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Stoke-on-Trent has become the first destination for the 2021 UK City of Culture judges - as they enjoyed a whistle-stop tour of the Potteries.
They took in the<|fim_middle|> because it elevates the city and makes a big statement. | civic centre and Spode Works, in Stoke, spoke to gaming students at Staffordshire University, walked through Hanley's Cultural Quarter and popped into the YMCA during today's visit.
Now the judges are off to fellow contenders Coventry, Paisley, Sunderland, and Swansea before revealing their final decision in December.
Judging panel chairman Phil Redmond, who created popular TV shows including Grange Hill, Brookside, and Hollyoaks, said: "It is really interesting to hear how the cities plan to go forward and one thing we are saying is that you have to know your own community. It is about bringing people into the city – and they then spend cash."
Hollyoaks creator Phil Redmond judges the UK City of Culture bid.
Great Pottery Thrown Down celebrity Keith Brymer Jones wowed the judges by making his own pottery during the Spode Works visit this afternoon.
He said: "We have had a very positive day and we have everything crossed now that we get positive news.
Phil Redmond meets Keith Brymer Jones.
Stoke-on-Trent Lord Mayor Ross Irving said: "We have submitted an excellent bid."
The judges saw the Regent Theatre and the Victoria Hall during the Hanley tour.
Richard Wingate, from Ambassador Theatre Group, which operates the two venues, said: "Stoke-on-Trent deserves this accolade and it is important | 280 |
TanHoldings edge<|fim_middle|>FC's Kaithlyn Chavez stepped up late in the game to score twice. THFC then held down Kanoa to just one goal to run away with a 7-6 win. Shirley's vs Paire Shirley's Football Club joined the winner's circle after collecting their first by thumping the Paire Football Club 4-1. Shirley's display of unity was the key to their victory as they kept their scoring options open. After five minutes of play, Shirley's Melody Johnson connected the first goal of the game. Paire tightened up their defense but failed to stand their ground as Shirley's eventually broke through with Fiona Bucalig sinking her team's second goal before the end of the first half. In the second half, Shirley's delivered two more goals. Jaraldine Castillo joined the fun at the 32nd minute mark while Bucalig earned her second goal of the day three minutes later to widen the deficit, 4-0. Paire could not prevent the inevitable, but they went down fighting as they finally scored a goal at the 52nd minute mark courtesy of Mat Ito before bowing down to Shirley's, 4-1. Next Wednesday, at 6:30 p.m., Kanoa will face Paire while THFC will square off with Shirley's.
Published by Marianas Variety - Oct 22, 2021 | Kanoa in women's soccer
TANHOLDINGS Football Club have taken the lead in the premier division team standings of the Dove Women's League Fall Tournament after bagging their second win by outlasting the Kanoa Football Club 7-6 Wednesday at the NMI Soccer Training Center. Although the season has just begun, the match between THFC and Kanoa was played like a championship game as neither team wanted to let the lead slip out of their hands. The first 20 minutes were filled with back-and-forth action along with several shot attempts. At the 24th minute mark, THFC finally broke through the Kanoa line of defense and set up Britany Wally for the finish. However, Kanoa kept their heads up and retaliated two minutes later with Irish Pagarao breaking the silence to tie the score 1-1. THFC maintained efficiency using teamwork to open a variety of shot opportunities and were rewarded with three consecutive goals delivered by Jannah Casarino who scored twice and Allyssa Angeles. But Kanoa fought back and was led by Pagarao whose speed and handles were unmatched as she sliced in two straight goals that were followed by team-mate Khristelle Itaas' solo goal to equalize the score, 4-4. In the second half, Kanoa continued to apply pressure allowing Pagarao to find the back of the net. THFC, however, quickly caught up thanks to Wally who evened the score, 5-5. In the end it was better teamwork that prevailed as TH | 327 |
Great colour! I was going to do some streak and tips in this exact shade but gave up on the idea after reading a few failure stories.
Thanks! I have learned there are a lot of variables that influence hair color results.
What a great shade! Purple is a funny color to photograph, florescent lights tend to have a faint bluish tinge, turning any purples blue... and any dominating yellow bulbs turn purples red. In your camera, if you're able to tinker with the white balance, then you may have better luck capturing your purples. If not, putting a piece of white tissue paper over your light to diffuse it might help.
Thanks for the tips. The camera has several light settings (fluorescent, halogen, etc.) and options for white balance<|fim_middle|> right.
Oh so jealous! It looks amazing on you, I'm definitely going to try that color.
Thank you! I am really liking the Arctic Fox dye (and a portion of their profits is donated to help animals; a nice plus!).
Cool! Nice to see that you finally got your hair to cooperate! | , but none of them get the color quite | 9 |
We LOVE these for summer barbecues! Healthier Slow Cooker Baked Beans that pack a big punch of flavor with maple syrup and balsamic vinegar — great cold or warm! Gluten free.
So, this is actually my first time experimenting with making my own "baked" beans. Is that crazy?
Growing up, we'd have canned beans occasionally, with a cold summer meal or sandwich, and I actually always enjoyed them. I think there are a lot of kids who don't (or think they don't), but I was never one of them.
Now as an adult, I don't buy canned pork and beans or baked beans because I avoid buying to many pre-packaged foods. I guess it had never occurred to me before now to make my own!
One of the things I love about these Slow Cooker Baked Beans is that they are perfect cold, warm or room temperature. So you can make a big batch (and this makes quite a large batch!) and just keep them in the fridge to serve with all of<|fim_middle|> is OBSESSED with baked beans and I think she would love these! I've never made baked beans myself either but this recipe is going to change that!! These look so delicious!
I couldn't believe I'd never made them before either! I hope you enjoy!
I love baked beans and haven't made them in so long — I have no idea why! These are inspiring me to get in the kitchen and make some — these look like the best side for BBQ!
I love any and all baked beans! I've never tried a maple balsamic version, but they sound delicious. Love that these area made in the crockpot, it's too darn hot here to turn on the oven!
Exactly! It is miserably hot here and I don't feel like cooking anything!
Hi Ashley! I love all kinds of beans, but baked beans are my favorite! And (like potato salad) I'm always on the lookout for new recipes to try. I must admit though that I would add bacon!
I actually eat cold baked bean sandwiches with yellow mustard…a throw back to childhood.
Oooh I do love bacon Dorothy! I was trying to keep these a little on the lighter side, but I think bacon is a fantastic addition! I could eat baked beans and potato salad with grilled meat alllll summer long! We love it too!
Maple balsamic baked beans sound wonderful, Ashley! I love that they are healthier. I definitely need to try this recipe; my husband loves baked beans.
Thanks Jen! My husband does too and he's a big fan of these!
I've been wanting to try making baked beans in the slow cooker for a while now, and these look so good! I love that you kept these full of real ingredients. I can't wait to try them!
Thanks Kristine! I cheated and used canned beans, but it's summer and I'm lazy! Lol.
I've never made my own baked beans before, but I sure do love them! My mom makes a delicious homemade version, but I've never had a balsamic kind before. Sounds perfect for the summer, Ashley!
Thanks Gayle! I am all about EASY these days! | your grilled meats for the week. Now that the weather is warmer and we're spending more time outside, I don't like to have to think long and hard about dinner. I like to keep things simple!
Normally I like to make a big batch of potato salad (like this BBQ Bacon Potato Salad or this Warm Maple Bacon Potato Salad) and keep it in the fridge for a week or so to add to meals, and we are definitely going to add these beans to our list too!
I was originally going to use apple cider vinegar, but when I was reaching in my pantry for the vinegar I caught sight of the balsamic and I love balsamic in all kinds of things (like this Honey Balsamic Pulled Pork), so I thought it would be kind of amazing. It is. But if you don't like it, feel free to swap it out for your favorite!
We LOVE these for summer barbecues! Healthier Slow Cooker Baked Beans that pack a big punch of flavor with maple syrup and balsamic vinegar -- great cold or warm! Gluten free.
1/2 cup maple syrup not pancake syrup!
In a 4-6 quart slow cooker, add the beans, tomato paste, vinegar, garlic, salt, mustard, maple syrup, brown sugar, and Worcestershire sauce. Stir.
Stir together water and corn starch. Add to slow cooker and stir until combined.
Cook on low for 8 hours -- serve warm, room temperature, or cold!
Cook on low for 8 hours — serve warm, room temperature, or cold!
Do you think this recipe would work for uncooked beans? Like the ones you buy in a bag. I'm looking for a recipe for a healthier version for these type of beans. THANKS!
Hi Caroline! They might, but you'd likely have to soak them first and I'm not sure if they would require more liquid. I can't say for sure because I haven't tried.
OK I have this weird phobia of recipes that contain ketchup. I don't know why because I love ketchup on its own, but when I see it in an ingredient list I go running for the hills LOL! So basically I love that you left it out! These beans look seriously delicious! Yay for spending lots of time outside right now!
Lol! I am a big ketchup lover! But when I'm going for "healthy", I do try to stick with "one-ingredient-ingredients"!
My husband and kiddos love baked beans and I love that you made them healthier and in the slow cooker! The maple and balsamic combo sound perfect with any grilled dishes!
Are you sure these canned beans need 8 hours in the slow cooker?
I checked them earlier, and I wasn't quite happy with how the flavors had come together and how tender the beans were. If you like your beans firmer, you can definitely go with a shorter cooking time. It will also depend on the slow cooker you use — they're all so different!
I'll take a big bowl of these along side any summer meal, please! Easy is the best right now, and the fact that you don't have to turn on your oven for these "baked" beans makes things infinitely better. Love these!
You're reminding me that it's been basically FOREVER since I last made baked beans so I'm all over these! Totally loving that I can just dump everything in the crockpot and forget about it!
Yes, EASE is totally a big part of our summer recipes these days! It's allllll we can handle!
Ashley, I've never made baked beans before either! and my kids love them! LOVE this Healthier Slow Cooker Baked Beans recipe!!!! Looks delicious!
I like beans an embarrassing amount so this is totally up my alley! I can't wait to try Ashley!
I love maple and balsamic together, I bet these baked beans are amazing! I've never actually made my own either, although I like them well enough. And I never buy the canned ones either, so I think I might need to try making them soon! Perfect for BBQ season!
Yes, definitely! It's one of my favorite combinations too!
These beans look fabulous Ashley! Love that you used balsamic vinegar!
I don't buy canned beans either, I just can't. Ew, right? Leave it up to you to experiment with baked beans for the first time and knock it out of the dang park! These look faaaaaaab, chicka! LOVE the maple and balsamic combo! I would have never thought of those two ingredients with baked beans. Plus you made these in the slow cooker FTW?! Heck yes! Boy constantly hassles me to make him baked beans, so I'm totally busting out this easy, delicious recipe next time! Cheers, Ashley!
Doooo it! Thanks Chey! The husband loves beans too, so he was all over these!
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Upstart Public Relations and Branding Agency SociallyMined Expands to West Coast
Move Creates Bicoastal Presence to Better Service Entertainment and Tech Clients
WASHINGTON (PRWEB) August 30, 2018
SociallyMined (http://www.SociallyMined.com), a boutique agency leveraging innovative technology to give organizations the technology-driven tools needed to build results-focused public relations and marketing campaigns, today announced its expansion with the establishment of a Los Angeles-based office. The West Coast expansion is an indication of SociallyMined's growing reputation as a data-driven public relations and branding agency of choice.
Recently, SociallyMined has been engaged by California-based celebrities and media companies to help shape their narrative in response to trending current events. SociallyMined has built a strong niche in gathering data on public sentiment and leveraging that data to provide deep-rooted analytics, allowing a relevant message to be crafted that resonates with and engages a target audience.
"When we first applied our solutions to the entertainment industry we quickly demonstrated immeasurable ROI," stated Matt Anthes, CEO of SociallyMined. "We used data and analytics for a well-known entertainment corporation to understand the sentiment surrounding their featured talent. In one instance, we identified 80% negative sentiment surrounding false perceptions but when we explored the data in detail, we were able to formulate a strategy to articulate the truth and change perceptions. The strategy we employed converted sentiment from 80% negative to 20% negative within a matter of three weeks. The end result saved the network millions of dollars and averted a PR disaster."
SociallyMined has seen the<|fim_middle|>
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since: 07/2015 | lines continue to blur between tech and consumer public relations and there has been a growing demand among media, entertainment and traditional brands for agency expertise that can creatively transcend both disciplines. The Los Angeles expansion positions SociallyMined at the industry epicenter.
Over the past year-plus, client engagements have garnered measurable results by employing a creative data-driven approach to PR. Working for traditional brands, politicians, private equity firms, media and advertising companies, tech startups, and celebrities, the goal is to increase traction and awareness for clients, while generating awareness, and amplifying their message.
"SociallyMined understands the entertainment industry and how to impart a targeted effective PR campaign," stated Roney Hooks, CEO of Ronestone Entertainment. "Before I signed with Sony Music, I honed my skills with the legendary production team known as the Bomb Squad. As the pioneer production camp for Rap music, we created hit albums for major artists such as Ice Cube, Public Enemy, Slick Rick, The Beastie Boys and Bell Biv, DeVoe. Likewise, SociallyMined is a pioneer in the data-focused entertainment PR space; they know how to help industry talent and companies maximize the sentiment of consumers to drive results."
SociallyMined launched in fall 2016 and has experienced continuous growth, recently adding entertainment-related clients in the movie industry, video on demand, streaming platforms, VR and content creation. The boutique agency's mission to deliver cost-effective white-glove service with measurable results has helped SociallyMined to build a viral brand that has been expanding organically.
"The more conversations we've had with prospective clients, the more we realized that there is the same need on the West Coast that we originally saw on the East Coast. We are an agency that challenges the status quo and we offer a unique, data-driven approach," explained Steve Zeitchik, SociallyMined President of Branding.
The opening of the Los Angeles office brings to four the number of locations where SociallyMined has an established presence. The goal is simple - have the West Coast office service the rapidly increasing roster of entertainment and media clients. In addition to the Los Angeles office and its Washington, DC area headquarters, the company has an office in New York City and Tel Aviv, Israel.
About SociallyMined
SociallyMined is a boutique data-driven digital marketing agency with a creative approach to reaching the market efficiently and effectively, providing quantifiable results and reports along the way to track progress. SociallyMined services incorporate cutting-edge technologies designed for Fortune 500 brands, utilizing big data and analytics to track relevant consumer sentiment and behavior, and influencing the sentiment to direct it towards a predetermined outcome. Their analytic solutions are integrated into their other services which focus on public relations and include influencer marketing, native advertising, mobile marketing with geofencing, interactive videos, and more, providing a customized strategic campaign for their clients generating high engagement with a relevant audience. In addition, they offer diverse traditional services which include web design, social media campaigns, and video production.
SociallyMined's PR division offers the ability to target specific journalists and outlets (online and traditional) who have relevant interests and followers within a desired demographic and/or psychographic profile. This includes generating content, identifying the potential audience, pushing out the content to them, and engaging them in creating a community for a brand that can then be retargeted repeatedly as the brand grows – all while providing reports to track impact.
The SociallyMined team is comprised of industry leaders with experience dealing directly with brands, entertainment, political candidates, non-profits, individuals, and governments. SociallyMined ensures a message is being heard by those influencers and decision makers that can affect change and make an impact for brands, issue-advocacy, and individual campaigns.
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The Parish Clerk announces that the AUDITED GOVERNANCE AND ACCOUNTS YEAR ENDED 31ST MARCH 2016 and CON<|fim_middle|> his sheep. He tells me that the delay, apart from the usual formalities, has been complicated by the discovery of Asbestos in the roof. That has just been cleared and work will be starting again in earnest. John's latest information is that the Pub MAY be re opening in November of this year. It is hoped that more towards the time an announcement will be made in the press and Parish Magazine.
I forgot to ask what started the fire in the first place so we will have to suffice with the rumour that a tumble drier was at fault. More on this if I see John again.
The meeting this month on September 8 is our very own "Gardeners' Question Time" when we hope to find the answers to all our garden problems. The panel will be local residents so well acquainted with conditions you are likely to find in this area and they will be able to offer good advice on suitable plants and their care.
Visitors are welcome to come to this as they are to any meeting.
The MINUTES OF WING COUNCIL MEETING HELD ON 27TH JULY 2016 are here. | CLUSION OF AUDIT documents are now available under Parish Council Transparency Compliance and by clicking on the links in this post.
Quiz: Where is this wall?
And does anyone know how old it is?
As a regular attendee to the Wheatsheaf Pub in Edith Weston I, like many others, was horrified to discover it had been subject to a fire in the living quarters.
Many of us have been eyeing the damaged building and wondering when we were going to get back to Steak Nights again. Several people have remarked how they miss not only the beer and friendly atmosphere but the original Wallpaper.
Today (Wednesday 24 August) your correspondent met John the landlord when he was in Wing tending | 140 |
We arrived at the Holiday Inn North Phoenix after our visit to the Grand Canyon, arriving there about 9pm. The Holiday Inn North Phoenix is (wait for it…) north of Phoenix, which was nice as we were coming down I-17 from the Grand Canyon.
We had a fine night's sleep, which is most of what we were going for.
The Holiday Inn North Phoenix is a Category 2 hotel (15,000 points / night). Because I was trying to qualify for the IHG Accelerate promotion, I paid cash (well, credit card) – the out the door rate with taxes was $90.57.
Are there any breakfast vouchers for Platinum members?
This worked at the Holiday Inn Washington Dulles Intl Airport, but at the Holiday Inn North Phoenix, the gentleman paused and said "No, it's not included". What I felt like saying was, "I know you CAN give out vouchers, but you just don't WANT to". I get that IHG Platinum isn't even top-tier any more, and I just have it from the credit card, but<|fim_middle|> desk staff about that, they offered us 8 breakfast to go bags that had cinnamon roll, apple, breakfast bars and lots of other breakfast-y goodness.
Really? So you essentially bully a front desk agent for not giving you a breakfast voucher? I work at a full service hotel and the accounting department audits the restaurant's sales receipts and we actually could get written up for giving away a breakfast voucher to someone who didn't pay for it with their rate. Maybe the agent wasn't trying to be mean. He probably wasn't allowed to give you a voucher for being platinum status. Platinum is a status which denotes to a hotel how many times you have stayed in a hotel per year. The special privileges include an option of late check-out, accelerated point earnings, and room upgrades when available. The system isn't designed to give away a free breakfast. The breakfast at a full service holiday inn is served in their full service restaurant which has servers on staff and a full menu. It's different than a continental, that's why it's not free. Maybe next time you could pay $5 extra for the rate that includes breakfast instead of demanding it for free.
The newly-constructed Holiday Inns are relatively upscale actually – good enough to warrant some snootiness.
The old Holiday Inns (from the pre-Express days) would have ideally been downgrade to Expresses, but that's not possible because they already invested in a bar/restaurant, and Holiday Inn Express "prides" itself on never having a restaurant and a bar onsite. There's also contractual hurdles about forcing existing properties to start offering free, crappy breakfasts instead of their profitable, quality ones.
Holiday Inn is a recognizable/valuable brand name. I can understand why they thought the "Holiday Inn Express" brand was a good idea, but it created a quagmire . I guess the problem will fix itself in a few decades after the old properties close, rebrand, or renovate. | sheesh.
I guess when it boils down to it, Holiday Inn has positioned itself (at least in mine and seemingly most others minds) as a "budget" hotel. I mean, this is a Category 2 hotel that cost $79 / night. It's one thing when a "fancy" hotel doesn't include breakfast, I understand it, but at seemingly "budget" hotels, breakfast is typically included. I mean there are hotels that give out free DINNER too!
I should clarify that this only refers to Holiday Inns. Holiday Inn EXPRESS hotels, on the other hand, serve a delicious breakfast, including my favorite hotel breakfast food – Holiday Inn Express cinnamon rolls!
For less than $5 you can run over to a McDonalds and have a much better breakfast than most of the included breakfasts I've had a budget hotel.
Back to HI, I'd add that in my experience with the brand over the past five years, I've often received just the vouchers for breakfast you mention…. (and great you got one from HI Dulles — I'd never been so lucky there before, will insist on it in the future — or go to the nearby Crowne Plaza — for their fab breakfast options for Plat. members.) HI Manassas Battlefield also has a fine breakfast buffet (which we've always received as IHG plat members too)…..
Last thought…. stayed at a nice econo lodge (really) in Cocoa Beach recently — ran into a manager there from India…. and he relayed that common practice across south asia is the exact opposite of the US…. that is, high end hotels there will almost always be either "all-inclusive" (as in full board, or all meals) or at least include breakfast & dinner….. There, it's the lower end budget places where you might have to forage for your own grub.
From my limited experience (4 different HIs and 5 different HIEs), Holiday Inns are a step up in basically every other way, so it doesn't bug me that they don't offer breakfast. The rooms are better in general, and my wife and I have gotten a couple with a great view as an free upgrade (I am Spire for this year…total fluke due to getting the 70k IHG Visa deal last year at the right time). Personally, I have found the I can pass on the Holiday Inn Express breakfast, and it doesn't bug me that it isn't included. Only one has been good, and the rest were barely passable. It's rare that the non-carbohydrate options are any good, so I find myself having mainly coffee and yogurt. Three of my stays have been for work, where I could have easily gotten breakfast on their dime somewhere else, and I will likely take that option next time.
I'm glad you mentioned that you can ask for breakfast vouchers…I didn't know that was an option for HI! Great info. I'll try that next time. I had a great hotel breakfast at the Holiday Inn North Sydney (Canada, not Australia) last summer, but it cost ~$18, if I recall correctly.
I agree. I stay at a ton of IHG properties every year on business. I end up mostly at HIX and avoid HI's because of the breakfast. Not that I care if it's free since my company would pay anyway but that it's more of a pain than the carefree HIX experience. I'm also down on HIX when they start breakfast later than 6am because I need to be on the road by 6:30 or 7am usually and it's just not great.
I have recently stayed at a few Holiday Inn properties though because they offered room service at night. Many nights I'm in my room trying to get work done and really don't feel like going out to get food when I've been driving all day.
One thing you might try at HIX is to ask for a breakfast to go. When we took our Amtrak trip back in 2015, our train left Toledo at like 5 a.m. When we told the HIX | 844 |
#1<|fim_middle|>amer Ray Didinger, Stan Hochman Writers Award; Flyers TV and Phillies radio announcer Jim Jackson,Bill Campbell Award; College Football Hall of Famer and former Temple Owl great Paul Palmer, Special Recognition; Temple basketball coach Fran Dunphy, special achievement for his outstanding basketball career; Michael Zingrone, sports editor of the Temple News, Richie Ashburn scholarship recipient; and Phillies' longtime director of travel and clubhouse services Frank Coppenbarger, special achievement award.
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#1 Field Hockey Team in the USA, 27-0 Eastern HS, to be Honored by PSWA
December 20, 2018|
Eastern High School, the number one high school field hockey team in the nation, is among the honorees at the 115th Philadelphia Sports Writers Association (PSWA) dinner on Monday, Jan. 21 at the Crowne Plaza in Cherry Hill.
Eastern shares its major award with Phillies' pitcher Aaron Nola, PSWA's Outstanding Pro Athlete of the Year and the Eagles and Villanova basketball team named Pro and College Teams of the Year.
"It's rare that the PSWA honors high schools," says John Weber, president. "This however, is extra ordinary and deserves a special recognition. It's not often that a high school in the Philadelphia-region is named "Best in the Nation."
Eastern finished its season 27-0, which means the Vikings' graduating seniors have a career record of 106-0-1, including 75 consecutive victories, four state championships and three New Jersey Tournament of Champions titles. The team has gone 133 consecutive games without a loss.
Coach Danyle Heilig and the seniors will accept the special achievement award on behalf of the entire team.
Eastern joins former Eagle and radio color analyst Mike Quick, Living Legend; Pro Football Hall of F | 343 |
I first opined about running streaks 12 years ago. In that post I talked more about what makes a streak and how we trust those who say they haven't missed a day. Five years ago, I spoke about it again and how streaking can often impede a good running goal. I also gave reasons for when it is good idea to stop your streak. Then today, I hit 100 days in a row where I haven't missed a run.
This particular streak started because I did an experiment in December. Even though I fell on consecutive days and cut up my knee, I kept<|fim_middle|> most dictates how I run. As long as I continue to feel good, I am going to keep running.
I am not sure when the streak will end. Part of the streak is undoubtedly tied to the fact that I haven't had a single race since the first weekend of December. I also had some travel plans cancelled and some others fall through. All of those are things which usually make me take a day off. With my next confirmed race not being until the end of April, maybe the streak will go onto to then. Maybe I will find a race which will take my fancy and I will run it before. The aforementioned heartache is abating somewhat so perhaps I won't "need" the run as much anymore. I truly don't know what will cause the first rest day and I am sure it will be at some weird number that has no significance.
That will be perfectly fine with me, too. This streak has had multiple purposes and all were to make me a better runner. The second it no longer serves my desires to help me on my running journey, I will rest.
Until then, long live the run! | going. I kept going not because of the streak but rather because everything felt good. I had matching ouchies on my knee that looked super weird but that's just cosmetic.
One week in to that experiment I had experienced some slight groin pain which made me think I might need to take some days off. It wasn't that surprising as I was adding distance and adding days. I normally take one day off a week. But the pain abated and I finished 2018 without missing a day. Then I began 2019. For a variety of reason I pulled out of some races in January which is usually when I take a rest day. January continued to have pleasant and cool running weather which helped me continue the streak. The previous January had some very cold days in Austin but they had quickly subsided and gave way to a plethora of 80-degree days. I figured when this happened I would take a break. This year that did not happen.
This nice weather continued into February. Dealing with some personal heartache issues I found myself turning to running again.The weather stayed nice. No legs problems or injuries of any kind cropped up. I figured I might stop my streak at 52 days (52 is somewhat synonymous with me) but that came and went unceremoniously on a day that was also 52 degrees when I ran (because of course it was.) I saw that if I ran all of February, making it two months without a missed date, I would be at 86 days straight. Besides being my football number in high school, it is my favorite number. How can you not like a number which is also a verb?! I had a plan to do something which would take me out of my normal order of sleeping in on Sundays the fiest weekend of March and I thought that perhaps this would be the streak- ender. Then the plans got cancelled on me. So instead I found myself consoling myself with another run.
Meanwhile, the nice weather in Austin continued. Well, nice for me. Everyone else was freezing and complaining. I was scheduling 16-mile runs in the freezing temperatures because it had been years since I had felt these. I noticed I would get to 100 days on Pi day, and if I were to beware the Ides of March on March 15th, perhaps I would end my streak on the 14th. My run on the 13th went pretty crappy. I felt exhausted. I thought perhaps I would show how little streaks mean to me by not running that 100th day. It takes fare more gumption to stop at 99 then it does to push hard to get to 100. I know this because I had a 9.9 mile route that I ran all the time in Salt Lake City when I lived here that everyone else said they would run that extra .1 to get a round number. I didn't see the point. I mapped out the run, ran it, and it ended up being 9.9 staring and finishing at my door. Adding more would just be ridiculous. leave numbers not on round endings than it does to power through when you are sick or injured. But I woke up today, the weather was warm but dry, and a few steps into the run I knew it was going to be a good day. No need to stop the streak on this day.
So March 15th has a scheduled 16 miler. It will be my 101st day of running. The next two weeks call for more surprisingly "cool" temperature in Austin. After a summer last year forced me to run on a treadmill more times in a month than I may have the rest of my life, I know that it is the weather which | 782 |
What beautiful Holiday memories made with your beautiful dear children. I love the pics. You are a doll in your pj's and no makeup. I was here doing the same while cooking early in the morning. Hair pulled back, sleeves rolled up and lots of preparing till time to shower and dress. All great fun with family.
Blessings to you my friend for a wonderful Christmas.
I am having a giveaway if you'd like to enter.
Thanks for visiting me, Lee Laurie! I think that it is the best part of the holidays to be able to spend time with family; slow down a bit and catch up, too. Isn't that always the way with pictures ~ my son always gets me with my mouth open telling him to hurry up and take the picture already!
You all look like brothers and sisters without a MOM in the mix! You are lovely as ever.
Lee Laurie ~ isn't fun to have the night before to share in the cooking! It IS so special. My mom lived so close that we never shared that for some reason ~ I loved that my kids spent the night!
btw: you looked terrific in the morning ~ don't change a thing!
Hey Lee Laurie! Thank you SO much for your comment on our little sweet pea...we're all totally in love and have melted hearts! :0) We certainly weren't expecting to be gparents at this age, but she is a blessing for sure!
Lee Laurie, What BEAUTIFUL pictures with your family!<|fim_middle|>! I see I'm not the only one in my jammies cooking Thanksgiving dinner!! Thank you so much for stopping by and your sweet comments about my kitchen!!
What wonderful pictures of you and your beautiful children! I'm glad you had a great Thanksgiving...we did too!
What a special time with your girl!
Blessings to you as you celebrate this joyous season!
G'morn Lee Laurie ~ What beautiful family fun pictures ... you are just gorgeous! How lovely a holiday celebration together you all had. | Isn't is wonderful when all of the children are all there! Last year our oldest son was living in a different state. And this year all three sons were with us. It was just the best!
I am happy you had such a great day!
Yes, we too had a lovely day! It's always fun when you can have your children with you for the day!
Oh my, my kids do the same thing to me.. they always take my photo while I'm not ready...LOL..I think you looked great!
We had 20 guests and 3 boxers over for Thanksgiving...A house full..
I just put my pumpkins away LOL.So this coming weekend we will start decorating for Christmas..
Aw, such a beautiful family. It takes me forever to get myself dressed and made up on THanksgiving - I just love to sit around in my PJ's.
Hey, did you know that we are naming our baby boy Cole?? It's the one name the whole family agreed on.
What lovely family pictures, I too have a son named Cole! And I have to compliment you on how you look without makeup! You were rocking the apron!
Family is wonderful | 241 |
The Helpforce volunteering charity has recruited 33,000 people to give their time to the NHS for free, as a result of being chosen as the charity supported by the Daily Mail's 2018 Christmas campaign.
The partnership came about after the charity, with the help of Forster Communications, approached the Daily Mail with the idea of a campaign to raise the profile of volunteering, and grow the number of volunteers helping the NHS.
The campaign was launched with a front page article in which the newspaper appealed to its readers to become NHS volunteers.
Readers were asked to commit at least three hours a week, or one day a month, for six months.
Key messages were highlighting the benefits of volunteering, which can not only help patients and NHS staff,<|fim_middle|> | but be fun, rewarding, and often life-enhancing for the volunteers themselves.
Case studies drawn from the 78,000 volunteers who already help in the NHS were used to communicate the benefits of volunteering. Several individual stories were featured in films used to promote the campaign.
Although the primary target audience was the Daily Mail readership – in print and online – the campaign reached the wider British public through broadcast media coverage.
Promoted on social media with the hashtag #bethehelpforce, the campaign was endorsed by high-profile celebrities such as JK Rowling and Piers Morgan.
Brilliant campaign in today's Daily Mail.
Join forces with @help_force to support our wonderful NHS with volunteers.
Other prominent supporters of the campaign included Prime Minister Theresa May and Simon Stevens, chief executive of NHS England.
And the Prince of Wales hailed the campaign as "an incredible example of British spirit that will make a real difference to so many people's lives in the months and years to come".
The results surpassed expectations, which had been to recruit 10,000 new volunteers.
The month-long campaign resulted in 33,064 people pledging to give a total of 1,861,200 hours of support to the NHS. Volunteers are now being matched to local NHS trusts to be trained and undergo necessary checks, with the aim that they will start in the Spring.
Harry Day, project director at Forster Communications, said: "We've been involved with Helpforce since its early days because we saw it could be game-changer for the NHS."
He added: "I'm really proud we have played a key role in getting it from an idea 18 months ago to a living, breathing campaign that has inspired thousands of people to sign up to volunteer for the NHS. The opportunity to shape initiatives like this don't come along often, but they're the reason why Forster exists." | 390 |
| DeLauro takes Conn. third district
DeLauro takes Conn. third district
Matthew Lloyd-Thomas 9:24 pm, Nov 06, 2012
Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro, who represents New Haven in<|fim_middle|> less than 63 percent of the vote in an election.
"We feel energized by today," DeLauro campaign manager Jimmy Tickey said Tuesday afternoon, adding that he thought high turnout numbers throughout the district helped DeLauro.
DeLauro, who sits on the House Appropriations Committee, is considered one of the most liberal members in Congress. | the House of Representatives, retained her congressional seat by a wide margin Tuesday, beating out motivational speaker Wayne Winsley with 9 percent of precincts reporting at 9:05 p.m.
DeLauro first arrived in Congress in 1991 after working as the chief of staff for former Senator Chris Dodd as well as serving as executive director of EMILY's List, an organization that funds female candidates.
After winning her first election with 52 percent of the vote, DeLauro has never received | 105 |
Everything is lovely, but my favorite is the wreath of twigs.
Absolutely gorgeous! Love the cabinet of toille, it is my favorite. You have done a beautiful job as usual.
You have a lovely kitchen, Celeste! I love the little vignettes you<|fim_middle|> will all its simplicity and beauty.
Merry Christmas, Celestina. I hope you are filled with the love of family on this special day.
So pretty! I love the Baker Santa!
Your kitchen is just so pretty, Celestina! I love your arrangement of the tray and fun Santa shelf! And the pretty cardinal handing from your chandelier is just gorgeous! The brick arched wall over your stove gives the look of a Tuscan kitchen! Love it! Oh, I have that same exact red and cream toile mug, guess we both share the same great taste:) haha! Thank you for sharing your pretty home with us!
Everything is just beautiful!! I think your cabinets would be so pretty painted white...but I love the island in black. | 've set up. I don't like to put a lot of decorations on my counters because I use them all, so I like to put little things off in the corners.
I painted our cabinets at our family home and loved the new look. I never tired of it. I used a cream color with distressing and a bit of antiquing then sealed it. The look made our kitchen so much brighter and larger in appearance. I did the top and bottom the same color but when we paint our cabinets here in the condo we are thinking of doing a different color for the bottom. I love that kind of look when I've read magazines and ogled over the pics. I think we may do cream on the top and black on the bottom.
I've been drooling over your black & white and red & white toile tea sets! How gorgeous they look with all your fabulous decorations!
Your kitchen looks so beautiful for Christmas. Love the black toile and the cute santa.
Beautiful kitchen. Very cozy and festive rozhdestveski. Like Santa dressed chef. And you wish Celestina Marie joy at Christmas.
Your kitchen Christmas is beautiful. I just decorated my baker's rack last night and counters. Christmas in the kitchen is a must.
Woooww,a wonderful place of home and decoration, i loove all your lovely things,iam looved too christmas decoration,the white colors of your trees are georgus,love it all.
wish you a happy and warm winter season,enjoy!!!
Your kitchen is so charming Celestina. I love all the little details, especially your table setting and the wreath!
Oh Celestina, I enjoyed seeing pictures of your Simple Kitchen Christmas. First off, I want to tell you that I LOVE the brick around your kitchen. My mom had brick in her house, and I would like to have it someday too. The chandelier cardinal is pretty, and I'm really into cardinals lately. Your black and white tea set is gorgeous! The lantern is so unique with such a pretty design. And my favorite was the POT OF JOY! It is perfect for the season.
Thank you for letting us see your kitchen | 438 |
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MADISON, Wis.—Rev360, a practice software and business services company for ECPs, began the new year with a new chief executive officer. Longtime health care IT executive Scott Filion<|fim_middle|> had joined Rev360 in September 2018 as president and chief operating officer, is to deftly build upon past successes and to drive further growth by helping the company's ECP customer base operate more successfully. "I am extremely excited about the opportunity that exists for both the company and the market," Filion told VMAIL this week. Filion, who previously held senior level positions at EMC Healthcare, Hosting and GetWellNetwork, said one of his primary objectives is to help all of Rev360's ECP customers become operationally more efficient and to maintain or grow their competitive advantage in the market. Read More. | assumed the title from company founder Scott Jens, OD, FAAO, at the beginning of this month. The challenge for Filion, who | 28 |
Set in beautiful surroundings close to the Stratford-upon-Avon Canal, near Birmingham and Solihull, the three waters at Earlswood Lakes have been popular for angling and walking since Victorian times.
Earlswood lakes are three attractive, large reservoirs and nationally renowned as prolific match venues as well as being extremely popular with pleasure anglers.
In October 1999, the Engine Pool was virtually drained and all fish stocks removed. All the bream and larger roach were transferred to the Windmill Pool and all other fish were transferred to the local Stratford Canal.
Between November 1999 and March 2000 the Engine Pool was stocked with five tons of carp averaging 8-10 oz. At the same time a new car park was built, plus new footpaths and 80 large timber platforms installed.
Engine Pool is 25 acres in size and holds 105 pegs. The carp have grown extremely quickly since being first introduced and now average 8-9lb each.
In the first year of being stocked the venue broke the British five-hour match record with an impressive 414lb 14oz. This fish are now a lot bigger so they take longer to get in, but also a lot wiser, but you can still expect 200lb+ match weights in the summer. Average weights including back-up weights are normally 80-100lb.
Windmill Pool is also 25 acres in size offers fishing from one side and the dam wall only. It holds 65 pegs and primarily known as a natural water.
It is heavily stocked with b<|fim_middle|>4lb with numerous 20s coming out over the winter period.
Terry's Pool is a picturesque 20 acre lake totally surrounded with over anging trees. Fishing is only allowed on the dam wall bank and is only available on a season permit which is available at £40 per year.
The rest of the reservoir is kept as a nature reserve and this reservoir still incorporates a close season from 15th March to the 16th June. Terry's Pool contains good stocks of pike, bream, carp and tench as well as shoals of silver fish.
Terry's Pool – a picturesque 20-acre mixed fishery.
Windmill – when on form the bream fishing is fantastic.
British Waterways has introduced a season permit which covers all its commercial fisheries in the West Midlands business unit. These are Earlswood Lakes(Engine and Windmill pools only), Blythe Waters and Stockton Reservoir. Full permit, which allow anglers to fish any day of the week, cost £156 a year and Concessions (subject to holding a concessionary rod licence) cost £130 a year.
Matches: Regular open matches are held on Saturdays. | ream, skimmers and roach. These are main target species and the tactics generally associated with these species score the best.
There are some large resident carp in here but they are rarely caught, probably down the tactics and equipment used to catch bream and roach. Normally winning match weights are 30-40lb, sometime slight higher if the large bream feed, but matches are generally close between the top five or six weights.
This reservoir is also very popular with the pike anglers during the winter months. It holds pike that mainly average 1 | 116 |
TORONTO – The Grand River Gargoyles were limited to three points in the second half as they were dropped 88-16 by the Toronto Rebels in AFL Ontario play Saturday afternoon at Humber College.
The Rebels jumped ahead 26-1 in the first quarter and stretched that lead to 49-13 at halftime. They were up 68-15 at the end of the third quarter.
Stephen Mcleod and Sam Skelhorn scored a goal apiece for the Gargs.
Marc Roche and Chris Stokes had three goals apiece for the Rebels while Chris Antartis and Michael Fabbri had two each. Getting one each were Andrew Brown, Heath O'Farrell and Nick Shalagan.
The Gargs are seventh in the nine-team league at 2-5-0 with a 59.3<|fim_middle|> to go in their regular season including two at the Margaret Greene Park home field, are to play the Central Blues (0-6-0 and 9.26) Saturday at 2 p.m. at Humber College. | 1 percentage while the Rebels are fourth at 3-3-0 and 139.18.
The Gargs, who have five games | 31 |
Plastic: America's Indispensable Cultural Icon
By Casey Mendoza
Experts have said we're living in the "era of plastic."
Plastic isn't usually considered the most exciting thing. But some people might argue the material is a cultural icon.
In 2012, experts from the Smithsonian Institution said we were living in the "Age of Plastic." From water bottles to grocery bags, plastic seems ideal because it's cheap, durable and disposable. Outside of consumer goods, plastic is also used in medical supplies.
But for all the good the material may have done, plastic has also become the modern symbol of wastefulness. Eight million metric tons of it ends up in oceans each year. Those cutesy vintage plastic goods from the 20th century are now collecting dust in museums, and many people are cutting disposable plastics out of their lives.
Related Story Ocean Plastic Could Triple By 2025
Earth Day's 2018 campaign is focused on ending plastic pollution by "changing human attitude and behavior about plastics." Efforts like this are important, as past research shows that cultural participation can help make<|fim_middle|>ism, but fashion is pretty lucrative. According to 2016 research, the reusable water bottle market is expected to rise to a valuation of more than $10 billion by 2024.
