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Looking for more fun things to do on your Steamboat Springs vacation? Discover Steamboat Springs' vibrant event scene here, including music concerts, races, wine & beer festivals and more. From free weekly Steamboat Springs activities, to signature events you don't want to miss, you'll find it all here in our Steamboat Springs events calendar.
Events You Don't Want To Miss
Ski with a Naturalist
Starts: 1:30pm | Ends: 2:30pm
Join a naturalist from Yampatika Educational Partnership at 1:30 pm Tuesday and Thursday for an
interpretive tour of the forest and mountain habitats. Meet at the Why Not trailhead at the top of the Gondola at Steamboat Ski Resort, December 10 - March 12, 2020.
This is a free program.* No registration required.
This program is in partnership with Steamboat Ski and Resort Corporation and the US Forest Service.
*Lift ticket not included.
For additional information and to register, please click here.
Uranium Mine Snowshoe Tour
Starts: 10:00am | Ends: 1:00pm
Yampatika: Uranium Mine Snowshoe Tour
Join Yampatika for a moderately strenuous snowshoe tour along the breathtaking Fish Creek Canyon. This tour is for ages 16 and up.
This is a free program, however registration is required and there is a $5 fee to park in the Fish Creek Falls parking lot. Please click here to register or for additional information.
This program is in partnership with the US Forest Service.
Friday Night Fireworks
Throughout the holiday season enjoy fireworks every Friday night at the Steamboat Resort base area. Find a cozy spot on the patio of any of the restaurants at the base area to watch the stunning fireworks display over the perfect backdrop of snow-covered mountains. For the full experience, add Night Skiing to your pass and make memories that will last forever skiing through the crisp night air with the entire galaxy unfolding before you. To warm up, treat yourself to a "Steamboat Snuggler" at the Saddles Lounge, a delightful peppermint hot chocolate cocktail that will leave you feeling like a kid in front of a campfire!
Yampatika Snowshoe Tour
Starts: 10:00am | Ends: 12:00pm
Yampatika: Emerald Mountain Snowshoe Tour
Every Saturday Dec 14 - March 15
Ride the chairlift up historic Howelsen Hill to enjoy spectacular views of the Yampa Valley, and to learn winter ecology provided by a Yampatika guide. This tour is for ages 16 and up.
Cost is $20 and price includes snowshoes and lift ticket.
Registration is required. Please click here to register or for additional information.
Ski Free Sundays at Howelsen Hill
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Bud Light Rocks the Boat Free Concert Series: Bonfire Dub
Bonfire Dub plays a deep and powerful blend of roots music- a mix of covers from The Doors, Bob Marley, Widespread Panic and original songs with rich melodies, featuring downtempo, acoustic laced and electric driven reggae, folk and dub. Bonfire Dub's 2016 album "Gypsy Roots" has been called "a record for our times." Like the album title, Bonfire Dub's deep roots have made the band a celebration of community and creativity, inspired by a spirit of world travel and the shared, yet diverse, spectrum of the human experience.
Bud Light Rocks the Boat Free Concert Series: The Lil Smokies
Drawing on the energy of a rock band and the Laurel Canyon songwriting of the 1970's, The Lil Smokes are reimagining their approach to roots music on "Tornillo," named for the remote Texas town where the album was recorded. Produced by Bill Reynolds (The Avett Brothers, Band of Horses), Tornillo is the band's third studio album. Formed in Missula, Montana, the Lil Smokies have built a national following through constant touring. They have performed at Red Rocks, LOCKN', High Sierra, Telluride, Bourbon & Beyond and more.
Bud Light Rocks the Boat Free Concert Series: The Motet
The Motet harnesses the purest energy form on the planet- movement on the dancefloor generating friction, sparks and light- on their ninth full-length, "Death or Devotion." The Denver septet encode a message in their energetic mélange of boisterous badass funk, swaggering soul and thought-provoking pop. In the process, they challenge convention and arrive with a dynamic, diverse and definitive statement. "By drawing on funk, we create a fun, palatable musical vehicle for our message to go down," says Lyle Divinsky (vocals). "Our goal is for you to recognize we're all dancing on the same dance floor- even though our steps may look different." | historic Howelsen Hill in Steamboat Springs. Ski the same trails as Steamboat Olympians just steps from downtown. It's as easy as simply stopping into the lodge to pick up your free ticket, which is required to access the ski lifts and the Nordic trails on these special Ski Free Sundays.
The city of Steamboat Springs will host four enhanced Ski Free Sundays on Dec. 15, Jan. 12, Feb. 16 and March 15. In addition to freeskiing, these events will feature a beer garden, food trucks, patio games and more. For more info, please click the more details link below.
Steamboat Mardi Gras
Laissez Les Bons Temps Rouler-The good times are definitely ready to roll in Ski Town, U.S.A.® when the Steamboat Mardi Gras comes marching in with a free concert, parade, a Cajun Crawfish Broil and Mardi Gras party with facepainters and street performers. Food enthusiasts can enjoy Mardi Gras themed lunch creations across the mountain.
Schedule of events coming soon.
Bud Light Rocks the Boat Free Concert Series: The Main Squeeze
The Main Squeeze, with deep musical roots sprouted in the Midwest, have scored their lives at each twist and curve. While starting out as a party band at Indiana University, their latest album "Without A Sound" illustrates their increasing musical maturity and creativity inspired by their new home in LA. The Main Squeeze has spent several years building their foundation since being championed by producer Randy Jackson: they have played Red Rocks; shared the stage with The Roots, Aloe Blacc, Jane's Addiction, Umphrey's McGee and Trombone Shorty; and performed at music festivals like Bonnaroo, Electric Forest, Summer Camp and High Sierra.
Steamboat will once again be rockin' as the Bud Light Rocks the Boat free concert series returns for the 21st year offering a great mixture of musical genres. The series has featured everything from bluegrass to New Orleans style rhythm and blues and traditional Irish music to flat out rock and roll. All concerts are located on the Steamboat Stage in Gondola Square starting at 3:30pm. Please leave pets at home.
Bud Light Rocks the Boat Free Concert Series: Con Brio
Named for an Italian musical direction meaning 'with spirit,' Con Brio is a San Francisco Bay Area band that plays soul, psych-rock and R&B as fresh and freethinking as the place they call home. With charismatic singer Ziek McCarter bringing "the dance moves, splits and all, of James Brown" (KQED) and a band that "comes across like a party punk version of Sly and the Family Stone" (Consequence of Sound), Con Brio is known to convert anyone who sees their electric live show. Explorer, out on July 6, is a reflection of the two years of nearly nonstop touring that followed their first record's success, including playing at festivals like Lollapalooza, Bumbershoot, Austin City Limits and more.
Bud Light Rocks the Boat Free Concert Series: Maggie Rose
Powerhouse vocalist and songwriter Maggie Rose debuted a refreshed, transformative sound with her album "Change The Whole Thing" a mashup of pop, funk, soul and R&B. Change The Whole Thing marked Rose's deburt on NBC's Today Show and was featured by Southwest's Live at 35, Paste, Jam in the Van and The Washington Post. Rose was also named a YouTube Emerging Artist and Pandora Artist to Watch. On this album Rose surrounded herself with industry collaborators including members of Steven Tyler's band, Kelly Clarkson's band, and Them Vibes allowing her creative freedom to unfold in a remarkable way.
Bud Light Rocks the Boat Free Concert Series: Slim Wednesday
Mix Jojo Hermann from Widespread Panic with The Dynamites and what do you get? Slim Wednesday, the day after Fat Tuesday- Southern Psych-Soul. Straight out of a southern soul/rock/funk voodoo caludron, Slim Wednesday's debut full-length, Reptile Show, jumps from jam to deep dish funk to New Orleans piano to troubadour soul to Toussaint-style gut bucket. A new sound of some old sounds that have come around- do get on down. Slim Wednesday features Jojo Hermann from Widespread Panic on keys and vocals, Bill Elder (a.k.a Leo Black from The Dynamites) on the guitar and vocals, Kevin Mabin on drums, Jon Jackson (Macy Gray) on sax, Greg Bryant | 942 |
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So what exactly are antioxidants?
Antioxidants are substances that work interactively inside and outside of the body's cells, protecting cell membranes from the damaging effects of highly reactive molecules called free radicals.
Wait, what - Free radicals?
