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The King and I (excerpt)
TALKERS | January 25, 2021
(EDITOR'S NOTE: The following is an excerpt from chapter 6 ("King and I") of former talk media producer Bernadette Duncan's landmark book Yappy Days: Behind the Scenes with Newsers, Schmoozers, Boozers and Losers (Talkers Books, 2016)
By Bernadette Duncan
LONGMEADOW, Mass. — I landed a part-time job with the Larry King Radio Show in 1986 because I was in the right place at the right time.
My late shift at NBC Radio Networks where I produced the Neil Myers Show ended<|fim_middle|> "Black Lives Matter" movement
West Coast wildfires and East Coast hurricanes
Controversy over the evenhandedness of nominating a Supreme Court justice only weeks before a presidential election
Brief/mysterious hospitalization of the sitting POTUS who tested positive for the coronavirus
Still to come in 2020's more than two-and-one-half remaining months are the presidential election itself, not to mention the already anticipated precedent-setting intensity possibly contesting it. | at 1:00 am and no other talk producer was on the premises.
All that was required? Meet Mr. King in the lobby, escort him to the elevator, guide him down the hall to the nearest empty studio, check mics and audio, and then be prepared to do the same with the on-coming, big-name parade of guests scheduled for the night. Basically, I was a "handler" for an extra 75 bucks a shift.
Remembering Larry King
By Mike Kinosian
TALKERS magazine
LOS ANGELES — Particularly vulnerable to COVID-19 due to previous health scares, which included a heart attack, stroke, prostate cancer, lung cancer, and diabetes, broadcasting icon Larry King died Saturday (1/23) at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. The 87-year-old King had been sick for at least 10 days prior to being hospitalized with coronavirus.
Official word was released on King's Twitter account. "For 63 years and across the platforms of radio, television, and digital media, Larry's many thousands of interviews, awards, and global acclaim stand as a testament to his unique and lasting talent as a broadcaster. Larry liked to ask short, direct, and uncomplicated questions. He believed concise questions usually provided the best answers, and he was not wrong in that belief."
KSCO Launches Weekly Show Critical of the Chinese Communist Party
By Mike Kinosian, Managing Editor
and Kevin Casey, VP/Executive Editor
SANTA CRUZ, Cal. — KSCO, Santa Cruz, a longtime news/talk powerhouse serving California's Central Coast, has launched a unique and compelling weekly two-hour radio show designed to keep Americans apprised of the dangers being presented to US interests domestically and worldwide by China and the Chinese Communist Party.
Provocatively titled China Über Alles (China Above All) – a name sarcastically
referencing the infamous slogan "Deutschland Über Alles" utilized by the Nazis to convey their dark message of German worldwide superiority in the 1930s and 1940s – the show discusses the ongoing war of subversion being waged against the US by the communist regime in Beijing and its shocking human rights abuses of Chinese citizens, including political dissidents, investigative journalists, ethnic minorities and seekers of religious freedom.
The Scare on the Air
By Tim Weldon
University of St. Francis
Professor of Philosophy
JOLIET, Ill. — "The fun of the shudder," novelist Edith Wharton called it. For listeners of the radio horror dramas of yesteryear, no further explanation of the quote is necessary. From the 1930s through the 1950s, Sunday to Monday and twilight to midnight, audiences circled the golden orb of the wireless for the thrill of the chill.
Both remain.
Self-Syndication Has Been Berry, Berry Good
TALKERS
HOUSTON — Seldom are talk radio hosts at a loss to fill two or three hours of airtime.
Situations though have become wildly frenetic in a calendar year that has already seen among countless other things:
January impeachment trial of a first-term president that concluded with a February acquittal
(Hopefully only) a once-in-a-lifetime global pandemic that has taken a toll of American lives rapidly approaching 215,000, cratered the economy, and erased millions of jobs
Presidential campaign unlike any other
Significant racial injustice, protests, and rise of the | 733 |
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Add Social Bookmarklet buttons like Twitter's tweet, Facebook's like, LinkedIn share and others. Submit blogs to social bookmarking sites like Reddit, Digg and StumbleUpon. You can submit to search engines directly using Ping-O-Matic and Sitemaps. Directory submission to upto 50 sites is made easy by sites like Socialmarker.com. Submitting to these sites makes webpage indexing faster, increases traffic and helps getting backlinks from other sites | 654 |
Description: Tatooine is the home planet of the Skywalker family, the setting for much of the action in the saga's films (as well as several of the novels and other pieces of written fiction) and one of the most iconic Star Wars planets. The planet is either seen or mentioned in all six movies.
Tatooine is a desert planet in a binary star system (the two suns are named Tatoo I & Tatoo II), inhabited by poor locals who are mostly moisture farmers. The planet has been<|fim_middle|> silica in the soil into glass, which then broke up over time into sand) and boiled the oceans away. | the site of repeated and failed attempts at colonization. During the prequel-era, it was ruled for a long period by the Hutts, being beyond the reach of the Galactic Republic. After the fall of the Republic, the Galactic Empire established a token presence on Tatooine, but the crime lord Jabba the Hutt still retained control of the planet.
Tatooine has several sizable settlements, the largest of which is the spaceport Mos Eisley, widely known for its rough-and- tumble nature and vast criminal underworld. Other settlements include Bestine (the nominal capital of the planet, where the Empire's government is located), Anchorhead, Tosche Station, Mos Entha, Wayfar (near Jabba's Palace), and Mos Espa, home of a sector-famous podracing track.
Because Tatooine is not a member of the Republic, Republic Credits were rarely used by merchants on the planet, who preferred to use the Huttese currency system, which consists of (in descending order of value) Peggats, Truguts and Wupiupi.
Notable geological features include the Dune Sea, an enormous desert, and the Jundland Wastes, a rocky region. Despite the planet's extreme aridity, some forms of life do thrive on Tatooine, including the rodent-like Womp rat, elephant-like bantha, and the enormous, fearsome Krayt Dragon.
Tatooine's twin suns, Tatoo I and Tatoo II.
Tatooine is also home to two apparently native sentient bipedal species: Jawas, pygmy-like scavengers of technology, and Tusken Raiders, also known as Sand People, who are mysterious, reclusive, and extremely hostile to outsiders. Both races wear fully concealing robes keeping their true forms hidden from outsiders.
Tatooine was once a member world of the pre-Republic Infinite Empire. Tatooine once had large oceans and a world-spanning jungle. This biosphere was destroyed by an orbital bombardment by the Rakata that "glassed" the planet (that is, fused the | 434 |
Mental Health: Understanding the Adolescent Brain – Online via Zoom
Location: This course will be run online via Zoom. Full details of how to join will be sent in advance of the day.
For many years we have blamed challenging teenage behaviour on hormones but that is only part of the story. Insights provided by recent developments in neuroscience have allowed us to understand how the brain has evolved through time, and to understand how the human brain matures.
Today's teenagers feel under more pressure to be successful at a younger age, to make decisions earlier, and to generally grow up faster than previous generations. Teachers and Parents can benefit hugely from having a wider and deeper understanding of the developing adolescent brain.
Teachers in a Secondary Setting, Pastoral Leaders
Aims of the course:
This course helps delegates to understand their fight and flight instincts and their (seemingly) unreasonable responses to our perfectly reasonable requests…whilst at the same time offering advice and practical solutions to the challenges facing, and presented by, emerging adolescents and young people both in school and at home.
Course tutor: Ross McWilliam
View the programme outline here.
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The Evolving Adolescent Brain
From here to maturity… the triune brain and working with lizards
Brain basics
The role of the frontal cortex and the amygdala
Growing and pruning
It's all about change – what they gain and lose during the teenage years
Powerful emotions
We can't always make it better but we can definitely make it worse
Learner stress and exams – a tough time for all
The adolescent mandate
Separation and the need for independence
Getting the message: how to talk, and listen, to teens
Teenage kicks: drink and drugs and the potential damage to memory and mental health
To sleep or not to sleep?
Increasing levels of anxiety, obesity and late-night use of<|fim_middle|> all-important? Why do they go out without their coats..? How do we look after their mental health?
Over the past 30 years, Ross McWilliam has worked in over 1,000 schools and businesses. Through his work in the field of mindsets, he has changed the lives of one million children, young adults, and senior professionals. Ross has demonstrated an unrivalled record of engagement, education and empowerment.
During this time, Ross has developed into a much sought-after international keynote speaker and is a published author on mindsets. Not wanting to rest on his laurels, Ross is currently studying for his PhD.
He has been described by leading international psychology professor Barry Hymer as 'a classic growth mindset.' Ross describes himself as a 'Pracademic' ie actively engaging with the audience using a mixture of contemporary research blended with a fierce desire to apply this and make learning relevant. | phones, tablets and computers have been cited as possible causes for what is acknowledged as a hidden health crisis. The hormone melatonin, which encourages sleep, kicks in around 10.00 p.m. for adults but 1.00 a.m. for teens…is this a problem? Probably.
Questions, questions
Why all the anger and worry? Why can't they switch off their phones? Why do friends become | 87 |
Jason Pure: "Overground" and "Keep On Runnin"
Born in Columbia, SC to a jazz vocalist mother and an<|fim_middle|> emotion that is at once captivating and heartfelt. Jason's voice is smooth and warm, effortlessly crafting melodies from thin air. I couldn't tell you a moment on this EP that doesn't feel honest, and it's because of Jason's understanding of himself and his own voice.
Having jumped from infectious pop, to dance beats, and then onto slow jams, on "Forecast", by the end of the EP, Jason Pure finds himself embedded in roughly the same territory as Chris Brown and Bruno Mars, only with a touch more self-consciousness and self-awareness, from an artist whose lyrics go far more deeper than may seem on the first listen.
And I imagine are far more personal than we may assume, too. My hunch, is that through his music, Jason is not as much a storyteller, as he is an articulate narrator – and there is a significant difference. Narration searches to honestly reconstruct events and circumstances. Storytelling, seeks to compellingly dramatize them, sometimes in lieu of honesty.
Impressively, Jason Pure manages to make the songs on this EP slot together almost seamlessly , and "Forecast" proves itself to be a neat, tightly produced arrangement of tracks that more often than not delivers on an emotional level that may ultimately prove surprising for an artist that so many may not have heard of yet.
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tagsJason Pure Keep On Runnin' Overground | amateur DJ father, music was a constant presence in Jason Pure's childhood. After graduating high school and relocating to Atlanta, GA in 2004, Jason seized the opportunity to pursue a career in music. Since then, he has performed at such respected Atlanta venues as The Apache Cafe, Vinyl, Smith's Olde Bar, Kat's Café and 800 East, as well as the Ice Cream Festival in the city's popular Piedmont Park. He has also made radio appearances and ventured into the theater world, appearing in "The Motown Sound". The 5 track "Forecast" is the latest 2017 EP release by Jason Pure.
A pop/R&B hotshot who keeps his song running times as trim as his glutes and as slimmed down as his surname to better grace a billboard, he gives the pop and urban ethos a good name and pries it from the jaws of throwaway baggage. "Forecast" has booty-centric novelty hooks galore, like on "Overground" and "Keep On Runnin", and also forges the inspiring "Icarus", a soulful, yet sophisticated sound which is just the type of vibe the Top40 charts are beckoning for. And Jason Pure has all the potential to score a radio hit.
If you adore slow jams, then you will melt when Jason unpacks the successively gorgeous permutations of his slow-burning balladry voice, on "Wounded Souldiers" and "The Traveler's Song (Sanctuary)". Here he brings his guileful and trustworthy vocal cords to the fore…exactly where it should be. With "Forecast", Jason broadens his spectrum to suit just about anyone and by doing so creates diversity in his music.
But it's in the more introspective songs that we truly feel the human element of his music, and where his voice brings an | 383 |
This was probably the most requested post while on my travels to Banff National Park in Alberta, Canada.
Today, I'm sharing my itinerary and places I would recommend to visit if you've never been to Banff before. Since Banff National Park is so huge, we were not able to cover everything. However, there were certain lakes that I had mapped out prior to the trip that I wanted to see. Below, I highlighted the lakes I went to and even shared some recommendations of places to visit that I wanted to see but couldn't, due to time. If you're planning to travel to Banff, I would recommend spending more than just a couple of days in order to really get the full experience!
- Banff is Canada's oldest national park.
- Lake Louise (one of the lakes I went to) is known as the "Hiking Capital of Canada."
- You can see the Northern Lights in the National Park. The best times are apparently August and September.
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On our way to the Lakes, I was stunned at the view...even from my own car window.
Calgary, you really blew me away. Talk about morning drive goals.
Our first stop at Moraine Lake: canoeing.
Since it was peak season, we researched and found out that parking filled up<|fim_middle|> the continental divide between Alberta and British Columbia.
This was one of my favorite lakes on our hike because of the beautiful scenery surrounding the lake. Not to mention, the color. That morning, we had bought our lunches ahead of time because we knew we'd be hiking with limited food stops. We decided to have a lunch break at this spot with this incredible view.
Next, we continued our hiking to Grizzly Lake.
and then looped all the way back to Sunshine Meadow Deck. The hike in total took us about 4 hours and 8 miles. It was exhausting, but so worth it.
- BRING SUNSCREEN. Even though it wasn't as hot or humid as NC temps, I felt like the Canadian sun was much hotter.
- Wear shorts (and a jacket). After hiking for too long, your legs are bound to get hot.
- Pack snacks, water and a lunch. Your stomach will thank you.
- Use the bathroom before you hike. There's only two "rest areas" on the hiking trails, and they're actually outhouses.
With copious "views for days," and unreal photos of the scenery, I have to say that this was one of my favorite hiking experiences. The best part was how "private" it felt. Sure, we ran into some families and tourists hiking here and there, but for the most part on the trails, we were by ourselves enjoying the nature and acting silly, just the way we wanted to. It wasn't crowded and gave us freedom to do as we pleased, which was something I was looking forward to on this trip.
Those were the places we went to in Banff.
However, we did have some more places on our itinerary that we weren't able to get to because of time. But I would recommend visiting Parker Ridge Trail. You hike the Icefields Parkway with an unreal view of the glaciers and lakes. It's apparently "one of the best hikes on the Canadian Rockies."
The only reason we couldn't go to this one was because it was too far of a drive.
Another interesting fact is that Banff also has a Red Chair Experience Program, where the park officials have placed red, plastic chairs sporadically throughout Banff National Park. It's one of the highlights of Banff because of its idea to draw people to certain scenic locations throughout the Park and connect them with nature. There are chairs in 11 locations so far, including two to three chair sets along the Icefields Parkway. Most people try to hunt down these red chairs to Instagram them, while still getting the full experience of the beautiful scenery that is Banff National Park.
I hope you all enjoyed this travel guide. Stay tuned for a Toronto travel guide post coming soon! | fast near the lake. We arrived there just in time to get one of the last spots available in the parking lot right beside Moraine Lake Lodge, which is actually the only accommodation at the lake. There's also overflow lots throughout the park with shuttle buses that run from 8:30 AM to 6:30 PM, in case you cannot park in the lake parking lot.
Canoeing was probably one of my favorite activities that day.
We rented ours at the Moraine Lake canoe rentals down by the dock. The dock opens at 10 AM to 6 PM and costs $95 an hour per canoe. The canoes can accommodate two or three people, and the rentals are strictly first come, first serve. We just so happened to rent the canoes right before lunchtime, so there was no line and hardly any people canoeing on the lake.
After Moraine Lake, we headed to Lake Louise.
Lake Louise was more crowded because the lake is located right in front of the Fairmont Chateau Lake Louise. AKA tourist central. However, the view... was spectacular. I mean, the photos honestly don't do it justice.
On the 4th of July, we drove to Banff Sunshine Village Ski Resort for a day of hiking.
We had originally planned to ride the gondolas to get an aerial view from the mountains, but found out that they were closed on weekdays and opened on weekends, due to maintenance. So instead, we bought round trip tickets to take the standish chairlift to the top of the mountains and hike the Sunshine Meadows trails.
Ever wanted to be in two places at once?
Fun fact: the view from Sunshine Meadows Deck overlooks the three high-alpine lakes (Laryx, Grizzly, and Rock Isle Junction) that are actually in British Columbia. The trails run between | 376 |
1101 New York Ave, D.C.
Capitol Crossing | Washington D.C.
Capitol Crossing is a multi<|fim_middle|> first-of-its-kind eco-district in the nation's capital. | -phased, master planned development located in Washington's supply-constrained Central Business District – bordered by Massachusetts Avenue to the North, E Street to the South, Third Street to the West and Second Street to the East. Capitol Crossing is located just a few blocks from both Union Station and the Verizon Center, and is within walking distance to the Capitol.
The seven acre site of Capitol Crossing is a state-of-the-art development that spans 3 city blocks and offers 2.2 million square feet of primarily commercial office and ground floor retail space.
As one of the largest remaining undeveloped sites in downtown Washington, DC, Capitol Crossing will result in a dramatic transformation of its surrounding area – connecting the long-divided neighborhoods of Capitol Hill and the East End, opening important streets to through-traffic, creating new pedestrian promenades, opening bicycle lanes, bringing dynamic retail businesses to service the residential and business populations and offering tremendous opportunities for private companies to lease large blocks of contiguous space for current needs and future expansion.
Capitol Crossing will offer Washington's newest and most efficient office environment, as well as create a | 221 |
Shuttle street was in the 1700's the most sought after piece of real estate in<|fim_middle|>ley Fire Brigade
St Mathews Church
Woodside Cemetery & Crematorium | Paisley.
Bailie Thomas Kerr got himself a partner, Robert Pollock, whose financial resources could back up his own; and partly by lavish bidding at the sale, partly by private trading afterwards, he secured seven plots in a row opposite the church.
These were the ones with the long backlands. Kerr and Pollock built there a row of weavers' cottages, Shuttle Street, and at its corner a two-story Manufacturing House – not a factory as we understand it, but the HQ of a little outworking industry.
It was up and running by the time the new Burgh Church was open in 1738. Bailie Kerr presented a communion cup.
Kerr and Pollock used the opposing side of Shuttle Street as a 'bank'. There, they let sites, preferably with houses on them. When opportunity offered, they sold one and with the proceeds built on another, which they again let and sold, as they needed money.
The Council also re-sold a little land along Causeyside Street (where the Russell Institute is now) under the condition that if any of it was used to build a Manufacturing House, all the journeymen must be made to join the Weavers' Society.
Craigends Mansion House
Galbraith's Store
Pais | 262 |
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Comfort is important to you and you prefer an uncluttered and relaxing home. You are not distracted by the hottest trends, instead you prefer a more timeless look. Your wardrobe probably reflects this style too, featuring classic silhouettes and neutral colors. Maintaining an elegant style is important to you but not so much as to compromise a comfortable place to put your feet up and unwind with a glass of wine at the end of the day.
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You have a strong sense of style and know exactly what you like. You revel in your femininity and enjoy being surrounded by glamorous and luxe textures and décor. If it's not pretty, then it has no place in your home. At the end of the day, there is nothing better than kicking off your high heels, mixing your favorite cocktail and kicking back.
The urban rustic look is edgy and relies heavily on texture to pull the design together. It is similar to other styles that pair the new with the old, however urban rustic style brings textures like exposed brick, raw wood and leather to the forefront of the design. It features heavy use of industrial accents and the furniture is often characterized by raw materials with modern shapes.
When you walk into a room your first instinct is to touch everything. You love the richness of robust textures and scents, like leather, coffee and bourbon. You are drawn to the idea of living in a refurbished building like an old factory. You often find yourself equally drawn to opposites like nature and the city or clean modern lines and old reclaimed wood furniture. Urban rustic is the perfect pairing to complement your style and personality. | boring.
You feel comfortable and inspired in light breezy spaces, have an undying love for all things linen and jute, and a love of the water. Feeling the sand between your toes and the breeze rolling off the water is likely where you feel the most joy and peace. You like your home to feel clean and comfortable and that makes your home design style decidedly coastal.
Although this style does by many names, it is most often referred to as "modern farmhouse" and this style is all about juxtaposition. Light and dark, soft and rough, worn and refined are all necessary to pull off this popular design style that is the perfect combination of highly functional and purpose driven décor with a comfortable and casual aesthetic. Home furnishings are carefully chosen and often appear to be "found" more than purchased from a store. This style can become a bit cluttered if you're not careful, but when done right it is beautiful, simple and comfortable.
Seeing the potential in unexpected ways is probably one of your many talents. Your style relies on your functional sensibilities because just like on a farm, the furnishings used in your farmhouse décor should have an obvious purpose and the focus should be on comfort and function. Farmhouse style can be chic, but it should always be casual and welcoming.
This style is the perfect pairing between traditional elegance and modern aesthetic. It features neutral color palettes, clean lines and minimal but impactful accessories. | 285 |
Share the post "Delicious Hazelnut Meringue"
This wonderful recipe is based on the Austrian "torte" and is a great choice if you need an impressive dessert which is relatively quick and easy to make. You'll love the way the chalky, chewy texture of fresh meringue combines with the nutty flavour of roast hazelnuts and fresh, tart raspberries. The combination of tastes is a marriage made in heaven!
No flour is used in the recipe so it's one you can use if you need something special to serve to guests who are intolerant to wheat or gluten. The quantities given below will make 6 servings.
Start by roasting the hazelnuts. Put them in a frying pan on the hob over a medium flame without any fat in the pan. Heat until they turn dark brown and set them aside to cool. Once cooled, put the nuts through a blender until ground up.
Turn the oven on to 350 degrees F/180 degrees C. Grease and line two cake tins with removable bottoms.
Wipe the inside of a mixing bowl with the lemon quarter. Be careful not to leave any impurities in the bowl. Place the egg whites in the bowl and whisk until they form stiff peaks. Add the caster sugar, a<|fim_middle|> large serving plate. Cover with half of the whipped cream. Place half of the raspberries in the center of the cream. Place the second meringue on top of the raspberries and cream with the crust facing upwards.
Sprinkle on a little sieved icing sugar and decorate the top of the torte with the remainder of the whipped cream and raspberries and the mint leaves. | spoonful at a time, beating continually until the mixture is smooth and glossy. Add the ground hazelnuts and mix gently until blended.
Divide the meringue mixture between the two prepared cake tins, and place in the pre-heated oven.
Bake for around 45 minutes until the meringues are light golden in colour. Remove from the oven and leave to cool.
Whilst the meringues are cooling, whip the cream with the teaspoon of sugar until it forms soft peaks.
Once the meringues are completely cool you can remove them from the cake tins and assemble the dish. Place the first meringue on a | 132 |
Australian Printer Magazine : November 2016
4 November 2016 - Australian Printer australianprinter.com.au NEWS BAUER Media has shifted five print titles from its Trader division, selling it to a staff investor soon after it revealed plans to reshuffle its magazine business. The magazines impacted by the sale are<|fim_middle|> over the next three years, according to the company's financial outlook for 2017. HP Asia Pacific analyst relations manager Brad Swiney could not confirm if the cuts will affect Australian workers or HP's commercial printing business. He says, "As part of our plan, during the nex t three years we expect to implement both labour and non-labour restructuring activities, including 3,000 to 4,000 people exiting the company between F Y17 and FY19. " The range is related to the outcome of key outsourcing decisions. HP has a strong record of success in placing employees in outsources roles to mitigate the headcount number." The restructuring plan is expected to save HP between US$200m and US$300m as the company struggles with weakened demand for its PCs and printers, according to a statement from HP. HP formed after the split from Hewlett-Packard Co last year, and has since attempted to boost its profitability outside of PCs. In September it entered a deal to purchase Samsung Electronics' printer business for $US1.05bn in a bid to help the company expand its printing business to the A3 market. HP is the world's biggest wide format printer manufacturer, and owns the HP Indigo digital printing systems business, which is market leader in its class. At drupa HP was the biggest exhibitor, taking the whole of Hall 17 and having some 53 different print solutions on the floor. According to its website, the press supplier employs a global workforce of50,000. Shock result: Ron Patterson Grateful: Peter Clark WITH 2016 fast drawing to a close, there is now just over six months until PacPrint 2017 kicks off, with several industry giants already signed on as sponsors and exhibitors. New Gold Sponsors Currie Group and Pozitive are joining HP and Graphic Art Mart, while Spicers has been confirmed a Silver Sponsor, along with EFI and Mimaki. The event's Platinum Sponsor is Roland DG. Peter Harper, general manager of show organiser Visual Connections says, "On the ground, PacPrint is shaping up as the perfect place to connect with the industry's leading suppliers. "Names including Agfa, AVS, Canon, Celmac, Currie Group, Cyber, EFI, Epson, Esko, Flint Group, Fuji Xerox, Graphic Art Mart, HP, Jetmark, Konica Minolta, Mimaki, Multicam, Neopost, Ricoh, Roland DG, Screen, Spicers, Starleaton and Vivad will demonstrate the latest technology and solutions, as well as offering ideas and inspiration to help business owners and decision makers plan for future success." This year organisers are bringing back the crowd favourite PacPrint Forum Series which Harper says will explore big issues while also offering workshops and panel sessions covering technology, business and market-specific topics. Harper adds, "PacPrint 2017 and the co-located Visual Impact Expo, will be the best opportunity in four years for business owners and decision makers to see the latest trends and technology first-hand and connect with people who can help them shape their businesses for the future." PacPrint 2017 will be held at the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre from May 23 to 26. Big names signing on to PacPrint 2017 Patterson and Clark take out PIAA election | its flagship group of Bauer Trader Media titles, Caravan World, Campertrailer Aust ralia, Motorhome and Caravan Trader, Tr av elin and Turu. General manager of Bauer's Adventures publications Robert Gallagher is leading the charge of investors acquiring the titles. The sale closely follows Bauer's frank assessment of its magazine business after CEO Nick Chan informed staff the group is unafraid to offload 'underperforming' titles in a company restructure. "In line with our strategy of focusing resources and investment on five key consumer and customer segments, we have taken the decision to sell the Adventures titles," says Chan. " This allows us to concentrate our effor ts on Trader's motoring and industry brands where we hold leadership positions and see the opportunity for significant future growth." Bauer sells five titles in magazine blitz VICTORIA'S Ron Patterson and Tasmania's Peter Clark have secured PIAA board positions for their respective states in what has been described by Patterson as a shock result. Patterson, the former Victorian state secretar y of the PIAA is making his return to the association following his exit in 2012. Describing his thoughts on the election result, Patterson says, "A lot of people in Victoria and Tasmania were shocked but the members had their say and it is their choice in the end. "The PIAA board have a strategic plan that I have not seen, but I look forward to getting my feet under the desk. I have spoken to a few other board members and I am thrilled to bits about the whole thing and really looking forward to it." Patterson beat out his opposition, CEO of Finsbur y Green Peter Orel who says, "I wish the new board well and look for ward to seeing the PIAA continue to evolve and improve its ser vices to members." In Tasmania, Mark Media general manager Martin Guilliamse admits he did not expect a defeat. "I am just surprised," he says. "I wish Clark all the best, I rang him to congratulate him and hopefully he can take the PIAA in a direction that becomes more member-focused." Clark tells Australian Printer he is grateful for the support of his fellow Tasmanian printers. "I am looking for ward to the nex t stage and firstly I want to learn a bit more about the internal workings of the PIAA," he says. " The printing industry has a lot of challenges ahead, the recent merger between PMP and IPMG is a good example of what is currently happening." PIAA president Kieran May says Patterson and Clark will bring new perspectives to the experience possessed by the current board members. "Clark is an experienced business builder, and his continuing involvement as a consultant to printers of the region has kept him abreast of many of the technological changes which are an ever yday feature of our industry," May says. "Patterson has maintained contact with a significant number of members since his time as an employee of the association, and I am sure will turn the insights of those members into a valuable contribution to the collective knowledge of the board. "While we must congratulate the successful candidates, it would be remiss of me to forget the contribution of both Guilliamse and Orel. Both added to the debate and I am sure members w ill be pleased." HP to shed up to 4000 jobs HP will be cutting 3,000 to 4,000 jobs | 701 |
A kerti muskátli (Pelargonium × hortorum) a gólyaorrvirágúak (Geraniales) rendjébe, ezen belül a gólyaorrfélék (Geraniaceae) családjába tartozó termesztett hibridnövény, mely a sávoslevelű muskátli (Pelargonium zonale) és a Pelargonium inquinans keresztezéséből jött létre.
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A kerti muskátli amint neve is mutatja kerti dísznövény. Tömzsi felépítésű, nagyméretű növény, melyen egyszerű vagy dupla virágok vannak. A virágok sokféle színben kaphatók; lehetnek: vörösek, többféle rózsaszín árnyalatok és fehérek. Újabban narancssárga és sárga változatokat is kialakítottak. Levelei gyakran illatosak. A fajta kialakítása a 18. század vége felé kezdődött. Egyes dulpa virágúak nem tudnak teljesen kinyílni, emiatt "bimbós muskátlinak" (Rosebud Pelargonium) nevezik.
Ezt a növényfajtát a futómuskátlival (Pelargonium peltatum) keresztezve, létrejön Pelargonium × lateripes L'Hér. in Aiton, Hort. Kew. 2: 428, t. 24<|fim_middle|>k
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Gólyaorrfélé | 103 |
What Cristiano Ronaldo Did Before Champions League Final
By Rajdeep Saha | May 26, 2018 | 0
Real Madrid talisman Cristiano Ronaldo replied with a stunning gesture towards one of the cameramen in Kiev, where the player was practicing with his teammates in a training session.
Real are in Champions League finale, and will take on Liverpool on May 26. During the session at the Olympic Stadium, the Portuguese was taking a shot.
But rather than hitting the target, he ended up injuring a camera person,<|fim_middle|> trying to stop the blood flow with his handkerchief.
Cristiano Ronaldo's Mother Makes Sensational 'Manchester Return' Claim
He was treated soon and escaped major damage, but ended up with a plaster over the wound. But his day turned better when Ronaldo issued an apology with a wave from the pitch and gave him a gift instead.
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The Real Madrid hero presented Prieto with his Champions League training top – via a member of the backroom team. The cameraman was seen posing with the same, and he is set to remember the incident for the rest of his life.
Ronaldo is eyeing a fifth career Champions League crown and a fourth with Real. A win against Liverpool on Saturday will see the player win his third successive UCL title with Los Blancos. Ronaldo has been in tremendous form this campaign, after hitting a record 15 goals so far.
← Lukaku Replacement Or Partner? United Interested In Signing New StrikerBefore World Cup? Samuel Umtiti Gives Update On His Barca Future → | who was attending the practice session. He ended up being struck on his head, which led to profound bleeding.
Lorenzana Prieto, who works for Spanish-language American television station Univision Deportes Network, saw his camera hit his own face after the ball struck the same.
The Spaniard had a deep cut over his right eye, and it led to a lot of bleeding. He was | 81 |
Rural Nevada residents lash out over tribal horse roundup
Some in Palomino Valley say workers wrongly swept horses from private property
Rural Nevada residents lash out over tribal horse roundup Some in Palomino Valley say workers wrongly swept horses from private property Check out this story on rgj.com: https://www.rgj.com/story/life/outdoors/2019/01/08/rural-nevada-residents-lash-out-over-tribal-horse-roundup/2509139002/
Benjamin Spillman, Reno Gazette Journal Published 5:30 a.m. PT Jan. 8, 2019 | Updated 4:30 p.m. PT Jan. 10, 2019
Kate Carlson laments the loss of three horses she cared for on her property in Palomino Valley. The horses were herded away during a Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe feral horse roundup. Carlson said the roundup workers trespassed on her land and she fears the horses will be sent to slaughter.(Photo: Benjamin Spillman/RGJ)Buy Photo
Before it descended into chaos, Friday was a typical morning in rural Palomino Valley for Kate Carlson.
A four-year resident of the valley between Sparks and Pyramid Lake, Carlson was outside tending to the dozens of animals she cares for on her 40-acre property.
But whatever sense of calm she felt shattered<|fim_middle|> much of it tribal land, and decimated the supply of grass available to livestock or wild horses, tribal officials said.
Tribal Vice Chairman Alan Mandell said the roundup was in response to a multi-agency evaluation of the burn area that suggested reducing the number of horses in order to help the range recover.
Related: BLM captures, removes wild horses due to fire damage near Nevada-Idaho line
"We are just following through with this management plan to protect the natural resources," Mandell said.
Mandell said that through Monday, the tribe had rounded up 236 horses and was still gathering.
Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribal Councilman John Guerrero, who is working on the roundup, said the tribe and its contractor, Cattoor Wild Horse Roundups of Nephi, Utah, are working with the Nevada brand inspector to make sure only tribally owned horses were included in the roundup.
"We weren't stealing anything, we were just recovering property, that's all," Guerrero said.
Residents turning to sheriff, state for help
So far, the Nevada Department of Agriculture, which oversees livestock issues and brand inspections, says the tribe has the right to gather horses it owns, even if the horses leave tribal land.
"If and when any private horses are identified, proof of ownership will be required, and we will make every attempt to return them to their legal owners," said Doug Farris, animal industry division administrator.
Kate Carlson of Palomino Valley shows a photo of Gentle Warrior, a horse she says was wrongly included in a Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe feral horse roundup. She fears the horse will be sent to slaughter. (Photo: Benjamin Spillman/RGJ)
"Our law enforcement staff has been involved throughout this process, inspecting the horses removed, and at this time, no proof of ownership has been provided and no privately owned horses have been identified."
Bob Harmon, spokesman for the Washoe County Sheriff's Office, said deputies have already gone to Palomino Valley in response to calls about the roundup.
He said they reported a tense situation with angry residents accusing workers of trespassing but no evidence of criminal activity.
Both Carlson and Westlake said they contacted the sheriff's office to report their horses as stolen.