Christopher Chern / CNN
Rules Against Flagpoles Did Not Cover Rioters Marching To Capitol | environmental policies more effective.
Outside of policy, we can see the rise of this anti-plastic pollution culture through the growing popularity of tote bags and reusable water bottles. The rise may be more for fashion than environmental | 42 |
Current: Business School HOL
by Dr Brian Jones | 01/07/2019 |
The Small Business Charter Summer Reception at the House of Lords provided an opportunity to hear about how business schools and small businesses are working together to benefit our society and economy.
I had the pleasure of representing Leeds Business School at the event this year and although was a rainy early summer day in London, the welcome to the House<|fim_middle|> Brian has been engaged in teaching and lecturing, academic and applied research, funded projects (e.g. Erasmus plus) and consultancy (e.g. ERDF). | of Lords was warm and inviting. The Reception was a wonderful opportunity for business school faculty and entrepreneurs to network, build contacts and exchange ideas. Guests came from across the country and shared their knowledge and experiences. I met up with Faresh Maisuria of Blueberry Marketing Solutions and one of our Entrepreneurs in Residence at Leeds Business School. I was interested to hear of all the good work being done by Faresh and blueberry marketing solutions, their commitment to learning and development and the growth of the business in Leeds. The event was hosted by Lord Young of Graffham, Patron of the Small Business Charter and author of several influential reviews on enterprise and small business for government. Lord Young spoke about the importance of small businesses to the UK economy and the role of the Small Business Charter. The Reception also saw the launch of the Amazon Campus Challenge which is an exciting competition that offers students the opportunity to test and develop their business skills in a real-life environment. Students can register here for the competition which will run until June 2020. The Reception was informative and engaging and served to highlight the continuing importance of businesses and education working together to deliver an innovative, vibrant and thriving small business sector in the UK.
Dr Brian Jones
Brian joined Leeds Beckett University in 2004 as Senior Lecturer in Marketing. Since joining Leeds Beckett University | 273 |
N<|fim_middle|> expected TNC conservation status | emophila phacelioides, commonly called large-flower baby-blue-eyes or Texas baby-blue-eyes, is a flowering plant in the waterleaf family (Hydrophyllaceae). It is native to the South Central United States, where it is found in Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Texas. Its natural habitat is in woodland openings in riparian bottoms, in sandy or silty soils.
Description
Nemophila phacelioides is an herbaceous annual. It blooms in the spring, where it produces large showy flowers with a blue or purple outer edge, fading into white. The flowers are about an inch wide, and have five petals. The leaves of the plant are irregular, with about 7-10 teeth. The plant grows about 10 inches tall, and can often form a blanket cover over the ground.
Cultivation
This plant performs well in the shade, and needs slightly moist soil. Baby Blue Eyes do well sown from seed, with about 12 inches of spacing. Seeds can be collected by tying a bag to the flower head.
References
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<|fim_middle|>aca | Llano de León är en ort i Mexiko. Den ligger i kommunen San Jerónimo Coatlán och delstaten Oaxaca, i den sydöstra delen av landet, km sydost om huvudstaden Mexico City. Llano de León ligger meter över havet och antalet invånare är .
Terrängen runt Llano de León är lite bergig. Den högsta punkten i närheten är meter över havet, km norr om Llano de León. Runt Llano de León är det ganska glesbefolkat, med invånare per kvadratkilometer. Närmaste större samhälle är San Gabriel Mixtepec, km väster om Llano de León. I omgivningarna runt Llano de León växer i huvudsak städsegrön lövskog.
Ett varmt stäppklimat råder i trakten. Årsmedeltemperaturen i trakten är °C. Den varmaste månaden är april, då medeltemperaturen är °C, och den kallaste är september, med °C. Genomsnittlig årsnederbörd är millimeter. Den regnigaste månaden är augusti, med i genomsnitt mm nederbörd, och den torraste är mars, med mm nederbörd.
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The American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA) has developed a model bill and regulations to help states ensure the well-being of dogs bred and sold as pets but not protected by the Animal Welfare Act or similar regulations.
The AVMA Executive Board approved the model bill and regulations at its April meeting at AVMA headquarters in Schaumburg, Ill.
The documents were produced,<|fim_middle|>ended for Use as Pets" can be viewed on the AVMA website. Background and context for the bill and regulations are available here. | in part, in response to state veterinary medical associations asking the AVMA for assistance in developing new legislation or deciphering pending legislation aimed at regulating dog breeders and retailers.
Since 2009, more than 100 bills have been introduced in state legislatures addressing the regulation of commercial dog kennels, shelters and animal control facilities. The bills vary widely in terms of who is covered, what is covered and their regulatory rigidity, and some contain exemptions that could undermine their sought-after benefits.
"This is an opportunity for AVMA to display leadership on an emerging animal welfare issue," said Dr. Gail Golab, director of the AVMA Animal Welfare Division. "The model bill and regulations are a comprehensive alternative to some of the less well-considered bills we are seeing around the country."
Dr. Golab said that unlike some proposals, the model bill and regulations don't limit the number of dogs that can be bred or sold, prescribe who can raise or sell dogs, or use arbitrary criteria to tell people how to raise dogs. The focus is on good animal welfare outcomes, while allowing some flexibility in how these might be achieved.
"The basic philosophy underlying the bill is dogs deserve appropriate care, and it doesn't really matter where those dogs are being kept, whether they're in a shelter or a pet shop or a breeding facility," Dr. Golab said.
The "Model Bill and Regulations to Assure Appropriate Care for Dogs Int | 293 |
Elena Izquierdo looks to the future of her music career
3 years ago Tammie R. Brooks
Christian Orellana
Elena Izquierdo poses in front of Loyola. She hopes to release at least three new songs before the end of the semester.
For Elena Izquierdo, a freshman popular music student and singer-songwriter, Loyola may feel very different from the New York concert halls she performed in just a few months ago, but she couldn't not be happier to be here.
"Since being at Loyola, I think I've grown a lot as a writer and as a person," Izquierdo said.
Izquierdo was named the 2020 National YoungArts Foundation Honorable Mention winner in the People's Voice category two years in a row, but that wasn't even close to the start of her music career.
"My father was a singer-songwriter. I grew up surrounded by music. I started playing the piano in kindergarten,"
Izquierdo disliked playing classical piano. She knew early on that she preferred to write her own original work. Moving from piano to musical theater<|fim_middle|> the High Notes of Ted Masog's Music Career – Wadena Pioneer Journal
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The curtain falls on Roberta Flack's colorful music career | to jazz, to working in New York with professional songwriters through the National YoungArts Foundation, Izquierdo always knew she was interested, but performing in New York l most inspired.
"It was the first time I thought maybe I could do this for a career," Iqzuiedo said.
"Where I grew up, there was no one my age trying to do what I was doing,"
Izuierdo said it wasn't easy, because not only did the songwriting work, but also the marketing and planning.
Izquierdo's creative process never stops. She is always on the lookout for new ideas.
"I constantly have to write. It's just about doing it over and over again and getting into the habit of creating even when you're not feeling very inspired," Izquierdo said.
The ideas behind a song for Izquierdo vary a lot, and the ideas usually come at an uneven pace.
"Sometimes I'll be inspired to write this chorus, and I'll have no idea what I want the verses to say. I have no idea what I want the song to be about, and then a week later, I'm going to experience something super minute, but it'll be enough to realize that I want to put this stuff in the chorus, and then everything comes together."
Izquierdo likes to take the small, sometimes unnoticed details of his life and the lives of his friends and use them as starting points to create new material. She believes inspiration can come from anywhere.
"I don't believe writer's block exists. There are always things you can take inspiration from even if it's not obvious to you. I'm trying to keep this momentum going," Izquierdo said.
Everything can be a source of inspiration for Izquierdo, but she likes to focus on certain subjects.
"I talk a lot about my feelings. My songs are very emotional," Izquiredo said.
For Izquierdo, Loyola feels different from the New York music scene. Izquierdo said people in New York were more excited to see his finished products than his work in progress.
"People here are like, 'Oh what are you going to do with this? I want to help.' People here are so supportive and so eager to be involved in my creative process, which I don't I've never known before. They hear that someone is doing something really great and they want to get involved. It's something that I really like to be here.
Izquierdo hopes to release at least three songs before the end of the semester, then begin production on another album this summer.
Tags: music career, music scene, singer songwriter
Previous Hitting | 538 |
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Framed – Australia Wide: Painting comes stretched on a wooden frame and ready to hang. Costs $70 to most metropolitan areas in Australia. If it is going to cost more you will be contacted and it will be up to you whether you want to continue or not.
International – Paintings can only be sent as canvas only to countries other than Australia. They will be sent rolled up in a plastic tube. This costs $50. Some countries cannot be sent to but you will be contacted if this is the case with your order.
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Please note: The painting won't always be exactly the same as the photo you have seen | 179 |
Add a little outdoor adventure to your cultural getaway in the Murrells Inlet and bike or hike the Wacc<|fim_middle|> Coast Greenway, a 3,000-mile trail system being developed along the eastern seaboard from Maine to Florida. | amaw Neck Bikeway, a popular multi-purpose path paralleling U.S. 17 from Murrells Inlet to Huntington Beach State Park.
Although the 12 miles of flat, paved trails built to date are not contiguous, you can ride Share the Road routes between the completed sections of path, allowing you to pedal or walk all the way from Murrells Inlet to Pawleys Island.
"The most beautiful stretch is the part across Huntington Beach State Park," said Linda Ketron, chair of the Bike the Neck committee, the grassroots volunteer group behind the effort to build the bikeway. "You're riding through a maritime forest of pines and oaks and pristine wetlands."
Those looking for a shorter ride can loop back around the three-mile section along the western border of the park for a total of six miles. If you've never been to the park, it's worth paying the modest entrance fee to check out the two-mile Sandpiper Pond Trail to the beach or walk on some of the boardwalks extending into the salt marsh and freshwater lagoon. More than 300 species of birds have been recorded in the 2,500-acre park.
Eventually, the Waccamaw Neck Bikeway will stretch 27 miles from the Horry/Georgetown county line in Murrells Inlet to the bridge connecting Georgetown to Waccamaw Neck. The next section to be completed will link Pawleys Island to Litchfield Beach.
* The north parking lot at the Litchfield Beach & Golf Resort.
* The Food Lion at the South Causeway.
The Waccamaw Neck Bikeway is part of the East | 343 |
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Choosing the Right Approach for Upgrading<|fim_middle|> On-Premise, but it is hosted in the cloud by either SAP's servers or another vendor (e.g., AWS, Microsoft Azure). With the HEC deployment option, companies can leverage the full range of capabilities and functionalities without having to supply the on-site hardware, database, or internal support staff, reducing overall costs. Maintenance is also performed by SAP, or a combination of SAP and a cloud services provider.
Similar to On-Premise, companies have the freedom to edit core code and create custom transactions, ownership over upgrades, support packs, and transports, and full control over third-party vendor support and application options. The only key difference is where the system sits.
While HEC has many advantages, having SAP or another vendor host the system has a drawback. Although companies embracing the HEC edition can choose their third-party vendors, SAP must approve of these vendors first and they are limited by version. Therefore, after each new version is released, vendors must reapply to gain approval from SAP.
Best Fit: Large or medium-sized companies looking for high functionality and customization capabilities, but at a lower cost than On-Premise.
3. Single-Tenant Edition (STE)
Cost: $$ | Customization: ★★ | Control: ★★★
Single Tenant Edition (STE) is an SAP-hosted cloud option, in which a company is the sole tenant of a dedicated cloud infrastructure. Due to some of its more restrictive functionalities and capabilities, STE is often considered a slimmed down version of On-Premise and HEC. Since this option is SAP-hosted, companies do not supply their own hardware, and maintenance is performed by SAP. STE offers companies a cost-effective option because of its standardized approach and limited customization capabilities.
Companies still have full access to all existing standard Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) and can copy and create custom transactions and catalogs. And, while SAP may maintain ownership of the S/4 environment, companies still have the ability to purchase third-party applications to connect to their S/4 systems.
However, when deciding on which implementation option to choose, STE has four key limitations to consider:
There is no access to the traditional SAP GUI login: Access is only available through a web UI, similar to the SAP Fiori portal.
Companies cannot edit existing ABAP transactions or codes: Therefore, core code cannot be edited.
A connector is needed for any tool other than SAP GRC: Companies will have to reach out to their vendors to determine if they have created a connector that will work with STE.
Upgrades must be implemented in a timely manner without exception: SAP releases upgrades every 6 months, and companies are responsible for implementing these within 12 months. Regression testing is also the responsibility of the company.
Best Fit: Small companies with a low user count looking for a fairly standardized approach, but with some customization and functionality capabilities.
4. Multi-Tenant Edition (MTE)
Cost: $ | Customization: ★ | Control: ★★
Multi-Tenant Edition (MTE) is an SAP-hosted and owned cloud option and is considered the simplest of the four approaches. In the MTE option, a company shares the cloud infrastructure with other companies (i.e., tenants) instead of having that dedicated cloud application like in STE. Companies are not responsible for supplying the hardware and maintenance, and regression testing is supported by SAP, making it the most cost-effective solution. MTE provides the ability to group existing modules and create roles from those catalogs. And, while the capabilities and functionalities supported in MTE are limited, access is standardized and streamlined to provide the basic and necessary functions.
However, since various companies have their data stored in the same cloud infrastructure, companies do not have access to any of the ABAP layers beneath the web UI. Companies only have access to an SAP whitelisted set of APIs and are not able to create custom APIs. Companies cannot create or edit custom code or transactions, either. In addition, SAP has strict requirements for upgrades. Upgrades and support packs are released quarterly, and companies are expected to implement these changes within a two-week period. Companies can also only choose from an SAP-approved whitelist for vendors and third-party applications.
Best Fit: Small companies with a low user count looking for a standardized approach with minimal flexibility and functionality capabilities and at a lower cost than STE.
Choosing the Best Fit for Your Company
Whether migrating from an existing ERP solution, or starting fresh, choosing which SAP S/4 HANA implementation approach is right for your company can be a challenging decision. All four deployment options vary by cost, customization, and control, so taking the time to consider all aspects of each option and their implications is crucial. The choice should also involve the expertise and viewpoints from your audit and compliance teams, IT and security personnel, and key business leadership. To learn more about the impact of these four approaches on your security and risk management programs, check out this discussion from our experts:
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After rebuilding their Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) solution, SAP launched S/4 HANA, its fourth-generation business suite to help businesses transform their digital needs. S/4 HANA is the successor to SAP ERP Control Center (ECC) and SAP R/3, delivering more advanced data compression technology, a simplified platform, and a more efficient memory solution. The S/4 HANA platform runs exclusively on the SAP HANA in-memory database architecture, where both on-premise and cloud-hosted implementations are supported.
While many companies have started upgrading their corporate ERP systems to this next-generation solution, choosing the right implementation option for your company's budget, needs, and team can be a challenge.
Let's take a closer look at the four different implementation approaches:
The Four Approaches
1. On-Premise
Cost: $$$$ | Customization: ★★★★ | Control: ★★★★
SAP S/4 HANA On-Premise is considered equivalent to the ECC systems that already exist today. Since this edition is an internal platform (meaning the S/4 HANA systems are hosted on a company's servers), companies are allotted complete control over the architecture of the system. On-Premise offers the highest level of flexibility over customization, which includes the HANA database, applications, and servers. Companies can also edit core code and create custom links and transactions.
Ownership of the On-Premise edition is end-to-end, so companies have full discretion over maintenance and upgrade decisions regarding SAP-released support packs. In addition, companies have the ability to choose any third-party vendor support and application options they would like to connect to their S/4 system - without limitations.
Although On-Premise has the most effective monitoring and configuration options of the four approaches, its increased flexibility and customization comes at the highest price. Not only are there infrastructure and IT operations costs for hosting on an in-house server, companies are responsible for planning, testing, and maintaining yearly SAP system upgrades, support packs, and transports.
Best Fit: Large companies, or those with a disparate organizational structure looking for a full range of features and customization capabilities.
2. HANA Enterprise Cloud (HEC)
Cost: $$$ | Customization: ★★★★ | Control: ★★★
Hanna Enterprise Cloud (HEC) is commonly referred to as ECC in the cloud, offering the greatest customizable abilities of the cloud-based implementation approaches. HEC implementation is similar to that of | 506 |
Diversification is a familiar point of interest<|fim_middle|> — and even Williamson himself —wears a bracelet with the number on it, as a constant reminder to call in those leads.
As one might imagine, a company with as many segments as Moyer Indoor | Outdoor must have a pretty big reach. Williamson says the company spends approximately $250,000 per year on brand marketing efforts, including Little League team sponsorships and other community programs, as well as internet, pay-per-click, radio and newspaper advertising. "We spend a lot on the brand in the community, because we are a community company," he states.
Hence, spring is an especially busy season for Moyer's sales teams, as it's during this time that all of the company's different service vehicles are on the road together. And while customers rarely, if ever, sign up for all services at once, Williamson believes the diversity and size of the business help promote a "spirited core" as well as general brand recognition. Which, of course, leads to additional opportunities. | for heating oil and propane dealers looking to build market share and protect their businesses against competing home service providers. So, it came as no surprise that many seats were filled for the "Extreme Diversification" session presented Tuesday, May 22 in Grand Pequot Ballroom B at the Foxwoods Resort Casino.
Likewise, the presenter, Robert Williamson, general manager of Moyer Indoor | Outdoor, was no stranger to addressing his industry peers about this topic. When asked by one attendee, the owner of a Long Island-based home comfort company, about ways to tap into the expertise of business leaders from adjacent industries, Williamson acknowledged that he finds these opportunities primarily by speaking at trade shows just like this one.
Still, this was no entry-level talk on expanding from heating to air conditioning services, or from HVAC to plumbing and refrigeration. To the contrary, the "extreme" angle comes from the simple fact that Moyer Indoor | Outdoor serves customers in eight different segments: lawn care, tree care, pest control, heating oil, HVAC, plumbing, swimming pools, and home security.
And while the story of this company's expansion touches on several themes that are well known to fuel dealers who've branched out over the years, it also offers a number of surprises … and maybe some valuable lessons about what does and doesn't work in diversification.
It's a tale as old as the industry itself: an established heating oil company expands into propane delivery by acquiring an established propane company, its gallons and customer list. Historically, that's not the way things work at Moyer Indoor | Outdoor, though.
The company, which started as a feed mill in 1869, moved from delivering coal to delivering heating oil around 1950, then naturally progressed into HVAC, plumbing and pool services. Similarly, its fertilizer business, another holdover from the feed mill, grew into lawn care and then tree care.
That doesn't mean that the divisions share technicians or salespeople — quite the opposite actually. Williamson emphasizes that each of the company's departments has its own specialists who work primarily in that division. The pest control segment, for example, includes three certified etymologists.
The only interdepartmental employment occurs between seasonal gigs like heating oil delivery and pool service. In these cases, Williamson says, the transitions help with employee retention — a common challenge for businesses in both sectors.
In any case, specialization applies from the top-down in each department. "If we don't have a manager who gets up in the morning, lives, eats and sleeps that business, it doesn't work," says Williamson.
Indeed, not every attempt at diversification has been a win for Moyer. Businesses that they've tried and eventually shut down include irrigation and TV repair/installation.
Many of these come from the company's online rewards program, which offers outside incentives like Amazon Gift Cards, as well as complimentary Moyer Indoor | Outdoor services from any of the eight departments. The challenge, Williamson relates, has always been in getting customers to choose these services rather than the other rewards. Additionally, customers often lose track of their usernames and passwords.
Because of this, Williamson says, a few months ago Moyer Indoor | Outdoor started calling customers with unused company credits to let them know there were free services available to them. When customers responded positively, or returned the call, a sales rep would point them toward the company's different business channels and help them get there by redeeming the rewards points on the back-end while the customer was still on the phone. It's a new tactic for Moyer Indoor | Outdoor, but one that Williamson thinks shows great promise.
In addition to incentivizing customer loyalty, the company encourages service people in each department to generate leads for multichannel conversions. Moyer Indoor | Outdoor provides $10 for each tip a technician calls in to the company's lead-dedicated phone line, whether or not the lead generates a sale, as long as the tech spoke to the customer about it in advance. In fact, each technician | 816 |
Popular senior centers eye post-COVID, modern approach
By Thomas Goldsmith
North Carolina's senior centers have for decades offered havens of company, support and education for older people but had to adapt most of those roles during the pandemic that hit the over-65 population especially hard.
As the state's more than 160 centers reopen this year with the ongoing COVID-19 disease still a factor, the National Council on Aging is calling on them to bring their offerings and general outreach up to date for this burgeoning population.
The intention is to reach an underserved and diverse group of adults with disabilities, as well as older adults, those who risk or encounter injuries from falls and those with additional diseases that include coronary disease, diabetes and arthritis. The group is also subject to depression, substance abuse and other behavioral illness.
"As our population continues to age, it is critical that we give every person the education and tools they deserve to age with their best possible health," said Ramsey Alwin, NCOA president.
Christie Smith, Davidson County Senior Center manager, said center-goers' preferences once remained fairly constant, but with an age-driven split.
Everybody wants tech
"When I first joined Davidson County Social Services nine years ago, I could clearly see a division in programming based on age groups," Smith said. "Our older population enjoyed the socials and parties, bingo, crafting, et cetera, while our younger seniors wanted exercise groups and technology classes."
Following the pandemic and 15 months of no indoor programming, leaders have seen significant changes in which programs were most popular.
"All ages want social interaction and our older adults, 75 up, are eager to enroll in technology classes," Smith said. "We've offered classes on how to use a tablet as well as Zoom 101, and classes quickly filled."
Davidson County, with centers in Lexington and Thomasville, will continue to offer and expand the more recent preferences going into 2022.
Sandy Pace, head of a state organization of senior centers and director of the Dare County operation, says some of the changes made of necessity during the pandemic are also proving beneficial and a good fit for new generations.
"Through this COVID event, we have reached an audience that we probably weren't reaching before because everything was done in person," said Pace, who leads the North Carolina Senior Center Alliance. "Everything went to vertical programming, every kind of platform you could imagine — Facebook Live, Zoom, Facebook itself, all kinds of ways in which we hadn't engaged them before."
During the pandemic, Dare County filled gaps in in-person services by providing home-delivered meals, drive-thru meals, exercise and craft classes via Facebook Live, Medicare counseling, calls of reassurance, daily trivia events, prescriptions and grocery pickups, and drive-by staff parades. Similar but not identical adjustments went on across the state as leaders surveyed their visitors for preferences.
In Pitt County, the senior center revamped its efforts to support older people, finding the pandemic had made a hard impact.
Months of isolation take toll
"As we opened, the results of months of isolation and inactivity were so obvious," administrators said in a newsletter. "We saw our seniors with slower gaits, increased limited range of motion. Folks were slower to interact socially, and cognitive skills were lacking. But over the last three months, our seniors have returned!"
In the Greenville center, attendees again seeking healthy living have flocked to exercise and balance classes, music therapy, gardening, bowling, craft classes and falls prevention bingo. (Getting a chuckle out of fall-prevention bingo? Check out the grim facts.) Across the state, people were also gratefully returning to activities they might previously have taken for granted.
'Do remember me'
"That was good — we're doing so good!" leader Roxanna Slaughter told her autoharp club participants at the John Robert Kernodle Senior Center in Burlington.
The zinging, singing sounds of old-fashioned, 36-string autoharps filled a room at the well-appointed center as participants concentrated closely on familiar folk songs and holiday tunes.
"We're going to start with 'Do Lord,'" Slaughter said as she corrected an errant piece of sheet music. "The last line in the chorus has a missing chord… there should be a C chord."
Group members said they had really missed getting together during the time of COVID-19. Playing this relatively obscure instrument met one of the guidelines of modernizing senior centers: Pursuing participants' interests wherever they led.
"I'm a charter member," said Bill Mitchell, 68. "I just like socializing and I like being here and I love to sing. I retired my instrument recently and I just come along because I like to sing."
What do seniors want?
Meanwhile, state and federal legislators are supplying millions to home and community-based services, with large pieces of the pie to Meals on Wheels and senior centers, which often work together.
North Carolina's county commissions make choices on specific amounts to different initiatives.
At the federal level, the Agency for Community Living, in cooperation with the National Council on Aging, will shell out $250,000 in the first year of a three-year grant to set up the Modernizing Senior Centers Resource Center.
Kathleen Cameron, senior director of the Center for Healthy Aging at the National Council on Aging, joined Pace in listing some of the directions that centers are taking as they react to the pandemic and the push for modernization.
"We do a lot of educational classes, a lot of trying to keep people safe," Pace said. "We want to get you to the right department or the right agency or the right group of people for whatever it is that you want to do, whether it's related to something as difficult as Medicare and navigating that.
"Just knowing that in your center you're willing to do whatever it takes to help get them whatever service or help that they need, I think that that's a big part of it."
Cameron said that surveying participants often showed that food was their number one priority. That also required some revamping in the face of COVID concerns.
"Most senior centers run some type of meal program," Cameron said. "They made meals available at their sites where people could drive up to pick up meals for themselves and their loved ones. Another great activity was the wellness checks, sometimes just a brief phone conversation, at others part of a full evaluation."
She also said that information technology needs were a constant focus throughout the past two years.
Keeping it young — and old
"It's figuring out, 'How do I get my senior center participants access to technology,' because many of them don't have that," Cameron said. "So, there's working with partners in the community to get them laptops or tablets, and then to train the older adults on how to use those devices."
In addition to modernizing in terms of technology, planners want to see more intergenerational thinking in modern centers.
"We want to figure out ways in which other generations — school-aged kids and people in their 20s can be engaged in some of the work of senior centers," Cameron said. "That's really important not only for the seniors, but also for the younger people to have those interactions with older adults, because there's so much they can learn from the seniors."
'We had to stop'
Back at the Burlington autoharp group, the players struck up a lively "Little Drummer Boy."
"Everything I like to do is involved in music," member Peggy Dyer said. "We had to stop the choir for the masks because we couldn't sing through them for an hour. And right now this is pretty much all we are doing musically."
Bassist Robert Kievit is relied upon to keep the grooves and structure going, Slaughter said. At rehearsal he recommended a pattern as traditional as time:
"Verse chorus, verse chorus," Kievit said.
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<h1>NC's perennially popular senior centers eye post-COVID changes, modernized approaches</h1>
<p class="byline">by Thomas Goldsmith, North Carolina Health News <br />November 30, 2021</p>
<h4 id="h-by-thomas-goldsmith"><strong>By Thomas Goldsmith</strong></h4>
<p>North Carolina's senior centers have for decades offered havens of company, support and education for older people but had to adapt most of those roles during the pandemic that hit the over-65 population especially hard.</p>
<p>As the state's more than 160 <a href="https://www.ncscalliance.com/about">centers reopen</a> this year with the ongoing COVID-19 disease still a factor, the National Council on Aging is calling on them to bring their offerings and general outreach up to date for this burgeoning population. </p>
<p>The intention is to reach an underserved and diverse group of adults with disabilities, as well as older adults, those who risk or encounter injuries from falls and those with additional diseases that include coronary disease, diabetes and arthritis. The group is also subject to depression, substance abuse and other behavioral illness. </p>
<p>"As our population continues to age, it is critical that we give every person the education and tools they deserve to age with their best possible health," said <a href="https://www.ncoa.org/article/ncoa-receives-15-million-in-grants-to-improve-older-adult-health">Ramsey Alwin</a>, NCOA president.</p>
<p>Christie Smith, Davidson County Senior Center manager, said center-goers' preferences once remained fairly constant, but with an age-driven split.</p>
<h4><strong>Everybody wants tech</strong></h4>
<p>"When I first joined Davidson County Social Services nine years ago, I could clearly see a division in programming based on age groups," Smith said. "Our older population enjoyed the socials and parties, bingo, crafting, et cetera, while our younger seniors wanted exercise groups and technology classes."</p>
<p>Following the pandemic and 15 months of no indoor programming, leaders have seen significant changes in which programs were most popular. </p>
<p>"All ages want social interaction and our older adults, 75 up, are eager to enroll in technology classes," Smith said. "We've offered classes on how to use a tablet as well as Zoom 101, and classes quickly filled." </p>
<p>Davidson County, with centers in Lexington and Thomasville, will continue to offer and expand the more recent preferences going into 2022.</p>
<p>Sandy Pace, head of a state organization of senior centers and director of the Dare County operation, says some of the changes made of necessity during the pandemic are also proving beneficial and a good fit for new generations.</p>
<p>"Through this COVID event, we have reached an audience that we probably weren't reaching before because everything was done in person," said Pace, who leads the North Carolina Senior Center Alliance. "Everything went to vertical programming, every kind of platform you could imagine — Facebook Live, Zoom, Facebook itself, all kinds of ways in which we hadn't engaged them before."</p>
<p>During the pandemic, Dare County filled gaps in in-person services by providing home-delivered meals, drive-thru meals, exercise and craft classes via Facebook Live, Medicare counseling, calls of reassurance, daily trivia events, prescriptions and grocery pickups, and drive-by staff parades. Similar but not identical adjustments went on across the state as leaders surveyed their visitors for preferences.</p>
<p>In Pitt County, the senior center revamped its efforts to support older people, finding the pandemic had made a hard impact.</p>
<h4>Months of isolation take toll</h4>
<p>"As we opened, the results of months of isolation and inactivity were so obvious," administrators said in a <a href="https://www.pittcoa.com/wp-content/uploads/November-2021.pdf">newsletter</a>. "We saw our seniors with slower gaits, increased limited range of motion. Folks were slower to interact socially, and cognitive skills were lacking. But over the last three months, our seniors have returned!"</p>
<p>In the Greenville center, attendees again seeking healthy living have flocked to exercise and balance classes, music therapy, gardening, bowling, craft classes and falls prevention bingo. (Getting a chuckle out of fall-prevention bingo? Check out the <a href="https://www.injuryfreenc.ncdhhs.gov/DataSurveillance/Falls-SER-NC-2016-FINAL.pdf">grim facts</a>.) Across the state, people were also gratefully returning to activities they might previously have taken for granted.</p>
<h4><strong>'Do remember me'</strong></h4>
<p>"That was good — we're doing so good!" leader Roxanna Slaughter told her autoharp club participants at the John Robert Kernodle Senior Center in Burlington. </<|fim_middle|> zinging, singing sounds of old-fashioned, 36-string autoharps filled a room at the well-appointed center as participants concentrated closely on familiar folk songs and holiday tunes. </p>
<p>"We're going to start with 'Do Lord,'" Slaughter said as she corrected an errant piece of sheet music. "The last line in the chorus has a missing chord… there should be a C chord." </p>
<p>Group members said they had really missed getting together during the time of COVID-19. Playing this relatively obscure instrument met one of the guidelines of modernizing senior centers: Pursuing participants' interests wherever they led.</p>
<p>"I'm a charter member," said Bill Mitchell, 68. "I just like socializing and I like being here and I love to sing. I retired my instrument recently and I just come along because I like to sing."</p>
<h4><strong>What do seniors want?</strong></h4>
<p>Meanwhile, state and federal legislators are supplying millions to home and community-based services, with large pieces of the pie to Meals on Wheels and senior centers, which often work together. </p>
<p>North Carolina's county commissions make choices on specific amounts to different initiatives. </p>
<div class="wp-block-group has-secondary-background-color has-background"> </div>
<p>At the federal level, the Agency for Community Living, in cooperation with the National Council on Aging, will shell out $250,000 in the first year of a three-year grant to set up the Modernizing Senior Centers Resource Center. </p>
<p>Kathleen Cameron, senior director of the <a href="https://www.ncoa.org/professionals/health/center-for-healthy-aging">Center for Healthy Aging</a> at the National Council on Aging, joined Pace in listing some of the directions that centers are taking as they react to the pandemic and the push for modernization.</p>
<p>"We do a lot of educational classes, a lot of trying to keep people safe," Pace said. "We want to get you to the right department or the right agency or the right group of people for whatever it is that you want to do, whether it's related to something as difficult as Medicare and navigating that. </p>
<p>"Just knowing that in your center you're willing to do whatever it takes to help get them whatever service or help that they need, I think that that's a big part of it."</p>
<p>Cameron said that surveying participants often showed that food was their number one priority. That also required some revamping in the face of COVID concerns.</p>
<p>"Most senior centers run some type of meal program," Cameron said. "They made meals available at their sites where people could drive up to pick up meals for themselves and their loved ones. Another great activity was the wellness checks, sometimes just a brief phone conversation, at others part of a full evaluation."</p>
<p>She also said that information technology needs were a constant focus throughout the past two years.</p>
<h4><strong>Keeping it young — and old</strong></h4>
<p>"It's figuring out, 'How do I get my senior center participants access to technology,' because many of them don't have that," Cameron said. "So, there's working with partners in the community to get them laptops or tablets, and then to train the older adults on how to use those devices." </p>
<p>In addition to modernizing in terms of technology, planners want to see more intergenerational thinking in modern centers.</p>
<p>"We want to figure out ways in which other generations — school-aged kids and people in their 20s can be engaged in some of the work of senior centers," Cameron said. "That's really important not only for the seniors, but also for the younger people to have those interactions with older adults, because there's so much they can learn from the seniors."</p>
<h4><strong>'We had to stop'</strong> </h4>
<p>Back at the Burlington autoharp group, the players struck up a lively "Little Drummer Boy."</p>
<p>"Everything I like to do is involved in music," member Peggy Dyer said. "We had to stop the choir for the masks because we couldn't sing through them for an hour. And right now this is pretty much all we are doing musically."</p>
<p>Bassist Robert Kievit is relied upon to keep the grooves and structure going, Slaughter said. At rehearsal he recommended a pattern as traditional as time:</p>
<p>"Verse chorus, verse chorus," Kievit said. </p>
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Thursday, Feb. 5: 38 percent Based on Douglas Faneuil's survival of another day of cross-examination, Martha Stewart's chances of conviction rise from 28 percent to 38 percent.
David Apfel, Peter Bacanovic's attorney, whose gratuitously rude cross-examination of Douglas Faneuil made the courtroom root for Faneuil on Wednesday, rolled out a kinder, gentler version of himself on Thursday. As he resumed the cross-examination, Apfel was less strident and occasionally even polite. Seven hours later<|fim_middle|>., and, instead, made a few reckless absolute assertions. As Apfel suggested, some of these might have constituted minor discrepancies with prior assertions ("might" because the discrepancies were so minor that one was never sure whether the statements were different or the notes of earlier statements were wrong). One of Apfel's biggest scores came when, for the umpteenth time, he asked Faneuil to admit that his story had evolved, and Faneuil conceded that "My recollections have changed a bit." Amazingly, however, Faneuil escaped disaster.
If Apfel successfully demonstrated that Faneuil's memory is human, however, he failed to demonstrate that Faneuil was lying. Faneuil isn't out of the woods yet, of course: On Monday, moreover, he will have to face Bob Morvillo—a Bob Morvillo who has no doubt learned from David Apfel's experience. Bob Morvillo, furthermore, may take up two lines of attack that Apfel ignored. The first, which might be called "The Fantasy Life of Douglas Faneuil," would argue that Faneuil simply misperceived what Bacanovic was telling him and then, as the tension increased, developed an ever-more-fantastic conspiracy-theory view of his world. The second would be that Faneuil's "grudge" is not against Stewart but Bacanovic (the bad blood here has, at times, seemed more intense than might be expected, at least from Faneuil's side). If Morvillo doesn't find a weakness that Apfel missed, though, Faneuil's performance may force Peter Bacanovic to testify in his own defense. | , when the session adjourned, Faneuil still won, but this time Apfel's relentless, grinding, and (somewhat) civil attack did, eventually, score some points. It also established thousands of facts, any one of which Faneuil might trip over later.
Apfel began by resuming the prior day's themes: Faneuil has motives to lie, and his "story" has "evolved" so much over the last two years that he is either lying or unreliable. According to Apfel, Faneuil's motives include his future sentencing hearing; his misdemeanor wrist-slap for serving up his boss and Martha Stewart; his grudge against Stewart for treating him like a pack animal; and his desire to avoid prosecution on drug charges. That these motives exist is probable. That they exist, however, doesn't mean that Faneuil acted on them (just as Stewart and Bacanovic may not have acted on the motives that the government trumpets as evidence of their alleged crimes).
Apfel first reminded the jury that no one had ever explicitly asked Faneuil to lie. As on Wednesday, however, Faneuil undermined this effort by asserting that the message was communicated implicitly.
Q: Peter Bacanovic never specifically told you what to say and what not to say, did he?A: I would not agree with that.Q: He didn't tell you to lie?A: Not explicitly.Q: When you spoke to the SEC in January, Peter Bacanovic did not say, 'This is what you should say.'A: Right.Q: But your testimony is that he somehow intimidated you.A: I understood what Peter was telling me. [Note: italicized testimony is paraphrased].
Apfel then hammered away at Faneuil's view that the gifts he received from Peter Bacanovic were "consideration for not informing" (the wording in his plea agreement) but that the similar gifts from Merrill administrator Judy Monaghan weren't. Judy Monaghan didn't know the truth about Dec. 27, Faneuil said. When Apfel argued that Faneuil's testimony about why he lied ("I was afraid") contradicted his plea agreement (money and other bribes), Faneuil reiterated that he hadn't lied for the money. Apfel pounced on this—contradiction!—but Faneuil explained that he had signed off on the agreement's language because he regarded the airline tickets and vacation as rewards, not bribes, and had looked up "consideration" in the dictionary and found that, in a legal sense, it meant "reward or other recompense." Later, with Apfel railing that Faneuil's March raise had nothing to do with his lies, Faneuil agreed (an ostensibly helpful point for the defense—the timing of the raise looked suspicious). He added, however, that "I felt I would be fired if I didn't keep silent." One of the truths that the cross examination elicited, in other words—a truth that is not helpful to the defense—is that Faneuil's stated motive for his "failure to inform" is more plausible than the motives in the plea agreement (airline tickets and vacation days).
Next came the e-mails: Faneuil bitching to friends about Stewart's phone manner.
"I have never, ever been treated more rudely by a stranger on the telephone. She actually hung up on me." "Martha yelled at me again today, but I snapped in her face, and she actually backed off. Baby put Ms. Martha in her place!!!" Apfel used these e-mails to suggest, as Richard Strassberg had in his opening argument, that Faneuil was "fixated" on Martha Stewart. The e-mails didn't make him sound "fixated," though. They made him sound unprofessional (Faneuil isn't the first of the online generation to learn that e-mail is as convenient and dangerous as crack). They also made him sound like he was blowing off steam.
Finally, late in the afternoon, Apfel recaptured some ground. After a full day of "cross," Faneuil hadn't been so much as scratched, but hours of fending off a lawyer as smart as Apfel eventually goes to one's head. Gradually, Faneuil lost his humble underdog demeanor and, at times, appeared almost smug. The late afternoon is one of the most dangerous times for a witness: The combination of exhaustion and overconfidence breeds complacency, and, in the hand-to-hand combat that is cross examination, complacency can be fatal.
For the last hour of the day, Apfel returned to comparing Faneuil's prior statements with his current testimony. Apfel was relentless (more than a dozen times, the judge ordered him to stop repeating himself and "move on"), and eventually Faneuil let his impatience show. Testifying is like playing defense in sudden-death overtime—if the attacker scores, you lose—so one slip would have been the end of him. The tension increased when Faneuil occasionally abandoned his earlier practice of qualifying answers with "As I recall … ," "I believe that … ," "I don't remember using those words exactly … ," etc | 1,069 |
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Chris Lofting and Travis Cluff (INTERVIEW)
Chris Lofting and Travis Cluff are no novices to horror. Their standout breakthrough THE GALLOWS quickly garnered a sequel and now they return with home invasion thriller HELD but this is no by-the-book movie as they go on to explain.
So guys, thank you very much for joining us at BloodGuts to talk about your new film HELD and having just watched it have to say, it's a fantastically original new horror film for audience to enjoy. So, first of all, just to say a huge well done in actually bringing some originality into the genre.
Chris:
Thank you very much. I think every filmmaker strives for that and we definitely strive for that. But it is hard when you know like you know it didn't Ed Sheeran. Just say hey man, he just won this case and you got to give us a break because there's only 12 notes, you know, we're all gonna run into the same, you know, progressions from time to time.
