to operate their own logistics by providing store-to-door drone delivery to their customers, and Flirtey is now taking pre-orders.
What will you deliver? Drone Delivery by Flirtey
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If we're to believe everything the media tells us, cannabis stirs up a hankering for junk food. From Harold and Kumar to Shaggy and Scooby (don't be so naive…), going to great lengths to feed a craving is a cannabis cliche. Now that CBD's popularity is on the rise the question is: does CBD oil make you hungry?
THC is known to induce hunger.
Eating is as essential to human sust<|fim_middle|>, sometimes called the "satiety hormone," works for and against hunger. It's the hunger hormone that rises when your body needs more fuel and decreases when the tank is full. It is produced in fat cells and its main goal, as it tells you when to start and stop eating, is to help maintain weight.
Unlike leptin, which is released through fat cells, ghrelin is released directly from the body's food-craving noise makers. The stomach and small intestine–also with a little help from the pancreas and the brain–releases this hormone to signal hunger and prepare the body to eat.
But Ghrelin has a tricky little secret; it also may work in the reward centers of the brain. Ghrelin is important to signaling the body when to eat but is less concerned with telling it when to stop. Instead, it lights up the brain's reward pathways, enhancing the rewarding feeling of eating and indulgence.
In short, using cannabis makes food taste better. Understanding all of the parts of the brain that make eating enjoyable is much more suited for a 3-part Netflix series, but simply understanding the hunger hormones is enough to draw the implication.
The Munchies are real, and countless crave cases and boxes of Scooby snacks have been consumed as a result. But what about if you take out the psychoactive THC–does CBD oil make you hungry? Whereas cannabinoids like THC significantly increase levels of food-loving ghrelin in the body, CBD may have a different relationship.
Scientists found evidence that endocannabinoids are involved with leptin and appetite regulation. But does that mean CBD will make you hungry? Again, not precisely. It's well-known that CBD is a calmer. It's considered as an anti-inflammatory, pain reducer, and nausea reliever. It's these characteristics of CBD could promote inclination for food rather than an all-out craving.
Where some CBD oils may fail, others might possibly have enough push to make you hungry. This is more than a case of your CBD's potency–although some are known to be higher than others.
While the laws around CBD are still somewhat cloudy, hemp is recognized as a legal commodity in all 50 states. Since hemp is predominantly packed with CBD over other cannabis strains, it's most commonly used to make CBD products for its promise of low THC.
CBD oil is used for such a wide range of pain and illnesses now that most people are comfortable using it since it doesn't cause any type of high. Thanks to the entourage effect, full-spectrum CBD, which contains trace amounts of THC, is said to provide enhanced benefits of CBD. While CBD's benefits are strengthened, they mute the psychoactive properties of THC, keeping you cool, calm, and grounded.
In our case, full-spectrum CBD is more likely to onset some munchies than CBD isolate. Even though you won't feel high from full-spectrum CBD, the THC still does some work. It's here that it may be able to work alongside leptin to elbow-jab you into a snack. That said, the THC in most full-spectrum CBD products is so minimal that it's unlikely to have any noticeable effect.
CBD oil's effects on appetite might not be outright, but that doesn't mean they can't lend a hand in making you hungry. Cannabinoids, and specifically CBD, are being used more and more commonly for their ability to dull pain, ease anxiety, and promote restfulness. In some cases, this includes chronic pain and appetite reducing diseases like cancer and HIV/AIDS.
For those who use CBD for its strictly therapeutic results, you may find that feeling better makes you feel hungrier. CBD is said to suppress nausea. When you aren't feeling nauseous, it's much easier to have an appetite. The same can go with joint pain and muscle spasms. And so, CBD making you hungry is more of a byproduct of its effects than it is a direct cause.
Whether you've made it this far or you scrolled to the bottom for a quick answer, this is it. Does CBD oil make you hungry? Ultimately, no.
The ECS works in part with appetite, and other cannabinoids (THC) likely have a strong pull on leptin and ghrelin (and your refrigerator door), but CBD on its own hasn't shown much promise for inducing the munchies.
Although CBD isn't going to make you want to eat a whole roll of Oreos, it could help those who have other issues surrounding appetite. CBD is helpful in suppressing nausea, calming cortisol-creating anxiety, and easing bodily inflammation. These could be underlying problems to a lack of appetite and fixing those could a good start in regulating your diet.
Of all CBD's goals, to make you hungry is not the main one. It won't suppress your appetite either, but it may help you to keep a strong hold on when you should eat and when you shouldn't.
CBD and Caffeine: Are They Safe Together? | enance as breathing air. If you've ever been stuck in a meeting too long past lunch or found your fridge empty when it's time to eat, you're familiar with the rumblings that seem to follow in an eerily immediate response.
The stomach can sense an absence of food. Electrical currents work their way through the digestive tract, contracting the muscles as they would when moving food through the body. These vibrations cause the recognizable rumblings of hunger.
But just because your stomach is empty doesn't mean your body needs fuel right away. Our bodies are (more or less) very well-organized societies. Of the trillions of cells, bacteria, and defenders that work around the clock to sustain our lives, each member of our body's ecosystem has a unique role.
When it comes to hunger, there's a complete task force, lead mainly by leptin and ghrelin.
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Tom Waits has a new album, Bad As Me<|fim_middle|> Get Behind the Mule with Neil Young.
Tom Waits "Get Behind The Mule" With Neil Young from Anti Records on Vimeo. | . Great stuff you should check out. When he last toured I hit the road to see him, rolling it up with an MTB road trip. Truly a unique voice in music and worth going out of your way to see him. That was the Glitter and Doom Tour and you can hear a concert from the tour on NPR.
Terry Gross has a new interview with Tom on Fresh Air. Always interesting. Tom talks about working with Keith Richards on this album as well as how he originally met him.
And if you want to go back in time, check out this early performance and interview on the Mike Douglas show. Here's another entertaining interview. from the early days, although I have no idea who the host is.
For something a bit more recent, check out the video below from Tom's induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, | 171 |
Ginger honey tea is an aromatic herbal drink made of ginger root and honey. Because of the plethora of favorable nutrients present in this blend, its consumption remains colossally beneficial for overall health.
Ginger tea has been in use as an herbal medication in Asia since ancient times to treat several ailments. However, this combination eventually gained popularity after honey's addition to ginger tea as a natural sweetener.
Studies suggest that the combination honey and ginger serves as an effective expectorant, thereby helping to treat sore throats, cough, colds, stuffy nose and certain respiratory diseases like asthma. Honey is a natural cough suppressant which warms a sore throat while its glucose-oxidase content helps fighting viral and bacterial infections within the body. On the other hand, ginger relieves congestion in the chest by loosening up phlegm and mucus.
Ginger enhances metabolism, improves digestion and suppresses appetite, besides expanding the blood vessels which results in heating up of the body, thereby improving the fat burning process. In addition to this, honey is an easily digestible simple carbohydrate containing a plethora of minerals and amino acids which consequently prevent weight gain.
If you intend to shed off your extra calories, then a warm infusion of ginger and honey can be included as a part of your weight loss regime.
Both honey and ginger soothe the stomach lining by triggering the secretion of digestive enzymes which counteracts the effect of stomach acids, thus helping to curb nausea caused by stomach upset, motion sickness or morning sickness. Moreover, not only does the infusion lessen the queasiness caused by cancer, but also nullifies the nauseating effect of cisplatin, an essential component in chemotherapy.
Besides soothing the stomach lining, the high protein and natural digestive properties in ginger and honey stimulate bile secretion, and the growth of friendly bacteria which helps break down and absorb food, improves bowel movements, reducing the risk of constipation or diarrhea. Honey and ginger also neutralize gas in the stomach, preventing digestive issues like acid reflux and bloating.
The anti-inflammatory, antioxidant and analgesic properties of honey and gingerol relax the muscles and help to alleviate pain associated with arthritis, lower back pain,<|fim_middle|>Besides honey and ginger, lemon too acts as a potent diuretic, helping to cleanse the body of toxins, hence keeping it healthy. Moreover, their antioxidant properties help fighting free radicals in the body, enhancing the production of detoxifying enzymes as a result.
Alongside the antioxidant and detoxifying properties, honey and ginger also contain the relaxing amino acid, tryptophan, thus helping to relieve stress and anxiety, as proven through studies. Therefore, a cup of honey ginger tea before bedtime not only contributes in alleviating mood but also acts as a sedative resulting in sound sleep.
You can even add a few drops of lemon juice to taste before serving for a refreshing cup of ginger lemon honey tea. For flavorsome variations like ginger cinnamon honey tea, let the cinnamon steep in the tea for a few minutes along with the tea bag.
Although there aren't any known side effects as such, overconsumption of ginger and honey could lead to digestive issues such as heartburn or stomach upset. It is best not to give honey and ginger tea to children under 2 years of age.
Although a brew of honey and ginger is recommended as a remedy for morning sickness during pregnancy, it is best to consult your doctor before consuming it. Breastfeeding women too should seek medical advice before deciding to take the tea.
While fresh honey and ginger are available online as well as in local grocery shops, you can also purchase ginger honey tea bags online or from herbal stores. Varieties such as ginger honey lemon tea are available as well. | and muscle pain by deterring tissue damage, regulating antigen presentation of inflammatory cells and lessening systematic inflammation.
Because of its gingerol content, ginger has been scientifically shown to reduce blood sugar and increase insulin levels of the body, helping to fight diabetes as a result. Moreover, since honey contains simple sugars and a balanced amount of glucose and fructose, it helps the body to regulate blood sugar levels.
However, those under diabetes medication should consult a physician before taking the concoction.
The antioxidant content of honey and ginger blocks free radical damage, which, in turn, combats skin aging, scarring, dry skin, and uneven skin tones. Their antimicrobial properties, on the other hand, serve as antiseptics and facilitate skin healing.
Antioxidants and flavonoids in honey and ginger help prevent narrowing of blood vessels, thereby helping to control blood pressure which is one of the key factors for heart ailments. The combination of both also moderates the impact of prostaglandins, hence deterring risks of many cardiovascular diseases.
Ginger and honey tea help to fight free radicals in the blood stream, keeping them from reacting with healthy cells of the body. The antioxidant polyphenolic compounds in honey combined with a compound named 6-Shogoal in ginger are said to assist in reducing the risk, growth, and metastasis of cancer.
Ginger and honey help to fight infections and strengthen immune function owing to their antimicrobial and antioxidant properties. Besides this, honey contains significant amounts of friendly bacteria acting as a probiotic substance while ginger improves blood circulation.
A cup of ginger honey tea taken on a regular basis may contribute to an overall sound health.
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Deadline has announced Disney+ is set to adapt Flora & Ulysses to its streaming service with Alyson Hannigan (How I Met Your Mother)and Ben Schwartz (Sonic The Hedgehog) starring in lead roles. Lena Khan (The Tiger Hunter) will direct from a script by Brad Copeland (Life in Pieces).
The film is based upon Kate DiCamillo's 2013 novel Flora and Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures with illustrations from K.G. Campbell and "follows the imaginative, creative and cynical ten-year-old Flora, who could hardly predict that the little squirrel she saved from a tragic accident would be born anew and transformed into a superhero with the powers of strength, misspelled poetry… and an uncanny knack for helping her and the lovable but broken people in her life become a family again."
Hannigan will portray Phyliss, Flora's mother and a romance writer who becomes increasingly concerned with Flora and her newfound friendship with a squirrel while Schwartz will portray Flora's father.
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Napa and Sonoma Cook
Submitted by Wanda Hennig on February 16, 2009 – 1:00 pm 4 Comments
Chef's kitchen, CIA.
You can too!
Have you thought of adding "culinary education and cooking skills" to your wine country travel menu?
Story and photos by Wanda Hennig
First published in Black Diamond Living magazine
A food writer friend recently came to visit me from South Africa for the second time. On her first visit, at the end of the first day, she sat me down, poured me a glass of wine, and firmly advised me that she was not interested in any more of this sightseeing — unless the sight was between one good place to eat and the next. So my quest became good restaurants. And isn't it amazing? Just like the fool-proof floating islands that sank the time you most wanted to impress, chefs disappeared, restaurants closed, and food became bland. The best meal we had was one she cooked, at my place for a group of my friends. See "Squashing the Competition," Los Angeles Times.
This time around, determined to make amends, I decided to jump-start her visit with an intense three-day foodie trail through Napa and Sonoma. I would write it for this issue — and give her something to write home about.
Before Anne came, she e-mailed a request. Her goal, she said, was to eat at one of the world's top restaurants on each overseas trip. She'd done Australia's Tetsuya the previous year and Gordon Ramsay in London the year before that. This was the year for The French Laundry. We had to go. When I mentioned the price, she was unfazed. I was having her to stay and this, she said, would be her treat.
To plan our itinerary, I sniffed out the truffles (black diamonds, naturally, not chocolates), gathered the best of them, road-tested them with Anne, and now invite you to indulge in their varied flavors —
In Napa county, the sensuality that is The French Laundry, the smorgasbord that is Copia and the banquet that is the CIA;
In Sonoma county, Ramekins all-encompassing menu of choices, Relish's friendly feasting, Patty James' healthy alternative and La Buona Forchetta's appetizer to share.
Whether you're a food klutz, or just need some new inspiration or confidence building, follow our culinary trail through Napa and Sonoma. Think of it as a menu. You might tickle your taste buds with a sampler, then return later for the entrée, cheese course and dessert. On the other hand, you might pack all our suggestions into one gluttonous getaway and end up feeling like Anne. To quote her, "So much deliciousness, so little time."
Negotiating Napa
A scallop tempts at The French Laundry.
Chef Thomas Keller bought The French Laundry in Yountville in 1994. In 2004 Saveur magazine called it the best restaurant in America, and it consistently makes the world's top three or four. Asked to explain his food philosophy for BDL readers, Chef Keller said: "The law of diminishing returns is very important to us. We don't want to give someone so much of something that they get palate fatigue, so they are unable to have the flavor response they had earlier to the dish. The key is to give someone just enough of something that the flavor is profound."
In the understated opulence of the compact two-story restaurant, across the street from their veggie patch, we were offered a choice of three seven- to nine-course prix fixe menus, "tasting of vegetables," "dinner," and the "chef's tasting menu," which we both chose. Expect to pay $175 a person (plus tax, a 19 percent service charge, plus for wine of your choice from a 72-page tome. Please check prices when you book).
The atmosphere was reverential until Anne said: "Go on, take a picture." Soon as I did, other cameras came out, and as the wine flowed and the friendly waitstaff explained dishes and answered questions, the atmosphere turned festive. If you want real indulgence, we learned, you can ask in advance to have specialties added to the menu, which could take the food-only part of the bill to $350 per palate.
To dine here is to experience food created by an artist who is a master at marrying tastes, textures and colors. We were sold when we gasped at the flavors that burst from a miniature savory ice-cream cone topped with salmon tartare. It was an unannounced appetizer that came before our first course, which had the flavors of two tiny Beau Soleil oysters and a dollop of sevruga caviar explode in our mouths.
To say you've eaten at The French Laundry impresses people. The very fact that you got a table elicits an amazed: "Wow! How?" In fact, it's as simple as boiling an egg — which means, if you do it right, you crack the code.
To book call The French Laundry (707.944.2380) at 10:00 a.m. two months to the day in advance and keep trying if the line is busy, or go to www.opentable.com.
Copia, Napa
The American Center for Wine, Food & the Arts, was named for the goddess of abundance and what you get there by way of food (and wine) tidbits is the equivalent of the best self-serve buffet, offered in an accessible (think paint-by-numbers) format. I have now been there twice and it's not enough.
Arrive when they open (10:00 a.m.) and ideally, give yourself a day there. Do the 30-minute guided tour included with the day pass. Also, don't miss the 3.5-acre edible garden tour for a painless lessons in sustainable agriculture, seed saving, heirloom veggies, genetic diversity, biodiversity and organics — all must-knows to make the best use of farmers markets.
Check out the classes in advance online. We did "Fun with Fruit: Cobblers, Crisps, Bucklers and Grunts." Bucklers and grunts? Told you you'd learn something! We wanted more time at the interactive, all-American Forks in the Road exhibition. We ate at Julia's Kitchen, named for the late, legendary, Julia Childs, where Anne claimed the foie gras ($14) and crispy lamb sweetbreads ($13) were the best she'd tasted. I was happy with two salads, baby beet ($11) and duck ($12). We never got as far as a main course.