'They are part of our family'
Westlake has a certificate documenting her adoption of Lady.
Carlson doesn't have a certificate or title for Gentle Warrior, Mama or Little Dear. But she says the horses are descendants from the tribal herd that were born on her property and have lived their entire lives under her care. She said she provides the horses shelter, food, medication and health care.
"These particular three guys, I let them graze in my back yard … they stay in my backyard all day long," said Carlson. "These are my animals, they love humans, they are part of our family."
Harmon said the sheriff's office is seeking to contact the agriculture department for help.
"Wild horses and livestock fall under department of agriculture," Harmon said. "We haven't pressed anything criminal, if there is additional information, we will look into it and proceed from there."
Suzanne Roy, executive director of America's Wild Horse Campaign, an advocacy group, said the roundup violated residents' private property rights and Nevada law requiring people gathering feral animals to provide public notice four weeks in advance.
"My understanding is the tribes can do what they want on reservation land, but this roundup occurred on private land," Roy said. "And it was done without property owners' permission or proper notice."
The campaign also sent letters asking the Nevada Attorney General's Office to direct the Nevada Department of Agriculture to block the shipment of the horses until disputed ownership claims can be resolved. Deputy Attorney General Dennis Belcourt acknowledged receiving the letter, but Roy said there doesn't appear to have been further action.
Mandell said the horses don't fall under guidelines for managing feral or estray livestock because they're considered private property of the tribe.
Westlake said she's distraught and angry about the entire roundup. She worries that colts who were too young to keep up with adults might have been injured. She's upset about the prospect of the horses being sent to slaughter. And she's angry at the tribal government and the Nevada Department of Agriculture because, she said, they haven't acted to address people's concerns.
"All of these people want to deny accountability because they don't care," she said. "I'm just so upset right now."
Complete Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe statement on horse roundup:
The Pyramid lake Paiute Tribe is currently conducting a roundup of Tribal feral horses in the Pah Rah Range, west of Pyramid Lake. This roundup is needed after the 2018 Perry Canyon Fire burned 18,081 acres land within the jurisdiction of the Tribe. Once the fire was contained, the Tribe worked with a national federal multi-agency team (Burned Area Emergency Response Team) to evaluate post-fire impacts to natural and cultural resources. From this evaluation, a plan is developed to mitigate the impacts from the fire. This plan prescribes mitigation measures for immediate stabilization of post-burned areas, as well as long-term restoration. One of the treatments included in the plan is to stabilize and rehabilitate the fire-damaged lands by removing feral horses. This mitigation measure is intended to reduce impacts related to grazing, noxious weed encroachment, herbicide treatment, seeding, and other measures being taken in the plan to stabilize and rehabilitate Tribal lands. Each day of the roundup, horses are inspected by a state brand inspector to ensure tribal ownership. The Tribe follows all guidelines set forth in the management plan to ensure the safety and humane treatment of all horses that are gathered.
Read or Share this story: https://www.rgj.com/story/life/outdoors/2019/01/08/rural-nevada-residents-lash-out-over-tribal-horse-roundup/2509139002/ | with the sound of a motorcycle zipping across her land.
"This guy was racing through my property and purposely revving his motor," Carlson said.
'He scared my horses away'
The motorcycle rider, whom she didn't recognize, ignored her pleas to turn away and instead focused on some nearby horses, including three Carlson said she had just turned loose to graze.
"I kept screaming, 'Stop, get off my land.' He didn't pay any attention to me. He just kept going," she said. "He scared my horses away and they ran with the wild horses."
It was only later that Carlson learned that the Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe, along with a private livestock contractor, were in the midst of a multi-day horse gather that included Palomino Valley.
Now she's worried that three horses she's been taking care of for years will be sold and potentially shipped off for slaughter.
"They are gentle, they have names, they are my horses," said Carlson of the animals that include a stallion named Gentle Warrior, a mare named Mama and a colt named Little Dear.
"It is devastating," she said.
Carlson isn't the only Palomino Valley resident upset about the roundup.
Colleen Westlake said her horse, a mare named Lady, also got swept up.
Westlake, of Sparks, said she found out Saturday from her friend who boards Lady that the horse had been herded off.
Workers use a helicopter and motorcycle to herd horses in Palomino Valley. Horse advocates say the roundup by the Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe wrongly trespassed on tribal land and wasn't properly noticed. (Photo: Maureen Daane/Contributed to RGJ)
"She called me and she said they took your horse, they took all the horses," Westlake said.
Lady was one of two Pyramid Lake Paiute tribal horses Westlake adopted in July through the Nevada Department of Agriculture.
The other horse, a stallion she named Thor, had a growth on his leg that didn't respond to treatment, and he had to be euthanized.
"I held my horse when they had to put him down, and I promised him I would take care of Lady," Westlake said. "Now I have broken my promise."
Tribal leaders say roundup needed to protect the land
Although the roundup upset some residents of Palomino Valley, Pyramid Lake Paiute tribal leaders say it was legal and necessary to protect the land.
The tribe's land, which is adjacent to Palomino Valley, is home to hundreds of horses that roam freely but belong to the tribe.
In July and August, the Perry Fire burned more than 51,000 acres, | 541 |
"To help us reach this passenger milestone, during the past year, we actively engaged our airport stakeholders, the community and employees to better utilize our resources to meet the demands of our growing traveling public," says Phil Brown, Chief Executive Officer of the Greater Orlando Aviation Authority. "It is this continued spirit of cooperation that has set Orlando International apart from other airports in customer service, technology and destinations offered." MCO surpassed 150 non-stop domestic and international destinations in 2018<|fim_middle|> Domestic passenger volume jumped 6.83 percent with 3,694,208 passengers for the month. | , which contributed greatly to the airport's increased airline activity, seat availability and passenger traffic numbers.
• International traffic climbed 11.64 percent to a new record of 6.6 million for the year.
• Domestic traffic was up 6.2 percent to 41,095,987 passengers for 2018.
• Combined, overall traffic hit a record 47.7 million annual passengers with an average increase of 7 percent in 2018.
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Past Experience: The Boeing Clipper Has a Special Place in Aviation History
Seattle | 1941
January 10<|fim_middle|>1930s, airplane travel was popular among super-rich travelers seeking to fly great distances in great style. Pan American Airways asked for a long-range, four-engine flying boat and the Clipper became the jumbo airplane of its time. With a range of 3,500 miles and a cruising speed of 188 mph, it flew from New York to Southampton, England (via New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Ireland) and San Francisco to Hong Kong (via Hawaii, Midway, Wake, Guam and the Philippines).
It boasted a white-tablecloth dining room (No. 1 in the cutaway below), sleeping berths (2), dressing rooms (3), even an optional bridal suite (4). A transatlantic ticket in 1939 cost $675 (more than $12,000 today); a Pacific crossing $760 (nearly $14,000 today). At the outbreak of World War II, Clippers were drafted into military service. President Franklin D. Roosevelt traveled by Clipper to meet with Winston Churchill at the Casablanca Conference in 1943. The year before, Churchill flew by Clipper from Bermuda to England after meeting Roosevelt at the Arcadia Conference in Washington, D.C. Assembled at Boeings Plant 1 by the Duwamish River, Clippers were towed to Elliott Bay for their test flights, including this takeoff photographed against the Seattle skyline in September 1941. No Clippers exist today; the last surviving model was scrapped in 1951.
Have an idea for a past experience topic or photo? Email [email protected]. | , 2019By John Levesque
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Boeings Model 314 had a limited production run only 12 aircraft were built between 1938 and 1941 but the Boeing Clipper, as it became known, has a special place in aviation history. By the mid- | 89 |
Why the US should welcome Syrian refugees
Elizabeth MacBride | @editoremacb
Published 2:39 PM ET Mon, 28 Sept 2015 Updated 4:31 PM ET<|fim_middle|> writes about entrepreneurs and the Middle East. Follow her on Twitter @editoremacb.
Elizabeth MacBrideSpecial to CNBC.com | Tue, 17 Nov 2015 CNBC.com
There's a kind of tight, choking cough that parents of young children know well. Croupy and asthmatic, that cough used to send me running for the nebulizer when my kids were little. But there were no nebulizers or emergency rooms in the Za'atri refugee camp in northern Jordan last Christmas Eve.
I kept hearing that cough from a little girl of perhaps 3 or 4, sitting across from me in the trailer I was visiting. I worried that her chest, pumping like an accordion, would seize up right before my eyes.
That's the first feeling that you get in a refugee camp, even one run as well as Za'atari: You're overwhelmed by the volume of people and the level of need.
Source: Elizabeth MacBride
Asma'a Rashed in the trailer where she reads to kids each week at the Za'atari refugee camp in Northern Jordan
There are at least 4 million Syrian refugees officially registered across the Middle East and Europe. Jordan, a tiny country of 8 million, will have an estimated 937,000 refugees by December. Europe is dealing with an onslaught of refugees, and more will be arriving soon in the United States: Secretary of State John Kerry announced that it would accept 85,000 migrants next year, including many Syrians.
One of the first responses as the refugees settle in is likely to be fear. Research shows an economic backlash against refugees can cloak something deeper: cultural unease, nativism or even racism. But over time, refugees can benefit societies.
"There's an incredible amount of talent, and wisdom and accrued experience," said Ronit Avni, 38, a serial social entrepreneur working on an education enterprise, LocalizedED, to deliver university-level online training and education, in local languages, to refugees and others. "These are people who are capable of thriving and being full-fledged members of whatever society they live in."
The Australian Bureau of Statistics earlier this month released a study showing "humanitarian migrants," many Afghanis and Iraqis, were more likely to start businesses than other kinds of migrants. The entrepreneurial spirit of people who have been through a forced flight is almost mythic. Immigrants or their children founded 40 percent of America's Fortune 500 companies, according to the Partnership for a New American Economy.
Programs that enable refugees to take a productive place for themselves — or return home — offer some charity and more empowerment. Aid that works in the long run tends to be grassroots, technology-driven and enabled, and directed by the people in need, say experts. Many such programs, including microloan and microequity programs, are not even that expensive.
"Great things can start from nothing," said Rana Dajani, associate professor of molecular biology at Hashemite University in Zarqa, Jordan, who started a program called "We Love Reading" in the Za'atari camp. Recognized as one of the best ideas worldwide for educating refugees, "We Love Reading" has spread to 25 countries. Deceptively simple, it helps instill — or re-instill — confidence. A volunteer refugee, often a woman, establishes a library with donated books, runs a story time, and builds community support from parents.
There are other models too: The Karam Foundation runs workshops for a group of 300 Syrian high school refugee students in the Salam School in Reyhanli, Turkey. The school includes a computer lab, seen as crucial by its supporters.
Kids "connect to the world, supplement their education, see what others like them are doing and collaborate to solve problems — and know today and tomorrow they have paths to a future they want," said Christopher Schroeder, a U.S. Internet executive, board advisor and investor who helped fund the center, by email.
With the right kind of aid that restores a sense of control, displaced people are often more resilient than we expect.
Asma'a Rashed, whom I also met at Za'atari, is the kind of refugee the world might be tempted to write off, or to fear as a burden. Married at 14 in her Syrian village, she had two children by the time she was in her late teens, and no high school degree. Now 21, she reads to as many as 100 children at a time. Running a library gave her the confidence to write for the camp newspaper. She was starting to pitch stories via her mobile phone — for pay — to a Turkish magazine.
"I could never think these things would have taken place," she told me through the translator. "But I am very happy."
Just a few weeks ago, a camp school asked Rashed to start teaching. The seeds of the job were planted last year when Rashed began reading stories to the children living there, including the little girl I was worried about. Rashed sat at the front of the trailer with a small stack of books, and began a story about electricity shortages. As she listened, the little girl relaxed and stopped coughing. "Suddenly, suddenly, suddenly," Rashed said in Arabic, building the tension. "The power comes back."
Commentary by Elizabeth MacBride, a freelance writer and editor who | 1,089 |
Posted August 23, 2013 by walkw<|fim_middle|> anything to help my dogs when I'm not home. After listening to the dog behavior experts behind the channel, I know that I've been correct in leaving some type of audio/video on for them. However, leaving "Animal Planet" on, as I've done for years, fails in comparison to this channel. I hope they succeed enough to be able to offer it on all cable/satellite platforms. | ag & filed under Dog Training, Pet Care Blog, Pet Health Care, Recommends.
I recently had the opportunity to have a free week-long trial of DOGTV through DirecTV. As someone who boards dogs in my home, I've always left the TV on when I leave them home alone. I wasn't sure if it really did any good to break the silence, and my dog is the only one I've ever seen who actually "watches" television. So I spent the week observing all the dogs I had over during that time, and I definitely could see a few of them watching. What was even more significant was how calm they were when I would come home. Normally, one of my dogs will start barking once my car pulls into the driveway, prompting all the dogs to go crazy. Now when I drive home, they don't even know I'm home until I walk through the garage door. The frenzy is much more containable since I can pretty much stop it (jumping on me, etc.) before it starts.
The channel cycles in three parts: Relaxation, Stimulation and Exposure. All three have their purpose, but I notice they watch the Stimulation section the most. I've even found one of my cats mesmerized by the channel. They run "The Story of DOGTV" periodically, and it's quite enlightening. You can view the bulk of it (via their experts) on their website, http://dogtv.com/Page/whywatchdogtv.
Whether this channel is for everyone is left to be seen…mostly because it's not free It is an additional $4.99 a month, but to me, it's well worth the price. Even if I didn't have this business in my home, I know I would do | 382 |
Outsourcing your IT function gives you access to a larger team of IT experts with more knowledge than you may have in house. Don't be afraid to ask for and take advantage of the expertise that a Managed Service Provider (MSP) can provide. Whether it's dealing with day-to-day requests, large migrations or strategic IT issues, your MSP should be proactive in helping you solve business problems and improve the environment you work in.
Here are some tangible benefits you can gain from working with the right partner.
Employing a full-time expert in every technology and software is cost prohibitive for many businesses, not just SMEs. Having a team of experts at the fraction of the cost of hiring these full-time roles can allow you to channel budget elsewhere.
Most MSPs, us included, work to Service Level Agreements, meaning that you can understand clearly how and when jobs will be resolved. This is particularly useful when critical tech or infrastructure goes down, so you know how we will approach and resolve any issues.
It can be difficult for an in-house technician to spot<|fim_middle|> you do best – running your business.
Whether you need a short-term support contract or want to speak to a provider about improving your infrastructure, contact us today for a free audit. | every network issue on their own, and it's impossible to do so if you don't have the requirement for, or money to, pay someone full time. A reputable MSP will have remote monitoring and management tools at their disposal, meaning we can resolve issues as they come up.
MSPs are the experts in IT security and have access to a range of trusted vendors, who's business is IT security. Therefore, we can offer a variety of solutions based on your requirements and budgets. It's also a key responsibility of your MSP to highlight ways in which your business can be more secure, so ask them to review your security regularly.
As an MSP, we deal with any number of vendors depending on the needs of our clients. Therefore, we can get the best deals on improvements to hardware, software and services and these savings can be passed on to you, which you are unlikely to benefit from if you contacted a vendor directly. Some also don't sell their services directly to end customers, so speak to an MSP about how they can leverage the best prices and technology for you.
Overall, hiring an MSP to outsource your IT makes a lot of sense, and it's not just of benefit for the SME end of the market, either. The HR requirements are minimal, and it means you can rest assured that your IT is taken care of. Any MSP worth its weight should be telling you of these benefits and leave you to do what | 289 |
I think I've reached the Tipping Point. I no longer need to tell people what I have for breakfast.* My chiropractor commented on "those waffles you have." It's not quite the fame I<|fim_middle|> I'd hoped to work on the Newsletter, I'm going call it a night and go see what Netflix has provided for this evening's entertainment.
Take good care of yourselves, everyone!
* There are certainly people in the world who don't know what I have for breakfast, but now, the people who do know will step up and tell them. I am no longer in the loop. | 'd been hoping for, but I'll take the accomplishment as a Win.
So, I was at the chiropractor today as part of my commitment to take good care of myself this year. My goal is to get cranial work every month, to keep my back healthy and facilitate the shifting going on from the braces. My chiropractor says it will also help release creativity, and I have no objection to that. But after an adjustment, I tend to feel really soggy and tired, so even though | 101 |
Bambino Begins
On July 11, 1914, Babe Ruth got off the train that brought him to Boston from Baltimore at around 10 am. He and a teammate from the minor leagues walked to the Landers Coffee Shop, where Ruth gave an order of ham and eggs to a waitress named Helen, who was to become his first wife, although a few accounts dispute this happening on the day Ruth arrived in town.
Ruth had been a star pitcher with the Baltimore Orioles of the International League, but the team's owner, Jack Dunn, was having financial problems, possibly because of the Baltimore franchise of the newly founded (and short-lived) Federal League.
Dunn sold Ruth and two other players to the Boston Red Sox for $25,000. In his biography of Ruth, "The Big Bam", author Leigh Montville wrote how later reports put the figure at $12,000 and even $8,000.
Departing the train from Baltimore, Ruth and the two other players went to Fenway Park and the offices of the Red Sox. Ruth and the others signed their contracts and were taken to the locker room to be fitted for uniforms, and then to the field to be photographed. Ruth was informed he'd be starting that afternoon's game against the Cleveland Naps in which he pitched seven innings and won the game 4-3. He gave up three runs on eight hits, striking out one batter and walking none and was relieved by Hubert "Dutch" Leonard, who picked up his first save of the season. Ruth went 0 for 2 at the plate with a strikeout. He pitched in four games in 1914 for the Red Sox, winning two and losing one with an ERA of 3.91.
The Red Sox had an established starting rotation, and Ruth pitched sparingly, so sparingly that when the team acquired a minor league club in Providence, they sent Ruth there so he could pitch on a regular basis.
UNDATED: Pitcher Babe Ruth of the Boston Red Sox practices his delivery circa 1914. Babe Ruth played for the Boston Red Sox from 1914-1919. (Photo by National Baseball Hall of Fame Library/MLB via Getty Images)
He was recalled after Ruth helped the Providence team win the International League, and on October 2 he faced the Yankees, winning a complete game 11-5. He also had his first major league hit – a double – in that game.
Ruth became a regular starter for Boston in 1915: he won 18 games that season, the following year he made 41 starts, had a record of 23-12 with an ERA of 1.75. In 1917 he started 38 games, had a record of 24-13 and an era of 2.01.
When he joined the Red Sox in 1914, Ruth was playing for his third team that year.
It all started, of course, at St. Mary's Industrial School in his hometown, where Ruth had lived and played ball since his father put him there when he was seven years old.
Baseball was the National Pastime and everybody played it, and everybody watched it. Even a teenager at a school for poor children who had a good arm could get noticed by baseball professionals.
At the recommendation of a Brother at another school, Dunn went to St. Mary's to see this "kid." Dunn saw the left-handed Ruth play catcher that day, which he played deftly. He made accurate throws to second base on attempted steals. Afterwards, Dunn, so the story goes, told Ruth he would sign him to<|fim_middle|> was business. Ruth and the other two players boarded a train to Boston.
Twenty-one years later, Ruth's career ended with the other Boston club, the Braves.
By 1935, Ruth's age and sybaritic lifestyle had caught up with him. The Yankees released him after the 1934 season. Offers were few, the best coming from Judge Emil Fuchs, owner of the Braves, who offered Ruth a salary of $25,000, a vice presidency, the option to buy team stock and, probably most important for Ruth, a chance to eventually manage the club.
It was all a sham, according to Ruth. All he did as vice president was sign autographs and appear in public. The stock options were worthless, as the club was broke. And the possibility of becoming manager was a fantasy.
But Ruth gamely went on, and on May 25, against the Pittsburgh Pirates at Forbes Field he hit three home runs, including his final one, number 714. One writer described the first two as "ordinary," as they landed in the rightfield seats. The third one, however, left the stadium, clearing an 80-foot wall.
In the trainer's room, Ruth told an employee, "That (last) one felt good." It was the final hit of his career.
UNDATED: Babe Ruth of the Boston Red Sox watches the flight of the ball as he follows through on a swing during a game. Babe Ruth played for the Boston Red Sox from 1914-1919. (Photo by National Baseball Hall of Fame Library/MLB via Getty Images)<br />
That should have been the game to go out on. Many people, including his second wife, agreed, and Ruth had gone to Fuchs and asked to be placed on the voluntarily retired list. But the judge said advance tickets to exhibitions and games were already sold. Ruth said would play until a doubleheader in Philadelphia on Memorial Day against the Phillies at the city's Baker Bowl, where, as author Jane Leavy pointed out in her book "The Big Fella", he had appeared in his first World Series twenty years earlier.
In the first game that day, Ruth came to bat with one out in the first inning. He grounded out to the first baseman, headed to the dugout, took himself out of the game, and called it quits. His stats for his final year were six home runs, 12 RBIs and a .181 average. Three years later, he was in the first class of inductees to the Baseball Hall of Fame.
Ruth had come a long way from that day in 1914 when he signed with the Red Sox. He and Helen divorced (she later tragically died in a fire), and after he was sold to the Yankees there was the infamous "Curse of the Bambino" as the Red Sox failed to win a World Series for eight decades. His record for most home runs in a season was surpassed by Roger Maris in 1961, and his career homerun total was eclipsed by Henry Aaron in 1974 (although some people might argue Mark McGwire and Barry Bonds passed those records, too). But he became bigger than life while alive and a legend since his passing.
I wonder, though, if on that July day when he broke into the major leagues, he tipped Helen when he paid his bill at the cafe.
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Ruth was an immediate sensation. But Dunn, a former major league player, saw his bottom line affected by a Baltimore franchise in the newly founded (but short-lived) Federal League. He had staked all his money to buy the team, and it was losing money. With few options available, he sold off his best players to keep the team afloat.
On July 4, Dunn met with Red Sox owner Joe Lannin at a Washington, D.C. hotel and hammered out a deal. Lannin acquired Ruth and two other players for $25,000 (other reports had it for half and a third of that amount).
Ruth didn't want to leave. Baltimore was all he knew. He even continued to play for St. Mary's when he wasn't playing for the Orioles.
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Measuring Success (101 Editions Later)
In tribute to Okwui Enwezor
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Published 6 April 2019
This, the 101st issue of In Other Words, was inspired by conversations with Okwui Enwezor about what success looks like and so it seems poignant that it is now also a tribute to him.
<|fim_middle|>, profound, poetic and influential exhibitions of the past 30 years. His work indeed changed the way the world looks at art, the art it looks at—and our idea of the potential of art for transforming human awareness.
I am grateful for his invaluable contributions to two major awards that we have helped create over the past few years: the Sotheby's Prize and the Nomura Art Award. His wisdom, ideals, insights and values helped form the ethos of both prizes, shaping their vision for future generations, and his clarity more than once guided the jurors to new understandings of specific candidates. We have gained immeasurably from his commitment and wisdom, from his brilliance of mind and generosity of spirit.
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By Christian Viveros-Fauné, Louisa Buck, Jonathan Griffin, and Melissa Smith | Okwui died on 15 March, aged 55, after a three-year struggle with a cancer that did not steal his vigor or drive until the very end. He had an unmatched ability to spark new thought in other people. He began his career as a writer and would, for the rest of his life, use language with the precision and force of a poet.
He brought new concepts and overlooked art to our attention, pushing through doors that were closed to him and, in doing so, clearing space for others to follow. Okwui maintained a position of challenge and embrace: pushing the art world to be more dynamic and inclusive while enabling others to believe in the possibility of those ideals.
His was a brilliant mind and he was unafraid to speak it. A frank discussion between Okwui and In Other Words editor Charlotte Burns about the value of museums ("Voodoo Economics and Populism") led to a larger story ("Money, Morals and Metrics"), which in turn engendered an unprecedented response—65 pages of interviews—from museum directors and curators around the world about how they measure institutional success. Such was the genius of Okwui: he demanded deeper thinking from all of us.
The passing of Okwui is a great loss to us and to the entire field of contemporary art and art history. His pioneering work has been central to defining the critical issues of art in our time. He curated some of the most important | 295 |
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On the other hand, isotropic magnets have equal magnetic properties in all directions. So it's possible to magnetize these magnets in any direction. Isotropic magnets, also referred to as non-oriented magnets, are pressed, or cast, with no particular polarity and are magnetized later in the manufacturing process. While this process accommodates a broader range of magnetization options, the resulting magnet never reaches its maximum potential. One example of an isotropic magnet is bonded neodymium.
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Fredericton: Meetings at the end of October and early November by Jim Smith on the "Garment's of the High Priest" were enlightening and inspiring. The assembly benefited greatly, and the visit of our brother and his wife was very much enjoyed.
Deer Lake: A young mother who was saved last summer was baptized on November 13. She and her husband have both made their desire known for assembly fellowship. Their joy is evident to all. Brian Owen was present for the occasion and stayed through the weekend giving timely ministry. The week following, Lorne Langfeld visited for a Saturday night ministry meeting, stayed through the weekend, and gave some searching ministry.
Lambton Shores: Three weeks of gospel meetings which the Lake Shore assembly held with Marvin Derksen and Andrew Robertson finished December 5. One young man seemed interested and attended nightly. Others travelled a distance to hear. The labors of these brethren were appreciated. Andrew also helped in the Thedford work with a series of well-attended youth meetings with lessons from Genesis.
Oshawa: The one-day conference was one of the largest in the last 25 years. It was encouraging to see a large crowd of young people. Timely ministry was given by eight full-time servants and a brother from a local assembly. The guidance of the Holy Spirit was evident. The assembly also enjoyed ministry and a report on the work in Zambia by Keith Bailey for the Saturday night ministry meeting in December.
Milton: The assembly has commended Doug and MaryAnn Hanna to the Lord and to full-time service for Him at Sakeji School in Zambia, where they have travelled with their daughter Ellie. Doug is from a family of missionaries; his grandparents labored in Chile and an aunt and uncle also serve there today. His parents are also missionaries in Zambia. As a result, Doug spent much of his childhood years in Zambia and attended Sakeji School. More recently both Doug and MaryAnn have made short term trips there where their service was appreciated by the local assemblies and other missionaries. Please pray for them in their service for the Lord. See Updates for contact information.
Sudbury: The assembly appreciated a mid-week visit from Brian Owen in October. Brian Crawford had a special week of children's meetings in November. A number of newcomers and some parents faithfully attended. Please pray for children who continue to come as a result. Paul and Eunice Poidevin visited the saints for a weekend in November. A very interesting report was given on Saturday night, and ministry and help in the gospel on the Lord's Day were appreciated. It was a joy and encouragement to the assembly when a sister of one of the saints was baptized recently. A number of family members and a friend were present to hear a very solemn gospel message.
Alpena: A number of believers from several assemblies attended the annual Bible Reading in November. It was a time of profitable ministry for all. Appreciated help was given by Jesse Fitch, Jerry Jennings, William Lavery, Larry Perkins, Joel Portman, and Jack Saword. A warm note of thanks is extended to all who attended and gave support. In connection with the work in Springdale, a young Hispanic man professed salvation. Continued prayer for the work among Hispanics in the area is greatly appreciated.
Phoenix: The Thanksgiving weekend conference was enjoyed by a good number of the saints again this year. Servants of the Lord present to minister the Word and preach the gospel were Alan Davidson, John Fitzpatrick, Bill Lavery, and Stan Wells. Bill Lavery and Alan Davidson remained for a week of ministry after the conference.
Stout: Scott Macleod was with the assembly for ten nights giving appreciated ministry on Church truth. Interest by many of the saints in this area was very encouraging.
Worcester: The believers were encouraged by a visit from Robert Surgenor for two days in November.
Fridley: An all-day meeting was held November 7 with John Slabaugh, Al Christopherson, and William Skates. The ministry given was a reminder that our lives and God's assembly are the spiritual superstructure built upon the great foundation which is Christ.
Midland Park: The 69th annual conference was held at the end of September. Brethren who ministered the Word were David Gilliland, Jack Hay, David Jones, and John See (Malaysia). Eugene Higgins spoke in the gospel on the Saturday evening. The ministry was excellent, and helpful to the saints attending, and the gospel was solemn and searching. Eugene Higgins returned in October for three weeks of gospel meetings, using the chart on the "Impact of the Bible and Christianity on American History." Several visitors attended, some more than once, and heard a plain, earnest message of salvation through faith in the Lord Jesus. One young boy professed faith in Christ. Please pray for the children's treat to be held January 22, DV.
Akron: David Petterson labored here in gospel meetings. A good number attended and the gospel was plainly presented. During the meetings, two believers were baptized and the annual children's treat was held. Robert Surgenor and Fred Bartlett also gave help recently.
Mansfield: The assembly appreciated visits from Fred Bartlett, Al Christopherson, and Stuart Thompson.
Marysville: Marvin Derksen and Bryon Meyers concluded three weeks of gospel meetings on November 7. The meetings were well attended by the assembly and students from the Youth Bible Hour. Two teenage girls professed faith in Christ. A number of the believer's children showed good interest. Please pray that others will come to know Christ and those who professed will be sustained and a testimony to their families.
Egg Harbor: Lorne Mitchell and Eugene Badgley had two weeks of gospel meetings with the assembly. One man professed salvation in the second week. This was a joy and encouragement to the saints.
Chihuahua: Helped by local brethren, G. Torrens continues to preach twice weekly in the Porvenir hall. The assembly that meets in the Valle de la Madrid hall rejoiced in receiving two believers into fellowship, one of which was the Torrens' only daughter.
Ciudad del Carmen: D. Alves Jr. and Moses Roseyon (of Puerto Vallarta) have been preaching nightly for several weeks in two locations. In the afternoons they go to the mainland to a village called Zapata, where five believers were recently baptized, and in the evenings they are having well-attended house meetings on the island.
Ciudad Obregón: D. Beckett has returned to the country and continues to appreciate the prayers of God's people. A new work in an area known as Nueva Palmira has opened up in the home of a sister in fellowship here. Response by people in the neighborhood has encouraged our young brethren Ben Kember (Obregón) and Jonathan Seed (Vancouver).
Cotaxtla: After the devastation caused by hurricane Karl, J. Nesbitt has increased the number of weekly meetings here and is encouraged with the response.
El Barril: J. Wahls has settled, with his family, in Zacatecas, a one hour drive from El Barril and is working with dozens of contacts here and in the neighboring towns of La Concepción, Chaparrosa, and Zancarrón.
Hermosillo: The assembly enjoyed four nights of ministry by J. Dennison on the subject of family life and raising children.
Mexico City: A. von Zeschau and other brethren from the Nezahualcoyotl assembly are helping S. Emberly (Portage) in special gospel meetings in a home.
Pachuca: Dan Harvey rented a building in the area and was helped by H. Rodriguez in the preaching of the gospel. Close by, the assembly rejoiced in the baptism of one brother and the restoration of a sister. The assembly was also greatly encouraged to see H. Rodriguez again.
Tepic: Over 250 believers from 11 assemblies around the country attended the conference and listened to ministry given by J. Dennison and H. Rodriguez. After a difficult bout of dengue fever, Allison Cain was able to make it to the last meeting of the conference and saw her youngest son and another teenager baptized. After many years of faithful service here the assembly tearfully bid farewell to the Cains, who are now settled in Hermosillo.
Santiago: The assembly appreciated meetings with P. Thiessen on the subject of leadership in the assembly. J. Dyck continues to work on the construction of a new hall.
Veracruz: The assembly rejoiced to have H. Rodriguez while on a visit to Mexico. One sister obeyed the Lord in baptism. J. Dennison gave helpful ministry on the subject of marriage.
Zapopan: The assembly was blessed by 13 meetings conducted by P. Thiessen on courtship, marriage, and raising children.
Ardmore: David Gilliland and Tom Castles are preaching in the gospel hall.
Ballinloob: David McGarvey commenced in the gospel here November 14.
Ballymoney: Robin McKeown and Tom Meekin had four weeks of gospel meetings in the Town Hall.
Buckna: Tommie Wright and Elton Fairfield started gospel meetings here November 7.
Cardy: Malcolm Radcliffe and Jonathan Procopio were encouraged with blessing in meetings here.
Lurgan: The annual conference and Bible Readings were attended by large numbers for another helpful and encouraging conference. Bible Readings on Revelation 19-22 were taken by J. Allen, J. Hay, T. Wilson, and D. Gilliland. Many other brethren participated over the six days, sharing in ministry, gospel, and reports of the Lord's work.
Dervock: Willie Fenton and Matthew McKillen commenced gospel meetings here outside of Bushmills.
Donemana: Brian Glendinning and Norman Coulter commenced here November 14 in the gospel.
Dromore: Jim Martin and Wesley Martin were preaching in a portable hall outside of this town.
Drumacanver: Howard Milliken and Mark Campbell commenced gospel meetings here November 7.
Dunmurry: John Fleck and John Rogers saw blessing here in a gospel series.
Lviv City: In 1995, Flora Kancer, wanting to bring the gospel to relatives of her deceased husband, went to Lviv with her son Timothy and Gilles Plourde. Since that time, she and others have brought Bibles and the gospel to schools, orphanages, senior's homes, and many needy people. Clothing is sent from North<|fim_middle|> and an excellent gospel message was presented by Shawn St. Clair.
Dr. Ernesto E. Moreno of Clyde, OH, on November 29, 2010, age 95. He was born in 1915 in Holquin, Cuba. While in Cuba he taught at Candler College and Havana Military Academy. He married Ida Mae Messer of Olivia, Minnesota, on July 14, 1957. After leaving Cuba in 1960, he received his Doctorate in Philosophy from the University of Minnesota, and taught at Oxford College and MacAllister College. He moved to Toledo in 1966 where he taught Spanish at the University of Toledo until his retirement, and then served as a linguist for the Federal Bureau of Investigation. He always had an encouraging word for the saints regarding his enjoyment of the Scriptures and will be greatly missed.