Free radicals are "charged" molecules that, if not counteracted by an antioxidant, run riot throughout the body, causing irreparable damage to cell membranes and cell structures (including our DNA or genetic blueprint), driving diseases such as cancer and heart disease, and also accelerating ageing. In fact, free radicals are implicated in over 60 diseases.
Another less serious sign of reduced antioxidant protection is ageing, or what we visibly see as lines, wrinkles, looser and blemished skin. Joint stiffness, and chronic aches and pains may also be a sign of heightened levels of free radicals, and reduced antioxidant protection. It is antioxidants that protect us, and literally "break the chain" of potential chemical destruction within the body.
How can we fight free radicals?
So where are free radicals coming from? They are coming from outside sources such as cigarette smoke, pollutants, radiation and even sunlight. Free radical molecules are also the end-product of normal breathing and energy production within the body's cells. Whilst oxygen is of course, necessary for life, too much of it can damage our tissues. Oxidative damage is a sort of biological "rusting", and exactly why we have a sophisticated in-built antioxidant defence system working on our behalf.
The body produces certain vital antioxidants, and it's this internal antioxidant defence system that enables us to thrive in an ever-increasing challenging and toxic world. However, the body also needs, and effectively uses a multitude of antioxidant substances found readily in the diet – in natural wholefoods.
Where can we get antioxidants from?
Antioxidants are either water-soluble or fat-soluble, and we need both water and fat-soluble antioxidants to effectively protect cells. Water-soluble antioxidants include vitamin C, plant polyphenols, astaxanthin (found in water melon) and glutathione, whilst vitamin E, vitamin A and carotenoids form part of the fat-soluble army of antioxidants.
Antioxidants are then further categorised into non-enzymatic (found in foods), and enzymatic (produced in the body). Although enzymatic antioxidants are produced in the body (they cannot be supplemented orally), they do require co-factors in the form of trace minerals (e.g. copper, selenium, zinc, magnesium, manganese, iron) which are, of course, obtained via the diet. The non-enzymatic antioxidants we find in foods, supplement our internal antioxidant defence system, preventing a possible depletion and onset of disease.
Glutathione is produced in the body and is known as the "master antioxidant". It is found in every single cell of your body, and maximises the actions of all other antioxidants. Glutathione is a substance that together with the mineral selenium makes the antioxidant enzyme glutathione peroxidase, important for healthy liver function, and longevity.
Superoxide dismutase, or SOD as its commonly called, is another major antioxidant produced in the body. It is assisted again by trace minerals such as zinc, copper and manganese, and is present in aerobic cells and extracellular fluids.
N-acetyl cysteine (NAC), is another antioxidant that is believed to enhance immune function and maintain healthy lung function. It also boosts levels of glutathione.
Alpha-lipoic acid is one of the newer generation of antioxidants. We make some of our own lipoic acid, but we still need to get it from food, or supplements. Alpha-lipoic acid draws on the cells own ability to "protect" and increases the effectiveness of other antioxidants, such as vitamin E and glutathione. Unlike any other antioxidant, it dissolves and works in both water and fats, helping to recycle both vitamin C (a water-soluble antioxidant) and vitamin E (a fat-soluble antioxidant). Incidentally, vitamin C recycles vitamin E and highlights the way in which all the antioxidants rely on each other to control the free radical chain reactions and minimise cell damage.
CoQ10 is probably the most powerful antioxidant used by the body, being particularly effective in protecting the heart, arteries and blood vessels, as well as slowing down premature ageing.
Vitamin E is the major "lipid" or fat-soluble antioxidant in the body, and is the antioxidant that comes to the rescue when a free radical attacks the fatty acids in the cell's lining. Vitamin E is also important for diabetics, enabling insulin to reach "healthy" cell receptor sites that have not been damaged by free radicals.
Vitamin C is undoubtedly one of the most researched nutrients, and its role as an antioxidant is well understood. Numerous studies have clearly shown its ability to help lower blood pressure and blood cholesterol, as well as reduce risk of developing chronic disease, such as heart disease and lung cancer in smokers. Smoking just one cigarette can deplete blood levels of vitamin C by 50%!
We should not forget that selenium is an important antioxidant in its own right, having been well studied and documented as the essential cancer-protecting nutrient.
Do I need to take antioxidant supplements?
One important point to remember about antioxidants (and all nutritional compounds) is that they work in synergy with one another. Vegetables such as broccoli, sprouts and bok choy for example contain over 70 different antioxidant substances - an amount, concentration, and natural structure that is simply not possible to achieve in a synthetic supplement.
Eating a natural wholefood diet with a wide variety of foods really is the key to obtaining all the antioxidant protection you need. The antioxidant support on offer in a plant-based diet extends way beyond the conventional antioxidants found in many supplements. Different types of antioxidants in foods function in different ways.
While all types are helpful in preventing unwanted oxygen damage to our cells and bodily systems, different types of antioxidants go about this vital task in different ways. It is therefore the combination of antioxidants found in fresh plant-based foods that make them so valuable, and a key reason why fruits and vegetables for example provide benefits that supplements cannot.
So how do we know how many antioxidants are in a food?
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Crosley Field Closed 49 Years Ago This Week, But Lives On In The Mind's Eye
By Howard Wilkinson • Jun 28, 2019
The then-home of the Cincinnati Reds, Crosley Field, in an undated photograph.
The stands at Crosley Field were packed with 28,027 Reds fans on the night of June 24, 1970, the final game in the cozy, quirky ball park that had been the home of the Cincinnati Reds since 1912.
Crosley went out with a bang. And then a whimper from their opponents that night, the San Francisco Giants.
The Reds trailed the Giants 4-3 going into the bottom of the eighth inning. Then, Reds catcher Johnny Bench, who would end up winning the National League MVP award that year, hit a solo home run to tie the game. He was followed to the plate by "The Big Bopper," first baseman Lee May, who hit another home-run ball sailing off into the night sky over Cincinnati's West End.
Reliever Wayne Granger – who would become a member of the Reds Hall of Fame – faced the final Giants hitter, with two outs and the Reds leading 5-4. Bobby Bonds (father of Barry) grounded weakly to Granger, who tossed the ball on to May for the final out.
And that was the final at-bat at Crosley Field.
After the game, and the crowd had gone home carrying its memories of Crosley, some Reds executives and then-Cincinnati Mayor Gene Ruehlmann dug up the Crosley Field home plate, loaded it on a helicopter and flew it about three miles to the southeast where they put it in place at the nearly finished multi-sport Riverfront Stadium.
A piece of Crosley survived, for a while at least, at Riverfront Stadium.
Immediately after the final out at Crosley Field on June 25, 1970, the pick and shovel boys dug up home plate and it was transported by helicopter to Cincinnati's new 51,000-seat stadium, which the Reds opened on June 30 against Atlanta.
Credit Gene Smith / AP
For the next few years, the classic ball park at Findlay and Western avenues sat there falling apart. Its only use was as an auto impound lot for the Cincinnati police.
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Crosley Field was soon a pile of rubble.
But the memories live on in the hearts and minds of those who spent steamy summer afternoons or pleasant evenings at the ball park, watching their heroes.
You can see it today – just stop by the Reds Hall of Fame and Museum at Great American Ball Park. Watch the parents and grandparents standing over the pinpoint accurate model of Crosley Field with their children and grandchildren, passing on the lore of Crosley.
Four of those players who spent all of their years with the Reds at Crosley Field are now bronze statues on Crosley Terrace in front of Great American Ball Park – The Hall of Fame catcher, Ernie Lombardi, crouched behind the plate. A 15-year-old kid from Hamilton, Joe Nuxhall, on the mound firing a pitch to perhaps the greatest Red of them all, Frank Robinson, frozen in time in the middle of that sweet swing. And off to the side, waiting his turn at bat, the Reds' superstar of the 1950s, Ted Kluszewski, in the on-deck circle.
Before Crosley Field closed forever in 1970, baseball had been played at the corner of Findlay Street and Western Avenue since 1884. The first ball park on that site was known as League Park, but it burnt to the ground and was replaced by an ornate looking park with the memorable name of the Palace of the Fans.
The Palace of the Fans, parts of which are prominent in the Reds' logo for the 150th anniversary of professional baseball in Cincinnati, opened in 1902 and was torn down in 1911. It apparently looked nice, but wasn't particularly structurally sound.
The next year, Redland Field opened. That is the park we would recognize as Crosley Field. The name was changed in 1934 after business mogul Powel Crosley bought the team.