At Julia's Kitchen, linger, savor, and ask about everything you eat. It's another place to learn what food should taste like.
Please note, due to financial woes, Copia is currently closed, hopefully temporarily.
The CIA, St. Helena
No, not that CIA silly! This is the important one. The Culinary Institute of America at Greystone, the West Coast branch of the famous Hudson Valley, New York cooking school. It's worth a visit not least to see the gorgeous old stone winery building and to eat at the Greystone restaurant, where James Corwell, executive chef, offers dishes designed to tease the palate into becoming more informed and discriminating. (Keep reading for Corwell's tips for BDL readers.) There are wine and olive oil flights, seasonal specialties, and every table has a view of the chefs at work.
Many of the courses offered here are for culinary professionals, but there are opportunities for the home cook. Sign up for one of the daily cooking demonstrations (call to check prices). Or get serious and consider the 30-hour Career Discovery Program, geared to career changers and people who want to learn about cooking and cooking methods hands-on, in a professional environment. The CIA's store is a home-cook's dream shop for kitchen things to use, and to eat. There's a kids corner and a large selection of recipe books.
Learn more about the CIA online or call 707.967.1010.
Napa Stayover
For comfort and accessibility, try the Napa River Inn. Stroll to downtown Napa and enjoy the dynamic redevelopment and plethora of new wine bars, drive five minutes to Copia, 15 minutes to the French Laundry, longer through the vineyards to the CIA. The boutique hotel is built into the circa 1884 Napa Mill. The on-site Celadon restaurant is a long-time Napa favorite.
Nice touch: The VIP (Very Important Pet) program. Your dog will get a welcome letter, Cab-Bone-Nay dog biscuits and more. Costs $25 a night. For a pet sitter, 72 hours notice is required. Check for price updates.
Napa River Inn, 500 Main Street, 707.251.8500.
Savoring Sonoma
There are many roads from Napa to Sonoma County. If you take the woodsy, hilly route over the Oakville Grade that branches off from HW 29 close to the Oakville Grocery, you'll exit near the restaurant-infused town of Sonoma, on the outskirts of the more secluded Glen Ellen, both of which have not-to-be-missed food markets for nibbles, stocking up, and taking home. (The Sonoma Market, 500 West Napa St., and Glen Ellen Village Market, 13751 Arnold Drive.)
Ramekins: Cornucopia
Wanna-be and wanna-be-better home cooks can feast on the range of cooking class options at the 7-year-old Sonoma Valley Culinary School, named "Avocational Cooking School of the Year" in 2005 by the International Associate of Culinary Professionals. Ramekins is a short drive, or a stroll, from the Sonoma plaza. Book for one class, two classes or more, and spend your downtime checking what it is about the food that gets people eating at Deuce (707.933.3823) and Café LaHaya (707.935.5994).
We caught the "Easy Cheese Making" class with Mary Karlin and learned the secrets of panir, chevre, mascarpone, ricotta and queso fresco.
You can choose classes on anything from tapas, paella or kebobs, to handmade pasta, bread and sushi. They also have a lot of inspiring "How To" classes, for example, "How to Throw a Hors d'Oeuvres Party." And you can meet and learn from some really well known foodies — cookbook author and teacher John Ash and the San Francisco Chronicle restaurant columnist GraceAnn Walden, to name just two.
For more about Ramekins or to book classes, visit them online or call 707.933.0450.
Relish: Movable Feasting
"Have kitchen, will travel," is how Donna del Rey runs her business — a cooking school cum road show headquartered in the picturesque town of Healdsburg, California. Del Rey operates from a pristine white 1952 Chevy panel van. Her cool Relish Culinary School logo is painted on each side. She found the vehicle with a "for sale" sign parked along a Napa Valley road. In it is everything a cooking class needs except the kitchen sink and a stove<|fim_middle|> Rose rules the roost.
In a class of its own is the four-star Santa Rosa Vintner's Inn (9707-575-7350) with suites, patio rooms, fireplace rooms, fountains, tranquility, vineyards — and on site, John Ash & Co., named for the chef who created the restaurant that has long been one of Santa Rosa's best.
CIA Executive Chef James Corwell says:
To save space, use Ziploc bags to refrigerate marinades or sauces.
For dependable recipes and home cooking techniques, look for cookbooks by Marcella Hazan, Daniel Boulud and Joyce Goldstein.
When your grill, cook ahead. Make shrimp for tonight, chicken thighs to eat cold tomorrow, and vegetables for a smoky gazpacho later.
Heavily salt meat before searing. The salt draws juices to the surface, creating a great crust. This crust produces fond — tiny bits of browned meat — to use for quick sauces.
For flavorful vinaigrettes, use two different acids (instead of just one) and salt. Examples: lemon juice, red wine vinegar, balsamic.
To save time, cook batches of brown rice, lentils, chickpeas and hearty pastas. Toss in whole garlic cloves, chunks of peeled ginger, or peppers for extra flavor. Remove flavor agents and refrigerate grains and beans. They re-heat excellently.
© Wanda Hennig, 2009
FYI – Copia "temporarily" closed it's doors November 2008.
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Yes, Copia closed its doors. A loss for Napa — and food enthusiasts everywhere. But the Oxbow market, right next door to what was Copia, is well worth one — or many — visits. | . Those, someone else provides — along with a good working space that might be in a private home, a winery cave or cellar, on a farm or, the night I went, in a private community center way up at the top of a hill above Geyserville.
When del Rey decided to open Relish in 2003 she had a vision but no building to work from, no staff, no experience in the food industry, and she was not a chef. Undeterred she teamed up with chefs from well-known wine country restaurants, such as Girl and the Fig's John Toulze and Ralph Tingle of Bistro Tingle in Healdsburg. She also partners with winemakers.
At Relish, del Rey and her appointed chef for the night, Healdsburg's Nitsa Prousalis, proved you can teach old dogs new tricks. Get a bunch of adults in a kitchen and tell them to chop and blend butter, sage, thyme and garlic to stuff, by hand, under the skin of several chickens; let them drink chardonnay, zinfandal and cabernet — poured in this case by Jason Passalacqua, whose eponymous winery (Passalacqua) is fairly new to Sonoma County — and a learning experience doubles as a raucous party.
Find out more about the Relish Culinary School online or call 707.431.9999.
Patty James: The Healthy Alternative
When Patty James gets on her soapbox, she creates converts. "The health of the planet starts with the individual's health," she says, describing the benefits of the assorted colorful grains stored near the teaching table at her Sebastopol cooking school that's as bright and cheerful as she is upbeat and encouraging.
Like all the schools, James uses fresh, organic, in-season products — but her good-health focus goes all the way to the roots. Her motto is Healthy kitchens – Healthy lives, and she is equally happy reeducating experienced cooks on how to make shifts in the name of good health, teaching kids, and leading specialist classes that focus on cooking for diabetes, heart disease, cancer and more.
"I eat chocolate chip cookies like the next person, but I don't eat any white sugar," says James, who advocates simple practices like sprinkling on fresh herbs instead of salt, and who stresses that healthy cooking can be sumptuous, uncomplicated and fun. Classes are hands-on and when the cooking is done, the table gets set and you eat what you made.
Patty James, 330 South Main St., Sebastopol, 707.829.6707.
La Buona Forchetta: Togetherness
La Buona Forchetta as a cooking school is like an appetizer, or a dessert, to the main meal — which in this case is exploring the fare of the Russian River Valley. This school works best if you want a bonding experience over food in a tasteful villalike setting with a group of six to 12 friends or family members, and you can all agree on something specific you'd like to know more about — like braising meat or making ice cream.
The school is part of Applewood Inn and Restaurant, a 19-room Mediterranean-style B and B with nighttime dining, located on the outskirts of Guerneville. Innkeeper-owner Darryl Notter says classes are typically half-day. This is a place where, for example, a group of old school friends, and a family with a grandson thinking of being a chef, booked in for a minivacation that included a custom-designed class. Applewood's executive chef Brian Anderson runs the classes.
La Buona Forchetta at Applewood, 13555 Hwy. 116, Guerneville, 707.869.9093.
Sonoma Stayovers
Try the Glen Ellen Inn (707.996.6409) for informality and comfort in what they call their "secret cottages," tucked behind their fun Oyster Grill & Martini Bar, the California-fusion restaurant that's part of the mini-complex. Owner-chef is Christian Bertrand, whose kitchen background includes the Sonoma Mission Inn and Fifth Avenue Grill, New York; his wife, Karen, manages the restaurant and the inn; and daughter Savannah | 914 |
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Her top moments include: "Competing at Nationals with my club team, Legacy, and making it to states with the DHS Swim & Dive team," she said.
Vivian is also in choir. She has several coaches who are her favorites. "I can't choose a favorite, they have all impacted me and my diving career differently," she said.
She wants to dive in college. "Diving challenges you, it requires you to go out of your comfort zone, which I enjoy and find very rewarding," she added. "Also, I have made some of my best friends through diving and at meets."
Her parents are Jodi and Mike Kinnard, and her siblings are Amelia, Clayton, Jillian, Spencer, and Muriel.
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Health startups in India
Health startups are stirring things up in the sector by not just offering patient's better diagnostics but also making medical aid more accessible.
If there was one field where innovation has the double effect of being contemporary and good for health, it has to be in the medical world. Fortunately in India, startups have been doing a lot of research and field work spurred both by Government and private funding to make sure health is more reachable and understandable. We list 10 such startups that are doing some innovative work that is changing the wellness and health scene in the country.
Innovation: Doctor Network
What it is: This is a network of doctors for discussing and collaborating on patient cases. Curofy encourages peer-to-peer collaboration in learning and solving cases to help them keep up to date with the latest in the medical world.
How does it work: It is a platform with more than 3 lakh doctors can share cases, provide referrals, communicate with other doctors and access most recent, specialty-wise developments taking place in their field.
How it can help patients: Though the platform is only for doctors it helps them discuss real-life cases of their patients and take opinions from other doctors and specialists across the country, resulting in better outcomes for the patients.
Innovation: Breast Cancer Detection Tool
What it is: Based on the patented technique called Thermalytix™ that uses sophisticated AI and ML techniques over thermal images Niramai's innovation automatically identifies potential abnormalities and generates a human interpretable medical report.
How does it work: Niramai solution is an innovative method for breast cancer detection. The screening procedure is very simple. The lady walks into a small booth or a covered area where she sits at a 3 feet distance from a thermal sensor. The thermal sensor measures the temperature variations on her chest, and Niramai software analyses these thermal signatures to generate a breast health report automatically. The report can be reviewed remotely by an expert radiologist for verification. No one touches or even sees her during the screening.
How it can help patients: "Niramai test has the ability to detect breast abnormalities even before a lump can be detected with hand. Such early detection increases treatment effectiveness, reduces treatment cost and better quality of life post treatment," says Nidhi Mathur, COO & Co-founder, Niramai. Since it does not involve any radiation, people who have a family history of cancer can get themselves checked regularly without risk of exposure to radiation, pain or discomfort of letting someone else examine their breasts.
Innovation: Virtual assistant for doctors
What it is: Navi is a voice-powered system, which allows doctors to write prescriptions, schedule follow-ups, search patient records, and manage their practice on both computers and mobiles.
How does it work: Navi records commands or instructions or phrases being uttered by the user, takes the useful parts of the command and converts it into an electronic medical record and patient management system – Navia SMART. "In the first phase, we are focusing on using Navi to write digital/electronic prescriptions. When a doctor needs to write a prescription, all they need to do is to go the record of the patient and start dictating the prescription details to either their phone or computer. Navi then analyzes the commands and fills in the appropriate details into the right section of the prescription. This includes patient complaints, diagnosis, medication regimen, investigations, case notes and finally follow-ups," says Kunal Kishore Dhawan, CEO & Co-founder Navia LifeCare. This prescription is linked to a reminder system, where drug reminders are automatically set up, based on the parameters set up in the prescription and those are sent to a mobile app in the hands of the patient.
How it can help patients: As Navi's adoption will increase, more and more doctors would find it comfortable and convenient to shift to electronic/digital prescriptions, reducing the need for paper records. All the patient prescriptions would be made available to them using Navia's mobile apps. Further, with the automatic set up of reminders, patients would never forget to take their medication, increasing adherence, and overall health outcomes. There would not be cases of medication errors or requirement of pharmacists to read and explain prescriptions as well.
Innovation: One Stop Holistic Wellness Solution
What it is: AyurUniverse is India's largest, most trusted online wellness platform that promotes Indian wellness systems like Ayurveda and Yoga.
How does it work: The website features over 2500 wellness packages from over 300 verified centers in India and Sri Lanka and include Ayurvedic rejuvenation, de-stress, beauty care as well as various ailment management programs, yoga retreats and Yoga Teacher Training courses. You can search, compare and book all-inclusive packages based on budget, location and neighborhood preference from a personally verified selection of wellness centers.
How it help patients: While there is growing popularity and awareness about Ayurveda and Yoga, there is a large number of people who are keen to choose holistic methods of treatment but do not know where to go when it comes to booking a wellness experience or are simply inundated by the number of wellness centers /resorts out there. "At Ayuruniverse, our effort is to simplify this process with our tech-driven, simple, easy-to-use and reliable, one-stop wellness portal. Our accreditation from the Ministry of Tourism, Government of India is a testament to our commitment towards changing the way people book a wellness holiday," says Vijay Kumar Karai, CEO & Founder, AyurUniverse.
Innovation: Psychiatric Treatment
What it is: The conventional way of treating psychiatric disorders have only been through medicine or counseling (talk therapy). The antidepressant medications take months to show the first sign of improvement while this innovative approach might take several weeks. Though it is surprising, it is true that we can target and activate the affected part of brain cells using magnetic pulses. Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) is an innovative and revolutionary way to treat depression and other mental illnesses. TMS treatment has helped even those for whom the antidepressants may or may not have worked.
How does it work: Depression affects neurotransmitter concentration, blood flow and metabolism in a certain region of the brain. Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation delivers a magnetic pulse that stimulates nerve cells and activates the regions of the brain that have decreased activity. The part of the brain that's responsible for depression is identified by the psychiatrist before administering TMS treatment. This non-invasive treatment stimulates nerve cells in the brain that are involved in mood control and depression, which in turn seems to ease depression symptoms and improve mood.
How it can help patients: It can be taken on a daily basis without getting admitted to a mental health facility. "It has no systemic side effects, proven higher remission, let's you resume your routine almost immediately and is a simple and easy process. It is a non-invasive and painless (a mild sensation in the treatment area during the few initial sessions) treatment approach," says Dr. Jateen Ukrani, Senior Psychiatrist, National President, Association of DNB Doctors.
Innovation: Assistive communication device
What it is: VOIS is developed by Sonant Technologies. "This is our first product for speech and hearing-impaired people, based on our patent<|fim_middle|>-medicine.
How does it work: PACE is powered by Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning capabilities that would be able to offer suggestive diagnosis and enable patients to move towards preventive care. It can take a 12-point electrocardiogram (ECG) from a patient, transfer it onto a smartphone or tablet via Bluetooth, and from there it can generate a report in PDF or JPG formats which can be sent via the internet to the doctor for evaluation.
How it can help patients: PACE can pave way for us to build a tele-communication link between the primary health centre and tertiary hospitals to effectively provide telemedicine services related to cardiac problem in patients in rural India. "It has the potential to replace conventional ECG, especially for screening purposes in the remote areas. Such an innovation can empower the health providers, paramedics and nurses with diagnostic tools that can provide reach from door-to-door. Cardiac patients will be able to save a lot of time and trouble in getting ECG report," says Keshav Daga, Co-founder, Techno Surge Industries LLP.
Innovation: Brain Haemorrhage Detector
What it is: Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) is the leading cause of disability in the world and is often detected at a very late stage by when the brain is already damaged. To overcome this, Bioscan Research has developed Cerebo, a fast, portable and non-invasive brain haemorrhage detector that can detect an intracranial bleed within 2 minutes.
How does it work: It works in three simple steps. Power the device, select the location which needs to be scanned and place the device in contact with head. Press 'Report' and the result is displayed on the screen.