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©2022 Truth and Tidings Magazine | Questions or Comments? Contact Us | America and distributed to the needy. There are many younger and older people who help in the work. As a result of continued gospel work souls have been saved, and in October 2010, an assembly began. Mr. and Mrs. Edmond Jonson from Ireland now reside in Lviv as missionaries.
Lutsk City: Timothy and Rhoda Sloan visited Ukraine in 2002 as the result of a contact made in 1994. Contacts were made and as a result an assembly began in 2002. In 2007 an existing building was purchased which is presently being renovated. Approximately 100 street children are given a gospel message and fed daily. The focus of the work in Lutsk and the surrounding area is ministry and the gospel. Souls have been saved and just in the past months, two have been added to the assembly. Over the years they have printed, in Ukrainian, 120,000 Seed Sowers, 200,000 gospel tracts, and books – The Role of Women in a Local Church (D. Gilliland), Going on for God(D. Hinton, D. Newell), Autonomy and Authority (Michael Browne), and Reception to God's Assembly (W. Bunting). At present nine new gospel tracts (Leslie Craig) are being translated and printed, as well as the 10 booklet series of Focus On (John Ritchie). About 10,000 calendars have just been received for 2011. Your continued prayers are appreciated.
Ivano-Frankivsk City: A contact was made in 2003 which was followed up in the spring of 2004. Since then visits for five or six weeks have been made each spring and fall by a number of Christians, with another group usually following after the first group leaves. An apartment is rented where workers can stay and meetings are held. Up to 30 attend the meetings. Clothing is distributed as well as medicine and other help. There is still freedom to distribute Bibles and speak in schools and orphanages. A number have been saved and it is hoped that an assembly will eventually be formed in this city in the Lord's time. Please pray for this most needy country. For more information look at the blog "God's Work in Western Ukraine."
February 19-20, in the Gospel Hall, 4646 Twain Ave., with Prayer Meeting on Friday, February 12 at 7:30pm. Saturday: Bible Reading 10am (Hebrews 13), Ministry 2pm, Gospel 7pm. Sunday: Breaking of Bread 10am, Ministry 2pm, Gospel 7pm. Corr: Wm. Smith; Tel: 619 582-2109; Hall 619 280-7021.
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April 30, in the Newbury Gospel Hall. Ministry: 2:30-5pm; Ministry and Gospel 6:30-7:30pm. Contact Chris Snooks at Tel: 519 695-5779, or snooks90@hotmail.com.
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Doug and MaryAnn Hanna: Sakeji School, P.O. Box 20, Ikelenge, Northwest Province, Zambia. E-mail: hanna.doug@gmail.com.
John Fitzpatrick: New E-mail address is johnfitz2011@gmail.com.
David Rodgers (Chile): Current E-mail address is dvrodgers@gmail.com.
Change of Address of Correspondent
Lake Shore Gospel Hall: Russell Fuller, 8638 Vance Dr., Lambton Shores, ON, N0N 1J7.
Change in Meeting Times
Eden Grove, ON: Sunday night gospel meeting time is now 7pm, preceded by prayer at 6:30pm.
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John Robert Webb of Cambridge, MA, on October 28, 2010, after a long and painful battle with cancer. He was born on August 13, 1932, in Quincy, IL. He was saved in July 1952 while in the Armed forces in Korea. He and his wife Marilyn (who predeceased him in 2008) had ten children (Robin, Timothy, David, Karen, Philip, Juanita, Joel, Lisa, Rebecca, and Jonathan). He is also survived by 13 grandchildren, three sisters, and two brothers. Please remember in prayer some who are not saved. He was a respected elder in the Cambridge assembly and a brother beloved by all the saints who knew him. Godly, humble, and warm-hearted, John loved the Lord and His Word. His funeral was taken by his son Tim, Frank Procopio, Jim Vincent, Ken Taylor, and Gene Higgins. James Thompson and Rick Lawson took the graveside service.
Irvine Brooks of Fredericton, NB, on November 19, 2010, age of 70, after a short battle with aggressive cancer. He was saved in his late teens through the kindness of a dear Baptist lady who took him in off the street, and through the effective witness of Baptist evangelists in Burtts Corner, NB. In 1964, through the influence of the Haine's family and others at the York County Home, he came into assembly fellowship. Since 1970 Irvine was a dedicated Christian and a devoted husband and father to his dear wife Rachel and their five children. He cared much for his family, neighbors, and fellow believers. He was known for his hard work and help to many and for his phone calls to let you know that he was thinking of you and praying for you. He will be missed by more people than we realize. One of his favorite verses was "We know that all things work together for good to them that love God." The funeral service was taken by Rob Griffin | 1,330 |
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Analysis from a crucial time trial on stage 16 of the Vuelta a España
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2 September 2017 72nd Vuelta a Espana Stage 14 : Ecija - Sierra de La Pandera FROOME Christopher (GBR) Sky, Maillot Rojo Photo : Yuzuru SUNADA
Chris Froome nearly doubles Vuelta lead
Froome celebrates on the podium after receiving his red jersey (Credit: Sunada)
Chris Froome was always expected to gain time on this flat time trial, and the Team Sky rider duly delivered, taking victory by 29 seconds ahead of Wilco Kelderman. Not that it was all plain sailing.
Fans of Froome might have had their hearts in their mouths as the Brit went through the first intermediate split 23 seconds down on a flying Wilco Kelderman, also conceding time to Ilnur Zakarin and Alberto Contador.
>>> Chris Froome takes emphatic time trial victory on Vuelta a España stage 16 to extend overall lead
However this was a classic Team Sky negative split tactic, with Froome accelerating through the course of the time trial to overtake Kelderman by seven seconds by the second split,and eventually win the stage by 29 seconds.
That gives Froome a commanding 1-58 lead at the top of the general classification, giving a decent margin for error for the coming days in the mountains.
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From here, Chaves may be content to hold on to his top 10 spot in the GC, especially if he suffers on one of the two ultra-steep finishing climbs of the final week.
Los Machucos beckons
One of the many steep hairpins on Alto de los Machucos (Credit: Google)
Unsurprisingly, after a rare flat day in the time trial, the Vuelta a España heads back into the mountains for stage 17, which features one of the steepest climbs to ever feature in a Grand Tour.
The fearsome final climb of Los Machucos will undoubtedly be the highlight of Wednesday's 180.5km stage, featuring a maximum gradient of 31 per cent that is sure to have the mechanics reaching into the back of the truck for the compact chainsets and 32-tooth sprockets.
Just don't expect fireworks on such a climb, as the brutally steep gradients will make attacking all but impossible and the riders forced to scale the near sheer rock face at their own pace. | Unexpected success for Kelderman
Wilco Kelderman put in stellar performance on stage 16 of the Vuelta (Credit: Sunada)
Surprise package of the day was Wilco Kelderman (Team Sunweb), a former Dutch time trial champion, but someone who has never finished higher than 14th in a Grand Tour time trial.
Kelderman set off the start ramp like an absolute train, powering through the first intermediate split with an average speed of more than 52kmh to go fastest by 16 seconds.
Watch: Vuelta a España stage 16 highlights
Some might have expected Kelderman to fade from there, but instead he held his effort well through the hilly middle of the course, only conceding time to the peerless Froome and eventually finishing second on the stage.
That result moved the 26-year-old up to third overall, just 42 seconds behind Vincenzo Nibali, and on current form you wouldn't put it past Kelderman to overhaul his Italian rival by Madrid.
Vintage Contador in final time trial
Alberto Contador produced a strong performance in his final time trial (Credit: Sunada)
This stage marked Alberto Contador's final Grand Tour time trial, and the Spanish rider pulled out a vintage performance that he would have been proud of in his pomp.
Contador has looked in decent shape in time trials all year, only once finishing outside the top 10 in an individual time trial all year, and paced himself perfectly in this last effort against the clock.
Eventually finishing 59 seconds down on Froome, Contador's splits suggested that he couldn't have gone any faster as he steadily lost time throughout rather than setting off too fast and losing shed loads of time later on.
His fifth place on the stage was also enough to move him up to fifth overall, just over two minutes back from the podium which certainly doesn't seem out of reach if a vintage Contador long-range move can stick over the coming days.
Esteban Chaves drops out of contention
Esteban Chaves suffered big time losses on stage 16 (Credit: Sunada)
For the first week of the Vuelta a España, Esteban Chaves looked like Chris Froome's main rival as the Colombian matched him on the climbs to go into the first rest day just 36 seconds down.
However since then Chaves has struggled, slipping down to fifth on Saturday's stage to Sierre de la Pandera, before having a nightmare today to drop well-and-truly out of contention.
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Peaches HotHouse – Fort Greene | Sixth to Eighth Avenues between 41st and 54th Streets. From the hustle of the Port Authority Bus Terminal to the bustle of 42nd Street and Times Square, much of New York's dazzling vibrancy and energy emanates from this area.
Below we offer our advice on favorite places:
Right at the crossroads of Times Square you'll find the Hilton Times Square, with its stunning views and close proximity to all the boogie of Broadway. A block north and east takes you the charming boutique hotel called the Casablanca, with just 48 rooms and a private rooftop deck beloved for its views of the Times Square New Year's Eve celebration. One block west and across from the New York Times headquarters is the 45-story Westin Times Square, linked to the E-Walk entertainment and retail complex.
West 44th Street has a number of great hotels, including the Art Deco Millennium Broadway, the luxurious French-American Sofitel and Ian Schrager-designed boutique hotel Royalton just across the street.
A block north and close to Eighth Avenue you'll find the well-known budget hotel, the Milford Plaza known also as the "lullaby of Broadway." Right at Broadway the perennial favorite Marriott Marquis has a soaring atrium and glass elevators. Just north you'll find the chic and trendy W New York Times Square, and further east the even more chic and über-trendy Night Hotel.
Back to Broadway a just a block north around 46th Street is the convenient and comfortable Doubletree Guest Suites, which is a great option for families. A bit further west on 46th Street is another stylish Ian Schrager gem, the Paramount; to the east you'll find a stunning inspiration in The Muse.
A final recommendation is just slightly outside the Theater District, but so close, so impressive, and overlooking the New York Public Library. Called the Bryant Park Hotel, it indeed has a wonderful view of popular Bryant Park as well. Click HERE for a complete list of hotels in the Theater District.
With dozens of fine dining, casual, ethnic and fast-food restaurants to choose from, the Theater District is a food mecca. Remember to let your server know if you have theater tickets and need to finish your meal in a set period of time!
First off, the block of West 46th Street between Eighth and Ninth Avenues is well-known as Restaurant Row for its many offerings and wide variety of cuisines. Here you will find everything from traditional steakhouse fare at Broadway Joe to Italian Jewish cuisine at Lattanzi, to a great selection of beers and world cuisine at Joshua Tree.
All around the theater district are big theme restaurants, ranging from ESPN Zone to the perennial favorite for barbecue Virgil's. Enjoy excellent and quick Chinese food at Ollie's. If great steak is your thing, head to the Palm or Ruths Chris. Other wonderful pre-theater possibilities include DB Bistro Moderne for excellent French bistro fare and the splendid new American cuisine at Thalia.
If you crave great ethnic food and want to go a bit further afield, superb Ethiopian cuisine can be had at Queen of Sheba, and right nearby visit Hallo Berlin for a taste of Germany. One of our favorite all-American locales, The Pony Bar offers a few modest dishes to complement its dozens of superb craft beers.
Your options certainly aren't limited to Restaurant Row or luxury restaurants. Obviously in Times Square, the crossroads of the world, you'll find the chain restaurants you see all over America, some with supersize versions such as Chevy's and Red Lobster. Happy dining!
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Scheller faculty member Lucien Dhooge and Rebecca Burnett, School of Literature, Media, and Communication discuss what makes a public apology good or bad.
Published on: 06-23-2015
Hard to Say I'm Sorry: How to Make an Apology
Politicians, corporate executives, and celebrities often find themselves in trouble and feel the need to apologize. Some do it well, and the controversy dies. Others botch the apology, causing the controversy to grow. What separates the good apologies from the bad?
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In addition, Burnett said the apologizer also should promise that the mistake will not happen again.
"Don't skimp and omit parts of the apology — acknowledgment of wrongdoing, acceptance of responsibility, expression of regret, and a promise not to repeat the wrongdoing," she said. "And don't hedge or use weasel words."
Navigating the Pitfalls
Some apologies miss the mark and fail to resonate with the intended audience. One reason is that the apologizer expects to be forgiven.
"The apologizer may seek forgiveness, but there is no guarantee that the apology will be accepted," Dhooge said. "Stated another way, simply making an apology does not entitle one to forgiveness. Some apologizers lose track of this point and thus cannot understand why their apologies fell flat."
Dhooge said the expectation of immediate exoneration is unrealistic.
"Acceptance and forgiveness are only granted by the recipient and cannot be demanded by the apologizer," he said.
Avoiding the "I want to apologize" trap is also critical.
"Language should be taken at face value," said Dhooge. "Stating that one wants to [apologize] is not actually doing it. 'Wanting' to do something and actually 'doing' something are two different concepts altogether," he said.
Burnett agrees that the language is very important.
"Avoid an apology that includes profanity; makes slurs against race, gender, ethnicity, age and so on; blames someone else (especially an underling); or offers excuses," she said.
Delivering a strong apology can be hard to do. However, Burnett said that well-done apologies have distinct benefits.
"Good apologies may touch personal lives of victims, defuse public anger, satisfy a sense of taking moral responsibility, serve to make amends (or begin that process), ameliorate litigation, and begin to resolve the problem," she said.
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Lucien Dhooge is the Sue and John Staton Professor of Law in the Scheller College of Business. Visit bio>> | "Public apologies get a lot of press when an event is catastrophic or when a celebrity bungles an apology," said Rebecca Burnett, Class of 1958 Professor of Rhetoric and director, Writing and Communication Program in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication. "Bad apologies abound; they're insincere, offering too little, too late," she said. "Good apologies are rare; they're believable and begin to rebuild trust."
Lucien Dhooge, the Sue and John Staton Professor of Law in the Scheller College of Business, said apologies can be a tricky business. "In the words of the Elton John song, 'sorry seems to be the hardest word,' although it bears noting that simply stating that one is 'sorry' for a specific set of circumstances is not the same as apologizing for causing them to occur," Dhooge said.
He added that no one likes to admit that he or she was mistaken about a situation, harmed another person through his or her actions, or failed to live up to personal behavioral expectations.
"We think of ourselves as more caring, sensitive, ethical, and better behaved than our fellow human beings," said Dhooge. "Apologies are an acknowledgement of our shortcomings and thus can be difficult no matter if it is in a personal or professional context."
What is the correct way to apologize — and make it stick?
Effective apologies share several common traits. Burnett and Dhooge agree that sincerity, specifically a heartfelt and personal statement of regret, is at the top of the list.
"Make the apology genuine, sincere, heartfelt, honest — and work hard to make sure it is perceived as genuine by the various public audiences, which is difficult to do," said Burnett. She also suggests practicing the delivery to avoid losing track of ideas and appearing unsure.
According to Dhooge, "Sincerity goes a long way toward repairing the damaged relationship between the apologizer and the recipient. On the other hand, reading verbatim from a prepared statement or being surrounded by a bevy of attorneys and public relations personnel may have the opposite effect."
The timing of the apology also is important.
"Offer the apology early in the public information about the wrongdoing/incident/mistake/accident/event rather than delaying it by hours or days," said Burnett.
Dhooge said, "The longer one waits to apologize, the longer the addressed harm has to fester and infect the relationship going forward. A delayed apology also conveys the impression that the apologizer was so insensitive as to not grasp the harmful nature of his or her actions or simply did not care enough to offer timely words of regret."
The apology also needs to be in "plain English," said Dhooge.
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Serene and reverberant Grace May releases her new single entitled "Quiet." The stunning release details a sense of loneliness. It's a recognizable feeling of not wanting to burden friends and family with your worries so you struggle in silence. Showcasing a captivating prowess and compelling soulful vocals, the R&B/neo-soul artist pulls her inspiration from the culture and creativity of her surroundings.
The track was written after listening to Joni Mitchell's "Both Sides Now." May was inspired by the songstress and dug into old interviews where she was left in awe of Mitchell's quote, "If you listen to the music and you see me, you're not getting anything out of it. If you listen to that music and you see yourself… now you're getting something out of it."
Toronto-born and New York-based, May channels the energy from the second most diverse city in the world, ultimately amplifying her passion for music and driving her artistry. After studying at the prestigious Berklee College of Music, May gained extensive experience as a background vocalist and honed in on her songwriting ability. Now in New York City, she continues to shine, affording listeners with flawless falsetto and dazzling melodic soundscapes. Finding influences from Lianne La Havas, Emily King and H.E.R., May seeks to craft a similar essence of radiating rhythms and emotive vocal tone. "There are a million directions you can go with music, which is wonderful and daunting," she confides.
With the hope to help others going through a similar feeling of isolation, May wants to relay to others that even if you can't see the light at the end of the tunnel, things will in time get better and to never be scared to talk to someone. Continuing on her musical journey as she takes a simplistic approach, "Quiet" is currently available worldwide.
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CALGARY, ALBERTA (June 18, 2010) – Steve Snyder, president and chief executive officer of TransAlta Corporation (TransAl<|fim_middle|>ure for its Sundance 3 thermal power plant → | ta) (TSX: TA; NYSE: TAC), today announced that Brett Gellner has been appointed chief financial officer. Mr. Gellner succeeds Brian Burden, who has made a personal decision to retire from the company. Mr. Burden will assist Mr. Gellner with the transition through September 30, 2010.
"Brian has been a valuable member of the senior management team during the past five years," said Mr. Snyder. "During his time with us he has strengthened our financial organization and helped TransAlta maintain a strong balance sheet in a very turbulent period for the industry and the economy. I respect his decision to retire, and appreciate his support during the transition. I wish him well in the future."
"We are fortunate at TransAlta to have a strong slate of succession candidates for key positions within the company," Mr. Snyder said. "That has allowed us to promote Brett immediately and ensure a seamless transition, with a solid period of overlap between him and Brian. Brett brings deep industry knowledge, extensive capital markets expertise, a solid understanding of operations, and a clear sense of how TransAlta can best execute its long-term growth strategy."
Mr. Gellner joined TransAlta in 2008 after 12 years with CIBC World Markets, where he was co-head of the Power & Utilities Group. Prior to CIBC, Mr. Gellner held senior roles in the corporate planning and development group at MacMillan Bloedel Ltd. He holds a master's degree in applied economics from the University of Alberta and a chartered financial analyst designation.
TransAlta is a power generation and wholesale marketing company focused on creating long-term shareholder value. TransAlta maintains a low-to-moderate risk profile by operating a highly contracted portfolio of assets in Canada, the United States and Australia. TransAlta's focus is to efficiently operate our biomass, geothermal, wind, hydro, natural gas and coal facilities in order to provide our customers with a reliable, low-cost source of power. For 100 years, TransAlta has been a responsible operator and a proud contributor to the communities where we work and live. TransAlta is recognized for its leadership on sustainability by the Dow Jones Sustainability North America Index, the FTSE4Good Index and the Jantzi Social Index.
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Richard Puza (* 17. August 1943 in Klagenfurt) ist ein katholischer Kirchenrechtler. Er ist seit Sommer 2011 Professor im Ruhestand an der Katholisch-Theologischen Fakultät der Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen.
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Richard Puza, Sohn eines Rechtsanwalts, schloss sein Studium der Rechtswissenschaften an der Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz 1965 mit der Promotion ab und bestand die Zweite Staatsprüfung in den Fächern Zivilrecht, Handelsrecht und Strafrecht mit Auszeichnung. Ab 1966 war Puza Vertrags<|fim_middle|> und staatlichem Recht. Zur zeitgemäßen Profilierung eines alten Finanzierungs- und Rechtsinstituts, hg. v. Puza, Richard / Ihli, Stefan / Kustermann, Abraham Peter, Berlin u. a. 2008.
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Homepage des Lehrstuhls von Richard Puza an der Universität Tübingen
Verlagsmitteilung zur Festschrift mit Darstellung des Werdegangs
Internetzeitschrift NomoK@non
Hochschullehrer (Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen)
Kirchenrechtler
Rechtswissenschaftler (20. Jahrhundert)
Rechtswissenschaftler (21. Jahrhundert)
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Geboren 1943
Mann | assistent am Institut für Kirchenrecht an der Rechtswissenschaftlichen Fakultät der Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz unter der Leitung von Prof. Dr. Helmut Schnizer, ab 1967 Universitätsassistent. 1972 habilitierte sich Puza mit einer Arbeit über Rechtskraft und fehlerhaftes Urteil in den Dezisionen der Römischen Rota für das Fach Kirchenrecht (veröffentlicht Graz 1973) und wurde danach Oberassistent und Universitätsdozent. Als solcher hielt er nicht nur kirchenrechtliche, sondern auch propädeutische und hochschuldidaktische Lehrveranstaltungen. Daneben intensivierte er seinen kirchenrechtlichen und kirchenrechtsgeschichtlichen Forschungsschwerpunkt durch Forschungsaufenthalte, Archivstudien und Sprachstudien insbesondere in Rom, Siena, Grenoble, Lyon und Aix-en-Provence.
Vom Wintersemester 1978/1979 bis zum Wintersemester 1979/1980 nahm Puza die Vertretung des Lehrstuhls für Kirchenrecht an der Katholisch-Theologischen Fakultät der Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen wahr, im Sommersemester 1980 ebendort einen entsprechenden Lehrauftrag. 1979 wurde er zum Außerordentlichen Universitätsprofessor für Kirchliche Rechtsgeschichte und Staatskirchenrecht an der Rechtswissenschaftlichen Fakultät der Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz ernannt. Zum 27. November 1980 wurde er zum Ordentlichen Professor (Ordinarius) für Kirchenrecht an der Katholisch-Theologischen Fakultät der Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen berufen. Diesen Lehrstuhl hatte er bis 2011 inne.
Puza ist seit 1967 verheiratet.
Leistungen
In den Studienjahren 1981/1982, 1991/1992 sowie 1998/1999 und 1999/2000 war Puza Dekan der Katholisch-Theologischen Fakultät der Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen sowie in den Studienjahren 1982/1983, 1992/1993 sowie 2000/2001 und 2001/2002 deren Prodekan. Zum Wintersemester 2008/2009 wurde Puza nun erneut zum Dekan gewählt. Zeitweilig war Puza auch Professorensprecher, Koordinator des Forschungsberichts und Vertreter seiner Fakultät im Katholisch-Theologischen Fakultätentag. Innerhalb seiner Fakultät bemüht sich Puza bis heute neben seiner Rolle als Rechtsberater als Koordinator des ERASMUS- und SOKRATES-Programms der Europäischen Union um den internationalen Studentenaustausch und hat dabei auch in innovativer Weise Partnerschaftsabkommen mit islamisch-theologischen Fakultäten in Istanbul und Çanakkale abgeschlossen. Daneben fördert er Studierende als Vertrauensdozent der Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes.
Ständige Gastprofessuren führten und führen Puza u. a. nach Pavia, an die Pontificia Facoltà Teologica "San Giovanni Evangelista" di Sicilia in Palermo, das Institut catholique und die Université Jean Monet in Paris sowie die Université Marc Bloch und die Université Robert Schuman in Straßburg. Er organisiert regelmäßig Fachtagungen in Kooperation mit der Akademie der Diözese Rottenburg-Stuttgart sowie internationale Kongresse.
Puza ist Präsident des European Consortium for Church and State Research sowie u. a. Mitglied im Consortium international "Droit canonique et culture", in der Consociatio Internationalis Studio Iuris Canonici Promovendo, in der Arbeitsgemeinschaft Fach Kirchenrecht (der Vereinigung der deutschen Fachvertreter für Kirchenrecht) und in der Kirchlichen Rechtsstelle in Kirchenbeitragsangelegenheiten der Diözese Graz-Seckau. Puza war Berater bei der Diözesansynode der Diözese Rottenburg-Stuttgart 1985/1986 sowie Adiutor Secretarii Specialis bei der Bischofssynode 1987 in Rom mit dem Thema "Berufung und Sendung der Laien in Kirche und Welt". Er ist Diözesanrichter am Bischöflichen Offizialat Rottenburg und wurde vom Bischof von Rottenburg-Stuttgart als Mitglied des Diözesanrats und der Kommission Sexueller Missbrauch durch Geistliche berufen.
Zu Puzas Schülern zählen u. a. die Professoren Andreas Weiß (Katholische Universität Eichstätt), René Pahud de Mortanges (Universität Fribourg) und Jean Werckmeister (Université Marc Bloch Strasbourg) sowie die Privatdozenten Hans-Jürgen Guth (Tübingen) und Karl-Christoph Kuhn (Ratshausen).
Die Forschungsschwerpunkte Puzas liegen vor allem auf den Gebieten der kirchlichen Rechtsgeschichte, des kirchlichen Eherechts und Vermögensrechts sowie des Staatskirchenrechts. Als Gutachter ist er in diesen Bereichen und im Patronatsrecht und Hochschulrecht tätig. In jüngster Zeit erforscht Puza verstärkt das Recht der nicht-katholischen Konfessionen und der anderen Religionen.
Puza hat wissenschaftliche Publikationen von großer Bandbreite verfasst. Neben einem kirchenrechtlichen Lehrbuch (3. Auflage in Vorbereitung) stehen Monographien, Herausgeberschaften von Büchern und Zeitschriften (darunter die Internet-Zeitschrift NomoK@non - (Staats)Kirchenrecht im Web), Aufsätze und Lexikonartikel u. a. zum katholischen Eheverständnis, zur Rechtsstellung wiederverheirateter Geschiedener in der katholischen Kirche und zur Problematik der so genannten viri probati. Puza hat sich auch mit rechtshistorischen Fragen beschäftigt und Publikationen zur Rechtsprechung der Apostolischen Signatur und der Römischen Rota in der frühen Neuzeit vorgelegt. Außerdem widmen sich zahlreiche Veröffentlichungen Fragestellungen aus dem Bereich des Staatskirchenrechts. So hat sich Puza mehrfach mit Problemen des Kirchenpatronats auseinandergesetzt. Wiederholt äußerte er sich zu staatskirchenrechtlichen Fragen im Zusammenhang mit der deutschen Wiedervereinigung.
Zu seinem sechzigsten Geburtstag erhielt Puza eine Festschrift unter dem Titel Flexibilitas iuris canonici (hrsgg. von Andreas Weiß und Stefan Ihli, Frankfurt 2003).
Bereits heute kann aber festgestellt werden, dass neben der Frage der Stellung der Laien in der katholischen Kirche die diakonische Funktion des Kirchenrechts ein besonderes Anliegen Puzas ist. Er steht damit in der Tradition der Schule der italienischen Laienkanonisten und des Zweiten Vatikanischen Konzils. Recht im Dienste des Heiles der Menschen verlangt für Puza eine geschmeidige Auslegung der Rechtsnormen unter Anwendung kirchenrechtlicher Prinzipien wie z. B. Epikie, Aequitas canonica und Oikonomia.
Aufgrund seines neuen Forschungsschwerpunkts der Vergleichung religiöser Rechtsordnungen hat Puza sich zudem Verdienste um den Dialog der Konfessionen und Religionen erworben. Durch diesen interreligiösen Dialog, durch vor allem internationale Forschungskooperationen und durch einen rechtshistorisch relativierenden Blickwinkel versucht Puza, die Begrenztheit der kirchenrechtlichen Schulen innerhalb Deutschlands zu überschreiten und dadurch seinem Fach neue Horizonte zu eröffnen.
Werke
Monographien
Res iudicata. Rechtskraft und fehlerhaftes Urteil in den Decisionen der Römischen Rota, Graz 1973.
Katholisches Kirchenrecht, Heidelberg 1986; 2. Auflage 1993
Franz Xaver Wernz – Lehrer, Kanonist und Jesuitengeneral aus Rottweil. Ein deutscher Kirchenrechtler in Rom, Rottweil 1994.
Herausgeberschaften und Mitherausgeberschaften
Programm ERASMUS Theologie Lyon (F) – Tübingen (D) – Fribourg (CH) – Madrid (E) – Maynooth (IRL), hg. v. Puza, Richard, Tübingen u. a. o. J.
Rechtswissenschaften, hg. v. Puza, Richard / Lube, Manfred, 1. A. Graz 1974.
Fachliche Benützungsanleitung für die Bibliotheken der Universität Graz. Band 7: Rechtswissenschaften. Mit Anleitung zum Studium, hg. v. Puza, Richard / Lube, Manfred, 2. A., Graz 1977.
Die Lage der Dozenten an den Universitäten in Österreich, hg. v. Kneucker, Raoul F. / Puza, Richard, Wien 1977.
Mit-Herausgeberschaft bei der ThQ seit 1980.
Der CIC 1983 (Sonderheft der ThQ), hg. v. Puza, Richard, München 1983.
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The XY Hemp Corporation
Modern Hemp Farmers on the Canadian Prairies
Hempday
2016 Cover Crop Update
August 31, 2016 August 31, 2016 kaylesaustin5 Comments
For the 2016 growing season, The XY Hemp Corporation grew a cover crop of peas and faba beans. The term cover crop is used to describe a crop that is not grown to harvest, but instead to cover the soil to prevent erosion, add organic material to the soil, suppress weeds by increasing competition for light and moisture, and create a habitat for beneficial insects and microorganisms. For legumes crops, like ours, there is the additional benefit of nitrogen fixing in the roots of the plants. Another term, which is commonly used to describe this process, is a green manure crop or a plough down crop. These practices are different than summerfallow, where a field is left bare between cash crops and the soil is vulnerable to erosion or excess water.
Our primary motivation for the cover crop is to fix nitrogen in our soil to prepare for the 2017 hemp crop. In 2015, we also struggled with wild oats and so weed suppression is another goal for the cover crop. The 2016 cover crop (and 2017 hemp crop) is in the field next to our 2015 hemp crop. The last crop grown on the new field was oats and our soil tests revealed that there were similar levels of nitrogen in each field following the hemp crop and following the oats crop. This means that we need to fix as much nitrogen as possible in our 2016 field to support the growth of the 2017 hemp crop.
Pea nodules, where the nitrogen is fixed into the soil.
Faba Bean nodules, where the nitrogen is fixed into the soil.
To do this, we planted a combination of 40/10 peas and faba beans. This combination was determined after conversations with our farming partners Al and Hélène, our hemp farming mentor Larry Marshall, and various organic agrologists and seed suppliers. The faba beans were chosen because they will fix a lot of nitrogen in the soil, but they do not provide very good weed competition and they need a lot of moisture, which is not ideal if the growing season is dry. On the other hand, the peas provide better weed competition and do not require as much moisture. In order to hedge against either weather outcome, we decided to grow a 50/50 blend of peas and faba beans.
Our final strategy to increase our soil's nitrogen content organically, in a single growing season, was to ask Al and Hélène to graze their cattle on our cover crop before ploughing (or discing) the plants and manure into the dirt. While Al and Hélène have a relatively small herd – this type of manure spreading is best done by flash grazing a large herd – the additional nitrogen from the manure, and the weed suppression from cattle gazing on wild oats, should be beneficial overall.
In late June, Nordrick's Norsask Seeds delivered our blended peas and faba beans to Breadroot Farm and Al was able to seed the cover crop. The seeds were treated with an organic inoculant to help the plants germinate and establish in the soil. This was quite effective, as both the peas and beans grew well together and there is a lot of plant material for grazing and working into the soil. When Hélène left for a conference in Montreal, the faba beans were taller than the peas, but when she returned, the peas had overtaken the beans. As you can see above, the crop was about three-quarters the height of the yearlings when they were released into the field to graze.
Al and Hélène tested the cattle in a small area (about 10 acres) to ensure that the peas and beans did not cause bloat in the livestock. To the contrary, the yearlings quite like the peas and appear to have healthy digestion from the perfectly round patties they are leaving on the field. On August 21, Al and Hélène opened up the rest of the field to the yearlings, who have been eating the peas and the wild oats, but leaving the faba beans for the most part. This is ideal for us, as the peas should be disced-in now because pods are already formed, while the faba beans can continue growing and fixing nitrogen. The cattle have been a very effective way to selectively mow down the cover crop. As they trample the crop, they are also starting the decomposition process, which will continue to mineralize the nutrients in the soil through the fall, winter and spring. The success of this strategy is a true triumph for the XY Hemp Corporation and we are hopeful that it will be reflected in the health of our 2017 hemp crop.
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Our Farming Partners: Al and Hélène
June 29, 2016 kaylesaustin1 Comment
In every blog post, I try to show our gratitude for the many people who have supported us in our venture. There is no one we are more grateful for than Al Boyko and Hélène Tremblay-Boyko. They have provided us with access to land, welcomed us into their home, and taught us the practical aspects of organic farming. Smart, compassionate, hardworking and funny, Al and Hélène have been the best partners we could ask for. While they have enthusiastically jumped into our hemp-growing project, their original goal was to find successors to their farm to keep their land in organic or sustainable production when they are ready to retire. In this blog post, I will give you a brief profile of Al and Hélène, and Breadroot Farm, to show our gratitude and in hopes that it might help connect them with future farming partners.