There are countless memories associated with that old ball park:
Four games of the 1919 World Series, where the Chicago "Black Sox" were said to be throwing games for gamblers, were played at Crosley.
On May 24, 1935, President Franklin D. Roosevelt flipped a switch in Washington and the towering light stands erected at Crosley Field bathed the field in light for the first night game in major league history.
In Oct. 1940, the Reds won the seventh and deciding game of the World Series against the Detroit Tigers at Crosley, only a year after losing the World Series to the Yankees.
On June 11, 1938, Johnny Vander Meer threw the first of his back-to-back no-hitters; the second came four days later in Brooklyn.
Joe Nuxhall, a kid from Hamilton who was quite an athlete, faced Stan Musial and the St. Louis Cardinals in a game on June 10, 1944. He was absolutely hammered by the Cards. But, then again, he was only 15 years old, the youngest player in major league history. After eight years in the minors, Nuxhall returned to the Reds to become a popular pitcher and, later, a beloved radio broadcaster.
On a non-baseball note, The Beatles played a quick concert on the field at Crosley before a packed house of screaming fans.
And, in the waning days of the ball park, on May 17, 1970, it was the site of Hank Aaron's 3,000th major league hit.
Today, the City Gospel Mission sits on much of the site of Crosley Field. They have worked with the Reds Hall of Fame and Museum to create a walking tour that gives visitors a sense of what the old ball park looked like.
Old-timers who saw many a game there can do that walking tour and their minds' eyes can fill in the blanks. For them, that plot of land at Findlay and Western will always be hallowed ground.
Credit Jim Nolan / WVXU
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From Obscurity To Immortality: The Story Of Sparky Anderson
George Lee Anderson of Bridgewater, South Dakota, might well have turned out to be one of the most obscure people to have ever put on the uniform of a Major League Baseball team.
You know him as Sparky, a nickname given to him by a minor league radio broadcaster because young George was something of a firecracker.
Joe Nuxhall Debuted 75 Years Ago On June 10, 1944
By John Kiesewetter • Jun 9, 2019
Courtesy Baseball Digest
Joe Nuxhall made baseball history 75 years ago, pitching for the Reds at age 15 in an 18-0 loss to the World Champion St. Louis Cardinals on June 10, 1944. It was four days after D-Day when Nuxhall took the mound at Crosley Field, and it wasn't pretty.
Celebrating 55 Years Of The Rosie Reds
By John Kiesewetter • Jun 14, 2019
For 55 years, the Rosie Reds organization has been supporting the hometown baseball team | 1,137 |
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Triad diaper bank reopens some of its warehouse after Weaver fire
4:29pm March 23, 2022
by Keri Brown
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Interns show their enthusiasm at the wrapping space at the Diaper Bank of North Carolina's warehouse in Winston-Salem. Photo courtesy of Michelle Old.
The Diaper Bank of North Carolina is starting to reopen its Triad Branch warehouse in Winston-Salem after a nearby chemical fire forced them to close their doors early last month.
The Greater Triad Branch is located beside the Winston Weaver fertilizer plant. The organization says their building on Indiana Avenue sustained roof damage after the recent fire at the Weaver site.
Over a million diapers and hygiene products had to be set aside and have been off-limits ever since. The Diaper Bank is still waiting for them to be tested for contamination. And it's unclear when the roof will be fully repaired.
Michelle Old, CEO and founder of the organization, says there's been a lot of cleaning at the site and a portion of the warehouse is now reopened. The Diaper Bank continues to send products from<|fim_middle|> week to serve the community and that is costing us twice as much as it did before."
Old says they currently need more space but are locked into their lease for another year.
She says they're still looking for more volunteers to help package diapers and are accepting donations.
The Diaper Bank of North Carolina distributes over 100,000 diapers monthly in the Triad, which means they serve about 2,000 babies each month.
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"Everything is in limbo," she says. "And every day that we wait means that we have to put funds towards buying more product and at the same time gas prices have gone on, so we're bringing in diapers every single | 56 |
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For Kumble, Wadekar was godsend after getting dropped post 1990 tour of England. His comeback coincided with Wadekar's entry as manager during the 1992-93 tour of South Africa. He was never dropped during the next 16 years till his retirement in 2008.
"Deeply saddened by the passing away of #AjitWadekar He was more than a coach to the entire team - a father figure and a shrewd tactician. My heartfelt condolences to his family and loved ones. He will be missed. Thank you Sir for the confidence shown in my ability!" wrote Kumble.
For Sanjay Manjrekar, Wadekar was a "tough character" as coach. In fact, Majrekar had tweeted a video of Wadekar in cricket gears one last time during a charity match at the Shivaji Park Gymkhana in Mumbai.
"Ajit Wadekar's impact on Indian cricket is immense. His contemporaries worshipped him, such was his aura. Found him to be a tough character as coach. Exceptional Indian cricketer... RIP Sir."
The legendary Bishan Singh Bedi was magnanimous in his praise even though he conceded that they had differences of opinion on cricketing issues.
"V sad news-Ajit Wadekar passing away-only Indn Capt to win 3 series in a row-2 away 1 at home-ALW was good contemporary-we had differences of (sic) opinion but always respected glory of (sic) Crkt-fine batsman & great close in catch-served Indn Crkt w/aplomb as player/Selectr/Coach-RIP Jeetu!"
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Updated: 16 August 2018 11:05 IST
Former India captain Ajit Wadekar died on Wednesday after battling a prolonged illness at Mumbai's Jaslok Hospital.
Ajit Wadekar died on Wednesday at the age of 77. © Twitter
A beleagured captain and a struggling leg-spinner got a new lease of life under his managership and no wonder former India captains Mohammed Azharuddin and Anil Kumble found a "father figure" in Ajit Wadekar, during their glory days in international cricket. For Sachin Tendulkar, he was a "big influence" as maestro's career changed once he started opening the batting in ODIs. Wadekar, 77, died in Mumbai on Wednesday after prolonged illness. "Deeply saddened to hear about the demise of Ajit Wadekar Sir. He was someone who was instrumental in bringing out the best in us during the 90s. We'll always be grateful for his advice and guidance. Praying for strength for his family during this difficult time," Tendulkar wrote on his official Twitter page.
Deeply saddened to hear about the demise of Ajit Wadekar Sir. He was someone who was instrumental in bringing out the best in us during the 90s. We'll always be grateful for his advice and guidance. Praying for strength for his family during this difficult time. RIP pic.twitter.com/coSyac73ot
— Sachin Tendulkar (@sachin_rt) August 16, 2018
It was under Wadekar that Azharuddin, who was till then struggling captain, having lost the Test series in New Zealand, England and Australia, got a second wind under him from 1993 to 1996.
"such an iconic person..deeply saddened by his demise!! Sir was a father figure for me.. May his soul rest in peace! My Heartfelt Condolences to the family," Azharuddin wrote on his Twitter page | 450 |
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Volvo CE lands sustainability award
By Saul Wordsworth on 1st July <|fim_middle|> the industry evolution that today places higher value on the carbon lifecycle of construction equipment throughout the machine life, which of course begins with the manufacturer in the production phase.
"Volvo CE's purpose is to build the world we want to live in, so we are extremely proud to win this award which recognises our sustainability efforts towards that goal," said Niklas Nillroth, vice president sustainability and public affairs, Volvo CE. "Our energy management approach has delivered significant benefits to the rental industry at a product lifecycle level, and we believe that the cultural approach taken can be shared and adopted by rental companies of all scales and sizes."
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Volvo Construction Equipment (Volvo CE) has scooped the Best Sustainable Rental Project of the Year Award for its energy management at the 2020 European Rental Awards.
The awards, which are organised and judged by the European Rental Association (ERA), were announced on June 30 at a digital event hosted by International Rental News.
This recognition from the rental industry is a measure of the company's long term focus on sustainability, and ability to achieve significant environmental sustainability improvements. The energy management initiative that secured the award is just one of the many projects in the company's focus on environmental care. The success of the programme lies in building a company-wide embedded culture dedicated to avoiding waste energy and continuously improving.
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Archiving Facebook: What happens to humanity's data when all the users have gone?
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1 The first-ever drop in the number of the social platform's users marks a turning point in our online existences. What will mankind's largest digital cemetery look like, and who will be able to access it?
1.1 Decline in young users
1.2 Lack of legislation
1.3 Whose past is it anyway?
The first-ever drop in the number of the social platform's users marks a turning point in our online existences. What will mankind's largest digital cemetery look like, and who will be able to access it?