The same thing with films, you know, they say Hollywood or studios are good at making at remaking, the same old stuff essentially and we try to shake it up now pretty easy to fantastically do a job of doing that.
I read many years ago, Shakespeare pretty much nailed everything but having watched many, many horror films, I think there's always room for something more. How did HELD come about, I'll talk a bit more about the some spoiler-free plot points, but how did that journey begin?
Like the idea of how come about it is pretty interesting, actually, kind of a lucky happening. We, well, Travis had actually noticed someone right outside our window here.
Outside our, in our neighbourhood walking their dog. Someone he didn't recognize thought it was a new neighbour, perhaps, just trying to be friendly. And so I just went up and said, hi, are we neighbours and turns out? She was visiting her sister who is our neighbor, but she was visiting from LA and she's an actress, and she was like, oh, I'm an actress in LA just visiting my sister like, oh cool.
What do you do? And you know, what have you been in? And she's like, how about you? I said, well, I produce and direct and right films with my business partner, Chris here, and which is actually a little bit more rare where we are. We're not in Los Angeles. We're kind of outside of that area, so running into people who are doing movie stuff, is pretty rare. Yeah, it's ever happens anyway. We're in Central California. So that was odd and I thought, well, that's interesting, and she said she'd been wanting to write some things and she directed a short film.
And I said, well, I'd love to see it and see if there's any collab and we could do. And and from there, we spend about eight months, I'd say developing this idea and the script with Jill and and it came to a point where like, all right let's let's go for it.
And you mentioned there, obviously Jill who obviously she's pretty much the main part within HELD and does a fantastic job of portraying that marriage counselling session. An extreme marriage counseling.
Travis:
That's right, that's right. Jigsaws marriage
Yeah, that should be the tag line now. That's fantastic. So yeah, I mean obviously the film does delve into certain kind of some grounded real issues on that broken down marriage, is there any further inspiration that came?
You know, that inspired that kind of plot point for this. Well, at the time when Jill started developing kind of the core idea, the heart, the all the Harvey Weinstein stuff was really starting to come out and it was really, you know, in the news all the time. And and so I think she drew a lot of inspiration from that as well as her own past trauma that she's she's talked about and friends and just people she's worth in the industry, you know, support groups and other women filmmakers. And so she just, she had a pretty good arsenal of experiences to kind of draw from in this. And really, really tried to portray that on screen as best she could, in an honest way and it meant a lot to her to Jill and to us as well at, as,<|fim_middle|>, you know, moving towards that. And so when people say, oh, did you expect that? It's kind of like it's interesting because we did but didn't realize how how difficult it was To get to something like that because we were so we were believing in it so much and putting all our work and effort into it so much.
That is we're gonna make this happen, it's gonna manifest and and it did so it's it's like it is amazing and we're like, oh my gosh, we can't believe it, it's so great. We would wish it upon anyone. We we stand by today that it was that thought process, though.
In that naivety, if you want to call that, that really let us to that though. Like, yeah, we didn't believe that it was possible. It might not have been, you know, so I think that we kind of manifested it in a way just yeah, by pure, you know, belief really.
Yeah. He didn't have any connections and so it was neat to be able to then just one step after the next not knowing the road, just knowing what we wanted to do. And then all the sudden, hey, we leave the line. We got these management {then) we got Blumhouse taking a lookand New Line and Warner Brothers.
The great people over there and then great test screenings. And then, all these things aligned that didn't normally and haven't normally aligned. So it was, it was great to see that. Come about, that's suppose, it's that firm belief in your own work, that you pretty much lets the the content speak for itself and hopefully HELD.
In terms of the gallows, obviously spawned a sequel, do you see a bigger world for the world of HELD and the the organization that's sinisterly behind the story, right?
Yeah. We've definitely thought about that and and wondered you know, without getting too spoilery, if certain people survive the outcome of the film and what would happen from there and how much bigger is this world that you're talking about?
Yeah or what are the other factions out there in? What other countries that have applied the same system technique? Yes of counseling. Yeah. We've wondered about that. Does that mean there's a sequel? I don't know. But there's definitely some interesting stories. Yeah, there's good pathways. You could take yeah for that.
It's good to hear. I think the certainly an avenue of opportunity there fully I'm suppose here in terms of you guys and so what is next? What can we look forward to after held?
Well, we our company is tremendous pictures and we have been developing a slate fund for Tremendum to be able to produce several more films. Many of them in the horror genre, but also many that are that are a little bit more, action-adventure oriented as well. We like films of all shapes and sizes, so we want to delve into all the different avenues in genres. We have actually recently shot a pilot episode for a streaming series that we'd like to do, and that has turned out really great as an action comedy.
So we're excited about all the different worlds and places that we can play with. But we do have a slate of films and some excellent filmmakers that we plan on working with and talent that we plan on working with to to get those made and out into the world for you guys to, to view and see.
Thank you very much for taking the time to speak to us today and look forward to the release of HELD in the coming weeks over in the UK. So wish you all the success with that. Thank you very much for your time.
Chris and Travis:
Awesome. Thank you man, you too. Thanks.
HELD is released through Bulldog Film on 25th April 2022. | as the directors of this, which he kind of handed this material off, you know?
And if you go even deeper than that, you know, she feels and like many particularly women. Feel like they aren't really given a shot. You know what I mean? Like we've talked to other producers and it's like, you know, they're more into like finding that name that big name of, you know, who's like the Michelle Pfeiffer's or the you know, these big name women to be and things.
It's like you know what? We wanted to put our money where our mouth was to give a shot to a new upcoming people and let them have a voice too. Not just because there's some big celebrity they already but to maybe give them a shot as we were given a shot with some of our original films.
You know the gallows that kind of helped to get us into the business. Yeah, Holy You touch on the gallows there and obviously that was your breakout film and one of blonde house you know pictures who most horror people will know, it's pretty much the staple at the moment for horror films and has been for some time.
It did you did you expect the success that THE GALLOWS got?
It's interesting. It's an interesting question because at the time when we created the Gallows, we were very young naive and and just like so we had so much go get, you know, like go do this right, you know, and and you know the whole, you know, you could, you could reference the secret, you could reference vision boards and things like that.
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This guide is for people who built JellyBOX in the past and now they're upgrading. If you are building a new JellyBOX from scratch, please follow a regular build guide.
Do NOT use the 'back arrow in the upper left corner' from the guides. You will end up in a central guide repository with no outline or hierarchy. You will be lost. If so, just come back here!
First, we'll prepare the heated bed build plate. It's the heart of the upgrade.
Next, we'll have to get our electronics ready for to power our heated bed.
Let's incorporate our heated bed into our JellyBOX.
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PLOT: A fisheries expert (McGregor) is hired by a consultant (Blunt) to help a sheikh (Waked) realize his dream of being able to fish for salmon in the desert.
WHO'S IT FOR?: Like your romances light and international? And maybe with a few dashes of human spirit sprinkled throughout? This unique dish could be a nice treat for your taste.
EXPECTATIONS: Before sitting down for this one having barely remembered a preview, I can absolutely admit that the title created some large skepticism; was the name of this movie meant to be a marketing prank? Or perhaps, a test for publicists? At the same time, I was curious as to whether the charismatic McGregor and Blunt could somehow pull this one off. And in general, perhaps a movie titled Salmon Fishing in the Yemen wouldn't be as blandly silly as it might seem?
BEST SCENE: Maybe something was in the water, but when Blunt shyly asks McGregor, "Do you need an assistant?" towards the end, I could feel my inner-romantic heavily swooning. Of course, I had been buttered up by the ups and downs from the film's previous events.
ENDING: Some might find it to be a little corny or hunky dory, but it's a nice resolve to an exhaustive premise. These final moments (which I suppose should be expected) test the saccharine waters of this movie. That being said, I bought it this time.
QUESTIONS: Were there any earlier versions of this movie's casting? Who could have pulled this one off like McGregor and Bl<|fim_middle|> | unt? And of course, was the movie itself a hard sell, just as the film's center salmon concept?
REWATCHABILITY: There isn't anything that demands an immediate re-viewing of this movie, but it's so light and good-spirited that a second viewing doesn't sound unproductive in the least. Plus, who wouldn't want to look at McGregor and Blunt together for a second time?
This is a light romance that works because of its actors. Were McGregor and Blunt not so capable of making their hardworking characters so endearing, this would be a forgettable piece of whimsy, especially with its ridiculous concept. But the important aspect of the swift moving Salmon Fishing in the Yemen is that it sells you on its title scenario, and of the strange relationship that blooms between two stiffs. It even convinces you that maybe this dry movie title does have some vibrancy after all. | 185 |
Black and Greens Handed Golden Opportunity to Exact Welsh Cup Revenge
Aberystwyth Town FC have been handed a Golden Opportunity to exact revenge for their Welsh Cup Final defeat to The New Saints in May 2014 after the sides were drawn together in yesterday's JD Welsh Cup Third Round Draw.
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TNS have been drawn at home in this season's tie and the Black and Greens are thrilled to be involved in a game which surely has to be billed as the Tie of the Round, featuring two of last season's Top Four in the Dafabet WPL. The Match will be played over the weekend of December 5th, ironically one week before Aber visit TNS for a Dafabet WPL Match! | in Wrexham two seasons ago, when two goals from Chris Venables put Aber within reach of the Trophy, but a late comeback from the Saints ensured they grabbed the glory and the Cup with a narrow 3-2 win, | 47 |
Things to Do in Denver When You're Braindead: An AWP Retrospective
By Steve Almond
1. Award George Saunders the Nobel Prize in Decency
Have you ever met a single reader or writer who does not worship George Saunders? You have not. You have not because George Saunders represents everything writers should be. I'm not talking about his prose here. That speaks for itself. I'm talking about the way the guy conducts himself. I'm talking about his humility and his genuine concern for the feelings of those around him. See, a lot of what happens at AWP (though it doesn't get talked about much) is that younger writers are watching more established writers for clues as to how they should behave. Should they hold court loudly in the bar area? Should they look down upon the rabble from the feeble ramparts of literary fame? Should they drink to excess and grope the nubile acolytes? Or should they take seriously the influence they now wield. It's certainly true that writers owe us nothing more than their stories. Faulkner neglected his children, Mailer stabbed his wife, and so on and so forth. But it is a delight to encounter a writer who lives up to ideals set forth in his work. And an example.
2. Flirt with Other Married People
Why not? It's not against the law. You are happily married. You love your husband, your wife, your dear Significant O. And yet here you are, in the swirl of this annual mania, this sad, lovely space where Mid-List Authors Come to Feel Like Rock Stars, and who should sashay toward you in the half-lit corporate bar but the one and only Michelle Richmond, smiling, tipsy, above all sexy and prepared to ratify your notions about her dress, which reveals her fine white shoulders. As a reminder: you are happily married. So is Michelle. So is your comrade Dr. D. But none of this stops any of you from engaging in shameless Married People Banter. At one point, Dr. D shows Michelle a photo of his darling child and Michelle, in her balmy Alabama accent (dainty hand set daintily upon chest) announces that her milk has just let down. She will now be lactating for our benefit. So it goes for another, say, fifteen delicious – and harmless! – minutes. (The harmlessness being emphasized here because Michelle Richmond is married to an FBI agent, a man who owns guns and possibly cuffs.) Soon Michelle will be dragged off to a burlesque event and Dr. D, still aglow from her radiance, will confess to me that, despite being incredibly happily married, he has a major crush on Michelle's dimples. "I want to lick the inside of those dimples," he observes quietly. "I want to perform dimplelingus on her." Amen, brother.
3. Tell Stories About Nightmare Readings/Panels
You wish this didn't happen. You wish we didn't make such judgments. But AWP is, at the end of the day, and the beginning, a trade show, the wares on offer being the eloquence of our selves in those tense sacred moments under the lights. And if you put yourself up for such inspection, well then you must live with the consequences. It's impossible to do something this difficult, on a cultural margin this thin and crowded, without exciting grievance. So fine: do what you need to do. Get it out of your system, buddy. But for God's sakes keep your voice down.
4. Submit to the Brownian Movement of Social Anxiety
Because we're all so terrifically nervous and unaccustomed to this kind of stimulation and because there seem to be so many people around, literary acquaintances illuminated by the familiarity of a chance meeting some years ago, wherever it was, and we take this to be our job for the weekend, to be social creatures, to scan the room for nodes of power and intrigue, to make the chatter expected of us, to figure out where we go next and with whom, to keep the party rolling, to keep at bay the realization that this is all just a sweet, foolish charade, a fleeting return to the pleasures and disappointments of high school.
5. Lament
So many booths in the Grand Hall, where they hold the book fair. So many little snacks set out just so – Lifesavers, lollipops, chocolate kisses – the heartbreaking enticements of the failing enterprise. So many authors sitting behind tables waiting to sign books that nobody wants (I am one of them), all of us Willie Lomans, all of us telling the story of what could be, what should be, the American story. So many reminders of the smallness of our pursuit. And so many younger folk, marooned in these empty booths, hunched over their tiny glowing screens, their crabbed thumbs issuing frantic pleas on a keyboard the size of an hor d'oeurves. What are they typing? Help! Get me out of here! I didn't sign up for this!
6. Rejoice
Because for God's sake, you've run across Tod Goldberg, perhaps the funniest person your wife has ever met. He's on the outskirts of the Grand Hall, looking (like all great promoters) utterly unconcerned with the business of promotion. He's here to pimp the MFA program he now runs, by some small and perilous miracle of bureaucratic non-oversight. Goldberg with his tight golf shirts with his wide grin and boundless LA confidence. He could sell a tanning bed to an albino. He could sell integrity to a Republican. He once made you eat various forms of pork, in Las Vegas, at one of the Casino buffets. It felt like the first seating at the Apocalypse. Then he took pictures. Only Goldberg didn't convince you. He let you convince yourself. He should be in the movies. He should be telling Mel Gibson what to eat for lunch. Instead, he sits back and talks about eating pussy, while one of his students sits on the carpet behind him, rolling her eyes with bottomless patience.
7. Trip Out on the Strangeness of Denver Itself
This city with its fancy, barren downtown and its endless highways. This is the loveable West, the way they drew it up all those years ago. But it all feels too new, too sprawling and imposed, and you can't help feeling slightly corrupt (or perhaps party<|fim_middle|>. She hates meeting people. Her complaints are boring. Dr. D (that gentle soul, that inveterate reader) wants to set a hand on her arm, wants to say something to her, about the need to move past complaint, into the true grief of her circumstance. But she's committed to this exhibition of sorrow. There's nothing he can do but hope she finds her way out of blindness. This is what it is to be a reader.
It's nearly impossible. Your system isn't built for this. Your needs have gone soft. You miss your children. Your son's tiny mouth, the smell of his breath. You miss your wife. It's three am. Then four. He's probably getting up now. Standing at the railing of his crib, looking for you.
10. Remember that You're Still Lonely
So this is how it ends each year: the tribe disperses, taxi by shuttle by rental car, dispatched giddy and hollow-eyed to its precincts of origin, to Fresno and Palm Beach and Denton, Texas. Farewell, everyone says. Farewell. See you next year! Your luggage is filled with business cards and magazines, little monuments of hope. The airport feels giant and barren. The light beats down upon the merciless retail placards. And you know what's waiting for you at the end of the line, that panic room where you're supposed to create more things, just you and whatever you've been hiding from, the terror you convert to drudgery. It makes you miss how it was just a few hours before, all the pointless chatter and sloppy plans, the buzzing lobbies, the desperate pretending that we're ever anything other than animals in search of love.
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Enough: Three Poems | to a larger corruption) as you gaze out at the snow-capped girdle of mountains rising in all directions like a beer ad.
8. Consider Intervention
The young woman – let's call her Stacy – winds up on a bad trip. She's loud and miserable, a poet in cowboy boots. She doesn't want your attention. She wants her father's attention. But he hasn't called and today is her 24th birthday. She says this over and over, to whoever will listen. Dr. D buys her a cupcake, but it doesn't help. She hates traveling | 121 |
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Russell Westbrook learns how he might look with a Harden beard
After 11 seasons in Oklahoma City, Russell Westbrook is still adjusting to hearing himself introduced as a Houston Rockets guard.
In an appearance Tuesday night on NBC's The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, the comedian identified Westbrook for the segment as a point guard with the Rockets. Westbrook responded:
It's kind of different, hearing you say 'Welcome starting point guard for the Houston Rockets'… It's kind of weird for me, for the first time. But it's exciting, and I'm happy.
Now 30 years old, the 6<|fim_middle|> his thoughts (or lack thereof) regarding his player rating in the new NBA 2K20 video game.
The complete interview can be watched below.
Chris Bosh: 'Two MVPs' of Harden, Westbrook should work in Houston
Daryl Morey confident about fit of Harden, Westbrook with Rockets
Russell Westbrook is ready to win a title with the Rockets | -foot-3 Westbrook averaged 22.9 points, 11.1 rebounds, and 10.7 assists per game last season with the Thunder before his July trade to the Rockets.
The wide-ranging interview, which also focused on Westbrook's charity and fashion interests, naturally included its share of light-hearted moments. In the context of the Rockets, one of those moments came when Fallon asked if Westbrook would ever grow a beard like his current teammate James Harden.
"See, this is the problem," Westbrook responded with a smile. "I've never shaved in my life, so what I got is what I got. That's it. … I've been growing this for about… 30 years."
From there, Fallon unveiled a mockup photo of what it might look like if Westbrook had a beard like Harden.
Jimmy shows @russwest44 what he would look like with new teammate James Harden's signature beard #FallonTonight pic.twitter.com/ZuJHpVueXe
— Fallon Tonight (@FallonTonight) September 11, 2019
"It ain't bad," Westbrook responded with a laugh while stroking his chin. "See, look at that. It's not bad. If only I could grow it."
In addition to charity and fashion, other topics addressed by Westbrook to Fallon included his recent wedding anniversary, his pregame NBA dance routines, and | 286 |
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Gruden enters pivotal fifth year in Washington with sense of urgency
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After missing the playoffs in each of the last two seasons, Redskins head coach Jay Gruden can't afford a slow start in his fifth year on the job.
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Are the Redskins heading into 2018 under the radar a bit?
"Yeah, probably," head coach Jay Gruden said. "But, that's where we should be, really. We were 7-9 last year and 1-5 in our division. There's no reason why we should be on the radar. It's our job to put<|fim_middle|> on punts.
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If there was ever a must-win game in Week 1, the Burgundy and Gold are looking at it. It's no secret that Jay Gruden hasn't won an opener since he's been in Washington (0-4) and he's entering his fifth year while coming off back-to-back non-playoff seasons. This is a big year for the head coach.
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The Redskins face a Cardinals team coming off an 8-8 season with a new coaching staff to start the season, then play another winnable game in Week 2 against Indianapolis. After that, the schedule gets a lot tougher beginning with the Packers and then the Saints after the bye week.
If this team starts slow, the talk will be about the preparation in the preseason and the lack of playing time for the starters. Gruden stuck to his plan of not playing running back Chris Thompson and tight end Jordan Reed at all this preseason as they continue to rehab from season-ending injuries a year ago.
Quarterback Alex Smith saw very limited action, throwing only 14 passes and completing seven of them. Is that a big enough sample size to get ready for the regular season?
"We have no choice," Smith said. "Only time will tell, but I feel ready."
Trent Williams underwent surgery on his knee in the offseason and saw limited action with the starters this summer. Wideout Jamison Crowder was nicked up most of camp and saw limited action as well.
"My whole goal is to get our starting group to Arizona healthy," Gruden said. "I think we've done that."
The addition of Paul Richardson Jr. at wide receiver gives Smith a deep threat, and the late signing of 33-year-old, former league MVP Adrian Peterson two weeks ago gives the running game a jolt.
We still don't know how much Peterson has left at 33, but after the season-ending injury to rookie Derrius Guice, the coaching staff felt like it needed to add a running back to start the year. Last year's starter Rob Kelley and second-year back Samaje Perine are still on the roster and provide some depth.
This is the one facet of the game that needs to improve if the Redskins are going to have success this year. They ranked 28th in the league a year ago, averaging just 90 yards a game on the ground and 3.6 yards per carry.
As far as this year's team is concerned, Williams acknowledges that this could be the best team he's played on in D.C.
"You can make that argument," he said. "But, no game is won on paper. I don't feel like we have anything to prove. It's a brand-new team."
We still don't know what this offense will look like with all 11 players on the field at the same time.
What will Peterson look like running behind a healthy offensive line? Will Chris Thompson return to his MVP form from a year ago? Will third-year wideout Josh Doctson have a breakout year, now that injuries are behind him? How will Alex Smith attack defenses with his new weapons?
On the defensive side of the football, there is nowhere to go but up, especially against the run. The Redskins ranked dead last in the NFL, giving up 134 yards per game on the ground in 2017. A lot of that had to do with injuries along the line, most notably losing rookie Jonathan Allen to a season-ending Lisfranc injury in October.
This year, they drafted Allen's former Alabama teammate Daron Payne. With the return of Allen and the emergence of Matt Ioannidis, they should be greatly improved at stopping the run.
Preston Smith and Ryan Kerrigan along with Mason Foster and Zach Brown will be counted on to help the front three stop the run and get after the quarterback.
The weak spot on defense will be the secondary, which is very young. After veterans Josh Norman and D.J. Swearinger, the Redskins will be counting on second-year players Fabian Moreau and Montae Nicholson along with Quinton Dunbar. Dunbar is a converted wide receiver and hasn't had much time at corner in his career.
In the specialist category, there has been no turnover. Kicker Dustin Hopkins coming is off a solid year in which he connected on 14 of 17 field goals and missed just one extra point.
Tress Way returns as the punter after averaging nearly 46 yards/punt last year, putting 33 of them inside the 20.
Jamison Crowder will get another chance to return punts and undrafted cornerback Danny Johnson, along with rookie Greg Stroman, will return kicks and backup Crowder | 998 |
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Top 10 Fireworks Manufacturers in the World | The Ultimate Guide to Buying Fireworks for Every Occasion
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Festivals and celebrations play an important role in our social lives, connecting us with our true culture and traditions. But, no festival or celebration is ever really complete without spectacular fireworks lighting up the skies. Fireworks and special occasions like New Year's Eve and the Fourth of July go hand in hand, and this dazzling display of colorful lights and sounds marks the true essence of a celebration.
Fireworks, also referred to as pyrotechnics, are low explosives containing combustible chemicals and substances such as gunpowder that cause spectacular explosions and aesthetic effects when ignited. Fireworks are designed to burn with vividly colored sparks and flames, and the primary<|fim_middle|> the largest fireworks shows across the United States and several other countries each year. The company signed a partnership deal with the leading fireworks training & recruitment company Pyrotechnic Innovations in 2013 to develop an operator recruitment and training program.
Standard Fireworks
Headquartered at Sivakasi in Tamil Nadu, Standard Fireworks is a recognized fireworks manufacturer in India. The company manufactures premium-quality firecrackers, safety matches, and other fireworks. Founded in 1942 by N. R. K. Rajarathnam, Standard Fireworks initially manufactured match sticks and later tapped into fireworks production. The company has collaborations with many leading fireworks manufacturers in China and reports a 45% market share in India.
Liuyang Global Supply Chain Service Co. Ltd.
Located in Liuyang, Hunan, Liuyang Global Supply Chain Service Co. Ltd. is one of the most renowned manufacturers of pyrotechnics in China. The company was established in 2001 and is known for its wide-ranging product line including premium firecrackers, fireworks toys & novelty, and Roman candles. The company registers an annual revenue of USD 2.5 million to USD 5 million.
Giant Dragon Fireworks Co. Ltd.
Established in 1998, Giant Dragon Fireworks Company Limited went on to become one of the leading manufacturers of fireworks in China. Located in Hunan, the company predominantly manufactures fireworks and also has major presence in Europe and South America. Giant Dragon's extensive product portfolio comprises high-quality firecrackers, Roman candles, cakes, artillery shells, fountains, etc. The company is currently focused on developing eco-friendly products such as smokeless and sulfur-free firecrackers.
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Our Report contains information and components that are out of the league of competitors | effects they produce are light, sound, smoke, and floating materials such as confetti. Fireworks were first invented in China during the reign of the Song dynasty and accompanied many festivals and celebrations including the Chinese New Year and the Moon Festival. The trend became quite popular in Europe and other parts of the world by the 14th century, and fireworks are now part of nearly every occasion celebrated across the globe. Skyrockets, sparklers, smoke bombs, ground spinners, Roman candles, flying fish, fountains, comets, crossettes, aerial repeaters, parachutes, and poppers and snakes are among the most commonly used types of fireworks.
A Brief Overview of the Global Fireworks Market
The global fireworks market is expected to register a steady revenue CAGR during the forecast period. Increasing participation of people worldwide in various festivities and celebrations, growing inclination of children and young adults towards fireworks, increased spending on firecrackers, and rising disposable incomes, especially in countries such as India and China, are some of the key factors driving market revenue growth. Market growth, however, is significantly hampered due to certain unfavorable factors. For instance, several European countries including Ireland, as well as many U.S. cities, have enforced bans on firecrackers due to the potential health and environmental hazards associated with these. Furthermore, stringent restrictions on festival gatherings and celebrations in times of COVID-19 have led to a significant drop in demand for firecrackers.
Top 10 Leading Fireworks Manufacturers in the World
Brocks Fireworks
Headquartered in London, Brock's Fireworks Ltd. is the oldest fireworks manufacturer in the U.K. The company was established in 1698 by John Brock and is located in other regions in the U.K. including Dumfriesshire, Hemel Hempstead, and Norfolk. Brock's exclusive 'Single Ignition Display in a Box' collection comprises red, green, and yellow tail crackle mine; blue, green, and red strobe; Gold Crown purple, red, and green crossette; and SilverTail crackling willow with red, green, and orange strobes.
Fireworks by Grucci
Established in 1850, Fireworks by Grucci is a leading fireworks company in New York, with its main office and operations are in Bellport and a manufacturing facility and government work factory in Virginia. The American Pyrotechnics Association has listed the company among the United States' premier pyrotechnics firms. Fireworks by Grucci's proprietory technology uses computers to fire the shells electronically. Also, the company has shifted from traditional cardboard gun barrels to steel and fiberglass for the manufacture of its fireworks.
Fantastic Fireworks
Fantastic Fireworks is a premier fireworks manufacturer in Britain and is based in Pepperstock, England. The company is globally known for staging large-scale fireworks displays across countries in Europe and the Far East. Fantastic Fireworks won the British Fireworks Championship in the years 1997 and 2015, and made it to the Guinness World Records for its large-scale skyrocket launch in Plymouth, Devon, in 2006. It is also a member of the CBI (Confederation of British Industry) Explosives Industry Group and the BPA (British Pyrotechnists Association).
Dominion Fireworks Inc.
Dominion Fireworks Inc. is one of the most notable fireworks manufacturers in the United States, with its headquarters in Virginia. The company is committed to manufacturing safe fireworks & explosives and providing its customers with an unforgettable fireworks experience. It is known for its stunning aerial displays, close proximity fireworks, indoor pyrotechnics, and special wedding effects and flame projectors.
Maravillas de Colombia S.A.
Maravillas de Colombia S.A is a renowned manufacturer of fireworks in Colombia and is located in the Colombian capital Bucaramanga. The company was founded in 1899 by Leopoldo Nuñez Ortiz and is most widely known for its sparklers sold under the Chispitas Mariposa brand. Reportedly, Maravillas de Colombia had over 500 employees before Colombian cities including Bogota, Barranquilla, and Cali regulated the production, sale, and use of pyrotechnics.
Star Fireworks
One of the top manufacturers of pyrotechnics in Britain, Star Fireworks is globally recognized for staging professional fireworks displays and special effects. The company was founded in 1971 and was formerly known as Bracknell Fireworks. Star Fireworks is known for choreographing fireworks and special effects sequences for the film and television industries in the U.K.
Pyro Spectaculars
Pyro Spectaculars is a leading American fireworks company with its main office in the Californian city Rialto. As one of the largest fireworks manufacturers in the world, the company conducts some | 999 |
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The spiky foliage of an evergreen grass complements the tulips in this border.
As I write the tulips are making a wonderful show in the garden and every time I look out the window they lift the spirits. They have to be one of my favourite flowers, both for growing and cutting and I could never have too many. Which is just as well, as in our climate they are the least reliable of spring bulbs – hence the diva reputation. For every dozen you plant, eleven or twelve will perform beautifully the following spring, but in the year after that you would be lucky if two or three bother to show up.
This is because tulips are natives of the middle east and the bulbs are accustomed, in their native habitat, to a good baking each summer from the sun once the foliage has died down, which they rarely get in Western Europe. You might be inclined to associate them with Holland, which indeed produces vast numbers of the bulbs we plant in our gardens, but actually their natural home is further south and much, much hotter. All of which makes them rather an indulgence to the domestic gardener as the most beautiful and desirable varieties are naturally the most expensive, and can't be relied on to flower annually like most other spring bulbs.
But what a way to indulge! What other flower give such a spectacular show as spring edges towards summer – although the display might only last three to four weeks, to my mind, they are worth every cent. You'll see them in displayed in serried ranks in municipal flowerbeds and on roundabouts at this time of year, but in a garden, I think a natural approach is better. I like to scatter them amongst perennials and grasses in a more natural way – I<|fim_middle|>'s lovely as well to plant them en masse in terracotta pots or glazed containers, which complement them really well. This allows you to move them out of sight when they've gone over, and also allows you to enjoy them if garden space is tight. Divas they may be, but they're worth it! | think this displays them to best advantage and they look particularly elegant emerging from the fresh new perennial foliage. They're a brilliantly colourful way to bridge the gap from the end of the early spring bulbs and the first of the summer flowers. It | 47 |
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Congrats to all of our players for a season of learning, developing, having fun on the ice and continuing to forge lifelong friendships playing hockey!
» Finishing with a bang! | . Andrew Carmichael came out on fire tonight and scored two goals in the first period. The team supported each other with great passing, back checking, strong battles and a never die attitude. Wyatt Fry and Barron Sanford rounded out the goals in the third period, while Tamati Douglas was strong between the posts. The series started with a loss in Essa 2-1 and an overtime win at home 5-4 the following day.
Thanks to Coaches Gary, Greg, and Scott for believing in our boys and guiding them through the season always working towards a strong finish. Thanks to Jeff for keeping our boys safe on the | 128 |
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In the November issue of Glamour, Nina Dobrev models a series of hairstyles for the fashion magazine. In real life, the 23-year-old Vampire Diaries star admits she's pretty conservative when it comes to changing up her look.
"My mom didn't start wearing makeup or hairspray until she was, like, 40. She's the least vain person ever," says Dobrev, who's dating costar Ian Somerhalder, 33. "When I became an actress, she said, 'I know they need your hair for this show, but you're going to need your hair for the rest of your life, so take care of it.' Since that day, I've been very diligent. I do hair masks multiple times a week, and I don't blow-dry it if I'm not working."
In one picture, Dobrev (wearing a Roland Mouret top and J.W Anderson brooch) rocks a messy, bouff<|fim_middle|> than sleeping in makeup. You wake up looking like a painting that's been left out in a rainstorm." | ant hairdo, which was accessorized with a Tarina Tarantino hairpin. In another, she sports sleek locks — much like her Vampire Diaires alter-ego, Elena Gilbert. For Dobrev, who also plays vampire bad girl Katherine Pierce, it's important to modify her look with each character on the CW series. "Changing my hair helps me transform," she explains.
Dobrev (in Louis Vuitton) also models retro-inspired curls in Glamour, which she pinned to the side using Tarina Tarantino hair clips. Growing up in Canada, "Beauty wasn't something I spent a lot of time on," the actress admits. "Now I ask every hair and makeup artist I work with for tips. I'm in beauty school by association!"
The advice has certainly paid off. "Wash your face at the end of the night," the actress says. "There's nothing worse | 183 |
Nexstar Media, Dish Reach Impasse in Carriage Talks
The Dish satellite service is in the midst of another feud with a programmer.
Nexstar Media, the nation's largest owner of TV stations, and Dish have failed to come to terms on a new carriage contract, leaving subscribers without access to the WGN America cable network and programming from stations in 115 different markets. The impasse is just the most recent example of Dish's hard-nosed bargaining tactics, which in the past have left its subscribers without, for periods of time, Fox News Channel; CBS; and the NFL Network. Dish remains embroiled in a battle with WarnerMedia's HBO, which has been blacked out on the service since the fall of 2018.
"Since July, Nexstar has been negotiating tirelessly and in good faith in an attempt to reach a mutually agreeable multi-year contract with Dish, offering Dish the same fair market rates it offered to other large distribution partners with whom it completed successful negotiations in 2019 and 2020," Nexstar said in a statement. "Dish continues to propose rates that are less than fair market value for the broadcast network and local market programming content carried by Nexstar's television stations. Dish also continues to exclude WGN America from its proposals. Since Dish proposals are not at all in line with the reality of current market rates, Nexstar is left with no choice but to reject any extension of the current agreement."
"We made a fair offer to keep Nexstar stations available to our customers, but Nexstar rejected it," said Brian Neylon, group president of Dish TV, in a statement. The company said it objected to Nexstar's efforts to raise fees for free over-the-air stations and to try to force carriage of WGN, which Dish called a "low-rated channel that airs syndicated reruns found on other Dish stations and features a news program that can be accessed for free online." WGN recently launched "News Nation," an evening-block of news<|fim_middle|> offer them little recourse. Since 2010, subscribers to cable and satellite companies have worked through more than 800 blackouts, according to the American Television Alliance, an advocacy group that represents cable, satellite and telecommunications companies. In 2017, the group counted 212 such events.
Nexstar said it "remained hopeful" the two sides could reach an agreement.
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The breakdown in discussions is the latest to surface at a time when viewers are moving away from traditional distributors for their favorite content, and when media companies are trying to get the best prices possible from vendors as their audiences migrate to streaming video.
Federal regulators take a dim view of blackouts because they put consumers in the middle of a fight between two corporations and | 79 |
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CARS Tour race slated for Nov. 6 at Rockingham Speedway following tire test
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ROCKINGHAM — The race is on.
Following a "successful" test Thursday with Hoosier tires, officials with the CARS Tour announced Friday morning that it would be bringing a race to Rockingham Speedway and Entertainment Complex later this year.
"After extensive testing and selecting a compound that meets our safety standards we are excited to be heading to The Rock with our Late Model Stocks on a new date of November 6, 2021," reads a Friday morning post on the CARS Tour Facebook page.
The race was originally slated for March 6, but was postponed after the second test in late December to develop a new tire compound for the legendary track, which hasn't hosted a full-track race since 2013.
Race promoters Charlie Hansen and Mike Stodder said in December that if the race had gone on as scheduled, driving teams would have had to change tires twice in a 75-lap race.
Short Track Scene reported that a small piece of pavement on the exit of Turn 2 broke off and punctured the grille of a car during the Dec. 22 test, which led to a decision to use restrictor plates.
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There will be open testing for teams on Sept. 18, Oct. 30 and Nov. 5.
Justin Jones, vice president of operations for the speedway, told the RO that several positive comments were made about the recent renovations at the track since the December test.
Those renovations include "a lot of repainting," and landscaping, according to Jones. He added that they are also installing fiberoptics and "gaining ground" on the paintball field for the inaugural First Responders Royale in June.
He said there will be more changes in the next 30-45 days at the speedway property as they work on "bringing it back to its former glory."
"We're excited," Jones said about the November race. "We're ready to begin the journey of bringing racing back to the Rock."
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LAS VEGAS - Feb. 9, 2015 - PRLog -- Las Vegas, NV (February 9, 2015) – Hearts Alive Village is excited to announce their booth at the USA Sevens Tournament, February 13th through 15th at Sam Boyd Stadium in Las Vegas.
Hearts Alive Village Las Vegas is a 501(c)3 organization whose mission is to secure loving and stable homes for dogs and cats at risk of being lost in the shelter system. Through a variety of programs such as Kendall's Kupboard, a pet food pantry, and Solutions over Surrenders which gives pet owners access to resources like training, financial assistance, and more, Hearts Alive aims to keep pets in their original homes whenever possible.
The HSBC Sevens World Series is an International Rugby Board sanctioned event which sees top professional rugby players from 16 nations compete for the World Series Title. There are nine tournaments held around the world, including Australia, Dubai, Japan, Scotland, and more. The USA Sevens Rugby tournament is Round 5 of the competition and involves 44 games over 3 days of action. The tournament has been growing in popularity since its first USA stop in Los Angeles, California in 2004, and attendance is expected to increase again in 2015.
Their second year at the games, Hearts Alive Village is honored to be the only animal related group invited to attend the tournament. "There is so much energy<|fim_middle|> their pets at home. We offer them a little bit of puppy love. The people love it and the dogs love the attention!"
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The mission of Hearts Alive Village is to secure loving and stable homes for dogs and cats at risk of being lost in the shelter system. | and excitement in the air," says founder Christy Stevens, "it's infectious." The Hearts Alive Village booth will feature fun souvenirs for rugby and animal fans, with all proceeds going to further the rescues' mission. The best part, says Stevens, is the kissing booth. "People come from all over the world to watch these games, and most of them have to leave | 78 |
<|fim_middle|> accident. | An elderly driver's "tragic momentary lapse" led to a man being crushed against a shop wall and losing a leg below the knee, a court heard.
Retired electrician Alan Ernest Hawkins, 77, of Barton Seagrave, admitted causing the accident, but said he could remember nothing about it.
He was fined £800, ordered to pay costs totalling £580 and banned from driving for 12 months by Judge John Temperley at Leicester Magistrates Court.
Judge Temperley admitted: "Any fine that I impose will seem insignificant to the victim and inadequate to a member of the public listening to this case.
After the case, crash victim Kevin Hall, 53, said: "The magistrate has done what he can within the law, and I'm happy with the disqualification.
The court heard from Mark Williams, prosecuting, that Mr Hall, of Leicester, had been on a Sunday shopping expedition in Market Harborough with his wife Sharon on May 10 when the accident happened.
Mr Hall had been walking by the Welland Valley Feeds/The Furniture Barn shop off Rockingham Road, when Hawkins inadvertently pressed the wrong pedal while parking his car, crushing Mr Hall against the wall of the building.
Mr Hall, a former Kibworth and Robert Smyth School pupil, has said he owes his life to prompt work by the emergency services.
He 'died' three times in surgery, and had to have his lower leg amputated.
Naomi Gilchrist, mitigating, said Hawkins had "absolutely no memory of the accident at all" of the incident, and was at a complete loss to explain how it happened.
But four weeks after the accident he was taken to hospital after suffering a heart attack.
Experts are unable to say if the accident was caused by a medical problem.
Ms Gilchrist said Hawkins had been previously driving for 50 years with no convictions.
She said he had voluntary surrendered his driving licence since the | 402 |
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PEARKES, GEORGE, lawyer and public servant; b. in 1826 in Guildford, Surrey, Eng.; m. 30 April 1869 at Victoria, B.C., Mary Elizabeth Dorman; d. 18 March 1871 in Victoria.
Nothing is known of George Pearkes' family background or of his upbringing. His correspondence demonstrates, however, that he was a well-educated man with a gift for clear analysis. He probably studied law in England but does not seem to have been admitted to the bar there. Pearkes immigrated first to eastern Canada, later to California, and finally arrived in Vancouver Island in 1858. Here he became the colony's first practising solicitor and was appointed the first notary public by Governor James Douglas on 3 Aug. 1858. On 28 August the governor named him the first crown solicitor and attorney (analogous to attorney general) for the colony. As such he accompanied Douglas to Fort Hope that year, where he and two others were commissioned by the governor as competent judges to hear a charge of murder.
George Pearkes spent most of his years on Vancouver Island in private practice. His original law partnership with Elisha Oscar Crosby was dissolved on 31 Jan. 1859; he was later associated with William Saunders Sebright Green, the arrangement ending 12 July 1866, and on 28 Oct. 1870 he formed his final partnership with Edwin Johnson. Probably arising from his early sojourn, Pearkes had a familiarity with the laws of California and on 27 Dec. 1859 he was appointed a commissioner for that state. For almost a year in 1865–66 he was acting registrar general for Vancouver Island while the permanent incumbent, Edward Graham Alston, was on leave.
At his untimely death the Victoria Colonist said of George Pearkes: "A prominent member of the Masonic Fraternity, and a zealous promoter of every public movement or patriotic enterprise, the earnest friend of every private charity, he has succeeded beyond what is the lot of most men in making himself useful and respected in this day and generation."