Our first tour of the pasture on our first night at Breadroot Farm
We connected by chance when I built a profile for the XY Hemp Corporation on FarmLink. After Hélène's first e-mail, I was able to browse the website she created for Breadroot Farm, which provided me with so much information about their philosophies and farming practices. We arranged an initial phone call, to explore what each of us could bring to a partnership – and if we were interested in pursuing one, given our different goals. As we shared information about our hopes and plans for the future, a plan began to emerge for our joint venture. We continued to discuss the plan for the next four months as we developed a crop share agreement, cropping plan, financing terms and organized our first visit to Breadroot Farm. It was thrilling to be building a relationship through collaboration and we were so impressed by the generosity and understanding our future partners were showing us. It was so great to be able to find landowners who were active on this online land-linking platform, open to a new type of agriculture, interested in teaching new farmers (with no previous experience!), and willing to share the risks of our first crop together.
Chad and I were nervous about our first meeting, but our concerns quickly dissolved when we arrived in Canora, Saskatchewan in May 2015. Another libra lady, Hélène and I connected quickly through a shared intellect and appreciation for balance and partnership. A former french immersion teacher, Hélène is an excellent and patient teacher (Chad and I are also former french immersion students!). I have a deep appreciation for Hélène's intelligence, including her knowledge on a wide variety of topics, and eagerness to learn new things. She is also highly organized and helps with the website administration of The Farmer's Table, a sustainable agriculture initiative to sell fresh food straight from farmers to families in Regina and Saskatoon. Aware of the balance between hard work and play, Hélène is also very festive and a gracious host. She likes to engage in celebration through song and food and has welcomed musicians, chefs, and many aspiring farmers into her home.
Chad and Hélène making ketchup.
Hélène channels these gifts into so many worthwhile causes. She is active in her compassion through her work with Development and Peace, and caring for the elderly and homebound residents in her rural community. Hélène is also very passionate about the struggle of rural peasants throughout the world and is conscious of the impact climate change will have on these vulnerable populations. She recently travelled to Paris to participate in COP21 with Development and Peace and other non-profit organizations. Through this lens, she has been able to teach Chad and I about organic farming by not only explaining how it is done, but why it is important to our world.
Al is an absolute delight; he has a quick wit and ever present sense of humour, which is so necessary given the ups and downs of farming. Like many farmers, Al has a never ending set of skills including mechanics, mathematics, negotiation, as well as a deep knowledge of organic farming practices. Al helped me set up the calculations to determine how to calibrate the seed drill for hemp, and helped Chad and I set up the experiment to ensure we were putting the right amount of seed at the right depth. He also patiently taught Chad how to drive the tractor with the harrow on the back, which was a challenge for two large men in a very small space! Al likes to tell stories, which were endlessly entertaining for Chad and I, and delivers lots of his advice in the form of short one-liners. Anyone who knows me knows that this is the best way to communicate with me. Our favourite saying was "How long COULD it take", which helped Chad and I remember that not all things would happen on our tightly organized schedule.
Al and Chad weighing samples from the seed drill.
Al filling the seed drill.
Al and Hélène are also entrepreneurs themselves, as independent farmers, co-operative founders and former owners of a bakery in Preeceville, Saskatchewan. Al baked delicious, organic, whole grain bread almost every day while Chad and I visited, which was such a treat for us. They are also founding members of The Farmer's Table and active members of Farmer Direct Co-op, a small organic co-operative (and the buyer of our organic hemp). Al and Hélène sell their grass-fed beef, as well as seasonal vegetables, through the Farmer's Table and sell their grain crops through Farmer Direct Co-op. They take a really active role in their farms operations, the marketing of their products, and their community.
Amsterdam, SK, is between Breadroot Farms and Canora, SK.
Breadroot farm is beautiful place in the Good Spirit region of Saskatchewan. The farmland has been certified organic since 2000 and they began raising organic grass-fed beef in 2008. Because they have worked so hard to nurture their land and maintain their organic certification, through OCIA (their current certifier is TransCanada Organic Certification Services), they are looking for partners who will carry on with sustainable agricultural practices. Some of their land will be placed in trust with Farmland Legacies, who will lease it to farmers who share a commitment to sustainable agriculture. However, Al and Hélène also believe farm land should be owned by farmers, and have held some aside to sell to future partners looking to establish themselves in the area. Lastly, there is a lovely conservation easement covering some of the pastureland owned by Breadroot Farm, which provides crucial habitat to prairie wildlife.
Wildflowers in the conservation easement.
Prairie Lillies.
The yearlings…always so curious.
Al and Hélène have ambitious goals for their farm. They wish to live in:
in a vibrant community made up of a balance of young and mature families engaged in organic, sustainable living and farming,
where there are abundant natural resources including productive land with areas set aside for wildlife habitat,
where there are healthy water, mineral and energy cycles,
where a land legacy system is in place to ensure land access for future generations, and
where mentoring is ongoing and knowledge is shared from generation to generation.
We are incredibly grateful to be working with Al and Hélène on our hemp venture, and we would like to support their search for long-term farming partners who are interested in establishing a life in rural Saskatchewan. If you are interested in learning more about Al and Hélène and life on Breadroot Farm please visit their website: https://sites.google.com/site/breadrootfarm/
or send them an e-mail!
breadrootfarms@gmail.com
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XY Hemp Winter Research
June 4, 2016 kaylesaustinLeave a comment
The XY Hemp Corporation is back in action this spring, and I'm excited to tell you about our plans for the next two growing seasons. However, we haven't been on hiatus all winter. In fact, Chad and I spent most of our winter months diving into research projects. After getting majorly inspired at the Canadian Hemp Trade Alliance (CHTA) conference in November 2015, I worked on some of the economics behind a series of White Papers published by the CHTA this spring. Through February and March, Chad and I explored hemp processing possibilities by completing market assessments for bio-polymers, bio-composites and cannabidiol (CBD) extract products. There is always more research to do, but in this post I'll tell you about what we've learned so far.
At the CHTA conference in Calgary, Chad and I learned a lot about hemp building materials, CBD extracts and made lots of industry connections. I attended the full three days and was able to attend sessions with Health Canada, and update on US regulatory changes, and several sessions on hemp fibre processing developments. JustBiofiber provided an update on their hempcrete building blocks along with price comparisons to conventional building systems and information on the pilot facility they are building outside Calgary. We also got to learn from researchers at the University of Alberta and the Albert Agriculture and Forestry Bioindustrial Research Branch. The Wednesday morning session with Paul XX of Elixinol was the most highly anticipated event of the conference. He presented the research supporting the use of CBD and hemp oil for a wide array of health issues and diseases. It was a moving and motivational presentation. Throughout the week, we connected with many amazing people in the hemp industry and I offered my support as an economics researcher for the CHTA White Papers on CBD extracts.
After January, Chad and I began working though structured market assessments of several products derived from hemp. In these markets assessments we tried to fill in the gaps in our knowledge about the market size, the value chain (how the product move from raw hemp to final product and how much are the mark-ups at each stage of production), established business models in the industry, a SWOT analysis if we were to enter the market and what our key success factors would be. This process involved understanding the basic science behind some of the more technical products and gathering and organizing information about how existing businesses operate in the market.
We decided to started with the most complex product, bio-composites, to make things easier for ourselves going forward. Based on our research, bio-composites are natural fibers combined with polymers. We are most interested in green bio-composites, which use natural fibers and polymers derived from plants rather than refined petroleum. To start our research we ordered an amazing text book written by the European Confederation of Linen and Hemp and the research organization JEC. It was well worth the investment and helped us understand the language of composite materials, the science behind how they work, how they are made, and current applications in hemp and flax fibers. The text book also included market research and comparisons between the structural properties of hemp composites and traditional composites such as carbon and glass fiber.
Following this we moved on to bio-polymers, the building blocks of plastics derived from plant sources. In this stage we were comparing processes and products derived from a wide variety of natural oils (for example: canola, waste from ethanol production, soy) to plastics derived from hemp oils. This is a new area of research and during this process we reached out to our contacts at Alberta Agriculture and Forestry and Alberta Innovates, who connected us with researchers at the U of A who are working on lipids chemistry. Chad and I have both made visits to the laboratory to see samples of the bio-composites being developed and are excited to continue our research in this field.
Finally, we turned our attention back to CBD extracts from hemp. CBD is a polyphenol, like THC, naturally occurring in the hemp plant. The hemp plant is a variety of cannabis sativa that has been bred to have very low concentrations of THC (<0.3%), but in doing so, it can often have much higher concentrations of CBD. There is a lot of interest in the health community about the potential therapeutic uses of CBD, and many products already available online. We reviewed some of the science behind CBD, the methods used to extract it from hemp and the potential market for these products. It is not possible at this time for hemp farmers to harvest or process the parts of the plant that are rich in CBDs. This is one of the reasons why the CHTA wrote its White Papers and has been sharing this information with decisions makers in Ottawa to help change the rules that govern hemp production.
Chad and I have a few more market assessments we would life to complete this year, for biofuels and hemp construction materials. We have started gathering resources for these pieces but have put our work on hold to get our hemp farming process organized for the next two years (more about that in the next blog post). We are also excited to observe and participate in conversations about how marijuana legalization should be structured in Canada, and we'll be following the research on this topic closely. Bio-polymers and bio-composites are exciting new industrial markets for hemp, and we will be looking for ways to build a business model for those products which fits our desired scale. As always, we couldn't do any of this without the amazing network we have been building in hemp and the Alberta bio-industry and we look forward to continuing to build relationships with government, researchers and other businesses.
Entrepreneurship, hemp, Hemp Farming, Organic Farmingagri-business, Alberta, biocomposites, biopolymers, Cannabis, cbd, entrepreneurship, farming, hemp, Hempday, Organic, Organic Agriculture, Saskatchewan, start-up, university, young entrepreneurs
Hemp Mentor: Larry Marshall
July 22, 2015 kaylesaustin1 Comment
At the tail end of our trip to Saskatchewan for seeding, Chad and I drove up to North Central Saskatchewan to visit Larry Marshall. Larry has a fairly large operation located near Prince Albert, Saskatchewan where he specializes in organic hemp production. The visit was an excellent professional development opportunity and we learned more than we could have imagined about high-tech organic agriculture and the Canadian hemp industry.
Beautiful valley in Sturgis, SK on our way North from Breadroot Farms.
Larry, Chad, and I connected through family friends of mine who I reached out to when we first started investigating the possibility of hemp farming. They referred us to their neighbour, who turned out to be the brilliant farmer Larry Marshall. Larry is a board member of the Canadian Hemp Trade Alliance and has quickly become our hemp mentor. He has been generous with his time on the phone, discussing everything from the best hemp varieties for different locations to equipment modifications to improve our farming operations. This has been extremely helpful, because although Al and Hélène of Breadroot Farms have a wealth lot of knowledge about organic agriculture — specifically organic wheat and grass-fed beef — they had never grown hemp before this year.
After hearing about our seeding trip, Larry had invited us out to tour his hemp operations. When we arrived at Larry's place we were fed another amazing farm lunch while we discussed seed drying, field cleaning, and crop rotations. He then took us on a walking tour of his custom machinery, drying process, and seed storage in his yard. Even more exciting, we jumped into a truck and went to see various stages of Larry's hemp cropping process while we toured several research plots and fields in different stages of crop rotation.
"Volunteer" hemp plants sprout up below Larry's seed drying machine.
On these research plots, Larry is experimenting with new varieties of hemp and different combinations of beans and legumes to grow following a hemp harvest. Growing different crops to help fix nitrogen and add other nutrients to the soil is called crop rotation. Some crops are grown for half a season then cut up and mixed back into the ground with a tractor pulling a Discbine. This is essentially blending the organic material back into the soil so that it can partially decompose, making nutrients available for the next crop to absorb. Other crops which fix nitrogen in the soil, such as beans, can be harvested and sold, which improves the soil quality and provides additional revenue. The process of crop rotations is crucial for organic agriculture because there is no addition of synthetic fertilizers, pesticides, or herbicides to improve crop yields. The health of the soil determines the quality of the crop.
A very serious Discbine
Larry shared with us his innovative organic agriculture processes and answered all of our questions. He actively works with universities and government research groups to further the progress of the hemp industry. This allows the research done at his farm to be shared for the benefit of all farmers. Larry's use of crop rotations, custom equipment and homegrown effective microorganisms was truly inspiring. This knowledge will help us improve our process this year during harvest, next year as we choose the best crop to grow following the hemp, and into the future as we incorporate more innovative organic production techniques, such as effective microorganisms to ward off diseases and improve yield.
We learned so much more than we could have imagined by spending a few hours with a passionate and intelligent hemp farmer. We are extremely grateful for Larry's generosity, taking the time to spend the afternoon with us and share his innovative organic agriculture processes, all the while patiently answering our nearly endless stream of questions. After putting our seeds in the ground at Breadroot Farms it was very motivating to see how our operations could potentially grow.
Chad and I will be returning to Larry Marshall's farm in the late summer to see the progress of some of his new hemp varieties. These visits allow The XY Hemp Corporation to learn from experienced producers about the intricacies of the hemp plant and the Canadian market place. Larry is very familiar with all aspects of the business (<|fim_middle|> face their first challenges.
This sage advice was useful as our plans began to unravel throughout the day. After a successful morning in the fields, Hélène and I were driving back to the pasture to repair some fencing when we spotted a Moose in the nature reserve. As we slowed down to see her walking through the swamp, the truck began to sputter and Hélène realized we had run the truck out of fuel. Luckily, Chad and Al were returning to the hemp field after lunch, which was the closest field to the cattle. Chad picked us up halfway down the road and we returned to the hemp field to collect Al. Al and Chad had a successful morning rod-weeding the hemp field and upon their return to the tractor they discovered that the tractor would not start!
Hélène confessed that she had run the truck out of fuel and we spent the next two and a half hours refueling and trying to restart the diesel truck unsuccessfully. When we gave up, towed the truck to the pasture and returned the the tractor, Al was unable to get that restarted as well. Despite the long, hot, frustrating afternoon, everyone was patient and civil with one another. This was crucial because there was more work to be done. Chad and Al returned to a wheat field and used the small tractor to harrow and Hélène and I took her Jetta to another pasture to walk the fence line and prepare the paddock for grazing.
Even after these setbacks, the plan remained the same: the tractor would be repaired first thing the next morning and Wednesday we would seed the hemp.
#HempDay Wednesday, May 27, 2015
Although by sunset on Wednesday we had seeded just 4 acres, #hempday was a phenomenal day of personal growth. Chad and I learned that it takes A LOT of work to be ready to seed first thing the next day.
The three biggest tasks to prepare for seeding were to collect soil samples, harrow the hemp field and calibrate the seed drill. I had made a few calls on Tuesday to find a soil probe to collect soil samples to then send to a lab in Saskatoon. Hélène and I went to pick up the soil probe from a grain elevator in Canora during a grocery trip Wednesday morning.
On Tuesday over lunch, I calculated how many grams of seed each "boot" on the seed drill should release over 100 ft to ensure a seeding rate of 30 lbs/acre. Al had set up the problem and I had double checked my calculations (along with diagrams) to ensure I understood the project. After lunch we measured 100 ft of twine, chose plastic bags that would collect the seed sample from the seed drill and packed the truck with wire to attach the bags and the scale to weigh the samples.
With only one truck now, we needed to coordinate efforts between seeding and preparing the paddocks for Hélène's grazing plan. We all went together to take the soil samples from the hemp field then Al and Chad returned to a wheat field. Without much ceremony, Chad was about to graduate from Tractor Academy and finish harrowing the wheat before harrowing the hemp field immediately prior to seeding.
Hélène and I took the pickup to fix a challenging section of fencing where the cows and calves were to move later that day. The wire had split in the middle, most likely due to a kink in the line. We used a pulley and clamp tool to bring the two ends of the wire closer together so that we could attach crimps and clamp these down on the wire to reconnect the fence. This took several tries to get the wires close enough and untangle the pulley. It was a huge relief when we were finally successful: we could now move the cows into a new paddock and stay on schedule with the grazing plan.
Hélène returned home for a phone meeting and I stayed with the truck to finish the calibration project and film the seeding of hemp. It was 5pm and Chad and Al had been working in the fields since 8am. Determination was stronger than exhaustion and Chad was going to harrow the hemp field alone so Al and I could fill and calibrate the seed drill. Al rode with Chad twice around the hemp field before handing over the tractor. We needed to return to the house to pick up the generator to run the scale in the field and I promised to come back with snacks; at this point dinner would be a long wait.
Chad was in fantastic spirits when I returned with water and snacks while Al retrieved the seed drill form another field. Finally driving the tractor alone, his confidence was high and he was enjoying the work! Al and I were able to fill the seed drill with hemp and set the markers for 100 ft. Chad triumphantly finished the harrowing as Al and I were collecting the first seed samples from the bottom of the drill. It was 9pm and the last of the sunlight was fading.
The first two samples were spot on! The second two weighed only 12 grams (our goal was 15g/100 ft). We reset one half of the drill and reattached our sample bags. Our second test section was perfect, all four sample bags weighed approximately 15 grams. We swept the dirt with an old paintbrush to find our seeds: they were hard to find in the dim light. When we did find the hemp seeds, they were about 2 cm into the dirt, right at the moisture level.
Hélène had returned to the cows after her meeting and was thrilled to have moved them into their new paddock. Two of the calves had escaped onto the road but she herded them back to their mothers without a problem. When she returned to the hemp field, the sun had set and Al had seeded 4 acres of hemp. We all returned to the house exhausted but exhilarated with our progress. We would be able to seed the whole field first thing Thursday morning.
Thursday was our last day at Breadroot Farm and was spent tying up loose ends. Al finished seeding the hemp at noon. In the morning, Chad and I went into Canora to return the soil probe, send out the soil samples to Saskatoon and pick up a few groceries. In the afternoon, we emptied the hemp from the seed drill and helped Hélène move the yearlings into their new paddock. I was able to make dinner for everyone using delicious, farm fresh ingredients and we spent the evening drinking wine, listening to records and discussing organic and sustainable agriculture.
Our time at Breadroot farms was far beyond our expectations. Our hosts were so kind and generous and shared so much of their knowledge with us. Chad and I were able to achieve all of our goals for the week because the weather was kind to us and the challenges we faced were overcome with patience, determination and teamwork. We know that not all of our farming trips will go as smoothly, but seeding our first hemp crop was a phenomenal experience.
P.S. Next week we will discuss the organic hemp operations we toured on Friday May 29th at Larry Marshall's farm near Prince Albert, SK. His advanced technology and crop rotation techniques were absolutely inspiring.
Hemp Farming, Organic Farmingagriculture, entrepreneurship, farming, hemp, Hempday, Organic, Organic Agriculture, seeding, The XY Hemp Corporation, young entrepreneurs
Land Access for The XY Hemp Corporation
March 25, 2015 March 26, 2015 kaylesaustin1 Comment
March 25, 2015 The XY Hemp Corporation completes a significant step in our business plan: signing the crop share agreement with Breadroot Farms.
The crop share agreement is a hybrid between a traditional crop share contract and a production agreement. This flexibility has allowed us to craft a truly unique partnership with our organic producers, Hélène Tremblay-Boyko and Al Boyko. We are growing 60 acres of hemp this summer and sharing input costs and profits from the sale. This structure allows The XY Hemp Corporation to share risk, costs and access mentorship from experienced organic producers.
As young professionals, C and I have limited experience with agriculture. An 8-month co-op term at the B.C. Ministry of Agriculture exposed me to different land access arrangements for young farmers. These alternative models of land access include incubator farms, land linking, co-operative farming and farmland trusts. Breadroot farms is actively searching for young agrarians to take over sustainable operations on their farm through land linking initiatives such as FARMLink. Al and Hélène have also set aside land for a farmland trust called Farmland Legacies. Our joint venture is a blend of land linking and co-operative farming.
Star Spangled (Future) Hemp Field on Breadroot Farms, SK
In exchange for a land rental fee, a 30% share of seed sales and reimbursement for machinery operations, Breadroot Farms is providing The XY Hemp Corporation with 60 acres of pristine organic land and the mentorship of organic farmers with over 20 years of experience growing field crops in Saskatchewan. The location is perfect for hemp seed sales: close to the Manitoba border where the majority of hemp processing occurs.
Al and Hélène have grown a wide variety of field crops, but have never grown hemp. C and I were able to apply for a license to grow industrial hemp from Health Canada with permission from Breadroot farms. This application has been received and processed and we anticipate our license to be issued at the end of April, 2015. We have also accessed the support of Larry Marshall, an experience organic hemp farmer in Northern Saskatchewan. With these three incredible resources, C and I will learn so much about farming this summer.
The crop share agreement is the first contract on a series that sets our dreams into motion. Our next major milestone will be a production contract with a seed buyer. The XY Hemp Corporation and Breadroot Farms are currently reviewing several contracts and are very excited to move forward together!
P.S. My pitch video is still up for votes online, please watch and give it a little "heart"
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Pitch It! Plan It! Build It!
March 18, 2015 March 18, 2015 kaylesaustinLeave a comment
Start-up companies need lots of support, from our friends and family who understand why we are working late and always on the phone, to the incredibly valuable advice offered to young entrepreneurs. This week, The XY Hemp Corporation is meeting and working with start-up accelerators in Victoria and Edmonton for additional support.
The Innovation Centre for Entrepreneurs (ICE) at the University of Victoria has been an excellent resource during the development of our business plan. After an initial intake meeting, we were directed towards Lean Stack, an online platform that helps entrepreneurs define their products and markets more clearly. These one-page descriptions of our products and customers are perfect for showcasing where we are now, and where we want to be in five years.
We are participating in a few pitch and plan competitions through ICE this spring. My video submission for PitchIt! is online now, so please watch it and give me a little "heart" so The XY Hemp Corporation can win $500. I will be presenting the elevator pitch live for a panel of judges on March 31st, for another cash prize of $300. These funds will help C and I travel to Saskatchewan this summer to work with Breadroot Farms.
ICE entrepreneur coach, Robin Milne, has been absolutely amazing. He has helped get my pitch and plan together by providing advice, resources, and letting me just talk things out. Recently, he helped to edit a short company description to submit to TEC Edmonton. The submission was successful and we have an initial meeting with TEC Edmonton Thursday March 19. The XY Hemp Corporation is looking to access the support of a larger start-up accelerator, and TEC Edmonton is the best in Canada!
TEC Edmonton was named the number one start-up incubator in Canada and the number three university business incubator in North America in 2014. We are most interested in the services provided by the business development, technology management and entrepreneur education teams. TEC Edmonton is an ideal partner as we move beyond the pilot and expanded production phase and into processing industrial hemp. The TEC Venture prize is also an amazing opportunity for start-ups to access capital for expansion, and we hope to be able to compete in that competition after we have solidified our processing goals.
We are extremely grateful for the support we have already received, from Breadroot Farms, Larry Marshall and ICE, just to name a few! With their help we have developed a viable business case for 2015 that will be presented at the ICE PlanIt! competition on April 2nd. If we are successful in that competition, The XY Hemp Corporation will win $5000, which will contribute to our input costs and the transportation of hemp seeds to the commercial buyer. Farming is uncertain and more capital will give us more flexibility when responding to growing conditions this summer. We are very excited to work with ICE to pitch it and plan it, and hope to work with TEC Edmonton in the future to build our dream.
P.S. link to PitchIt! video is: http://uvicpitchitonline.hscampaigns.com/ . Remember to click the little heart!
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-Kayleigh
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Seeding in Saskatchewan
June 3, 2015 June 3, 2015 kaylesaustin2 Comments
From May 24 to 30th, 2015, Chad and Kayleigh traveled to Saskatchewan to visit Breadroot Farms and help Al and Hélène seed the hemp crop. This week's blog post is Kayleigh's account of their time near Canora, SK.
A gorgeous sunny day greeted us on Sunday morning as Chad began a nine hour car ride from Edmonton and I hopped on a plane in Victoria. After nine months of preparation, we were on our way to Breadroot farms to meet our farming partners, Al and Hélène, and to help plant our 60 acre organic hemp crop.
The timing was as perfect as the weather and Chad arrived at the Saskatoon airport 15 minutes before I walked off the plane. After a quick pit stop to refill Sadie (Chad's beloved 2015 Subaru WRX STI) we were driving east on the #5 highway towards Canora. The trip was carefully planned so the directions led us directly to our hemp field in a little under three hours. We are so grateful for this piece of pristine organic land with rich black soil. It looked even better than we could imagine.
From our field it was easy to find the home section. Al and Hélène greeted us with hugs and silly farm dogs (Maggie and Preta) and invited us to come relax with them on the front deck. The log house is absolutely stunning with a view out over two large slews which are fed in the spring by a small creek. We shared a beer on the patio then took a ride in the truck to visit the cattle. The sunset was beautiful and the night was warm and calm.
Back at the house, our hosts prepared a fantastic welcome feast. Tenderloin steaks from a hickory smoked barbecue, a big salad, pasta and homemade wine. A cozy night discussing trends in organic agriculture, climate change and our plans for the next few days was the perfect start to our week at Breadroot Farms.
Monday was spent setting into our roles and responsibilities. Chad and Al picked up a load of organic Cadillac wheat seed and Chad rode along in the tractor with the harrow attached. In the afternoon, he helped Al load the hopper with the Cadillac wheat for seeding.
I started the morning with a visit to the cattle and learning to repair electric fencing. Hiking along cow trails in the beautiful prairie landscape was idyllic but the 29C heat and pulling wire out of a swamp reminded me that it was real work. Hélène put on the hip waders and fearlessly marched into the swamp. I was left at the truck with a radio and instructions to drive over to the other side of the paddock (a smaller section of pasture) when she gave me the signal.
In the bush she discovered a beaver had chewed most of the way through a tree which had fallen on the fence line. It was still attached at the stump and too heavy to lift off the wire fence. So Hélène marched back through the watery swamp to me.
We met Chad and Al back at the farmhouse for lunch and Hélène and I spent the afternoon working on our computers and reading out of the hot afternoon sun. Hélène completed a grazing plan based on her assessment of the grass quality and fencing situation in each paddock while I worked on our market assessment research project.
Tuesday May 26, 2015
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Jack and Nancy Skinner Named 'Citizens of the Year'
Christopher Trela
Jack and Nancy Skinner thought they were going to have lunch at the Bahia Corinthian Yacht Club last week, but when they walked down the stairs to the club's bay front patio, they were met by a round of applause from a group of community leaders who were there to congratulate the Skinners on being named Newport Beach Citizens of the Year.
"I am taken aback, I don't know what to say," said Jack Skinner.
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"Your contributions have bene many over the years—I cannot think of a more deserving couple," said Rosansky.
Among the past Citizen of the Year recipients on hand to congratulate the Skinners: Tom Johnson, Ralph Rodheim, Evelyn Hart, Marian Bergeson and Mayor Rush Hill.
"This award goes to people who dedicate their lives to the community, and now you're a member of that group," Mayor Hill told the Skinners.
A dinner in their honor will be held November 14 at the Balboa Bay Resort.
For more information, visit the Chamber of Commerce website at NewportBeach.com.
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Jack and Nancy Skinner with Mayor Rush Hill
The Newport Beach Chamber of Commerce presents the Newport Beach Citizen of the Year Award to "that individual who best represents the qualities each of us admire and respect among our friends, neighbors and associates."
"Jack and Nancy are inseparable, one might take the lead and the other supports that person," said Chamber President and CEO Steve Rosansky. "Jack is a water quality genius, he spent decades trying to pinpoint sources of pollution in the upper back bay. Nancy has been involved with many environmental causes, serving on committees. They are two treasures of Newport Beach. They are like energizer bunnies, they keep on going."
"The Skinners are a great example of giving back and being part of their community," added Rosansky. "If you look at our criteria, it's the person who volunteers without being asked, who has been there over the years, doing something because they want to do it. They fill the bill perfectly."
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"I was fishing for bluegill in there, and I could see him," Crummett said. "Bright, light color, I saw him below the surface and I thought I was seeing the belly of a fish."
It turned out to be an albino channel catfish.
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Albino catfish are popular for people stocking aquariums, and they can be purchased in some pet stores and fish and tackle places.
But it was unusual for a mature, four-pounder to turn up in a private pond -- the location for which, of course, is being kept secret by Crummett.
"I cast and he opened his mouth for it and I set that hook before he even closed up," said Crummett, 74, a retiree from Washington. "When I pulled him out I saw he was an albino catfish.
"They are around, but I've never seen one in a private pond. Very cool, very exciting."
Crummett released the albino. Perhaps they'll meet again in a few years.
That's all for Cleve In The Eve on Tuesday, July 2, 2019.
Here's your sports quote of the day:
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For lifelong Butler resident Walter Kirkpatrick, enlistment in the United States Army was preferable to being drafted.
That feat took some doing, though.
Five months after graduating from Butler High School and finally passing the Army's physical, Kirkpatrick found himself boarding a train in Mansfield that would take him to Camp Crowder, Missouri, for basic training.
"I tell you what, the old platoon sergeant (drill instructor) was a pretty robust guy. I'd work right with him doing push-ups, though. Working on the farm, I was pretty strong." Walter had little trouble completing the four-month training, though he added there had been some excitement.
Though he'd never experienced being aboard ship prior to that transport, the Butler native said he hadn't been afraid. "I couldn't swim, either; still can't today," he chuckled.
Once settled in, the young soldier went to work, though not as a field telephone installer for the 4025th Signal Corps.
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Kirkpatrick served the village for 20 years on town council, was a Boy Scout troop leader, coached baseball and was a founding member of the Worthington Township Fire Department. He and brother Donald, a Korean War veteran, were honored during a ceremony on Memorial Day as honorary Veterans of the Year for the village.
Walter and Marge, who have two sons, reside on the southeast end of Butler.
As for the promise of an extra stripe upon transferring to the military police while in the Philippines?
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A: You must not store the short description separatly as you would duplicate data in database and have no real gain in doing so. The short text can be obtained easily with String. Substr. There are many JavaScript libraries that let you automatically handle this for you like this one for jQuery https://github.com/viralpatel/jquery.shorten
A: You can limit the string in your razor views like so ;
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A: You could save the short description as a separate column, but I wouldn't try to duplicate data (as also slvperron said above). It depends on your requirements really.
Some news sites have:
News {
title : String, // displayed in heading
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content : String, // the rest of the article
}
This setup gives more flexibility with (HTML) markup. A simple substring(0,100) could break a markup tag somewhere in the middle, and force the browser to render incorrectly.
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It also has the added benefit of helping others by sharing info with them!
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If you blog about a technical subject, it certainly helps you learn it better yourself. Amazing how many times I've been writing a blog post or article on something I thought I knew really well, only to discover new things, and solidify it in my own mind.
Can it help getting a job? Yes - if it is good. Getting to an interview and having the interviewer realise you';re the guy that wrote that blog they read and used some code from (it happened to me) is a great way of putting you one step up the ladder.
Conversely I have had devs apply to me with a link to their online articles, repos etc. and looking at them has done them far more harm than good!
If you are a person that likes to learn new things all the time then it is a must. Otherwise it can help position yourself as an expert in the field and it is much better than not writing anything. It can also help with landing new opportunities because if someone is looking they can see a progression in your thinking and abilities.
Short answer is YES! Blogging helps in many ways. Mostly your ability to learn faster. When you have to explain how something works, you are forced to learn more about the subject so you can explain it. It can help you land a job simply by sharpening your technical edge. Secondarily, you could submit your blog as part of your resume to demonstrate your technical understanding.
I'm not the biggest blogger but I've personally found that some people looking to hire developers do read through dev blogs you've made. It can sometimes give them an aspect of how you work, how you handle projects, and even a better aspect as you as a person. The blog you write whether its technical (I.E Showing something off or a tutorial) or if its something regarding the work place (I.E how you feel X works in X environment) can show a lot about a person. Granted their judgement won't fully be based off a blog you've written i believe that It can help in some areas.
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La battaglia di Angaur è stata una battaglia della campagna del Pacifico combattuta durante la seconda guerra mondiale.
Nella metà del 1944 erano presenti su questa isola 1.400 soldati giapponesi al comando del tenente generale Sadao Inoue, comandante del settore di Palau.
La scarsa difesa delle Palau e la possibilità di costruirvi un campo d'aviazione resero Angaur un obiettivo attraente per i comandi americani dopo la conquista delle Isole Marshall. La mancanza di mezzi da sbarco significò però che l'attacco contro le Palau non poté cominciare prima che venissero terminate le operazioni nelle Marianne.
I bombardamenti, effettuati dalla corazzata Tennessee e dai bombardieri in picchiata Douglas Dauntless che partivano dalla portaerei USS Wasp (CV-18), incominciarono il giorno 11 febbraio 1944.
Sei giorni dopo l'81ª Divisione di fanteria, comandata dal maggior generale Paul J. Mueller, sbarcò a nord-est e a sud-ovest sulla costa dell'isola.
Le mine e la congestione delle spiagge inizialmente crearono diversi problemi. I giapponesi effettuarono diversi contrattacchi ma la resistenza si irrigidiva a mano a mano le truppe americane si avvicinavano alla collina, da loro soprannominata The Bowl ("la tazza"), situata vicino al lago Salome, nel nord-ovest dell'isola.
Su questa collina i giapponesi avevano previsto di concentrare il nucleo della loro resistenza. Il 20 settembre 1944 il 322º battaglione attaccò la collina. I 750 difensori risposero con il fuoco dell'artiglieria, dei mort<|fim_middle|>esso delle caverne gli americani usarono i bulldozer per chiuderne le entrate.
Il 30 settembre i combattimenti sull'isola erano finiti.
Il campo di aviazione venne costruito mentre la battaglia era ancora in corso. Il ritardo con il quale le operazioni nelle Palau erano state avviate fece sì che però non fosse pronto per le operazioni contro le Filippine che ebbero inizio nell'ottobre 1944.
L'Ammiraglio W. Halsey Jr. aveva detto che le operazioni contro le Palau non erano necessarie, e gli storici militari concordano con lui, affermando che il principale vantaggio ricavato da questa operazioni fu l'esperienza di combattimento guadagnata dalla 81ª Divisione.