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg in 2019.Drew Angerer (Getty)
Luciana Demaría Artola inherited one of the largest funeral homes in Uruguay, and a few months ago tweeted to offer help to the families of deceased Facebook users. "If you have a loved one who has passed away, write to me and I will help you create a memorial account or deactivate their profile. Don't suffer," she posted on Twitter. "It got a lot of reactions," Artola explains over the phone. Because of her background in communication and family traditions, she specializes in helping people turn a Facebook account into a memorial: "It all started when a French friend of mine's brother died years ago. She told me how horrible it was that the profile was still active and it would alert her that it was his birthday," Artola says.
Over time she realized that this task could become part of the family funeral business. With the majority of us on one social network or another, digital burial will become just another step at the end of our lives. "A 21-year-old recently passed away and was buried by a competing funeral home, but they told him there that I knew how to close the social media accounts. The mother came and told me to do it because she couldn't stand it anymore," she explains. "The saddest thing I see is that a lot of people don't know when the person has passed away. They write to them: 'Hey how are you, it's been a while!'"
Death has largely escaped digitization, but on a recent Meta call with investors, the parent company of Facebook announced a global drop in daily active users for the first time. This was once unthinkable, but new competition from TikTok and Meta's increasing focus on the so-called metaverse means that in a few decades Facebook will host more dead users than living. The profiles and posts of the deceased will sit suspended in one big digital graveyard – the largest cemetery in the history of mankind.
Professor Carl Öhman of Sweden's Uppsala University did the math in a 2019 scientific paper, and his most conservative numbers suggest the dead will outnumber the living on Facebook in about 50 years, he says. It may be sooner. "The exact number of dead people doesn't matter so much," he explains by email. "What matters is that it will be on a large scale. In the next three decades, 2.2 billion people will die. Their data has to go somewhere. The problem is much bigger than just a question of what year Facebook will have more dead profiles than live ones – in fact, it's bigger than Facebook. Ultimately, it's about the long-term governance of the internet," he adds.
Decline in young users
Meta is the most emblematic company of the social media era. Facebook is the world's largest social network, with more than 2 billion monthly users, and Instagram (also owned by Meta) is second if you don't count YouTube. The average age of Facebook users skews older than other platforms, something that CEO Mark Zuckerberg admitted in October was a problem for its viability: "Over the last decade as the audience that uses our apps has expanded so much and we focused on serving everyone, our services have gotten dialed to be the best for the most people who use them rather than specifically for young adults," he said.
Facebook's obsolescence looms. "It's a medium-term problem," Öhman says. "That's why so few people talk about it. It's not a major concern in the next five years, but not hundreds of years away either. Technology people like to talk about things that revolutionize the industry in an instant or science fiction things that will happen in centuries. But what's really important is what's going to happen in the medium term, in 20 to 60 years from now," he adds.
Meta is the only major company that has created "memorial accounts" for the deceased, both on Facebook and Instagram. When someone dies, next of kin or someone like Luciana Demaría Artola sends over a request along with proof of death, and Facebook changes the account settings. Posts remain visible and you can write on the person's wall to remember them, but followers no longer receive birthday alerts or signs of activity. Twitter, YouTube and TikTok only offer an option to deactivate the account, and TikTok has such a young audience that on the request form death has no category of its own. You have to hit the "other" option, say company sources.
Lack of legislation
The challenges of this great digital cemetery are not limited to relations between family members and Meta. Facebook will host a substantial part of the intimate history of the first half of the 21st century on its servers. Who does that information belong to? What kind of access will great-grandchildren or historians have? What archives will remain from our era? And how will it respect the privacy of the deceased?
European data protection legislation does not cover the dead – for now at least. In Spain, the Data Protection Act states that relatives of the deceased may request access to, rectification or deletion of their personal data. All of this depends, of course, on Meta continuing to exist and for Facebook to stay up and running. "I worry about the lack of legislation," says law professor Natalie Lynner of Drake University in Iowa. "Companies are free to create their own rules and policies regarding the death of a user, and they vary widely," she says.
Questions remain about what benefit could be derived from reading your ancestors' social media posts and messages. "Platforms will reinvent themselves to adapt to market forces. Users wanted to see the Facebook pages of their loved ones, so Facebook started allowing memorial pages. I imagine Facebook is working to generate new ideas to make up for the loss of users and add more activity to the platform," adds Professor Lynner.
Richard Whitt, a former Google employee and now president of the California-based Glia Foundation, suspects companies will be driven by profit, not service to society: "Too many of these companies are only financially motivated. Can they be trusted to serve our best interests, especially for several generations? What are the odds that these companies will survive for 30, 40, 50 years to be around to provide 'digital graveyard' services?" he asks.
Perhaps there is another viable option for these companies once the dead outnumber the living. They may value the ability to predict the behaviors of grandchildren based on their grandparents' Facebook activity. "You can mine the data of deceased people for information about their living descendants," Öhman says. "I may not have any data about you, but if I know everything about your parents, I can make qualified inferences," he adds.
Whose past is it anyway?
The fight over access to personal data is one of the most important of our age. "Whoever controls the past also controls the present. If Facebook and Google gain a monopoly on our digital past, we put ourselves at risk as a society. Not because the people working there are bad people, but because no institution should have that much power over how we relate to the past," says Öhman. The debate doesn't end there. If a historian in 2070 wants to study #BlackLivesMatter or the #MeToo movement against sexual harassment, the information on Facebook will be valuable. But where will it be and who will it belong to? Öhman proposes creating a Digital World Heritage label, similar to UNESCO's for culture matters. For those who say that the internet is just junk, Öhman reminds us how part of our knowledge of ancient civilizations comes from their garbage.
There is another option besides open access data. "As [American internet pioneer] Vint Cerf, my mentor and friend, says, our ancestors may end up knowing less about the early 21st century than we do about the early 20th," notes Whitt. "It will take a concerted effort, through business models and data technologies and government policies to ensure digital preservation." A British company called Emortal is beta testing and crowdfunding digital archives that preserve the digital legacy of families through the ages, outside the reach of software and platform upgrades. Cerf himself has theorized about digital obsolescence or "bit rot."
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MASHPEE — After a two-year delay caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, ECHO of Cape Cod, a retreat program for high school youth, is finally celebrating a major milestone: 50 years. A special Mass and dinner will take place on Friday, June 17 in Mashpee to recognize and celebrate what may be the longest running retreat program in the United States.
Father Thomas Mayhew founded the ECHO program in 1968 at the request of Bishop James L. Connolly, former Bishop of the Fall River Diocese. ECHO, which stands for "Encountering Christ in Others," was first active in the Fall River and Taunton areas of Massachusetts. Father Francis B. Connors and Father Edward E. Correia brought it to Cape Cod in 1970. The acronym was a suggestion from Msgr. John J. Oliveira who was inspired by a quote from Benedictine spiritual writer Don Marmion who said, "Joy is the echo of God's life in us." Today, ECHO still operates under the auspices of the Fall River Diocese.
On a recent<|fim_middle|>5,000 people have participated in an ECHO weekend on Cape Cod. More than 100 priests have served on an ECHO weekend, which doesn't include the vast number of deacons and Sisters who have also taken part. Sixty-two adults have been facilitators of retreat weekends, which have taken place at St. Francis Parish Center in Hyannis, the La Salette House in Brewster (now Ocean Edge), Briarwood Retreat Center in Monument Beach, and the Craigville Conference Center in Centerville.
Although Covid-19 stopped retreats from happening for some time, the pause gave leaders of the program needed time to reflect on the past 50 years, form task forces to lay the groundwork for the future, and ultimately start to implement positive changes to ensure ECHO will be around for another 50 years or more. One-day co-ed retreats will return in the fall with the hope for multi-day retreats in 2023.
Cheryl and David Ryan from Christ the King Parish in Mashpee have been involved with ECHO for many of the 50 years. "As high school students we both lived ECHO retreat weekends as candidates and student team," Cheryl told The Anchor. "We participated in weekly reunions in Falmouth with Josie and Mel Gonsalves and in Centerville with Dick and Bobbi Paradise. The retreats and weekly followup helped to fully incorporate while personalizing our deep connection to our loving God."