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Заказ на постройку субмарины был отдан 16 октября 1939 года. Лодка была заложена 30 сентября 1940 года на верфи Данцигер Верфт в Данциге под строительным номером 109, спущена на воду 16 июля 1941 года, вошла в строй 19 ноября 1941 года под командованием капитан-лейтенанта Райнхарда фон Химмена.
История службы
Лодка совершила 3 боевых похода. Потопила 3 судна суммарным водоизмещением 19 689 брт.
Потоплена 5 ноября 1942 года к северу от Исландии, в районе<|fim_middle|>9-я флотилия
1 июля 1942 года — 5 ноября 1942 года — 11-я флотилия
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Литература
Ссылки | с координатами глубинными бомбами с американского самолёта типа «Каталина». 45 погибших (весь экипаж).
Флотилии
19 ноября 1941 года — 30 апреля 1942 года — 5-я флотилия (учебная)
1 мая 1942 года — 30 июня 1942 года — | 109 |
I love your red rooms! My diningroom was<|fim_middle|> and I forgot. Seems to be happening quite often these days. LOVE the paper.
Leslie, I could literally get lost in your home.
that is way too costly apparently. I would like to know the property prices in ascending order. | red in my old house, LaFonda Geranium. Loved saying that name! With white below the chair rail. I even had that same floral print and had hydrangeas on top of my hutch. I kid you not!
I love those swing arm rods you found. I have never had much luck with ebay. I don't have patience with the bidding. I should try more because I see a lot of people find good things. And I also love your use for the shutters and those slip covered chairs!
its gorgeous!!! I am not a red person...but..omg, I can't belive how beautiful it is...I love it, great job, so much inspiration!
Fun stuff, Miss Leslie! :) I am going to email you pictures from our last house. I don't think you were ever there. :( Just thought you'd like to see the red kitchen... our piano was very similar to yours as well!
I am soooo loving your re-do's!!!! You are a very frugal and crafty (in the good way) woman! You give me inspiration!
Leslie, thanks for this wonderful look into your home. I love the red of course and now I see your drapes like mine. Of course I didn't make mine. Love the swing arm rods. I love fake flowers, too and I sure hope the bird in the cloche is fake or it will be soon! I got so tickled when you said it was fake, too. You have a beautiful home. Loving all that red and what great antiques.
Very nice! Now I'm just waiting to see what you named your hutch????
And I love every inch of it! I have only one red room in my entire house. Odd, really, since I always love it. I am determined to redo our kitchen with red, and soon. It will just be such an enormous project that I am still saving money toward it. We're pay with cash folks too.
But I digress... I love your tour and think that you did a stunning job on those spaces. I can't single out a favorite, but one of my favorite parts was the swing out rod with the checks.
This is wonderful! I love all the red and your slipcovers are amazing. I have to go back now and scrutinize every square inch! Great ideas to copy! I love antiques, goodwill and garage sale finds too. My whole house, like yours, is thrift and hand-me-downs. It makes for such an interesting decor. Thanks for showing us!
I'll be over here, cleaning the cushion on one of your chairs. ; ) I like red and white together like this; you were very brave to do it in wallpaper and paint! You're so talented Leslie to make all the slipcovers.
Sooooo PRETTY in RED!!!! Luv those drapes and that THRIFTY light fixture!
Everything looks so nice Leslie! I love the red especially the toile.
Wow, that red toile is swoony!!! If you had to wallpaper for eternity, I would spend eternity scrubbing and scrubbing and never getting paint off my hands and out of my hair!
Oh my goodness! You did A TON of work! And it shows -- your house is amazing! Great job!
Your home is lovely! I love all the red, you'd think it would be invigorating but it seems calming to me. Great job and what a blessing to "inherit" 28 pieces of antique furniture!
I love all the red. It is so bright and lively.
Great job. I can't wait to see the kitchen. More red?
Wow, Leslie. It's just stunning! All of your hard work with the wallpaper has really paid off. It's gorgeous. I love that hutch. Everything is beautiful.
Wow! It is so beautiful! You really did a lovely job.
Everything looks great! I do love the wallpaper!! It was worth all the work....it's beautiful! I like all your thrifty finds! Hope you had a great day at Hobby Lobby (I went back a second time)!! Can't wait to see the kitchen.
Red is my favorite color, so I fell in love with your home...the swing curtain rods are fabulous...I searched for those about a year ago and finally just took a rod and cut it short to improvise - I love yours! The white orbs on your table are very cool...I enjoyed the tour!
The red looks great and loving the wall paper! You have a great talent of pulling it all together! Looks beautiful!
Were these chairs on RMS? They look so familiar??? I just remember 2 white matlasse wing chairs from there. If they're the same ones...I've never forgotten them. And still plan to try this. I have 2 sisters in Greenville. Do you remember kiakai from RMS?
OMG! Everything looks absolutely GORGEOUS!!!
What a beautiful space. Although you don't like hanging it, it sure looks great! I am hosting a giveaway and I'd love it if you stopped by!
Leslie, everything looks so lovely and inviting! I love red, too. Have it in our dining room. Don't you find it fun and so easy to decorate with? Love your artwork and the drapes. Love it all!
I love all that you have done!!! Love the wallpaper!! love the reds! Love the slipcover (I need some badly!!) One of my living rooms used to be red. I did love it....but after a while I wanted a lighter color....at night it seemed a bit to dark in that room . Love yours--very inviting!!
Your house makes it so much fun for me to go along on the tour! The red is stunning. Love all of your ideas!
OMGosh...were you ever on Rate My Space? I think I've seen your rooms there?? ANYway, your home is just outstanding. I love the color RED and you REALLY know how to do it up right. Just stunning. I am your newest stalker...uhhh...follower..Hope you'll come see me soon. I surely will be back here.
Yeah! Another red lover! I adore your use of color...bold color! I love your rooms and all of the beautiful things you have filling them! Simply beautiful!
Today I gave you an award!
3rd attempt at commenting! -silly internet is acting up tonight!
I love how you transformed these plain spaces into such a cosy welcoming environment!
Lovely work. Thanks so much for showing us more of your charming home!
Those are beautiful rooms! You've used my favorite color (red) and I LOVE toile. That toile wallpaper looks so great with the white wainscoting! Love the red buffalo check curtains!! Gor-ge-ous!
LOVE the red....that dining room is spectacular!
Your house is truly gorgeous. You have really done an amazing job-you must feel so happy when you look at all of these before and after shots.
I hope for your sake that you never EVER have to wall paper again-poor thing!!
I love the red walls! And I love the high ceilings. Amazing!
WOW your bold choice of reds is fantastic! I love color, and this one is one I feel I do not use enough. You have really done it well....Thanks Leslie for your comment and your support...I always wish you the best care and service possible at Walgreens. My husbands has worked in Greenville numerous times for OT.
Wow! I love these rooms. So bold but pretty too. How wonderful to get all those antiques. You've done a great job of making it all feel fresh.
Your home is as beautiful as the woman of the house! I love red. We have a red room in the Fairfield House. I feel your pain -- we applied 5 or 6 coats plus primer. Your red toile paper is stunning. Stunning job incorporating your antiques.
Breath-taking! These pics look like they're right out of a magazine. I absolutely LOVE it! Wish you could do my house next! :) Makes me feel like redecorating!
First,the toile wallpaper makes a tremendous difference in the bedroom - the room just pops because of it! I am so tickled with all your sewing and painting and finish work. I am so itching to see the kitchen! Everything looks so wonderful - you must be so proud of yourself!
make that work as well as you did. You certainly have created a warm and inviting home.
Absolutely beautiful! You scored some great deals too. I just love a red room. I'm going to feature this on the PoPP Spotlight on Saturday.
What a beautiful home! I love the red!
This is my 1st time visiting... love the name of your blog!
Wow Leslie, Your rooms are so inviting and warm..
what am I saying, they are red hot! That wallpaper is gorgeous, but naw-uh, no way, nope, have no patience. Snails, butterflies?!?! tryin to match up the pattern?! They'd be puittinme back in a little white room LOL.
So behind on reading blogs. I just have to tell you that this is breath taking. I love the red. I don't do wall paper as I am terrified how it will turn out, but yours is ah-may-ZING!
Ooh-la-la, I'm lovin' me some red:) Great job! You should stop by on Monday for my "Restyle Your World" linky party!
I *LOVE* all the red! It is just gorgeous!
OMG your room and foyer are gorgeous!! Loving it!
Amazing how well you put together a room with such BOLD RED...great job! and...I love the lamps everywhere.
My daughter loves a good can of spray paint..ie: your chandelier etc. She does the same with wonderful results.
Beyond gorgeous once again, you are great!!!!
I can't believe I had never noticed your wallpaper. Or maybe I have | 2,056 |
It's a well-worn clich?? that the brain never stops working, until the moment you stand up to make a presentation. Yes, they can be nerve-wracking things to do but like anything else you can learn to make good, even great, presentations. Think positive!
First of all, why are you making this presentation? Yes, it might be because the boss has told you to do it, but what is the actual objective? What do you want the audience to know or do after your presentation. The answer to this question will help you identify all the<|fim_middle|> Practise it in front of the mirror (speaking out loud) and in front of family or friends. This will help you sound more natural on the day, and will help you test your material and the timing.
nerves are natural and good; in order to have the butterflies, you have to have the stomach. | facts, theories, figures, stories, etc. that might be helpful to that objective. Make a list. Do some research. Ask other people; in fact, ask your audience what they would like to know. In this way, you can gather more than enough material.
Next, consider your audience. What will work for them? What will engage them, convince them? Relevant factors may be their jobs, age, background, level of education, ambitions, opinions, interests and so on. This will help you decide what material to keep and what to cut out and also what sort of presentation they might appreciate. For example, do they need something short and blunt (because they are busy and/or have short attention spans) or do they need lots of supporting facts and figures (because they will have to present this information to others afterwards)?
Within the middle section, which contains all the key points, you should break the information down into sections and then put those sections into a logical order.
What about visual aids: flipcharts, handouts, PowerPoint, videos, etc? Well, it's true that a picture is worth a thousand words and it's also true that however beautiful your voice, people will sooner or later become tired of listening to it. So give them something to look at; but make sure it's relevant.
OK, you have your presentation written and ready, now what? Rehearse, rehearse, rehearse! | 289 |
April 16th, 2016 | News
Naomh Eoin Ladies Football Update
The Clubs Ladies Football teams have had mixed fortunes with the Leagues kicking off.
The Senior Ladies have had 2 fixtures to date winning the first game against St James Aldergrove in a tough contest.
The Ladies could not field against Moneyglass in the second fixture due to the unavailability of a number of players and had to concede the points.
Next up is a game against St Pauls B –Which should be a tough contest for the Ladies
The U16 Ladies have had a great start to their campaign with 4 wins out of 4 games against All Saints (Ballymena),Cairde Bheal Feirste, Creggan and St Joseph's (Glenavy).They are currently sitting at the top off the League table. The girls have been playing excellent football and it has been a joy to watch -winning admiration from spectators and the opposition.
We have a panel of 21 girls and everyone has shown great commitment to the team , at present 4 of the girls are representing Antrim.
The U14 girls have<|fim_middle|>6 .. Martin Crummey ,Andy Fennell & Catherine Carleton
U14 ..Laura Mc Cann & Andy Fennell
U12 .. Kevin Gough & Kim Gough
U10 .. Pauline Gough & Fionnuala Devine
U8 .. Kevin Gough | played one game to date beating St Enda's and have had one game postponed by Sarsfields.
Despite having only 13 available for the game the girls played outstanding as a team against St Enda's and dug deep to secure a win.
At present there are 5 girls representing Antrim u14 ladies and Our U14 coach Laura is also the current manager of the Antrim u14 ladies team.
We have a small panel to select from for u14's and would encourage any members who have not shown at training to date or who have any friends interested in playing to come along to training sessions and games.
The U12 girls have played 3 games to date -winning 2 against St Teresa's & Ardoyne but losing to Gortnamona in a game that with the full panel might have been a different outcome. The girls played in terrible conditions but showed great fight and determination.
As above, we have a small panel to select from for u12's and would encourage any members who have not shown to date or have any friends interested in playing to come along to training sessions and games.
The U10 girls have played 2 sets of Go Games to date coming away from the first weeks games with 4 wins out of 4. Week 2 they played 4 & won 3 putting in a great performance. Despite the cold & hail , the girls showed great teamwork , took some excellent scores and displayed some excellent defending.
The U8 girls have also been in action playing a number of blitzes.
There are some very talented footballers in the juvenile panels at present and the future is bright for the" Blue & White".
WELL DONE LADIES.
We are always on the look-out for new recruits to get involved with the teams.
Anyone who is interested in joining the panels can contact
Senior ..Kevin Gough & Frank Maskey
U1 | 391 |
The last fifteen years have seen a dramatic rise in the popularity of sustainable buildings. In just five years—from 2005 to 2010—the value of green, non-residential construction in the U.S. grew from $3 billion to nearly $70 billion, and the growth of the green building market in Canada has followed this trend. With the conversation about green building growing louder and louder in the last<|fim_middle|> movement of the 1970s spurred interest in a new type of building that would work with the surrounding environment instead of against it.
In Canada, this nascent green building movement focused on improving the efficiency of residential homes. Natural Resources Canada's R-2000 program, which launched in 1981, promoted design elements and the use of new technologies that made home heating more efficient. The R-2000 program also set standards for indoor air quality to help occupants avoid the ill-effects of buildings that were too tightly sealed. In 1993, the C-2000 program was launched to bring these standards to commercial building projects as well.
The 1990s were a time of experimentation for the Canadian green building industry. Projects like the YMCA Environmental Learning Center in St. Clements, Ontario and the Boyne Conservation Center in Shelburne, Ontario incorporated new technology like solar heating and greywater treatment that wasn't yet tenable on a large scale. These buildings introduced the public to the idea of sustainable design and helped chart the course for the future of green building projects.
By the early 2000s, green building was ready for the mainstream. Canada now has over 770 certified green buildings, and Toronto is the home of the World Green Building Council. In the coming years, it can only be expected that the concept of sustainability will continue to change the building industry here as well as around the world. | few years, it might seem like sustainable building projects are a recent development. But in fact the idea of environmentally-friendly design has been around for a long time, and the seeds of the current movement can be found back in the environmental movement of the 1970s.
Obviously, there's nothing new about buildings making the most of their surroundings. Ancient societies around the world used local materials to erect buildings designed to make the most of the prevailing climate. In modern times, there are plenty of examples of buildings that incorporated green features going back into the 19th century. The Crystal Palace, built in London in 1851, is not only famous for the large plate-glass windows that gave it its name, but also for its passive air conditioning system. Mechanical louvers in the ceiling could be opened to release hot air from the hall, and gaps in the flooring used the pressure differential to pull colder air up from underneath. Around the turn of the century, New York skyscrapers like the Flatiron Building and the Wainwright Building were designed with deep-set windows and retractable awnings to block sunlight.
With the advent of air-conditioning and the improvement of steel and glass manufacturing in the 1930s, the modern building was born, and little attention was paid to the environmental footprint of these new technological marvels. But only a few decades later, architects began to question the wisdom of buildings designed with the promise of limitless resources. The environmental | 300 |
Mike is a multi-disciplinary designer and co<|fim_middle|> a prop, sometimes a film set, sometimes a fictitious vehicle.
The questions are then what do you need the design to do, and how does the design need to make people feel.
From there it is a balancing act of the logical needs of the design and how it functions, but also the associations you want the design to place into the mind of an audience. So for example, a chair needs to be sat in - but depending on the story perhaps the character needs to feel in danger - so you would design a chair that is uncomfortable and associations with something sinister; like an electric chair for example. Building in those associations then becomes the goal of the design.
How much of your work is translated to physical items compared to completely virtual / computer generated? Do you design with both outcomes in mind, or are you normally given direction on which medium will be used before you begin?
How much direction are you given on a project before you start? Do you know the full script or just pieces?
It varies - ideally scripts, story and theme should all be clearly known - then you're designing to specification - but oftentimes artists and designers are used to "explore" ideas to inspire the creation of the story.
Ideally it should be a marriage of the two - too little structure is difficult to work with, too much structure can be limiting to the exploration of ideas.
How does working for a video game vary from a film or a tv show?
Games take 3+ years to make and most of the process is exploration. TV has a much quicker turnaround and smaller budgets - so there needs to be much higher turnaround on designs.
Are there other people working in your field you admire or who's work you're following? Any directors you're hoping to work with someday?
What's your favourite memory or experience from an FITC event? | -founder of the Berlin based, Emmy award winning Karakter Design Studio.
When he's not thinking about storytelling in film, Mike designs worlds for the entertainment industry, creating concepts and designs for film, TV and video games. Mike has designed for Warner Brother's Blade Runner 2049, HBO's Game of Thrones, as well as for video games such as the best-selling Call of Duty series and Sony's award-winning Horizon: Zero Dawn. Learn more below, and see him next at FITC Amsterdam 2019.
When did your career path settle into concept design? Was this something you've always wanted to do?
Concept design is one facet of what I do for a living - creating artworks is one expression of the more general requirement to solve problems. Sometimes the best way to do that is with concept art, sometimes a presentation, sometimes an animation - so I kind of meandered into this field when I was in my teen years.
Can you break down for us the steps you go through from the moment you're asked to work on a project, to having a final design used in a project?
The first step is to have the brief explain the problem that needs to be solved. Sometimes it can be | 247 |
The 2010–11 Notre Dame Fighting Irish women's basketball team represented the University of Notre Dame in the 2010–2011 NCAA Division I women's basketball season. The Irish, coached by Muffet McGraw, play their home games at the Edmund P. Joyce Center in South Bend, Indiana. The Fighting Irish, members of the Big East Conference, finished runners-up in the Big East regular<|fim_middle|> UConn Huskies—en route to the final. In so doing, they became the first team ever to defeat Tennessee and UConn in the same NCAA women's tournament. The Irish lost to Texas A&M in the national title game.
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In the 2011 NCAA Division I women's basketball tournament, Notre Dame advanced through the rounds, beating two #1 seeds—the Tennessee Lady Volunteers and | 51 |
A mum has defended her decision to give her dog purple and blue highlights – insisting that her pup absolutely loves her look.
Though some<|fim_middle|> with them.
Renae said: 'She's an amazing and fun dog, with a wonderful personality.
'As well as being an internet sensation, we always take her with us whenever we travel – from Europe to the Bahamas – and she makes friends wherever she goes. Every time I take her out in public, she makes people smile.
According to Renae, Sheeba loves being the centre of attention, and often poses and prances down the street knowing she's 'getting lots of admiring looks'.
But while most people thing she looks great, she has also received negative reactions.
'Some people don't understand it and think it's harmful. But I would never hurt my dog, I love her too much and it makes her happy,' Renae said.
Despite the negative comments, Renae focuses on the positive – and says her dog's style is a great ice breaker and has led her to making lots of friends.
She said: 'When we were on the plane coming back to San Francisco we met the New Zealand rugby team, the formidable All Blacks.
'All these giant men just melted when they met her. | people have accused 61-year-old Renae Crevalle of cruelty, she says her Chinese-crested dog Sheeba loves her style.
According to Renae, Sheeba has even become internet famous.
Renae first started trying elaborate tints on Sheeba's fur five years ago, for the American Independence Day celebrations on 4 July.
'It went down a storm and Sheeba loved it – she was wagging her tail like crazy – so it grew from there,' she said.
Now she highlights her pup's luscious locks, using foils to get just the right tint, every two months, during hour long sessions.
An international jet-setter who travels on superyachts and private jets, Sheeba has been turning heads with her bright fur everywhere from Italy's stunning Amalfi Coast to the Bahamas, Mexico, Germany and all over the States.
Renae and her Norwegian partner of two years, Geir Fjugstad, 57, a private banker, take Sheeba everywhere | 205 |
The Tumblewheel enables you to quickly and easily roll a fence line to a new position. The Tumblewheel's unique center hub maintains power while the fence is being moved. It can be used on flat very<|fim_middle|>wheels are ideal for quick and efficient rationing of grass. We recommend spacing at every 66'.
This fence consists of a number of electrified 'wheels' spaced across the pasture. The wheels are held upright with the tension of the single line fence which passes through the center.
When one or both ends of the fence is moved, the wheels roll along. When you stop, the fence stops.
WARNING:This product can expose you to chemicals including Lead which is known to the State of California to cause cancer and birth defects or other reproductive harm. For more information go towww.P65Warnings.ca.gov. | hard and frozen ground. The legs remain live except for two legs that are on the ground.
Where several breaks are needed in one paddock, Tumble | 31 |
Hybodus – rodzaj wymarłych, średniej wielkości rekinów z rodziny †Hybodontidae.
Przedstawiciele tego rodzaju znani są od warstw z pogranicza dolnego i środkowego triasu po najwyższą część kredy<|fim_middle|> jamie gębowej. Podobnie zróżnicowany był kształt głównego wierzchołka, większość okazów ma dość ostry i wąski wierzchołek, ale u niektórych był on bardziej masywny. Były to zęby typu chwytającego, a u niektórych gatunków rozdzierającego. Te ostatnie występują u gatunków znacznie większych niż te, które miały zęby chwytające. Polowały prawdopodobnie na ryby, a niektóre gatunki także na bezkręgowce o niezbyt grubej skorupce. U samców z płetw brzusznych wykształciły się organy rozrodcze służące do zapłodnienia wewnętrznego samicy – występują one również u współczesnych rekinów.
Były to ryby głównie przydenne, preferujące wody płytkie, morskie lub półsłone.
Szczątki Hybodus odnaleziono w Afryce, Ameryce Północnej, Azji oraz Europie. Do dziś najliczniej zachowały się zęby rekinów z tego rodzaju, skamieniałe kolce płetw grzbietowych są rzadsze. Pospolicie znajdowany w Polsce.
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†Hybodus montanendis
†Hybodus obtusus
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Wymarłe spodouste | (kampan lub mastrycht). Opisywano również jego przedstawicieli z karbonu i permu, ale te okazy zostały później zaliczone do innych rodzajów. Rekiny z rodzaju Hybodus były jednymi z ważniejszych drapieżników płytkich mórz przez niemal całą erę mezozoiczną, a zwłaszcza w triasie. Przyczyny ich wyginięcia nie są dokładnie poznane.
Hybodus osiągał długość około dwóch metrów. Miał wydłużony, opływowy tułów z dwiema płetwami grzbietowymi zwiększającymi jego sterowność. Każda z tych płetw miała duży kolec płetwowy, przeważnie z dwoma szeregami drobnych ząbkowań. Kolce te mogły służyć do obrony. Jama gębowa była niewielka i raczej uniemożliwiała polowanie na dużą zdobycz. Uzębienie rekinów Hybodus miało główny wierzchołek położony centralnie i kilka mniejszych leżących po obu stronach głównego. Stosunek długości głównego do bocznych wierzchołków był różny, w zależności od gatunku i od położenia zęba w | 313 |
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Sunday 10th August. Kis<|fim_middle|> the day. For once, I had ridden it all. Having a decent surface makes all the difference. | htwar – ?
From Kishtwar, the nicely surfaced road dropped steadily in a series of hairpins down to Bhandarkhot (a descent of about 450 m in 12 km). Since most of the day would involve climbing towards Sinthan Top, this wasn't actually what I wanted.
The road crossed a bridge over a river, then climbed a little to an army checkpoint. This one was quite thorough, involving the taking of many of my details and a series of phone calls. Then an officer (I presume so, although he wasn't in uniform) strolled down, asked if I had a satellite phone or a rifle, then bid me on my way. Another river crossing and then the day began in earnest. And in heat, since it was quite warm down at 1150 m.
The climb was relentless but on a good surface and not bad to ride. Maybe, I am finally getting some fitness. I stopped in a small town for tea; it suddenly became quite crowded in the little tea shack as the local police joined me. They were quite happy to have their photograph taken with me which was a bit of a surprise; most in uniform shied away from the camera.
Then more steady uphill, regaining the morning's lost altitude and then some. And then some more. There was the occasional road sign to break the monotony.
I've ridden to Kanya Kumari twice. Once down the west coast from Mumbai in 1991 and then down the east coast from Darjeeling in 2012. Now I'm riding in the state of Jammu & Kashmir and will be in the Vale of Kashmir in a day or so.
Another refreshment break, this time for a local cola (not pepsi or coke but probably just as healthy).
The girls were a little camera shy at first but relaxed once their elders had been photographed.
Getting higher and into the forests now. In the late afternoon, I came to another checkpoint where I had to wait quite a while, although I'm not completely sure why; I think they were waiting for a superior officer to give them the authorisation to let me proceed. The soldiers at the checkpoint were quite happy to take my photograph on their phones but wouldn't let me photograph them because they were in uniform. I'm not sure why that is important; any information I could record on an image was easily on view for anyone passing by.
As it grew dark, I picked my spot at the side of the road. It was far from private but there hadn't been much traffic all day. I was laying out my sleeping bag when a car, decorated as from a wedding or pilgrimage, stopped and a young man asked what I was doing in good English.
He laughed, told me to be careful of the bears and drove off down the hill.
It looks like it might be a busy night, wild animals and all.
My gps gave my elevation at 2623 m, with an elevation gain of 1563 m for | 619 |
It wouldn't be an exaggeration to say we enjoyed every moment of our stay in Munnar Tea Country Resort. From the time we sighted the security staff in the gate of the resort, to the time we waved our hands to bid goodbye to the resort manager who escorted us till the gate while leaving the place, it was a true vacation experience.
The security person greeted us with a warm, lively smile and not just a formal salute you get everywhere. He politely guided us half way to the reception. Since we had called them a few minutes ago from the bus stop, the front office manager was awaiting us in the reception. We were greeted with a warm towel to wipe the face and hands and were also offered a cup of fresh juice. Room keys were ready and it took less than a minute to complete the paperwork and head to our rooms.
Munnar Tea Country Resort is located near Anachal Junction in the Adimali-Anachal-Munnar route. From Adimali, there are two routes to Munnar and make sure you are taking the Anachal route. If you are a backpacker and coming by bus to Munnar, get down at the "Thattathi Mukku" bus stop and walk about 100 meters towards Munnar direction. Then take the concrete road on the left to reach the resort. You have to go about 150 meters in the concrete road which is pretty steep. If you are walking, be prepared to burn a few calories! There are houses on both sides of the road, giving you an impression that the resort is in a residential area. However, after you pass the 3 or 4 houses, you will reach the gorgeous resort, with an almost 360-degree divine view of hills, mountains, valleys and tea estates. Once you enter the resort, all you can see is the natural beauty of Munnar and you will feel like you are in another world.
I was overwhelmed with the chirping sounds of birds all around the resort. We even noticed a bird's nest with few eggs on a small bush in front of our cottage. While trying to take the photos, one of the staff members came and told us he can show much more such nests in the creepers on the fences around the resort but he didn't want us to go too close to them since that may disturb the chicks.
They have built a beautiful sitting area above the restaurant. From this place, you can get an amazing view of the mountains, valleys and tea estates. This was my favorite part of the Tea Country Resort since one could spend any hours here, enjoying the weather and nature. This was a newly built area and I was told they are adding some greenery to this sitting area to make it more beautiful.
More than anything else, in my opinion, Tea Country is a family resort. The family cottages are in a two storey, nature-friendly building, stretched from the entrance to almost till the end of the property. I stayed in the first floor but due to the way it is built on a hillside, you won't feel you are on a first floor. There are trees, bushes, creepers and lawns at both the levels.
There are few cottages overlooking the valley with the kind of privacy the honeymoon couples would expect. These cottages have an excellent ambiance in the evenings – a marvelous view of the sunset and chirping music of the birds, which have built their nests on the creepers behind the cottages. Once you enter the cottage and lock the doors, the world is yours! These cottages are built with privacy in mind, I was told by the resort manager when I checked those rooms before I decided to settle with the family rooms.
All the rooms in Tea Country have 2 levels inside. You will enter into the living room first and then go up or down to access the bedroom. It's kind of nice setup and not seen in many other places. If you are traveling with kids, you will get a nice separation for the bedroom from the living area. You can arrange the extra beds in the living room and go to sleep in the other room if the kids choose to watch TV until the midnight!
Every cottage is equipped with a small kitchenette with a coffee maker, a mini-refrigerator and plenty of coffee/tea/sugar packets. I tried at least 4 different types of Tea during my stay there!
Read budget honeymoon resorts in Munnar.
Even though you can walk to very scenic tea-plantations, other popular tourist destinations like Anayirangal dam, Eravikulam National Park, Tea Museum, Honey Bee Tree, Rose garden etc are a bit far. If you don't have your own car, you may have to hire a cab to go to the tourist attractions. Unfortunately, there are no Uber and Ola cabs in Munnar. If you like, you may hire a bike and go around the places yourself. If you are looking for night life, you will need to go to the town, which is bit far from this Tea Country resort.
Check out the top tourist locations in Munnar.
The primary advantage of this place is its exotic location with an almost 36<|fim_middle|> access to such areas. However, I could walk around all areas of this resort, which is well maintained with trees, lawns and creepers. Behind the cottages, I could find a water treatment plant, which purifies the drinking water. There is an amphitheater right behind the restaurant kitchen. The amphitheater is well maintained with a lot of greenery and lights and has an excellent view of the mountains and valleys. You will get a view of the amphitheater from some of the cottages but not all.
Every single person I met in the resort, including the security staff who greeted us in the front gate, the cleaning ladies who were taking care of the garden, the room service guys – everyone there had a smile on their face, which gives some positive energy to the guests.
The rates here are somewhere in the mid-range. If you look at TripAdvisor or other travel sites, you may find many resorts with cheaper rates, but I would warn you a few things – some of those resorts you find in such deal sites are not really resorts. They are just hotels which are labeled as resorts. Also, some of them are located deep inside the wild and unless you enjoy off-road driving and are ready to take some challenges, you may not want to take that risk.
Their food menu doesn't have all fancy choices but has all common choices we expect in an authentic restaurant. We ordered some Fried Rice, Chilly Chicken and Chicken Manchurian along with some fresh juice. The food was tasty and well served. I wish they had more choices on the fish items but I was told they don't get too many choices on the fish in Munnar since it has to come from very far.
I forgot to check if they have a beer and wine parlor. I didn't see any "Bar" signboard anywhere, so I guess you won't get alcoholic beverages there.
I saw a driver washing the car in a washing area and it looks like the resort offers the car washing facilities in case you choose to give some freshness to your car. Also, I was told they give good facilities for the drivers. In case you have a driver, you don't need to bother about food and accommodation for the driver, it will be taken care of.
Our cottage had premium quality, comfortable bed.
1. This is a privately owned resort and is not same as the KTDC owned "Tea County" resort. As far as I know, this resort is far better than the KTDC Tea County resort, but be aware that they are two different properties.
3. There is no swimming pool.
See: Is it safe to stay in homestays in Kerala?
Even though I pointed out a few things, I would give a 5-star rating for Munnar Tea Country Resort for its excellent location, well-maintained buildings and the amazing view of the Mother Nature. If you have stayed in this place, please share your experience below as a comment.
How to reach Munnar from Ernakulam? We are a group of friends from Goa. Next week we are planning to Munnar but we booking train tickets from Goa to Ernakulam. We want luxurious hotel for stay and give some tourist places to see near Munnar.
This is a good budget resort. The booze shop is also close to (in case) and definitely the staff are courteous enough. However, transporation to Munnar is a problem. Chinnakanal needs good frequency of buses to Munnar.
Also,Club Mahindra is the most luxurious resort in Munnar? | 0-degree view of beautiful nature. I don't know if any other resort in Munnar has a better location than this one. I have visited Munnar many times before and each time I stayed in different places. I could never find a better location than this one.
It has got a new building and every nook and corner of the resort are well made and is extremely clean. Usually, the backsides of the hotels are not well maintained in many properties and you won't even have | 100 |
A great day out for all ages - Visit The National Herb Centre 3 mile from Banbury for a fabulous day out!
Established in 1997, The National Herb Centre provides the public with an opportunity to see, enjoy and learn about herbs.
But it's much, much more than that!
Set in a spectacular location on the B4100 just outside Banbury and overlooking three counties, The National Herb Centre has many display herb gardens planted to show how they can enhance any garden, with their wide selection of colours and tantalising scent.
You can walk along the nature trail where you will see fabulous flora, fauna and wildlife.
There are plenty of children's activities for younger visitors to enjoy, including a play area where they can take the Labyrinth challenge. Children's parties can be organised - a wonderful alternative to the usual children's party!
Various events are held for adults, children, and families throughout the year at The National Herb Centre.
The National Herb Centre's garden centre and nursery sells a wonderful selection of plants which will delight the chef, intrigue the gardener and fascinate anyone with an interest in alternative medicine. Knowledgeable staff are on hand to give advice<|fim_middle|>A well-stocked shop stocks an extensive range of books, seeds, essential oils, herbal-based cosmetics and gifts.
The National Herb Centre really does offer something for everyone! With free entry and free parking, it's the perfect day out. | on all aspects of growing your own herbs.
You can sample the unique herbal flavours in The National Herb Centre's friendly Herb Bistro and Deli Coffee Shop where dishes are prepared using fresh produce, mainly from the Centre's own farms and gardens.
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Decent trail map for the Banta Shut-in?
I<|fim_middle|> want to do in this particular situation. I'll just ask the rangers when I get to the park if I need to.
I don't know of any maps so here you go. The route is from K-BAR. The only tricky part is making sure you start up the right wash on the way back. Other than that it's pretty straight forward.
Thanks! It's about 14 miles out and back correct?
I'll just ask the rangers when I get to the park if I need to.
There are two routes to Banta. PM me if you want routes and waypoints for your handheld GPS. | 'm planning on doing a day hike to the Banta Shut-In in a couple of weeks. I did it once about 10 years ago and I remember how easy it was to get turned around on the way back. Does anyone know of a decent map of the trail? I can't seem to find anything online.
Re: Decent trail map for the Banta Shut-in?
Do you truck camp while BBNP? You can camp at Roys Peak Vista, then next morning follow a drainage down to Tornillo Creek and TC down to Banta. It's pretty straight forward, I did mark the drainage at TC just to make sure I returned the correct way.
JIm's certainly right - heading in from Roy's Peak campsite would be a lot easier than heading in from the main road. However, if you do head in from the west side, you might want to read this trip report from Flash. He walked in that way and his trip report has some good advice on how to get back to the road from Banta. Scroll down on page 2 of his long report to find the details of the day on which he tackled Banta.
I was planning on coming in from K-Bar and going out and back. I seem to remember the cairns marking the start of the trail being pretty obvious when I did it the first time but doesn't sound so obvious from that trip report. I wonder if there is a GPS track I could pull off somewhere.
I wonder if there is a GPS track I could pull off somewhere.
Plot your start and destination in the gps and then find your own route out and back. Be an explorer, not a follower of somebody else's recorded track.
For additional benefit, do it with a map and compass, and no gps.
You'll be better for the experience doing either of the above, rather than wanting someone to tell you how to do it.
"Plot your start and destination in the gps and then find your own route out and back. Be an explorer, not a follower of somebody else's recorded track."
So you never take any pre-formed trails? Everything you do is trailblazing? How amazing.
"You'll be better for the experience doing either of the above, rather than wanting someone to tell you how to do it."
I've done plenty of hiking and bushwacking. That is not what I | 482 |
Sprawling across the very heart of buckaroo country, the Winecup Gamble Ranch encompasses a checker-boarded landscape of 984,000 acres, more than half of which is owned by the public and managed by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM). It's as wide and wild and complicated a landscape as there is in today's West. It's also a place where flat-topped hats and spurs dominate in a cowboy culture that prizes independence and self-determination. Yet in the midst of this sagebrush rebellion territory, some surprising things are happening.
The Winecup Gamble is a member of the Stewardship Alliance of Northeast Elko (SANE). "We like that acronym, Rogers says, "It makes for some fun." SANE is a collaborative group established in 2013 and comprised of eight landowners who have 1.7 million acres under fence, plus a slate of state and federal agencies and the nonprofit Pheasants Forever. SANE formed in large part out of concern about a potential federal listing of the greater sage grouse, yet it has moved far beyond that to successfully collaborate on a number of<|fim_middle|> landowner," he says. | land management and conservation efforts.
"We collectively think about managing across fence lines. We don't agree with every landowner or every perspective of agencies but we have a healthy, respectful dialogue," James says.
This same attitude characterizes the ranch's approach to other challenges as well. For example, the ranch has a rock spring and wet meadow that was an historic watering hole along the famed California Trail. Over the decades, cattle had destroyed the area around the spring. Trespassing hunters and campers repeatedly left the place trashed. So the ranch partnered with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the Nevada Division of Wildlife to fence off and protect the wet meadow and spring. A spring box was used to run a pipeline from the spring to a more strategic location for livestock. They even keep a trickle going for wildlife. The ranch also got permission from Elko County to install cattle guards on the road so people could pass through the protected area easily. The ranch then went a step further. Even though the area surrounding the spring is part of the Winecup Gamble's deeded holdings, they made it available to continued public use, but in a more managed way.
"It's not that we didn't want people to be there, but we wanted people to take care of it. Rather than keep people out, we posted a sign saying guests are welcome with prior registration. Then we know who is there, and there is some amount of accountability. It's been a really good thing. We still do a wagon out on the range with our cowboys and occasionally stay there ourselves. Now that it's cleaned up, it's been a win for us as well," James says.
James admits that there will always be problems and a desire for more privacy. On the other hand, the ability to ranch in this vast open space provides many benefits which would otherwise not be available. "I've been on the smaller, entirely deeded ranches that didn't have this much space, and there are challenges there too. I also think we're relational as people, and having public space forces us into relationships which sometimes can be challenging but are more often rewarding. This public interface challenges us as human beings to make better relationships. My relationships with my wife and kids are better from learning more about how to work with others. We're made to be with other people, not just on our own mountaintops where we lock the gate to be with our own. I think that's kind of shallow." He also believes that while working with public agencies can sometimes be challenging and frustrating, it too has a positive side. "To be honest, the tough conversations have made us a better | 540 |
The use of videos in your course can be an effective way to enrich students' learning experiences. Videos can be used to spark discussions, supplement key concepts, provide real-life examples, demonstrate problem solving or bring in the views of<|fim_middle|> consider the context and purpose of the videos as well as the overall amount of video content students are expected to watch each week. Some academic concepts cannot easily be reduced to a 6 minute explanation, so if you do go longer make sure the material is focused and tied closely to assessment activities.
Design for reuse and longevity. Video is expensive and time consuming to create, so you want to make sure you can use the same videos from term to term without having to redo them. Avoid including dates and references to current events that will limit the potential of reusing content from year to year.
Time and Budget. Video can be time intensive and expensive to produce. Learning how to use the audio-visual equipment and editing software requires training and time. Depending on your goals a Do-It-Yourself approach might be a good way to start simply with existing tools and training that are available. For more advanced productions, funding for support might be necessary.
Instructor Workload. Producing videos requires planning, filming, and post-production; all which can be time consuming tasks. Using videos to replace lectures means the instructor will also have to plan and redesign what will be done during class time.
Content Coverage. Keeping videos short enough to keep learners' engaged while covering the required materials can sometimes be a challenge and may require some decisions about what is most important to include. Consider separating the video into multiple segments with distinct topics and learning goals.
Student attitude and workload. Changing the method of learning may cause some students to respond negatively if they are uncertain of the purpose or view it as more work. Communicate the purpose and objectives of the videos so students see them as a useful resource and not an addition to their workload. Students are also likely to engage more actively with video materials that they perceive are directly connected with assessments and class activities.
Frey, B. A., & Sutton, J. M. (2010). A Model for Developing Multimedia Learning Projects. MERLOT Journal of Online Learning and Teaching , 6, 491-507.
Krippel, G., McKee, A.J., & Moody, J. (2010). Multimedia use in higher education: promises and pitfalls. Journal of Instructional Pedagogies, 10, Retrieved from Aabri manuscripts 09239 on February 3, 2015.
Moore, E.A. (2013, May 20). From Passive Viewing to Active Learning: Simple Techniques for Applying Active Learning Strategies to Online Course Videos.
Retrieved from Faculty Focus on February 4, 2015.
"Research-Based Guidelines for Creating Effective Video and Multimedia Learning." Information Technology at Purdue. N.p., n.d. Web. 03 Feb. 2015.
Zhu, E., & Bergom, I. (2007). Lecture capture: A guide for effective use (CRLT Occasional Paper, No. 27). University of Michigan, Center for Research on Learning and Teaching. | outside experts. You can use video to add flexibility to your course, increasing class time for interactive activities and allowing for personalized learning around online video material. See how your colleagues are using them, below.