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Battaglie della seconda guerra mondiale che coinvolgono gli Stati Uniti d'America
Battaglie della seconda guerra mondiale che coinvolgono il Giappone | ai e delle mitragliatrici.
Gradualmente la fame, la sete e il fuoco dell'artiglieria americana cominciarono a indebolire i difensori e per il 25 settembre gli americani avevano iniziato a penetrare nelle difese della collina. Piuttosto che combattere per il poss | 81 |
Paul Rendell & Dartmoor Pony Heritage Trust Talk – The Role of the Dartmoor Pony in the Granite Tramway
The Dartmoor Pony Heritage Trust hosted an interesting and informative talk today, presented by Paul Rendell, Dartmoor Historian, in association with the Moor Than Meets the Eye Landscape Partnership, discussing the role of equines on Dartmoor in the Granite industry and in the transportation of quarried stone, via the 10 miles of Tramway, also constructed, uniquely, from granite.
This talk attracted a full house at the DPHT Centre at Parke. We enjoyed listening to Paul's enthusiastic regaling of what life was like to quarry granite from Haytor from 1829 – 1858, including how it was quarried, the roles of the workers, the clues we can glean from sparse building remains and the part that the Dartmoor-based horses and ponies played in getting the stone down off the moor to be loaded onto barges on the Stover Canal at the Ventiford Basin and taken to Teignmouth to be shipped. Haytor granite was superior in quality and provided the raw materials to build such important structures as London Bridge and The British Museum<|fim_middle|> a fabulous new website making it easier for its valued supporters to keep up | .
Paul's accompanying slide show illustrated his points perfectly with present day industrial archaeological photographs, old illustrations and route maps tracking points of interest to be found along the tramway. It was excellent to see the restoration work that has been progressing with regards to uncovering and clearing sections of the tramway which time had caught up with and obscured. New sections of track have been uncovered together with remains of wooden barges at the basin. It was interesting to learn that this is the only granite tramway in existence – something unique to Dartmoor and due to the prevalence of available granite.
Dartmoor National Park HQ at Parke has an example of one of the preserved wheeled carts, used to carry the cut blocks.
Dru Butterfield, Charity Consultant of the DPHT, then demonstrated a reconstruction of a transportation sled, now used by their Dartmoor Heritage Ponies for light work on their Bellever acreage.
This was a stimulating talk, celebrating such an important industry to Dartmoor. Despite the Granite Quarrying Industry being relatively short-lived in duration, it played a very significant part to the industrial history to the area and learning more about the archaeological remains will make future trips to the quarries much more enriched in context, certainly for me.
The afternoon was brought to a close with Dru Butterfield giving a short talk about the Dartmoor Pony Heritage Trust, their mission statement and the varied work they do for the ponies and within the community in their Ponies Inspiring People projects.
Some of the Heritage Ponies from the centre were brought in for a meet and greet, with children having the chance to groom them and interact with them and refreshments completed a lovely afternoon spent at this forward-thinking centre which celebrates so many aspects of Dartmoor, its life and its history, but most of all, its ponies.
Smartie bad hair day
Charity's new website connects with Dartmoor's ponies and its landscape
The Dartmoor Pony Heritage Trust (DPHT) will gallop into 2021 with | 416 |
Executive Director Of VenuWorks Leaving The Job
by Denise Lockwood July 15th, 2014
After six years of managing the Racine Civic Centre and Racine Festival Hall, Rik Edgar, executive director of VenuWorks, is leaving the job to take a<|fim_middle|> the initials MKE, which is not by accident. That will always be a reminder of our great experiences here."
Edgar will manage the 11,000 seat arena and provide staffing services for the University of Nevada's football team.
He and his wife Amy Geier Edgar will be leaving in two weeks.
Denise Lockwood
denise@racinecountyeye.com
Denise Lockwood has an extensive background in traditional and non-traditional media. She has written for Patch.com, the Milwaukee Business Journal, Milwaukee Magazine and the Kenosha News. More by Denise Lockwood | job as the director of the Lawlor Events Center at the University of Nevada in Reno.
VenuWorks, a privately held company that manages venues, contracted with the city of Racine to manage the two facilities. The city just renewed the contract in June for another two years.
"I have nothing but positive thoughts for VenuWorks and the City of Racine," Edgar said. "I am so proud that VenuWorks will continue to manage the Civic Centre through 2016 and that the positive momentum will continue. I am leaving the facility in very capable hands and will miss the friends that I have made during my 6 years in Racine."
For Edgar, the past six years have brought a number of memories, including a sold out Max & Ruby show, hosting the President of the United States and his daughter sharing a birthday and cake with wrestling legend Rowdy Roddy Piper, he said.
"My youngest daughter was born here," he said. "She has | 196 |
Why Euronext Growth Milan is a key target for venture capital companies
Twelve years since its foundation, the Alternative Investment Market (AIM) stock exchange has changed its name to Euronext Growth Milan. Despite the name change, the mission remains the same: to offer businesses a simplified trading route by establishing minimum access acquirements and obligations calibrated to the actual capabilities of SMEs as an alternative to the main market, Euronext Milan operated by Borsa Italiana. Dedicated to dynamic and competitive SMEs, Euronext Growth Milan enables these types of businesses to access the finance they need to grow quickly but sustainably. These characteristics make the AIM a natural focal point for companies aiming to grow through the use of venture capital. Massimo Trabattoni, Head of Italian Equity, offers this analysis:
"In recent decades there have been several attempts to create a market able to open up capital<|fim_middle|> aim to be traded on more liquid segments, enabling them to make profit without encountering pricing problems for the quantity of stocks they wish to sell. "We don't enter this type of investment to engage in trading activities," Trabattoni explains. "It's more a question of discovering hidden gems, assessing them over time and taking the time to create the conditions to capitalise on their revaluation on the market." This approach doesn't necessarily mean pulling out of an investment completely, with one example being an investment made a few years ago with the acquisition of a 10% stake in a company listed on Euronext Growth Milan: "In the meantime, the company has grown to the extent that it is now listed on the Star segment and we still hold around 3% of its market value," explains the asset manager.
In fact, Kairos goes further than simply supporting businesses that grow from venture capitals to being traded on Euronext Growth Milan. If the conditions for further growth are there, the support process can continue over time. "Over the years we have developed expertise in the IPO phase, and now we also operate through the ELTIF fund," explains Trabattoni. It's no accident that Kairos is one of the top three operators on the Euronext Growth Milan in terms of value of invested securities and one of the top 20 operating on the entire Italian stock market. But the investments are only pursued under certain conditions: "We only invest in businesses on Euronext Growth Milan if we see clear growth prospects and if the focus on this stock exchange is intended as a launchpad towards more liquid market segments." But identifying businesses with these characteristics can be challenging. It requires the skills and professionalism – both present in the Kairos team – to be able to explore investments across the Italian economy and make conscious choices.
Comment by Massimo Trabattoni, Head of Italian Equity. | to new businesses. Of these, Euronext Growth Milan has been the most successful," he explains. It is no coincidence that several companies that were first listed on this stock exchange later moved to Star or the MTA segment, and others are now following the same route. In most cases, before being listed these businesses were able to find the capital needed to grow and carve themselves a more stable position on the market, enabling them to join the main stock exchange with a better standing. "If we look at venture capital, in a few years Euronext Growth Milan could represent the starting point for businesses that begin as venture capital companies before making the transition to listing," explains Trabattoni.
However, it's important to note that in the venture capital world, the failure rate for investments is higher than in more mature segments such as MTA and even compared to mid and small capital stock markets. Consequently, in terms of the risk-return profile, it is not advisable to focus exclusively on companies listed on Euronext Growth Milan. The function of venture capital in a portfolio is to aim for medium to long-term growth, conscious that volatility and illiquidity may be short-term companions along the way.
"It is encouraging that the success experienced by Euronext Growth Milan in the last few years has encouraged many equity funds and large bank groups to operate on this list. In the future, this could improve liquidity in negotiations," adds the Head of Italian Equity. At the moment, low liquidity in exchange transactions is one of the limitations of Euronext Growth Milan. This means that as well as having the potential to grow value over time, investments must also | 333 |
Bahnbetriebswerk Krefeld
Alexander Wagner, Site Manager of the Bahnbetriebswerk Krefeld a part of mgw Service GmbH & Co. KG:
"We decided for LGH and its synchronous lifting systems very early on. Our decision was based on their extensive advice and expertise, so we knew that the project was always in safe hands. For us it wasn't just about a cost-effective solution, but also crucial know-how, without which even the best machinery is of little use."
In view of its importance for the town's history, the railway depot in Krefeld is listed on the city's register of historically significant monuments. It is the last<|fim_middle|> perfectly even while being lowered and threaded into the bearing. Complicating matters, the tolerance of the bearing was extremely low. After several attempts, the pins could finally be threaded into the bearing.
Our equipment used for this project
Hydraulic synchronous lifting system
Kranservice Rheinberg
Allt Inom Smide & Rostrfritt | preserved railway depot in Rhineland constructed in the style of such depots in the period between the start of the 20th century and World War I. The Krefeld heritage-protected railway turntable is stored on a round rail. As such the roundhouse with 16 stalls has full control of where the maintenance work on each locomotive should be carried out. Essential restoration work made it necessary for the railway turntable to be lifted about one meter above ground. In order to avoid a blocking in the main bearing it was crucial to ensure that the turntable was raised completely symmetrically. What made this difficult was the fact that the turntable lay in a depression and the lifting points were thus not balanced. Given the turntable's advanced age, replacement parts are no longer being made and possible damages would be even more serious. The success of the project clearly depended on a precise workflow and suitable lifting devices.
After inspecting the site in Krefeld, LGH experts together with mgw Service staff, drafted a plan that heeded these special conditions. The team also had to take into consideration the fact that a pilot box was located on one half of the turntable, and its weight had to be included in the lifting force calculation. In addition to 8 hydraulic jacks, LGH's manually controlled synchronous lifting system was also used for this project, which guaranteed that the turntable would be perfectly even when lifted and lowered. First sand was dumped onto some spots of the subsurface in order to make sure the ground was completely flat. Then the 8 hydraulic jacks were placed in position – four jacks on each side – and attached to the 8-point manually controlled synchronous lifting system. The hub could be steered centrally with the help of the synchronous lifting system, thus ensuring that the railway turntable could be slowly but surely and evenly lifted one meter above ground. LGH's qualified staff paid particular attention to ensure that the pins did not get caught in the pilot. In total it took roughly eight hours for the lifting to be completed. Then the necessary restoration work – the railway turntable survived World War II and was refurbished for the last time in 1956 – was completed. The difficult part of the project began once the repair work was finished: The turntable had to be | 468 |
TerraScenes
Welcome to the new version of saspra.com and Sallie Sprague Photography. Read stories from various photo trips, find links to my photos online and a page with the original botanical greeting cards.
Studying an Active Volcano
Under the Volcano
Photography by Sallie G. Sprague
Text by Sallie Sprague and Stuart J. Shiffman
Ten days in the shadow of an active volcano give volunteer researchers a lens of nature's awesome power and its ultimate fragility.
Deadwood frames two researchers
below the Arenal Volcano. The daily
"ash trail" followed the gully up to
the south lava flow seen in the
Imagine going to a foreign country and spending ten days hiking in humid rain forests and baking deserts, in the shadow of an active volcano. Back at camp at the end of each day, you take an icy shower to rid yourself of the volcanic ash and insects cemented to your skin under a layer of sunscreen and bug repellent. At three in the morning, you get out of bed and stumble in the dark to an observation platform, from which, with luck, you might be able to see the volcano. There, listening to howler monkeys, coatimundi and dozens of varieties of birds, you wait for the volcano to erupt.
This is fun. Trust us.
Arenal at rest, showing the
current and former craters.
Near the village of La Fortuna in Costa Rica, 75 miles from the capital city of San Jose, there is a macadamia nut plantation that hosts an observatory facing the slopes of the Arenal volcano. This remote outpost is operated by the Smithsonian Institution as a base from which scientists and volunteers work, collecting samples of what the volcano spews out, recording data on eruptions, and studying the effects of the volcano on the delicate ecology of the rain forest.
A huge plume of ash
and smoke mark a
daytime eruptions of
Arenal.
Arenal is one of very few active, explosive volcanoes in the world, and has been more or less continuously active for the past 25 years. Until 1968, Arenal was a popular tourist attraction in Costa Rica. Troops of Boy Scouts, and packs of howler monkeys, held picnics on its slopes. It supported a lush, fertile pre-montane dry forest for 800 years, and was generally thought to be extinct.
But that year, after several days of largely-ignored earthquakes, Arenal exploded in a Plinean eruption (so named after the explosion of Vesuvius that destroyed the ancient Roman city of Pompeii, as described by the historian Pliny the Elder). The eruption created a new crater several hundred meters below the peak, and killed about 70 farmers and rescue workers who were caught in the deluge of rocks, ash and hot mud. Within days, a scientific team from the Smithsonian and the Universidad de Costa Rica arrived at the site to study the eruption and its impact on the countryside, and, perhaps more importantly, to help determine the likelihood of continued explosive activity.
Daily collection of
ash samples in the
devastated zone took
researchers from
tropical forest to near
barren areas struggling
under acid rain.
Since then, under the guidance of volcanologist William Melson and botanist Victoria Funk, both of whom are staff scientists with the National Museum of Natural History, the Smithsonian has been sending research teams, recruited from the ranks of Smithsonian Associates, to observe the volcano. The research teams are diverse in their backgrounds and training, but share a fascination with volcanoes.
Standing at a remote observation post in the middle of the zone devastated by the 1968 eruption (and several major events in the 1970's), you feel you might as well be on Mars. The area is strewn with rocks the size of small houses, thrown out by the force of the major eruptions. Fumaroles, or volcanic vents, belch hot gases from the rocks several hundred feet above you. Broad gullies run down to the shore of a nearby lake, formed by 20 years of heavy rainfall and erosion after the death of the forest. It is clearly inadvisable, not to mention extremely difficult, to climb the glass-sharp boulders and loose lava to the active crater looming only a couple of thousand feet above the observation post. And in fact, climbing the mountain was prohibited several years ago, when a visiting college student actually succeeded in reaching the rim of the crater just in time for the next eruption to kill him.
The sandy soil below the volcano has minimal nutrients, and is extremely acidic due to the acid rain that results from the hydrogen sulfide and halide gases issuing from the crater. Little grows here only island of sparse vegetation supported by decaying hulks of trees toppled in the initial eruption. Tough grasses and short, scrubby blueberry bushes present a vivid contrast to the lush green tropical forests that cover the surrounding hillsides. Indeed the climate in the devastated zone is more like that of southern California than that of the nearby forests. Except that in southern California there are cactus and sagebrush to invade the empty land. Here, there is nothing in the local ecosystem that will tolerate such harsh conditions, and so nothing to colonize or re-vegetate the devastated area.
Nearby is Lake Arenal, a reservoir created during the '70's by the construction of an earthworks dam. The dam supplies a major portion of the power used in the capital city. The shores of the lake are worn away by the erosive action of the years of wind and rains, and their exposed layers of soil attest to eight earlier Plinean eruptions of Arenal, over the course of about 3,700 years. Lying embedded in the beach, in muddy soil laid down 2,000 years ago, are fragments of colorful pre-Columbian pottery.
Both the old and new craters of Arenal are part of a line of volcanic activity moving slowly westward toward the Pacific Ocean. The tectonic movements of three plates colliding in the Earth's crust are believed to cause this activity. As one plate moves under another, bending an edge down into the Earth's magma layer, magma forces its way up through the two overlapping layers. The magma scours chunks of rock from the walls of the shaft, which are churned and partially melted into lava.
Until 1968, Arenal had only a single peak. But the eruption that year blew a gaping hole in the western flank of the mountain. In the next few years, the active crater moved up the flank of the old mountain so that now Arenal has two adjacent craters, joined by a saddle. The old crater sits belching gases sedately into the atmosphere. The new crater to the west is the one still sending boulders and gases high into the air. In 10,000 years, scientists predict, the line of volcanic activity will move westward and open a new shaft under the dam that forms the lake. But for the time being, the lake is safe.
Our research team was composed of a mother of two teenage boys, a retired Bell Telephone Company employee, a jeweler, a physician, a mathematician/computer programmer, an electronics technician, a freehand photographer and a civil servant. All were volunteers, willing to contribute their time and energy to a project aimed at someday, perhaps, being able to predict something about volcanic eruptions. We were also something else: students of the world around us, observing, concerned with the fate of our planet.
We gathered on a sweltering evening at a hotel in San Jose, not knowing which of the other guests were also going on this venture. At breakfast we picked out the not-very-discrete yellow and blue Smithsonian name tags and sized up our companions. In a flurry of hellos and tossed luggage, we left the city in the early morning. It was Sunday, April Fool's Day, 1990, and we were headed north, toward Nicaragua. Several hours of driving on tortuous roads brought us over the Continental Divide, where the heat and humidity of the city vanished for a time, like a dream. Several more hours brought us back down to the hot and humid plantation country, and finally to the observatory, nestled in a forest of long-needle pines. (The pines were imported for the local timber industry. This confused most of us because Costa Rica's forests, and tropical rain forests in general, are home to an immense variety of hardwoods, highly prized in the United States. In Costa Rica, mahogany makes the roughest furniture, or firewood, or rots in scrap heaps by the road. And the timber industry wants softwoods.)
Like a flock of kids in a new playground, we all had to inspect every aspect of our new locale. The observatory platform was high on our lists and soon had drawn most members of the group. We had our first, brief instructions in monitoring methods - instructions which were promptly interrupted by a large eruption. Huge clouds of ash billowed skyward as the "Kaboom!" reached us. (There was about a seven-second delay because we were two miles from the crater.) We had seen our first eruption; we hadn't traveled all this way to be disappointed by ten days of silence from Arenal.
After this auspicious beginning, we settled down to a pattern of three-hour shifts on the observatory deck, stop watches in hand, waiting. The eruptions were graded on the basis of size of plume, the amount of debris falling on the cone, and by a subjective assessment of the sound level, on a scale from 1-10. (Ten was strictly forbidden as by definition an eruption of that magnitude would have destroyed the observatory. A five made you jump. Seven and up rattled the roof, and the glass in the windows. We had several eights during our stay.)
Ash collection vials
were attached to tree
branches where the
tropical forest met the
devastated zone.
Surveyor's flagging
tape on nearby
branches, deadwood
or rocks enabled the
researchers to<|fim_middle|> vegetation
seven years later
Oil spills and factory wastes are probably the examples that come most quickly to mind but there are many, many smaller incidents that occur all around us every day. Only when we, the people living down stream and down wind, stand up for our right to clean water and clean air will those still seeking short term gain at the expense of the environment be forced to correct their polluting practices.
How much of an increase in cancer or respiratory disease risk are we willing to tolerate for ourselves? Or for our children?
Aldo Leopold's works of 1949, from The Sand County Almanac, are largely true today:
"Conservation is getting nowhere because it is incompatible with our Abrahamic concept of land. We abuse because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect. There is no other way for land to survive the impact of mechanized man, nor for us to reap from it the esthetic harvest it is capable, under science, of contributing to culture.
That land is a community is the basic concept of ecology, but that land is to be loved and respected is an extension of ethics. That land yields a cultural harvest is a fact long known, but latterly often forgotten."
Is the rise in environmental awareness the beginning of our recognition of the community in which we must survive?
For more information on the Runnins River Project contact:
The Wheeler School, 216 Hope Street, Providence, Rhode Island 02906, or www.wheelerschool.org
All photos are copyright © by Sallie G. Sprague and show stream and habitat protection and repair efforts in the Pacific Northwest. For more information about habitat and stream projects in Whatcom County, Washington, visit the Nooksack Salmon Enhancement Association online at www.n-sea.org. If you would like to help NSEA improve riparian habitat contact their volunteer coordinator.
Lost in a rain forest
Only an Hour
We ARE going the wrong way. This is west. Camp is on the east side of the tractor path, east of the hill we climbed today. The sun is out, peeking through the heavy jungle canopy. It's setting...in the west... and we're walking right into it. Elizabeth couldn't keep quiet any longer.
"Ganishwar, this doesn't look familiar. I don't remember that creek crossing."
"Here's a cut. We're still on the line," he replied, and pointed to a cut machete'd into a small sapling, indicating that they were still following a path marked by man with a line of machete cuts."
"But we're going west. Camp is east of the hill," she protested, trying desperately to keep a whine out of her voice. And then they were in this magnificent clearing. A huge tree had fallen, bringing down an acre of forest canopy. What a glory to be standing in full light after a day combing the damp and dark tropical forest for flowers and fruits.
"And I don't remember this clearing," Elizabeth continued.
"We went through a clearing this morning," Lance paused, "but it didn't seem so big then. And look at the drop-off over here." Helen was uncharacteristically quiet.
"We weren't here this morning. This is another place," Elizabeth said in her firmest tone. No one believes me, she thought. I'm the only first time visitor to this country and this forest. I can't follow one of their machete lines to save my life. And I know we're going the wrong way, even if there are machete cuts to follow. Her internal voice began to lecture her again. You know the sun sets in the west, even at the equator! And it sets early, and quickly, with almost no twilight. She was ready to be back in camp after a long day collecting plants. Damn Kendan, why didn't he wait for us, she fumed to herself, as she followed Ganishwar a little south from the clearing as he looked for the next slash left by an earlier machete.
He paused and admited quietly, "We weren't here this morning. It's a different line." Elizabeth wished she were wrong. Lance and Helen were still inspecting the fallen giant in the clearing as Elizabeth's stomach began to knot.
"Do you have a compass," Ganishwar asked. Elizabeth nodded and he stretched out his hand for it. He convinced himself that the line was heading south now and the two of them returned to the clearing.
"It's a different line," Ganishwar announced as he started back-tracking to the east. Both Helen and Lance started inspecting cuts now.
"These are new cuts."
"Who else would've been through here recently, 'specially with the tractor path?"
"We haven't seen anyone out here for weeks." Helen and Lance vigorously debated the claim of a different line. Their logic was sound but circumstantial. Elizabeth thought, they don't want to listen to a novice in this place insisting that they were not on the same path they took in the morning. They know I can't find most of the machete cuts on my own, let alone decide how fresh the cuts are in the unfamiliar tropical trees. She knew she couldn't, and still she knew this was a new clearing. This morning, she would have enjoyed seeking out the small plants growing on the giant's high branches, conveniently lowered to eye level on the fallen tree. Now, this was simply the wrong clearing. Helen and Lance seemed unwilling to acknowledge that the setting sun was indisputable evidence.
Ganishwar studied a few cuts. "It's an old line," he said. "We have to go back." And he strode off the way they had come. Elizabeth scrambled to keep up with Ganishwar as they left the waning sunlight by the fallen giant for the deep gloom of the rain forest. Lance followed a wrong line once before, and spent twelve long, dark hours alone in the forest, so Elizabeth was unwilling to be out of sight of Ganishwar who was, after all, the only local forester. His four years of experience in these jungles, spotting trees for the forestry division, was the only skill that seemed important or relevant to Elizabeth right now.
At the unfamiliar creek crossing they stopped. The line went north across the creek, back to that fruit tree that Kendan felled. They fanned out to search the south side of the creek for their path. There were no machete cuts to the east. The line went north from the creek, and west into the descending sun. The equal distribution of opinions about their options changed to three versus one. Only Lance still did not think they needed to go east directly from here, regardless of the old line of machete cuts. He was loath to spend another night out of camp in the jungle. Again, they paused to stare east into the untracked forest. Ganishwar looked at the compass again, and back at the height of the sun. They had a half-hearted discussion of true versus magnetic north, even checked the topo map to be sure that there was no way both compasses and the sun could be wrong, and estimated that they had maybe a half hour until sunset. Ganishwar handed Elizabeth back her compass, gestured for Lance's machete, and headed east cutting their path out.
Lance was still protesting from the rear as he stared at his compass. He had been found after his long, lonely night only because he sat on the line all night and waited for one of his guides to find him. And his guide went looking for him only at the bidding of the other botanical collector. All of this trip's collectors were together here, and no longer on any marked path. Their local guide wouldn't come away from camp on his own, and certainly not this late in the day.
Ganishwar set off at a fantastic clip, and Elizabeth hustled to keep up. Soon Ganishwar handed back the tree-clipper extension poles. They were slowing down his swing. Elizabeth passed one section back to Helen, and they followed the machete into ever darker and damper forest. The leaf litter grew deeper under foot.
"Look out!" Elizabeth called back to the other two as she passed an ankle-grabbing hole in the buttress root system. Elizabeth thought about spending the night out of camp, in dense forest. Lying down, or even sitting, on the leaf litter was not appealing. One pit viper is enough for this trip, and I don't want to know who else lives a few inches down in the leaves, she thought. Her stomach knotted more tightly as she tried not to think too much about Lance's stories of his night out of camp. Alone, no food or water, no machete, no sweater or rain gear, no flashlight, no company but the myriad of night noises. The rustling of the leaves, the sudden "crack" as yet another stiff leaf or ripe fruit hit a tree limb or the ground, the critters in the trees and the one that ran right up to him in the middle of the night.
"We shouldn't have left the cut," Lance was still protesting from the rear as the forest became thicker yet again. "You're veering south now," he called ahead.
Ganishwar shrugged, and kept swinging at the saplings, shrubs and vines, as he made a small adjustment in his direction.
It's not that bad, Elizabeth's logical voice started lecturing her not-quite-panicked gut. They've all been here before. There are four of you. You have a machete. You have water and peanut butter and hard candies. You have iodine and there's plenty more water around!
After walking for what seemed like forever, they crossed the end of a small ridge. More light reached the ground, and a treeline barely visible against the sky ahead suggested some sort of clearing or break in the forest. The leaf litter seemed to be only a thin layer over "dry" sandy soil. They were not up to their knees in roots and holes every other step. The trees weren't so huge now. They had moved into scrub forest. Ganishwar was hacking through rapatia and palm fronds. An orchid in full bloom bobbed as Elizabeth brushed by it. She collected it because it was the first one that they had seen actually in bloom that day, and because they would never find this place again, even if they wanted to. Now she was juggling a clipper pole, a long-stemmed flower and her own gear as she pushed through the bushes.
It's not that bad, the logical voice in Elizabeth's mind took on its most compelling tone. You can see some of the sky. Think! You have a rain poncho with grommets. You can string it up to keep dry. You have a lighter, flashlights, and a head net to keep the bugs off your face if you sleep. You took your mefloquine today so no malaria for at least another week. And your miserable boots will keep out the snakes and scorpions. You have more plastic bags in your pack to sit on. It won't be so bad if you have to stay out here tonight. ...As long as we don't meet any bush-pigs [tapirs] or snakes, her emotions hastily added. Thank God for the tractor path, she thought. It may be a blight on the landscape and a bad omen of what destruction may yet befall this rain forest, but we only have to go east long enough and we WILL hit it. Then she wondered, but will we SEE it, if it's dark?
Ganishwar was making better time now. The rest of them were having trouble navigating the smaller vegetation with the poles and the collecting bags. The plant press had gone with Kendan so Elizabeth was still carrying the small orchid. At least it hasn't wilted yet, she thought. A sawtooth palm frond tore across her face and one arm, drawing blood. Oh great, another break in the skin to get infected. She had lost all interest in photographing this part of the day. The sky was overcast and gloomy to the east, now that they were able to see some of the sky. There'll be more rain coming in tonight, she thought. Of course, that's what rainy season is all about in a rain forest. She ran out of thoughts to keep her mind off her tired feet, and hardly had the energy to plunge on to keep Ganishwar in sight.
Helen found a very finely woven bird's nest.... Maybe from a weaver finch? She and Elizabeth stopped to inspect the nest, and to rest. It was a very flimsy and delicate structure. Helen thought it was a pseudo-nest or a practice nest, not meant for use. Lance caught up with them in the middle of Helen's discourse about how the weaver finches build several false nests before the real one is completed.
"We should never have left the line," he said once again, in a completely flat tone. Elizabeth wondered if they were as worried as she. She couldn't tell. Helen's small talk seemed deliberately focused on minute details. Elizabeth didn't dare to ask. No talk...no problem. Denial in spades, she thought.
They moved on down a very small creek bed, where Ganishwar had disappeared into the bushes after slaying a large palm frond. And stopped. No Ganishwar. He hadn't waited. And no machete noises. Helen hooted. Nothing. She whooped louder, and the reply came from the east. They thrashed on and found the machete sticking in the ground. Ganishwar was up a tree and looking east. He was excited.
"The little creek is over there," he said, waving more-or-less south. "I see the tractor path!"
He was out of the tree and off down the creek bed in a flash, still swinging the machete. They plunged on again, through the rapatia and palmetto, arms held high to protect their eyes. Elizabeth's inner whine continued loudly, how much farther is it to the tractor path? When will the rain start?
Suddenly Ganishwar was a standing shadow, motionless in front of them, in the center of the tractor path. One by one, they broke out of the tangled vegetation, and into smiles of relief as the rain began to fall, only an hour from the giant's clearing in the jungle.
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This schedule continued for ten days, each day seeming like the one before. Time faded; offices and the calendar were forgotten. All that existed was the volcano. Each morning a four-member team would go out into the devastated zone. Two people would follow a trail through the rain forest and the desert, collecting samples of ash and acid rain from small bottles left out the previous day. The other two would go to a tiny shack on the slope of the volcano itself, amid giant boulders thrown out over the past 20 years, and wait for an eruption to send a cloud of ash overhead. They would collect all the ash that fell on a square meter of plastic which was spread out each day in anticipation.
We were lucky with the weather. Except for a few ominous-looking clouds that rolled in sporadically and that once dumped in an hour what seemed like the combined contents of the world's oceans, the sky was clear and blue, offering a superb view of the cone. Eruptions, and the time between them, varied widely, from a nervous and anticipatory several hours before a major explosion (which is scientifically referred to at the outpost as a "kaboom"), to scant minutes between minor rock slides or motions of the hot lava flow. We were fortunate enough to observe the formation of a new lava flow one clear night. Other events included tiny almost soundless whispers preceded by great gray clouds of ash, and a loud, chugging noise, like the passing of an ancient freight train, unheralded by any plume.
Pre-dawn eruption of the Arenal
volcano viewed from the
observation platform.
In the course of our stay at Arenal, we not only learned about volcanoes and geologic history, but also about ourselves. Limits were tested: Walking six to eight miles in the hot sun is not an everyday pastime for most of us; neither is sharing a 15-foot by 12-foot bunk room with several others; and neither is maintaining a sense of humor when you're either going to bed or getting up at 3 a.m. ... or one of your roommates is. We all stretched to adapt to the intense living situation, the stress of a volcano in the front yard, and the challenge of living in a new culture. Only two of the group had any facility with Spanish. The rest of us struggled, asking for extra blankets or milk for our coffee with all the eloquence of two-year-olds. (The experience made more real for us the difficulties that must be faced - and overcome - by people who come to live in the United States without being able to speak English.) By the time we left, a small eruption would elicit, "Oh, it's only a three" (in reference to the sound scale). We could also laugh knowingly at the folly of the "novice" tourists (as opposed to the several-day veterans we had now become) who thought they could climb to the crater in a few hours, clad only in shorts, T-shirts and tennis shoes.
The April, 1990, research
team on the observation deck.
The volcano is shrouded in
clouds behind them.
We also learned about parallels between the area surrounding the volcano and our own "civilized" world. The acid rain that results from Arenal's gaseous emissions wreak havoc on the delicate rain forest ecology. Acid rain in North America, resulting from the emissions of factories, power plants and automobiles, is different only in degree: It's not as intense yet. Our own pine forests are not as sterile yet as the devastated zone near Arenal, but at the present rate of deterioration, they could soon come to resemble the broad, dying tracts of forested land in eastern and central Europe. As we continue to put stress on our own forests, we increase the risk that they will someday take on the wasted lunar-landscape appearance of what we saw, under the Arenal volcano.
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Environmental Science: Planning for the Seventh Generation?
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Window on Wheeler, Issue 1, 1994-1995, "The Runnins River Project."
Environmental science is not a science akin to the current pursuits of biology, chemistry and physics. It does not seek to 'divide and conquer' the complexities of the organism, the reaction, or the nuclear particle. It is instead a concept of the whole, a pursuit that seeks to unite the disparate parts and their interactions into a coherent picture.
In the simplest of definitions environmental science is perhaps an attempt to apply scientific methods and rigor to the study of the whole environment. Peter J. Bowler credits the current rise of the environmental sciences in part to "...the general public [which] has now begun to think of 'the environment' as an important problem in which science is deeply involved." (The Norton History of the Environmental Sciences, 1993)
Science and technology have made huge strides, e.g., in fighting diseases and improving our standard of living. The goals of science have been focused in the past on improving the life of humans on the planet with little regard for our environment. We have been pitted against the forces of nature. What we now see as problems in the environment give all of us the opportunity to bring science and natural history into our lives in an urgent, practical and non-academic way.
We humans need clean water, air, and lands to meet our basic metabolic needs (water, oxygen and food). We also need open space, wilderness and community to meet our basic spiritual and/or psychological needs. Each of us can make a difference through our cumulative actions.
Living in the Pacific Northwest I am daily aware of those who argue that preserving one more species of salmon or one last stand of virgin forest is not important to our survival today. That is the short-sighted view. With the huge increase in the human population and the ensuing demands for land and resources, we have reached the point where every salmon run, like a canary in the mine, serves as an indicator for the health of the stream and of the lands comprising the watershed for the stream. Of the vast supply of water on Earth, only 0.018% is available as fresh water. If salmon can no longer inhabit our streams and rivers, what will we use for our drinking water?