"Soon after college and entering careers and with 2 young children and a third on the way, we felt the calling to begin to host weekly ECHO reunions at Christ the King Parish in Mashpee," added David. "We were blessed to participate in and help provide this weekly meeting for many years. Our room at the parish hall became a safe place where people could come for love and support, to learn more about their faith, and to pray. It certainly was a benefit to us as a married couple to help keep faith an important and vibrant part of our lives.
"It was amazing for so many years to have the opportunity to watch families including grandparents, parents, and children all share their faith through this program at the same time."
The couple shared, "The 50th anniversary of a program that so many of thousands of people participated in is certainly a little bittersweet. Even before the interruption caused by covid, Echo faced the challenge of decreased participation that is consistent with church attendance and commitment in general. While the future of what the program may look like in the future is unknown, there is no uncertainty in what a special multi generational program ECHO has been for so many years in our diocese."
The ECHO 50th anniversary Mass will be Friday, June 17 at 6 p.m. at Christ the King Church in Mashpee. A dinner will immediately follow in the parish hall. Suggested donation is $30 for dinner tickets. All are welcome. To purchase tickets, visit https://echoofcapecod.square.site
Visit www.echoofcapecod.org for more information about upcoming retreats, service opportunities, and more. ECHO of Cape Cod is a youth-driven faith community inviting all to discover and nurture a personal relationship with our loving Jesus Christ. Follow them on Facebook and Instagram for updates.
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ECHO is focused around a number of three-day retreats held annually for high school youth. The retreats are led by adults, teen-agers who have previously been on an ECHO, and Catholic spiritual directors. The weekends give young people the opportunity to reflect on their lives, develop lasting friendships, and discover and/or grow their faith. The ECHO experience, centered on the message of the Paschal Mystery, provides young people with the faith they need to live in a world sometimes hostile to Christian values. Following the retreats, all members of the ECHO community are invited to weekly reunions across the Cape that truly sustain the program and further develop a deep sense of community. In addition to the retreats and reunions, members of the ECHO community participate in a number of service projects on Cape Cod and host fellowship events throughout the year.
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The congress will run over five days at the Bella Center Copenhagen and attract an estimated 6,000 participants.
A two-pronged engagement project that supports ESTRO's ambition to improve the outcome of cancer treatment secured the ESTRO Annual Congress for Denmark. Through projects and events, it aims to showcase and translate Danish experience and expertise to ESTRO members before, during and after the congress while also using the ESTRO congress as a catalyst to improve radiotherapy in Denmark and Europe.
"We are very impressed with Copenhagen and the Danish engagement project, which is perfectly aligned with the ESTRO 2030 vision 'Optimal Health for All, Together'," said Umberto Ric | 195 |
Brother John read to us from Ephesians 1:3-6 showing that we were in Christ long before we were dead in sins with Adam. He points out that there is an eternity that exists prior to creation and existence that we cannot even begin to comprehend. And God has and does exist in this eternity. He also points out that this is when God chose us before that time of creation.
Brother John also taught us that because of our inherit nature passed down from Adam we were unable to go outside of the nature unless it was acted upon by an outside force. In other words, he shows that we are not in any condition to meet any conditions as pertaining to saving ourselves.
But it was the intimate foreknowledge that Paul talks about in Romans 8:28 that God used to predestinate us to be conformed to image of His son.
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Hebron Church is beyond thankful for all the prayers, love and support of all those in attendance and those unable to be with us.
On Sunday, Hebron met with a renewed sense of spirit, We met together in worship and were blessed to hear a wonderful message from Elder Ken<|fim_middle|>1:5-7 Brother John showed the things we are to add to faith with all diligence the last being charity. And having fervent charity will cover a multitude of sins (1 Peter 4:8).
In 1 Timothy 1:5 Paul tells Timothy that the end of the commandment is charity with a pure heart. And without this all things are vain. Brother John pointed out that to have a pure heart is not a comfortable thing, just like the trying that happens with gold.
Finally Brother John spoke from the beginning of 1 Corinthians 13:1 and all the things that charity is and is not. Again showing that without charity all of our gifts are worthless and of no profit in the kingdom.
Love (Charity) is the greatest thing this world shall ever know, it fits us for our service here and leads us nearer home, We will have closer fellowship with God when we put on charity with a pure heart here on this earth!
Brother John has been speaking to us about the components contained in 1 Corinthians 13:13. Today he focused on Hope. Teaching on different aspects of hope, Brother John showed in the scriptures where it is the resurrection of Christ in which we have hope, (1 Corinthians 15:19) and that there is a salvation in that hope. (Romans 8:24-25). We also learned that Hope brings comfort (a salvation from sorrow) (1 Thesalonians 4:13) and finally Brother John showed us that hope brings forth joy. This was illustrated in Acts 2:25-26/Psalm 16:8. David, somehow knew about the resurrection and his heart was glad, his glory rejoiceth, his flesh shall rest in hope.
And as with faith, hope is for this life. We will have no need for this hope in eternal glory- what a blessing that our Father gave us something to look forward to and changed our eternal course from that of eternal damnation to a life with Him. | Still (Shiloh PBC) on walking worthy of the vocation wherewith we have been called. Following this was a message of comfort from Elder Gary Harvey (Point Remove PBC) that even in these times of dissension in this world that GOD HAS A PLAN.
After services, we gathered for a photo opportunity as a church body with our new pastor and pastor's wife, While we had a good portion of our church family present, we do recognize that some of our precious brothers and sisters were not with us. We stayed and fellowshipped over an abundance of food and left rejoicing in the Lord.
Last Sunday Brother John started a new series on the tenets of what we believe. Some refer to this as the TULIP doctrine. Brother John began with the first letter T representing man's total depravity. We of course see in the book of Genesis 2:15-17 that the first commandment God ever gave was to Adam and Eve to not partake of the fruit of the tree of knowledge and evil with a promise of death. And in Genesis chapter 3:3-4 we see where satan challenges God's commandment. By Adam's disobedience he and Eve did in fact experience a death. They died to God. And by one man's act of disobedience, death passed down unto all men for all have sinned.
Yesterday, Hebron PBC met together for our First Sunday of the Month fellowship breakfast. As we continue to meet each month, it seems like our fellowship breakfast continues to grow. We are so thankful for the love we share with one another at our church. After breakfast, we met together in song worship and then entered into our prayer service. All who wished to offer public prayer were given opportunity to pray. At the close of our prayer service, we sang a song of praise and practiced the right hand of fellowship with one another. Sister Suzy Davis came forward asking for a home at Hebron stating her love for the brethren and her desire to serve with us. Sister Suzy will be given the right hand of fellowship upon receipt of her letter from her current church.
Please be in prayer for our dear pastor as he prepares his mind and his heart this week for his ordination service on Saturday. We invite all who can come and be with us to please join us March 9, 2019, at 9:30am at Hebron Primitive Baptist Church.
The definition of Charity according to the Oxford dictionary is: A disposition to judge hopefully of men and there actions and to make allowance for their short comings.
Brother John spoke to us today about the final part of 1 Corinthians 13:13, Charity. He pointed out that we often think of charity as love in action, but with the above definition it shows that charity is also an attitude- an attitude of hopeful judgment. And more than just judgment, but an allowance of others' shortcomings. Brother John pointed out that there is a difference in allowance and acceptance. In 2 Peter | 623 |
Of the musical highlights at last Saturday's "Local Legends" awards night – there were many – what stood out most wasn't on stage.
It was the crowd – more to the point, the audience, focused on the performers.
What a treat to see so many great bands on a big stage, without the clatter of plates being cleared, dinner being served or oblivious patrons talking over the music. It was a memorable evening, and hopefully not the last.
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Saturday, Dec. 26: Pete Merrigan, Salt hill Newport – Pete just came back from a week in Florida, where he groused a bit about the rain, but reveled in the chance to do a Mad Beach Band reunion show in St. Petersburg. It's always sunny when Pete plays, which is why I'm glad he's now a permanent resident. He'll be at après-ski parties in Quechee and Sunapee soon – how weird is that?
Monday, Dec. 28: Coydog, Boar's Head Tavern (Bromley) – I've never been much of a skier, but I'm a big fan of ski lodges. Hot toddies, comfort food, and music by a roaring fire – what's not to like? Hailing from Southern Vermont, Coydog added new vocalist Ali Schelin in November. The band has an easy blues rock sound, and a growing catalog of rootsy original songs.
Tuesday, Dec. 29: Dan Walker, Canoe Club – Back from the Rockies, with a new-ish (May 2009) album in town, Walker's sweet spot is folk with elements of jazz and blues. He's built a big Seacoast following, with a soulful singing voice and a habit of using his acoustic guitar as a hand drum.