What do I want to do and why? Consider who your audience is and how it will impact their learning.
How do I want to do it? Think about the format of the video and the presentation style to communicate your idea.
What do I need to help me? Explore the resources available, your timeframe, and additional content (e.g. images, music) you plan to include.
Choose tools and evaluate budget.
What should I use? Choose the tools you would like to use and evaluate the time required to learn the technology as well as any costs involved.
How are UBC Arts Instructors using Videos?
"One of the biggest benefits of using videos for review is the freeing up of lecture time."
"Students felt these videos are more interesting than the textbook videos and are a great source of learning."
How can videos be used to improve student learning?
To achieve the greatest benefits from using videos in your course, instructors should think about how it integrates with learning outcomes and assessment activities and communicate the purpose of watching the videos to the students. Reinforce the knowledge presented in the videos by following up with online or in-class discussions, assignments, or mini quizzes. If students see that the videos clearly connect to in class activities and assessments they will be more likely to see relevance in engaging with the videos and not see them as "extra work".
Identify key learning goals or areas where students have difficulty understanding and create short, mini-lectures to support students. These can be used for flipped classroom application (with active learning or clickers in class to review and extend on video content) or for independent student review.
Here is an example of how Linguistics created mini lectures to explain important concepts in Articulatory Phonetics. You can read more about the project here.
PowerPoint was used to outline what each segment of the video should include (images, transitions, animations, etc.). The filming was done in the D022 Recording Studio with a green screen, using a Panasonic camera. A lighting kit was used to remove shadows and brighten the room. The animations were created by Professor Strang Burton's team and post production was done by ArtsISIT in collaboration with CTLT, using a video editing software called Camtasia.
Provide a space for students to raise questions about concepts they are having difficulty understanding either in class or online. Instead of explaining these questions in class, record short DIY videos to cover the topic. Collect these videos over time to create a collection of most commonly asked questions for students to review.
Here is an example of how Dr. Nisha Malhotra from Economics created videos to cover topics that students found most challenging by conducting online polls. You can read more about the project here.
PowerPoint was used to create the slides and graphs. Using Camtasia's video capture functionality, the instructor recorded the PowerPoint presentation. Audio was recorded separately using an external USB mic in order to capture clearer audio. The video and audio files were combined in Camtasia and animations were added to highlight important points in the video.
Create pre-lecture videos for students to watch prior to attending class. This provides students with an initial exposure to the content, sparks interest, and improves students' understanding.
Here is an example of how Dr. Allen Sens from Political Science created short pre-lecture videos that students were required to watch before attending the lecture.
The videos were created using an iPad and an app called "Playback". The app will capture a video of the presenter (using the front camera on the iPad), the slides on the screen, as well as the audio. There is also a drawing feature in the app where the instructor used to emphasize important points. Minimal to no post-production was required.
Instead of providing students with an answer key to a problem, create a video (with narration) working out the solution step-by-step. To encourage students to watch the video, work out only part of the problem in the video and have students complete the rest and submit it online as an assignment or quiz (e.g. through Connect).
Here is an example of how Professor Alfredo Ferreira recorded himself as he works out the solution to math problems step-by-step. The videos were recorded with a camera and then uploaded to CLAS where students can watch the video and make annotations on specific points in the video (questions, clarifications, comments, etc.). No post production was required. To read more about how CLAS was used in Alfredo's class, click here.
Post your videos online and provide a space for students to comment and discuss about areas where they need further clarification (e.g. CLAS). This will allow student questions to be addressed in detail, especially for large classes where class time is limited. This can also provide instructors with an idea of concepts that students are struggling with and re-address misconceptions the following class as a review.
Here is an example from the Department of Music where the students' performances were recorded. The videos were recorded with a camera and then uploaded to CLAS for instructor and students to provide feedback. To read more about how CLAS was used in Music, click here.
Have learners become the creator of resources for their peers. Look for opportunities where students can create videos such as recording their presentations, writing and acting out a script, explaining a concept using animation or producing field videos. This allows students to not only reinforce what they've learned but also a learning resource for future students.
Here is an example from Linguistics where students were asked to create a video explaining a concept they were interested in. To read more about the project, click here.
Students were given the flexibility of using any software of their choice to create these videos. Some students utilized free online animation software while others created PowerPoints and turned it into a video with voice over. All filming and post-production was done by the students themselves.
Record interviews with experts in the discipline, providing examples and explaining concepts relevant to what is being covered in class. This enriches students' learning by allowing them to hear what other experts have to say about a particular topic.
Here is an example of how Dr. Eric Meyers from the School of Library and Archival Studies created a series of videos to showcase local public, special and academic libraries, allowing these institutions to tell their story. To read more about the project, click here.
The videos were filmed on-site with a Panasonic camera and a Lavalier Mic. Post-production was done by Eric's production team, using a video editing software called Final Cut Pro.
Camtasia: Camtasia is a screen recording program, fully equipped with it's own editing component for post-production. It includes a PowerPoint plugin for you to easily incorporate your presentations into your videos.
Snagit: Snagit is a screen capture program that allows you to capture your computer screen. It also allows you to mark up your screen captures with customizable arrows and speech bubbles.
VideoScribe: VideoScribe is a whiteboard video animation software that allows users to create highly dynamic and interactive animation videos on a virtual whiteboard interface.
TouchCast: TouchCast Studio is an iPad app that allows users to record videos and annotate them directly from their iPad. The app has plenty of basic editing features, including TouchCast's "vApps", which can be used to insert web pages, polls, maps, and more into your video.
FinalCut Pro/iMovie: FinalCut Pro and iMovie are video editing software applications for the MAC and iOS.
Integrate immediate assessment and feedback. Have students complete a practice assessment after viewing the video and provide immediate feedback to ensure understanding of the material. Studies show that including an assessment at the end is more effective than just viewing the materials multiple times.
Encourage note taking and reflection. Encourage students (particularly those who are unfamiliar with the topic) to take notes while watching the video or answer conceptual questions in between the video to help improve long-term retention of the material. Using a tool such as CLAS can help encourage active engagement with the material through annotation and commenting.
Keep the content focused. Avoid including interesting facts or anecdotes in your video that are not crucial to the learning experience as they become distractors that can decrease learning by reducing both recall and problem-solving performance.
Break up material into clear sections. When explaining complicated cause-and-effect concepts that are related simultaneously, divide the explanation into segments and have students view them separately before showing the full explanation. This encourages students to understand one concept before moving onto the next and allows the learner to control the pace of their learning.
Use conversation style. Use a conversational style in your videos (such as "you" and "your") rather than a formal style (such as "students should…"). This will help students to feel more personally connected to you through the video which helps to reduce the lack of presence when materials are moved online.
Emphasize important concepts. Emphasize essential material by highlighting, using pointers, zooming in, and drawing circles, to focus learners' attention on important points.
Avoid too much visual information. Try to use graphics and narration to communicate concepts. Avoid adding too much printed text to prevent cognitive overload as it is difficult for the brain to read and listen at the same time.
Limit video length. Try to limit video length for online viewing. Instead of uploading an hour long lecture, break the material into multiple, shorter videos. While 6-8 minutes is often given as a target, it is important to | 1,940 |
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$4,275,000.00 Condo | residential tower at the Seaport, Manhattan's oldest new neighborhood, offers an unprecedented waterfront lifestyle with sky-high amenities and picture-postcard views. Directly overlooking the waterfront, the 60-story tower contains an exclusive offering of homes designed by Goldstein Hill & West Architects. The custom engineered glass walls dynamically reflect the hues of the sky and the river. Residents arrive home to the only private attended Porte Cochere at the Seaport, which leads to a two-story lobby with a 24-hour concierge. The Piano Nobile Lobby Lounge features a double-sided fireplace, dramatic lighting installation and waterside terrace. Two levels of amenities designed by Russell Groves overlook the river. Spanning the entire 30th floor, The Water Club is a restorative hydrotherapy circuit with a floating glass edged infinity pool, a digitally activated rain shower, a relaxation lounge and glass enclosed steam and sauna retreats all surrounded by the scenic landscape of the New York harbor and downtown Brooklyn. The sixth floor fitness center contains an extensive range of state-of-the-art cardiovascular equipment with studios for spin, yoga and personal training. An exclusive partnership with FitLore offers each resident access to a fitness concierge, on-call spinning and training sessions and a la carte private culinary services. Adjacent to the fitness center is the SmartKids playroom, where technology and design create an immersive experience.
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On the contrary, Easter is trying to follow the law and obey the Constitution.
The dispute is about people in jail who are suspected of being an illegal immigrant. The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement requests that jails hold those inmates an additional 48 hours in order to determine if they really are in the country illegally.
But extending the holding time of people in jail is illegal without a criminal charge, warrant or court order. And doing so exposes jails to lawsuits.
For example, a U.S. Court of Appeals ruled in 2014 that a jail in Pennsylvania unjustly held a man for three days on suspicion that he might be an illegal immigrant. He was a U.S. citizen.
Before Sedgwick County releases someone it suspects might be an illegal immigrant, it contacts ICE. It then delays the release for two to five hours to give ICE time to come get the suspect.
ICE agents never come. Nor do they seem to care.
"If ICE isn't taking care of federal law that they can only enforce and now we have this issue that's being shoved down that it's all the locals' fault – that's a problem," Easter said.
The reason ICE doesn't respond likely is due to limited resources. It doesn't have the budget or capacity to round up every person suspected of being an illegal immigrant – nor has that been a priority of the U.S. government.
If Trump wants to prevent more suspected illegal immigrants from being released from jails, he<|fim_middle|> It's not the fault of local sheriffs who are obeying the law. | needs to give ICE more resources and order it to respond more quickly.
This is a federal government problem. | 21 |
The small fruit came to the United States with a little help from Thomas Jefferson.
Credit Thomas Jefferson for the figs we favor in the Carolinas: Brown Turkey, Green Ischa, White Marseilles. He brought the cuttings to Monticello from Paris near the end of the 18th century.
I've been told we're lucky to have a White Marseilles growing in our back yard (Jefferson deemed this fig "superior" for its small seeds and jammy taste), but the innards are a creamy white, which if I'm being honest is a bit disappointing to break open a fig whose center is not blushing that expected pink.
The first summer I lived in South Carolina I asked about a good place to buy figs and was pointed by a neighbor to a specific tree on the next block. I quickly learned that most<|fim_middle|> tree against the back fence obscured by ivy and strangled by wisteria. Today it serves as part fruit tree, part clubhouse, part jungle gym, and nearly every kid on the block has climbed a branch to feel how it will bow but not break. Fig is part of the Ficus family and latex comes from its cousin, the rubber tree. If you have a latex allergy, stay away from fig trees in the summer. The milky white sap can cause the same itchy contact reaction, though the fruit is not known to be an allergen.
The harvest is short, from now until mid-September, but the bounty can be overwhelming; a tree typically offers its entire crop within four weeks. Walker Miller at The Happy Berry Farm says ripe figs won't even make it a day on the counter. He says to refrigerate them for up to three days or put them in the freezer (he likes them on hot oatmeal when the weather cools, with some blueberries).
He says a fig is an "inside-out flower," which strikes me as poetic. The varieties grown here are parthenocarpic meaning a single tree will set fruit without the help of pollinator. It's the figs grown in California and the Mediterranean that need a special female wasp to fertilize and then mature the fruit by dying inside it and literally melting into an edible protein. I laugh that this wasp does not exist, nor can it survive, in the South. Did the climate or culture forbid such culinary barbarism?
A yellow-hued fig called Celeste is the fig to eat fresh; it tastes like a strawberry married a peach. Miller grows rows and rows of them at his farm in Pickens. They sell so well that he plants more trees each year.
I asked my friend, Tracy Friedlob, what she's doing with figs this year (for the record she is a clean eating blogger and columnist for Upstate Parent), and she shared her fig compote recipe with me. I like it because it uses chia seeds, which if you want to be "in the know" are a rocketing food trend.
Friedlob explained that chia puffs when it comes in contact with liquid and becomes gelatinous, turning cooked fruit into an easy, healthy jam without the use of synthetic pectin. Raw chia seeds are mostly black and similar in size to the seeds inside a fig. They are also high in potassium and dietary fiber, making the two natural partners.
She puts the compote on pancakes and biscuits and even layers it into yogurt parfaits for her family. I made it using our backyard figs (and one over-ripe peach) and ladled it warm over chicken with a bit of chili flake.
We talked about how figs seem quintessentially Southern, and she aptly remarked that figs have been here for so long, in such abundance, that they've become a staple of our food repertoire. "Capture them while they are in season" is how she put it. I think it's a remarkable idea.
Place figs, water, juice and honey in a small saucepan. Bring to a rapid boil, reduce heat to medium-low. Simmer until liquid reduces by half, about 10-15 minutes. Stir occasionally. Remove from heat and add the chia seeds. After it has cooled completely, pour into a glass container and refrigerate.
Never pick an unripe fig.
Figs are a climacteric fruit. They need a burst of ethylene gas from Mother Nature within their cellular structure to begin the ripening process.
The short stem of the fig will begin to bend and then the fruit will droop and look heavy. If you see a bit of cracking along the flesh, the fruit is ripe and will taste "just like eating sugar."
Pick a fig by the stem. Grab hold of the stem securely with your fingers and pull it down. It will come away cleanly from the branch and keep the fig from quickly rotting.
Booth at The Saturday Market. | consider the perishable fruit community property; if you can beat the squirrels and the birds, then you're welcome to them. Fig trees pepper Carolina neighborhoods along sidewalks and yards and everyone has an opinion about which tree is best for eating or jamming or roasting.
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The Art of Boxing : Your Guide to the Sweet Science (Hard Copy)
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The Art of Sparring: Your Guide to Ring Tactics (PDF) | boxing trainer and judge Bobby Mayne.
This is a comprehensive training guide for boxing and combat sports in general. Topics covered range from the fundamentals; such as stance, basic technique and defences, to conditioning and preparation for competition. Much emphasis is placed on drill work and repetition on working technique and applying it from partner work to mittwork and punching bags.
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'The Art of Boxing: Your Guide to the Sweet Science' is written by world class boxing trainer and judge Bobby Mayne, drawing from 40 years' experience in the sport. Starting as a 13-year old novice boxer through to professional boxing judge and now a world-class boxing coach, "coach Bobby Boxrite" has trained numerous boxers both at amateur and professional levels to state, national, regional and world championship titles.
This coaching book draws from the experiences of the author, guiding the reader through the process of training, highlighting the technical skills and tactics, and working through the fitness and conditioning, providing effectively proven examples of training programs to assist aspiring boxers for success in the boxing ring. There is a chapter dedicated to the roles of boxing officials giving the reader an insight on the scoring criteria used in a bout, providing that edge for both boxers and coaches of how boxing tactics can influence the judges' scores.
Other topics covered to improving training:
-Boxing fundamentals
-Effective boxing combination punching
-Using boxing equipment
-Boxing defensive skills
-Counterpunching drills
-Ringcraft
-Strength and conditioning for boxing
-Periodization of training
-Rules and Regulations for competition
The complete coaching guide for boxing, MMA competitors, personal trainers and fitness enthusiasts.
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I like the title of this training manual because it is an accurate description of the sport of boxing. This comprehensive training manual is a valuable teaching aid for boxers from novices to top level professionals because it covers different aspects of the training from the important fundamentals of the sport, how to apply these skills correctly in sparring and competition, and to implement a training program to include fitness and conditioning which is vital for a boxer preparing for a bout. This manual will also prove to be a valuable reference tool for coaching boxers
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The Most Instagrammable Spots in Minneapolis
Take a picture! It lasts longer.
On the lookout for a unique snapshot? Get the gram in Minneapolis! Rain, shine or snow, we've got you covered. From waterfalls, murals and sculptures to skylines and an amber box, check out some of the city's best locations for the perfect Instagram photo.
1. Bob Dylan Mural
Geotag: Bob Dylan mural
Hashtag: #BobDylanMural
Find it now!
Designed by artist Eduardo Kobra, the Bob Dylan mural on Hennepin and 5th St. in downtown Minneapolis can't help but catch the eye of every passerby. Why Bob Dylan?<|fim_middle|> View
These local restaurants are serving up the best views in Minneapolis. | Well, didn't you know he's a born and raised Minnesotan? Though he grew up a couple hours north of the city, Dylan lived in Minneapolis for a short period of time in his youth. In fact, his song 'Along the Watchtower' is said to be written about an old Minneapolis water tower, now referred to as the Witches Hat Tower!
This colorful kaleidoscopic design brings a bright slice of beauty to the urban setting. Located just off the light rail, getting to and from is as easy as could be!
2. Spoonbridge and Cherry
Geotag: Minneapolis Sculpture Garden
Hashtag: #SpoonbridgeAndCherry and #MinneapolisSculptureGarden
Instagram Account: @minneapolissculpturegarden
Stop by the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden and snap a pic with this funky sculpture, one of Minneapolis' most iconic symbols. Created by Claes Oldenburg and Coosje Van Bruggen, Spoonbridge and Cherry is one of their most celebrated collaborations and the first work commissioned for the sculpture garden. The spoon's raised bowl is said to have reminded Oldenburg of the prow of a Viking ship or a duck bobbing in a lake – pretty Minnesotan if you ask us! More than 50 feet long, this fountain-sculpture is quirky and picture perfect, with the Minneapolis downtown skyline beautifully situated behind.
Gift of Frederick R. Weisman in honor of his parents, William and Mary Weisman, 1988
© Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen
3. Minnehaha Falls (particularly in the winter)
Geotags: Minnehaha Falls (1) and Minnehaha Falls (2)
Hashtags: #MinnehahaFalls
Pick a season, any season, and head on over to Minnehaha Falls Regional Park. Home to a stunning waterfall and the lower reaches of Minnehaha Creek, it's the lively falls that you can't miss. Sprawling with foliage in the summers and covered in a striking display of ice in the winter, there's no bad time to visit. Follow worn-in paths down along the creek for a hike through the scenic oasis (one of many!) hidden in our urban landscape.
4. Star wall at First Avenue (featuring Prince)
Geotags: First Avenue & 7th St Entry
Hashtags: #FirstAve
Formerly the Greyhound bus station until 1968, this historic venue is the music-lovers dream. As one of the longest running independently owned and operated clubs in the country, First Avenue is near and dear to the heart of Minneapolis. Along one of its outside walls are stars featuring First Ave. favorites from the past, present and (blank stars for) the future. Among these stars is Minneapolis native, Prince. Unlike the others, which are painted a silvery-gray, Prince's star is a bright gold, signifying his roots in the city and his importance to not only the global and national community, but to the local music scene as well. Check out a show (you won't regret it) or just check out the wall. Find your favorite artists and snap a shot with Prince's star!
5. Foshay Observation Deck
Geotag: W Minneapolis – The Foshay
Hashtag: #FoshayObservationDeck
The Foshay Tower is known as the first skyscraper built in Minnesota, and remained the tallest building in the city from 1929-1971. Now home to The W Minneapolis hotel and the Foshay Museum, the observation deck showcases an incredible view of downtown (it's smack-dab in the middle of it!) from 30 stories high. Tickets are affordable and the view is next to none, so leave your fear of heights at home and go get the gram!
6. Grain Belt Beer Sign
Geotag: Hennepin Avenue Bridge
Hashtag: #GrainBeltSign
Situated above the Hennepin Avenue Bridge on the edge of Northeast Minneapolis, the longstanding Grain Belt Beer sign is… kind of awesome. Built in the 1940s to showcase the popular beer brand, the sign was purchased by August Schell Brewing Co. and, after more than 20 years in the dark, the sign was relit just before the 2018 New Year! A reminder of Minneapolis' unique past, it now shines bright every night, reflected on the Mississippi River just below. Go see for yourself just how cool it is to have a giant beer sign right in the middle of the city. We're pretty fond of it.
7. Guthrie Theater's Endless Bridge and Amber Box
Geotags: Guthrie Theater & Endless Bridge
Hashtags: #GuthrieTheater #EndlessBridge #AmberBox
Instagram Account: @guthrietheater
Alright, so 'endless' is a bit of an exaggeration and 'bridge' isn't exactly accurate, but you get the idea, right? A favorite hot spot for the best views of the Mississippi River, Guthrie Theater's Endless Bridge is a cantilever –think of it as a bridge with only one end– that extends 178 feet from the face of the Guthrie Theater in downtown Minneapolis. Right above it you'll find the Amber box, a popular location for wedding photos, graduation pictures and prom poses galore. The Amber Box is another cantilever that protrudes 15 feet from the building and provides a near 360-degree view of Minneapolis from its groovy yellow windows.
7. Stone Arch Bridge
Geotags: Stone Arch Bridge and St. Anthony Falls
Hashtags: #StoneArchBridge
This former railroad route turned pedestrian bridge is an iconic landmark of Minneapolis. Located right next to the Guthrie, it is the only arched bridge made of stone along the entire length of the Mississippi River – neat, right? Plus, it's got superb views of the downtown skyline, St. Anthony Falls, and the river beneath. On one end lies St. Anthony Main, one of the oldest parts of the city, and on the other lies the Mill City Museum, built into the ruins of what was once the world's largest flour mill prior to its infamous explosion. One of the best places for a bike ride, a jog, or in this case, a photo op!
9. Mary Tyler Moore statue on Nicollet
Geotag: Mary Tyler Moore Statue
Hashtag:#MaryTylerMooreStatue
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Located on Nicollet and 7th in downtown Minneapolis, this iconic and beloved statue is a must-see for visitors and even locals. The statue captures the iconic moment Mary throws her tam in the air during the opening credits of the Mary Tyler Moore Show. Following the loss of the actress herself in 2017, the statue has seen tourists from all over visit and pay their respects to the star. The statue is well-loved by city dwellers and she even received her own hand-knit pair of Bold North mittens during Minnesota's Super Bowl LII!
10. Purple Raindrop in North Minneapolis
Geotag: Farview Park
Hashtag: #PurpleRaindrop
Esther Osayande's Purple Raindrop in Farview Park pays tribute to Prince's iconic song,"Purple Rain" and honors his memory. The sculpture stands at just over 15 feet tall and is coated in a shade named "purple reign."
Most Outrageous Foods in Minneapolis
Minneapolis is a place for foodies—there's no denying that. Challenge yourself to some of the city's most memorable dishes! (St. Paul even made the cut.)
Our Favorite Coffee Shops and Cozy Spots
From Victorian to Industrial themed décor, Minneapolis is nothing short of an abundance of coffee shops and cozy spots. Grab one of many unique drinks, set up shop and be productive, or curl up and meet a friend. Here are a few of our authentically-Minneapolis favorites!
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Local community pillars that have been in business for more than 50 years
By Julie Winsel
Between 1960 and 1980, Eugene saw a lot of local and national history. John F. Kennedy campaigned here in 1960, a new city hall opened in 1964, Autzen Stadium opened in 1967, we saw anti-war protests and bombings at the University of Oregon in 1970, and we hosted our first US Olympic Track trials in 1972, among many other events. In a time of civil rights movements, counter culture movements, and many shifts in our social, political, and economic landscapes, Eugene became a community focused on its people and a safe haven for those who were anti-establishment.
From this were born many businesses and organizations both as a response to this shift as well as filling a need for growth and development. There are many of these businesses and organizations that are still around and are now pillars of our community. Many of them started together, working to build a better community for themselves and those around them.
These businesses all saw common threads between the time they opened and now, including the growth in Eugene, in regards to the job market, population, and overall vibrancy of the city. All of these businesses have a love for their communities and have always worked to adapt their businesses to fit the needs of Eugene and beyond.
Despite the growth, many community values have stayed the same. "Eugene has clearly grown since 1969, but it has retained its support for local, grassroots businesses and activism," says Stephanie Talbot, assistant manager at the Oregon Country Fair.
Eugene has also stayed interwoven community that works together to continue its own success. "Eugene is a community that works together to address common concerns," says Tuesday Scott, development associate at ShelterCare. "We are known throughout the state as being exceptionally collaborative."
These businesses make up the core of our community. All are integral voices to our city's past, present, and future.
The Kiva Grocery (1970)
George Brown was an "apple knocker" up in Washington when he got a call from a couple of friends who had just moved to Eugene from California. They were opening a "hippie mall" with space for a couple other small shop owners (including Lazar and Rosie Makyadeth from Lazar's Bazar) and asked him if he wanted to open up a bookstore. He agreed, moving into the garage where the Aurora Building now sits and opening up shop in 1970. In the next year, the grocer next door abruptly left, leaving only a note that Brown could take it over as he had loaned them some money to open an herb and spices section. Brown made the life-changing decision to take it on.
He and his wife, Melissa, who has been apart of the business since 2004, said that, at that time, there wasn't the distribution network there is now. George would drive to his suppliers for his weekly stock, helping little known brands, including Springfield Creamery (Nancy's Yogurt), get shelf space and recognition. Even now, they still source all their produce, cheese, and meat locally.
They moved into their current space in 1983, in the middle of the night on the fourth of July, carrying their produce case on a forklift down West 11th to get it between the two buildings, which were only a few blocks apart. They remodeled in 2010 to build in their commercial kitchen and expand their deli.
Both George and Melissa said that it was rewarding to see the same customers day to day and decade to decade, as well as the staff they've been able to hire and work with. "There's a tremendous amount of heart with our people and that's just huge," Melissa says.
Melissa says how much she loves other small neighborhood markets that are still around in Eugene. "I do really love how every neighborhood's market is just a little different," she says. "We all have this thread of commonality, but we're also all different in our own way."
The Kiva Grocery | Mon-Fri, 8 am-8 pm; Sat-Sun, 9 am-8 pm | 125 W 11th Ave. | 541/342-8666 | kivagrocery.com
White Bird Clinic (1970)
The White Bird Clinic has a true grassroots beginning, starting in the late '60s as a response to a lack of trust for mainstream institutions from those who were part of the major counter culture movement in that time. According to Benjamin Brubaker, clinic co-coordinator and member of the executive team, there was a realization that people weren't getting the help they needed, their health conditions were getting worse, and there was not place for people to go who were having any sort of crisis. Many community members, including local professionals and people from the University of Oregon, stepped up to provide a volunteer-run 24/7 crisis line and walk-in options for no or low cost medical care.
Since their opening, they've expanded their reach tremendously, adding in programs like their CAHOOTS vans, their Chrysalis Behavioral Health Outpatient Clinic, a dental clinic, and additional programs, all adapting to meet the needs of the community. They provide a landing area for those without one, including mailing services, a phone and bathroom to use, and just a place to be inside for a little while.
"We've been able to build rapport with lots and lots and lots of people," Brubaker says. "And that open door policy of serving anyone regardless of their socio-economic class or whatever background or demographic they're coming from–we try to meet everybody with the same basic level of human-to-human, client-centered, trauma-informed care. I think that's really been a big way that White Bird's really been able to embed itself in the community more and more."
Brubacker says there's a lot of synergy between groups in Eugene and they work together to support each other's strengths and weaknesses, and have since White Bird's start. "There's a lot of people that are really intelligent, really have a good mind, and are very socially aware and socially conscious," he says. "And that all of those folks are working together to try to make their local community better and to try to create a culture and environment that's really welcoming for people."
White Bird is looking to the future and how they can best support the community, but they need your help. If you're interested in volunteering or assisting them in some way, give them a call.
White Bird Clinic | 341 E 12th Ave. | 541/342-8255 | whitebirdclinic.org
Oregon Country Fair (1969)
Nearing 50 years of arts, entertainment, and magic, the Oregon Country Fair has grown dramatically since its start as a Renaissance Faire in 1969, serving as a fundraiser for a Eugene alternative school. Now, they own more than 500 acres in Veneta and average 45,000 attendees every year. "The fair is a multi-generational event that values our elders and roots while also finding relevant ways to engage youth," assistant manager Stephanie Talbot says. It's this balance of old and new that makes the fair appeal to grandparents and kids alike."
Talbot says that the fair is still a fundraiser for their philanthropic programs that donate thousands of dollars each year to local non-profits.
With its many booths, exhibits, parades, and hippie energy, the fair is definitely an area standout. Talbot stressed that there is always something new each year. "The fair has many annual traditions, such as our daily parades and vendors that have been there for decades," she says, "yet it also features fresh art, entertainment, and magic every year."
Talbot says her favorite part of doing business in Eugene is the people. "Eugene is a great town to have our event near as there are hundreds of locals who have made the fair part of their annual summer plans as well as many new arrivals who we get to wow for the first time," she says. "We also have a great synergy with other local organizations such as Eugene Saturday Market, White Bird Clinic, and others."
Oregon Country Fair | July 12-14, 2019 | 24207 Hwy. 126, Veneta | 541/343-4298 | oregoncountryfair.org
Springfield Creamery/Nancy's Yogurt (1960)
Chuck and Sue Kesey first opened the Springfield Creamery as a dairy processing business, supplying gallon-size glass jugs of milk to other local creameries, area homes, and schools in Springfield. They ran it this way for 10 years, while Chuck, with his background in cultured products and probiotics, experimented. When Nancy Van Brasch Hamren, who had experience with yogurt making, joined the team as a bookkeeper in 1969, Nancy's Yogurt was born as the first yogurt made with L. acidophilus cultures.
Since then, the company has taken off, but Sheryl Kesey Thompson, Chuck and Sue's daughter and co-owner, says the company's culture hasn't changed. "We still strive to run a business that offers our employees and their families a good life, while make good, healthy food," she says. "We continue to try to be a company that does good for our community."
Sue Kesey says their secret to success is simple, "Like what you do and do it with people you like. Believe that what you are doing is making a difference."
"We have thrived in the Eugene-Springfield area, both as a family and as a business, because of the great cultural environment of the area, as well as the number of supporting businesses, suppliers, and friends in the area that make operating a food business much easier and rewarding," Kesey Thompson says. "The folks in this community have been amazingly supportive to our company, through devastating fires and simply buying our products each day in the local community. We could not be more grateful."
Springfield Creamery/Nancy's Yogurt | Products found at many local stores | 541/689-2911 | nancysyogurt.com
ShelterCare (1970)
ShelterCare, first known as Eugene Emergency Housing, began in 1970 in response to the concern that Eugene didn't have appropriate housing options for homeless families. According to development associate Tuesday Scott, there were organizations who could house adult homeless men and women in the community, but there was little for families who needed a landing area before making their next move.
"Community members representing congregations, service providers, and government representatives gathered in a church basement and planned to open a small, modestly supported shelter space to serve families with children," Scott says. "Families typically stayed just a few days before moving on to stable housing in the community."
Since their first opening on Christmas Eve, 1970, ShelterCare has expanding their services to tackle the "affordability gap" between household income and the cost of housing as well as building programs to respond to the "root causes" of homelessness, including those suffering serious mental illness and substance abuse disorder. "In the past decade, we have adopted 'housing first' practices, planting individuals quickly in housing and then providing the supports required to help them address the root causes for their homeless situation," Scott says.
"Good news is that recovery is now embraced," she continues. "Now we know that individuals are not their disability and recovery happens as individuals find meaningful expression for their lives–in enjoyment, art, community engagement, etc."
ShelterCare | Mon-Fri, 8:30 am-4:30 pm | 499 W 4th Ave. | 541/686-1262 | sheltercare.org
Oregon Bach Festival (1970)
For two weeks in July every summer, the Oregon Bach Festival (OBF) celebrates classical music (particularly Bach), with homage paid through live performances, expert presentations, workshops, and reinterpretations. It was started in 1970 when a German organist and conductor, Helmuth Rilling, came to the University of Oregon for a series of workshops and informal performances. Rilling and co-founder Royce Saltzman combines forces, growing the festival into today's big event.
"For OBF, the greatest change has come from the expansion of arts organizations and the community's unflinching willingness to accept them, engage with them, and nurture them," says Josh Gren, director of marking and communications. "When OBF began in the early '70s, the Eugene Symphony was in its adolescence. There was no Opera, Ballet, or Concert Choir. In 2018, Eugene boasts all of these things, plus the stunning Hult Center for the Performing Arts, a second balley company, Oregon Contemporary Theatre, and a myriad of others. OBF is extremely fortunate to be part of a city and cultural community that supports and values that plethora of performing arts."
Gren gives credit to the many people involved for the festival's<|fim_middle|> a German dessert, the Prince Puckler's Bombe, the business was successful from the beginning.
While they've moved a couple times and had other ventures, including a pizza parlor for about ten years and, at one time, five different stores, they've never stopped hand making all their own ice cream, which they have been doing in their facility in the Whitaker neighborhood. Robertson's daughter is their main ice cream maker, although he is still involved in the process as well.
Now, with just their one location and wholesale business, selling to a couple shops in Hood River and around Portland as well as to local restaurants like Beppe and Gianni's and Cosmic Pizza, they're happy with where they are. Robertson says one of their goals was, "to become part of the community, and we have." They are very well integrated and always willing to give back, offering an ice cream cone at school events and to the new ROTC recruits.
Even though they're sticking to one store and their wholesale business, they don't get nervous when other ice cream businesses open. "We've had a lot of different people come into the ice cream business over the years," Robertson says, "and, actually, it's always been a good thing for us because sometimes, when you have the business for a long time, you get complacent. And so, when other people have come into the business, we've always, without exception, done better than we've done before."
Prince Puckler's | Mon-Sun, 12 pm-11 pm | 1605 E 19th Ave. | 541/344-4418 | princepucklers.com
Michaels Books (1975)
Jeremy Nissel purchased a book store in 1973, opening J. Michaels Books in 1975. Now, after first an expansion in their original space and then a move to their current space 33 years ago, the bookstore has remained successful, despite the changes to how books are sold. "The advent of the internet, large chain bookstores, and Amazon have vastly changed the bookselling landscape," Nissel says.
Still, Nissel is hopeful. "I think the secret to our success is that we love what we do," he says. "We have spent 43 years curating a collection of books that we offer that is of extremely high quality across a broad spectrum of categories."
Nissel loves Eugene's community. He says, "My favorite parts of doing business in Eugene is seeing my loyal and faithful customers continue to appreciate how we serve the community and meeting new customers who are thrilled to have found us."
Michaels Books | Mon-Sat, 10 am-5:30 pm; Sun, 11 am-5 pm | 160 E Broadway #A | 541/342-2002 | jmichaelsbooks.com
Lazar's Bazar (1974)
Lazar's Bazar is an everything store, and has been since owner Lazar Makyadath sold tapestries door to door. "People liked what I had and they would request for more things, so I would ask my supplier to send more things," Lazar says. "So it just built up, from a backpack, then to a suitcase."
Lazar and his wife, Rosie, worked together to continue to build the business, especially after they moved into the same building as the Kiva's first location. She would man the business during the day and, once Lazar got off work, he would help out. They were always listening to what their customers wanted, a key factor in their success and how they handle their business today. "People ask for it, we got it," Lazar says.
They expanded, first moving into a space on Willamette, then one of Broadway, finally settling into their current space in 1983. They took advantage of the inexpensive real estate at the time, when many businesses were vacating downtown. They've seen it upturn since. "We've seen a lot of Eugene's ups and downs," Rosie says. "It was dead for a while, then it started up little by little."
They started selling skateboards when their son, Priya, got involved in the business when he was 10 years old and shoes (officially opening Shoe-a-Holic in 1992). Lazar would also go into businesses that were closing and buy their fixtures, to "buy something for the memory of that store," he says. "I used to have a lot of stores' fixtures in my store–still, I may have them."
"I work every day," Lazar says. "The family is a big thing in the business. We've been all working together, still working together." He wants to thank everyone for helping them be successful.
Lazar's Bazar | Mon-Fri, 10 am-8 pm; Sat, 10 am-7 pm; Sun, 12 pm-6 pm | 57 W Broadway | 541/687-0139 | lazarseugene.com
Full City Coffee Roasters (1979)
Michael Finney, owner of Full City Coffee is a coffee expert. He learned how to properly roast and brew during his time working at the Coffee Corner. When he opened Full City, he came in with a wealth of experience and connections to local farmers in Sumatra, Colombia, and Guatemala.
They opened their Pearl Street location in 1990 wanting "to create a friendly, convenient, warm, and welcoming café where locals and visitors alike could savor the world's great coffees," according to their website. They also serve pastries, sourced from their sister company, The Palace Bakery. Their High Street location opened in 2005.
Full City still roasts their beans every morning.
Full City Coffee Roasters | Mon-Fri, 7 am-6 pm; Sat-Sun, 7 am-5 pm | 295 E 13th Ave. | 541/465-9270 | Mon-Fri, 5:30 am-6 pm; Sat, 6:30 am-6 pm; Sun, 7 am-5 pm | 842 Pearl St. | 541/344-0475 | full-city.com
Valley River Center (1969)
Developers flew over the Delta area of Eugene in the '60s, scouting out the land. According to Rob McOmie, senior property manager at Valley River Center, they were looking for a site for a new Fred Meyer location, but felt area along the river would be perfect for a shopping mall. Valley River Center opened in August 1969, complete with the signature funnel, designed by the current owner, May Stores.
At the time, malls were very different. They still had the anchor department stores, but they were also where people did their grocery shopping, went to a pharmacy, or visited local merchants, rather than the mainstream brand names you see today. McOmie says that Valley River Center has adapted to fit the changing mall landscape, including creating more recreational and comfortable spaces when malls become the spot to meet up with friends.
Now, Valley River Center is going through another renovation, adding a new front entrance, outdoor plazas, and 14,000 square feet of new retail and restaurant space. The remodel is expected to be completed this fall.
Valley River Center | Mon-Sat, 10 am-9 pm; Sun, 11 am-7 pm | 293 Valley River Center | 541/683-55113 | valleyrivercenter.com
Richardson Sports (1970)
Originally founded in the mid-'60s, Richardson Sports was purchased from his business partner and renamed in 1970 by Neil Richardson. According to Kelly Richardson, current CEO and Neil's son, the company designed and produced their first Richardson brand baseball cap, now their signature product, in the early '80s. "These early baseball caps were well received by our customers and allowed us to expand distribution nationally," Kelly Richardson says. "The demand for high-quality, custom-made baseball caps continued to grow and pushed us to add new styles and expand our customization capabilities."
Because of the headwear market boom in the '90s, Richardson Sports was able to expand into new markets and distribution channels. Today, they have about 250 employees at their Springfield headquarters and satellite offices in Ohio and Pittsburgh. "We're definitely a larger, more diverse company, and we have a much broader reach than when we opened," Richardson says. "But we still try to maintain a small, family-owned culture and make sure we keep delivering the high-quality products and services that helped us get to where we are today."
Richardson says he loves Eugene's sports and recreation culture, "which aligns well with what our business is all about," he says. "The UO is a great resource for local businesses and creates a strong pool of educated talent. If your business is centered on sports and you enjoy beautiful rivers, mountains, and the ocean, there are few places better than Eugene."
Richardson Sports | Products found at many stores nationwide | richardsonsports.com
Hutchinson Cox (1970)
Stephen A. Hutchinson and John G. Cox, who wanted to open their own firm, started Hutchinson Cox in 1970. Although they are both retired now, their firm continues.
"The ethos of the firm has not changed," Cox says. "Those succeeding the founders have continued to grow the firm, move the firm to a newer and central downtown location while keeping it financially sound."
"The firm has expanded as it attracted and kept excellent attorneys in a variety of specialty areas of law," Hutchinson says. "An open, professional, and collegial atmosphere promotes shared high ethical values and work performance."
Hutchinson describes Eugene as a "cosmopolitan city with a small town commute time." Even though Eugene is relatively small, "with a major university that provides diversity from all over the world (not to mention world class sports recognition), and a thriving local arts, music, and theatre community, there is something for everyone," he says. "So law practice was as diverse as in any major city."
Hutchinson-Cox | 940 Willamette St., Suite 400 | 541/686-9160 | eugenelaw.com
Lane Transit District (1970)
In 1969, ORS 267, which allowed Oregon to form special transit districts to provide public transportation, was passed, filling a community need for a way to get around. LTD gave its first rides in two vans and 18 former school buses in November 1970, giving an alternative transportation method to about 2,200 passengers a day.
Now, even with more than 100 vehicles, 37,000 passengers a day, and the newly established west Eugene route, LTD still lives up to their mission statement: "We believe in providing people with the independence to achieve their goals, creating a more vibrant, sustainable, and equitable community."
"This means that we provide safe and reliable transit services that address the needs of the community along with high quality transportation options, programs, and services," says Therese Lang, LTD public information officer. "Additionally, we provide leadership in the development of the region's transportation system and we practice sound fiscal management of the organization."