Salmon stream through pasture
before fencing and restoration
In the bigger picture, environmental science is not the academic delineation of all the inter-relationships within an ecosystem. It is a way of life for all of us. We all live here and we all have a chance to participate. Preserving or caring for the large thing that we all call the environment is a commitment to our grandchildren and their grandchildren. The efforts of the environmental movement, the hours volunteered to clean up environmental mistakes, speak to the true costs of some of our finest technological advances.
Volunteers planting trees along
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Shyam Sunder Kapoor (<|fim_middle|>96–98), Kapoor has delivered several keynote or invited speeches which included the Founder's Day Address at Bhabha Atomic Research Centre and DAE- Raja Ramanna Lecture in Physics on Frontiers in nuclear fission, superheavy nuclei and nuclear energy at Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, both in 2003.
Awards and honors
Kapoor was elected by the Indian Academy of Sciences as their fellow in 1974. The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research awarded him the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize, one of the highest Indian science awards in 1983. He became an elected fellow of the remaining two major Indian science academies a decade apart, with Indian National Science Academy fellowship reaching him in 1984 followed by the fellowship of the National Academy of Sciences, India in 1994. He received the Goyal Prize of Kurukshetra University in 1996 and R. D. Birla Award in 2006. He is also a fellow of the Institute of Physics.
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Living people | born 14 June 1938) is an Indian nuclear physicist and a former director of Bhabha Atomic Research Centre. Known for his research on fission and heavy-ion physics, Kapoor is an elected fellow of all the three major Indian science academies – Indian Academy of Sciences, Indian National Science Academy and National Academy of Sciences, India – as well as the Institute of Physics. The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, the apex agency of the Government of India for scientific research, awarded him the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology, one of the highest Indian science awards, for his contributions to Physical Sciences in 1983.
Biography
S. S. Kapoor, born on 14 June 1938, earned an MSc from Agra University in physics in 1958 before starting his career in 1959 at Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (then known as Atomic Energy Establishment). While on service, he pursued his doctoral studies mentored by Raja Ramanna, who would later spearhead India's first successful nuclear program, Smiling Buddha, in 1974. After securing a PhD in 1963, he took a sabbatical from work and did his post-doctoral studies in nuclear fission at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory of the University of California, Berkeley from 1964 where he worked at the cyclotron accelerator and returned to BARC in 1966 to resume his service. He became the director in charge of Physics Group as well as Electronics and Instrumentation Group in 1990 and served out his regular service at BARC, holding the position until his superannuation in 2000. He also served as the head of the nuclear physics division and as the project director of Pelletron Accelerator facility, a BARC centre located in Tata Institute of Fundamental Research campus. In between, he had a short stint abroad as a visiting scientist at Physikalische Institute of the University of Heidelberg during 1980–81. Post-retirement, he continued his association with BARC, holding the DAE-Homi Bhabha chair from 2000 to 2005. Subsequently, he took up the position of a senior scientist with Indian National Science Academy and in June 2008, he was made an honorary scientist by the academy.
Kapoor lives in Deonar, a suburban town of Mumbai, in Maharashtra.
Legacy
Kapoor's work has been mainly in the fields of nuclear fission. He studied heavy-ion fusion-fission dynamics, nuclear shell models and radiation detectors as well as particle accelerators and was associated with several accelerators including cyclotron facility at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Universal Linear Accelerator, Darmstadt, BARC heavy-ion accelerator at Tata Institute of Fundamental Research and
Tandem-Linac accelerator at Legnaro National Laboratories (INFN), during various periods of time. His research assisted in widening the understanding of light-charged particles and large scale nuclear motion and his contributions are reported in the development of a new faster process for nuclear splitting. His studies have been documented by way of a number of articles and the article repository of Indian Academy of Sciences has listed 137 of them. Besides, he has published a book, Nuclear Radiation Detectors, which is now a prescribed text for academic studies in many institutions such as Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, Maharshi Dayanand University, Savitribai Phule Pune University and Deenbandhu Chhotu Ram University of Science and Technology. He has also contributed chapters to books published by others and his work has drawn citations from other scientists.
Kapoor was the head of the Indian scientific delegation from BARC at PHENIX collaboration of Brookhaven National Laboratory, which was the largest experiment which collected data at Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC). He led the team which established the BARC pelletron accelerator facility at TIFR in 1989 and the facility has since evolved into a prominent Indian base of heavy-ion research. He was the coordinator of the committee which oversaw the development of Accelerator-driven reactor systems in India. He was a member of the International Nuclear Data Committee (INDC) of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) from 1985 to 2000 and chaired the committee during 1994–97. He is a founder member of the Asian Committee for Future Accelerator (ACFA) and was involved in the evolution of the committee during its formative years. He has been a member of the cost-review team of International Linear Collider and sat in the phase II technical committee of Inter-University Accelerator Centre (IUAC) in 2004. He presided the Indian Physics Association during 1997–99 and the physics section of the 81st Indian Science Congress held at Jaipur in 1994 and is a life member of the Indian Society for Radiation Physics. A former member of the council of the Indian National Science Academy (19 | 1,069 |
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Designed by James<|fim_middle|> theater continued to show films until the mid-1960s. | C. Lombard and Co. of Washington D.C., and opened in 1921, the Dalton Theatre followed the prototype theater design of Louis Sullivan's Auditorium Theatre in Chicago, in which the theater section is fronted by an office building. Its original owner was the firm of Dalton Brothers and Richardson. The plain, business-like exterior contrasted with rich plasterwork decorations of the theater interior which collapsed in a flood over a decade ago. The original tenants of the shopfronts were a bank and a drugstore; offices and apartments occupied the upper two floors. The theater had one of the largest stage areas on the rail line between Richmond and Tennessee and accommodated vaudeville performances in its heyday. Vaudeville shows ended by the 1930s but the | 160 |
Rhea Shah: 16-year-old Rhea Shah develops a crush on her brother, Robbie's, best friend, Joy Fernandez. She adopts the alias The Guitar Girl in a misguided way to keep a hold on her feelings. Rhea cares about her two best friends, Sophie and Arjav, although the latter knows how to push her buttons. She is pretty awful at hiding her feelings.
Joy Fernandez: 18-year-old Joy is Rhea's brother's best friend, as well as Arjav's cousin. He takes on Rhea as his student, teaching her how to play the guitar, unaware that she harbours feelings for him. He can be pretty dense at times - refusing to see what is really happening right in front of his eyes. He dates a rather crazy girl in college, Rosetta, who later becomes Robbie's girlfriend.
Sophie Ghosh: Rhea's best friend in school, who discovers her secret at the beginning of the novel and keeps encouraging her to confess to Joy about it. Initially united with Rhea on the front by finding Arjav, she begins liking him more than a friend. Both she and Arjav believe in meddling with 'destiny'.
Robbie Shah: Rhea's older brother who has no idea has his sister has fallen for his best friend. He is too preoccupied with his band and his girlfriend, Rosetta, who Joy had dated before him.
Arjav: Rhea's oldest friend, who knows her secret and wants her to tell Joy as well. He and Sophie like each other and likes to meddle with 'Fate'.
Well, this was the first time I read a novel in this type of way. It was a nice change and it was interesting reading mostly of Rhea's pov via her journals, emails, text messages, and etc.
The Guitar Girl started out when Rhea's older brother's best friend, Joy, went home with him on the weekends. Rhea has known Joy since school as a dork but his transformation in college changed him to someone hot. I kind of find this part sad since the reason why she first started having feelings for Joy was because of his looks unlike Rhea's best friend, Sophie. So after, that she shared her feelings to her best friends (Sophie and Arjav). So she started picking up guitar lessons and guess who's going to be her tutor? It's no other than Joy. At the same time she started her own blog called Guitar Girl where she writes those feelings of hers especially those concerning Joy. A big surprise for her that someone commented on her post no other than J. Fern, whom she actually found out what Joy himself. That's the start of her adventure. Find out more about her journey about trying to keep her identity as Guitar Girl, confessing to Joy, and other dramas concerning her friends and brother too.
I won't spoil the relationship between Rhea and Joy just that like other couples they have their ups and downs as well. I kind of find it amusing how Joy spilled his guts to Guitar Girl, at the same time it's sweet although I understood his confused feelings. At least Rhea had an inkling of how his feelings. But don't worry it turned out okay in the end.
Sophie and Arjav were both funny characters and I liked how they try their best to intervene in Rhea's love life although I can't believe they share every secret to one another. They don't keep one thing to themselves. I mean sure they do but they also share them afterwards. I kind of find it annoying that they're always caught passing notes and earning extra work in return, and getting in trouble with their elders because of it.
I find that Sophie and Arjav are a cute couple. Like I mentioned, I'm glad that Sophie noticed Arjav sooner despite how he looks. I felt bad for the other girl especially when her situation was explained. But I'm glad they behave in a civilized manner at the end.
Although I felt that there was something lacking. It needs something more, but I can't explain it well. I kind of felt like I couldn't really connect to the characters. I do loved the humor parts in their conversations especially their New Year's resolution. That was so funny.
I have a big hunch who the anonymous<|fim_middle|> unrequited love. | guy posting on Rhea's blog. I felt sad for him though because of his | 17 |
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Q: Find $\lim_{h\to0^+}\frac{\sqrt{h^2+4h+5}-\sqrt{5}}{h}$ I am trying to find the limit $$\lim_{h\to0^+}\frac{\sqrt{h^2+4h+5}-\sqrt{5}}{h}<|fim_middle|>sqrt{5})}=\frac2{\sqrt5}$$
A: $$\lim_{h\to0^+}\frac{\sqrt{h^2+4h+5}-\sqrt{5}}h=\frac{d(\sqrt{x^2+4x+5})}{dx}_{(\text{ at }x=0)}$$
$$=\frac{2x+4}{2\sqrt{x^2+4x+5}}_{(\text{ at }x=0)}$$
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My approach is to divide both the numerator and denominator by $h=\sqrt{h^2}$ since $h>0$. Then we get $$\lim_{h\to0^+}\sqrt{\frac{h^2+4h+5}{h^2}}-\sqrt{\frac{5}{h^2}}=\lim_{h\to0^+}\sqrt{1+\frac{4}{h}+\frac{5}{h^2}}-\sqrt{\frac{5}{h^2}}$$
I am stuck because the limit is when $h\to0^+$ not $h\to\infty$. How can I make it into simpler functions when we already know the limit or when we can just substitute 0 into the function?
Helps are greatly appreciated. Thanks!
A: $$\lim_{h\to0^+}\frac{\sqrt{h^2+4h+5}-\sqrt{5}}{h}=\lim_{h\to0^+}\frac{(\sqrt{h^2+4h+5}-\sqrt{5})(\sqrt{h^2+4h+5}+\sqrt{5})}{h(\sqrt{h^2+4h+5}+\sqrt{5})}=\lim_{h\to0^+}\frac{h+4}{(\sqrt{h^2+4h+5}+\ | 299 |
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Michigan State AD: Expanding the College Football Playoff 'is probably inevitable'
Count Michigan State's Bill Beekman with the athletic directors who think the College Football Playoff will expand one day.
Michigan State AD: Expanding the College Football Playoff 'is probably inevitable' Count Michigan State's Bill Beekman with the athletic directors who think the College Football Playoff will expand one day. Check out this story on Freep.com: https://www.freep.com/story/sports/college/michigan-state/spartans/2019/05/17/michigan-state-bill-beekman-college-football-playoff-expansion/369<|fim_middle|> game. We played Michigan. We turned around and went to the championship game. We turned around and played Alabama. And then you turn around and play Oregon.
"Most people don't understand the toll that takes on a young person's body. Because they're not 27, 26. Some of those guys on the field are still 18 and 19. And you're playing at the top of the pyramid against the best. I'd be a little bit concerned about student-athlete welfare from a health and safety view. So I'm not sure how it would work. I would hope there would be some gaps so that they could breathe."
General view of the College Football Playoff championship trophy. (Photo: Matthew Emmons, USA TODAY Sports)
Wisconsin athletic director Barry Alvarez, an inaugural member of the selection committee, has been vocal about his desire for playoff expansion. He continues to believe it should be on the table.
"It concerns me that everyone has not been included and, I've stated this before, I think we certainly should take a look at it," Alvarez said Tuesday. "I think we need to revisit the criteria that were set up to start with. We adjusted all of our scheduling accordingly. So, yeah, I think we need to take a look at it and it sounds like the commissioners have discussed it anyhow."
Beekman pointed to the NCAA men's basketball tournament's growth to 68 teams in 2011 after decades of expansion as a sign that it can work well while still not being devoid of problems.
"You can expand it to whatever, and whoever doesn't make it, there's some level of controversy," Beekman said. "So I do think there's gotta be some reasonable limit to the thing. To me, shutting out too many of the Power 5 conferences too often, I don't think it's wise decision-making.
"I think eight gets you to a reasonable number. There absolutely will be pressure at some level – there would be people who would have us play year-round. There's always that slippery slope."
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ROSEMONT, Ill. — Count Michigan State's Bill Beekman among those who think more teams are needed in the College Football Playoff.
The Spartans' new athletic director became another Power 5 conference voice to express his belief that the field needs to grow to eight teams from the current four-team format.
"My personal opinion is that expansion is probably inevitable. And I think at some level, that's a good thing," Beekman said Tuesday at the Big Ten athletic directors meetings. "I do think there are very real concerns about how long you make the schedule and how many games you play, and there are concerns about spreading that too much over two semesters.
"At the same time, it's such a small number of teams. And so if you got two teams playing one extra game, it's not 300 or even 50 or 60 – it's two teams playing one extra game. I think in the greater scheme of things, I think its probably good for the game and good for the teams involved if you move it from four to eight."
Michigan State coach Mark Dantonio speaks during a media availability with the football team in Grapevine, Texas, ahead of their NCAA College Football Playoff's Cotton Bowl semifinal against Alabama, Saturday. (Photo: Andy Jacobsohn/The Dallas Morning News via AP)
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MSU in 2015 and Ohio State in 2014 and 2016 are the only two Big Ten programs to make the College Football Playoff in its five-year history. The conference has not put a team in the four-team playoff the past two years.
The conference champion has been left out of the past three playoffs.
And that has left Michigan athletic Warde Manuel "open to the consideration" of playoff expansion.
"Anytime our Big Ten champion is left out of the playoff, I think, what, three years in a row? The champion three years in a row, that's something that needs to be discussed," Manuel said at the meetings on Monday. "Because I obviously believe that you go through and you win the Big Ten championship in this league, you've accomplished something that desires to put you in position to play for the national championship."
Ohio State athletic director Gene Smith, who served on the College Football Playoff selection committee for two years, said playoff expansion is "worth looking at," but he echoed Beekman's concerns about expansion adding to the schedule.
"I think there's a lot of problems around it, I really do," Smith said Tuesday. "I think you need to be sensitive to finals, because everybody's finals weeks are a little bit different. I think you need to be sensitive to the holidays. I also think you need to look at the wear and tear. When we won the championship in the inaugural year, I'm not so sure our guys could've gone another | 732 |
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Is there anything more exciting to a gardener than a new flower bed? The idea of a planting space full of fluffy, freshly amended soil ready to be planted made me giddy with anticipation. The new flower bed is actually an extension of a current flower bed that parallels the street. We extended it so that it now exists where there used to be driveway.
This is what the space looked like in November of 2009.
This spring we worked very hard to grow grass in all of the areas disturbed by our driveway project. Our hard work was in vain because the grass didn't survive this hot summer, even with the TLC we gave it. Crabgrass and Wiregrass have taken over and we are prepared to do battle with it this fall when grass planting season starts again. I should buy stock in Round Up.
When the driveway guys were working, I frequently raided their trash pile and saved stones that were to be discarded. I wish I'd saved more. I made two sets of stepping stones out of the scraps.
The new bed will provide a bit of privacy from the street for our patio once it fills in with plants.
It dawned on my last night that by making this new bed I've eliminated any access to the back yard by a vehicle. Let's just hope that we don't have to have any tree work done in the future.
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Your yard is looking so beautiful! | the area and scraped off the sod, I dug out every bit of compost that I had from my pile and Mr. SP tilled it into the clay. We also added several bales of Peat Moss and 10+ bags of composted cow manure to the area. Mr. SP spent a long time with the tiller to make this project possible.
I think he'll be glad when I go back to school on Monday so I won't have time to come up with any new projects that will require his assistance.
Paula, it's looking wonderful! The hardest thing to deal with here in NC has been this horrible red clay that passes for soil! I honestly don't know how anything grows- it's like trying to dig a hole in concrete!
WOW…you all have done a lot of work this year in your yard. Beautiful and your so right the heat has killed our good grass in our yard also where we were trying to grow some in.
I love the privacy you will have later when all of the shrubs grow.
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Целый элемент — элемент заданного коммутативного кольца с единицей относительно подкольца , являющийся корнем приведённого многочлена с коэффициентами в , то есть такой , для которого существуют коэффициенты , такие что:
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Если каждый элемент является целым над , кольцо называется целым расширением (или просто кольцом, целым над ).
Если и — поля, терминам «цел над…» и «целое расширение» соответствуют термины «алгебраичен над…» и «алгебраическое расширение». Частный случай, особенно важный в теории чисел, — комплексные числа, являющиеся целыми над , называемые целыми алгебраическими числами.
Множество всех элементов , целых над , образует кольцо; оно называется целым замыканием в . Целое замыкание рациональных чисел в некотором конечном расширении поля называется кольцом целых поля , этот объект является фундаментальным для алгебраической теории чисел.
Целые числа — единственные элементы , являющиеся целыми над (что может служить объяснением использования термина «целый»). Гауссовы целые числа, как элементы поля комплексных чисел, являются целыми над . Целое замыкание в круговом поле — это .
Если — алгебраическое замыкание поля , то цело над . Если конечная группа действует на кольце гомоморфизмами колец, то является целым над множеством элементов, являющихся неподвижными точками действия группы.
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Целость является транзитивным отношением: если кольцо цело над и цело над , то цело над .
Есть ряд утверждений, эквивалентных тому, что элемент кольца цел над :
подкольцо кольца является конечнопорожденным -модулем;
существует подкольцо кольца , содержащее и , и являющееся конечнопорожденным -модулем;
существует конечнопорожденный -модуль кольца , такой что и из следует, что .
Из третьего свойства легко вывести, что множество всех элементов, целых над , является подкольцом (замкнуто относительно сложения и умножения), оно<|fim_middle|>ивная алгебра | называется целым замыканием в . Если целое замыкание совпадает с самим кольцом , называется целозамкнутым в . Также из него следует, что если цело над , то является объединением (или, эквивалентно, прямым пределом) подколец, являющихся конечнопорождёнными -модулями.
Теорема Коэна — Зайденберга о подъёме: если — целое расширение кольца , то для всякого простого идеала в существует простой идеал в , что .
Целозамкнутое кольцо
Целозамкнутое кольцо — целостное кольцо, целозамкнутое в своём поле частных.
Если — целозамкнутое кольцо с полем частных и — конечное расширение , то элемент цел над тогда и только тогда, когда коэффициенты его минимального многочлена принадлежат : это более сильное условие, чем просто целость, для которой достаточно существование произвольного многочлена с таким свойством. Любое факториальное кольцо является целозамкнутым.
Если — нётерово целостное кольцо, то целозамкнуто в том и только в том случае, когда (1) совпадает с пересечением всех локализаций по простому идеалу и (2) локализация по простому идеалу высоты 1 (то есть не содержащему других ненулевых простых идеалов) — дедекиндово кольцо. Также нётерово кольцо целозамкнуто тогда и только тогда, когда оно является кольцом Крулля.
Нормальное кольцо
Серр и Гротендик определяют нормальное кольцо как кольцо, локализация которого по любому простому идеалу целозамкнута. В таком кольце нет ненулевых нильпотентов. Если — нётерово кольцо, локализации которого по максимальным идеалам целостны, то — конечное произведение целостных колец. В данном случае, если — нётерово нормальное кольцо, то области в произведении целозамкнуты. Обратно, прямое произведение целозамкнутых колец нормально.
Вполне целозамкнутое кольцо
Элемент поля частных целостного кольца называется почти целым над , если существует такой , что для любого натурального . Кольцо называется вполне целозамкнутым, если любой почти целый над ним элемент содержится в . Вполне целозамкнутые кольца целозамкнуты. Обратно, нётеровы целозамкнутые кольца вполне целозамкнуты.
Кольцо формальных степенных рядов над вполне целозамкнутым кольцом вполне целозамкнуто, тогда как для произвольных целозамкнутых колец это неверно.
Локальность свойства целозамкнутости
Следующие условия для целостного кольца эквивалентны:
целозамкнуто;
локализация по любому простому идеалу целозамкнута;
локализация по любому максимальному идеалу целозамкнута.
Такие свойства кольца называют локальными свойствами.
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Литература
Bourbaki, Commutative algebra.
Matsumura, Hideyuki (1989), Commutative Ring Theory, Cambridge Studies in Advanced Mathematics (2nd ed.), Cambridge University Press, ISBN 978-0-521-36764-6.
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September 4, 2019 /in Our Community /by Clinton Fox
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NRI Distribution Named One of America's Fastest-Growing Companies by Inc . Magazine
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[LOS ANGELES, CA, September 4th, 2019] — NRI Distribution, a 3PL provider specializing in the fulfillment of premium lifestyle brands, was announced as one of the fastest-growing companies in America by Inc . Magazine on its 2019 Inc. 5000 list. This is NRI Distribution's first time appearing on the Inc. 5000, the most prestigious annual ranking of the top 5,000 most successful privately held companies in the United States. In previous years the list has featured companies such as GoPro, Facebook, Dell, Pandora, Domino's Pizza, and other wellknown names as honorees.
With a revenue of $40.3 million dollars and revenue growth of 175% over the past three years, Canadian-founded NRI Distribution ranked at number 2,293 on the 2019 list.
"We are deeply honored and humbled to have been recognized by Inc . Magazine on their Inc. 5000 list," said Chris Maydaniuk, President of NRI Distribution . "I am immensely proud of each member of the NRI team, and I am grateful for all of their hard work that has contributed to NRI Distribution earning this significant distinction."
Many paths to growth exhibited by Inc. 5000 listed companies
Inc. Magazine observed staggering growth in their comparison of the Inc. 5000 list from 2018 to 2019. The magazine reported that this year's list as a whole achieved three-year average growth of 454 percent, and a median rate of 157 percent.
"The companies on this year's list have followed so many different paths to success," said Inc. editor in chief James Ledbetter in a recent press release. "There's no single course you can follow or investment you can take that will guarantee this kind of spectacular growth. But what they have in common is persistence and seizing opportunities."
NRI Distribution continues to expand
Focusing on the North American fulfillment of premium branded footwear, apparel and accessories, NRI Distribution has experienced rapid growth over the last several years. The third-party logistics provider currently owns and operates a total of six warehouses across Canada and the United States. In 2018, the company opened a new warehouse in Montreal, Quebec, and NRI Distribution plans to continue this growth by expanding into East Coast USA during the spring of 2020.
"We have built our growth strategy with superior customer service at our core," said Maydaniuk . "Our dedication to our client's success is part of the DNA of NRI Distribution. It has set us apart from our 3PL competitors, and it has enabled us to build relationships with our clients that have continued to bloom since we began this business 22 years ago. To be selected as an honoree of the 2019 Inc. 5000 list is a celebration for us all."
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Our first<|fim_middle|> and a social support cafe. Local residents and their families drop in for help and assistance and any advocacy and support needs. There is support accessing such things as housing, benefits and council tax etc…A safe place for people to come together.
Our second site is Benson Community School where we run a Parent Hub that facilitates family and children's work, drop-in advocacy appointments, mum's groups and after school kids' clubs.
Our third site is Newbigin House where we hold community meals, monthly community events, such as funfairs and festivals, as well as kids' clubs and a weekly youth group.
We also do additional trips with families and children during the holidays as a way of developing positive community connections. NCT has also developed two social enterprises, Animal Encounters (a mobile animal experience with our three alpacas and sheep as a form of therapy for children and adults) and Flavours of Winson Green (a mobile cooking school where recipes are taught by refugee and asylum seeker women reflecting their culture and stories).
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Summer is over, at least in terms of school starting, and it feels so good to be<|fim_middle|> see what you find! | digging into Posy and getting ready for a bunch of weekend vintage markets lined up for the fall! My booth at Cheshire Cat Gallery in Cameron Village continues to see new deliveries…rusty tool boxes, kids' books, linens, thermoses, gas numbers and more. Amazingly, I'll be starting to make the switch-over to more holiday goodies at the end of this month. I've got a gorgeous wooden sled, old Charlie Brown-style Christmas lights, and a whole lot of gorgeous ornaments to add some festive flair to the spot! I'll keep you posted for their arrival as vintage holiday always goes quick!
First up, I'm excited to check out the new location for the wonderfully eclectic PopUp Raleigh vintage market happening at Trophy Brewing on Maywood this Saturday, September 17, 12-5pm…a great vintage and locally-made market. And, bonus, I hear the weather is supposed to be beautiful!
"Endless yard sale" has such a sweet ring to it; doesn't it?! I set out early Friday, June 17 for the 301 Endless Yard Sale and began my hunt in Rocky Mount, NC, working my way down to Wilson, NC. I could've gone longer in either direction, but honestly, I was worn out! Great deals at nearly every stop and a variety of places to explore…yard sales, sidewalk sales/parking lots, flea markets, established brick and mortar shops, etc. Even had time to stop at Ray's Diner in Wilson for a delicious blt and refreshing sweet tea. It's 100 miles of vintage heaven. I scored banana yellow school chairs, plastic gasoline sign numbers, tool boxes galore, a serape blanket, porcelain containers, books, scenic photographs, brass and even a bowling pin. The prices ranged from great deal to out of my price range/the dealer knew what they had. I've found that most folks know that vintage is "in," and will say "that's old" as soon as I show interest…which usually means good price if you're interested in keeping it for yourself, but too rich for my dealer blood. The existing flea markets that were already happening leaned more toward the newer household goods (socks, dish soap, clothes, plastic toys) and less so with vintage, so when I go again, I will stay on the 301 path and focus on the parking lot yard sales.
My favorite spot along the 301 Endless Yard Sale was found thanks to a painted wood sign sitting on the 301, Madge's Garden and Treasure Shop in Sharpsburg, NC (120 Main Street, 27873). June Atkins, the owner, is just plain awesome! Super friendly, knowledgeable and runs a shop chock full of unique finds! Madge was her grandmother and the shop is in Madge's old home, open Friday and Saturdays only. Every nook and cranny has something to see and there are two friendly cats to keep you company. June worked on the garden out front while I got to roam on my own. When I told her I was looking for succulent vessels, she started pulling things right up in her garden for me to replant at home. She even ran back inside and gave me a gorgeous piece of green pottery for my new plantings. Just awesome! She has dealers that come through regularly, so she keeps her inventory full and interesting. Definitely worth a stop year round!
June recommended walking over to the A & A Flea Market next door, owned by Autry Pridgen. These names! They're located at 110 South Main Street. Another spot with lots to look through. I found a colorful serape in terrific shape!
Overall, the 301 Endless Yard Sale was a great day of picking and I'd recommend for dealers and vintage enthusiasts alike!
I'm not going to lie. I have to do a spell check whenever I write "Tennessee" but after my days there hunting vintage on Highway 52, I have an appreciation for the state and its friendly people, delicious southern food and great old finds folks were willing to part with! I loaded my car to the brim with all kinds of treasures…a yellow ammo box, tool boxes, thermoses, paint by numbers, ceramic planters, a globe, metal step ladder, soda crates, and more. I've been feeling this lull in Posy, post-holidays, and it feels so good to have this new batch of goods to show off online, at markets and in my booth at the Cheshire Cat Gallery. And this was just the first trip of the summer!
The cherry on top of this trip, was getting to spend a few days with my dad…one of my favorite road-trip partners! We had to play some Loretta Lynn to get into the spirit and shared a slice of Ginger's 15 pound carrot cake in Westmoreland, TN. We were joined by his brother, my Uncle Bob, and Aunt Jean. My Illinois-based aunt and uncle are long-time collectors and dealers and it was so awesome to learn from them and see what caught their eye. I remember relaxing over a kid-free breakfast one morning at the hotel, and my uncle, antsy to get on the hunt, said, "We're burning daylight." They were good about asking the history of pieces, or what the story is…kind of the whole point with vintage. Anyway, here's some pics of where we were and what I found!
We took a break from the monsoon and headed indoors to an amazing antique mall. Uncle Bob picked up this WWII bomb and when I asked him why he chose that, his response was, "I don't have one." Enough said.
Folks were surprisingly great when it came to crossing the highway or pulling over without much notice, because an old hotel sign or globe caught our eye!
This one is just for me…every southern gal needs a deviled egg plate!
At the bottom of a box I was rooting around in, I came across this sweet collection of salt and pepper shakers. I also picked up some blue ducks and my favorite, a skunk and tree trunk.
My latest obsession is interesting planters. Seeing as how succulents are about the only green thing I can manage to keep alive, I'm finding all kinds of fun vessels for them. This fine lady was my first purchase on the trip!
Being a small home owner, I love all things storage. So I went a little crazy in the creative storage department with multiple tool boxes, filing cabinets and a bright yellow ammo box. Even the flashlight opens up!
Uncle Bob brought a few things from Illinois and the home where he and my dad grew up, including these cool old tennis ball containers.
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Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, The New York Public Library. "Pond, Col. J[ames] B[urton], APCS to. Jan. 2, [n.y.]. " New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed January 18, 2020. http://digital.gallery.nypl.org/items/bcc609f0-e51c-0131-3d64-58d385a7b928
Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, The New York Public Library. (1870 - 1880). Pond, Col. J[ames] B[urton], APCS to. Jan. 2, [n.y.]. Retrieved from http://digital.gallery.nypl.org/items/bcc609f0-e51c-0131-3d64-58d385a7b928
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Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 (Creator)
Clemens, Samuel Langhorne, 1835-1910 (Creator)
Clemens, Samuel Langhorne, 1835-1910 (Author)
Pond, James B. (James Burton), 1838-1903 (Recipient)
Date Created: 1870-01-02 - 1880-01-02
Place: Hartford, CT
Shelf locator: Berg Coll MSS Clemens
Shelf locator: m.b. ALS I - Q
Funding: Digitization was made possible by a lead gift from The Polonsky Foundation.
Citation/reference: Union Catalog of Clemens Letters 06991.
Date: The card is addressed to Col. J. B. Pond, but he finished the Civil War as a major; may indicate forgetfulness on SLC's part or early acquaintance. It is "written in the gorgeous violet ink which Twain used at Hartford and in Europe from the mid-1870s to June 1880" (Franklin R. Rogers, Introduction to Simon Wheeler, Detective [NYPL, 1963], xix).
Ownership: Berg
Extent: 1 leaf
[1 written side, 1 side for address]
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Accession number: 52B3400
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The £45,000 grant from the Freemasons will fund the award winning Grandmentors programme, which will see volunteers aged 50 and over trained to provide mentoring for young people leaving care during their transition into adulthood and independence.
Every year 10,000 young people over the age of 16 leave care in the UK. More than 60 per cent were taken into care due to abuse or neglect, and many have grown up without the significant personal and developmental benefits of a grandparent figure in their lives. The Grandmentors project is inspired by the accepting and nurturing relationship between a young person and a grandparent. This life changing volunteer programme is already running in six areas across the UK, and has now come to Milton Keynes.
The launch event for the project, held at Milton Keynes Civic Chambers, was in partnership with Computer Xplorers Bucks. Attendees got involved in Lego robotics and coding, which helped potential mentors and mentees to meet each other in a relaxed, fun and innovative way.
The grant from Buckinghamshire freemasons comes through the Masonic Charitable Foundation, which is funded by Freemasons, their families and friends, from across England and Wales.
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Click here to access "David Livingstone: Putting Darwinism in Its Place" from Cosmologics Magazine. This is an excerpt from Livingstone's book Dealing with Darwin: Place, Politics and Rhetoric in Religious Engagements with Evolution. Livingstone argues that how Darwin's ideas were received varied widely. In some places Darwin's ideas were rejected. He notes how some sought to cast "Darwinism and Catholicism as twin allies against the inductive truths of science and the revealed truths of scripture. It thus became possible to conflate as a single object of reproach an old enemy—popery—and a new one—evolution…. these were indeed the enemies of God." Others welcomed Darwinism as endorsing the triumphs of white colonial settlement—that "just as the European rat, goat, and other invader species had displaced their New Zealand counterparts, so the 'vigorous races of Europe' were wiping out the Maori." The extinction of a people, which were viewed as having "had accomplished so imperfectly every object of man's being", was just a law of nature.
Click here to access "Julia Ostmann: Dealing with Darwin Where He Wasn't the Devil" from Cosmologics Magazine. This article is simply an overview of Livingstone's ideas.
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Alaska's winged winter residents are to be admired. No matter how cold the temperature, no matter how fierce the snowstorm, these tough birds stick it out. They perch on snow-crusted branches, flit amid bird-seed filled feeders. They provide winter amusement for those of us tucked inside, watching from the warmth of our homes.
And there are plenty of birders out there watching them during the annual Christmas Bird Counts in and around Anchorage.
According to National Audubon Society statistics, Anchorage ranked as No. 8 in the country for actual numbers of participants taking part in the Christmas Bird Count. They beat out such larger cities as New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, San Diego and more.
The Anchorage Audubon Society holds its Christmas Bird Count Dec. 14, with University of Alaska Anchorage for the second year hosting the After-The-Count Party and Tally in the Student Union Cafeteria.