Wednesday, Dec. 30: Kerry Rose Band, Quechee Club – This is one of the many bands that counts Dave Clark as a member. Dave compares lead singer Kerry Rosenthal to Bonnie Raitt, and sees her as a real up and comer. The band also includes Jed Dickinson on harmonica and back-up vocals, Mike Gareau playing violin and guitar, along with percussionist Jaxson Morgan. | clearly inspired by these trappings. Early on, Rich Meijer spun off one crackling guitar solo after another, gathering steam each time the crow roared.
Meijer led the house band, which grew larger with each player's set. Harp and harmony from Jed Dickinson perfectly complemented Dave Clark's songs.
A conga and timbale player joined Pete Meijer for a Springsteen-like turn, with Matt Getman playing Big Man to Meijer's Boss on the saxophone.
A Gully Boys quorum followed, with Bill Temple, barefoot in bib overalls, singing from his heart.
During Dr. Burma's set, lead singer Linda Boudreault prowled the stage like a lioness, her long ponytail swaying, chewing up the real estate.
Pete Merrigan called it a "family reunion of folks who've never met," and watched with a smile from the wings for much of the night.
Arguably, though, the night belonged to a pair of youngsters.
Avi & Celia's soulful set brought the house to its feet, whooping and hollering. Singer Celia Woodsmith dug low notes from under the floorboards and shot them into the stratosphere with operatic flourish, her entire body moving in emphasis.
Celia's cowboy boot stomped the stage, and the entire building shook.
With Avi Salloway on resonator slide guitar, the duo played like a delta blues version of Gillian Welch and David Rawlings. Celia scraped and drummed a washboard wearing evening gloves customized with steel fingertips for a rousing rendition of Dylan's "It Takes A Lot To Laugh (It Takes A Train to Cry)".
An astounded audience did everything it could to bring them back for an encore.
Of course, the biggest hero was event organizer Dave Clark, a man on a mission to champion local music.
Without his energy, or his invaluable http://www.yellowhousemedia.net web site, the scene would be much poorer indeed.
Thursday, Dec. 24: Watch Television at Home – No one's going out tonight, unless it's to church. That's just how it should be, but there's still music to enjoy. If you have high definition, check out Christmas shows from Brian Setzer on HDNet and Melissa Etheridge on Palladia. GAC and VH1 Classic are both running holiday music videos for most of the evening. For country music fans, PBS has Faith Hill in concert – or you could just watch the video fireplace.
Friday, Dec. 25: Bill Temple, Casa del Sol – The longtime Gully Boy leader plays solo in Ascutney. The Mexican cantina has regular Friday night music, along with an expanded menu that includes fried clams and lobster rolls. Hey, it might be five degrees outside | 578 |
The first ever user on the SNIA ANZ Board, Graham Rothwell, says the National Australia Bank has reduced its storage carbon footprint by 70% per terabyte.
The first user representative to take up a seat on the Storage Networking Industry Association's (SNIA's) Australia/New Zealand board says that the National Australia Bank's (NAB's) storage challenges are similar to those experienced by many large enterprises and that he can therefore effectively represent both the bank and other storage users' concerns.
<|fim_middle|> to play in helping to meet its green goals and has Rothwell says recent initiatives already have a reduced carbon footprint as a goal.
"We have had a storage refresh program under way for the last year or so," he says. "We have applied data de-duplication, email archiving and storage virtualisation and reduced our emissions by 1000 tonnes from storage alone."
"Our emissions per terabyte are down by 70%."
Rothwell's also hopes to help SNIA grow the capacity of the storage industry through initiatives like its forthcoming Storage Academy event.
"It is always hard to find good people and this is a good way to help develop the industry," he said.
Van der Eyk welcomed Rothwell's decision to join the board.
"This represents a real breakthrough for SNIA ANZ and an exciting addition to our Board of Directors," he said. "Having someone of Graham's calibre and expertise on the Board means we can hear first hand about the issues that organisations face in managing their information growth, as well as ensure that our strategic programmes are validated and pertinent." | Graham Rothwell, NAB's Head of Client Management for Technology Operations was announced as a SNIA board member this week. SNIA ANZ is the first SNIA around the world to open its board to end user members, a move that SNIA ANZ Chairman Jacob Van der Eyk called a "major initiative" that is designed to ensure that the organisation's strategy "is influenced and endorsed by major end user organisations."
Rothwell is the first appointment under this new scheme and feels he can make a valuable contribution as "The challenges NAB has in its storage environment are not dissimilar to those at other organisations."
"We have many drivers, including compliance," Rothwell says. "We have a requirement to store data for a lot longer now. Email is an important factor as it causes a lot of data to be store. Increased used of customer relationship management and data warehousing impacts storage as well."
"Those drivers are not unique to the NAB, which is why I think other organisations can benefit from our presence on the SNIA board."
Rothwell hopes that his time on the board can advance standards around the greening of storage.
"It's top of mind because NAB has a program to become carbon neutral by 2010," he says. "Electricity consumption at our main data centre rose by 26% last year." The Bank's storage environment has a role | 284 |
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CB Johnson is no stranger to community service.
One of 12 children, he was always baby-sitting and watching out for other youngsters in his neighborhood in Austin, making them part of his extended family, he recalls.
Now at 50, Johnson wants to take on the problems of an even larger family-those of the 29th Ward. And with the right people bringing this family together, he said; important issues like education, jobs and public safety can be dealt with effectively.
"We have to sit down and hammer out ways to engage the people and get a clear idea of what they want to see," Johnson said.
One thing Johnson said he's learned in his years of political field work, and as chief executive officer of the Campaign for a Drug Free Westside-the 29th Ward lacks strong leadership and a willingness of its leaders to truly sit down and speak with the community.
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An education task force comprised of teachers, administrators and parents would assess what to do in the schools. Business summits would help explore ways to improve local job prospects, and he would work with people to help them create their own small businesses. To tackle crime, Johnson said he would "reignite" block clubs, community watches and work closely with the 15th District police.
This is Johnson's second run for public office. In 1999, he lost his bid for 29th Ward alderman.
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by jonesm on January 13, 2022
Artists at the Center, a year-long slate of performances featuring up-and-coming artists to celebrate the opening of Climate Pledge Arena, offers unique and varied performances during the first three months of 2022. The new program will add to the vibrancy of Seattle Center this winter, entertaining visitors every step of the way.
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* Scheduled performances subject to change due to Covid-19 restrictions or conditions. Check our website for latest information.
About Artists at the Center
Artists At the Center is a multi-year collaboration between Seattle Office of Arts & Culture and Seattle Center, with support from Uptown Arts & Culture Coalition and the communities adjacent to Seattle Center campus. The project is made possible by a 10-year grant from Climate Pledge Arena and Seattle Kraken. Join us as we introduce emerging and established artists and celebrate their talent on a newly revitalized Seattle Center campus. The program provides artists with a performance opportunity, allowing them to connect with new audiences, display their talents and advance their careers. Visitors to campus and the surrounding neighborhood benefit from surprising and delightful pop-up performances throughout the year. Each year, artists are selected through an open application process with an equity and social justice lens, ensuring equitable representation for underserved and emerging artists. Artistic genres include music, dance, theater, demonstrations, and multi-disciplinary work.
Filed Under: Events, News Release Tagged With: Artists at the Center, seattle center | to a Climate Pledge Arena event, pop by for a Seattle Center Festál festival, head to a resident organization production, stroll through Seattle Center, or visit businesses in the surrounding Uptown neighborhood. From classical music and poetry to modern dance and rap and everything in between, Artists at the Center will have something for everyone to enjoy.
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Black Stax | January 29 at Northwest Courtyard
206 Zulu | February 19 at Northwest Courtyard
El Sueno | February 20, 2022 at Seattle Center Armory
Gender Tender | February 27, 2022 at Fisher Pavilion Roof
Sumayya E. Diop Dance & Drum | March 1, 2022 at the Monorail
Alfonso Cervera Dance | March 5, 2022 at Northwest Courtyard
Das Biest | March 25, 2022 at Fisher Pavilion Roof
Orquestra Northwest| March 26, 2022 at Seattle Center Armory
Seattle Center, the Seattle Office of Arts & Culture, Climate Pledge Arena, Uptown Arts & Culture Coalition, and Seattle Kraken partnered to create Artists at the Center. The program features free pop-up performances on Seattle Center grounds through September 2022. It hosts music, dance, theatre, and multi-disciplinary performances, presented by individual artists and performance groups based in the Puget Sound region.