Lang says that the community engagement is of utmost importance to LTD. "We would not be here if it weren't for the support that our community has for us," she says, "and we hope to maintain that support by continuing to provide the safest and most reliable transportation possible now and into the future.
LTD | See website for transit schedule | 541/687-5555 | ltd.org
The Lampworker:
Bob Snodgrass' 50-year glassblowing legacy
Interior Design:
Custom car upholstery with Jon Lind
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Local doctors succeed at work-life balance | success, as well as the community. "If there is a secret, it must be the stellar OBF administration, the University of Oregon, OBF volunteers, and the unparalleled musicians that combine to make up the OBF family," he says. "It takes a skilled, dedicated, and passionate group of people to create such an event. OBF has been the lucky recipient of those forces for nearly 50 years."
Oregon Bach Festival | July, 2019 | 975 E 18th Ave. | 541/346-5666 | oregonbachfestival.org
Saturday Market (1970)
"There were three main factors that led to the start of the Saturday Market," says Courtney Kauffman, Eugene Saturday Market assistant manager. "The first was a large community of artisans and a strong interest in buying and using local crafts. The second was an abundance of local produce and no downtown outlet since the closing of the farmers market in the '50s. The third was a dying downtown in need of revitalizing." The idea came when Lotte Streisinger, a Eugene potter, community advocate, and one of the original founders, visited a Worlds Crafts Conference in Peru and went to the local marketplace, which she felt would be perfect for Eugene.
The first market opened in May 1970 with "29 vendors, volunteer staff, and conflict with the City officials and downtown business owners," Kauffman says. Now, they average more than 250 vendors each Saturday and the relationship with the rest of the city has improved. "In 2018, Saturday Market is considered a Eugene institution and one of the best ways to spend a Saturday in Lane County," she says.
Approaching their 50th season, they've always kept their mission close their hearts. "Everything sold at the market is made, grown, or gathered by the person selling it (or a family member or partner)," Kauffman says. This means that there are to be no imported or second-hand goods, thus insuring the direct relationship between the maker and the buyer. Saturday Market is a business incubator, providing low-cost, low-risk means to make a living as an artist."
Saturday Market | April-November, Sat, 10 am-5 pm | Office: 30 E Broadway #124 | 541/686-8885 | eugenesaturdaymarket.org
Looking Glass (1970)
"Looking Glass started as a group of volunteers, primarily UO students, that provided help and support to runaways and homeless youth on the streets of Eugene," says Craig Opperman, Looking Glass president and CEO. This started in 1970, organized by Deborah Warness. Since their start, they have continued to develop programs to help vulnerable populations, becoming nationally accredited and growing to serve children, youth, adults, and families.
"Our secret to more than 40 years of success is simple," Opperman says. "We have a dedicated staff that passionately provide an essential service to the community. However, that is easier said than done. Being able to grow and change as needed is vital. We focus on quality programs that have measurable outcomes and success and exceed national standards of care."
"I really appreciate the concern and compassion of the Eugene community," he continues. "We have citizens that are engaged and involved in making our city safe and healthy . . . Eugene is supportive of a good quality of life for everyone."
Looking Glass | 1790 W 11th Ave., Suite 200 | 541/686-2688 | lookingglass.us
Sundance Natural Foods (1971)
Gavin McComas, who has been involved with Sundance Natural Foods since 1983, describes the market as a "mission-driven company." "Sundance's mission–'individuals nourishing community, nourishing individuals'–implies that we can practice right livelihood by being nurturing in how we relate to others, as well as in how we choose the foods we sell," he says. "We also believe that we can practice our ideals, 'walk our talk,' while at the same time being an effective and reasonably efficient business; we can sustain reciprocal accountability while maintaining a positive, playful, empowered workplace where employees are treated fairly and compensated as well as possible."
McComas is not the original owner of Sundance Natural Foods. The market first opened in 1971, taking up only a fifth of the building it occupies now, with owners Bob and Janice Crolene. The Crolenes sold the business less than a year later to Judith Osborn and her then husband, Anthony, who had both been working at the Market. Anthony stepped away and Judith stepped up, holding the business until 1983. She sold it to McComas and his father, Gordon.
The McComases were able to renew Sundance, building a commercial kitchen that went through much iteration in a separate location, completely taking over their building, and opening Sundance Wine Cellars in 1990 (currently at 2441 Hilyard Street).
Although they've made changes to the original market, they still uphold its original values. McComas says, "Sundance is enthusiastically aligned with the values of the natural foods movement that arose out of the counter cultural values of caring for the environment by growing foods organically and locally; emphasizing a plant-based diet for personal health, environmental, and out of compassion for the suffering of agricultural animals; respect for diversity of individuals who work and shop with us, and collaborative management."
Sundance Natural Foods | Mon-Sun, 7 am-11 pm | 748 E 24th Ave. | 541/343-9142 | sundancenaturalfoods.com
BRING Recycling (1971)
BRING Recycling was born out of the need to reduce, reuse, and recycle. They opened in 1971, a year after the first Earth Day, at the same time as the introduction of the Bottle Bill, the Clean Water Act, and the Clean Air Act. It was first a recycling center where community members could drop off their recyclables. BRING would take them to the transfer station and process them as a service, doing this until home recycling pick up started in the '90s. As this service was 80 percent of BRING's revenue, according to Carolyn Stein, executive director, BRING needed to change up their business model.
They started working towards the more "reuse" side of recycling that they are today, taking in more household goods and working towards creating more of an education culture by selling water catching systems, sustainable gardening tools, and artwork. They wanted to emphasize, "reuse is creative and practical; affordable and beautiful," Stein says. Their current outreach programs include a pilot program with the City of Eugene trying to keep construction material waste out of the woodchip bin.
"I love the community that is involved with BRING in a variety of different ways," Stein says. "Builders, artists, businesses–we have such a vast and really diverse community in terms of what we like or how we live our lives, but we have these basic things in common. I love that we have so many unique perspectives."
BRING Recycling | Mon-Sat, 9 am-5 pm; Sun, 10 am-5 pm | 4446 Franklin Blvd. | 541/746-3023 | bringrecycling.org
Uncommon Scents at the Meridian (1974)
Uncommon Scents at the Meridian is an aroma wonderland. The inviting store peaks your curiosity, which you're encouraged to indulge with their display of fragrance samples.
The store was started by Chuck Agol and his business partner, Mark, in the Atrium Building downtown in 1974. Eva Prommen, current owner at Uncommon Scents the Meridian, joined the team in the '80s. They opened an additional store at 5th Street Market, attempted a store in Portland, and ran a wholesale business. Prommen says only the 5th Street Market and wholesale business side were successful. The team eventually came together with a couple other business owners and bought the Meridian Building, where they currently stand.
In the mid-2000s, Agol wanted to take the business online while Prommen wanted to keep the storefront. The business split–Uncommon Scents went online and Uncommon Scents at the Meridian was born in 2008.
Prommen is clearly passionate about the Eugene community and got emotional when explaining her love for the city. "It's just really special to be part of the community," she says. "And being important to the community. We are a destination store and we've been doing that for a long time . . . What's important to the city is important to you and also providing that with integrity with a sense of passion that those things are right to be striving for."
Uncommon Scents at the Meridian | Mon-Fri, 10 am-7 pm; Sat, 10 am-6 pm; Sun, 11 am-5 pm | The Meridian Building, 1801 Willamette St. #120 | 541/683-5835 | uncommonscentsmeridian.com
Prince Puckler's (1975)
Jim Robertson grew up in San Francisco, where he had seen a line wrap around the block to get into Bud's Ice Cream, which had delicious ice cream, but could only fit two people in the store at a time. Attending the UO at the time, Robertson saw a need for an ice cream parlor in Eugene and his father had a friend who knew Al Edlin, the owner of Bud's. Robertson convinced Edlin to train him, bought his equipment, and moved it to the Atrium Building in Eugene. Named after | 2,098 |
We watched a film last night, LUCKY THEM, ON DEMAND, via Time Warner. I believe it is also available out in theaters (It is an I<|fim_middle|> I enjoyed from start to finish, which I find is harder and harder to do each month anymore.
I highly recommend this film. It was a well-crafted film with some great performances by some of the best actors around. | FC Film, so may be in limited run).
I am huge fan of of it's star, Toni Collette. She co-stars with the equally brilliant, Thomas Haden Church. Collette's character ("Ellie Klug") is a rock journalist (ala Almost Famous) who assists Church's "Charlie," who is producing a documentary of an iconic, cultish but dead rock legend--I thought when listening to the music and singing of the subject of the documentary as a reference to the brilliant Jeff Buckley. I'm not sure if that was the film's intent. But it was evocative.
The movie also stars Oliver Platt and Ryan Eggold (a delicious looking man who plays an up and coming singer/musican, "Lucas Stone." It also includes a brief yet powerful, poignant and uncredited appearance by Johnny Depp (perfectly cast) at the end of the movie.
The biggest surprise was that the film was executive produce by Joanne Woodward and the movie is dedicated to her deceased husband, Paul Newman.
This is a wonderful film. Great actors. Excellent direction by Megan Griffiths.
I have enjoyed a small handful of wide-released and independent films this year to date. A couple were memorable. But this kept me awake on my sofa. It proves that Toni Collette and Thomas Haden Church are two of the best actors of the generation. It was also a film that | 284 |
Business lending slumps, so CBA and others turn to housing
Banks will move to make money from housing while they can, writes Glenn Dyer.
Glenn Dyer,
Figures out today from the Australian Bureau of Statistics confirm that business lending continues to contract, personal finance is weak and housing is booming by comparison.
They're figures that shine an interesting light on the CBA's move to lift it's variable housing rate slightly at the end of last week.
Going on the ABS' numbers, there has been a 12.9% plunge in commercial finance in the month, which is as big a contraction as we have seen.
The dollar figures are even more amazing: down from $31.086 billion in March, seasonally adjusted, to $27.06 billion in April. That's a $4 billion contraction, according to the ABS.
That figure jumps around a lot and there's some element of loans rolling over, but it's a sign of how quiet demand from business is at the moment.
The fall in commercial finance overshadowed a $300 million rise in the seasonally adjusted figure for housing from $15.750<|fim_middle|> finance figures therefore make something of a mockery of the reaction to the Commonwealth Bank's 0.10% rise in its variable home loan rates and increases to its fixed lending rates.
If the Bank had wanted to remove itself from having the cheapest loan it would have lifted rates by around 0.20% or even 0.25%. The 0.10% was a try on, to see what the level of criticism would be.
The real area of attack on the CBA from the media and from some politicians should have been a lack of confidence in competition, especially price competition.
Everybody is "furious" and "upset" at the "selfish" Commonwealth Bank for putting its variable housing rate up 0.10% on Friday (which applies from today).
Julia Gillard was "furious" on behalf of the Government yesterday; Wayne Swan on Friday said the CBA was "selfish". Julian McGuran, an Opposition senator, said the banks should lose the Federal Government guarantee. Other Liberals said it was the Rudd Government's debt burden "what done it".
And yet all this confected rage has missed the point. Far from being "selfish" the CBA is running scared of competition. It has finally blinked and changed its rate after having the lowest home loan rates for three months or so.
It still says it has the lowest home rate, but its no longer as noticeable.
Rather than leave them there and cut costs (or rake a crimped interest margin) and advertise that this to the world (every little bit helps), the bank's managers have lost their nerve and lifted the rates to bring them into rough parity with its peers, Westpac, the ANZ and NAB.
Home lending is increasing, so thinking seems to have been: lift rates to see what the reaction is, so we can make up some of the revenue lost in the downturn in business lending, and the rise in bad debts.
The lower rate came from the bank's cut after the April rate cut of 0.25% by the RBA (which brought the cash rate back to 3%). It could have left the small discount there and used it cleverly.
But it's clear that the CBA management sees safety in the pack with its "competitors" who with the CBA, control around 92% of all home lending at the moment. The CBA and its competitors had lifted their interest margins in the six months to December and to the end of March (the latest reporting periods).
Home lending will continue to be the only growth part of the banking game for the rest of this year. Get it while you can! Time to lift fees, perhaps?
Business and Media Correspondent
Glenn Dyer is Crikey's business and media correspondent. | billion in March to $16.050 billion in April. Personal finance rose a derisory $10 million to a seasonally adjusted $6.270 billion, so it remains subdued, despite the strength in April in sharemarkets.
The lending | 54 |
I have Christmas cards on the brain, although I haven't ordered mine, or even picked out a picture for that matter. Here's one (by the wonderful Hailey Erickson that I don't think I'm using, although it delights me to no end.
No, this photo is not doctored. My tiny man is truly that charming.
One thing that always plagues me while addressing my Christmas cards is how to write names properly on the front for my friends with families. Is it too informal to address it to "The Smith Family?" Should I say "Mr. and Mrs. Smith and Family" leaving their children anonymous? So many options, but which one is correct?
So being that I'm thinking about this pre-card order, I thought I would look up the rules so there would be no more guessing. Here's a summary I grabbed via EmilyPost.com--another Emily I know that is always right. Ahem.
If you have any other addressing relationships not listed below, most likely, they cover it there, with one major exception--the one thing I wanted to know.
I would love to hear your thoughts on this. Bonus points with Internet citation.
Before we celebrated Thanksgiving, Mr. G and I headed off to the great Southwest for a long weekend with 2 other couples from our church, the Brantleys and the Cooks, to celebrate Chris's 30th birthday. It was the first time we left our little guy overnight for more than 24 hours<|fim_middle|> that influence in adulthood.
Anyway! I had so much fun handing out candy. Jack fell asleep super early in Alisia's arms and not even the doorbell could wake him up. Some of the cutest kids and very few of questionable age to be trick or treating. How old is too old to do that anyway? And how young is old enough? Even if the boy is old enough to eat candy next year, obviously he doesn't need a whole bag of candy otherwise it will be clear that he's shilling for mommy's chocolate fix. | and further than 60 miles away. Also, I'm a Very Nervous Flier which will go down as one of the greatest ironies of my life. I never let it stop me from going anywhere though.
Anywho, we arrived in ABQ Thursday evening and made the short drive into Santa Fe under the cover of darkness. There was a little movie premiere that night (Breaking Dawn, what of it?) which we bought tickets for um, like a month ago. Not gonna let a trip get in our way of seeing it! So after the boys were safely at the house, we headed into Santa Fe. The movie was gory, much more so than it played out in my head while reading the book.
I did a lot of sleeping, reading (The Hunger Games), and Twilight movie watching, since it was on every station. It was so nice to sleep in! Sleep is so wonderful! I love sleep! Day 2 found us at Ten Thousand Waves, a spa built into a mountain (that is, after we saw Breaking Dawn for the second time. Oh yes, we did.) Let me tell you, it was faaaaaaabulous. One of my treatments was a head and neck massage where they treated my hair with this lavender hot oil conditioner. My hair was softer than it's ever been once I washed it out. By the time we left, I could've melted from the relaxation.
Official book of Santa Fe Trip 2011.
Another day we shopped around the square at Santa Fe. There is so much more to offer than just southwestern jewelry and Indian blankets. (My original expectations, my bad.) I found some cute Christmas decor at Doodlets, which is just across the way from the very delicious Cafe Pasqual's, and a fun toy for the boy at a toy store just around the corner. There's even a J.Crew.
So there were a few Southwestern artifacts, such as this shrine to the Gloved One.
By the third day, Mr. G and I were straight up missing our little guy. He's just so much fun right now. He has this hilarious little opinion about everything. I hope I never stop thinking it's funny. (Feel free to laugh at my naivete. I do.) My mom told me he was saying "mama" while we were gone, but he has yet to say it to my face, so I'm not too convinced.
We stayed in a great house (found here) just outside of town, with heated floors (come to mama!), and lots of comfy couches and chairs to nap or read in. The gentlemen golfed, and we all met up to eat out a lot, laugh a lot, and just relax. So refreshing--exactly what a getaway should be.
Our Thanksgiving was just lovely. We ran down to my hometown for the holiday. It is wonderful to be so close! Everyone was kind of in and out throughout the weekend going to jobs, in-laws, football games, hunting, shopping, etc. I love my family. I am so, so thankful for each and every one of them. God has been so gracious to me in the area of family. Having one that plays well together and argues well together (because there is a right way and a wrong way, you know) is a blessing that is often overlooked. This year I was especially thankful for our sweet boy. He is just the best!
I made a chocolate pie for Thanksgiving, then left it at our house because Thanksgiving morning was a bit chaotic*. I made the Pioneer Woman's rolls for Thanksgiving lunch at my Grannie's. I promise you that Homesick Texan's Grandma's chocolate pie tastes just like my Meemaw's chocolate pie (which I don't have the recipe written down.) I mean, maybe our grandmothers were cousins and learned from the same grandma. It's that similar.
On Thanksgiving Day, Jack, Sugar, and Grannie (his great-grandma) fed the cows hamburger buns.
If I were a cow, I would be totally offended.
I have several hairstyles pinned on Pinterest, but all of them require my mama to make them happen. I can't French braid my own hair in less than 3 hours. So I asked and begged and pleaded that she watch YouTube videos and put my hair up. She gave in pretty easily. This was my favorite. Yay, Mom!
*I can't pack as quickly with a tiny man scooting about. We left 30 minutes late, and my hair was NOT done. We will not even discuss the smoke billowing through my parents' house as the rolls burned while I did my hair after we arrived. Being on vacation has knocked me off my game.
I've jetted off to beautiful Orlando, FL for my very fabulous job, however I would not know if Orlando was beautiful this trip or not since I've been locked away in conference sessions.
The past few months have seen me investing mostly in comfortable, flat mom shoes. As I've become more confident in my role as outside-of-the-home-working-mother (or whatever such label-nonsense society might place on me) the height of my heel has gone up. I'm figuring out that I can slip into flats on the way to get my baby or into heels as I climb back into my corporate role.
This heel height discovery might be symbolic in some way to my self-discovery and what not, etc., but really this post was to tell you about the fabulous heels above. They are my conference footwear of choice this week, currently on sale at Nordstrom. The wide but not clunky heel provides comfort, and the height provides some sassiness. The loafer style with tassels are completely in step with this year's runway obsession of men's-styled wear. I've been wearing them 3 full days with no terrible foot pain. The pic above is a little deceiving as the heel height is 3 1/4 in.
In short, I highly recommend.
The only reasonable explanations I have for this phenomenon are that 1. I have finally caught on to this 2004 technology called "DVR" and 2. I am busy rocking or feeding the baby and putting him to bed around 8, at which point it is too late to do any housework (at least, that's my story) and too early to go to bed. So bring on TV!
1. Parks and Recreation: This is hands down the funniest show on major network television right now. Every single character is hilarious. If you've never seen it, I'm going to need you to tell me why in the comments. You will find B and I rolling over it every Thursday night.
2. Revenge: I find myself strangely drawn to Revenge primarily because of Emily Van Camp's hair. It is simply beautiful, as is the gorgeous set where they are filming. Also, I can't wait to see how the whole "revenge" thing is resolved. There can't possibly be any winners at the end of the series.
3. Person of Interest: I'm watching this one with B also. As much as I didn't like Ben in LOST, I really like Michael Emerson in POI, and he seems like almost the same character! (For good, not evil though.) That being said, the show has a great premise, but we think it would do better on a Monday or Tuesday night rather than Thursday. If you've not watched it, each episode is a story unto its own, so you can jump right in at any time.
4. Once Upon a Time: I really wanted to dislike this show. I'm not a big fan of at least one of the actors in the show, and the premise reminded me too much of Enchanted. Honestly, I would not be able to handle that amount of sweetness as a series. That being said, I watched two hours of this and loved it. If you like fairy tales, I think you would like it too.
What's filling up your DVR that I should be watching?
So there I was, leaving the baby for the first time to watch the Rangers lose the World Series.
My dad texted me around noon last Tuesday, asking me what the odds were we could fly standby from Dallas to St. Louis to watch the Rangers win Game 6. First I laughed and ignored his text message. Then I actually looked up the flights and was all, "You're not going without me!"
Unfortunately, my man had other commitments, but my brother was available to go too. And then my mom (a 1st grade teacher) was all, "The three of you aren't going without me!"
About 5 hours lapsed from decision time to go time. I left the office, ran home and packed a bag, ran across the street and smooched on my baby, then ran by Academy to buy some blue Ranger gear. We wanted to stand out in that sea of Cardinals Red. Back to Dallas I went.
Fountain dyed red to support the home team.
We took the Company Plane up north and waited out the rain delay. (There wasn't much rain to speak of.) During the delay, we shopped, ate, and did a little exploring in STL. My dad complained that I wanted to go to the mall on rain out night, but while we were there, we ran into this guy, and I do believe we were outside of Sephora. This is the most terrible pic of me to date, but it was Elvis Andrus, only hours before the Rangers lost the World Series.
We did not go up in the Arch while we were there.
We did eat Imo's Pizza, and it was good.
We also ate crepes at a place called Rooster, which I recommend.
We stayed at the airport Hilton, which I also recommend.
We took the MetroLink the entire time, rather than renting a car.
I paid $10 for hot chocolate during the game. It was worth it.
They have a beautiful new Nordstrom in their Galleria.
Drew had something else going on Thursday night and didn't get to stay for the game. Boo.
I would go back to STL for a long weekend and do more exploring, but I think it would need to include a sporting event to have enough to do.
It was the trip of a lifetime! As we got down to one strike left (twice), I will never forget how the cameras starting flashing all around the stadium, just like you've seen before on TV. I'm so glad I got to experience it with my dad, the one who taught me to love baseball and love the Rangers. More than anything, it was incredibly gratifying the entire week to see him having so much fun.
And one of these days, the Rangers are going to win it.
My tiny man on our front porch hamming it up, sans mustache.
the same place next year?
I found his costume on a Mexican import website. Who knew they made toddler panchos and sombreros? B grabbed a mustache on his way home from work last Friday before our church's Fall Festival (and the Rangers final meltdown of the year.) It only seemed natural to stick it on his favorite paci, and shockingly, he had no problem with either it or the sombrero on his head.
We had such a fun Halloween! This was the first time we've actually stayed in our home of 4 years and passed out candy to the neighborhood kids. I know, I know, but in our defense, it's because we usually were either out of town or with friends.
We had my BFF/college roommate (hi Alisia!) and her friend Brian over for supper, which ended up being Frito pie and chili dogs. Halloween seems like a Frito pie holiday, does it not? My mom informs me that I feel this way because she always fed us that before we went out trick or treating when we were little. Funny how things like | 2,462 |
This article describes the Skill Will Matrix in a practical way. After reading you will understand the definition and basics of this powerful management tool.
What is the Skill Will Matrix?
The Skill Will Matrix is derived from the model of situational leadership created by Paul Hersey and Ken Blanchard in the 1970s. Will stands for the involvement of the employee, and the extent to which he is risk tolerant. Skill, as the name suggests, refers to the employee's skills.
In addition, it is also important to consider the job maturity of the employee. A high job maturity means the employee can complete his tasks independently. He is experienced and knows exactly what is expected from him. Low job maturity, on the other hand, means the employee is not yet independent enough and requires a lot of guidance in carrying out his tasks.
According to the Skill Will matrix, an employee's performance is related to two aspects. On the one hand, his knowledge and skills and, on the other hand, his behaviour and attitude, the latter which mainly revolves around his will to function well and the extent to which he is risk tolerant. If he is risk averse, there is no will either.
In the matrix, these two aspects are reflected on two axes. The horizontal axis shows the employee's skill and capability. This is the Skill axis. Skill refers to the degree to which the employee manages his tasks and whether he has the right skills to work independently.
The vertical axis shows the employee's level of motivation and his willingness to work and carry out his tasks. This is the Will axis. An employee's willingness is often directly related to his motivation. For example, certain circumstances may affect his involvement or willingness, and uncertainties may also play a role. What problem is and isn't the employee willing to tackle?
Hershey & Blanchard's model of situational leadership has two dimensions, which are somewhat similar to the Skill Will matrix. In their model, the X axis shows managers' degree of direction and/or task orientation. Here the manager demonstrates whether or not he is focused on the end result. The more he focuses on the end goal, the more authoritarian his leadership style becomes. The Y axis, on the other hand, shows the relationship orientation of the manager. To what extent does the manager attach importance to the mutual relationship with his employees? The more important the manager believes this to be, the more cooperative and participatory his leadership style will be.
In practice, a manager does not approach every employee in the same way, however. Whether consciously or unconsciously, he will adjust his leadership style and take into account the individual employee. By considering the Skill Will model, the manager will discover that every employee works in a different way and therefore requires a different leadership style.
With the two axes, the Will Skill model eventually allows for four possibilities, expressed in quadrants. Each quadrant has its own leadership style, which is in line with the model of situational leadership.
An employee who is not yet fully capable and insufficiently motivated requires a more instructive and/or confronting leadership style. This leadership style is also referred to as Management by Prescription. The manager gives a lot of detailed instructions and explains what exactly needs to be<|fim_middle|> there is also a risk of the manager becoming too authoritarian and, like a teacher, telling the employee exactly what he should do. This leadership style only works with starting or inexperienced employees, who are taught what is expected from them through close supervision. They have a need for a more structured approach.
For an employee who is not yet capable but sufficiently motivated, a more supportive, coaching leadership style is more suitable. It gives the employee more confidence. This leadership style is also referred to as Organic Management.
By offering the employee training and other opportunities, his skills will gradually increase. Together, the manager and employee determine how the work should be approached. If the employee has need for this, the manager can help him in the execution of his tasks. One potential pitfall lies in the fact that the manager could start to patronise the employee. This leadership style suits employees who already have some experience in the organisation, but could still learn more.
For an employee who is capable but who is (temporarily) not sufficiently motivated, a stimulating style is more suitable. In this situation, the employee requires a lot of consultation, and he has to be convinced of his own abilities. Together with the employee, the manager will discuss what needs to be done and what the employee's difficulties are. It is the task of the manager to give the employee confidence and together analyse situations in which the employee faces setbacks. This form of consultation gives the employee self-confidence. However, one of this approach's pitfalls is when the manager positions himself as a therapist. Instead, the manager must act more like a coach and guide the employee to the right path and make the employee more aware of his own actions. The employee has to become more self-confident.
This involves an employee who is already fully capable, and who is more than just motivated. He is passionate about the work he does. This requires a more delegating style and the manager should involve the employee in the decision-making process. Moreover, he should give the employee the feeling he is performing his job well. The manager will leave the employee to perform tasks and, where the manager is unable to perform certain tasks himself, he may delegate these to the employee. One potential risk here is the manager leaving everything to the employee and falling back onto an ineffective 'laissez-faire' leadership style. Contact with employees and moments of evaluation are always important. It is the manager's task to respond to all situations. For this reason, this leadership style is also often referred to as Management by Exception.
To ensure effective leadership, the manager must adjust his leadership style to the employee's abilities. After all, a starting, inexperienced employee has different capabilities and requires a different leadership style than a highly experienced colleague. When an employee is insecure or makes a lot of mistakes, it is a good idea to confront him and determine what the problem is. A short conversation can give the employee confidence again and convince him of his value to the organisation. Depending on the skill and willingness of the employee, it is advisable to continuously apply different leadership styles.
What do you think? What is your experience with the Skill Will Matrix? Do you recognize the practical explanation or do you have more additions? What are your success factors regarding effective leadership?
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Echinacea was a beautiful doe from Green Gables in WI. We always said her name: "Echinacea, the beautiful one". She was very refined and feminine, with a long neck, and wide soulful eyes with flashy "eye make-up". She walked with such a feminine grace, it was like she was walking on clouds! She was very sweet and affectionate. She came from a great background, with emphasis on conformation and dairy character. She was a good combination of her sire and her dam, inheriting their level top-line and good body capacity. Echinacea had sleek, soft dairy skin. She got her sire's looong ears, and Roman nose, too! Her disposition was so sweet, and she was very people-oriented. She was one of my best milkers, and achieved her milk star just before her untimely death. She will be sorely missed.
"Katie" This little doeling has been a bit of a sleeper. Her buyer backed out, and I am so glad they did, because she has developed into a gorgeous doeling with extreme breed character, straight top line, looong body, up-hill stance, great body capacity, spring of rib, and just overall good looks. AND she has stayed rather small, with good blending through the shoulders, standing on sturdy legs. She is an excellent example of the Miniature Nubian conformation, with a blending of the traits of both breeds. She inherited her dam's beautiful Nubian face, and long pendulous ears. She has the greatest body capacity of any of my does, and easily birthed quadruplets last spring, and nursed them all herself without a problem!
Thanks to Wendy Valentine for pictures of Soaring Heart's goats.
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"Hope" comes from Green Gables in WI and brings with her champion milk lines from both sides of her pedigree. Her father is a Finished Virtual Champion, and her dam has two milk stars, so she has milk and conformation from both sides of her family. Her quality shines through from her level top line, smooth transitions, and wonderful body capacity. She has a sweet face and pendulous Nubian ears with a bell curve. She is a very colorful goat, on top of her other fine attributes. The MDGA judges said of her during the '15 summer V-show: " For general appearance in the legs and feet, this doe stands on stronger rear pasterns. She also appears to have a stronger topline in the area of the chine. She has more angularity in the rear leg from both the front and side view."
Poppy Is Beamer's and Echinacea's last daughter. She is a beautiful combination of her dam and her sire, boasting her mother's color and sweet face, and her father's moon spots and long lovely ears. Poppy is very affectionate and she stole our hearts. I'm so glad we kept her, as she is all we have left of our Beamer and Echinacea. She has luscious dairy skin, and is nice and long. One judge said of Poppy in the 2016 MDGA summer V-show, "E (Poppy) places over A for body capacity, with greater width and depth throughout. E also has the slight advantage in general appearance, being slightly longer and more level from hips to pins, as well as more angulated through the hock in side profile."
Kaitlynne is the spitting image of her beautiful dam, Katie. Like her dam, she is staying small. Her line is sure keeping the "mini" in Miniature Nubians! I can't wait to see her freshen, since her sire brings super milk genetics with him. She has nice length to her body, and strong legs. She blends nicely from her neck through her shoulders, and<|fim_middle|>, and her father passed on his incredible color and strong conformation to his daughter. Her face is the most Nubian in my whole herd, with a strongly Roman nose, and pendulous bell shaped ears. "Tate" is very affectionate, and will vie for our attention whenever we are out with the goats. She is my best milker, letting her milk down quickly. MDGA summer '15 V-show comments were: "This doe has excellent breed character and should be commended for that. for her general appearance. She is wider and more open in the chest and rib areas. She also shows us more body capacity from the shoulders and chest through to the loin. | is nice and open through the escutcheon. Kaitlynne also shows good rear leg angulation, like both of her parents. The judges said of her in the 2016 MDGA Summer V-show, "...for dairy character. She is longer and leaner in her neck, sharper at the withers, and wider in the escutcheon. In body capacity, she has more depth of rib."
Congratulations, Katie, for placing first in both rings in the MDGA 2015 Fall V-Show in the Jr. Doeling Class!
Eclaire comes from a strong dairy background heavy in the renowned "Cream-of-Kansas" line of Nubians, with a touch of Saada on her dam's side. She has a beautiful udder featuring excellent attachment and wide escutcheon. She has a very correct front end assembly and strong medial. The height of her rear udder is socked on. She is a very W-I-D-E girl through the hips all the way through to her shoulders, and has a beautiful fore-udder. Eclaire throws nice correct kids that mimic her characteristics. She also has very correct feet and legs. Her long neck and straight back, in addition to the smooth blending of her shoulders gives her an elegant appearance that belies her utility as a powerhouse milker and brood dam.
She has won our hearts with her affectionate nature, which we hope will be passed along to her kids along with all of her wonderful physical characteristics. She was been bred to our Champion Mini Nubian buck, Soaring Heart's King of Pop (Mikey) and she gave us two outstanding doelings in Feb.
"Luna" is a lovely, light brown, heavily moonspotted doe out of Green Gables 'Lovely Luna', and Beloved 'Freedom', who always seems to pass moonspots on to his progeny. She comes from a strong dairy background, and she inherited her good topline and body capacity from her Grand Sire, Green Gables SS 'Moon Beam *B', who sadly passed away last winter. She has a joyful, fun-loving personality, and skips and bounds, sometimes sideways, when she is out in the pasture, earning her the nickname of "Looney Luna"! She gave us two of the nicest kids of the season in 2015; a black and white moonspotted buckling, and a beautiful tan doeling.
Livia is a beautiful blue roan out of my favorite Soaring Heart's doe and a full Nubian, Saada Elias Revelation. I wasn't sure what this combination would produce, but I was not disappointed! Revelation has two maternal half sisters who are EX-92, SGCH does, as well as a young CH paternal sister and another who has LAed as EX. His offspring have been very impressive, and Saada has two of his gorgeous daughters retained in their herd. His daughter's udders are beautiful, and bodies have been improved over dams. I look forward to seeing how this stunning doe develops. 76.55/23.45 Nubian/Nigerian ratio.
Congratulations, Poppy, for finishing first in one ring of the MDGA Summer 2016 Virtual show, and 4th in the other!
"Tate" comes from Soaring Heart's Farm in Snohomish, WA, She is a daughter of CH Soaring Heart's 'King of Pop', and FMCH Soaring Hearts 'Hyacinth *P'. She gets good dairy genes from both sides | 736 |
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An introduction to utilities
Regulated utilities are known for their ability to generate predictable returns regardless of market conditions.
For this reason, we often describe utility stocks as the 'lead in the keel' of our infrastructure portfolios. They allow us to navigate volatile global equity markets with confidence.
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What are utilities?
Utilities are companies that produce and deliver basic essential services such as electricity, natural gas and water. These services are delivered by a network of assets that require the use of public rights-of-way. Crucially, these networks exhibit attributes of a natural monopoly: the extensive capital required to construct the assets make it difficult for another company to compete profitably against the incumbent.
Due to this natural monopoly, governments have generally operated utilities but in recent decades they have handed the responsibility to private operators under licence.
To gain this licence, a utility agrees to submit to economic regulation governing the rates it can charge customers. In return, the regulator commits to set prices in a manner that allows the utility to recover efficiently incurred costs and earn a rate of return commensurate with the risk borne. While returns set by regulators can be modest compared with other sectors, utilities are often assured a minimum return regardless of how the economy is performing because demand for their services is constant. The minimum returns provide an incentive for future or potential asset owners to invest in new or existing infrastructure. Thus, utility stocks can provide stable earnings and cash flows.
Electricity is delivered over a network where each segment serves a specific function and thus displays different economic characteristics, as displayed above:
Generation: Electricity is generated using fuels such as nuclear, coal, natural gas or renewables (hydro, solar, wind and biomass). Many companies making electricity are merchant generators, which means their output is sold at competitive prices in unregulated markets. As such, earnings can fluctuate due to unexpected changes in demand (e.g. weather) and input costs. Some generation assets, however, are regulated. Power prices from these assets have typically been set or agreed upon by the regulator.
Transmission: The power plant or substation provides electricity to a local distribution network. This is facilitated via high-voltage lines that carry electricity over long distances. Most transmission assets are common carriers, which are entities granted a licence by the regulator to provide services to the public. As common carriers, transmission owners sell access to their network under regulated terms. The terms of these contracts usually allow the transmission owner a fair return regardless of demand, while ensuring that the company operates without discrimination or preference.
Distribution: This is the stage when electricity is delivered to the end user. Distribution assets are lower voltage and cover shorter distances. Like transmission, owners of distribution lines charge a regulated rent for access to the network irrespective of demand. In most cases, the distribution company is owned by the utility that exclusively services an area.
Retail: This stage covers the companies interacting with electricity users. In some cases, the customer chooses a provider from a number of competitors. This occurs in markets where third parties can compete with the incumbent utility. While competition benefits customers (through lower prices), it can be difficult for the utility and third-party retailers to generate stable earnings because of customer switching.
The natural gas value chain can be broadly viewed in three segments; upstream, midstream and downstream.
Upstream (exploration and production): The value chain begins where natural gas is extracted from the ground. Natural gas exploration activity is typically determined by prices, which are influenced by: i) the balance between supply and demand, ii) the ease of extraction, iii) the price and availability of alternative fuels, iv) the weather, v) government regulations; and vi) macroeconomic conditions. Revenues of upstream producers will fluctuate as producers typically take ownership of a commodity whose prices can change at any time.
Midstream (pipelines and storage): Natural gas pipelines move gas to local distribution networks. Pipeline operators tend to have stable and predictable revenue across the network for three reasons: i) demand needs to be high to justify the capital cost, ii) pipeline operators don't own the natural gas; and iii) revenues are typically regulated or are under contract. Contract terms and length can vary though, most owners will seek fee-based or 'take-or-pay' provisions. The midstream segment also includes storage assets, which play an important role in the value chain by balancing supply and demand. This balancing role, along with limited commodity exposure, tends to result in relatively stable earnings for storage owners.
Downstream (local distribution companies): Distribution involves the delivery of gas to the consumer. While some customers (commercial and industrial) receive natural gas directly from high-capacity pipelines, the majority of users receive gas from local distribution companies. Due to their highly regulated nature (as a result of their natural monopoly), these distributors benefit from stable and predictable cash flows.
Unlike electric and gas, the water network is typically fully regulated – from the assets collecting water to the waste-water treatment plants. Regulated water utilities will usually own the physical assets needed to store, pump, treat and transport water to users as well as the assets used to collect, treat, transport and recycle waste water.
Water utilities, generally, do not own the water, but rather, own the access or property rights that allow them to divert water from a source for public consumption. These rights can include the licence to recycle the wastewater or return it to the environment. The defined supply sources may include reservoirs, lakes, rivers and streams, as well as ground water sources such as wells.
As shown above, the water network begins with water collection from the supply source. From there, the water is transported to the water-treatment facility where it is treated and conditioned for consumption. Once treated, the water is distributed through water mains to users. After use, the wastewater is collected via sewer lines and transported to the waste-water treatment facility. The waste water is then treated to meet regulatory standards before it is reused for consumption or returned to the environment.
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Determining rates
The process by which utility charges or rates are determined differs across countries and jurisdictions. At its core, a utility's rates are a function of its rate (or asset) base and the authorised rate of return.
One of the more common approaches used (particularly in North America) is 'cost of service'. This approach requires the regulator to determine the revenue requirement, which reflects the amount a utility must collect from its customers to recover its costs and earn a fair and reasonable return.
To put it another way: Revenue requirement = operating expenses + (asset base multiplied by the rate of return).
The utility tends to focus on its 'rate base' and the rate of return, as these factors typically exert the greatest influence on the company's long-term earning power. By contrast, operating expenses have less impact on returns, as these costs are typically passed through to consumers (i.e. utilities do not earn a return on expenses).
As noted above, the approach to determining rates can differ across markets. In the UK, regulators use performance-based ratemaking to determine customer charges. While similar to cost-of-service ratemaking in some ways, performance-based ratemaking provides the utility with opportunities to increase earnings by reducing or limiting costs (instead of increasing rates). The regulator, for example, may allow a utility to adjust its rates based on pre-determined productivity measures or other factors. The exhibit below provides a comparison of cost-of-service and performance-based rates.
Table 1: Different ways to calculate rates.
Incentive ratemaking is another regulatory approach that uses mechanisms to reward utilities for achieving certain operating targets (as opposed to performance-based cost metrics). Incentives may range from higher allowed returns for meeting energy-efficiency goals to return-on-equity adders for making specific investments. Conversely, (negative) incentives are tools used to penalise utilities for failing to meet certain operating standards.
The rate base
The rate base represents all capital employed by the utility to serve its customers. These might include
buildings, power plants, poles, wires, transformers and pipelines.
Over time, the rate base declines as the capital base depreciates. Equally, the rate base grows whenever the utility invests in its capital base. For this reason, investors typically view most (regulated) capital investments as positive for earnings growth.
In countries such as Australia, Chile, NZ and the UK, the regulated asset base is the comparable reference used by regulators. It is, however, a term that carries no legislative backing. The regulated asset base, unlike the US 'rate-base' model, allows the regulator to amend contracts via an ordered review, the revision or
the renegotiation of licences.
A utility's rate of return is an aggregation of costs for the different sources of funding (i.e. weighted-average cost of capital based on the utility's capital structure).
As each source of funding has different costs, the mix can have a sizeable effect on the overall weighted rate of return. Moreover, a higher share of equity will usually translate into higher rates for consumers because of the higher cost of equity. This often requires regulators to establish limits on a utility's capital structure.