To be involved, first contact the birding leader for your area, which is available for the Audubon Society's web site (www.anchorageaudubon.org/content/view/35/60/). Or contact Louann Feldmann at louannf@alaska.net to find out where your particular team will meet. If you have no experience, don't fret. Leaders will try to match you with veteran birders to make it not only a fun,<|fim_middle|> birders to practice their observational skills and to discover how local birds tough out the Alaska winter. There will be bird-related freebies, food and drinks for all, but only a few spots are open. The cost is $3, and the contact to register Stephanie Hartman, 341-6463.
Finally, there is the much-anticipated Eagle River-Chugiak Christmas Bird Count, hosted by the Eagle River Nature Center. This event, set for Jan. 4, 2015, is a bit later than in past years, and allows birders to look and listen for birds out in the field or even watch from their home bird feeders.
Contact coordinator is Liza Sanden (liza-s@rocketmail.com) for details. The Nature Center also is offering a few bird-identification programs during December if you want to hone your birding skills. Check this month's Coast calendar, at the back of the magazine, for details on that.
Since the turn of the 20th century, the Christmas Bird Count has contributed to the knowledge base of wintering birds in North America. This information allows scientists to detect fluctuations and trends of birds over a period of years. The data dates back to 1900, and can be seen at www.audubon.org/bird/cbc/index.html. | but also educational, outing.
Be sure to also register for the event, which is required in order for your count to, literally, count, and for you to see results. Registration is free, but must be done at netapp.audubon.org/cbc/public/.
The UAA post-count party begins at 4:30 p.m. at the Student Union cafeteria. Chili, toppings, and cornbread will be provided but participants are asked to bring a dessert or side dish as well.
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You have two main types of visitors to your website: current members and prospects. Yes, you may have the occasional looky loo, but the people your website was made for fall into one of those two groups.
So how do you communicate to them? What are they doing on your website and, based on that, what do they want to see?
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You may want to share every single thing you can think of with your prospects and members. That's not the right move. Don't overwhelm visitors<|fim_middle|> a good idea to plan how will you support any new initiatives (if support is needed) and what the potential benefits are of implementing each new thing. But that's the great thing about websites, you can constantly make changes to see if those changes improve your desired metrics and if they don't then you can put everything back as it was.
Online chat - Your website visitors are obviously there for a reason and that reason is typically that they're looking for information. What if you were right there to give it to them and answer any questions keyboard to keyboard? Chat is different depending upon if the visitor is a current member vs. a prospect, but there are also ways to manage that. Let's say you only want to chat with prospects. Well, chat software depending, you could say "only show chat window to new visitors" which means only people that have never visited your website before (most likely anyone but current members) will see the chat window popup.
Exit popup - These are the windows that we're all becoming more and more familiar with on the internet. There's a reason for that: they work. However, they only really work if they make an offer the viewer can't refuse. What incentive are you going to give people to make them hand over their email address or even credit card? You can even get clever with exit popups and only show them on specific pages of your website as visitors "qualify" themselves. Let's say a new visitor goes to your homepage then clicks on your pricing or intro offer page then goes to close their browser window. When they make that move, you could automatically show an exit popup that makes an even better offer than what they see on your pricing or intro offer page.
(More) SEO optimization - It's more than just keywords. There are all types of things you can do to improve your website's SEO. A great place to start is by entering in your URL in a free tool that scans your website and tells you what to fix like https://www.seoptimer.com or https://seositecheckup.com. Additionally, if you're using WordPress, I would encourage you to download a plugin called "Yoast" which will act as an "SEO sidekick" for your website.
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Current members: They will probably want a way to log into their account to make profile changes such as payment methods, reschedule personal training sessions, or classes. If you don't have any type of online self-service capabilities, you may want to consider changing that, especially if you have a younger clientele who is telephone-averse.
They may also be interested in what's going on at your business. This presents opportunities to inform them of upcoming events, new merchandise, referral programs, etc. Anything that can inspire and make them feel like a part of the family. This will in turn help with overall retention. Just be careful not to talk too much about your business. Give them content that they can actually use. For example, you might hire a nutritionist (or someone on staff) to write a blog on eating healthy during winter when all we want is pizza. There are even more examples on how to increase retention by engaging with existing members here on our blog called, "Three member-centric business growth techniques for gyms."
Prospects: Why would someone that's not a current member or client visit your website? Most likely it's to learn about what you do, how it can benefit them, and how they can learn more and/or take advantage of an offer.
To take this a step further, if the prospect found your website through an ad or a social media post for a specific offer, you want to ensure you send that person to a page on your website where they can take advantage of that offer right away without having to click or tap anywhere else. Don't just send them to your homepage where they then have to try to locate the deal on their own. They will probably give up.
"Above the fold" comes from printed newspapers where the most important information needed to be placed above where the paper was folded and therefore hiding the bottom half from view. In web-speak it simply means to keep important information above where the person viewing your page can see without scrolling.
You want to hit them with an offer they can't resist right from the get-go. The most important part of this is to give them a call to action. Put a button they can click or tap to take advantage of the intro offer, or watch a video, or whatever else you want to inform them of in such a prominent place.
3. What content should your website have?
This can vary wildly depending upon the type of visitor, how they got to your website, and more. But you have to tell them something and you have to give them the ability to take some sort of action. Like I learned while working at a CD store many years ago, if you don't have the CD in stock and the potential customer says they'll come back…they aren't coming back.
Of course, in marketing there are now ways to haunt them after they leave your website thanks to the ability to add cookies to their web browser so that you can "remarket" to them. However, the effectiveness of remarketing is starting to wane thanks to major browsers like Chrome and Safari implementing new privacy rules.
This means you must to capture your visitor's attention while you've got them on your page which brings us back to the necessity of defining visitor intent.
You also have to keep in mind that you're writing for humans and robots. By robots I'm referring to Google's web crawler which is what roams the internet night after night for years on end feasting on the content of innocent websites all over the world. Ok, so it doesn't just do that at night, but it sure makes it sound more dramatic that way.
More than likely this is already happening naturally on your fitness business website. If you own a gym, you will probably talk about how your business is a gym and not, say, an oyster bar. This ensures that Google's crawlers know to show your website when people search "gym" in your area. Even still, there are some less-than-obvious, though still organic ways, of ensuring Google's crawlers know your website is important and relevant, especially to people searching for what you do. You can rest easy knowing that it'll put your website at the top of the list when people search the internet for your type of business.
How to be at the top of search results using keywords.
If you want to rank highly in Google search results when someone in your area searches "[your city] gym" or "yoga studio," you need to make sure you're telling Google's crawlers, "Hey, over here! We're an awesome gym/yoga studio in that city! Show our website at the top of the list!" This is otherwise known as SEO (search engine optimization).
The best way to write SEO-friendly copy is to write to your ideal customer while also keeping in mind the keywords you want to target. You may be asking, "how can I find the keywords to use on my website?" Well, this is what I was referring to before when I said that you're most likely already doing this in some capacity.
There are many ways of optimizing your website for search engines, most of which might be overkill for you depending upon the size of your business, how much competition you have in your area, and how many people are actually searching for businesses like yours. That's why I like to keep most keyword strategies as simple as possible.
Note: It's becoming more common for people to leave out the city name when they search for something. We searchers simply expect Google to know where we are and that we're looking for "gym" near where we're performing the search. In that case, you'd want to ensure your "Google My Business" information exists and is up to date. Go here to sign up or make edits to your Google My business info. Another tip for this type of "lazy" search, which is also great for SEO, is to ensure your business address is on every page of your website, even if just in the footer. If you have a lot of locations then you will need a more advanced strategy as you can't fit them all on every page.
"Ok, but where should I put these keywords?"
Now we're getting to the fun part! Here's the obvious: Take the keywords you defined using the "what would normal people search for" method and try to use them throughout your website. Don't force them into places that don't make sense, and don't overuse them, but do make sure they're featured throughout your site.
Ok, glad we covered that, but now we're going to get a little more serious and into some less obvious SEO tactics.
You want to find the most relevant and highly searched keywords that you wrote out and put them into the page titles of each page of your website. So, for example, if you run a gym you will want to make sure the word "gym" is in the title of your website so that Google knows your website is a gym and that it should be shown when someone searches "gym" in your area. Changing page titles can vary depending upon the website creation software you use, but really it's just the title of each specific page.
Some pages on websites are automatically titled things like "Homepage" or "Contact" page by the software being used to create the website. You would want to change that to at least include "gym." So instead of "Homepage" it would be "Homepage - Your Business Name - Gym, Austin, TX" etc. Just google "change website page titles ________" with your software in the blank.
5. Know that there is a lot more you can do (but this blog can only be so long).
Here is where I list out some things you should consider investigating the value of for your website. Most of these can be put in place very quickly and you'll see results hours after implementation. However, it's always | 1,645 |
2022 Ladder Award Winner
Nick Hopkins, Foreman, from EverGreene's NYC-based team has been named 2022 Ladder Award Winner
Restoration & Remediation Magazine's annual award recognizes outstanding young restoration professionals 35 years and younger who are climbing the ladder of success and shaping the future of this industry. Nick was chosen from a group of nominated individuals that exhibit leadership, drive, innovation, and care for clients and colleagues, and has demonstrated passion for community service and the industry. We are delighted to share his story with you.
Nick's restoration work defines both his personal and professional life. At a young age, he was exposed to family restoration projects in his childhood home in Jersey City, NJ, with techniques like three coat plaster and installation of tin ceilings. His first real experience with restoration came through his volunteering efforts for the gut rehabilitation of historic homes in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. This instilled a fundamental appreciation for protecting physical assets that are of great significance to their home owners, and for preserving the history that defines those assets.
Nick transformed what began as a passion project in preserving his childhood home into a job salvaging affordable homes for other families. In 2012, he began his career at Habitat for Humanity, supporting New York City's Build it Back program. His tenure started by salvaging homes for affordable housing in Bedford–Stuyvesant "BedStuy", Brooklyn. Soon after, Nick took on a leadership role as a Foreman, rehabilitating homes affected by Hurricane Sandy. He was responsible for leading crews consisting of AmeriCorps members and groups of volunteers rehabilitating homes in the worst hit neighborhoods of Staten Island and Brighton Beach.
Continued interest in advancing his career in preservation and challenges with historic materials and systems at his NYC rehabilitation projects, led Nick to apply and be accepted to Tulane University School of Architecture where he earned a Master of Science in Historic Preservation (MSHP). While in New Orleans, he challenged himself outside of the classroom by freelancing as a carpenter, working on historic shotgun houses in the Faubourg Marigny neighborhood. Nick was an intern at Andrew's Blacksmith and Welding where he learned how to weld, salvage, and restore historic cast iron fence systems in Jackson Square and St. Charles Avenue in New Orleans. His ability to acquire and practice a diversity of skills enabled him to restore New Orleans's built environment, which reinforced his passion for projects that command skilled artisans who can protect and maintain character-defining spaces.
After earning his MSHP at Tulane, Nick moved back to New York City and joined 53 Restorations as a carpenter, where he engrossed himself around historic restoration carpentry projects. After two and half years, he joined EverGreene Architectural Arts as a Foreman, leading and supervising the restoration of wood, decorative plaster, ironwork, and stonework. Nick served as the Foreman to the recently completed James A. Farley Post Office and is currently the Historic Restoration Foreman for a landmark theater in Times Square.
Nick, thank you for all you do blaze new trails with innovative leadership, ideas, and technological<|fim_middle|>Touring The Plaster & Mural Studios
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Mark has played Table Tennis for most of his life and developed a passion for the sport which led him to become a professional self employed coach in mid 1997. Since 2002 his students have won over 50 Australian individual (singles and/or doubles) titles – click here to view. Also, Mark has had over 60 of his students that have been selected in State Teams (including B Teams) since 1996.
Mark's playing days started from age 9 when commenced junior pennant at his local Club (Croydon & District Table Tennis Association). His enjoyment for the sport came from a fascination of different spins that could be generated and how hard a small object can be hit over such a short distance. From the ages of 9 – 17 there was steady improvement where he represented his state (Victoria) in the Under 15 & 17 age groups at the Australian Junior Championships from 1987 – 1990. Through those years Mark won the Australian U15 Boys Singles in 1988 and U17 Boys Singles & Doubles in 1990 plus was named 1990 Australian Junior of the Year.
After completing Year 12 in 1990 he chose to be full-time player, playing 25-30 hours per week for most weeks of the year from mid 1991 till late 1996 and worked part-time (approx.15 hours per week). Through this period he travelled overseas on 10 separate occasions for training and competition covering approximately 30 countries – longest stint away from home town (Melbourne) was only 6 months.
The best win Mark had during this period was at the 1995 Swedish Open where he defeated Yan Sen (China) who was World Ranked 47 at the time and went on to win the Men's Doubles at 2000 Olympic Games plus two World Championships Men's Doubles titles in 1999 & 2003 and was Semi-finalist in Men's Singles at 1997 World Championships. This is the only time an Australian player has defeated a member of the Chinese National Team in a singles match during official competition.
The best match of his career came in late December 1995 at the Asian Team Cup where Mark played his then favorite player, Kim Taek Soo (Korea) who was World Ranked no. 8 at the time. In a best of 3 match, Mark won the first set 21-18 but was crushed 21-8 in the <|fim_middle|>987 – 2000) to totally focus on a coaching career.
It took 6 years (2 generations of players) of coaching to build and create Mark's first Australian Champion (2002 U14 Girls Singles, Doubles and Mixed Doubles Champion) who had been his student from early 1998. Since then there's been a steady stream of Australian titles won each year mainly through players he has coached and developed from beginner levels.
From a representative point of view, Mark has coached an Oceania Team at the 2003 World Cadet (U15) Challenge (Malaysia) and coached Australian Junior Teams at,
- 2003 World Junior Circuit Event (New Zealand)
- 2004 Oceania Championships (New Zealand)
- 2004 World Junior Championships (Japan)
All 4 events were coaching positions on a volunteer basis.
The last time he coached an Australian Team was at the 2006 Commonwealth Games (Melbourne) where he was the Men's team coach and appointed Head Coach for the whole Table Tennis team.
Mark has been awarded the Victorian Table Tennis Coach of the Year a record 6 times. He has also held volunteer positions that include,
- Australian Coaching Committee 2003 & 2004
- Victorian Junior Selector 2004, 2005 & 2006
- Victorian Junior Committee since 2012
One of his greatest feats to date occurred in 2008 where he coached 19 players to make State Junior Teams (U18, U15 & U13). There were a total of 36 players in State Junior Teams that year.
Over the years Mark has coached hundreds of players of all ages (7 – 70's) and standards (beginner to elite). His knowledge, skills, patience and enjoyment of the job has allowed him to not only improve player's standards but to provide the understanding of the skills and the sport in general so players can keep improving while he's physically not present. | 2nd then managed to be 13-13 in the last set before losing 21-16.
To finish this phase of his life Mark competed at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics where he had the privilege to play the eventual Men's Singles Champion, Liu Guoliang (China), in his first match and had a close loss (21-16 in the deciding 3rd set) to the then World Ranked no. 70, Slobodan Grujic.
It was after the Olympics Mark decided to try coaching, so the next 6 months he was a part-time player (playing 15 hours per week) and part time coach, making himself available for Individual sessions and running group sessions. He represented Australia at the 1997 World Championships - Team & Individual Event – (England) & Commonwealth Championships (Scotland) then made the decision to do coaching full time as he was 24 years old and needed to earn a living from a financial point of view. He still played all available tournaments but only trained once a week for the next 3 years. Ironically, it was through this phase where Mark achieved his best domestic results,
- 1998 Australian Men's Singles Champion & Australian Senior Player of the Year
- 1998 Oceania Men's Singles Champion
- 1998 played World Singles Cup (restricted to 16 players) and played against Jan Ove-Waldner, Vladamir Samsanov and, his favourite player to watch, Kalinikos Kreanga
- 1999 Australian Men's Doubles Champion (with Russell Lavale)
- 2000 Australian Men's Doubles Champion (with Simon Gerada)
- 2000 Represented Australia at Sydney Olympic Games
- 2000 Defeated Yan Chu Leung (World Ranked 58 at the time) from Hong Kong at Olympic Games
The 2000 Olympic Games was the best experience of his sporting life and was after this event the decision was made to end a successful representative career for Australia (1995 – 2000) and Victoria (1 | 457 |
Our hearty carrot stew has some Irish roots -- it gets its depth of flavor from stout, and is a perfect dish to serve to warm up<|fim_middle|>. Return beef to pot. Add stock, bouquet garni, zest, and enough water to cover. Season with salt and pepper. Bring to a boil over medium-high heat. Cover pot; transfer to oven. Braise beef 2 hours.
6. Add potatoes and carrots. Cover pot; braise 1 hour more. Discard the bouquet garni. Garnish stew with parsley. | a March afternoon when the passing season's chill lingers.
1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Generously season beef with salt and pepper. Dredge beef in flour; shake off excess.
2. Wrap parsley, thyme, allspice, and peppercorns in cheesecloth, and tie with kitchen twine to form a bouquet garni.
3. Heat 3 tablespoons oil in a Dutch oven or large ovenproof saucepan over medium-high heat. Working in batches, brown beef, 3 to 4 minutes per side, adding more oil (up to 2 tablespoons) as needed. Transfer beef to a bowl.
4. Add 1 tablespoon oil to fat in pot. Stir in leeks, celery, and garlic; cook, stirring occasionally, until softened, about 7 minutes. Add stout; cook, scraping up browned bits from bottom of pot.
5 | 186 |
Q: Invertibility of a linear transformation without knowing its matrix Let $\mathbb{V}$ be a finite-dimensional inner product space, and let $\mathbb{W} \subset \mathbb{V}$ be a subspace.
Define $T:\mathbb{V} \rightarrow \mathbb{V}$ by $$T(\overrightarrow v)=\overrightarrow v + Proj_{W}\overrightarrow v$$
Show that $T$ is invertible.
My approach is to show that $T$ is injective and since $T$ goes from $\mathbb{V}$ to $\mathbb{V}$, that would imply that it is bjective and therefore invertible.
I let an arbitrary vector $\overrightarrow v \in KerT$.
$T(\overrightarrow v)=\overrightarrow 0$
$\Rightarrow$ $\overrightarrow v=-Proj_{W}\overrightarrow v$
This would mean that $\overrightarrow v$ is a linear combination of vectors which pertain to a basis of $\mathbb{W}$.
$\therefore Proj_{W}\<|fim_middle|> bijective and invertible.
Is my approach correct?
A: Your work is correct (though only in finitely many dimensions, as is the case). It would be less awkward to say that $\overrightarrow v=-Proj_{W}\overrightarrow v$ implies that $\overrightarrow v \in \mathbb W$ than to say that it is "a linear combination of vectors which pertain to a basis of $\mathbb W$", but either is correct.
One may also note that a more direct proof would be to note that the inverse is
$$T^{-1}(\overrightarrow v)=\overrightarrow v - \frac{1}2Proj_W\overrightarrow v$$
which can be shown to be the inverse directly by composing it on either side of $T$. This works in any number of dimensions, which is a plus.
A: Looks good to me. You showed that is injective (which is enough for invertibility in the range of $T$). You didn't show though that is surjective; just because $T$ takes value in $\mathbb V$ does not mean it will take every value of $\mathbb V$
| overrightarrow v=\overrightarrow v$
$\therefore \overrightarrow v=-\overrightarrow v \Rightarrow \overrightarrow v=\overrightarrow 0$
Therefore $T$ is | 37 |
128585115<|fim_middle|> students and professionals. | 3 -TREATMENT RESOURCE MANUAL FOR SPEECH-LANGUAGE PATHOLOGY, Fifth Edition, is an ideal text for students entering a clinical practicum or preparing for certification and licensure, as well as practicing professionals who need a thorough guide to reliable intervention materials. This detailed, evidence-based text includes complete coverage of common disorder characteristics, treatment approaches, information reporting techniques, and patient profiles across a wide range of child and adult client populations. In addition, the text contains a wealth of practical resources, including information on intervention strategies, goals, and techniques, as well as forms available in digital format for easy duplication and customization to specific experiences. The Fifth Edition features extensive new and updated material to reflect recent developments in the field and current evidence-based best practices. Two new chapters are dedicated to communication deficits in patients with autism or traumatic brain injury, both rapidly growing client populations. Additional updates include discussion of the impact of Common Core Standards on school-based interventions and the reaction-to-intervention (RTI) instructional model, new documentation trends such as self-reporting, expanded coverage of "telepractice," and new information on group therapy strategies. Widely respected this is a must-have resource for Speech-Language Pathology | 240 |
Once a favorite of Arthur Miller and Elizabeth Taylor, the luxe inn has been restored to its former glamorous glory.
Nothing captures the spirit of fall quite as much as settling into one of New England's cozy country inns for a long weekend. Now, one of the region's most historic properties has been given a fresh lease on life—just in time for the height of leaf-peeping season. Once a favorite getaway of New York City glitterati like Arthur Miller, Lauren Bacall, and Elizabeth Taylor, the tavern that the GrayBarns Inn on the Silvermine River now calls home is quickly reclaiming its status as one of the area's hidden gems.
Opened earlier this month after extensive renovations, the six-suite inn features a charming<|fim_middle|> which are complemented by reclaimed wood and wide-board oak floors.
When not curled up with a book or a hot toddy in their stylish rooms, guests of the inn are free to explore the small Silvermine village (we suggest heading out on one of Graybarn's complimentary bikes if you can brave the autumnal chill), which is packed full of independent galleries and small boutiques. To get even more of a culture fix, they can go for a tour of Philip Johnson's iconic Glass House in New Canaan, which is just a 15-minute drive away.
After long, leisurely days, guests can head across the street to the Tavern at Graybarns to indulge in a menu of comfort food made with seasonal ingredients from local purveyors as well as produce sourced from the restaurant's kitchen garden. After dinner, guests can settle in next to a crackling fire in the library room—a tranquil spot to enjoy one last cocktail before bed. | mix of heritage accents and streamlined modern design. Original features of the colonial building—which served as a textile mill before becoming a speakeasy in the 1920s and a celebrity hot spot in the '50s and '60s—were all painstakingly restored to their former glory, including the stately post and beam structure and sprawling porches, | 75 |
Watch live streamed talks here on healing, spiritual freedom and how turning to God, you can make a positive change in your life. Find out more information about these live broadcasted talks below. You can also re-watch previous talks on our YouTube channel www.youtube.com/user/UKCSRR which are available to watch for a couple of months afterwards.
Find practical, effective healing solutions to personal and social problems.
This lecture looks at the good<|fim_middle|> CSB, from Boston, MA, USA, talk about how to find a deep-settled calm within ourselves that cannot be disrupted by fear or any outward disturbance. You'll hear examples of how the Bible and the writings of Mary Baker Eddy (discoverer of Christian Science) have brought lasting peace and complete healing to individual lives. | news of Christ Jesus' ministry, and explores how the discovery of a 19th-century woman - Mary Baker Eddy—who found freedom from chronic illness and other struggles in her own life—shows the provable relevance of Jesus' ministry in our lives today. What she discovered through this study she called Christian Science—a view of God and the universe that uplifts our thoughts, changes our perspective to a spiritual viewpoint, and heals.
Our speaker Patricia Cohan Woodard, CS is a Christian Science Practitioner (healer), who's lived around the USA and in São Paulo, Brazil. She and her family have found relief and healing through their study and practise of Christian Science.
Discover a stillness that brings rest and healing to everyday lives.
Hear Christian Science healer (Christian Science Practitioner and Teacher) Larissa Snorek, | 169 |
COME AND SEE<|fim_middle|>. Even though wool is great year round, there is a general feeling out there, that it is for cool season only. Totally wrong, but that's for a future post.
I've been going a little crazy prepping for my busy season. It is about now that the orders start rolling in, usually towards the end of September. I've decided this year to add a couple of art fairs to my fall/winter schedule. I've been doing The Winter Arts and Crafts Show at Brukner Nature Center for the past 2 years It's held the first weekend in December in Troy, OH. I plan on doing it again.
This year, I've added 2 venues. So, if you are in Ohio, I'd love to see you!
Waynesville 2nd Saturday Street Faire. Sept. 8. in Waynesville, Ohio. Yes. I know. It's tomorrow. But I've been busy. Really busy! The weather might give us a bit of a late start, but you'll find me there! You'll also find other artisans, authors, a book swap, cruise in and a ghost dinner. It's my first time at the Street Faire. My girls will be helping me tomorrow. So stop on by and say, "Hi!"
CyclopsFest. Sept 15, 10am - 7pm. Yellow Springs Ohio. This one looks to be a lot of fun! It's touted as, "An epic festival of handmade goods, music, culture, and DIY Wonderfulness." There will be tons of vendors. 7 different bands. Kids activities. Demos. Skate/BMX Demos. Roller Girls. CAN YOU TELL I'M EXCITED!
And the first 50 shoppers at CyclopsFest get a swag bag full of goodies from the artisans! I've contributed these cute little pincushions handcrafted from a felted sweater square and needle felted with a flower or butterfly. You'll also get a coupon for 20% off at my stand and 10% off a future on-line order! So come on by!
50 little pincushions, ready to go! | ME AT ANY OF THE ART FESTIVALS OR FAIRS MENTIONED HERE AND YOU'LL GET 15% OFF YOUR PURCHASE AT MY BOOTH! SIMPLY LET ME KNOW THAT YOU FOUND ME THROUGH MY BLOG!
I love fall. It's cool and crisp. The leaves rustle. I can sleep with my windows open. And it's the perfect time to get out there and really sell my warm woolen treasures | 90 |
Center Stripe — With Flame, cast<|fim_middle|> (point) skip 1 s c, s c in next s c, skip 1 s c, 4 d c in next s c, skip 2 s c, s c in next s c, skip 1 s c of next scallop, repeat from * across top and lower edge and work 1 s c in each s c on sides of Afghan. | on 67 sts and K 1 row.
1st Row of Pattern — Purl across row. Purl every uneven row.
2nd Row. P 2, * o. (Over: yarn over needle.) K 4, sl 1 st, n. (Narrow: K 2 together.) Pass sl st over last st, K 4, o, P 2, repeat from * to end of row.
4th Row. P 2, * K 1, o, K 3, sl 1, n, pass sl st over, K 3, o, K 1, P 2, repeat from * to end of row.
6th Row. P 2, * K 2, o, K 2, sl 1, n, pass sl st over, K 2, o, K 2, P 2, repeat from * to end of row.
8th Row. P 2, * K 3, o, K 1, sl 1, n, pass sl st over, K 1, o, K 3, P 2, repeat from * to end of row.
10th Row. P 2, * K 4, o , sl 1, n, pass sl st over, o, K 4, P 2, repeat from * to end of row.
Repeat from the 1st row of pattern until stripe measures about 70 inches (or length desired) ending with the 1st row of pattern. K 1 row and bind off in knitting.
3 Pattern Stripe—With Flame, cast on 41 sts and repeat pattern. Work 2 stripes.
2 Pattern Stripe—With Flame, cast on 28 sts and repeat pattern. Work 2 stripes.
1 Pattern Stripe—With Amber, cast on 15 sts, repeat pattern. Work 4 stripes.
Press each piece and block ends carefully making scallops uniform.
With wrong side of work toward you, sew Amber stripe to 3 pattern stripe picking up back loop of sts only. Sew the 2 pattern stripe to opposite side of Amber stripe. Sew Amber stripe to opposite side of 2 pattern stripe. Sew 5 pattern stripe to opposite side of Amber stripe. The 5 pattern stripe is the center of Afghan. Sew other stripes to correspond.
Crocheted Border. With Flame, picking up the entire purl st, work a row of s c all around, working 5 s c on side of each scallop, 3 s c in center st at point of each scallop and skip 2 sts between each scallop.
2nd Row. Attach Amber, * work 1 s c in each of the 5 s c on side of scallop, 3 s c in center s c at point of scallop, 1 s c in each of the next 5 s c on opposite side of scallop, skip 2 sts between scallops, repeat from * across top and lower edge working 1 s c in each s c on long sides, break Amber.
3rd Row. Pick up Flame, s c in 1st st, skip 1 s c, * 4 d c in next s c, skip 1 s c, s c in next s c, skip 1 s c, 5 d c in next s c, | 703 |
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We ask you to join us in this life changing work. Please donate now to support our social impact, as we continue to support Africa and its journey into a brighter tomorrow. | .50 per day. Due to civil unrest and political instability, our programs are needed now more than ever. The need for humanitarian intervention is vast and our work strives to bring empowerment to this region by working with rural communities in the Mountains North West region.
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This year we are focusing on our four core initiatives: women's empowerment, vocational training, health services, and public libraries. These programs are time tested and create sustainable change within the communities they serve. Join us this month so that together we can empower communities globally.
In an effort to disable inequality, we co-created our Women's Empowerment program which has recently expanded, and now consists of providing training and services in traditional cultural craft skills, modern small business start-up, family health services, and financial strategies. Women are now taking on greater leadership roles within their communities and are finding a sense of pride in the work they are doing. In 2018, we have given over 2050 hours of training and services to women that have enrolled in our program.
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The UCSF Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences is composed of programs located at several different geographic sites: Langley Porter Psychiatric Hospital and Clinics (LPPHC) on the UCSF Parnassus campus, Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center, UCSF Medical Center at Mt. Zion, San Francisco Veteran Affairs Medical Center (SFVAMC), and the new UCSF Mission Bay campus. Training is provided by more than 180 full-time faculty members and<|fim_middle|>IRECC providing research assessment cores on neuroimaging, neurochemistry and genetics, and sleep chronobiology, as well as clinical cores on dementia and post-traumatic stress disorder. The San Francisco Post Traumatic Stress Disorder Program is one of the nation's largest specialized outpatient treatment programs for veterans who have PTSD related to combat, sexual abuse, or harassment in the course of active duty military service. The service records over 7,000 clinic visits annually and serves approximately 1,500 veterans with PTSD. An additional 500 veterans with dual diagnosis PTSD are served by the SFVAMC Substance Abuse Service.
Source URL (modified on 11/19/2020 - 12:36pm): https://psychiatry.ucsf.edu/about | over 200 volunteer clinical faculty to 600 medical students, 60 general psychiatry residents, 13 psychiatry fellows, and more than 70 pre- and post-doctoral trainees in clinical psychology, social work, nursing, and rehabilitation therapy.
Throughout its history, the UCSF Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences has held a strong commitment to basic and clinical research training, and currently sponsors a number of pre- and postdoctoral training grants in basic and clinical research. Laboratories at each of the training sites are excellently equipped for molecular and cellular biology, as well as clinical psychopharmacologic, neurochemical, psychophysiological, and social science research. Trainees in the program have access to a wide variety of inpatient and outpatient programs at UCSF that provide subspecialty care and serve as a setting for clinical psychiatric research, as well as comprehensive programs to support and nurture psychiatry trainees interested in pursuing careers in mental health research.
Langley Porter Psychiatric Hospital and Clinics (LPPHC) encompasses a 22-bed acute adult inpatient unit, a Consultation and Brief Intervention Service, a Partial Hospitalization Program, and an array of specialty clinics, including a Depression Specialty Clinic, a Hormone and Mood Assessment Clinic, an Early Psychosis Clinic, an Anxiety Disorders Clinic, an Eating Disorders Clinic, and a Psychopharmacology Assessment Clinic. LPPHC Child and Adolescent Services is predominantly outpatient-based, offering general assessment of child and adolescent behavioral disorders, with a special focus on autism, ADHD, pervasive developmental disorder, Tourette's Syndrome, and psychopharmacologic assessment.
Additional clinical services include a Women's Care Mental Health Clinic, providing gender-specific outpatient mental health services to women, and a Psychological Assessment Clinic, a centralized consultation service providing neuropsychological and psychological consultations and evaluations to patients referred from outpatient partial hospitalization and inpatient settings. LPPHC admits approximately 500 patients annually, and records more than 26,000 outpatient services visits each year.
Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital & Trauma Center
The Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Zuckerberg San Francisco General resides in a 539-bed county hospital serving San Francisco's diverse ethnic and racial minority populations. Inpatient psychiatric services include 44 acute psychiatric beds, a forensic unit that works in tandem with the San Francisco City and County Courts and Jail system, and an array of specially staffed and culturally appropriate services directed towards ethnic minorities. Zuckerberg San Francisco General offers an active Psychiatric Emergency Service that assesses over 7,000 patients per year, a Consultation-Liaison Service, a Preventive Depression Clinic, an active Substance Abuse Service and Clinical Research Center, and a citywide case management program for individuals who have severe residual psychopathology that results in repeated contact with the mental health system.
San Francisco Veteran Affairs Health Care System
The San Francisco Veteran Affairs Health Care System (SFVAHCS) includes specialized inpatient and outpatient programs focusing on substance abuse, chronic mental illness, and dementia, and offers developed clinical research efforts in schizophrenia, substance abuse, neuroimaging, and post-traumatic stress disorder. The UCSF Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at SFVAHCS operates a M | 665 |
Missoula Osprey Baseball is a summer past-time available to guests of Blue Mountain Bed and Breakfast in Missoula, Montana. With this many games each season and several fireworks displays the Missoula Osprey games are fun for people of all ages.
This baseball season, the opening game is June 24th with several fun nights scheduled throughout the summer, such as t-shirt night and bobbleheads night. The following is a listing of the local home games scheduled (subject to change based upon weather).
Blue Mountain Bed and Breakfast hosts Brady and Elaine welcome you to stay at their scenic and luxurious bed and breakfast. Their peaceful Blue Mountain setting overlooks the beautiful Bitterroot River. Gourmet homemade breakfasts await guests each morning. Experience all that Missoula, Montana<|fim_middle|>'s fun.