How it can help patients: India is the head injury capital of the world. There are three people either dying or becoming disabled every year due to TBI. "If we will diagnose the injury in just 10% of these people, we would be saving 18 lives per hour. Most of these people are in their most productive age and many a times, sole bread-earner of the family. Assuming a four-person dependency, the device would impact livelihood of more than 72 people per hour," says Shilpa Malik, Founder, Bioscan Research Pvt. Ltd.
Innovation: Ayurvedic Health Check
What it is: In Ayurveda, there are three basic types of energy or doshas – Vatta, Pitta and Kapha. Their balance reflects the complete physical and mental health of a person and is reflected by a pulse pattern of the radial artery on the wrist. NadiPulse Prognostics has built a device that diagnoses the pulse pattern of a person and tells you the status of your health. This device would be helpful not only to diagnose a disease but can also pre-diagnose it before it starts to show its first physical pattern. "This innovation is not only a non-invasive diagnosis of the full body and mind, but also suggests your food, lifestyle and Yoga to normalize any negative indication in pulse. We are developing two variants of technologies, one is for clinical purposes and the other is a health-tracking fitness band," says Kajal Shrivastava, Founder, NadiPulse Prognostics Pvt. Ltd.
How does it work: The fitness band version comes with a wristband-like device along with a mobile app. The pulse-pattern from the wrist is collected and is sent to mobile app via Bluetooth. The status of his health appears on the mobile, along with suggestions in terms of food lifestyle and yoga.
How it can help patients: This kind of pre and during diagnoses through the device helps the user to improve his overall health but allows him to keep a track of his health in critical conditions, like pregnancy, old age, infancy or sickness.
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How does it work: VOIS is a cohesive product comprising a pair of gloves that has several touch-sensitive spots on fingers, and a smart wrist-band with a touch-display and speaker. By simply touching a few spots on the glove, the sensors activate an automated audible voice. It also converts voice into text and shows that on the display of the wrist band, so that the user can understand what someone else is speaking. Also, whenever any urgent or critical noise occurs in the surrounding, like a door bell ringing or an automobile honking, the smart wristband vibrates and notifies the user.
How it can help patients: Hearing and speech impaired people will finally be able to speak with regular people using VOIS. This will help them to express themselves, get proper education and job opportunities. An affordable price point and support for almost all popular languages will make it truly accessible for millions of speech and hearing impaired people to engage with the rest of the world. When they use VOIS, their language comprehension proficiency increases rapidly, which will help them become a part of the regular workforce and get better employment opportunities, this time, not out of mere sympathy, but out of deserving merit.
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Innovation: Prosthetics for amputees
What it is: Social Hardware is currently working on a designing a low cost, fully-functioning, life-like prosthetics for amputees from low-income and rural communities. The aim of our innovation is to create artificial hands to the same standards as the leading prosthesis brands from Europe and North America while using the internationally recognized Disabilities of the Arm, Shoulder and Hand (DASH) evaluation criteria as a measure of success.
How does it work: The company has produced a silicone rubber looks-like prototype and several iterations of its 3D printed works-like prototype using Autodesk Fusion 360® 3D CAD software. The hands are constructed from a highly-flexible antimicrobial material, which can be safely washed using soapy water. This material also has the added benefits of being user-repairable and heat resistant up to 300°C, which is ideal for those who prefer to cook using a traditional open fire. "The artificial hand is user-repairable using low-cost sil-poxy silicone adhesives. We have also ensured the widespread compatibility of our device with existing socket systems to support disability rehabilitation centres with fewer qualified technicians," says Abhit Kumar & Cameron Norris, Co-founders, Social Hardware International Pvt. Ltd.
How it can help patients: This structured two-step rehabilitation program is designed to ensure that upper limb amputees have the required muscle strength and coordination to effectively utilize the prosthetic hands before receiving them. The program is expected to take 60-days and amputees that successfully complete the program will be fitted with Social Hardware's prosthetic hand, free of charge. Participants that successfully complete the rehabilitation program will be fitted with the prosthetic hand for free.
Innovation: Cardiac Care Solution
What it is: Portable Appliance for Correct ECG (PACE) is a credit card sized, affordable, smartphone-enabled, 12-channel ECG device. This handheld tele-ECG device is an indigenous design that shows immense potential in replacing conventional ECG, especially for screening purposes in the remote areas through tele | 719 |
The Coleman Traditional Irish Music Centre is located in Gurteen, Co. Sligo. The Centre is a celebration of Irish music, local culture and heritage dedicated to the memory of the late Michael Coleman (1891-1945) who was one of the most influential traditional musicians of the twentieth century.
The theatre in the Coleman Centre can accommodate 150 people and is also used to host Ceili nights and exhibitions by writers, painters and craftspeople from the locality and beyond. A range of concerts are regularly hosted here with artists and musicians performing and visiting from all over the world. The theatre also houses an audio-visual display on the music of South Sligo and the life of Michael Coleman.
In the exhibition room, visitors can experience the instruments, musical styles and individual musicians from the beginning of the last century right through to the music of today. This permanent exhibition also has interactive multimedia terminals which will educate you on local lore and traditions, music and Irish dancing styles. You can also see how the musical instruments are made.
In the reception area<|fim_middle|> cottage contains furniture and other artefacts dating back to the 1920's, which adds to the visitor's experience. You can also visit the Music Archive which has an impressive collection of traditional music and song from the past and present.
Visit their website for updates on events. | , visitors will find a gift shop which stocks a large selection of gifts including traditional music CD's, DVDs, Instruments and accessories.
The farmhouse cottage is a replica Michael Coleman's original home and gives visitors a unique insight into how people lived in the early 20th century in Ireland. The building has three rooms, is constructed of red and white limestone and is roofed in traditional thatch. The | 81 |
Clippers rally in fourth quarter to beat Warriors 109-100
<|fim_middle|>.m. EST | By JOE REEDY
LOS ANGELES (AP) — After having four days off, the Los Angeles Clippers looked more rusty than rested during the first three quarters of their game Friday night against the Golden State Warriors.
Then, they were able to get things in gear just in time.
Kawhi Leonard scored 10 of his 36 points over the final 12 minutes as the Clippers rallied from a 10-point deficit at the start of the fourth quarter for a 109-100 victory.
"We put so much energy and stuff in the past two days that I felt we were trying to do the right thing instead of just playing," said Lou Williams, who added 21 points. "We started playing more free and open in the fourth. Our energy picked up, we got some stops and the pace picked up."
The Warriors had a 83-73 lead going into the final 12 minutes before Los Angeles went on a 14-2 run over the first three-plus minutes to take a 87-85 lead. Montrezl Harrell keyed the rally with seven of his 11 points.
Eric Paschall's jumper tied it at 87 before Williams hit a fadeway 3-pointer with 6:56 remaining to give the Clippers the lead for good. Leonard put an exclamation point on the win with a driving dunk with 1:16 remaining to put LA up by six and give it two straight wins over Golden State for the first time since 2011.
Leonard also had nine rebounds, five assists and three steals. He is the first Clippers player to have at least 36 points, nine rebounds, five assists and three steals in a game since Ron Harper in 1994.
"In the fourth quarter, we took care of the ball," Leonard said. "I feel like they were making shots early and doing a good job running their offense. In the fourth, we were able to contest shots."
The Clippers shot only 25% from beyond the arc (8 of 32) and committed 17 turnovers in the first three quarters, but were 3 of 7 on 3-pointers and committed only two turnovers in the fourth.
"They just overwhelmed us," Golden State coach Steve Kerr said. "Kawhi and Lou Williams both got going, Harrell got going, and we just couldn't put the ball in the basket. We just couldn't quite keep up with them in the fourth."
Rivers isn't panicking over the Clippers slow starts, but he does realize it could become a problem over the long run.
"There's not a lot we can do about it today. If we play like that in April or May, that will hurt us," he said.
Glenn Robinson III and Omari Spellman scored 17 apiece for Golden State, which has lost its last seven, and Alec Burks added 16.
The Warriors had a 53-48 lead at halftime. It was tied at 37 when Spellman sank a pair of 3-pointers during a 9-2 Golden State run.
It was tied at 58 early in the third quarter when the Warriors retook control with a 12-4 run that included six points from Burks. They would extend their lead to 10 at the end of the third,
Spellman made his first start as a member of the Warriors and made half of their 3-pointers, going 4 of 8. He started 11 games as a rookie last season with Atlanta, but was excited about the opportunity on Friday night.
"This is the opportunity I've been waiting for. My confidence has been coming back, so just wanted to hoop," he said.
Spellman is averaging 7.7 points this season, but this was his fifth straight game in double figures.
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Williams had eight assists. This is his fourth straight game with at least 20 points and five assists off the bench, which is the third longest such streak in NBA history.
Harrell's 11 points and 10 rebounds give him sixth double-doubles off the bench this season, which is tied for first in the league.
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Warriors: Golden State was 8 of 39 on 3-pointers, which is the sixth time this season it has shot under 21% from beyond the arc. That already is the most games in Kerr's six seasons as coach. … Paschall had 12 points and Damion Lee added 10. … Burks was 9 of 9 from the line and extended his free throw streak to 35, which is a career high. His previous high was 23 in 2017.
Clippers: F Paul George did not play after straining his left hamstring during practice Wednesday. It is the second game in the last three that he has missed due to hamstring problems. … Patrick Beverley had 12 points and 11 rebounds for his fourth double-double this season. … Ivica Zubac got his 900th career rebound during the first quarter.
Warriors: travel to Memphis on Sunday. They have split the first two games this season against the Grizzlies.
Clippers: travel to Denver on Sunday for the first of three games. The Nuggets took three of four last year.
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De Boeing E-4 Nightwatch is een van de vier vliegtuigen van de Amerikaanse luchtmacht (USAF) die zijn gebouwd op basis van het airframe van een commerciële Boeing 747. Deze vier toestellen staan gereed voor hoge Amerikaanse regeringsfunctionarissen als de president, de minister van defensie, de militaire bevelhebbers en hun opvolgers.
De toestellen zijn ingedeeld bij 55th Wing van het 1st Air Command Control Squadron op de vliegbasis Offutt, Nebraska. De vliegers en het onderhoudspersoneel komen van het Air Combat Command (ACC) en de operators van het Strategic Command.
Oorspronkelijk was de E-4 bedoeld als militaire nationale noodcommandopost en overlevingspost tijdens een nucleair conflict; daarom kreeg het al snel de bijnaam doomsday plane.
Na de val van de Sovjet-Unie en met de verminderde dreiging werd de E-4-missie veranderd in die van een nationaal luchtmobiel crisiscentrum.
Het radio callsign voor de E-4 is Silver Dollar maar als de president aan boord komt verandert dit in Air Force One
Er staat permanent een E-4 voor de president gereed op de vliegbasis Andrews, Washington DC waarmee hij zijn binnenlandse en buitenlandse reizen maakt. De drie overige staan volgens een roulatieschema verspreid over de vliegbases in Verenigde Staten.
Drie presidenten (Carter, Reagan en George W. Bush) hebben in hun regeringstermijn vanwege de op dat moment heersende crisissituatie<|fim_middle|>te verdeeld in een voice- en een datagedeelte
de vlucht-avionicaruimte met bewakingsapparatuur voor het boordnet, radar, zuurstofapparatuur, reservedelen en bagageruimte
Het lage dek bevat:
een onderhoudskamer met watertanks, elektrische voorziening, transformatoren, de VLF en SHF-zenders en elektrisch bediende trappen
een uitrustingskamer met specifieke uitrusting, handvuurwapens et cetera
een antenneruimte met de spoel van de 5 mijl lange VLF sleepdraadantenne en de bedieningsapparatuur hiervoor
Zie ook
Air Force One (roepletter)
Externe links
E-4B Advanced Airborne Command Post, Boeing
Air Force One: 'The Flying White House', CNN, 15 februari 2002
E-4 | operationele vluchten met de E-4 gemaakt. De overigen gebruikten het slechts om te reizen.
In 2006 werd door minister van defensie Rumsfeld bekendgemaakt dat de E-4's vanaf 2009 tot 2015 gefaseerd uit dienst werden genomen en vervangen door twee speciaal aangepaste Boeing C-32's.
Geschiedenis
De eerste Boeing E-4A werd in 1974 operationeel als opvolger van de voorheen gebruikte Boeing EC-135 Looking Glass. Deze bevatte dezelfde uitrusting als de EC-135 maar was iets groter en kon ook langer in de lucht blijven. Dit toestel was eveneens geschikt om op te treden als Looking Glass toestel voor het Strategic Air Command.
In 1979 volgden twee nieuwe E-4B's; dit toestel verschilde met de E-4A door de grote bult op de romp achter het bovendek. Deze bult bevat een satellietantenne voor zeer hoge frequenties (SHF).
In 1980 waren alle drie toestellen omgebouwd naar E-4B-specificaties. Ze hadden nu aanzienlijk verbeterde communicatiemogelijkheden en werden geacht immuun te zijn voor de elektromagnetische puls (EMP) van een atoomexplosie.
De E-4B is berekend op een bemanning van 60 tot 150 personen; dit is de grootste bemanning in de geschiedenis van de USAF.
Interieur
De E-4 heeft drie vliegdekken: het flightdeck, midden- en lage dek.
Het flightdeck bevat:
werkposities van de vliegers, navigator en boordwerktuigkundige
een keukendeel en slaapcabines voor flightcrews en ander personeel
Het middendek bevat:
een 9-persoonsvergaderzaal met projectiemogelijkheden
een operationeel gedeelte voor 29 man met dataverwerkende apparatuur, radiotelefoon en audio-opname/weergave-mogelijkheden
een controlekamer met SHF-satellietcommunicatiemogelijkheden
een rustruimte met slaapgelegenheid voor de overige bemanning
de voorste ingang met verbindingsgangen naar de dekken
keukenapparatuur en plaatsen voor de bewakers en stewards
een ruimte voor het nationaal commando met beveiligde wereldwijde verbindingen
een kantoor, slaap- en kleedgedeelte
een briefingroom met projectiemogelijkheden
een communicatieruim | 642 |
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Why should I take a caravan rather than go on my own ?
- Safety in Numbers: On a caravan, you are safer in areas considered dicey and the chance of being hit up by crooked police are less.
- You learn how to handle paperwork: There was a couple in the RV park I was in in Feb 2016, who crossed the border<|fim_middle|>You will be required to sign a standard release of liability and provide you medical information in a sealed envelope that will be returned to you unopened at the end of the trip. See the "Terms" section. | without realizing they needed to do paperwork. They are now in big trouble and at risk of having their rig seized. Our company is trying to assist them in whatever way we can even though they are not customers.
Are you an American or Canadian company?
We are actually a Mexico registered tour company. This enables us to operate cheaper and run more cost effective tours. We are a contractor for some other companies (Our competitors) and we can operate Caravans in English or French, but we keep them separate.
Do you do trips in Fall ?
As of now, we no longer do Fall trips. They have been only a few rigs in past and are uneconomical. Also we found out in 2017, that the Yucatan is not the place to go in November. Too wet. We may look at shorter Fall trips in NW Mexico in future is sufficient demand is there.
We are a Gay couple, any issues?
If you don't have any, then we don't. We actually have used gay couples as Wagon Masters in the past, and are in the process of recruiting another couple. Mexico is quite open minded, and so are we. We do not judge people on their sexual preferences any more than we do the color of their skin or religion, as long as it's legal. We are planning to run caravans specifically aimed at the LGBT community, starting in 2019. We also run caravans for other specific groups like the Airstream club.
Are your prices in US or Canadian dollars?
- Both, we set them early in the year and once you pay a deposit, you are protected. You may pay in Canadian dollars if you are Canadian. We actually base our prices on the Canadian dollar. Prices are listed on our Prices page. Once you pay a deposit, you will pay that price, or less if we lower them during the year before departure. Never more.
Is the price per rig or per person?
- Per rig assuming 2 people. The single discount is about $750 US or the Canadian equivalent, $250 on short ones. That is approximate, based on 80 days & 30 days respectively. Contact us for the surcharge for more than 2, it depends on if they are kids or adults and caravan length, but the amount is similar to discounts..
How come your single discount is not nearly as large as your competitor?
We price according to how it affects our costs. Even with the lesser discount we are still cheaper for singles. This may have to do with the fact we do not have to contract out, and they do. They are charged so much per person by their supplier whereas we look at pricing by the rig, not so much the individuals it contains. You will notice our surcharge for an extra person is also much less.
Who are the green Angels and how do you use them?