US utilities have a capital structure that ranges somewhere between 40% and 60% equity, although this can
be higher in other parts of the world. Moreover, US utilities often only concern themselves with their return on equity as the cost of debt is passed through to the customer. In jurisdictions such as the UK, however, regulation considers the entire return on capital.
Those unfamiliar with utilities might find any company with debt comprising more than 50% of the capital structure surprising as other industries typically carry less leverage. But the ability to have a more highly levered balance sheet is a function of earnings predictability, which is borne out of regulation.
Table 2: How rates of return are derived.
Key risk to investing in utilities
There are three key risks for investing in regulated utilities:
Regulatory risk
Utility investments are sensitive to changes in the rate-making and regulatory process. This could come in the form of changes to inputs for determining the rate of return to disallowances for cost recovery. The regulator could amend ratemaking such that it becomes difficult for the utility to earn its authorised return.
Financial results can also be affected by changes in environmental regulations, as well as changes to local, state and federal government policies. Jurisdictions where regulators are elected (as opposed to appointed) will tend to have more customer-friendly rates.
Interest-rate risk
Changes in interest rates can affect how investors view utility stocks. Rising interest rates, for example, can lead to underperformance for the sector. This can happen because income-seeking investors shift to higher-yielding investments and away from stocks with lower income growth such as utilities or because higher rates increase interest payments for companies that are capital intensive and more heavily indebted.
Technological advancements pose a long-term risk for utilities, particularly for electricity utilities. Disruptive technologies such as rooftop solar and battery storage may lead to some customers disconnecting from the grid, which would reduce the value of transmission and distribution assets. In such a scenario, regulators could argue for less investment in the grid, therefore disrupting the reliable earnings profile from these assets.
Why does Magellan consider regulated utilities infrastructure?
For an asset to meet Magellan's definition of infrastructure, it must have two traits. The first is that it must be essential to the efficient functioning of a community. The other is that it must have earnings that are not sensitive to competition, movements in commodity prices and regulatory risk.
Regulated utilities are a staple holding for any infrastructure portfolio because of their highly stable and predictable stream of earnings that are secured by a lack of competition, regulation and their limited exposure to commodity prices and the economic cycle.
Magellan believes infrastructure assets, when properly defined, should generate reliable earnings and cash flows from the provision of essential services. Over time, the stable and reliable earnings derived from transmission and distribution assets should deliver income and capital growth for investors.
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A Langmuir–Blodgett (LB) film is a nanostructured system formed when Langmuir films—or Langmuir monolayers (LM)—are transferred from the liquid-gas interface to solid supports during the vertical passage of the support through the monolayers. LB films can contain one or more monolayers of an organic material, deposited from the surface of a liquid onto a solid by immersing (or emersing) the solid substrate into (or from) the liquid. A monolayer is adsorbed homogeneously with each immersion or emersion step, thus films with very accurate thickness can be formed. This thickness is accurate because the thickness of each monolayer is known and can therefore be added to find the total thickness of a Langmuir–Blodgett film.
The monolayers are assembled vertically and are usually composed either of amphiphilic molecules (see chemical polarity) with a hydrophilic head and a hydrophobic tail (example: fatty acids) or nowadays commonly of nanoparticles.
Langmuir–Blodgett films are named after Irving Langmuir and Katharine B. Blodgett, who invented this technique while working in Research and Development for General Electric Co.
Historical background
Advances to the discovery of LB and LM films began with Benjamin Franklin in 1773 when he dropped about a teaspoon of oil onto a pond. Franklin noticed that the waves were calmed almost instantly and that the calming of the waves spread for about half an acre. What Franklin did not realize was that the oil had formed a monolayer on top of the pond surface. Over a century later, Lord Rayleigh quantified what Benjamin Franklin had seen. Knowing that the oil, oleic acid, had spread evenly over the water, Rayleigh calculated that the thickness of the film was 1.6 nm by knowing the volume of oil dropped and the area of coverage.
With the help of her kitchen sink, Agnes Pockels showed that area of films can be controlled with barriers. She added that surface tension varies with contamination of water. She used different oils to deduce that surface pressure would not change until area was confined to about 0.2 nm2. This work was originally written as a letter to Lord Rayleigh who then helped Agnes Pockels become published in the journal, Nature, in 1891.
Agnes Pockels' work set the stage for Irving Langmuir who continued to work and confirmed Pockels' results. Using Pockels' idea, he developed the Langmuir (or Langmuir–Blodgett) trough. His observations indicated that chain length did not impact the affected area since the organic molecules were arranged vertically.
Langmuir's breakthrough did not occur until he hired Katherine Blodgett as his assistant. Blodgett initially went to seek for a job at General Electric (GE) with Langmuir during her Christmas break of her senior year at Bryn Mawr College, where she received a BA in Physics. Langmuir advised to Blodgett that she should continue her education before working for him. She thereafter attended University of Chicago for her MA in Chemistry. Upon her completion of her Master's, Langmuir hired her as his assistant. However, breakthroughs in surface chemistry happened after she received her PhD degree in 1926 from Cambridge University.
While working for GE, Langmuir and Blodgett discovered that when a solid surface is inserted into an aqueous solution containing organic moieties, the organic molecules will deposit a monolayer homogeneously over the surface. This is the Langmuir–Blodgett film deposition process. Through this work in surface chemistry and with the help of Blodgett, Langmuir was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1932. In addition, Blodgett used Langmuir–Blodgett film to create 99% transparent anti-reflective glass by coating glass with fluorinated organic compounds, forming a simple anti-reflective coating.
Physical insight
Langmuir films are formed when amphiphilic (surfactants) molecules or nanoparticles are spread on the water at an air–water interface. Surfactants (or surface-acting agents) are molecules with hydrophobic 'tails' and hydrophilic 'heads'. When surfactant concentration is less than the minimum surface concentration of collapse and it is completely insoluble in water, the surfactant molecules arrange themselves as shown in Figure 1 below. This tendency can be explained by surface-energy considerations. Since the tails are hydrophobic, their exposure to air is favoured over that to water. Similarly, since the heads are hydrophilic, the head–water interaction is more favourable than head-air interaction. The overall effect is reduction in the surface energy (or equivalently, surface tension of water).
For very small concentrations, far from the surface density compatible with the collapse of the monolayer (which leads to polylayers structures) the surfactant molecules execute a random motion on the water–air interface. This motion can be thought to be similar to the motion of ideal-gas molecules enclosed in a container. The corresponding thermodynamic variables for the surfactant system are, surface pressure (), surface area (A) and number of surfactant molecules (N). This system behaves similar to a gas in a container. The density of surfactant molecules as well as the surface pressure increases upon reducing the surface area A ('compression' of the 'gas'). Further compression of the surfactant molecules on the surface shows behavior similar to phase transitions. The 'gas' gets compressed into 'liquid' and ultimately into a perfectly closed packed array of the surfactant molecules on the surface corresponding to a 'solid' state. The liquid state is usually separated in the liquid-expanded and liquid-condensed states. All the Langmuir film states are classified according to the compressionality factor of the films, defined as , usually related to the in-plane elasticity of the monolayer.
The condensed Langmuir films (in surface pressures usually higher than 15 mN/m – typically 30 mN/m) can be subsequently transferred onto a solid substrate to create highly organized thin film coatings. Langmuir–Blodgett troughs
Besides LB film from surfactants depicted in Figure 1, similar monolayers can also be made from inorganic nanoparticles.
Pressure–area characteristics
Adding a monolayer to the surface reduces the surface tension, and the surface pressure, is given by the following equation:
where is equal to the surface tension of the water and is the surface tension due to the monolayer. But the concentration-dependence of surface tension (similar to Langmuir isotherm) is as follows:
Thus,
or
The last equation indicates a relationship similar to ideal gas law. However, the concentration-dependence of surface tension is valid only when the solutions are dilute and concentrations are low. Hence, at very low concentrations of the surfactant, the molecules behave like ideal gas molecules.
Experimentally, the surface pressure is usually measured using the Wilhelmy plate. A pressure sensor/electrobalance arrangement detects the pressure exerted by the monolayer. Also monitored is the area to the side of the barrier which the monolayer resides.
Figure 2. A Wilhelmy plate
A simple force balance on the plate leads to the following equation for the surface pressure:
only when . Here, and are the dimensions of the plate, and is the difference in forces. The Wilhelmy plate measurements give pressure – area isotherms that show phase transition-like behaviour of the LM films, as mentioned before (see figure below). In the gaseous phase, there is minimal pressure increase for a decrease in area. This continues until the first transition occurs and there is a proportional increase in pressure with decreasing area. Moving into the solid region is accompanied by another sharp transition to a more severe area dependent pressure. This trend continues up to a point where the molecules are relatively close packed and have very little room to move. Applying an increasing pressure at this point causes the monolayer to become unstable and destroy the monolayer forming polylayer structures towards the air phase. The surface pressure during the monolayer collapse may remain approximately constant (in a process near the equilibrium) or may decay abruptly (out of equilibrium - when the surface pressure was over-increased because lateral compression was too fast for monomolecular rearrangements).
Figure 3. (i) Surface pressure – Area isotherms. (ii) Molecular configuration in the three regions marked in the -A curve; (a<|fim_middle|> modes of drug action, the permeability of biologically active molecules, and the chain reactions of biological systems.
Also, it is possible to propose field effect devices for observing the immunological response and enzyme-substrate reactions by collecting biological molecules such as antibodies and enzymes in insulating LB films.
Anti-reflective glass can be produced with successive layers of fluorinated organic film.
The glucose biosensor can be made of poly(3-hexyl thiopene) as Langmuir–Blodgett film, which entraps glucose-oxide and transfers it to a coated indium-tin-oxide glass plate.
UV resists can be made of poly(N-alkylmethacrylamides) Langmuir–Blodgett film.
UV light and conductivity of a Langmuir–Blodgett film.
Langmuir–Blodgett films are inherently 2D-structures and can be built up layer by layer, by dipping hydrophobic or hydrophilic substrates into a liquid sub-phase.
Langmuir–Blodgett patterning is a new paradigm for large-area patterning with mesostructured features
Recently, it has been demonstrated that Langmuir–Blodgett is an effective technique even to produce ultra-thin films of emerging two-dimensional layered materials on a large scale.
See also
Brewster angle microscope
Langmuir–Blodgett trough
Liposome
Nanoparticle deposition
Self-assembled monolayers
Wilhelmy plate
References
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Syed Arshad Hussain, Bapi Dey, D. Bhattacharjee, N. Mehta, "Unique supramolecular assembly through Langmuir – Blodgett (LB) technique", Heliyon (2018) Volume 4, Issue 12, December 2018, e01038.
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ja:Langmuir-Blodgett膜 | ) gaseous phase, (b) liquid-expanded phase, and (c) condensed phase. (Adapted from Osvaldo N. Oliveira Jr., Brazilian Journal of Physics, vol. 22, no. 2, June 1992)
Applications
Many possible applications have been suggested over years for LM and LB films. Their characteristics are extremely thin films and high degree of structural order. These films have different optical, electrical and biological properties which are composed of some specific organic compounds. Organic compounds usually have more positive responses than inorganic materials for outside factors (pressure, temperature or gas change). LM films can be used also as models for half a cellular membrane.
LB films consisting of nanoparticles can be used for example to create functional coatings, sophisticated sensor surfaces and to coat silicon wafers.
LB films can be used as passive layers in MIS (metal-insulator-semiconductor) which have more open structure than silicon oxide, and they allow gases to penetrate to the interface more effectively.
LB films also can be used as biological membranes. Lipid molecules with the fatty acid moiety of long carbon chains attached to a polar group have received extended attention because of being naturally suited to the Langmuir method of film production. This type of biological membrane can be used to investigate: the | 268 |
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While I agree that for example the "oldest<|fim_middle|> to see whether a recent blog post/reddit post/whatever caused an increase in sign ups or whether a friend you've been nagging to sign up has done so yet).
So I propose that in the addition to the league-style tabs, there should also be a "newest" tab which sorts the user by the date they registered, newest first.
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"New users" are defined as those "who joined in the last 45 days".
Of course, the following query will also do the trick (with a bit of a delay from data in SEDE):
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Kevin Smith revisits the characters from his 1994 classic, and the result is both sharply entertaining and surprisingly meaningful. Yes, it's clunky, silly and often downright obscene. But there's a depth of character that makes it well worth seeing.
After the Quickstop burns down, Dante and Randal (O'Halloran and Anderson) find new jobs at Mooby's burger joint. It's Dante's last day at work before moving to Florida with his fiancee (Schwalbach). While tormenting their naive coworker Elias (Fehrman), Randal is planning an indescribably profane send-off for Dante, who is clearly repressing feelings he has for their boss (Dawson). And of course Jay and Silent Bob (Mewes and Smith) offer a sort of running commentary on it all.
After the slushy Jersey Girl, it's great to have Smith back in View Askew mode, merrily lampooning contemporary culture on all kinds of levels. The premise--buddies still working entry-level jobs in their mid-30s--is usually left to sitcoms, but Smith spins out a ludicrously entertaining story here, packed with wit and insight. And he refreshingly keeps the message subservient to the<|fim_middle|> spends more time in Dante's shop than his own, and Veronica (Ghigliotti), Dante's girlfriend who is utterly loyal despite the fact that Dante still pines after his previous flame Caitlyn (Spoonhauer).
As these characters interact and embark on a string of mini-adventures, the film gets very, very funny ... and startlingly insightful. The dialogue is utterly frank--and guaranteed to offend almost everyone. It's raw, vulgar, crude and hilarious at the same time. Yet it manages to make profound statements about the work ethic, human dignity and real love, all in an utterly unconventional way.
Clerks is a stunning debut for Kevin Smith and his talented cast. With his eye for detail, assured style, skillful editing and marvellous way with real, earthy dialogue, he's definitely one to watch. Besides, how can you help but love a film that includes a serious discussion of the merits of Return of the Jedi vs The Empire Strikes Back? | comedy.
The dialog crackles with sharp observational humour. The usual riotous conversations about Star Wars are interwoven with next-generation Lord of the Rings geeks (with a wacky side trip into Transformers fandom). And of course there's a lot of religious banter, while Mooby's is a fully formed parody of the fast-food world. It's quick, pointed and relentlessly hysterical, darting from subject to subject, refusing to be remotely politically correct. The funniest running gag revolves around Anne Frank and Helen Keller.
The cast is realistic and effortless. O'Halloran and Anderson are a little stiff, although they generate terrific chemistry together and with their costars. Dawson is charmingly terrific, while Fehrman makes a superb addition to this universe as the goofy, gullible good-time boy just waiting to be released from his shell. And the film actually becomes something special in the way it addresses human interconnection--soul mates, romantic partners, best friends. Smith does this is a number of ways that are corny and awkward, but utterly inspired. It's great to have him back where he belongs.
Proof positive that a big budget doesn't equal quality, Clerks was made for next-to-nothing, yet is a much more polished film than-- dare I say?--Forrest Gump. Shot in dreary black-and-white, featuring an unknown cast who do little besides talk to each other, set almost completely within a single location (a New Jersey convenience store) ... yet it has won major awards at Cannes and Sundance.
The central character is Dante (O'Halloran), a store clerk with a conscience, agreeing to work on his day off despite the fact that he wants to play hockey and attend a friend's funeral. His world is full of clear moral principles, and he is both amused and shocked by the amoral people he encounters, from a rabid anti-smoking customer (Flanagan) to the drug dealers lurking outside (Mewes and Smith). There are two main figures in his life: Randall (Anderson), the lazy clerk at the video shop nextdoor who | 430 |
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Kurt jerked awake, his eyes wide, his chest heaving, sweat creating little rivulets in his fur. He threw the covers off as though they were chains that were constricting him. Sitting on the side of the bed, his legs dangling, he rubbed his forehead.
It had been an awful nightmare. He had been inside that cage again, crouching on the straw. That had been bad enough, but then Stephan stood there on the other side of the wall, shouting at him, "You killed me! You killed me, you murderer!"
He ran up to the bars, wanting to explain, hoping to tell his brother what had happened, searching for closure and solace. But then a whip flew out of nowhere and<|fim_middle|> fit. They looked like a row of faceless bald heads.
Scott bent down, grabbed one of her toes, and began to pull. She stretched ludicrously, like gum. Kurt jumped forward, horrified.
"Cyclops!" he said, "What are you doing? You could hurt her!"
"I'm just helping her get out," Scott said, "She's stuck." As he spoke, the girl tumbled to the ground, thoroughly ruffled.
They all stared at the girl. Kurt thought she was easily the youngest mutant he had ever seen. She couldn't be more than eight or nine, and she was probably more like six or seven. There were tear streaks on her face, and her large brown eyes were wet.
After a few minutes, Scott said, "Well, let's get her on the Blackbird and head back home." He beckoned to the girl and she stood, following them back to the jet and the mansion.
Professor Xavier's voice wormed through Kurt's head. Though he'd been here nearly three months, he still hadn't gotten used to the constant nearness of that man. [She is six years old. Her parents are dead, and her name is Margaret, Meggie for short.]
At this point, Kurt didn't care. He was tired and sweaty, it was late at night, and all he wanted right now was to get into the shower, then go straight to bed. Normally he would have made an effort to reach out to the girl, but he was exhausted.
[That is all right, Kurt.] The professor spoke inside his head again. [You don't need to talk to her. She will most likely be quite frightened of your appearance, so I suggest you don't introduce yourself until someone else at the School has made better friends with her.]
[Okay.] Kurt teleported straight into the shower, locking the bathroom door. It was always a race to get to the shower first, and Kurt always won.
Kurt gasped and nearly screamed as he woke up. That dream! For some reason it was even worse than before. He couldn't quite remember the details, but he was pretty sure that this time around, Jimaine and Margali had also been accusing him, blaming him for Stephan's death.
Every night since coming here he'd had that dream, though with a different variation every time. Alone in his room, it seemed much more real and frightening than he could ever express in the daylight. Part of him wanted to switch on the lamp, but he knew he didn't need it, his night vision was fine.
Whenever he had bad dreams as a child, Margali would always make him walk to the kitchenette in the trailer and get a glass of milk and eat a piece of bread with butter. It was her way to make nightmares disappear from the memory. So Kurt walked down to the kitchen, looking for a hint of home in the comforting food.
He sat at the kitchen counter, drinking his milk and eating his bread. Here, in the dead of night, without any lights on, Kurt could almost make himself believe he was back at home in the trailer with Margali and Jimaine and Stephan. But his night vision was better than that, he knew that this was not the kitchenette, that the house was too big to be the trailer.
Then he heard a slight sound from upstairs, a sobbing. Somebody, Kurt realized, was having a nightmare. None of the other X-Men ever had nightmares, at least, none that made them cry like that. And no X-Man had a voice that high. It had to be the little girl, Meggie.
Kurt remembered his first night in the School, alone and frightened in the dark. He hadn't known where the kitchen was then. All he'd wanted that night was for Margali to come in and turn on the light and hug him gently. He had known that he was acting like a baby, but it was the way he'd felt all the same.
Kurt set down his glass and walked up the stairs, then down the hall until he came to Meggie's room. He remembered the professor's warning about his appearance, but decided to disregard it. Slowly, he opened the door a crack and peeked around it.
She was sitting in bed, sobbing, shuddering and hugging herself. Kurt couldn't stand it. He crossed the room in four long strides, sat down on the edge of her bed, picked her up in his arms and held her to his bare chest.
Meggie clutched his neck and sobbed into his shoulder, curling up to him. Kurt gently patted her hair, whispering, "It's all right. It's all right. I'm here; no one's going to hurt you."
Her sobs slowed and stopped, but she shivered against him. Kurt wrapped his arms around her. "Please turn on the night light," she whispered.
Kurt hesitated only a fraction of a second before he switched on the little lamp by the side of her bed. If she was afraid of what he looked like, there was nothing he could do about that.
Meggie looked up into his face, and then down again, placing her head again his chest. She began to stroke his fur. "You're so soft," she whispered.
Kurt held her gently and then stood up, taking her down into the kitchen. He fixed her a glass of milk and a piece of bread with butter, and then he held her while she ate. He held her until she nodded off, and then he took her back up to her room and tucked her into her bed. Gently, he kissed her forehead, then switched off the light and went to his own room.
(Author's Note: This is not an entry for the Fall/Winter Challenge.)
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RIP Kurt Wagner. You were the character who brought in me into comics, who introduced me and inspired me. Now your death has sent me away again. Wherever you are in the Marvel Universe, I hope its someplace pleasant.
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Post by Angelique » Tue Jan 12, 2010 5:07 am
D'awwww! That's so cute!
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Post by Elfdame » Wed Jan 13, 2010 12:53 am
I like sweetness. Good job, and you gave depth to his character in very few words with things like the snack and the visual descriptions.
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Post by BitterBamfing » Wed Jan 13, 2010 1:49 am
This is so sweet I think it gave me a cavity good job
Post by Dedicatedfollower467 » Wed Jan 13, 2010 2:38 am
Thanks for the comments guys!
So Meggie's not too Mary-Sue-ish for you?
Post by BitterBamfing » Wed Jan 13, 2010 3:37 pm
No not really but then again I don't know much past she is a cute little mutant girl that has been tramatized by sentinals and that isn't too mary-sueish to me.
Post by Dedicatedfollower467 » Thu Jan 14, 2010 4:02 pm
Well, she's a little sue-ish in my mind because I sort of only made her up so that I could make Kurt interact with a little girl as opposed to one his own age or older.
But I do kind of like her -- she's really a very normal sort of child with a couple of bad things that happened to her.
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Post by BlueVelvet14 » Sun Jan 31, 2010 8:52 pm
this is such an adorable story!!
i wish kurt could come into my room and turn on my nightlight for me when i was younger XD
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Post by Nachtkriec » Mon Mar 01, 2010 4:11 pm
:computer that was a good fic!
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Post by Master of Chaos » Mon Mar 08, 2010 2:21 am
Awww. That was sweet.
Return to "Fan Creations" | slashed him across the face. Kurt turned and saw a tall, hideous demon holding the whip.
"You're one of us, Nightcrawler," the demon said, "You proved that long ago."
And then scrabbling, slimy claws poked up through the ground and attached themselves to his legs and thousands of demons were pulling him down, dragging him downwards to the depths of hell.
Kurt shook his head and stood up. He went down to the kitchen and got himself a glass of milk and a piece of bread with butter before going back to sleep.
"Sentinels," Bobby complained as he slipped past Kurt, "I hate these guys."
The Sentinel Kurt had been fighting suddenly short-circuited and toppled, nearly taking him down with it. Kurt teleported away just in time, throwing a nasty glance over his shoulder.
"Sorry, Nightcrawler!" Kitty called as she phased out of the increasingly large rubble heap.
"Was that the last one?" Bobby asked.
"I think so." Kurt surveyed the wreckage. Here came Logan, his claws still glinting with metal scraps, and there was Peter, throwing the last bit of a defeated Sentinel over his shoulder. Not a single one of the monstrous machines was still moving.
Scott climbed over, gathering them together again. "Good job," he said, "But we're not done yet. The professor said there was another mutant nearby. Spread out and search for her."
The X-Men turned away and started looking for the girl.
Kurt was plowing through the rubble on the other side of the square when he heard Bobby call out, "Uh, guys? I think I found her." Kurt teleported next to him.
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Home Analysis Injury to key player opens room for €80m forward to come in
Injury to key player opens room for €8<|fim_middle|> Dutch player Jayden Braff has already earned excellent reviews from the Manchester City Academy staff recently.
Jesus has always expressed his willingness to play a secondary role at City, and he's also admitted time and again that he is really behind one of the finest strikers in Europe right now. He accepts the fact that his situation is rather complex because he's at a big club comprised of big players, as well as a big manager.
Jesus said as per the club's website:
"I am not happy because Sergio is injured. I don't like it when my friends are injured but I work hard every day and I am ready to play."
Regardless of the friendship, the 22-year-old admitted being unhappy at not always starting.
"It is not easy as I am a guy who wants to play and improve my football."
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Just when Pep Guardiola thought that his roster injury problems were easing off a bit, especially with Leroy Sane and Aymeric Laporte beginning their return to the side, Manchester City were struck by the injury plague yet again.
Now Sergio Aguero is set to miss the Manchester Derby on December 7 as well as two way trips to Newcastle and Burnley as per Manchester Evening News.
Aguero hobbled his way out of City's win over Chelsea this past weekend due to a thigh injury. Guardiola confirmed to the press that "barring a miracle", the striker will not be available for the game against Manchester United at the Etihad stadium on December 7, leaving them with Gabriel Jesus as the only fit striker in the squad for this major clash.
This is expected to be a golden opportunity for Jesus as Aguero is certainly out for several weeks. The Brazilian has so far scored five goals in 16 appearances for City this season (Transfermarkt). It's not without reason that Guardiola has often referred to him as a player who is amongst the best secondary strikers in the football world today.
He told the press: "I'm not happy that Gabriel doesn't (normally) play, that's not news. I understand that. But what's important is the day after how he trains.
"He's an incredible guy and I think they respect each other. It's not easy. We will miss Sergio but in Gabriel we have a star in that position. When he arrived, his energy, his impact immediately seduced us."'
Guardiola has often used Raheem Sterling as the team's central striker, but he's all set to give Gabriel Jesus a regular run now. This new opening also serves as a good opportunity for the young attackers at City to make an impression on the side.
Both Adrian Bernabe and Ian Carlo Poveda have made their first-team debuts with the club. The talented 17-year-old | 401 |
Cristina's days were nearly always the same. She began work at the museum at eight thirty and left at four thirty. Then she went to the gym after work and stayed there for about an hour and a half. Then she went back<|fim_middle|> it quickly. There was something strange about the picture today. It didn't make her feel happy. It gave her a strange feeling inside. She didn't know why. Maybe it was because she was thinking so much about the new exhibition. An exhibition of thirty-seven paintings was a lot of work.
That afternoon she left the museum a little later than usual. Carlos Bocuzzi was still outside but he was getting tired of waiting. 'Maybe she went home early. Maybe she's ill. Maybe she's working late,' he thought to himself.
'I mustn't be afraid,' Carlos thought to himself. 'Roberto is careful. He has thought of everything. Roberto has been to the gym three times, each time with different color hair and different clothes. Now Roberto knew about day tickets to the gym and knew which machines and weights Cristina used. This evening Carlos didn't need to stay outside the gym and wait for Cristina. This evening Carlos could go home. It was the last time he had to follow Cristina - Roberto was going to kill her the next day. 'I must not be afraid. Only a few hours more,' he said to himself over and over again. Carlos was afraid but he felt sure that his brother would kill Cristina. Roberto was strong. 'That woman has to die,' Roberto told him every night. | home. She sometimes stopped at the supermarket on her way. Roberto and Carlos watched her for six days until their plan to kill her was ready.
'Fine thank you. How are you?' asked Philippe.
Cristina put the phone down and looked at the picture of the Claude Monet painting she had on the wall in her office. When she was fifteen years old she went to France with her parents and fell in love with that painting with its field of red poppies. She went to see every Impressionist painting she could find in Paris. She spent hours in the museums and didn't want to leave Paris. Her parents understood then that she was serious about studying art at university. She kept the picture on the wall in her office because it made her feel good. She had the same picture on her bedroom wall. She often looked at it when she was thinking. But today she looked away from | 182 |
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The<|fim_middle|> gradual recovery of industrial activity in the near future.
In the WB, the business cycle index witnessed an increase from -21.3 point in September to around -15.8 point this month, due to the improvement in textile, leather, paper, plastic, and chemical and pharmaceutical sub-sectors (which improved from -0.8 point to 0.4 point). However, data revealed a decline in the performance of wood, furniture, and food sub-sectors that declined from -0.7 to -1.8 point between September and October.
The improvement in WB's index reflected the increase in demand (consumption) during Eid Al-Adha and the rise in pharmaceutical products during and after the Israeli attack on Gaza. The improvement in the industrial activities in the WB is accompanied by a decline in industry's pessimism regarding future production and employment, especially after the cessation of the Israeli attack on Gaza.
In GS, the index witnessed an improvement during October reflecting the increase in demand for commodities after the end of the 51-day Israeli attack, in which people and establishments suffered from the harsh siege and destruction. The index increased from -82.6 point in September to around -1.8 point this month. Such improvement reflected resumption of operations by all industrial sub-sectors, especially the food sub-sector which rose from -29.1 point to -1.8 point, construction sub-sector which went up from -12.2 point to 3.9 point, and metallic industrieswhich improved from -18.9 point to 5.9 point between September and October.
Although pessimism dominated during the past two months in GS, the situation shifted to the better this month. Data revealed that the industries in the GS are optimistic regarding future production and employment. This optimism is supported by movement of the international community to reconstruct Gaza, and promises of opening Rafah cross-border. Added to that, is the positive impact and support of the national product campaign, which was highly valued in GS.
It is worth to note that the PMABCI is a monthly index, which aims to capture the state and evolution of economic activity in Palestine, by noting performance of the industrial sector, especially fluctuations in the production and employment levels and implications for the economy at large. The construction of the indicator is based on qualitative data obtained from monthly business surveys of a representative sample of industrial institutions' owners/mangers as to the value of various leading indicators during a specified period, and their expectations for the coming months. Following that, the data is processed to construct a quantitative PMABCI.
It is important to note that the maximum value of the PMABCI is positive 100 point, while the minimum is minus 100 point; a positive value indicates favorable economic performance, and the bigger this value, the better the economy is. However, a negative value indicates that economic performance worsens the closer this value approaches minus 100. On the other hand, a value close to zero indicates that economic performance did not change and is unlikely to do so in the near future. | PMA has released the results of its Business Cycle Index (PMABCI) for October 2014. The results showed that the overall PMABCI witnessed a relative recovery by increasing from -36.1 point in September to around -13.1 point in October. This improvement came due to the cease of the Israeli attack on GS. But compared with the corresponding month of 2013, the index shows a decline, where it was -0.6 point.
In general, the relative improvement in the index is associated with many considerations. Some of these are related to the start of school year and the return of students to schools and universities, which has led to an increase in activity and demand for educational supplies. The preparations for many social events (weddings, holidays… etc.) and increasing crossing points activities due to easing some of the Israeli restrictions also helped boost optimism regarding | 183 |
I remember when it occurred to me that working as a camp counselor was more than just having fun with campers. I was a first-year counselor at a boys' resident sailing camp on Cape Cod in Massachusetts. One of the boys in my cabin had the unfortunate luck of being both impulsive and having a temper. I say "unfortunate" because whenever "TJ" got into trouble—and because of his impulsivity that was much of the time—he had a temper outburst. Certainly TJ, I, and the other boys were having a lot of fun learning new skills in sailing and other activity areas. I soon realized, however, that in addition to teaching TJ how to be a better sailor, there were things I could teach him about being a better person. Maybe I could help him get a better handle on both his impulsivity and his temper.
Ever since that summer, I have looked at camp as not only fun, but as an opportunity for children to do a lot of growing up — both socially and emotionally. I have also come to view being a camp counselor as a craft or set of skills, no different in some ways than knowing how to build a camp fire, climb a rock face, put "English" on a tennis ball, or do a lay-up on the basketball court. The more you practice talking with campers, learning how to communicate with them, and understanding them, the better you get at it—just like most other endeavors<|fim_middle|> . . and . . . everybody knows (because everybody does know) that at camp, part of camp is cleaning up. And you can do this — it's no big deal!"
Then stop talking and move on! One of the biggest mistakes adults make with children is we talk too much! Less is more!
When it is clear that you are not going to pick up the bait and get into an argument, you throw that camper off balance. Second, using the word "and" as opposed to the word "but" helps kids stay with you. When we say "but," we negate whatever we just said and kids tune out. Third, state simply and calmly what everybody knows, which helps you maintain the upper hand emotionally and signals to the child your confidence.
When you detach and move on you are essentially taking the high road. Children would much rather argue with you than do what they are supposed to do. Detaching takes that option away. Picking up the "emotional rope" is the single greatest mistake adults make with children. Teachers, parents, camp counselors, and even therapists make this mistake. Avoiding it will help establish yourself as a first-rate caregiver!
8. Try using the "triple play" with campers who are having a hard time fitting in.
One of the challenges facing counselors I hear about most frequently is the camper who is a little socially awkward or shy — or just doesn't seem to have an easy time making friends with the other kids in his or her cabin or group. This is where a technique I call the "triple play" comes in. Try pairing that child with one other camper from his group (preferably one he helps choose) and do a fun activity together, just the three of you. As my colleague and fellow camp consultant, Faith Evans, has pointed out for years, when children play together they get to know one another more easily.
Fun is a great elixir, and some children have a much easier time getting to know other children one-on-one than they do when faced with an entire group! You can vary this technique by adding another child to the mix or pairing the child with different partners over the course of a week. It's a nice break for you, too, as a counselor and will give you a chance to get to know some of your campers better.
9. Teach your campers how to share and have gratitude.
Children used to learn simple social skills like sharing or waiting their turn in preschool and kindergarten. Because of the pressures placed on children these days to "get ahead" academically, what children learn instead of key social skills are things like how to count to 100, how to spell various words, and even how to read — all tasks that used to be learned in first grade. You may actually have to teach your campers how to share or have a sense of gratitude. In addition, many campers take for granted all the hard work it takes to make camp happen. Teaching them how to share and have gratitude will help them work better together in their cabin or group.
Try gathering your campers for ten minutes each day at the end of the day and have them raise their hands when they have an example to share with the group of something that happened that day that they are grateful for or something that someone has shared with them that day, like friendship or a toy or their time and help during clean-up.
Encouraging gratitude helps create an environment where friendship and respect flourish.
10.You and your co-counselors should "tag team" your campers.
Trying to work alone with your campers not only deprives you of the expertise and input of other staff members, it is a sure way to end up exhausted, cranky, and resentful at the end of camp! You may have noticed that in my Top Ten Tips I refer to a couple of colleagues — great people who have their own significant contributions to make. I know a good idea when I see one, and I am not against taking that idea and adding it to my "bag of tricks" — if it will help me be more effective with children. I stand on the shoulders of many people who have shared their insights, expertise, and skill with me. I would never have become as effective or successful working with children, if I had not been the beneficiary of the experience of so many others. "Tag teaming" your campers simply means letting others help you out, share the load, and share the success. Everyone will be better off if you are "big" enough to share your campers!
Bob Ditter is a licensed clinical social worker specializing in child, adolescent, and family therapy. For more information about the author, visit BobDitter.com.
Originally published in the 2008 May/June issue of Camping Magazine. | in life. This may sound self-evident, but many counselors I have met over the years approach their work with children without thinking about it very much. They simply show up at camp and react when a challenging camper behavior arises. In today's world, this approach won't work. Parents and camp professionals expect more out of the camp experience, including having counselors with better skills working with campers.
To help you make the most of your time with campers, I have put together my "top ten list" of tips for working with campers. I have updated this list to include techniques that "fit" the nature of campers today — children who are verbal and resourceful and used to a lot of individual attention, don't necessarily do so well in groups, and often have trouble recovering from a setback. Some of these techniques I have developed myself while others I learned from folks who have had their own success working with campers. Try them on and see what you think!
1. Get to know each one of your campers.
Many campers today are used to receiving a lot of attention from their parents. You've probably heard the term "helicopter parents," which refers to parents who "hover" around their children. Let's just say that many parents have become increasingly involved in many aspects of their children's lives. When children who are raised this way have a problem, they expect mom or dad to swoop in and make it all better. What this means for you is that your campers may need more praise and recognition, since they have been raised to count on more support from their parents.
In addition, each one of your campers is accustomed to being seen as an individual and not as a member of a group or cabin. Unless you take time to get to know some of the interests, talents, and qualities of each of your campers, they won't feel seen and therefore won't be personally connected to you as their counselor. Until your campers are emotionally "on board" with you, they won't get as much out of camp. Consider making a List of Firsts chart. Take time each day to record in a brief meeting with your campers what new thing each of them has done that day at camp. This could be a new skill they've learned or a new activity they've tried or a new friend they've made and so on. The List of Firsts chart not only helps you keep track of all the new things your campers are doing, but it also gives them individual recognition in a group setting — perfect for today's campers!
2. Get into routines right away.
For most children, routines provide security because they are predictable, and they help campers know what is expected of them. Routines are also good for caregivers in that they allow you to plan ahead and put consistency and self-discipline into your interactions with your kids. For example, try using the "five-minute warning" routinely before the end of every activity period. Announce to campers, "Okay, we have five minutes before we have to clean up!" Transitions are hard for children because they involve a small loss — a letting go — of what they have just invested their pride and energy into doing. Using the five-minute warning consistently — in other words, doing it routinely — helps children master those transitions.
3. Keep your directions simple!
Instruct the camper to come back and tell you when they've finished.
Praise them for getting it done!
Repeat the process with a new task for the camper.
Obviously you wouldn't use this method with older children or kids who are selfstarters. With campers who need that extra level of tracking, it works very well.
4. Get on their train before you try to get them on yours.
My friend and colleague, Jay Frankel, has an expression he calls "getting on a camper's train." When a camper is doing something other than what she should be — like looking at a photo album or listening to her iPod® instead of cleaning up — rather than get into a struggle with her, Jay and his True-to-Life team suggest that you take a minute or two and join with your camper in whatever she is doing. In other words, take a moment to look at the photo album with her or ask about the music on her iPod® before coaxing her away from it and onto the task at hand. Entering that child's world on her terms is a great way to develop influence with that child — which is a more powerful and lasting way of motivating children than using threats or force.
5. The human brain can't hold a negative.
When you tell a camper at the swimming pool, "Don't run!" what his brain hears is "Run!" When you tell a camper, "Don't talk while I'm talking!" his brain hears, "Talk while I'm talking!" It is impossible to tell someone not to do something without suggesting the very thing you don't want them to do! What is more effective is telling campers what we want them to do. For example, at the pool, say, "Walk!" In a meeting say, "Listen while I'm speaking. You'll get your turn when I am finished!" Turning negatives into positives is more than just a subtle rephrasing of words. Children today are visual learners, meaning they get a picture in their brains of what behavior we are suggesting when we talk. Giving them a clear picture of what we want, rather than what we don't want helps steer their behavior in a more constructive direction. "Keep your hands to yourself," or, "Use your words when you are upset," are examples of telling campers what we want from them that help them behave more appropriately.
6. Sarcasm has no place at camp!
I once heard a counselor shouting at campers who were late to line-up: "Come on, ladies! My old grandmother moves faster than you guys!" Sarcasm may be said with a hint of affection or humor, but this subtlety is lost on children younger than fourteen — the age at which the human brain "gets" sarcasm. Not that children won't mimic the sarcasm they witness coming from counselors or older campers. They will. But, what younger campers "repeat" is simply hostility — any hint of affection or good-natured humor that one might embed in a sarcastic remark to a friend is lost on younger children. What they repeat is a barb or weapon, which is not behavior I imagine you would want to encourage at camp!
Stay calm and let go of the provocation (in other words, drop the emotional rope!).
Make campers "right" about what they are "right" about. For example, "You're right. I'm not your parent!" Or, "You're right — it is a free country! Isn't that great!"
Pause and then simply say ". | 1,406 |
Il dragoncello o estragone (Artemisia dracunculus, L.) è una pianta perenne, aromatica e amara, appartenente alla famiglia<|fim_middle|>Collegamenti esterni
Asteroideae
Piante medicinali e officinali
Piante aromatiche
Spezie
Taxa classificati da Linneo | delle Asteracee. È detto anche "dragone", "tarfone", "tragone", "serpentaria".
Origine
È originaria della Siberia del sud e della Russia meridionale. In Italia è una specie coltivata, raramente cresce spontanea.
Descrizione
Il dragoncello è una pianta erbacea.
Il fusto forma dei cespugli che possono raggiungere l'altezza di circa un metro; ha fiori piccoli e di colore verde-giallastro, riuniti in infiorescenze a forma di pannocchia. Le foglie sono sottili, lucenti e di colore verde scuro. Il frutto è di colore scuro ed è grande 1-2 millimetri.
I semi sono generalmente sterili.
Uso
Culinario
È coltivata nell'Europa occidentale per i suoi usi gastronomici. Foglie e fiori vengono raccolti nei mesi più caldi.
È molto utilizzata nella cucina toscana e in quella francese per insaporire pesce, uova ed altre pietanze. È uno dei componenti principali della salsa bernese che si usa per accompagnare la carne alla griglia.