This makes it super easy to enjoy a game of golf while staying with us. Rise early and feast upon Swedish pancakes, crab crepes, or a golden fried polenta. Enjoy a homemade cinnamon roll with hot coffee, or a blueberry scone with a nice cup of tea. You'll be ready to walk 18-holes and golf better than ever after breakfast at our Missoula bed and breakfast.
Our Missoula bed and breakfast is a lovely spot for a wedding. Stand above the Bitterroot River, overlooking the Bitterroot Valley, as you say "yes" to one another. Start your life together in a beautiful setting. We did.
An autumn wedding at the inn.
There is great hiking in Missoula. In the Blue Mountain Recreation Area, enjoy the Maclay Flat Interpretative Trail.
It is a gentle stroll on a wide path that can also accommodate wheelchairs. The trail takes you along the Bitterroot River and through adjacent meadows, with some great views of mountains around Missoula.
If you want to pick up a little knowledge while visiting our Missoula lodging, the Maclay Flat Trail also has 16 interpretive signs along the way describing the river system, wildlife, vegetation and archeology of this area.
There is wildlife in the area, and the observant guest has seen evidence of porcupine and beaver. Also look for wood duck nesting boxes attached to trees and for bluebird boxes on fence posts.
About a third mile down the trail, you reach a flat, grassy spot along the river – perfect for picnicking. There are also some fishing spots along this stretch of the river. We at the Blue Mountain Montana Bed and Breakfast will be happy to provide you with picnic baskets and coolers!
There is also great bird watching at Maclay Flat. During spring in Missoula look for lots of wildflowers and other plants. Hope to see you at our Missoula Inn soon! | has to offer including watching exciting minor league baseball–America's favorite pastime!
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Crafting Crepes: Swedish Pancakes For Breakfast!
Are you celebrating National Crepe Day or just craving some crepes? Either way, look no further- we have the perfect breakfast recipe for you to try! There are many different types of crepes, from sweet to savory, filled and unfilled. Because of their popularity, there are also different ethnic varieties! We are partial to the type known as Swedish pancakes which are extremely light. It's always fun to share a bit of our Swedish heritage with our guests. When you visit our inn you will see quite a few Swedish influences, from our Fjord horses at the base of the mountain to the delicate and very delicious Swedish pancakes we often serve.
The Scandinavian countries adopted traditions from many other European countries- among them, the crepe from France! The first time I tried this delicacy was actually in Libby, Montana during their Scandinavian Fest. Brady and I had never tasted a pancake so delicate and lovely that it felt like it was melting in your mouth. We ask for the recipe, which was large enough to feed a small army! It called for three gallons of milk and more chickens than I want to imagine for the eggs!
Long before opening our bed and breakfast, we reduced the Libby recipe and experimented a bit. The final "product" is delicious and a favorite of guests, family and friends. We hope you will try this recipe for yourself or come visit us in beautiful Missoula, Montana, where we do the cooking for you! Believe me when I say, there's nothing quite like a Swedish Pancake that's hot off the griddle and still warm to the touch.
Reserve 2 cups worth of the milk.
Mix 1 cup of the milk with all of the ingredients and stir.
Next, slowly stir in the rest of the milk.
Melt butter on a regular griddle at 375 degrees or higher. Use 2-3 tablespoons of batter to make a 4 inch, round pancake.
When the pancake looks slightly brown, carefully flip it over (about 30 seconds per side).
Roll up the pancake and place it in a warming oven while you cook the rest of the cakes.
Once you get the hang of making one pancake, you can try making 2-4 at a time.
Take the entire platter of crepes out of the warm oven and sprinkle them with powdered sugar.
Try one of the delicate pancakes without extra toppings so you experience the light, buttery beauty of this special crepe!
Additional butter and home made jam can be placed on the table. We hand pick red currents from the garden to make syrup.
A traditional Swedish Lingonberry preserve is fun to try as well!
Missoula is a wonderful place to come on a vacation. Our town has so much culture, history and nature to offer tourists. We have blue ribbon trout streams, concerts, unique shopping opportunities and so much more. If you wish to enjoy nature while still being able to enjoy city events, then a get-away at Blue Mountain Bed and Breakfast is perfect for you! In the winter there's skiing, snowshoeing, sledding, and indoor events. In summer you'll enjoy hiking, horse back riding and so much more. One activity that is both popular with kids and adults is the Missoula Carousel. Our Fjord horses were used as models for the two carved, carousel Fjords. You can enjoy the carousel any time of the year and the artistic craftsmanship and variety of ponies is remarkable.
Our Missoula lodging is less than five miles from Larchmont Golf Course, in Missoula.
Golf while in Missoula. It | 783 |
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Are those Pekins in your avatar? Pretty!
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Yeah, thank you! :) It's two Pekins and a Cayuga!
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I'd like to consider myself an animal enthusiast. I enjoy drawing, writing, and nearly anything to do with nature.
I have 8 animal companions total.
I favor drawing wolves or dogs.
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You have beautiful ducks in your avatar! Are they pekins?
Yup! The one stealing the spotlight is a Pekin male, and the one beside the Cayuga in the background is a female Pekin!
Your chicken is stunning, by the way! I don't know chickens enough to tell what breed, though!
Relaxing, quacking, and enjoying every second of it!
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The Religious Education Board members serve as advisers to the coordinator as well as advocates for our parish program. Their major tasks are to assist pastoral leadership in setting goals and objectives and planning and evaluating programs.<|fim_middle|> our people and to teach His message of love and salvation.
Assist parents in their role as primary educators in the faith for their children.
Enhance the prayer and worship life of our parishioners.
Foster a spirit of outreach and service to others.
Provide faith formation opportunities for all parishioners.
Provide training for our catechists. | The board members meet on the third Tuesday of each month.
We hope to expand the board membership and invite any parishioner to join. There are no special qualifications required except a love of God and a desire to help shape the spiritual growth of our entire faith community.
Make Jesus Christ come alive in the hearts and minds of | 65 |
By the time I got in line, everything was sold out except lasagna and chicken. The guy in front of me ordered the last two servings of hamburger steak. Their menu was even taken down. Bummers.
"What kine chicken you get?" , I asked. "<|fim_middle|> varias montañas. | Katsu, Spicy Korean, Spicy BBQ, Cutlet w/gravy", this big but friendly man replied. I took a cutlet with gravy. $5 bucks.
What a happy surprise when I opened my plate! They put in a hamburger steak too! Awesome. The cutlet was the highlight. Soft and juicy and very fresh and crispy outside. Gravy was good. Not too salty. Hamburger steak was average… a little tough, but I wasn't complaining. Mac salad was really good. It may seem like a simple thing, but it takes skill and passion to make a well balanced mac salad.
Definitely will be back. Just a little earlier next time!
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wow brah…looks like true hilo style! ONO!!!
hey i was wondering where the pictures of the hapuna prince hotel wedding was?..i was around the area july 8-10 and i saw you there taking picutres on the beach..is it ever gonna be on your photography site??
The Green Machine is awesome! Gotta get there early though. Plenty gets sold out fast! Taco Salad is very good!
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Maryville junior quarterback Ben Walker throws a pass for the Spoofhounds during Bearcat Team Camp in June at Bearcat Stadium.
By JON DYKSTRA The Forum
Maryville senior Tate Oglesby hauls in a touchdown pass for the Spoofhounds during Bearcat Team Camp in June at Bearcat Stadium.
Hounds gear up for season with team camps, coaching additions
Jon Dykstra
Sports Editor
MARYVILLE, Mo. — Spoofhound football's season opening game with the defending Class 2 state champions Blair Oaks is just 50 days away as the Hounds will face off with the Falcons on August 30 at William Jewell College in Liberty.
The game is a grudge match of sorts for the Spoofhounds and the Falcons. Two seasons ago, Maryville ended Blair Oaks' season in the state semifinals on the Hounds' path to a state championship. Last season, Blair Oaks beat Maryville in the season opener on their way to an undefeated state championship season.
"Our guys have not forgotten that," Maryville coach Matt Webb said of last year's loss. "(Blair Oaks) are a very good football program and very well-coached. … Right now, it is one to one in recent years. This game is one I know our guys are looking forward to."
In order to make sure that they are ready for the Week One showdown and the rest of their schedule that follows, the Spoofhounds have been busy this offseason with a pair of team camps. The summer slate started with Northwest Missouri State team camp in early June.
"It starts over with culture every year," Webb said. "We work on those culture elements in the spring and it works its way up to team camps. One of our beliefs is that we have a winning culture and being 93-7 since 2012, those things don't just happen. What we try to do is expose our guys to college cultures that have the same beliefs that we do. There is none better than the NCAA Division-II powerhouse Northwest Missouri State."
Maryville played well with the varsity, junior varsity and freshmen teams each playing games and the Spoofhound varsity finding success against the larger schools at the camp.
"It is really good competition," Webb said.
The next week, the team was headed<|fim_middle|> Penney High School of Hamilton product is one of the greatest high-school running backs in the history of Missouri High School football. A Parade First Team All-American for 2014, Overstreet rushed for 4,259 yards and 70 touchdowns — just one touchdown shy of the national record.
"Kellen is another young man who has an unbelievable story," Webb said. "He is one of the all-time great running backs in the state of Missouri. … He is a high-character young man."
Overstreet's football career continued at the University of Wyoming. He made an immediate impact as a true freshman with 168 all-purpose yards and a touchdown. Overstreet had to redshirt in 2016 with knee and shoulder injuries.
Overstreet returned for his sophomore season in 2017 and was the Cowboys' second-leading rusher with 481 yards and three touchdowns. He had 139 yards in their regular-season finale at San Jose State and 85 yards in the bowl game against Central Michigan.
Those would be his final football games as a player though as he announced in August of 2018 that he would be retiring from football following microfracture surgery on his knee.
"He just had extensive injuries where he is unable to play anymore," Webb said.
Overstreet will be the Spoofhounds' wide receiver coach this season after transfering to Northwest Missouri State to finish his academic career.
"When you add guys like Kellen and Jake to our staff, the number one thing you think about as a head coach is the character and how our players and program will benefit just from the type of people they are," Webb said.
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Northwest announces leadership changes | north to team camp at North Dakota State at the Fargodome in Fargo, North Dakota. The Bison have set the standard for NCAA Division-I FCS with 15 national championships.
"Once every four years, we like to get out of town and experience a team camp that is not in our home town," Webb said. "A dominant culture is North Dakota State."
The Spoofhounds found success in Fargo as well and were named the Rumble in the Dome champions.
"We really just competed well and it was great competition," Webb said. "The guys get great coaching from their staff and it was a great weekend."
With the team adjusting to not having their seniors from last season, including All-State running backs Tyler Houchin and Eli Dowis; the coaching staff is also undergoing transition this season with longtime defensive coordinator Nathan Powell taking the head coaching job at his alma mater in Princeton.
"Nathan Powell has been here for a long time and he had the opportunity to go home to Princeton, his wife's home, and be around their family," Webb said. "It is an awesome opportunity for him to be a head coach and lead his own program. It is exciting for me to see assistant coaches get those opportunities. Obviously you don't wan them to leave, but that is how the coaching profession goes."
Webb will fill Powell's role as the defensive coordinator this season in addition to his head coaching duties.
"Honestly, I'm excited about play-calling again," Webb said. "It is something that I enjoyed when I was at the college level. … It is a new and exciting thing for me. … Our schemes and technique are the same, we have great assistant coaches and the kids will go out and execute."
The staff will have two new faces this season with Jake Vollstedt and Kellen Overstreet joining the program. Vollstedt, a former star for Northwest Missouri State, is filling Powell's other role as the linebackers coach.
"Jake is obviously a Bearcat and super proud to live in this community," Webb said. "For him to come coach the position that he was am All-American at one mile down Munn Avenue, it is a blessing. Jake will do an outstanding job."
Vollstedt was the 2016 Don Hansen Defensive Player of the Year for the Bearcats and was First Team All-American linebacker according to D2Football.com, D2CCA and Don Hansen after recording 140 tackles and 25 tackles for loss as a senior.
"Jake is just an unbelievable human being and the type of high-character coach that we want our athletes to be around," Webb said.
Overstreet is also getting into coaching after a tremendous playing career. The | 554 |
Via the Globe and Mail with have Ballad for an albino kitten please (Sarah Efron, Wednesday, March 9) the story of Andrew Huang (aka Andrew Pants), his web site Songs To Wear Pants To and his passion to write music for people with<|fim_middle|> also request a song for free, but there are two conditions: Pants will only do it if he feels like it, and the end result will be less than 71 seconds.
This was the first I'd heard of this but, it makes a change from listening to the Dinosaur Music Industry that treat talent like "Mr Pants" as a resource to be strip mined.
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People contact him through the site and pay a negotiated fee (between $5 to $102) to have a custom-made song written for them on any subject and in any genre they can imagine. (Pants is only limited by the type of instruments he can get his hands on and he will only sing in English.) You can | 71 |
The salesforce upsert() call is brilliant for interfacing legacy systems with Salesforce, especially if the data you are going to replicate into already contains some sort of unique identification.
It will create records that does not exist, and update records that does exist, given the unique id.
It allows updating up to 200 records in one batch returning create-/update status for each individual item.
It's fast – can easily push more than 100,000 records/hour, depending on object type.
Basically the upsert() operation is nice and easy to use; it will happily set or change almost any field in your Salesforce based CRM solution.
But, how do you null (or "blank") previously set fields?
It may come as<|fim_middle|>. | a surprise, but the upsert() operation does not change fields to null or blank, even if blanks, nulls or empty objects are specified. And I don't think the api documentation is entirely clear about this, or how to actually do it.
The api documentation for the similar update() operation () has a section specifically for Resetting Values to null.
According to this, in order to reset values to null, one must add the name of the field to reset to null to the list of names in the fieldsToNull array in the sObject.
And the good news is that this mechanism does actually work with the upsert() operation.
Account_Manager__c: a User object referencing the Account Manager for the Account.
Customer_Code__c: the unique identification of the Customer in the legacy system, used as External ID field on the upsert() operation.
Specifying the Account_Manager__c field name in the fieldsToNull array effectively instructs the upsert() operation to reset the Account Manager field to null.
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8.44.030 Permit Conditions<|fim_middle|>39.3). | – City Nonliability.
It is recognized that much of the charm and appeal of the City to residents and visitors alike is due to its urban forest character, featuring the maintenance of Monterey pine, oak and other native trees or shrubs throughout the City. The City has determined to maintain this character which benefits both the residents, by giving them quiet, semiforested neighborhoods in which to live, and the business community, whose prosperity is so closely linked to the attractiveness of the City to visitors. The maintenance of an urban forest throughout the City necessarily involves some informality in the lighting, location and surfacing of street and sidewalk areas, which in turn involves greater risk to those wearing high heeled shoes more adaptable to formal city life. (Ord. 87 C.S. § 1, 1963; Code 1975 § 639.1).
The wearing of shoes with heels which measure more than two inches in height and less than one square inch of bearing surface upon the public streets and sidewalks of the City is prohibited, without the wearer's first obtaining a permit for the wearing of such shoes. (Ord. 87 C.S. § 1, 1963; Code 1975 § 639.2).
Any person desiring to wear shoes with heels in excess of the limitations set out in CMC 8.44.020 may do so by obtaining a permit from the City Clerk acknowledging that the permittee is familiar with the provisions of CMC 8.44.010 and by agreeing that upon the issuance of such permit s/he thereby relieves the City from any and all liability for damages to her/himself or to others caused by her/his falling upon the public streets or sidewalks of the City while wearing such shoes. (Ord. 87 C.S. § 1, 1963; Code 1975 § 6 | 404 |
Dir. Alfred Hitchcock. Starring Tippi Hedren, Rod Taylor, Jessica Tandy
I see in him outrageous strength, with an inscrutable malice sinewing it.
A lovely young woman named Melanie (Hedren) – all lovely young women are named Melanie – is a flirt, a prankster, a teaser. She has the sort of verve for mischief that one usually associates with bored and drunk college students. She pretends to be an employee at a pet shop (though the man she's playing the joke on knows recognizes her and knows she's not an employee anywhere), buys a stranger's sister two lovebirds for her birthday, wheedles her way into discovering his address, takes a boat to his house, breaks in, leaves the birds, and very nearly gets away without him seeing. All this takes upwards of twenty minutes of film time, over the course of two days. Melanie and Mitch (Taylor) – all hunky, secretly tough fellas in this time are named Mitch – flirtatiously boomerang around one another, with little incidents marring their courtship. As Mitch meets Melanie at the dock, a seagull dive-bombs her. Seagulls are unusually aggressive at Cathy's (Veronica Cartwright) birthday party; young Cathy, perhaps instinctually understanding the pull of a Melanie, had begged her to stay. The intimidation grows over time. The movie, sadly, gets worse from there. One understands that "the birds" are the draw – I even thought that the sight of the birds pecking through the Brenners' front door was a pretty great look – but gosh, they are just less interesting than the one-step-forward-two-steps-back relationship that Melanie and Mitch are having. We see in them the fight for dominance that Hitchcock's later movies always return to, and one even assumes that in normal times, without kamikaze seagulls, that dominance would belong to Mitch over his tricky little blonde mark. Yet Melanie is a better match for Mitch than, say, Judy is for Scottie. There seems to be more possibility that even if she is not triumphant, she may well be less of a pushover than what we're used to.
At the height of the bird-related terror, a woman with two children overhears a conversation principally between Melanie and Mrs. Bundy (Ethel Griffiths), who appears to have evolved concurrently with birds and thus has a comically massive store of information on them. Melanie has just come from the school, where, famously, a great murder of crows has formed on the jungle gym and the other playground equipment and waited, ominously, for the children to leave the building. (This scene is famous for the way that birds rise up en masse to peck at the fleeing, helpless elementary schoolers. I found it, after the massing of crows, to be a flop; what kind of teacher, understanding the bird-related danger, decides to put the kids in their flight path? If the birds hadn't killed Suzanne Pleshette later in the movie, heaven knows someone should have sued her.) Repeatedly she calls to the other townspeople in the diner to lower their voices, for her children's sake. They're frightened, she says, frightened half to death. It becomes clear, as she repeats herself over and over again, that it's not really the children who are scared: it's her. In one moment, slavering with terror and with her eyes wide like she's been possessed, she slouches up to Melanie and blames her for the birds. Somehow, she screams, this is all the fault of the new woman in Bodega Bay. I half-expected a "Burn her!" to follow. I was also a little surprised that someone in the movie made that connection between the birds and Melanie's sudden appearance; mentally I was telling myself that if Melanie had just brought another different-colored suit to change into, then this avian plague would be over and done.
In 1975, Jaws ushered in a new type of thriller-horror in which what we imagine is significantly scarier than the shark. And in 1982, The Thing, without very many people noticing, created a scarier movie built on the same principle but increased monstrous presence. The Birds – though it predates Night of the Living Dead by five years – is one of the last movies of its kind. It is willing to show you the monsters, and while the monsters are pedestrian (which is what makes them scary in the first place), there's a limit to what you can imagine the birds doing. That limit is reached when Lydia (Tandy) sees a farmer pecked to death in his pajamas, his eye sockets replaced entirely by circles of drying blood. It's the film's creepiest single shot, because our imagination can't quite leave us alone as we think about what might have happened to get him<|fim_middle|> loss in their tyranny over nature and yet recognizes the silliness of fighting back against a superior force. Mitch catches part of a radio report about the military coming to Bodega Bay, but Mrs. Bundy has already expressed the sobering facts at the diner: there are more than eight billion birds in the United States alone, and there can be no victory against such an enemy which, at the time, had an advantage of forty-four to one. The sole, unusual exceptions to the violent rule of the birds are Cathy's lovebirds. The first birds of the film who are given serious screen time are the lovebirds Melanie purchases for Cathy, and who share a ride with her up the California coast. In a forgotten, hilarious scene, the lovebirds lean together in the direction of the car whenever Melanie pushes it too fast around a curve. Of all the birds in Bodega Bay, only the lovebirds remain gentle; Cathy will insist on bringing them with her when the Brenners and Melanie leave Bodega Bay, and Mitch, for whatever reason, does not refuse her. Perhaps he is swayed by her totally factual argument: the lovebirds haven't hurt anyone. In short, this is an argument about docility in domesticity. Trapped in their cage, the lovebirds are totally harmless and even disinterested in escaping or pecking at their caretaker's hands. Birds who go out, from Lydia's chickens with no appetite to the roving seagulls, appear dissatisfied with the state of affairs. When kept safe and secure inside a little box, the threat is totally mitigated. If one is to draw a connection between Melanie and the birds supported by what the film is as opposed to what it might have been, it's here. Melanie caged in – in San Francisco, reliant on her father for income, within her sphere of society and social class – is essentially an image of safety, of inertia. Even if she bangs her wings against the bars of her cage every now and then, she is still mostly harmless; no calamity worse than being pushed into a Roman fountain comes upon anyone. Yet when she begins to act in an unseemly way – chasing down a man, baldly flirting with him, disrupting a quiet maritime community with her big city plans – the punishment falls on the whole town. One wonders how the lovebirds would react to being let out of their cage, then, when the frenzy strikes its fellows.
March 30, 2017 June 30, 2017 speakerformediocritiesCatching Up, Film, Three-Star MoviesAlfred Hitchcock, Ethel Griffiths, Jessica Tandy, Rod Taylor, Suzanne Pleshette, The Birds, Tippi Hedren, Veronica Cartwright
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Next Post Baumann and Burch, Episode 34: In My Father's Warehouse There Are Many Brackets | to that point. When Melanie wanders upstairs during the night when the birds storm the metaphorical castle keep and discovers they have punched a hole through the roof, she is very nearly pecked to death and is only saved when Mitch goes looking for her. That scene is stunning for the endless waves of birds, for the brilliant "oh no" moment of seeing the patch of light through the roof, and for the swift cuts which emphasize the rapidity of the attack. But it's not half as scary as the dead farmer. This is why I was disappointed with the bird attacks. They are impressive, and this sort of home invasion against which all you can do is fortify the house, bundle up, and hope for the best is more interesting than the kind where you could theoretically shoot your way out. What the birds struggle to convey is the eerie. That's why the best scene of the film is the one where the crows come, first alone and then in vast numbers, to sit on the jungle gym. That's why the sparrows rushing through the fireplace are creepy, even if they cause no real harm to anyone; most of the property damage is actually done by Mitch in an effort to fight them off. Melanie's presence and the birds' takeover are linked by correlation but not by causation. While I'm not sure a causational link between Melanie's appearance in Bodega Bay and the entire avian population of the city becoming psychotic would make this a better movie – in fact I'm pretty sure the opposite is true – I think that the strangeness could remain without the histrionics. Imagine a dead gull outside Annie's door, a seagull swooping down to strike Melanie in the boat, a murder of crows swelling up behind her as she cluelessly smokes a cigarette. But the birds are no longer the incidental causes of a gas station going up in flames, or a long night where innocent families weather a storm of relentless, motivated, winged killers. They are simply omens as opposed to the proof the omens came true.
Certainly the film dabbles in this line for some time. Lydia is, as Annie tells Melanie in the most hard-boiled way she can screw up, notoriously rough on Mitch's girlfriends. Annie is something of a horror story in herself, who came to Bodega Bay from San Francisco four years ago and whiffed with Lydia and ergo with Mitch. (What chance does an Annie have against a Melanie?) Mitch has a fairly strict routine which hasn't been interrupted in years, despite what sound like concentrated efforts to the contrary. He spends the week in San Francisco, and then comes home to his mother and his weirdly young sister on the weekends. Another woman in the mix is a disruption, a strangeness, very nearly an insult to the solidity of the family, and Lydia's reaction to Melanie's presence is a little menacing. Her eyes flash and her jaw sets in a way that is typically reserved for war movies or westerns, not romances. She is reminiscent of figures like Mrs. Danvers in Rebecca or Madame Sebastian in Notorious, other unexpectedly grim, dangerous figures in Hitchcock's domestic dramas. Melanie's disruptions in the Brenner family are covered with some specificity, but they are radically altered by the birds; I found myself disappointed – knowing what was coming, perhaps "pre-disappointed" is the right term – to lose what was proving to be an unusual experience.
One of the most repeated questions in the film, asked by adults and children alike, is also unanswerable: why are the birds attacking? It's not a question which can be explained (or explained away), like "Why did we go to war in Korea?" or "What have we got against the Russkies anyway?" Birds are incapable of explaining what's happened in their chemistry which has led to their savage, sporadic attacks on human populations in northern California not merely because we don't speak the same language but because the impulse could be beyond their own abilities to comprehend it. Like Jaws or, more directly, Planet of the Apes, The Birds recognizes humanity's tenuous grip on the planet. There's a distinct anxiety about nature which the characters feel – the sight of a bird creates mindbending fear in more than one character over the course of the film – and which even transmits to the viewer. Every time someone went outside, I was aghast: it's not safe out there. Silent Spring had just been published about six months before The Birds premiered (though du Maurier's short story, of course, was written in the 1950s). It's very possible to read our anxiety about the way we've treated nature in The Birds in the same way that we might be anxious about having bullied on a boy who then grew four inches and gained thirty pounds of muscle over the summer and is lookin' for payback. I find this the most interesting angle of the Birds Attack! subplot, one which expresses human discomfort with any | 1,022 |
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Although the British weather can never be considered reliable moving in winter can bring with it all extremes of weather. By checking the weather forecast before the move you can ensure that you're prepared for any eventuality. If you know the weather is bad you can ensure all electrical items and clothes are well protected from rain or snow.
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If you have the opportunity it's worth doing some preparation in your new home before you move. In winter it's imperative you ensure that your boiler is working and the heating is on. Moving into a cold house is one thing, but dealing with a leak due to frozen pipes on your first night in you new house would be devastating. A deep clean is always recommended before the furniture is moved in. You should also make sure you have tea bags, milk and toilet roll.
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I was recently invited to gawk at luxury accessories and vintage fashion at Leslie Hindman Auctioneers - I couldn't pass that up! I stopped by last Sunday and loved the everything they had there there from the handbags, to the jewelry and the fur coats!
My favorite part - the history behind the clothes! The earliest accessory featured is an extremely rare Louis Vuitton monogram shoe trunk dating to the early 20th century ($7,000-9,000). There is a sticker on the top of the case that reads "Cunard White Star to Europe" - the Cunard White Star line of ships ran between 1934 to 1950. Apparently, the sticker was placed on the top of the trunk to identify to the bell boys that the previous owner was a big tipper.
Other highlights include a variety of couture and runway vintage garments such as an Yves Saint Laurent for Christian Dior couture black coat dress dated to 1959, ($1,000- $2,000). This is a piece came from the two year span that Yves Saint Laurent worked for Dior until he left in 1960. At that time Yves St. Laurent was called for military service, and on his return he found that someone else had been given charge of the House of Dior. Apparently, St. Laurent was very angry about this - he sued legally against Dior since he had a contract for the position. He was granted compensation of 48,000 pounds and used this to set up his own salon.
The jewelry had some fascinating history behind it as well, but I mostly was in shock and awe about the intricacy of the jewelry pieces (and the cost). While we were there, we<|fim_middle|> Jewelry at Leslie Hindman Auctioneers"
kate, i've been wanting to do an auction house so badly! i loved this. and i want the LV trunk, obviously :). great post!
Very fun piece to read!!! | saw a piece sell for $380,000!
My favorite jewelry piece was this diamond encrusted butterfly. It reminded me of my grandmother, she had an obsession with butterflies. Unfortunately, at $4,000 I could not take it home with me!
If you are in the market for some luxury vintage fashion or some unique jewelry check out the auctioneers website for details on upcoming auctions!
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Colon cancer: Two different tumor worlds
Dr. Sanford Markowitz found 20 genetic mutations that hint at the cause of colon cancer in African Americans.
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Kushagra Gupta, Staff Reporter
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In his youth, Dr. Sanford Markowitz loved science. In college, his majors were chemistry and physics, and it was the latter he thought he would continue to study. As an upperclassman, however, Markowitz decided that medicine called to him. Now, he exclusively focuses on colon cancer as a doctor and researcher.
Markowitz was recently the principal investigator on a study that found 20 genetic mutations unique to colon cancer in African Americans. They were present in about 40 percent of African American colon cancers and three times as likely in colon cancers studied in Caucasians.
The study is the first to investigate a difference in the genetic makeup of tumors between ethnicities. Markowitz believes that future research on the subject will eventually allow faster detection and stronger prevention in colon cancer in African Americans. Additionally, he says that the findings gave notice to researchers that previously disregarded genes can cause colon cancer, no matter the ethnicity.
"It's not that no one has previously thought that cancer might be different in different ethnic groups," said Mark<|fim_middle|> group of 129 tumor samples of colon tumors in Caucasians. This established that there were differences in the colon tumor makeup between the ethnicities.
Markowitz is aware that his work can be misinterpreted. Looking for a genetic difference between ethnicities as the cause of a disease can be taken in a negative light.
Although he understands this, Markowitz believes that future research on the topic can help detect cancer. If only a couple genes are tied to the risk of cancer in a certain group, he explains, knowing whether one has this genetic predisposition can help catch a tumor early on.
Additionally, Markowitz illustrates, by focusing on one specific ethnic group, he was able to identify new potential tumor-causing genes that would have gone undetected.
"You have lot of sorting of needles and haystacks to do," he explains.
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Colon cancer is more present and deadly in African Americans than Caucasians. However, the cause was thought to be mostly due to lower access to healthcare.
Markowitz, though, didn't want to dismiss the idea of a genetic cause. In previous work, he had isolated the colon cancer genes, the DNA that was being actively used in tumor cells. The goal was to find target genes susceptible to mutating and causing colon cancer.
The sample, however, only included a few African Americans. Looking back, he wondered if the genome would be different if his sample only included African Americans.
In the present study, the researchers did just that, sequencing a group of 103 tumor samples. The results were surprising, showing 20 genes that weren't previously mutated.
Staying true to their scientific mindset, the researchers didn't immediately jump to any conclusions. Instead, they identified advances in techniques and technology as a potential cause of the new findings.
Searching for a way to confirm their findings, the investigators sequenced a | 234 |
Aaron Weissman can tell you from personal experience the best people to have around when you break your tibia and fibia is a group of Boy Scouts.
"My kids are awesome," he said.
On Sunday, as Weissman was floating down Belt Creek through the Sluice Boxes Canyon with four boys and three adults affiliated with Boy Scout Troop 26 Great Falls, a sudden decision of his to cling to a raft in rough waters after the boys got to the shore caused his right leg to get pinched in between boulders. The decision resulted in a compound fracture of the tibia and fibula in his right leg, about 3 miles upstream from the Sluice Boxes boat launch, which required a lengthy emergency response to the scene.
Before emergency crews arrived, the group of Scouts — two of which have earned Eagle Scout ranking — had Weissman's leg splinted and wrapped.
Scouts Jake Smith, Jack Dresel, Wyatt Tanner and Daniel Stone all helped with the process with assistance from Pack 26 Cubmaster Brandon Carpenter, Dean Tanner and Eric Christian, adults on the trip.
Weissman said the trip was well-planned and<|fim_middle|> the second boat and was fishing, that he was injured and learned Keith was farther down stream. He had to float downstream using his arms and one working leg and told Keith he needed to splint his legs to which Keith responded he couldn't find anything to use as a splint.
That's when the Scouts got to work. Daniel, 11, started scouring the shores for something to use as a splint.
"Once he told me he broke his leg I ran to where a big tree was fallen over and I grabbed a couple of straight sticks," Daniel said.
Meanwhile Wyatt, 14, scanned the area hoping to find rope to stabilize the splint.
"I took straps off the boat while Daniel was getting the sticks," he said.
The other two helped gather materials and Weissman — though in serious pain — still tried to turn his injury into a teaching moment.
"My first thought was, 'boys, you need to watch this splinting process,'" Weissman said.
The boys kept his leg in the water, splinted and covered with life jackets for protection, while others called for help. They were about three miles upstream from any access point along the creek. Weissman said originally Mercy Flight was called out, but there wasn't an easy place for crews to land. Belt Ambulance Service responded and Dean Tanner said the crew had to run in three miles up the Sluice Boxes trail with a backboard to get to Weissman. The crew arrived around 5:30 p.m.
The ambulance crew determined they couldn't take Weissman back down on the trail, so they strapped him to Keith's boat and floated him back out before taking him via ambulance to Benefis Health System.
"It turns out, I have a high tolerance for pain," said Weissman, who will be in a brace and a wheelchair for the next month.
The boys said only after Weissman was loaded up in the ambulance did they begin to process what they'd seen and done.
"It was unexpected; it escalated quickly," Wyatt said.
Jack, 14, and Jake, 13, said they were both in shock, but were eager to help as the events unfolded.
Posted on July 5, 2014, in News of our Congregants, Ram's Horn. Bookmark the permalink. Leave a comment. | followed Boy Scout protocol with the trip being registered with the local office and proper safety measures under consideration. It happened after the Scouts spent two months learning CPR and other safety training. It was the group's first time floating that area of Belt Creek.
But just past the canyon, the group ran into some rapids. Weissman said he and one of the boys and two adults were in the main raft while the others had moved to the extra raft they were carrying for safety reasons. The boat spun and moved to the side of the creek and everyone was ejected. Weissman said while the boys got safely to the shore, he decided to keep a hold of the boat as it was filling with water. He thinks his right leg was jammed between two large boulders, where he said the combination of the stream and the raft caused his lower right leg to snap, approximately an inch below his knee. It was just before 4 p.m.
"I did find out I keep calm in an emergency," Weissman said.
Weissman called out to Bob Keith, who had been maneuvering | 219 |
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