They are like AAA but with quasi-police powers. They are excellent mechanics. We use them on some remote sections and often to get us in and out of cities. They regularly patrol the toll roads, so on those we will just call them if needed.
- Not really. Most of our trips are mainly retirees. We prefer 18+. We may look at individual situations. It is probably not fair to our other customers to have unruly children along, so it really depends on the indivividuals.
What about people with mobility issues?
- Participants really need to be able to walk a bit, even if it is only a couple hundred feet. We have had an individual in a wheelchair, and it is really tough. In this particular case, she was quite light, and we were able to lift her onto the train to Copper Canyon, for example. Anyone over 175 lbs would be pretty much impossible. If you are in a wheelchair, and want to come along simply for the experience, we can discount you all the tours and allow you select some that may work, a la carte. Mexico is not really set up for people in wheelchairs. The fall caravan is probably better for those with mobility issues, as is is smaller and the wagon master has more time to cater to special needs than when he/she has a lot of individuals to deal with.
Why is your caravan different?
- There are relaxing, longer term stops at beaches & hot springs. (not so much in our shorter Fall caravan) We are also totally honest with our customers as to what to expect, what they need to consider, and what possible snags they may encounter. We are open and honest. We do not want to discourage anyone, but we also believe an informed customer is a happy customer, and that can mean mentioning some of the negatives. We work personally & extensively, one on one, with all our our customers via phone & email, before they commit, to ensure all their questions are answered, and they know what to expect and what is expected. You will not experience this with any of our competitors.We believe that if you are properly prepared & informed, this will be a wonderful trip of a lifetime and will expand your RVing horizons. We want our customers to have the confidence, knowledge & skills to RV in Mexico on their own, in future years. I am hoping people appreciate our frankness & honesty for what it is: a means to ensure you approach the adventure in an open frame of mind, embracing experiences that are new, different and exciting. We would rather lose a customer than deceive one. Life is not lying on the couch watching the National Geographic Channel. We are selling Mexico as an RV destination & experience, not just a caravan. We want you see the real Mexico & its people, not the facade you see from the pool of an all inclusive resort. We are aiming at the boomer market and I believe the boomers are much more adventurous than their parents, and are looking for something beyond the same old - same old. We hope that at least 30% of our customers will become regular snowbirds to Mexico once they see what it has to offer. We are already seeing some of our customers booking for following years at RV parks we stop at. This country can quickly kill your enthusiasm for snow birding in Arizona or Florida.
Do you operate shorter Caravans?
- Many people have asked us this, so starting in the 2015/2016 season we are operating 30 day caravans just as far as Mazatlan and Teacapan, 100 km's south. Either way they are about 30% lower than other companies. On some you may have the option to choose to return with another group.
Do you operate caravans in French ?
- Yes to the Yucatan, see www.caravanemexique.com. We are also looking at operating one in French in conjunction with our partners at Baja Amigos.
Can I do a partial trip or go down with one trip & back with another?
- Usually we will allow partial trips if the caravans are not too full. If we have a later tirp intercepting where you are, there is usually provision to come back with a later trip.
Do you go to the Yucatan?
What is the difference between you and other caravan companies?
- The 2 main other companies are Adventure and Fantasy. Both are well established, reputable companies. There are others out there that we would label "fly by night". Adventure and Fantasy also happen to be our customers, as we provide services in Mexico to both. While that may sound rather odd, they tend to provide caravans that are shorter, and suitable for those who have less time, or simply want a shorter caravan. They generally do not go as deep into Mexico as we do, although Adventure usually does every second year. As such, they are not really our competitors as they generally serve a different demographic. We concentrate on those looking for an entire longer term Snowbird experience and that generally means retirees and seasonal workers, not those with 9-5 jobs. If their time frame suits you better, we whole-heartedly recommend either of them. Also since we are based in Mexico, we are much more in tune with the current conditions there. You may encounter what looks like a better deal. However there can be traps. For example when you see 40 events in a 30 day tour, that should tell you that stepping onto the bus counts as one tour. Do they give you good meals or a soggy sandwich? Do they blind side you with extras? These are all things you need to check carefully. Are they following Mexican laws? If they are running tours by themselves without a Mexican resident partner or organizer, they are not. Are you going to traveling at a breakneck pace? To be honest, the first half of our trips tend to be intensive, but you get plenty of beach relax time in the second half. We do tend to add some more "off-the-wall" ad hoc tours.
- We like a minimum of about 10 to make the trip viable, maximums depend on the route. Generally our Spring caravan ends up at under 12. We do not run 20 rig caravans. The caravan often has Green Angels as tail-gunners (like AAA). To be frank smaller caravans run the risk of being poisioned by a single awkward couple, while ones over 12 can get clique formation. We have found 10-12 works the best.
I am a Single traveler. Can you help me find a companion ?
- Yes if you are a single traveler and would like to share the trip and costs with somebody else in this situation we will try to match you up. You may also consider posting on one of the many Forums & Facebook groups for single RVers.
What do you use for tours?
- On our larger caravans, we use tour buses. If the caravan or a particular tour is small in numbers, we may use air conditioned vans or mini-buses.
Where does it start & end?
- Our caravans start at Nogales, Mission or Laredo and may end at either.
- Not anymore. There is a rapidly growing middle class in Mexico and you will find many prices almost the same as in the US or Canada. Some things are still cheaper, but do not expect 3rd world prices.
What do I need to do to prepare my vehicle/RV?
- Do an oil change, check your brakes, especially trailer or 5th wheel brakes. We will inspect those before you cross, so make sure they are functioning. We advise a fuel filter change for diesels, before and after the trip, we have experienced no problems with Mexican diesel, but it's never a bad idea.to change filters. In fact for any diesel, driven anywhere, I personally advise installation of a lift pump double filtration system like that made by FASS. I speak from experience with my injector problem-prone Duramax (See this info). Carry a spare oil, fuel & air filter. It is not a bad idea to change your serpentine belt out and keep the old one as a spare. Inspect all your hoses. To summarize, I personally carry all 3 filters, a serpentine belt and spare radiator hoses. I also have a spare sewer hose plus a spare bayonet fitting for it, and an RV water pump. I also carry a container of distilled water to top up my batteries, both truck and RV. I am probably over cautious, but I also have spare circuit boards for my fridge and water heater, but I spend 6 months a year in Mexico. You obviously cannot carry a spare for everything. RV technicians in Mexico are as rare as hens teeth, but I have seen locals perform miracles.
Try to arrive in the vicinity of the departure point a few days before if possible, unexpected vehicle issues can cause you to miss the rendezvous. In the spring 2014 caravan, 3 rigs had serious mechanical issues before reaching Nogales (including mine). All resolved in time, fortunately. There is no guaranty we will wait for you.
An extra spare tire (used is OK) off rim is a good idea for your truck and/or trailer, certain tire sizes are hard to find. If you have a 5th wheel or trailer, please read this page. You need to be aware of some special considerations with these RV types. We strongly advise those with Class A's, not fitted with a spare, to have a carrier welded for an "off rim" tire that can be installed into your rear hitch. You may be able to modify a bike carrier. A used tire is fine. We strongly advise trailers & 5th wheels to carry one or 2 spare leaf springs. I have broken one in the past.
Although mechanics in Mexico seem to be excellent, and often miracle workers, obtaining parts can be an issue and cause major delays, especially for diesels. With that in mind, it is prudent to ensure your vehicle is in top shape. There are dealers for all 3 major brands, but they do not sell diesels.
POWER It is extremely important to buy a power protector. This will cost you $250-$350, and must protect against too high or too low voltage. In Spring 2016, we had 3 rigs do damage to their electronics by not being protected, including a blown digital clock, a Converter board (produces 12V from A/C in your rig) and a satellite receiver PVR. These are made by Surge Guard, Progressive Industries and also Camco. Be careful that it protects against high or low voltage, not just surges. If it costs less than $250, it probably is not the right one. You can also purchase a voltage regulator in Mexico that will correct the conditions at Home Depot for less than $100, but it will usually trip when you try to run an air conditioner through it. There are some tricks to make it work even with an A/C. We are sourcing higher capacity versions of these..
We highly recommend you look at upgrading your RV/tow vehicle with products from Torklift. (www.torklift.com) If you have a Truck Camper, we highly recommend Torklift tie downs. They are much stronger, than the alternative, and I have seen truck beds damaged by the use of the style that mount to the truck bed. For those with trailers, campers & 5th wheels, we recommend the addition of Torklift stable loads to improve your suspension & stability at the rear. Fortunately in a caravan, you will see the guy in front of you hit a Tope (speed bump) or rough road first, and of course the Wagon Master hits everything first, so the warning passes on down the line. However, these are improvements that will reinforce the resilience & handling of your rig in Mexico or anywhere else.
How will we communicate on the road?
- Starting in the 2018/2019 season wel require all participants to have a GRMS Base Unit in their vehicle. We are migrating to these from CB's. These have 3 or 4 times the range of a CB and are compatible with the handhelds we also require everyone to have. The 15 watt version which we recommend is about $150 US and easily installed by yourself in a matter of minutes. The antenna is small & Magnetic, but if you do not have a metal surface it can be strapped to another object like a radio antenna. We also require you to have a pair of inexpensive GRMS walkie talkies, as these assist with getting you set up in the RV Park and for communication while on tours that involve walking.
How far south do you go?
- It generally depends on the caravan. In the case of our Yucatan loop, the border with Belize & Guatemala. .
Do we have to drive through the middle of any cities?
- Yes, Aguascalientes, Puerto Vallarta, Hermosillo and Puebla. We do have detailed instructions in case you become separated, and hopefully the rig in front of you will be visible, even if you get caught at a light. We will brief you the day before we transit any of these locations. We try to provide you with photos of turns in the manual we provide. Out of all those cities mentioned, Puerto Vallarta is the worst, but it is is also the one we tackle last, so you will be a pro by then. It is also easier northbound than southbound. The Mazatlan bypass is now complete. Aguascalientes is long, but not bad. Hermosillo involves a few turns, but we have it well mapped out for you. We place any single travelers behind the wagon master on these stretches as they do not have another individual to read out instructions. Where possible, we will pull over to allow rigs to bunch up again.
How fast or slow do you travel?
- We try to follow the speed limits. All participants are expected to travel at or just below the limit & keep up, especially on long travel days. We usually try to stay around 55 MPH or 90-95 KPH depending on the road. We do not exceed 60 mph or 100 kph. We slow down if roads are rough, but expect people to keep up when they are not. We do not want to be on the road after dark, and we cannot avoid 2 or 3 long days. We do make stops, we try to get a consensus on whether a couple of longer stops are preferred or many 5 min stops. We had one trip where a participant complained every time we exceeded 40 MPH (60 KMH). We do not want to go through that again.
Are there rough roads ?
- Yes some, most are short segments. There are some short (maybe 200 foot) segments on unmade roads into some RV parks. We will crawl over those parts at 5 KPH if needed. Even some sections of toll roads can have some rough pavement if the rainy season (summer/early Fall) had a lot of rain. While potholes on toll roads will have at least been patched, you may need to secure loose objects in your RV better than you would in the US or Canada. Roads in Mexico are harder on your RV, Topes notwithstanding. We are not going to sugar coat. The Yucatan loop involves more rougher roads once we get further south.
What about bad weather ?
- We have had to re-route or delay stops in the past due to weather, even in the dry season. The wagon master watches the forecast and we are able to make last minute changes fairly easily. An El Nino year like Spring 2015 was, presents challenges. Obviously if we know something like a hurricane is approaching we will vacate an area, ASAP, and head inland. If we have to extend days of a caravan due to bad weather & delays, we charge only $22 a day per rig extra to help cover extra RV park expenses.
What about physical hazards to my RV? Accidents?
- I just added this, based on experience. I have to stress the practice of using your passenger as a hazard spotter, and listening to them. If it is your first experience driving in Mexico you will find you are concentrating on the big items and running the risk of being blind sided with the small ones. If you have a passenger, use them. The main problems are tree branches, low archways, phone lines and the large number of Topes (speed bumps). You do not want to hit a Tope at high speed. In a caravan, remember the wagon master will go over them first so you will know where they are. They are the prime reason not to follow the rig in front of you too closely. We also recommend purchasing a dash cam. These are now obtainable for about $25 plus the cost of an SD card. If you do have an accident you have a video. I have a very nice one of myself when I fell asleep at the wheel in North Nevada. (the rumble strip woke me up & I recovered in time). If an incident is your fault, stash the dash cam before the police arrive. BTW it is illegal in Mexico to move a vehicle that has been in an accident before the police arrive, even if you are blocking traffic. It is also illegal to turn right on a red light. The biggest thing you have to learn is that using your left hand turn signal on the highway, is a signal to the person behind you that it is OK to pass. As you can imagine, that is an accident waiting to happen. We will go over all of this before departure. If you are in a minor fender bender, sometimes it is easier just to pay for the damage. In Spring 2015, I backed into a new pickup truck owned by a Mexican and bent his rear bumper. It cost less than $200 to repair. It would have been over $2000 in the US. It was not worth getting insurance involved.
Is it safe and how big a rig can you handle?
- Your safety is our prime concern. We feel a caravan is a safe way to see Mexico in an RV - nearly any size rigs (except HDT's -semi truck based RV's for which you cannot get a permit) are OK, including tow cars. However, smaller is better. If your RV (Class A or 5th wheel or trailer) is over 40 ft, it will present challenges at some of the RV parks we use, but we have managed in the past. We stick mainly to toll roads as they are better suited for larger rigs. The Yucatan route is tougher for longer rigs, you need to talk to us first. Our Copper Canyon/Mazatlan route is more suited to larger & longer rigs than is our Yucatan loop.
What about diseases / shots?
- I always hesitate to bring this up as it tends to make people disproportionately paranoid. However, you should consult a travel health clinic. Mexico is in the topics and travel to the tropics is always a disease risk. There is a small Malaria risk in some areas we travel and you can protect yourself by using Chloroquine as a preventative, it is 100% effective. Dengue may also be a risk in some areas. There is no preventative for Dengue (yet) other than ensuring you do not get bitten by an infected mosquito (it is also present in south Texas, to keep it in perspective). The mosquito that carries Dengue is a daytime biter, by the way. Use repellent for any jungle tours or the like. Please check to ensure your typhus & tetanus shots are up to date in case you get bitten by a dog or step on a nail.
- No, our friends at Baja Amigos & Vagabundos do the Baja.
- You will need Mexican insurance and a vehicle and/or RV permit - We will assist with paperwork.
What about hookups & water?
- Most RV parks will be full hookup. (read the section on power earlier on). The Yucatan loop has less infrastructure and more dry camping. However, you need to buy bottled water to drink (cheap). These are the big 5 gallon jugs, and they are available everywhere. Look for the screw top variety, not the compression caps. You need to find a place to store one, preferably outside, or in the back of your truck, or in your shower of bathtub if you can secure it in there. You do not want one breaking open inside your RV if you hit a speed bump too hard. You can fill your fresh water tank with Mexican water, use a cap of chlorine or Hydrogen Peroxide and an inline filter (the blue ones you see at Camping World or Canada Tire). Do not drink out of it, however, use it for showers & dishes only, not drinking or brushing teeth. Use a good dose of chlorine and flush it when you get back to the US. Many parks have very low water pressure, so direct water hookups will not work. Maybe carry a large funnel so you can transfer water from jug to jug if the brands are not the same. Please note that Yucatan trips have much more dry camping days.
What about propane and Ultra Low Sulfur diesel?
Can I bring my ATV (quad)?
- We usually have a $500 non-refundable deposit on signup, with final payment around 60-70 days before departure. We can take visa or bank transfers or Canada Forex or MTFX transfers or US Forex (now called OFX). f the trip is far enough away we can also take personal checks. If you are willing to pay some of cost in US cash, we will accept a portion of the final deposit upon departure from (negotiable). I know that sounds strange, but Mexico is still largely a cash society, and that assists us in meeting some US dollar expenses that we have to pay up front.
Are there taxes on your price?
- Pets (dogs and Cats only) are OK. You cannot bring exotic pets like rats, snakes or birds into Mexico. Pet care can be arranged for the Copper Canyon excursion and most other tours . Pets require a certificate of health from a registered Vet.
Do we always have power? Is the power safe?