For performance schedule, details and to learn more about the artists, visit Artists at the Center. To learn more about virtual and in-person activities at Seattle Center this month and beyond, visit www.seattlecenter.com or call 206 684-720 | 374 |
The Orange round of the AMSAG Southern Cross Rally Series produced mixed results for local drivers. Veteran competitor Peter Neal, from Oxley Island, kept pace with the leaders throughout the nine stages. For many of the middle stages, Peter was a matter of milliseconds off the quickest time. Out of the 48 car field, Peter, alongside navigator Craig Whyburn, finished sixth. Andrew Maurer, originally<|fim_middle|>AAYxLFzz3k/8967aa32-b391-489d-81a6-a49477aa08f1.jpg/r1_0_1199_677_w1200_h678_fmax.jpg
Peter Neal and Maurer brothers contest Orange round of AMSAG Southern Cross Rally Series
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Peter Neal, of Oxley Island, finished sixth in the Orange round of the AMSAG Southern Cross Rally Series.
The Orange round of the AMSAG Southern Cross Rally Series produced mixed results for local drivers.
Veteran competitor Peter Neal, from Oxley Island, kept pace with the leaders throughout the nine stages.
For many of the middle stages, Peter was a matter of milliseconds off the quickest time.
Out of the 48 car field, Peter, alongside navigator Craig Whyburn, finished sixth.
Andrew Maurer, originally from Gloucester, was another top contender through to the final stage.
His combined time of 2:02:16 was the fifth best of the weekend.
Unfortunately, the good fortune didn't go the way of his brother, Daniel.
With navigator and uncle Ken, Daniel was in line for top honours until a power steering line blow out ended his campaign at the sixth stage.
Racing continues at Bega on the June long weekend.
Then it's a return to the Great Lakes in July for the Bulahdelah Rally. The final will be the inaugural Port Macquarie Rally on the last weekend in October. | from Gloucester, was another top contender through to the final stage. His combined time of 2:02:16 was the fifth best of the weekend. Unfortunately, the good fortune didn't go the way of his brother, Daniel. With navigator and uncle Ken, Daniel was in line for top honours until a power steering line blow out ended his campaign at the sixth stage. Racing continues at Bega on the June long weekend. Then it's a return to the Great Lakes in July for the Bulahdelah Rally. The final will be the inaugural Port Macquarie Rally on the last weekend in October.
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Maple Leaf Foods was proud to kick-off Feed it Forward on Family Day, a national recognition program to honour selfless Canadians who improve people's lives and make their communities better with good food.
"Food is a powerful means to build community and individual capacity," said Lynda Kuhn, SVP, Sustainability and Public Affairs, Maple Leaf Foods. "Despite the current economic environment, countless Canadians continue to volunteer and work tirelessly to help people lead better, healthier lives with good food. They are finding ways to help people eat well – and we want to support them."
Also read, Maple Leaf's Commitment to Animal Care.
Canadians are encouraged to nominate a volunteer or an employee of a not-for-profit organization or community group who is deeply committed to improving people's lives with good food, nutrition and skill building.
Whether they have put in place a program to nourish school children, deliver food and nutrition education for people who need support, or use food as a way to bring people together and teach valuable life skills – Maple Leaf wants to hear about them.
Ten nominees will be selected across Canada to receive a $10,0<|fim_middle|> Ms. Kuhn. "Let's Feed it Forward to thank and recognize the people in our communities who have made a positive difference by feeding the potential of others."
For more information, complete rules and regulations and to submit a nomination, visit: http://www.mapleleaf.com/feed-it-forward-donation/ and #FeeditForward on Twitter.
Beginning Family Day (ON, AB, SASK), Maple Leaf's people and friends are surprising 10,000 Canadians with free "grocery drops" across the country. The drops begin in the Greater Toronto Area on Feb. 15 and will extend to Vancouver, Victoria, Calgary, Edmonton, Regina, Saskatoon, Winnipeg, Ottawa, Montreal, Quebec City, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Newfoundland and Prince Edward Island throughout February. | 00 donation towards his or her charitable cause. One special nominee and the person who nominated them will also receive a year's worth of free Maple Leaf groceries. The nominator will have the opportunity to present the person they nominated with the donation cheque at a gratitude BBQ hosted by Maple Leaf this summer (2016).
"The reality that 1 in 8 families and 1 in 6 children face hunger on a regular basis is inconceivable in a country with as much abundance as Canada," added | 102 |
The major land use of The Carrs is for arable and pastoral farming. Although this is not a natural habitat, but a mosaic of managed land, it is an important habitat for biodiversity. Farmland can include areas of semi-natural habitat which can support species rich communities, often under Environmental Stewardship schemes which support farmers in enriching these areas for wildlife. Barn owl, Skylark, Corn Bunting, Grey Partridge, Reed Bunting House and Tree Sparrows, Brown Hare, Water Vole, Bats and Bumble Bees are just some of the species which farmland habitat supports. Many farmland birds, annual flowing plants, bats and bee populations have been declining over recent years to it is more important than ever to look after their habitats.
Wetland habitat has been classified as a priority habitat in the Scarborough BAP and consequently has its own habitat action plan for the area. The Carrs Wetland Project aims to restore an area which was once vast wetland habitat to enrich the wildlife value of the area. Wetlands can come un many forms depending on how wet they are, the lime concentrations in the water and the main vegetation types that occur there. The main wetland habitat on The Carrs is wet grassland and the wetness of these areas fluctuate with the seasons. This<|fim_middle|> existing hedgerows to sustain the biodiversity of the area.
Species rich ditches, ponds, lakes and seasonally wet scrapes are all feature of The Carrs landscape and support a high biodiversity. From a botanical perspective ditches can be extremely rich if managed appropriately (Read more on ditches here.) In turn, they can support good invertebrate populations; dragonfly diversity is high in the area for example. The ditches of The Carrs support mammals such as Otter, Water Vole and Bats. Amphibians too can be found in large numbers: at Flixton Carr. I have encountered toads in their hundreds at spawning times. The seasonally wet in-field scrapes are particularly valuable for waders ,as when the water recedes, it reveals food in abundance for these birders on the marshy fringes. (Find more on scrape creation in 'Resources' ) | type of habitat is particularly important for breeding waders and farmland birds in summer and for migrating wildfowl during the winter. Fen meadow, reed bed and wet woodland are also important wetland habitats but are sparsely represented on The Carrs.
Hedgerows can be found on The Carrs and these are considered an important feature of the English landscape. They are important as they serve as a habitat which is utilized by many species, such as bats and birds. They also act as a place for small animals to take shelter and an important food source for birds in the form of berries they produce. Hedgerows can be deemed as species rich hedgerows if they contain 4 or more woody species in a 30m stretch and usually the older they are, the more diverse they become; therefore it is important to conserve | 173 |
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This challenging yet rewarding role is accountable for planning, organising, and managing Macmillan's internal audit function (mix of in–house and co–source capability). Furthermore, you will have responsibility for designing Macmillan's annual audit plan. You will make recommendations for improvement, evaluate the effectiveness of internal controls and processes and recommend changes to improve efficiency and value for money. This role is a unique opportunity to look across the whole organisation as well as digging deep into specialist areas.
Your ability to work with people at all levels, will see you work constructively with management as well as leading the relationship with the Board of Trustees' Audit committee, demonstrating exceptional communication, and influencing skills. Bringing a broad business perspective on risks<|fim_middle|> opportunities within Macmillan.
We commit to actively develop you and offer excellent benefits including a 34.5 week (with an early finish on Friday), private medical insurance, life assurance, pension, generous annual leave, and interest free loans for season ticket and gym membership.
Interviews planned for 4th and 5th April 2019. | and controls to the table, you will have a track record of effective working in large–scale and complex organisations, conducting both financial and operational audit assignments that have made a difference.