Medicinale
Ha proprietà antisettiche e digestive. Le foglie contengono sali minerali e le vitamine A e C. Masticare le foglie riduce la sensibilità delle papille gustative, favorendo l'assunzione di medicine amare. Solitamente le foglie si usano tramite un infuso. Le radici danno sollievo al mal di gola e l'infuso di foglie stimola l'appetito.
Note
Voci correlate
Specie di Artemisia
Altri progetti
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Recognized as the UK's leading show for Automation, Power Transmission and Motion<|fim_middle|> and specifiers who function within the Drives and Control sectors. | Engineering, Fibox has announced that they will be demonstrating the flexibility of their ARCA range at the biennial Drives & Controls exhibition which will be held at the NEC Birmingham 12-14 April, 2016.
Successfully operating for over 50 years in the busy and competitive electrical enclosure market, Fibox has become the leading 'supplier of choice' to many specifiers who demand only the very best enclosures to house and protect their varying control products and systems, which must function in harsh and demanding environments.
Because Fibox believe that "seeing is believing" as well as exhibiting samples of their 19 product families, with over 1500 sizes to choose from, they will be showing and demonstrating how the inherent strength, coupled with the wide choice of features their ARCA range of wall/pole mounted hinged door cabinets and related accessories, can meet the needs of electrical engineers | 186 |
The NRA's False Choice
I've been taking a bit of a break from writing, but this article written by Marine officers (there are no former Marines) is just too "on target" (please pardon the pun) not to share. I have nothing to add other than I agree entirely, especially with these two sentences:
"Indeed, true patriotism is not partisan, and the love of country and exercise of Constitutional rights is not the purview of any one group."
"We renounce the false choice presented by the NRA that Americans need to pick a team between the First and Second Amendments."
The NRA Has Entered the Province of Cowards
by Joe Plenzler, flipboard.com
As Marines, we fought to defend the U.S. and its freedoms. The NRA's new video campaign is dedicated to a xenophobic policy of violent hatred and intolerance undermining freedom.
Over the past few weeks, the National Rifle Association has deployed several hyperbolic, incoherent, irresponsible, and divisive videos demonizing half of the American population in their efforts to recruit new members—beginning with Dana Loesch, followed by Greg Stenchfield, and most recently<|fim_middle|> violent crime in the US to be at a 20-year low despite the more than 33,000 gun-related fatalities in our nation every year.
Additionally, the NRA's use of stock riot footage misrepresents the character of the anti-administration protests. The data on the protests since the inauguration show that less than 0.5% of all protests have resulted in any property damage, and even fewer have resulted in physical injury.
To the NRA, we ask Qui Bono—to whose benefit? This fear-mongering certainly does not benefit the American people.
The truth is that the NRA is engaging in shameless fear tactics to increase membership so they can put more money into the pockets of politicians in Washington so firearms manufactures can increase sales resulting in profits and returns to shareholders.
They are selling a false narrative that there is only one right way to be a patriot.
This divisive rhetoric is amplified by their deafening silence on the killing of Phillando Castile, a law-abiding gun owner.
They are preying on a fearful public, and this is unethical.
While we would expect Loesch and Stinchfield to engage in such paid partisan hyperbole, we are embarrassed that a fellow veteran like Dom Raso would stoop to partisan fear-mongering and denigrate himself in the same manner.
We expect more from our veterans.
You see, while we have spent the past 16 years fighting real wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, extreme partisans on both sides of the political spectrum have been intent on waging a culture war at home.
It is time for this to stop.
During our combined 56 years in the United States Marine Corps, we served with Americans from every conceivable political, ideological, ethnic, religious, and socioeconomic background—including foreigners who joined our military and helped fight our wars so they could earn a shot at U.S. citizenship.
Our experiences serving in every clime and place have taught us to be grateful for our ever evolving experiment in democracy, and have also shown us that there is no one right way to be Americans.
Each of us who volunteer to serve swore an oath to defend the Constitution and all of its amendments for every American—even those we may disagree with.
While we deplore the riotous violence of a few—completely overblown by the NRA—we respect the rights of the people to peacefully assemble and protest. We also respect peaceful civil disobedience. These rights are the cornerstone of our democracy, codified as the First Amendment to ensure that we can disagree, protest, and express our views without resorting to the violence of the past.
We also reject the most recent phenomena of labeling anything disagreeable as false or fake news. We believe everyone is entitled to their opinions, but nobody is entitled to their own facts.
We believe that the use of intimidation, fear-mongering, and threats of violence to crush the people's right to peaceful assembly, redress grievances, and maintain a free press is the first step in the march towards authoritarianism.
We believe that ALL of our civil liberties are worth defending for ALL Americans—including protection from the use of excessive lethal force by those sworn to protect and serve our communities.
We reject extremism in all of its forms—both emanating from the right and the left.
We believe that the way forward to bring our Nation together does not come from a clenched fist, rather it comes from an extended hand and a commitment by sane, common-sense, and courageous people to meet in the center and work toward the common good.
We believe that veterans, given the military's cultural emphasis on service, nation before self, and teamwork can be useful in encouraging respectful civil discourse to solve our nation's toughest problems.
We strongly believe in the sentiment first expressed by Edmund Burke, that the only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for good men and women to do nothing.
We believe that the majority of NRA members deplore the hate and fear-based tactics of the NRA leadership yet their dues and donations continue to resource the NRA's incitements to hate and violence.
The silence of these good men and women is deafening.
Craig Tucker is a retired Marine Corps Colonel and decorated 25-year combat veteran. His combat command of RCT–7 in Iraq spanned 14 months and included the first and second Battles of Fallujah, numerous smaller actions and a Purple Heart for wounds received in combat action north of Husaybah Iraq.
Kyleanne Hunter is an 11-year Marine Corps combat veteran and decorated AH–1W Cobra helicopter gunship pilot. She served combat tours in both Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as a tour as the Marine Corps' Liaison Officer to the House of Representatives. She is a former NRA member.
Joe Plenzler is a retired Marine Corps lieutenant colonel and decorated 20-year combat veteran of Iraq and Afghanistan. He served from 2010 to 2015 as the spokesman, speechwriter, and staff group director for the 34th, 35th, and 36th Commandants of the Marine Corps. He is a former NRA member. ■ | by U.S. Navy veteran Dom Raso.
Such fear-based incitements to hate and violence are the province of cowards.
These ads are official NRA TV products sponsored by Ruger and Kimber, both firearms manufacturers.
The NRA, founded by Union officers after the Civil War, was established as an organization dedicated to civilian marksmanship, gun safety, and Second Amendment rights.
However, this recent video campaign is a crescendo of increasingly partisan rhetoric on the part of the NRA, demonstrating that they are now dedicated to a xenophobic policy of violent hatred and intolerance that increases polarization and discord within American society.
In tone and content, the videos are eerily reminiscent of the thugs and bullies that have historically executed violence in support of authoritarian regimes.
These NRA ads are a clear and sophisticated effort that use well established propaganda tricks to appeal to scarcity, fear, and the basest of human emotions. For instance, the unnamed "they" at the beginning of Loesch's video establishes a cognitive frame for the viewer to insert their own personal boogeyman.
Moreover, the videos conflate the American public's right to peacefully assemble, protest, and criticize their government with the violent criminal behavior of a small number of rioters.
The NRA props up the Second Amendment by undermining and vilifying the protections afforded in the First, and paints everyone who may disagree with the current administration, our country's justice system, or the NRA's partisan political position with a very dark and unjust broad brush.
The NRA ads depict a dystopian, violent present whose danger can only be met by heavily armed citizens, when in fact a recent 2016 FBI report shows | 334 |
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Steve Jobs and Bill Gates had a prickly relationship. On the one hand, their two companies did significant business with each other. (Microsoft actually wrote software for some Apple devices.) But the two men also were rivals, both in the marketplace and in the public spotlight. Jobs' biographer Walter Isaacson described their relationship as "a scorpion dance, with both sides circling warily knowing that a sting by either could cause problems for both."
Sometimes emotional flare-ups threated their collaboration. As Isaacson recounts in his book, Jobs was enraged, for example, when Microsoft was on the verge of launching Windows. He claimed that the new platform blatantly copied Apple's graphic operating system (even though Apple had itself liberally borrowed programming developed earlier at Xerox, PARC).
Gates visited Apple headquarters in hopes of smoothing things out. Instead, Jobs excoriated him in front of Apple's top management team. "You're ripping us off," he shouted. "I trusted you, and now you're stealing from us!"
Gates didn't yell back, though. Instead he sat calmly and offered another way of looking at the situation. "I think it's more like we both had this rich neighbor named Xerox," he said, "and I broke into his house to steal the TV set and found out you had already stolen it."
Gates' poise — his ability to manage his own feelings in a high-pressure situation — exemplifies a key feature of emotional intelligence (EI). His own calm proved contagious. Jobs' anger abated a bit in the meeting and then the two men discussed their differences privately in later conversations. Recalling the incident, Gates said, "I'm good at when people are emotional. I'm kind of less emotional."
Note that Gates didn't describe himself as unemotional. He obviously knows that feelings are important when dealing with other people, especially in a negotiation.
The heart of EI is self-awareness, the capacity to sense the first stirrings of anger or anxiety. That awareness, in turn, must be coupled with an understanding of what kindled that particular response. Depending on the situation, it might be something that another person has said or done. But if we dig deep enough, we sometimes see that our own attitudes are the real source of our visceral response.
Together with my colleagues Kimberlyn Leary and Julianna Pillemer, both of whom are psychologists, I've explored the thoughts and feelings that people bring to the bargaining table. We did in-depth interviews with seasoned negotiators, all with two or more decades of experience under their belts. (You can read more about our research in "Negotiating with Emotion.")
Every person we interviewed expressed some degree of anxiety about negotiation<|fim_middle|> allow those feelings to have us.
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Back to Negotiating | . With a few subjects, it was only a minor concern, but with most it was the dominant emotion. And if you think about it, that's not surprising.
People were concerned about the unpredictability of the process. Will it be easy to reach agreement or hard? Is an acceptable deal even possible?
Then there were worries about other people's intentions. Win-win negotiation sounds great, people said, but what if the other party is a cutthroat?
Plus there was ample self-doubt. Even after sealing a deal, people wonder if they left money on the table — or pushed too hard and damaged a relationship.
Such feelings hamper effective negotiation. If anxiety isn't properly managed, it can make you defensive — and lots of other bad things will follow. You may be reluctant to reveal your interests, for example, fearful of being exploited. And if you're wary of others, you may be too quick to interpret an innocent question as a ploy. Most important, if you are tense and closed yourself, others may misread your defensiveness as hostility and prompt them to be defensive themselves. Tensions may escalate as a result.
We perform better if we can maintain the poise that Gates showed in his confrontation with Jobs. It's not a matter of suppressing our emotions. That's neither feasible nor desirable. After all, we care about the issues we negotiate. We want to argue passionately for those things we need and deserve. And we also need to be clear that when we say no to an unreasonable demand, we mean it. Instead of ignoring these important feelings, you have to be aware of them and not let them take over.
More fundamentally, we need to connect with others especially in long-term transactions. It's hard to understand other people's feelings if we haven't grappled with our own. In short, preparing for negotiation requires more than simply reading draft contracts, running the numbers, and developing a good fallback. It requires emotional preparation, as well.
My colleague Amy Cuddy has demonstrated in her ground-breaking research how our posture not only reflects our feelings, but how we carry ourselves directly influences hormone levels, which in turn shape our feelings. Emotions flow both to and from our bodies. Standing tall for just two minutes — adopting a "power pose," as Amy calls it — lowers cortisol, which is strongly associated with anxiety.
Our thoughts shape feelings, as well. A study by another colleague — Allison Wood Brooks — suggests that simple words we tell ourselves have a powerful impact. She made subjects anxious by telling them that they would have to sing along with a Karaoke machine in front of an impassive stranger. On hearing the task, people's heart rates jumped up markedly.
But before they began to sing, she instructed them to say a three-word sentence. Half were told to say, "I am anxious." The other half said, "I am excited." Those who said "excited" significantly out-performed those who said "anxious." Allison suggests that rather than trying to calm yourself down when feeling anxious, re-channel that energy so that you can lean into the task at hand.
Amy and Allison's findings are important in their own right. They offer specific techniques for reducing stress and fostering presence. Their work reminds also us that even though we can't ever command how a negotiation goes (other parties will have their own agendas and attitudes), we still can lighten our own emotional baggage. It's fine, in short, to have strong feelings when we negotiate. The trick is not to | 712 |
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Contemporary flatweave tapestry by Door County, Wisconsin-based artists, Wence and Sandra Martinez. Handwoven by Wence on walking floor looms using hand-spun wool, hand-dyed with vegetal and aniline dyes. Their bold collaborative designs are based on Wence's pattern driven work and Sandra's signature glyphs begun as paintings on paper. Ongoing series, commissions welcome. Durable on the floor, striking on the wall, made by the artists. ©Martinez Studio Honored to debut at the Smithsonian Craft Show, booth 400, April 2013. Returning to the Architectural Digest Home Design Show, Made Section (M58), March 2013.
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Contemporary flatweave tapestry by Door County, Wisconsin-based artists, Wence and Sandra Martinez. Handwoven by Wence on walking floor looms using hand-spun wool, hand-dyed with vegetal and aniline dyes. Their bold collaborative designs are based on Wence's pattern driven work and Sandra's signature glyphs begun as paintings on paper. Commissions welcome. Check ongoing series on full site. Durable on the floor, striking on the wall, made by the artists. ©Martinez Studio Honored to debut at the Smithsonian Craft Show, April 2013, booth 400. Returning to Architectural Digest Home Design Show March 2013, Made Section (M58).
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Contemporary flatweave tapestry by Door County, Wisconsin-based artists, Wence and Sandra Martinez. Handwoven by Wence on walking floor looms using hand-spun wool, hand-dyed with vegetal and aniline dyes. Their bold collaborative designs are based on Wence's pattern driven work and Sandra's signature glyphs begun as paintings on paper. See full site for ongoing series. Commissions welcome. Durable on the floor, striking on the wall, made by the artists. ©Martinez Studio Honored to debut at the prestigious Smithsonian Craft Show, booth 400, April 2013. Returning to the Architectural Digest Home Design Show, Made Section (M58), March 2013.
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Contemporary flatweave tapestry by Door County, Wisconsin-based artists, Wence and Sandra Martinez. Handwoven by Wence on walking floor looms using hand-spun wool, hand-dyed with vegetal and aniline dyes. Their bold collaborative designs are based on Wence's pattern driven work and Sandra's signature glyphs begun as paintings on paper. See full site for ongoing series. Commissions welcome. Durable on the floor, striking on the wall, made by the artists. ©Martinez Studio Honored to debut at the prestigious Smithsonian Craft Show, booth 400, April 2013. Returning to the Architectural Digest Home Design Show, Made Section (M58), March, 2013.
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Cogny és un municipi francès situat al departament del Roine i a la regió d'Alvèrnia-Roine-Alps. L'any 2007 tenia 990 habitants.
Demografia
Població
El 2007 la pobl<|fim_middle|>una empresa de transport, 2 d'empreses d'hostatgeria i restauració, 1 d'una empresa d'informació i comunicació, 2 d'empreses immobiliàries, 9 d'empreses de serveis, 2 d'entitats de l'administració pública i 2 d'empreses classificades com a «altres activitats de serveis».
Dels 13 establiments de servei als particulars que hi havia el 2009, 2 eren paletes, 1 fusteria, 3 lampisteries, 1 electricista, 1 empresa de construcció, 1 perruqueria, 1 restaurant, 2 agències immobiliàries i 1 saló de bellesa.
Dels 2 establiments comercials que hi havia el 2009, 1 era una carnisseria i 1 una floristeria.
L'any 2000 a Cogny hi havia 55 explotacions agrícoles que ocupaven un total de 440 hectàrees.
Equipaments sanitaris i escolars
El 2009 hi havia una escola elemental.
Poblacions més properes
El següent diagrama mostra les poblacions més properes.
Referències
Résumé statistique Fitxa resum de dades estadístiques de Cogny a l'INSEE.
Évolution et structure de la population Fitxa amb el detall de dades de Cogny a l'INSEE
France par commune Dades detallades de tots els municipis de França accessibles a partir del mapa.
Municipis del Roine | ació de fet de Cogny era de 990 persones. Hi havia 382 famílies de les quals 93 eren unipersonals (24 homes vivint sols i 69 dones vivint soles), 122 parelles sense fills, 155 parelles amb fills i 12 famílies monoparentals amb fills.
La població ha evolucionat segons el següent gràfic:
Habitants censats
Habitatges
El 2007 hi havia 463 habitatges, 393 eren l'habitatge principal de la família, 33 eren segones residències i 36 estaven desocupats. 412 eren cases i 51 eren apartaments. Dels 393 habitatges principals, 280 estaven ocupats pels seus propietaris, 95 estaven llogats i ocupats pels llogaters i 18 estaven cedits a títol gratuït; 11 tenien una cambra, 19 en tenien dues, 57 en tenien tres, 85 en tenien quatre i 220 en tenien cinc o més. 281 habitatges disposaven pel capbaix d'una plaça de pàrquing. A 153 habitatges hi havia un automòbil i a 207 n'hi havia dos o més.
Piràmide de població
La piràmide de població per edats i sexe el 2009 era:
Economia
El 2007 la població en edat de treballar era de 640 persones, 478 eren actives i 162 eren inactives. De les 478 persones actives 450 estaven ocupades (237 homes i 213 dones) i 28 estaven aturades (10 homes i 18 dones). De les 162 persones inactives 72 estaven jubilades, 57 estaven estudiant i 33 estaven classificades com a «altres inactius».
Ingressos
El 2009 a Cogny hi havia 415 unitats fiscals que integraven 1.080 persones, la mediana anual d'ingressos fiscals per persona era de 20.808,5 €.
Activitats econòmiques
Dels 42 establiments que hi havia el 2007, 1 era d'una empresa extractiva, 2 d'empreses de fabricació d'altres productes industrials, 10 d'empreses de construcció, 10 d'empreses de comerç i reparació d'automòbils, 1 d' | 697 |
Calopteryx<|fim_middle|> splendens – świtezianka błyszcząca
Calopteryx syriaca
Calopteryx virgo – świtezianka dziewica
Calopteryx xanthostoma
Występowanie w Polsce
W Polsce występują dwa gatunki, określane zwyczajową nazwą świtezianka:
świtezianka błyszcząca (Calopteryx splendens)
świtezianka dziewica (Calopteryx virgo)
Przypisy
Calopteryx | – rodzaj ważek równoskrzydłych, typ nomenklatoryczny rodziny świteziankowatych (Calopterygidae).
Charakterystyka
Ważki z rodzaju Calopteryx to typowe ważki równoskrzydłe. W spoczynku skrzydła składają nad ciałem. Owady te charakteryzują się silnym dymorfizmem płciowym. Samce są metalicznie ubarwione, natomiast samice są brązowe lub zielone. Owady z tego rodzaju machają skrzydłami tylko 5 razy na sekundę. Przedstawiciele rodzaju osiągają do 50 mm długości, a rozpiętość ich skrzydeł dochodzi do 70 mm.
Większość świtezianek spotyka się w pobliżu wód płynących (rzeka, strumień, potok). Larwy mają skrzelotchawki ogonowe, którymi pobierają tlen z wody. Polują na drobne zwierzęta wodne. Dorosłe ważki żerują zwykle na nadwodnych roślinach, zjadając małe stawonogi takie jak mszyce, pająki czy muchówki.
Podział systematyczny
Do rodzaju należą następujące gatunki:
Calopteryx aequabilis
Calopteryx amata
Calopteryx angustipennis
Calopteryx cornelia
Calopteryx dimidiata
Calopteryx exul
Calopteryx haemorrhoidalis
Calopteryx hyalina
Calopteryx japonica
Calopteryx maculata
Calopteryx orientalis
Calopteryx samarcandica
Calopteryx | 415 |
HomeAttack 0 Crit AllMy attack stat… – V1 Chap 27 – The Destruction of Madiswil
My attack stat… – V1 Chap 27 – The Destruction of Madiswil
Demons. No one knew how they came into existence. When one appeared, they would often signal their arrival with a purple column of light shooting into the heavens.
Demons were an existence that invoked calamity, as the surroundings that came into contact with them often became contaminated with the stench of evil. The earth became fallow and beasts were driven wild with rage by the miasma that seeped from them. The appearance of one would spell disaster that only the strongest of fighters and magicians could repel.
That was true for this current case too. As the demon had appeared right in the middle of land governed by the Madiswil family. Before the kingdom could react and gather their men, a demon leading a swarm of demonized beasts had invaded the governing town. Unprepared to face dozens of beasts that had been powered up much higher than normal, the guards at the edge of town quickly found themselves outmatched. Swords snapped under the weight of a charging boar as its horns skewered the men before casually flinging their lifeless bodies aside. Wolves bared their fangs and chomped down on helpless residents that were too slow to run away. Lizards, kobolds, bugbears, goblins – all poisoned by the miasma coming from the sole demon, had mutated into terrifying creatures that were much stronger and fiercer than their normal counterparts.
As they all stampeded into town, a lone demon trudged forward slowly, making a beeline for his target – the Madiswil mansion. Miasma surrounded it, making it hard to clearly see its figure. However, if one were able to get close enough without being killed, they would be able to see a human-like body that looked as if it had emerged from a pile of embers and ash. Spots glowed purple under a mostly grayed body, as it appeared that miasma was being ejected from those areas.
"Kikikiki, reveeeeenge will beeee miiiiine!" A distorted, inhuman voice sounded from the demon.
With no one able to hinder his path, the demon continued to move forward as his beasts paved the way for him. A lone trail of fallow earth was left behind as he casually strolled through the front gates of the town.
By the time reinforcements had arrived, the city of Madiswil had been completely wiped out.
A kobold fell as my chef knife bisected it horizontally from the waist up. Though these monsters had been intimidating at first, my knife had no trouble slicing through them compared to their normal forms. Since the monsters were in a berserk state, it was not hard to read their attack patterns and counterattack. The only danger was the small amount of miasma that they leaked out, which created a burning sensation upon contact with your skin. Enough exposure and the miasma would potentially cause some serious damage to your body. Thankfully, everyone had been provided with accessories from the church that would counteract these effects.
Detecting no more around me, I looked around the ruins of the once-prosperous town of Madiswil.
After Eryn and I had seen that column of purple light and met up with the guild, the members present were separated into two groups. The group composed of more seasoned veterans and strong magicians went to intercept the swarm of demonized beasts that had trampled through Madiswil territory. Aerial familiars were able to scout their tracks, seeing that they were heading in the direction of the capital. The other group was told to circle around to investigate the town of Madiswil for clues while cleaning up the demonized beasts that straggled behind.
Having been put in the latter team, Eryn objected initially.
"I'm capable enough to join the fight! Please let me come!"
"You may be, but can you say the same for your familiar?" Castia said, declining her request.
"None of you new recruits will be going anyways. It's too dangerous for the inexperienced."
Cornelius came over to reassure Eryn. "Your role is important as well. Maybe you can find a clue to the sudden appearance of the demon, and what it is targeting."
Eryn reluctantly backed off at the urging of her friend.
By the time we had arrived at the main town of Madiswil, we were met with a gruesome sight.
Buildings had been heavily damaged, and bodies were strewn on the ground, remnants of those attacked by the demonized beasts. Neither fortified walls nor armed guards had been enough to repel the invasion as it looked like a herd had stampeded through the middle of town, paving a path of destruction in its wake. A few of those beasts could be seen still wandering through the town.
The team of magic knights that came to this area suddenly felt unsure of their abilities as they stared horrified at the rampant destruction. However, one by one they snapped out of it and moved forward to slay the remaining beasts.
Eryn and I had separated to quickly scout a wider area, though we made sure not to stray too far from each other in case backup was needed.
Having finished up the beasts I encountered, I noticed the sounds of fighting still going on nearby. Eryn was over in that direction last time I checked. It was unusual for Eryn to still be fighting by the time I was done. Maybe it would be best to check in on her.
I quickly maneuvered between the rubble lining the pathways, until the figure of Eryn came into view. Sure enough, she was still in the middle of battling two kobolds. Surprisingly, I saw no signs of other dead monsters around her.
Watching for a moment, I could see that she was actually struggling to inflict heavy damage on them. While Eryn had no injuries herself, the two kobolds only had minor lacerations.
A sword strike connected squarely on the chest of one of them, but only a faint trail of blood dribbled down from the shallow<|fim_middle|>. The sounds of battle and magic seemed to be slowing down, suggesting that the remaining enemies were thinning out. Hopefully, there would be no more surprises so that we would finish quickly and get out of here.
As we approached the front gate of the mansion, the two of us were surprised to see how the gate and front door appeared to have been pried apart forcefully by earth magic. The remnants of the obstacle once impeding the demon's path had been blown away with high power magic. This was looking more and more like something that a man armed solely with a knife should stay out of.
Eryn walked forward without any hesitation. I took a deep breath and followed behind, unsure of what awaited inside. As Eryn stepped into what looked like a grand entryway, she suddenly paused. Having stopped so abruptly, I nearly ran right into her. Looking ahead to see what caught her attention, I was met with a horrid scene.
A person had been encased in earth from the waist down, as if being held upright. Blood had coated the earth and floor around him. A chill ran down my spine as I realized that the person no longer had a head. Chunks on the ground suggested that the head had been torn off and crushed, as if the person had been executed.
"That's the lord of Madiswil," Eryn exclaimed as she slowly walked over and pointed to an emblem on his jacket. She continued forward, following a bloody trail leading further into the house.
In contrast to what I felt, Eryn seemed not horribly bothered by the gory scenes. I felt kind of bad letting Eryn lead the way, but I was really no good with these kinds of things. The one time my friend had strapped me into a VR horror game, I flipped out and kicked him in the stomach by accident as I flailed around in terror. There was a strange sense of security in having the scary moments boxed within a screen.
The blood trail led up to the second floor, whereas the other entrances had been blocked by slabs of earth that had risen from the ground. Flames had scorched a few surfaces leaving signs of a spell battle that had taken place. The attacks were focused heavily in a certain pattern, indicating that the demon had likely forced his prey upstairs. This gave me the feeling that the demon had done everything purposefully, which made it even scarier.
Still, Eryn proceeded onward as we followed the trail. The entire hallway was a mess, a combination of earth and furniture cinders had jumbled its normally straight path. We stepped around the obstacles, alert for anything jumping out at us. At the end of the hallway, a lone door stood slightly ajar, leading to the master bedroom. Kicking the door open and walking forward with her sword drawn, Eryn peeked inside cautiously. After pausing for a moment, she turned back to me.
"Don't come inside. Given how you're acting, I don't think you should see this."
Eryn turned back towards the room with a look of disgust. Within the room, what appeared to be the rest of the Madiswil family had been strung up. She didn't even need to check to know that they were long dead, as their bodies had been gruesomely warped and portions of their bodies had been rendered into ashes. The remnants of the horrid scene had indicated a sick sense of enjoyment that the demon had for torture. This was not something that a mindless demon would nonchalantly do, or at least that was what she hoped.
While she was far from comfortable with it, the questions in her mind drove her forward, allowing her to block out this disturbing scene. She was determined to find something useful so that she would have an excuse to report to the battlefield. Since she had noticed how the demon had gone straight for the Lord of Madiswil, she couldn't help but wonder if the demon personally knew him. Having seen that the demon had followed through with executing the other members of the family, rather than blindly destroy the mansion, this feeling only solidified. The earth magic that was used on the gate also looked somewhat familiar though the mana signature was different from anything she had sensed before. Though the Madiswil family was known to use earth and fire magic, it didn't make sense for them to block their own escape, so she concluded that the demon had used similar magic.
Along the back wall of the room, an upturned bed among the charred and wrecked furniture forming a makeshift barrier had stood out. Eryn approached, cautiously gripping her sword and readying a spell in her other hand. However, all she found was a body that had been silenced already. Judging by the facedown body that had a protruding spike lodged in her neck and the pool of blood underneath, Eryn guessed that the woman had tried to hide while the others fought, but a stray attack had found its way to her. Turning her over, her arm clutched a book to her chest, giving the sense that she had guarded it with her life.
It took some effort to pry it from her stiff hand, but Eryn could find no more promising clue than this. Casually skimming through the book, it appeared to be the owner's diary, a detail of the everyday events of the Madiswil matriarch. Eryn's eyes abruptly paused as the writing suddenly spilled messily across the page and was barely legible, an obvious contrast to the tidy and proper handwriting before.
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God have mercy on us! A demon had shown up but when he had called out our names, I didn't know what to do. Randall was the first to catch on and went to talk to him. That bastard killed him! All we could do was flee!
With our escape blocked, his siblings are holding him back but the sounds outside are growing faint. Please stop him! Anyone pleas-
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The writing trailed off at that point. Jittery marks of the pen could be seen afterwards, but the writing was too messy to distinguish. The pages had wrinkles in certain spots, as if tears had dried after spilling on the pages.
Flipping back a few pages, Eryn scanned over a few entries farther back, which detailed multiple events leading up to this point – the aid that Starkenberg received from his father, the mother's plea to help him after being disowned from the family, the rest of the family's mocking attitude towards his exile. They had to do it to save face, but the mother couldn't help but feel conflicted by the decision.
Next was an entry suggesting that Starkenberg had disappeared soon afterwards, and the mother's worry about what had happened to him.
The details started lining up in Eryn's mind. As hard as it was to believe, Starkenberg had somehow turned into a demon. While there had been no mention of demons originally as humans, not much was known about a demon's origin to begin with. Given how he had tortured the bodies in this room and beheaded the Viscount, this was no doubt a fit of revenge after he had turned into a demon. Whether the demon had recognized his mother's mercy or simply missed her, the Viscountess had been spared from an agonizing death, in favor of a quick one.
Eryn turned around and quickly left the room.
"Claude! Let's move! We have to hurry!" Eryn yelled to him as she ran past him.
"Huh? Did you find something out? Where are we going?" Claude chased after her.
"We have to join the others on the battlefield!" Eryn continued running without even looking back.
Since she knew the identity of the demon, there was a chance that she could do something about him. This was an opportunity to earn some real recognition. Even if she couldn't take him down alone, there was no way she would pass up the chance to be a big contributor to the demon's demise.
With that in mind, Eryn and Claude rushed to their cart and headed towards the battlefield.
My attack stat… – V1 Chap 26 - Prelude to Calamity
My attack stat… – V1 Chap 28 - The Raging Battle
Tags:Attack 0 Crit All, original
My attack stat… – V2 Chap 53 – An Unexpected Ally
My attack stat… – V1 Chap 30 – My Story
My attack stat… – V1 Chap 21 – The Poisoned District
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Isekai is love. Isekai is life. | cut that resulted. This caught me off guard, as I had been used to Eryn taking out monsters in essentially one blow.
Moving in to aid her, I snuck up and plunged my knife right into the weak point of the other kobold's back. The blade slid cleanly through it, delivering a fatal injury.
Having been relieved of the pressure from one foe, Eryn focused her attention on the other one before her. She knocked it off balance with a swift sword blow to the legs, sending it to the ground. Not stopping there, she brought her sword up and pounded it down on the fallen kobold repeatedly until it finally stopped moving. It brought up memories of my initial encounter with a slime.
Eryn looked up and heaved a sigh of exhaustion before turning to me.
"Seriously. You aren't having any trouble with them?"
"Nope, cuts the same as before."
"Ugh. To think I'd see the day…" Her voice trailed off.
"Nevermind! Let's press forward!" Eryn shouted as she quickly walked on.
Interestingly, the destruction appeared to be more or less focused in a straight line, leading up to a large residence on the hill. Making note of that, Eryn mentioned that the territorial lord lived there.
"Ouch. First, his son goes on a rampage, then demons show up. What God did he piss off?" I joked to try lessening the gloomy mood.
"It is strange. I've never read anything about demons having the intelligence to choose their targets, but demon appearances happen so few and far in between that maybe those details were lost in history." Eryn was lost in thought.
I could only shrug in response. I knew even less about this world than she did.
We continued traversing the path towards the lord's mansion. The two of us combined were more than a match for the beasts that we encountered. However, that did not mean that it was a pleasant stroll for me. The sight of corpses lining either side of the path unnerved me. While Eryn checked each one to make sure that we didn't pass over someone that could be healed, I had to stay back. The first person that I had checked turned out to be a corpse that had been torn in half. Upon realizing this, I abruptly turned away as my stomach started upending its contents. Despite having been acclimated to gory battles against monsters, my mind had set a distinct boundary when it came to humans in the same situation. It was a boundary that I couldn't compel myself to cross over yet.
I distracted myself by looking out over the town, scanning over the ruined districts from an elevated perspective | 543 |
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Why User Buy-in is the Key to Blockchain Success
Blockchain use is growing across many industries, especially government. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is looking into security challenges that come with adopting the technology to prepare to take these challenges head on as more agenices put it in use. As blockchain becomes a common term across government, finance, energy and commercial industries, how can the emerging use cases within each of these industries be put into action? How can you take a use case from proof of concept to viable solution? As the need for information and the opportunity for implementation increases in government, the answer lies within the organization and its people.
Blockchain, a distributed digital ledger, should not be viewed as only an application, database, back-end solution, or background architectural piece. It is a foundational technology, meaning it's not a "program" you install on your computer or device that, by itself, solves all organizational issues. Blockchain offers the ability to connect disparate systems within organizational IT infrastructure, using technologies like artificial intelligence, robotic process automation and machine learning to solve a concrete business problem. Blockchain not only expands the realm of solutions, but shifts the paradigm of what solutions are possible.
However, none of this can be achieved without one critical factor: internal user adoption.
An organization can't solve any business challenge or begin to put a blockchain vision in motion unless employees understand and buy into the impact<|fim_middle|> intuitive interface designed with ease-of-use at the forefront and the user at the center.
Utilize rapid prototyping to ensure the right design is in place to support what process or business changes blockchain can bring for users. The users don't care what is running under the hood (e.g., Ethereum, Hyperledger, Ripple); they want to see and clearly understand new possibilities that are now open to them. This will also help accelerate adoption.
Account for culture change. Blockchain is best built using incremental development and basic agile/DevOps principles. Blockchain will enable users to adjust their business processes and provide the opportunity to shift away from those time-consuming manual tasks.
In our work with the U.S. government specific to the public procurement process (the first public or private project worldwide to operationalize blockchain for procurement), we quickly saw how users' eyes opened when they understood and began to see the possibilities of blockchain.
For example, one of the most critical procurement documents, the pre-negotiation memo, was once a labor-intensive process that required officers to verify, cut, paste, and format content from over 10 different sources into a single location. Now, the system can automatically pull the needed content from various sources to generate the pre-negotiation memorandum without employee intervention.
Users at the center of implementation
Blockchain implementation challenges ultimately fall into three areas when it comes to users: front-end design, user buy-in, and organizational impact. From a front-end perspective, blockchain is not typically a visible technology for people. If agencies or companies do not integrate blockchain into their business processes, and if users do not understand it, the implementation may feel like rebuilding an existing system by repainting its color from red to blue.
Similarly, employees must also buy into the change as well. Change management could be a significant obstacle as roles will need to change with enhancements to prior business processes. Ultimately, blockchain's impact across the organization, including user understanding, will determine its effectiveness as a technology that transforms the way government interacts with its citizens, companies with their customers, or organizations with other organizations and third parties.
Blockchain's architecture inherently points to open source and can bring together many different standards, systems and users. As you begin to use it, maintain this flexibility instead of using complex or other proprietary data sets that may minimize blockchain's user adoption, effectiveness and value from a cost perspective.
Bottom line, users cannot be with you for the landing if they were not with you during takeoff. They are an integral part of the success, and blockchain should be understood as not merely a back-end project, but rather as a tool for transformation and business process paradigm shift.
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Working for users
Often, whether it's in the media, at industry events or other outlets, blockchain is presented as a "magic pill." It's talked about like an operating system that you can install on your computer with one click of the mouse or tap on the screen. In reality, the technology and its true value is much deeper and more connected with fundamental business process engineering and/or design.
Of course, on the surface blockchain can be deceivingly simple. One could even create a blockchain in a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet. But creating something truly transformative to solve organizational, unique business challenges requires much more than a simple ledger.
To reach its desired potential, users must comprehend the blockchain solution that is being planned. To do that, they need to experience it as it's being created. Based on our practical blockchain implementations, we outlined the following as a high-level guideline to collaborate with end users:
Identify a business problem. Engage with potential blockchain users to uncover their current bottlenecks or extremely manual processes, using human-centered design. Users are good at feeling their issues, but they may not have the clear solutions in their heads. Human-centered design offers insights into how the future-state solution should be designed to address pressing challenges -- not to recreate the existing process, but to perform a deep business and digital transformation. To give an example, think about how Uber created a business transformation model as opposed to an auxiliary taxicab application trying to mimic an existing business process.
Begin with a simple and | 344 |
Can You Afford To Overlook These Jobs At Home?
When you are looking after a home, your work is never done. From paying bills to cleaning, keeping the house well stocked and making sure any repairs are taken care of, it's a lot to think about. For this reason, it's no wonder certain jobs can fly under the radar. However, to avoid damage to your property and keep everything running smoothly, there are certain jobs that you just can't afford to overlook. Here are a few to jot down onto your to-do list.
Ideally, you should clear your gutters twice a year. If you have a lot of trees on your property or on your street, they might even need doing more. Leaf litter, rubbish, and grime can all collect preventing rainwater from running down them properly. Leave them as they are, and gutters can become blocked leaving rainwater to flood everywhere. If you have light coloured rendering on the front of your home, it can become stained, plus it can cause leaks in the home too. This can lead to structural damage and the formation<|fim_middle|> fuels), but it's also good for your heating bill too. Since conservatories lose a lot of heat, consider a conservatory roof replacement with something that's more energy efficient. Cavity wall and loft insulation are also good investments, the government often runs schemes to make these things cheaper so see what's available in your area.
As a homeowner, it's so important to have the relevant insurance. Do you know that if a fire or natural disaster destroyed your home, you would be left with nothing if you had no buildings insurance? While this might not be a regular occurrence, do you really want to risk being left with nothing? A good contents insurance policy is needed too if you're ever broken into or again a fire, or natural disaster destroys your possessions you're at least covered to be able to buy them again.
Had you overlooked any of these jobs, or realised the potentially disastrous consequences of doing so? | of black mold- seriously bad news. Get up a ladder with a pair of gardening gloves, or call out a company. You'll save yourself a whole lot of time and hassle in the long run.
Pests are any homeowner's nightmare. Not only can they pose a health hazard but they're unpleasant to look at and can cause serious damage to your property. Rodents can chew through wires leaving you with a huge bill to foot, and pigeons nesting in the eaves of houses and outbuildings can cause structural damage with their corrosive droppings. Don't put it off, if you spot pests get them dealt with as soon as possible.
In a home that hasn't been properly insulated, every time you switch on the heating you're losing just about everything through the walls and roof. Insulating your home is good news for the environment (since using less heat burns fewer fossil | 180 |
Henning Larsen's proposal<|fim_middle|> | for a new high-rise in Aarhus presents an exhibition hall at ground floor level as well as a world-class art installation at 120 meters.
The ambition is to create a destination, an attraction of high artistic quality, for all citizens of Aarhus and visitors equal to Moesgaard Museum, which is also designed by Henning Larsen.
At the top floors, renowned artist Doug Aitken interprets the lantern of a lighthouse through twelve, custom designed galleries. The galleries offer a unique, spatial experience across several floors where art and view, city and bay interrelate in new ways.
The crossing between observation platform and art gallery shapes an iconic place and marks Aarhus Ø. The proposal adds urban qualities and attractions to the city district making it interesting and fun to locals and visitors to visit the most remote parts of Aarhus Ø.
Based on microclimate analyses and wind studies conducted by Henning Larsen's specialists, the team created comfortable urban spaces able to accommodate outdoor catering at the foot of the spectacular building.
Here, one is able to experience the contrast between the wind-swept quay and the shielded urban spaces and parks. Towards the bay, a large square promotes an active, maritime environment with the possibility to farm mussels, establish a sea kayak club and add changing facilities to the existing sea swim club.
Towards the north-west, some of the existing kitchen gardens will remain next to a more active and recreational area in connection to the fitness facilities at the building's ground floor level.
Henning Larsen developed the proposal in collaboration with A. Enggaard. The City of Aarhus chose to realize another proposal. Source and images, Courtesy of Henning Larsen. | 343 |
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