- 90% of the time. (except in the Yucatan). However when we stop for the Copper Canyon excursion, there is a good chance you will have no power for 4 - 6 days. Please ensure your RV batteries are in good shape as some power is required for your fridge even though you may have it on propane. It is best to have your freezer almost empty before this segment.
Please note that power can be, and often is, unreliable. You should have a power protector (available at Camping World - Surge Guard) and expect power to go off & on frequently in most RV parks. A surge guard will protect sensitive components like your fridge board. They are even a good idea in the US and Canada. One saved my bacon at a brand new RV park in the US, where my pedestal was wired incorrectly.
- Wi-Fi internet is available in many RV parks but you cna get a telcel data package if you have an unlocked phone. 4 Gigs for about $25 US, good for 30 days.
- Some US & Canadian cells will roam in Mexico. AT&T GoPhone roams on Telcel's network @ 25 cents a minute. Everyone has to have a working cell phone. We will help you get a cheap Telcel phone. Best thing is is if you have your own unlocked smartphone.
- We have a separate section on this, but for Americans we suggest you switch to Progressive which will cover you for Collision in Mexico. You will then only need to purchase liability insurance. Check with your current carrier to see if they offer something similar. Our official insurance agents are either Vagabundos del Mar or Lewis & Lewis and we suggest everybody uses one of those. There are coverage differences between the 2, so the choice is yours. We will provide participants details a couple of months prior to the Caravan. Every particpant has to join Vagundos del Mar, but we pay the fee.
Does Satellite radio work in Mexico?
Does satellite TV work in Mexico?
- Dish and Direct TV will work in the north part of the trip, maybe as far south as Mazatlan. Canadian Shaw Direct (Starchoice) covers all of Mexico except the newer HD boxes. Bell ExpressVu does not.
What about cheap Dental work?
- You may have time to have inexpensive Dental work done depending on the trip. We can recommend dentists in both the Guadalajara area & Melaque.
What if I choose to stay behind in a park I like and catch up later or move ahead to the next one. Do you still pay my Park fees?
- No, for those days you are responsible to pay your own. We only pay the date & location stated on the itinerary, unless we change it ourselves. If you give us warning before the trip starts we are able to factor it in and come to an arrangement where we may cover some of it.
What do I need to to take to Copper Canyon?
- Enough clothing for 4 days. walking shoes, clothing for cold evenings and a bathing suit. Please note that starting in 2015, we will be routing our caravans inland to some colonial cities. Some of those cities are at 8000 feet and you can expect evenings close to freezing, with sunny moderate days, especially in January.
Can I bring my Gun along?
- The trip is operated by Caravanas de Mexico, a licensed Mexican tour agency with 25 years in the RV caravan business. See Certification document.
Should I take a tow car?
- We get asked this question a lot and I will be frank about it. For the Fall caravan which has short stops, I would say no. For longer caravans, maybe. Despite the obvious advantages, the problem is tight RV Parks, extra insurance, up to double the tolls and the fact that the vehicle may be a temptation for theft when you venture out separate from the caravan. You are on your own when you do that. We are not responsible for you driving alone without the caravan. Many customers tell us they are glad they took their TOAD, others say it was not worth it. That signaled to us that we needed to plan longer stays closer to areas where taxis and buses are more accessible, and people have options rather than sitting in the park. We have done that for the most part. One big issue with TOADS is that Mexicans are not used to them. We had one accident where an aggressive driver decided to force his what between a Class A and the jeep following it, The jeep was attached.
It pretty much boils down to what you decide. We can discuss it on an individual basis. For most caravans, nearly all the parks we spend more than a few days in have good access to taxis and buses. From our point of view, we prefer when people store their towed cars back in Arizona. Towed vehicles are more of a hassle for us, as they complicate the parking situation and increase the chances of one of our customers being a victim of vehicle theft, and all the paperwork & hassles (a lot), that entails. It has never happened to one of our customers, but we know it is an unpleasant thing to deal with if it does. Caravanes Soleil, a huge Quebec operator deals a lot with towed vehicles, as most Quebecois seem to drive Class A's. As far as I know, none of their customers have ever had an incident as well. However, they take their caravans for long stays of 3 months in Puerto Vallarta where having a car makes sense. All we ask is that you tell the wagon master where you are going in a tow vehicle, so he can warn you of any possible issues in that area. We are not trying to make you paranoid, but let me put it into perspective. If you were from Europe and we were going to New Orleans or Detroit or Los Angeles, for example, we would warn you not to drive in certain areas alone in a car there, either. The same thing is true for using your towing vehicle to explore. Please let the wagon master know where you are going..
Can I do this trip without an RV ?
- We have tried this with mixed results. It depends on the individual as to how it works out. You need to discuss the issues with us. The best option is to purchase a second hand tent trailer which can be had quite cheap & resell it at the end of the trip.
What happens if I decide to leave the caravan for a few days ?
- You are on your own. We will not cover any of your expenses while you are not with the caravan, plus you are driving at your own risk. People do this every season, and while we assist them in whatever way we can with information, they are on their own for that period.
Who are the Wagon Masters and what are their responisbilities?
- The Wagon Masters are very important. They are responsible for setting depature times, assigning spots in RV parks, creating a social atmosphere and dealing with issues that arise. The Wagon Master is like the pilot of an airliner. While on the road he is in charge, and the ONLY ONE in charge. He/they will decide what to do in the event of breakdown, people getting lost, speed, and all other aspects of getting from one point to another. Opinions are welcome, breaking the rules is not. We have had one incident where a customer has taken it upon themselves to try to take over the caravan, while the Wagon Master was dealing with a problem, leading some rigs off on their own. This is totally unacceptable and grounds for expulsion. The caravan stays together unless the Wagon Master arranges otherwise. This is especially important if broken down on the side of the road. The Wagon Master will take the rear position and assign someone with a highways vest & red flag to act as flagman and put out triangles and/or flares. The Wagon Master has the experience, and will make the judgment calls, NOT A CUSTOMER who feel they know better. He will try to get a Green Angel on site, but if the vehicle can be fixed, the main concern is to get back on the road and at least to the next Pemex to spend the night, if the RV park cannot be reached before dark. We do not leave individual rigs and their owners on the side of the highway alone, be they Wagon Master or customer, under any circumstances. If the vehicle and/or caravan has to remain on the side of the road overnight we will arrange for a Green Angel or police officer to stay there with a flashing light, in the worst case scenario.
How can I become a Wagon Master?
- Eventually we require new Wagon Masters. They tend to be retirees and eventually age catches up. The normal way is to recruit from former customers. Most customers, after a trip have a pretty good feel for what is involved and whether it appeals to them. If you feel you have what it takes, let us know and we will try to use you as a tail gunner on one of our larger caravans. I say larger, because we often have to split those in 2, at least prior to pulling into a park. Many parks will also provide one free spot for every 10, so the tail gunner gets it for free as well. If you feel you may want to do it, take route notes on your trip. You would have to pay your own expenses (fuel, tolls, and maybe some RV park fees) for that trip, although tours would be free. You would be trained by the current Wagon Master, and then when an opening occurs, you would get the opportunity to lead a caravan and get paid a daily amount & RV park fees ,plus maybe some fuel & toll allowance on larger caravans. It is a good way for a retired couple to get their winter for free. In the meantime, you would be welcome to accompany caravans as a volunteer tail gunner to get more experience, if you are a former paying customer and the position is not taken. Obviously, a working knowledge of Spanish is a huge advantage, but as long as you are willing to learn enough to get by & maybe take a few courses on your own, we will consider you. With our owner a cell call away, most language situations can be handled. You have to be a people person, obviously.
What are fuel prices like?
- As of Spring 2017, they are quite a bit higher than Arizona. Gas is about $3.50 US a gallon. The Mexican government has systematically been raising prices for the last 2 years ahead of competition coming in mid 2016, ignoring the collapse in world prices.. That competition will hopefully cause prices to drop back down again. You also have to allow for $400-$800 in road tolls (depending on rig size) over the entire trip. The most expensive toll is the new Devils Backbone Toll Highway at $80-$120, but believe me, its worth it. Vehicle travel in Mexico is no longer cheap.
Are there any restrictions on who can join you?
- All we ask is that you have a good open minded attitude. We don't care if you are gay or straight, black or white, single or extraterrestrials in disguise, and we do not tolerate any sort of discrimination based on race or sexual preference. Our customers come from wide variety of backgrounds (even some Mexicans themselves) and that is what makes our trip so interesting. All you need is to enjoy seeing new sights, making new friends and most importantly, having fun.
We suggest 10-15% in restaurants. We suggest you tip the tour guides 50 pesos per couple and the driver 20 pesos. If you wish to tip the wagon master at the end of the trip, it is up to you. If you wish to do that, we suggest between $2 & $5 per day. Most wagon masters do this because they enjoy it, not to make a living at it.
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Sid Meier's Civilization IV
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Computer<|fim_middle|> faster mid and late game AI turns, and offers greater control over your civilization's government and religions, while at the same time de-emphasizing the less fun micromanagement (cleaning up pollution, for example). And there's more! Civ IV has been designed from the ground-up to deliver fantastic multiplayer gaming options, as well as unprecedented modding tools - allowing you to create new units, game maps, scenarios, and even entire new civilizations! | Game of the Year
Civilization IV features gorgeous 3D graphics, loads of in-game movies, brilliant audio and music, and, most importantly, the best and most addictive gameplay of any strategy game ever created. As a matter of fact, Time magazine has named Civ IV one of the hottest new games this year!
Sid Meier's Civilization is a turn-based strategy game that challenges players to build and expand an empire, throughout all of human history, and become the most powerful ruler in the world. Choose one of 18 nations to lead and go head to head with some of the most famous leaders in history. Each civilization has its own special characteristics - some are fairly peaceful, while others are expansionists and conquerors. You'll battle your foes with a huge arsenal of weapons, beginning with primitive archers and warriors, then catapults, knights and frigates, and eventually with modern tanks, submarines, mobile infantry, helicopter gunships, stealth bombers, and nuclear weapons. However, Civilization IV is more than just a great combat game: you can also achieve victory through diplomatic cunning, cultural or religious alliances, and technological dominance.
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Confession – I've never really been a fan of Thai food. I admit that it's somewhat ignorant to dismiss an entire country's cuisine out of hand, but generally speaking, the stronger, hotter, sourer flavours of Thai cuisine when compared to say, Vietnamese or Japanese cuisine, is really challenging for me.
However, never say never! Every couple of months I do make the effort to give myself a second, third, fourth chance<|fim_middle|> be seated?!" Ignoring him, I lead him through the restaurant to a table where our friends are seated. "Surprise" they shouted, and K did a triple take. It was really comical for us to see, fantastic for him to experience, and a relief for me that I had managed to keep the surprise under wraps!
Given that we were both quite sick and not wanting to infect others with our virus, we chose to order three dishes to share between the two of us, rather than a table full of share dishes for everyone to pick at.
The money bags were excellent – the skin was beautifully crispy without being too oily and overdone, and the filling was actually flavoursome enough to not require the accompanying sweet chilli dipping sauce. The fine mince and vegetable filling was really well done, and really exceeded expectations.
The BBQ pork was a real standout in the salad. I'm not sure how the Thai Face kitchen is set up (half of it is in the dining area 'on display' for diners, but the other half is out the back), but I wouldn't be surprised if they had an open charcoal grill somewhere…surely that's the only way they could have achieved that remarkably smokey and succulent bbq pork?
If they consider this a 'mild' curry, I don't know if I want to try a hot curry! This is even considering the fact that I'm normally quite good with spicy foods, gleefully slurping down spicy soups and sauces while others are wiping the sweat off their brow. The buttery and soft roti is probably the highlight of this dish, and I would recommend asking for two extra serves to soak up the sauce at the end!
Overall, I rate Thai Face an 8 out of 10 – great tasty food at great prices, though the rushed and impersonal service leaves a bit to be desired! It's also definitely a restaurant that you go to with a large group of people – it can be quite noisy and caters for numerous large groups at the same time, so you wouldn't want to take a romantic date there.
Have you ever thrown a surprise party for anyone, or been on the receiving end of a surprise party? | at enjoying Thai food. After all, it's not completely out of the realm of reality that my taste may change. My most recent attempt at Thai food was at Yok Yor in Haymarket.
Given the humidity of the day, I started with a Lychee Ice Blended drink, while K ordered a Lime Ice Blended drink. At only $4 each, they were quite reasonably priced and were very refreshing and more-ish. I was surprised by how satisfying fruity they were – Yok Yor don't skimp on the fruit blend in favour of using more ice and sugar syrup!
Looking around us at what other tables were ordering and the size of the meals, we decided to order three dishes to share. Our first option was a Kao Pla Scallop – rice stir-fried with scallops in a spicy XO sauce. This was absolutely delicious, especially with a little bit of lime squeezed over the top. If I have one gripe, it's that I would have liked for there to be more scallops included, but there was a good amount of fresh, plump, seared scallops for the price that we paid.
The second dish we ordered as the Sier Rong Hai – marinated and grilled beef strips served with a spicy soy dipping sauce. The beef actually didn't need the dipping sauce on the side, as it had clearly been marinated for a lengthy amount of time, with an aromatic tenderness that made it a real standout. The only issue is that we didn't get enough of it – there was barely a small steak's worth of beef on the plate, and we each had only a few slices. This was definitely the kind of dish that would have benefited from being more generous with their serving sizes.
To be fair, I am generally very good with spicy food – where others around me might start sweating and gulping down water, I can casually continue eating. This was not one of those times. My mouth was set on fire as soon as I took a single bite of this dish, and every subsequent bite brought tears to my eyes and elicited chilli-induced hallucinations. Even trying to eat it with plain white rice and sips of my ice-blended drink wasn't enough to temper the spiciness of this dish.
I think the inclusion of the dried chillis probably didn't help, increasing the spiciness of this dish from a Medium level of hotness to a High level. I've learned my lesson for next time – order the plainest version of papaya salad without additional dried chillis, and ask for it to have no heat. Unfortunately, this dish was just a bit too torturous to be entirely enjoyable.
Dessert makes everything better though, and K was insistent that we order Yok Yor's Banana Fritters after seeing them delivered to an adjacent table. This was a great choice – the batter was ultra-crispy and flavourful with bursts of fresh sesame seeds making all the difference. They use the smaller sweeter bananas as well, the ones that actually have a really strong banana flavour when compared to the blander Cavendish bananas.
My dessert choice was the Fresh Mango with Sticky Rice – a bit of a South-East Asian classic. I was really happy with this choice – the mango was firm but juicy, and the rice was really creamy, having been cooked with coconut milk. It's a simple dessert, but combines two of my favourite food ingredients – fresh tropical fruits and coconut.
All around, Yok Yor was an enjoyable Thai food experience that was unfortunately marred with actual physical pain brought on by a self-inflicted chilli high. I've learned my lesson for the next time I visit a Thai restaurant…which may be a little sooner than my usual quarterly visit! I'd like to come back to Yok Yor at some point, and try a more palate-friendly papaya salad.
I've always wanted to have a surprise birthday party thrown for me with everyone jumping out from behind couches shouting surprise and party poppers flying everywhere. In case you can't tell, I essentially want to live my life as though I was in a TV sitcom. Disappointingly, I still haven't had a surprise party thrown for me.
I have however done the next best thing and organised a surprise birthday dinner with some of our friends for K's 28th birthday at Thai Face in Crows Nest. Leading up to the dinner, we had had a quiet weekend because of colds that we were both nursing colds. Playing it cool, I suggested that we go out for a quiet dinner to celebrate his birthday, given that we had otherwise been cooped up in the house the whole day.
Casually walking into the restaurant, I walk straight past the hostess and into the restaurant. K tries to pull me back to the lobby – "What are you doing, we have to wait to | 991 |
Postgraduate Year Two (PGY2) Resident in Pharmacotherapy
The University of Texas at El Paso School of Pharmacy
Residency PGY-2 - Experienced
Description: The University of Texas at El Paso School of Pharmacy, in collaboration with the Department of Family and Community Medicine, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center at El Paso, Paul L. Foster School of Medicine, offers an ASHP-accredited Postgraduate Year Two (PGY2) Pharmacotherapy Residency. The residency program is designed to produce pharmacy leaders and practice innovators who can advance patient care and educational opportunities in a variety of family medicine and other practice settings while serving culturally diverse populations representing the entire life spectrum. Residents will gain experience caring for diverse patient populations in a variety of patient care settings, with an emphasis in family medicine. Additionally, this program has an emphasis in academia with ample opportunities for gaining teaching and research experience.
Electives: Academic Leadership/Administration, Emergency Medicine, Infectious Disease, Maternal Health, Oncology (Adult or Pediatrics), Psychology, Toxicology, others based on availability. Residents will receive appointments as clinical faculty and receive a teaching certificate upon completion of the program.
This residency program is affiliated with 2 academic institutions (UT El Paso and Texas Tech Health Science Center El Paso) and acute-care, primary care, and long-term care practice sites. El Paso is located in the westernmost point of Texas sharing its borders with New Mexico and Juarez, Mexico. Known as the "Sun City", El Paso enjoys 300+ days of sun every year while boasting desert mountains,<|fim_middle|> Paso del Norte region, adding $1.4 billion to the local economy annually. El Paso's active arts and culture community features the state's longest running symphony orchestra, a nationally recognized chamber music festival, art galleries, museums, and a full schedule of seasonal events and festivals. UTEP adds to the arts and entertainment scene with an award-winning dinner theater, music and da...nce productions, contemporary and student art galleries, and a natural history museum. For sports fans, the UTEP Miners offer exciting Division I-A college athletics at several campus venues: Sun Bowl Stadium, the Don Haskins Center, Kidd Field, University Field and the Helen of Troy Softball Complex. Southwest University Park, located a mile away in lively downtown El Paso, is home to the El Paso Chihuahuas, the Triple-A affiliate of the San Diego Padres, and the El Paso Locomotive, a professional soccer team founded in 2019.
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Required Rotational Learning Experiences: Inpatient Family Medicine, Pediatrics, Critical Care, Practice Management.
Required Longitudinal Learning Experiences: Primary Care, Long-term Care Family Medicine, Scholarship, Teaching, Professionalism/Leadership.
Benefits: Health insurance/disability/retirement, sick leave, 20 days paid vacation/holidays, travel allowance, Spanish tutoring, lab coat/business cards, no staffing
Special Requirements for Acceptance:
PharmD degree
Completion of ASHP accredited PGY1 residency
Texas pharmacist license by September 1, 2020
About The University of Texas at El Paso School of Pharmacy
The University of Texas at El Paso is a Carnegie R1 research university at the heart of the U.S.-Mexico border region committed to the ideals of access and excellence. UTEP enrolls more than 25,000 students – about 80% of them Hispanic and more than 50% the first generation in their families to attend college. The city's border location makes it an ideal venue for academic programs and research studies on topics of national interest such as bilingual education/language acquisition, border environment and immigration, environmental sustainability and infrastructure, health disparities, and international trade and commerce. The region's center for intellectual capital, UTEP has awarded about 133,000 degrees since its founding in 1914. UTEP is one of the major economic engines in the | 307 |
Owning a business has its rewards and challenges. The Schwent Law Office has over 39<|fim_middle|> 937-4994. | years' experience helping Jefferson County, MO businesses with business formation, document preparation, real estate issues, and various transactions including contract negotiation, preparation and review. Having represented a wide range of businesses including medical professionals, construction companies and other Missouri businesses, Michele Kaido Schwent and her associates are prepared to assist the business owner in choice of business entity, corporate and LLC formation, drafting contracts, licenses and leases, reviewing and drafting partnership agreements, by-law adoption, supplier and vendor agreements, preparing corporate records, director/shareholder resolutions, corporate minutes and resolving business disputes.
Mrs. Schwent has handled private adoptions, step-parent adoptions, and agency adoptions both foreign and domestic. She finds adoption practice to be one of the most joyous parts of her law practice. If you need assistance with an adoption please contact the Schwent Law Office.
Mrs. Schwent has prepared simple wills and well as complex wills that are more detailed in nature and simple trust agreements for hundreds of people during her 39 years in practice. She is ready to assist you with all of your basic estate planning needs.
If you have legal a matter that pertains to a situation which is not addressed specifically on this web site, and if you believe you need a Jefferson County, Missouri lawyer and want to know if Mrs. Schwent has experience with your particular issue, please call the office and speak to a member of Mrs. Schwent's office staff at (636) | 297 |
A view of The Cloud Show's "Has out attention" Pinterest board.
Everyday it seems our audience grows on tv (most recent<|fim_middle|>-book or collect ideas and topics we plan or are considering exploring in future The Cloud Show episodes. | count 32 stations - more than 1 million households), on Youtube, Vimeo and also on Facebook. But every medium has it's own distinct advantages and this certainly seems to be the case for Pinterest.
Pinterest is a great site for sharing or in their language "pinning" infographics, photos, stories-of-interest and videos.
What we especially like is how it provides a whole different way to discover interesting stories, infographics, and ideas. For anything you can pin you can also add a comment or description -- which we use to put these in context.
For example on our pinterest board Has our attention we share things we like and frequently provide some more context as to what we find compelling about them. This board in particular should be great to scrap | 152 |
If you create Visio documents with lots<|fim_middle|>, and flowcharts for planning, designing and deploying SharePoint installations.
Yet another newsgroup post caught my eye today. I'm not sure if I answered the guy's actual question, but I had fun creating this example anyway.
Today's sample shows you how to create a table of contents. This particular version lists the pages in a Visio document in a drop-down combo box that sits on a Visio page. Just select an item from the list, and Voila! You are sent to the corresponding page in the document! | of pages, you probably like to quickly flip through all of them to check for visual consistency.
But if each page has been zoomed or panned, it can be frustrating to have to click Fit to Window for each page.
But with a little macro code, you can make your life a lot easier!
Arno Nel has published links to a really cool set of Visio drawings that relate to Microsoft SharePoint on his blog: Arno Nel 2.0 – The Information Worker. The diagrams illustrate models, scenarios | 104 |
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The Sackets Harbor Historical Society is excited to announce that the 2022 Concerts on the Waterfront series will kick-off on Sunday, June 26, and run through Sunday, September 4. Each of the free concerts is held on a Sunday, from<|fim_middle|>s-on-the-waterfront/ | 3 to 5 pm, at the Sackets Harbor Battlefield, located at 504 West Main Street.
On Sunday, July 10, the Historical Society will welcome to the stage Alex Torres and His Latin Orchestra, a 12-piece band led by Bronx-born bassist Alex Torres. The band has been celebrated for their infectious blend of Afro-Caribbean rhythms, and it has received numerous awards over the years, including the New England Cultural Arts Preservation Award, the New York State Music Achievement Award, and the Governor's Excellence in Arts Award.
Alex Torres and His Latin Orchestra has shared the stage with such well-known acts as Tito Puente, Arturo Sandoval, Branford Marsalis, and the Count Basie Orchestra. In addition, the band's music has also been featured in the motion pictures "Old Dogs" and "The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby," as well as the television series "Ugly Betty," "Human Target," "Mistresses," and "The Blacklist."
Like all those in the series, this concert is free and open to the public. It's held outdoors at the Battlefield, so remember to pack your picnic blanket or lawn chairs.
The Alex Torres and His Latin Orchestra concert is made possible with funds from the Decentralization Program, a regrant program of the New York State Council on the Arts, with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature, and administered by the St. Lawrence County Arts Council.
For more information on the concert series, please visit our Concerts on the Waterfront event page, the Sackets Harbor Historical Society's website, or its Facebook page. You can also find highlights and entire performances from last year's Concerts on the Waterfront series on the Historical Society's YouTube channel. We hope to see you at some, or ALL, of the concerts this summer!
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RGB è un modello di colori le cui specifiche sono state descritte nel 1936 dalla CIE (Commission internationale de l'éclairage).
La stampa di immagini formate con la combinazione di questi colori è detta tricromia.
Descrizione
Esso è un modello di colori di tipo additivo: come somma dei tre colori Rosso (Red), Verde (Green) e Blu (Blue), da cui appunto l'acronimo RGB, da non confondere con i colori primari sottrattivi Giallo, Ciano e Magenta. Altri 5 colori notevoli di questo tipo di modello sono il Giallo (Rosso + Verde), il Magenta (Rosso + Blu) e il Ciano (Verde + Blu), inoltre la somma dei tre colori costituisce il Bianco, e la loro totale assenza il Nero.
Per le sue caratteristiche, è un modello particolarmente adatto nella rappresentazione e visualizzazione di immagini in dispositivi elettronici, per l'aumento di FPS e per la diminuzione di INPUT LAG. Difatti, la maggior parte dei dispositivi, normalmente, usa combinazioni di Rosso, Verde e Blu per visualizzare i pixel di un'immagine, tuttavia ciò fa anche sì che lo stesso sia particolarmente dipendente dal dispositivo in sé: la stessa immagine potrebbe essere visualizzata in maniera diversa, se visualizzata su due dispositivi differenti, in quanto i materiali usati per realizzare gli schermi variano in base al produttore. Inoltre si possono notare differenze nel corso del tempo anche nello stesso dispositivo, per via del naturale deterioramento dello stesso.
Invece esso non è adatto, per il modo in cui operano, all'utilizzo nelle stampanti: la stampa di immagini è eseguita mediante sovrapposizione di pigmenti, nella quale ciascun pigmento riflette alcune frequenze luminose e ne assorbe, filtrandole, altre. Quindi una tipica stampante userà un modello di colori sottrattivo come il CMYK e non additivo come l'RGB. Viceversa, una giustapposizione dei pigmenti consente la realizzazione di sintesi additive (es. colorazione a retino con sfalsamenti tra gli strati, similmente alle realizzazioni pittoriche del puntinismo).
Caratteristiche
Analisi dell'immagine
Un'immagine può infatti essere scomposta, attraverso filtri o altre tecniche, in questi colori base che miscelati tra loro danno quasi tutto lo spettro dei colori visibili, con l'eccezione delle porpore.
Più specificamente i tre colori principali corrispondono a forme d'onda (radiazioni luminose) di periodo fissato, quali:
Rosso, con una lunghezza d'onda di 700,47 nm
Verde, con una lunghezza d'onda di 546,09 nm
Blu, con una lunghezza d'onda di 435,79 nm
L'RGB è un modello additivo: unendo i tre colori con la loro intensità massima si ottiene il bianco (tutta la luce viene riflessa), la combinazione delle coppie di colori dà il ciano, il magenta e il gial<|fim_middle|>
La scelta dei colori primari è correlata alla fisiologia dell'occhio umano; i colori primari sono stimoli che massimizzano la differenza tra le risposte dei coni della retina alle differenze di lunghezza d'onda della luce, cioè hanno un triangolo di colore esteso.
I tre tipi normali di cellule fotorecettive sensibili alla luce nell'occhio umano (le cellule cono) rispondono più alla luce rossa (lunghezza d'onda lunga), verde (media), e blu (corta), con picchi vicini ai 570 nm, 540 nm e 440 nm, rispettivamente. La differenza nei segnali ricevuti dai tre tipi permette al cervello di differenziare un largo gamut di colori diversi, essendo più sensibile soprattutto alla luce verde-giallognola e alle differenze di tonalità nella regione verde-arancione.
L'uso dei tre colori primari non è sufficiente a riprodurre tutti i colori; solo i colori entro il triangolo dei colori definito dalla cromaticità dei primari possono essere riprodotti tramite sintesi additiva di quantità non negative di tali colori.
L'implementazione
Quasi tutte le tipologie di schermi supportano il modello RGB per visualizzare le immagini, miscelando pixel dei 3 colori sopracitati e regolandone la rispettiva luminosità per mostrare il colore voluto. I monitor CRT, LCD, PDP, OLED, usano il modello RGB per generare le immagini, invece, un esempio di monitor che non usa questo sistema è il Quattron di Sharp Electronics.
Le fotocamere digitali usano questo modello per catturare le immagini (in particolare usano il Bayer Pattern che privilegia il Verde in rapporto 1:2:1).
Note
Voci correlate
Colorimetria
CMYK
Mescolanza additiva
Mescolanza sottrattiva
YUV
RGBA
Altri progetti
Collegamenti esterni
(pagina che consente di sperimentare l'effetto della sovrapposizione dei colori base, visualizzando l'effetto della sintesi additiva e della sintesi sottrattiva)
RGB | lo.
Per potere trasferire un'immagine video è necessario inviare anche un segnale di sincronismo che fornisca le informazioni su quando inizia un'immagine (sincronismo verticale) e su quando inizia una riga dell'immagine (sincronismo orizzontale), questi due sincronismi possono essere combinati in un unico sincronismo (sincronismo composito), il quale può essere trasmetto su un canale addizionale "RGBS" (come nel caso delle SCART RGB), oppure trasmesso assieme ad un canale colore, come nell'RGsB (Sync in G), dove il sincronismo è trasmesso assieme al colore verde, ma esistono esempi di sincronismo assieme ad altri colori.
Principi fisici per la scelta dei colori | 195 |
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Jerrod Carmichael has signed on to host the 2023 Golden Globes.
The Hollywood Foreign Press Association announced Thursday that the comedian will host the awards show ceremony, which will be held January 10 at The Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, California.
"We're so excited to have Jerrod Carmichael host the historic 80th Golden Globe Awards," HFPA President Helen Hoehne said in a statement. "His comedic talents have entertained and thrilled audiences while providing thought-provoking moments that are so important in the times we live. Jerrod is the kind of talent this show calls for to kick off the awards season."
Carmichael is best known for his sitcom The Carmichael Show and for his three HBO comedy specials — the most recent of which, 2022's Rothaniel, featured him coming out as gay and won him an Emmy.
The nominations for the 2023 Golden Globes will be announced December 12 by father-daughter duo George Lopez and Mayan Lopez.
It was announced in September that the Golden Globes would be returning to television in 2023 after being sidelined this year due to allegations of racism within the HFPA.
The 2022 ceremony was held as a private event in January after NBC refused to air the awards show following a 2021 report from the Los Angeles Times that found there were no Black members in the HFPA, an 87-person group of international journalists who decide the nominees, as well as the winners.
The HFPA promised "transformational changes" to the organization in the wake of the controversy, vowing to boost minority membership and representation and to have more transparency within the organization.
The 80th annual Golden Globes will take place January 10 beginning at 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT, airing live on NBC and streaming live on Peacock.
'RHOBH' star Kyle Richards says she "can laugh" now after being hospitalized for bee stings
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EF Corporate Dining
This elegant space embraces the spirit of EF, reflecting our mission of opening the world through education. The design truly inspires, whether providing lunch for our staff, a quiet space to work together, or a dramatic environment for functions.
– Dana Santucci, VP Development, EF<|fim_middle|> a cool glow for the center of the space and provides an anchor for the bar and its clever cabinetry that conceals bar service functions during morning activities.
Patrons are welcomed into the Servery through a central wood-paneled space serving 300 breakfasts and 600-700 lunches daily. Table, banquette, window-front and lounge seating options are available throughout the day, with a community table at the back of the space offering more privacy for group gatherings and meetings.
A neutral palette of steel, distressed metal, wood and tile with predominantly white finishes carries forward the company's international theme in a manner consistent with other spaces within the building, with pops of color provided by the furniture and the diners themselves.
Award of Merit, 2016
Illumination Engineering Society
Interior Design & Architecture Citation, 2015
© 2021 Prellwitz Chilinski Associates, Inc. > Projects > Restaurants > EF Corporate Dining | Education First
10,000 SF restaurant with servery, dining room, and bar for employees and the public alike
A world leader in international education, EF Education First is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. EF's new headquarters building, designed by Sweden's Wingårdhs Architecture Studio, makes a bold statement at North Point Park, with a jagged slice through the building façade evoking images of ice and water cascading to the ground to dissolve into the waters of the adjacent Charles River canal.
PCA was selected to create a restaurant adjacent to the main lobby that interprets and adapts the design aesthetic established by the architects. To comply with public space requirements, the restaurant was to offer access to additional seating on the second floor, above an intermediary parking level.
Working closely with EF and the building architects, PCA has crafted an elegant, luminescent space subtly subdivided into specific areas designed for the functions required at different times of day. A sculptural connecting stair has become a focal point, progressing in angled levels to the second floor. Wrapped with LED uplights, the stair creates | 222 |
Composed of representatives from the City of Greenville, United Way of Greenville County and CommunityWorks, as well as neighborhood and community leaders, the Neighborhood Vibrancy Task Force (NVT) developed improvement strategies to preserve and enhance the dynamic diversity of Greenville's historic neighborhoods.
Between May 2014 and February 2015, the task force met to discuss the elements of a vibrant neighborhood. The resulting recommendations include actions residents, stakeholders, service providers, and government can take to ensure neighborhood vibrancy.
The NVT process found many similarities across the neighborhoods in terms of what is desired. These desirable traits were organized into the following five categories: Affordable Housing, Community and Resident Engagement, Economic Vitality, Diversity and Inclusion, Property Maintenance and Code Enforcement. Recommendations included ideas to improve awareness of available resources and opportunity, and empower community residents and organizations to identify, communicate and actively pursue their shared goals and objectives.
Work is underway to follow the NVT recommendations, and as<|fim_middle|> your neighborhood, please contact your neighborhood leadership or the Community Development office today! | available the progress will be documented here. If you have questions about the NVT recommendations or want to know more about how you can promote vibrancy in | 30 |
How does… Vero work?
Each week, we ask some of the industry's most knowledgeable boffins to break down industry jargon to help you through those confusing meetings and indecipherable conferences. Here, We Are Social's Suzie Shaw explains how Vero - the latest social media platform on the block - works.
March 12, 2018 2:16
by SUZIE SHAW
What is Vero?
Vero (meaning 'Truth') is a social media platform that launched in 2015 and has seen a sudden surge in interest as a competitor<|fim_middle|> Agree.
But I don't think there would be a bulk migration of users from other social media's is going to happen simply because Vero doesn't have ads in it. It is true that majority of users are fed up with recent algorith changes by Instagram, but for sure Vero is NOT the next big thing!!!
If Google plus can't bring down facebook, I don't see any chance how Vero can do that to Instagram. Once the dust clears and the voices fade behind the curtain, people are going to go back to their usual lives in Instagram and Facebook! Lol! | to Facebook. It promises an ad-free experience and a feed that is chronological rather than algorithmic.
It will be funded by subscriptions from users rather than the selling of users' data, and you will see posts from friends in the order in which they were posted, rather than an order determined by the platform. Like Facebook in the good old days.
The platform has seen a surge of sign ups in the past week or two, but it has also been hit by controversy. More on that later.
At the moment, not very well.
Vero attracted more than a million downloads within a matter of days. However, that led to users reporting critical issues with the platform, such as not being able to sign up, log in, or avoid constant crashes.
In terms of its functionality, Vero is similar to Instagram, except it also lets you post text or link to web content with URLs. Plus, you can sort your contacts into tiers and decide who will see each post – 'close friends', 'friends', 'acquaintances', or 'followers'.
The app also offers a platform for discussing and recommending music, books and films.
Will it catch on?
Whether it will achieve truly mass scale is impossible to predict.
The ad-free experience has got people excited, as has the return to a chronological feed – in the past couple of years, social media has been flooded with complaints from people that Facebook's algorithm has stopped them seeing posts from their friends, and there were howls of protests when Instagram and Twitter adopted the same model in 2016.
However, there may be a difference between what users 'say' they want, and what they really want. These platforms conducted extensive tests on user subgroups before rolling out their algorithmic feeds to everyone, and there is no way they would have made the switch if the data didn't show it caused people to stay longer on their platform.
Will it make money?
Vero has promised never to display ads. It initially offered free memberships for the first one million people to sign up, and has extended the offer "for the time being" to compensate for its teething problems, but it soon intends to start charging new users a subscription fee.
The subscription business model is the great hope for many media companies today, and players like Netflix, The New York Times and Spotify are proving it can generate revenue.
As with all media throughout history, if Vero can attract enough eyeballs, it has a chance to make money.
Vero will also earn revenue by taking a cut from stores and content creators who will be allowed to promote their wares on Vero to users who have chosen to 'follow' them, though initial feedback from content creators seems to be that the platform doesn't make sense for them financially.
What is the controversy?
Actually there's more than one.
Vero's CEO and co-founder Ayman Hariri was formerly deputy CEO and deputy chairman of construction company, Saudi Oger, which has been accused of violating labour rights during his tenure. In response to recent media coverage, Vero has issued this statement which aims to clarify his role stating he had no operational management or control of Saudi Oger since 2013.
In the context of the recent allegations that Russian hackers tried to influence the US elections, some American users have been up in arms that the company employs primarily Russian devs.
And finally, there has been a social media backlash over Vero's staff. The platform's 'team page' reveals an employee base that is almost entirely male. And the company's lone female employee appears dead last on the list, in a customer support role.
The result of these controversies? According to Lifehacker, Vero has gone from "most loved to most hated social media app in a matter of days."
What are Vero's long-term prospects?
Breaking into the social network market isn't easy, because consumers, creators and brands have already established communities on multiple networks like Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn and Snapchat. So far, it appears Vero only has 22k users in Australia.
An article in The New Statesman likened changing social networks to being "a bit like changing mobile phones and having to re-enter all your contacts by hand."
However, Vero may benefit by being able to learn from the mistakes that its predecessors have made. And consumers are definitely intrigued by a platform that offers a chronological timeline and has a great user experience.
At this stage, Vero looks unlikely to replace Instagram, due to tech failures, the various controversies, and other questionable practices (it's very hard to delete your account, for example).
But it may find its own niche, and that niche may well be a profitable one.
Suzie Shaw is We Are Social's managing director.
If you would like to contribute to this feature, please email josie@mumbrella.com.au.
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Lauren Miller 12 Mar 18
The voice of reason. Thanks Suzi.
Bob Babu 12 Mar 18
Yes, I'd | 1,034 |
When Survivor first implemented the rock draw tiebreaker, first seen in Survivor: Marquesas, the show gave birth to the perfect tiebreak methodology they could have ever hoped. Sure, the idea of somebody being sent home purely because of random chance is divisive, to say the least, but a game mechanic like that is bound to cause drama and tension, which is what the show wants.
Just the possibility of a player's fate in the game being decided by an odd-colored stone is enough to force people's motivations to change, causing some of the biggest flip-flops in the history of the show. It seemed as if an actual rock draw would never occur since the first one, as the self-interested players involved in those kinds of situations would choose the safer course of action that would better guarantee their safety.
Then this episode came along, where another rock draw finally happened.
Survivor: Blood vs. Water had already been a very exciting season up until this point. The concept of throwing returning players and their loved ones into the same season turned<|fim_middle|>. You're about to get a lesson in how to play the game." The votes came in, and it was a deadlocked tie, Ciera had officially flipped, and the rest is history.
Gervase, wearing immunity, Hayden, and Monica Culpepper, the two people voted for, became immune, while Tyson, Ciera, and Katie had to draw rocks. In the end, Katie picked the bad rock and was promptly snuffed out, but not without some parting words from Tyson. As he hugged her goodbye, Tyson pointed to the jury and whispered to Katie "that's your chair over there. One of those." Not a good look on Tyson to end the night, but after what he'd been through, it was easy to understand why he might be a little lippy.
This vote instantly went down in the history books as one of the most exciting tribal councils of all time, proving that every moment counts until that torch is snuffed, and, if you're good enough, you might just make something happen.
How much more awesome this TC would have been had it gone in favor of the loved ones.
It would have been so much more interesting if Tyson had drawn the odd coloured rock. Katie was the least interesting of the six though so I didn't mind her leaving.
It baffles me how they didn't realise with Caleb at final 7 to team up against the three returning players who were clearly & obviously very tight.
Tyson is another winner who I cant stand. He was annoying in every season he played! | out to be an unexpectedly fresh wrinkle in the game. While the theme of the season doesn't necessarily play into this historic tribal council at the Final Six, it indirectly created a cast of hyper-competitive players. Start with an eclectic group of returning players, add in the loved ones, and top it off with a former Big Brother winner, and you've got a recipe for a group of players ready to play big and bold, and that's exactly what happens at this tribal council.
Heading into this vote, Hayden Moss looked done. Up against a tight four-person alliance, he and Katie Collins had spent the entire episode looking for a crack, hoping one of the dominant players would budge even a little. The easiest person to target to join their cause was Ciera Eastin, herself being in a curious position of being a new player who was aligned with three returning players.
But, no matter how hard Hayden and Katie pressed her, Ciera would not move. This trio of veterans had done enough good work to ensure Ciera would stick with them, especially Tyson Apostol, who had convinced Ciera that it was Hayden who had initiated the hit on her mom, Laura Morett, a few rounds earlier, to cover up his involvement in that vote. Now, with what looked to be Hayden's last tribal council looming, he had one last hail mary to throw to try to survive the night.
Tyson, who quickly realized the big mess Gervase was making, took a more even-handed approach, professing his loyalty and honesty to Ciera, desperate for her to cling to his side. All of the discourse eventually turned into Hayden and Tyson furiously pitching to her to come to their side while sitting on opposite sides of her. This entire back and forth between all of the players involved is supremely riveting because, as Jeff Probst perfectly described it, "this is where the game is won or lost." Both sides knew that they were about to make a hugely important vote, and were desperately trying to be on the right side of it.
Then, amidst all of the break-neck conversing, came the perfect moment of levity. While trying to explain a comment he had made earlier, Hayden got into a little spat with Tyson over his diction. The dispute over Hayden's choice of "rustle feathers" or "ruffle feathers" perfectly captured Tyson's character. Here Tyson is, playing the best game of Survivor of his life, a potentially game-changing move on the line, and he still took the moment to make a witty and sarcastic comment with the dry sense of humor that's been with Tyson since his beginning in Tocantins. Even with the pressure extremely high, Tyson can find the time to crack a joke.
So the voting commenced, complete with Gervase's vote for "Haydone" and his fantastic confessional: "Don't hate the players homie, hate the game. This isn't Big Brother, this is Survivor, we do things different here | 608 |
Zhangjiajie in China became popular in foreign travellers' eyes after the movie Avatar. The Hallelujah Mountains in Avatar were inspired by Heavenly Pillar in Zhangjiajie National Forest Park. Zhangjiajie is located to the northwest of Hunan Province, over 1,000 kilometres from both Shanghai and Beijing. Zhangjiajie National Forest Park was the first national park in China, established in 1982. They couldn't have chosen a better site - Zhangjiajie is famous for its 3,000 vertical pillars, each hundreds of meters tall and covered in dense green foliage. These pillars were formed by erosion and draw in over 30 million tourists every year. Here is how to visit Avatar mountains as DIY trip.
There is a limited number of direct trains and flights from China's major tourist cities including Beijing, Shanghai, Chengdu, and Xi'an to Zhangjiajie and its Forest Park in China. Despite infrastructure improvement, Zhangjiajie is still a small town surrounded by mountains, with a small airport and no high-speed railway. After your arrival at the airport during the day time take a taxi to the bus station and then go by bus to Wulingyuan town next to the main park entrance. If you arrive late in the evening, buses don't go there anymore, so the only option would be a taxi. Ask to use a meter or agree about the price in advance using a phone translation app if needed. The price should not be more than 260 Yuan.
The best place to stay when attending Zhangjiajie National Forest Park in my opinion is Wulingyuan town next to the main park entrance. The town is located about 70 kilometres from the Zhangjiajie airport. Zhangjiajie Pullman Hotel on Gaoyun Road in Wulingyuan is actually one of the few 5 star hotels in Zhangjiajie and there are not many choices for foreigners to stay in this area. The location of this hotel is good<|fim_middle|>. Take a bus to the Tianzi mountain cable car area where you have to buy a separate ticket for the cable car.
Then you get the most beautiful, epic, breathtaking view from the cable car up the mountain. On posters I have seen Zhangjiajie or Avatar mountains in China mostly pictured in fog which gives a mysterious feel to the scenery.
When I started exploring the place, it was very foggy. When you get to the top of mountain I could see just some 20 metres ahead. Too little to admire the views. But I was lucky, it cleared out through the day.
Upon arrival, go through the viewing area and take a short bus ride to other viewing platforms of the mountain. Notice a beautiful scenic spot, the Imperial Writing Brush Peaks.If you are hungry there is a McDonald's available.
Then go a few hundred metres by foot down the mountain to another bus stop, taking you downhill by quite a long and windy way to the tourist centre where Yuanjiajie scenic area is.
Go hiking to discover the Pillar of the southern sky. This mountain has inspired the famous 'Hallelujah Mountains' seen in the blockbuster movie, Avatar. In January 2010, this mountain was renamed the 'Avatar Hallelujah Mountain' by the local government. When you finish the hike, go to the Bailong Elevator waiting line. A ride on this monstrosity built on the side of the cliff costs 72 Yuan. Be prepared to queue. The ride is short and you'll want to get to the glass window side if you want to see anything. After this, take a bus back to the entrance.
First, go to the bus station to take a bus ride to the second park entrance. Just ask the hotel staff to write the name of the destination for you.
When you get to the second park entrance, take a tour bus to the cable car to get up to the Huangshi village and then take almost 4 kilometre walk around to see the gorgeous views of the mountains.
After getting down from Huangshi village scenic walk you can take a walk along the river in Golden Whip stream scenic area. Gold Whip Stream is a brook at the foot of the mountain. It is about 7,5 km (4,5 miles) long, about two hours' walk. It is an easy and relaxing walk along the stream.
At the end of this walk buses are waiting for you to take you back to the park entrance.Read more of my tips for visiting China clicking this link.Have you been to China and Zhangjiajie National Forest Park? Share your impressions in the comments section. | as it's close to Wulingyuan scenic area. The hotel is nice, well decorated and has a good swimming pool. The staff is friendly and helpful even though not all staff members speak English; they would call someone to help. The room was spacious with a balcony and a comfortable bed. The bathroom has a separate shower and a bathtub. Although the breakfast is mainly catering for the Chinese, it still offered plenty of choice.
To make the most of your time in the park you have to plan in advance. If you have the choice don't plan your visit on national holidays and on weekends. This place is very popular and gets very crowded during these times. Make sure you get a map of the park at the hotel. It may not be available at the park entrance. Also ask about the best itinerary for your visit at the hotel. The park is very big and information in English inside the park is very scarce. Remember that there are two park entrances: one next to the city and the other entrance is some 15 minutes bus ride from Wulingyuan bus station. It's much less crowded and offers excellent views from Huangshi village 3,8 kilometres scenic walk. There is a cable car to reach Huangshi.
1st dayFirst thing in the morning, take Vuling road by the river to the park entrance.
After you purchase your ticket, go to the entrance next to the ticketing area and scan your finger, then proceed inside. Your ticket is valid for four days, so keep it well. Once inside, you have to walk up the road to where buses pick you up and take you further up the mountain. Pick the right bus because there are several routes available | 343 |
It's the second win this week for the Sterling Heights school over the state baseball power.
Sterling Heights Stevenson defeated Grosse Pointe South, 8-3, in a Macomb<|fim_middle|> had a double and Ryan Laub pitched a complete game allowing one earned run, no walks, five strikeouts and six hits for Groves (8-3). Deven Mahanti was 2-for-3 with a home run for Farmington (8-3).
Detroit Country Day 4, Detroit Western 3 (9 innings): Aaron Dolney was 3-for-5 and had the winning hit in the ninth, John Malcom was 1-for-4 with a three-run home run in the seventh to tie the game, Saborn Campbell was 2-for-4 with a double in the ninth and he scored the winning run and Mason Kolean pitched struck out seven in seven innings for Country Day (9-1). Detroit Western is 7-4.
Harper Woods Chandler Park 537, Warren Michigan Collegiate 428: Anthony Hutson won four events; 200-meter dash in 22.1 seconds, 400 dash (52.1), 110 hurdles (14.8) and long jump (20 feet, 6 inches).
Harper Woods Chandler Park 554, Romulus Summit Academy 359: Auquay Dean won three events, the 100-meter dash in 13.1 seconds, 200 dash (27.5) and long jump (15 feet, 5 inches). | Area Conference Red Division baseball showdown on Wednesday.
It was the second straight win for Stevenson over South, following its 12-2 triumph on Monday.
Stevenson has bounced back from a four-game losing streak earlier this season. Coach Joe Emanuele said he likes the direction his team is going in now.
Stevenson is 5-6 overall and 3-2 in the MAC Red.
These last two victories were big, defeating one of the state's top teams in Grosse Pointe South (10-2, 2-2 MAC Red). Stevenson had a good outing from senior starting pitcher Johnny Tikkanen. Tikkanen gave three runs, four hits, one walk and struck out six over six innings.
Stevenson got some big help from sophomore Mark Kattula at the plate. Kattula went 3-for-4 with three RBIs and two doubles. Senior Mitchell Shamblin had two hits and an RBI.
Offensively Stevenson is starting to come together. In its last game against South, Stevenson used to the long ball to help secure the win as senior Johnny Teolis and junior Austin Owens each homered.
Stevenson will travel to Rochester Adams on Friday for a doubleheader.
Birmingham Groves 6, Farmington 2: George Cutler was 2-for-3 with a home run and four RBIs, Aerik Joe was 2-for-3 with two runs scored, Chaise Ford and Nick Ringler each | 304 |
Elkin's Skull Camp Brewery & Smokehouse offers a triple crown experience with a full-service smokehouse, craft brewery and wine lounge all under one roof. To make it even more appealing, that roof sits atop a renovated 1941 two-story rustic wood building with fireplaces and a cozy atmosphere.
For foodies, the menu focuses on smoked meats (brisket, pork, ribs, chicken and fish) as well as brick oven pizzas. There are vegan and vegetarian options as well. For beer lovers, there's an extensive selection of Skull Camp beers – up to 14 on tap at a time, along with guest taps. Wine lovers can sip the Skull Camp line of wines made nearby at Round Peak Vineyards in Mount Airy.
The vineyards consist of 30 acres of classic wine grapes including Merlot, Chardonnay, Cabernet Franc, Viognier and Petit Manseng.
The estate vineyards are farmed using sustainable and low-impact methods, carefully working with nature to achieve healthy, balanced soils and plants.
Ivy Ridge Trad<|fim_middle|> located about 20 miles northwest of Elkin near the Blue Ridge Parkway. | itions is a popular shop on Main Street in Elkin, specializing fine gifts, home accents, clothing and garden accessories.
Fruit wines have whimsical names like Peachie Keen, Numb Knutz and Bubba Lou's Choice.
Enjoy live theater and a variety of artistic pursuits via the Foothills Arts Council.
Stone Mountain State Park is | 71 |
One of the most elegant structures in all of Southern California, the Pasadena Civic Auditorium hosts major events such as the Distinguished Speaker Series and the Pasadena Symphony. Executed in the Italian Renaissance style, it was refurbished in 1979 and renovated in 1997.
The Auditorium seats 3,000 with 1,991 on the floor (Orchestra) level and 1,009 in the balcony with a 75-foot ceiling height. The total stage area is 40 feet deep by 110 feet wide, also with a 75-foot ceiling.
The Auditorium is part of the Pasadena Convention Center, which also includes a 28,000 square-foot Conference<|fim_middle|> no locker rooms per se, but there are dressing rooms for theatrical production use. Load-in is accommodated through a drive-in door. Complete food service is offered in the Auditorium and there is the elegant 3,139 sq.ft. Gold Room within the Auditorium proper that is available for administrative or hospitality use.
There is a complete package of lighting and audio support for theatrical production, but no scoreboard. | Center, 55,000 square-foot Exhibit Hall and 25,000 square-foot Grand Ballroom.
The Pasadena Convention Center is located on East Green Street, one-half mile east of the Foothill (210) Freeway, accessed via the Marengo exit. The Center can also be approached via the Arroyo Parkway at the end of the Pasadena (110) Freeway, at Green Street. There is a 690-space parking structure on site and an additional 2,500 spaces within a one-block radius.
The Pasadena Center Operating Company is managed by Chief Executive Officer Michael Ross. Inquiries concerning facility use should be directed to Richard Barr, GM, at (626) 793-2122, or by email at rbarr@pasadenacenter.com. Ticket sales are handled by TicketMaster.
A classical theatre in shape, the Auditorium offers 3,000 seats as noted above. There are | 208 |
House Foods teamed up with Dr. Melina Jampolis, CNN diet and nutrition expert and Chef Mai Pham, executive chef and owner of Lemon Grass Restaurant in Sacramento and UC Berkeley's Star Ginger at Café Three to help UC Berkeley start the semester on a healthy note. At a special campus event titled Boost Your GPA not BMI this Semester, Dr. Melina gave nutrition tips for eating well and avoiding college weight gain while Chef Mai showed students how to lighten up Asian noodle favorites with the delicious low-calorie, House Foods Tofu Shirataki Noodles.
Chef Mai's sizzling pan captivated the audience as she showed them how to reduce the carbs and calories using House Foods Tofu Shirataki Noodles. "<|fim_middle|> equal portions of noodles (if necessary, reheat noodles in a microwave just until hot), snow peas, bok choy, red onions, green onions and cilantro. Ladle hot broth on top (make sure each bowl has chicken and sweet potatoes) and serve with chilies and lime on the side. | With these wonderful Shirataki noodles, you can enjoy your favorite dishes without feeling guilty," said Chef Mai.
Straight A Ginger Shirataki Noodle Salad — refreshing and versatile, these noodles make great salads, snacks, and more elaborate meals.
Spicy Drunken Shirataki with Chicken — for best flavors, do what Thai cooks do – start with a hot pan and go a little heavy handed on the garlic, chiles and Thai basil for an enticing, smoky savoriness.
Shiratakilicious Chicken Curry Noodle Soup — adapted from the popular Thai noodle soup kao soi, this meal-in-a-bowl is hearty, soothing and satisfying all at once.
The calories and carbs in these dishes were significantly reduced by swapping traditional noodles with Tofu Shirataki Noodles, made from tofu and Asian yam flour. Chef Mai cut back on fats without sacrificing flavor by relying on bold herbs and aromatic ingredients such as Thai basil, ginger, sesame and lime. Developed with students in mind, Chef Mai's recipes call for minimal prep and cook time while using inexpensive and accessible ingredients.
Place all dressing ingredients in a blender and process just until smooth. (You can also use a knife to finely mince the ginger and garlic and whisk the dressing by hand.) Set aside.
Place 1 tablespoon oil in sauté pan and heat over moderate heat. Add mushrooms; stir 1 minute then add 1 tablespoon dressing. Stir another 30 seconds and remove from heat.
Meanwhile place noodles and remaining dressing in a mixing bowl and toss several times. Set aside for at least 15 minutes to absorb flavors.
To assemble salad, add mushrooms, cabbages, carrots, mint and cilantro to the noodle mixture and toss gently.
Line plates with arugula and place noodle mixture on top. Garnish with sesame seeds and serve.
Combine chicken, cornstarch and water in a bowl and toss until evenly coated and set aside.
Heat oil in a large non-stick frying pan over moderate heat. Add shallots, garlic, onions, chilies and basil leaves and stir until fragrant, about 1 minute then add chicken. Cook until chicken begins to turn white, about 1 minute then add fish sauce, oyster sauce, noodles, chicken stock, red bell pepper and bok choy. Cook until chicken is done and vegetables are thoroughly hot, another 2 minutes. If pan is dry, add additional stock to moisten noodles. Serve immediately.
Adapted from the popular Thai noodle soup kao soi, this meal-in-a-bowl is hearty, soothing and satisfying all at once. You can garnish the noodles with just about anything, from leftover turkey or chicken to tofu and vegetables.
Heat oil in a medium pot over moderate heat. Add garlic and shallots and stir until fragrant, about 20 seconds. Add curry paste, curry powder and chili paste and stir another minute. Add coconut milk, chicken stock, fish sauce, chicken and sweet potatoes and bring to a boil. Cook until chicken is done then reduce heat. Add half of the fried shallots and set aside.
To serve, place bean sprouts on the bottom of each preheated soup bowls. Top with | 658 |
2019 Honda Pilot Horsepower Colors, Release Date, Changes, Price – 2<|fim_middle|>'s CabinTalk PA system. The automaker's package of energetic and indirect safety techniques, Honda Sensing, is a plus for clients who attention significantly for safety, plus it contains auto-brake, adaptive cruise control, frontward crash alert and lane-continue to keep support, that will be regarded as a regular devices on each Honda by 2022.
Generally in most types, the Honda Pilot is amazingly competent. The V6 engine delivers solid velocity without the need of sensing hard. The drive is supremely comfy, despite having the non-obligatory 20-inch wheels. The Pilot is no sports car, but fast and sensitive directing causes it to be positive about the shape. It is realistically comfortable off road as properly, with very good terrain clearance and a adaptable all-wheel-drive system. With AWD, it might even pull up to 5,000 lbs.
The only significant chink in the Pilot's armour is the non-obligatory 9-speed transmission. Though the more cogs noise excellent in writing, in reality the box will get baffled while searching for the correct percentage. This transmission also acquired some updates for 2019, and although it is greater at lower rates, it does not merit the premium price label. The other give up of the effective V6 is fuel economy – the Pilot deals with only a average 19 mpg city, 27 mpg highway, and 22 along with front-wheel drive and the six-speed transmission.
When Does 2019 honda pilot horsepower Come Out?
New 2019 Honda Pilot is going to be released on July 16th whenever we are likely to convey more info on the car.
How Much Is 2019 honda pilot horsepower Price?
Due to the fact of that, we assume the rates to stay mainly the identical. The base variation of the car need to continue to cost close to $31,500 which may help it become one of the cheaper vehicles in its class. | 019 honda pilot horsepower, 2019 honda pilot lx, 2019 honda pilot lx awd suv, . Honda jumped into the three-row crossover power vehicle portion at the beginning, swiftly developing by itself as a formidable gamer. That is excellent news for shoppers who are able to assume a lot in the way of quality, trustworthiness, and innovative trappings from Honda. The 2019 Honda Pilot features a number of style, powertrain and technology improvements as it will keep rate having an at any time-altering market.
Honda delivers the 2019 Pilot in five trims: LX, EX, EX-L, Touring, and Elite. The collection of regular features involves LED very low-ray front lights, automatic higher beams, 18-inch alloy tires, a 6-speaker audio system with a five-inch exhibit, heated up door wall mirrors, and Honda Sensing. Honda Sensing shows a package of driver-aid features, which includes lane keeping assist, lane departure warning, road departure mitigation, forwards accidents caution, automatic emergency braking, and adaptive cruise control.
What Will The 2019 honda pilot horsepower Changes Look Like?
Considering that the new edition of the CR-V will always be generally unaffected, the company chose to up-to-date to make some changes on the new edition of Honda Pilot. On the very first look it may be seen that the front side fascia is up-to-date rendering it appears related as Odyssey and Clarity. According to the photos it could also be observed that barbecue grill will probably be up-to-date presenting strong silver amount in the center.The Front lights are already been altered and are available today in LED kind. Honda also previewed a black-edition of the Pilot way back in 2015. Thus far this model has not been on sale however it just may with the impending 2019 revision. Anticipate it to present blacked out exterior decorations, larger sized rims and perhaps new front lights and tail lighting fixtures.
The 2019 Pilot's interior has evolved a good deal, therefore we are able to see numerous improvements, mainly lent from 2018 Odyssey minivan. CabinControl application will allow you to make use of you cell phone for the infotainment system which include the two Andrioid Auto and Apple Carplay. You are now able to pick a huge rear entertainment system with streaming movie capacity, a 4G LTE Wi-Fi hotspot and Honda | 510 |
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NEW/NOW: Clinton Deckert
Saturday, February 20, 2016 — Tuesday, June 07, 2016
Mary & George W. Cheney, Jr. Gallery
Join the Museum in welcoming surreal abstractionist Clinton Deckert to the Cheney Gallery as the next NEW/NOW artist. In discussing his work, Deckert describes his process as "exploratory and spontaneous." He begins by splashing thin paints or loose ink washes over canvas board, blotting with rags and other materials to allow images to emerge on their own. Deckert's works are not only reminiscent of the imagery employed by artists<|fim_middle|>été Nationale des Beaux-Arts exhibit at the Louvre Museum. The artist was born in Chicopee, MA and grew up in Southington, CT where he currently resides and works. The NEW/NOW series is supported by Greg and Marzena Silpe. NEW/NOW: Clinton Deckert is supported by the Howard Fromson Endowment for Emerging Artists. | such as Hieronymous Bosch and Salvador Dalí, but this process, which he refers to as "painterly alchemy," is evocative of his predecessors as well. Allowing the convergence of his chosen media to assist him in creating his imagery, Deckert constructs implied images, allowing the viewer's imagination to take over. The NBMAA is thrilled to exhibit this NEW/NOW artist's contribution to challenging our perceptions and encouraging a constant dialogue amongst visitors and viewers alike. Deckert has twice been awarded an Individual Artist Grant from the Greater Hartford Arts Council, has exhibited widely in New York, and in 2013 was selected to show his work, Beneath the Milieu as an American delegate by the Soci | 147 |
This website has been created with the intention to spread information about the world of Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga, the Yoga of Eight Limbs, and especially about that particular form of Hatha Yoga called Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga, as taught by Guruji Sri K. Pattabhi Jois and his best apprentices all over the world.
He would like to share with all the sincere Yoga seekers the essence of the Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga in the original form, as transmitted by the above mentioned Yoga Masters.
Manju P. Jois is the eldest son of Sri K. Patthabi Jois, recognized worldwide as the foremost authority on Ashtanga Yoga. Manju started yoga at age seven with his father and began teaching at age 15. He has taught continuously throughout the world for the last 45 years<|fim_middle|>. What is better to do? Go on with our Ashtanga practice or not? The article of Betty Lai here encluded is very interesting and can give some ideas or suggestions to all the women interested on how to behave during their pregnancy period.
THE OLDEST ASHTANGA YOGA SCHOOL IN BOLOGNA (ITALY)!
SOME VIDEOCLIPS ON ASHTANGA YOGA - frthat you can buy directly in this website: www.mauiyoga.com. Enjoy it. | . Manju Jois's dedicated life-long mission is to provide training for students and teachers in the traditions of indian yoga. He is honored, therefore, to be able to offer guidance to all who wish to learn and benefit from Ashtanga yoga's ancient practices. This workshop is a rare and privileged opportunity for practitioners to learn from the "source". Manju Jois is training students in the ancient style of yoga, which is a combination of the Asanas, Pranayamas and meditation chants. Manju´s teaching style is intensive, inspiring and humorous. He is honored to pass along all of the traditional components of yoga to his students, as he encourages them: "Unite with yourself"
OPENING AND CLOSING ASHTANGA MANTRA CHANTED BY SRI MANJU JOIS - from his CD "SHANTI MANTRAS" Which is the real way to chant this Mantra? Please listen to this audio clip and you will know how to chant all these Mantras. Enjoy it!
Ashtanga & Pragnancy | 214 |
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Wanted Down Under show helps UK couple<|fim_middle|> hadn't progressed far through the immigration process. | choose Geelong home
Peter Farago
11 May 2018, 6:00pm
A UK couple checked out 135 Grantham Drive, Highton for a BBC real estate show about migrating to Australia.
NEWS of Geelong's popularity as a haven for commuters to Melbourne has reached the old dart as a BBC reality show discovered this week.
Wanted Down Under, which is in its twelfth season on the BBC and about to hit Australian screens this year, follows British families looking to relocate to Australia as they check out homes to find their dream property.
The film crew followed the family through several homes in Geelong.
Buxton, Highton agent Tony Moorfoot said the film crew and the couple spent several hours inspecting a four-bedroom house at 135 Grantham Drive, Highton, for the program.
The modern four-bedroom house offers Barrabool Hills views and contemporary fittings, including a projector, projector screen and speakers in one of the two living areas.
The house is listed with a price guide of $639,000 to $689,000 — about £352,000-£397,000.
"They take them for a walk through the house, and talk about the location and get their feedback and get a decision on whether they want to move out to Australia," Mr Moorfoot said.
The BBC film crew for Wanted Down Under with real estate agent Jose Alberti.
"We didn't know what we were getting into, there's not going to be a buyer as such for this house (from the episode)," he said.
"It's only a good sign for the growth of Geelong. They're in the UK and they are obviously seeing value and a place to live."
They also checked out a four-bedroom house at 41 Cape Barron Drive, Lara.
@Realty agent Jose Alberti said the couple was impressed with the home and its $550,000 to $570,000 price point (about £303,000-£314,000), considering its quality and location.
The four-bedroom house at 41 Cape Barron Drive, Lara, will also appear on the program.
"The family wanted to live on the outskirts of Geelong, but with an easy public transport commute to Melbourne," he said.
But alas he doesn't believe the family will be purchasing any time soon as they were merely getting a taste for life in Australia because they | 525 |
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