Macmillan has embarked on an exciting new strategy, designed to increase our impact, offering and engagement to people living with cancer, and we need someone who can grow with us. Ultimately, this position has the potential to be a stepping stone to other exciting | 87 |
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Qualitative Inquiry in Higher Education Organization and Policy Research provides readers with the theoretical foundations and innovative perspectives for undertaking qualitative research<|fim_middle|>Situational Analysis: Grounded Theory After the Postmodern Turn provides an innovative approach to grounded theory useful in a wide array of qualitative research projects. Extending Anselm Strauss's ecological social worlds/arenas/discourses framework, this book offers researchers three kinds of maps that place an emphasis on the range of differences rather than commonalities, as found via the traditional grounded theory approach. These maps include situational, social worlds/arena, and positional maps. | to influence policy and practice discussions. Well-known chapter authors discuss innovative strategies for investigating complex problems, helping readers understand how research can consider the culture of the institution, administrative hierarchy, students, faculty, and external constituencies. From both an organizational and policy perspective, chapter pairings explore a range of methodologies, including ethnography, case study, critical qualitative inquiry, and the notion of "grit." This volume explores how qualitative inquiry can advance understanding of organizational inequities in higher education, and it offers graduate students and educational researchers the tools to improve the organizational function of institutions while contributing to meaningful change.
Pasque argues that if a more thorough understanding of leaders' perspectives is not offered, then the dominant perspectives within academic discourse will continue to perpetuate the current ideas of higher education's relationship with society - from an economic rationalization perspective - without consideration of alternative perspectives.
From the generation of research ideas, to the collection and analysis of data, to the final write-up, novice qualitative researchers are given the tools for learning both the 'how to' and 'why' of a research project.
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Chapter Nine: 'Marriage Breakup'
For over three years, Mary and Paddy tried to have children, but alas, none came. Mary eventually drummed up the courage to ask her husband to get himself tested with her. She suggested that they were tested in Waterford to see if both were able to have children. This suggestion of Mary's caused their very first big argument.
Paddy was essentially too proud ever to contemplate that he might not be able to give Mary children and would undoubtedly have considered it unmanly were he to discover that he was firing blanks in the bedroom. Mary, on the other hand, considered the matter too grave an issue not to find out why children had evaded them for so long now.
After numerous rows, the issue started to sour their previously happy relationship so much, that reluctantly, Paddy agreed. The tests confirmed that while one of them could have a child, the other could not! Blood tests revealed that Paddy was infertile. Reasons forwarded included his condition of diabetes since childhood plus a hernia in his groin. Another possible reason was Paddy having been exposed to lead poisoning at the age of eight years old from a public-shared lavatory that four neighbouring families used in Kilkenny.
Paddy found the news very hard to accept and although he hardly drank alcohol prior to his marriage, he soon abandoned his abstinence. For the following six months, Paddy would arrive home too often the worse for wear, having spent a few hours in the pub after leaving work.
The deterioration in their relationship was so rapid that most contact between them now seemed cold and loveless. As far as Mary was concerned, there was no point in them making love any more. She saw her marriage as being ended; a futile gesture that had lost its purpose, a mere shadow of their early dreams.
After Paddy learned he was the infertile one, his sexual interest also waned, and before long, he started to lose the very gentleness in his ways. Such gentleness had been the very trait which had first attracted Mary to him. It was a characteristic which made him less coarse than most men in their tongue and ways.
The couple gradually stopped talking and eating together, and it was only after they had stopped sleeping together in the same bed, that Paddy realised he was no longer a good-enough man for the woman he had married. The sudden change in their relationship had appeared as quickly as any mountain accident. It was as if an avalanche had swept into their marriage and had buried any trace of happiness which had once existed between them, beneath a mountain of snow.
All joint visits to Mary's father and family in Clonmel ceased and on the few occasions Mary now saw them, she was always alone. Naturally, they would enquire where Paddy was and Mary would usually provide some excuse regarding his absence, which eventually became less convincing the more times she made one! Her step mother could tell that all was not as it should be between Mary and Paddy, and it was she who eventually pressed Mary to divulge her troubles, in strict confidence.
During one such visit, Nancy took Mary to one side and after a brief time together; Mary broke her silence and told her stepmother about the deterioration in her marriage and the reasons for such. While Nancy obviously sympathised with Mary's plight, she also urged Mary not to write Paddy off too soon, as she was convinced he was a good man. Nancy intrinsically felt that it was only natural for Paddy to feel bad that he would never be able to be a father in more than name, and that the mere shock of him discovering that he could not give his wife a child, would be enough to make any man feel unsure of himself ever again!
After that conversation with Nancy, Mary felt guilty. She returned to Portlaw determined to try again with her husband Paddy and to restore, if possible, the closeness they once felt for each other. She resolved that if they could even become 'best friends', that might be enough of itself to keep them together, and hopefully enable the passage of time to heal old wounds and lead to a more peaceful resolution between them.
While Paddy was pleased to find a semblance of peace return to their failing marriage, things were never quite the same again between the couple as they had once been. A cautious truce was established<|fim_middle|> him on board and screamed out pleasurably; thereby keeping his sole attention on her and in her as he came.
Of course, she could not tell Paddy or anyone else for that matter who the father was, and as for Sean; she resolved that he would never learn of the produce of their brief encounter in the Carrick-on Suir cottage.
Mary had decided to bring up their child on her own from day one of learning she was pregnant. She did not need any man to support her or her child. All of her life she had been the prime support to other children and finally, now it would be to her own child whom she would mother!
After finding out about his wife's unfaithfulness and not wishing to be gossiped about as having been 'the cuckold husband', Paddy kept Mary's sordid secret and simply left her to come up with any required explanations to her Portlaw neighbours and immediate family about his absence.
Mary needed a plausible tale to satisfy the curiosity of her neighbours after her husband Paddy had left their marital home. She told them he'd crossed the Irish Sea to seek work in England, and would send for them in due course after he was established there. In truth, Paddy had left Mary saying that he would never see her again and advising her of the futility of ever pressing him for any financial support to bring up another man's bastard!
Mary quickly formulated her plans almost as soon as her husband Paddy had left her. She told the neighbours that she and the baby would eventually be joining her husband Paddy in England, when the bairn was old enough to travel.
Mary had already decided that she would not be hanging around Portlaw one day longer than she needed to after her child had been born. She didn't intend to give the gossips and 'holier than thou' neighbours a stick to beat her with for the rest of her life whenever a falling out was had, should they ever discover her secret. No way did she intend to raise their suspicions or risk them finding out that the child was not her husband's bairn. She did not intend to ever hear the malicious whisper of another call her innocent child, 'Bastard!'
A few months after the birth, Mary decided to leave Portlaw; ostensibly, to join her husband in England where they would start afresh. Instead however, she travelled home to Clonmel, where she and her two daughters would stay at the home of her father, step mother and siblings for a while before leaving to make their own way in the world.
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Click here for the previous page | , which recognised the roles of each partner within the household. Every time the couple's eyes met however, each knew that their relationship had crossed their Rubicon of no return. Their marital relationship had crossed their river of regret, and both knew there would be no going back to the happy and loving relationship they had once shared when first married and dreaming of a family to come. Even to touch her husband, would now lead Mary to instantly recoil.
Another year passed between the couple, but despite their honest attempt to salvage their marriage, no improvement in their relationship proved possible and their marriage rapidly deteriorated. Mary seemed to become more and more depressed with her motherless status and Paddy's infertile seed led him to drowned his sorrows in the pub most evenings; returning only after the pub had closed for the night. The couple gradually drew farther apart and eventually; neither seemed to possess the will to stop the widening.
One evening while waiting for the bus to take her back from the Creamery in Kilmeaden after her day's work had finished, it started to rain heavily. As Mary cowered from the pelting rain beneath her old umbrella which offered her some modest protection, Sean Morris, the Supervisor at Mary's place of works, joined her at the bus stop.
Seeing Mary get a good soaking in the rain, despite being beneath the brolly, led Sean to offer her his coat to place over her shoulders as an additional protection. Of course, Mary refused, but Sean would hear no argument and continued taking it from his own back and draping it across her shoulders.
Sean lived seven miles farther on from the Portlaw bus stop where Mary alighted, in a small cottage on the road into Carrick-on-Suir. He had never married and seemed more interested in remaining single while he advanced his career at the Creamery. It was rumoured at the Creamery that Sean was a man with an eye for the women. His criteria for a suitable woman specified that they be single, attractive and prepared to remain emotionally unattached. For Sean, until he'd progressed far enough in his job, marriage was not on the cards and remained no more than a possibility on a far horizon.
Sean earned a good wage as Supervisor at the Creamery and he wanted no demands by any other that might cramp his style or hamper his career. Sean knew that if he played his cards right and avoided any manner of trouble that might tarnish his reputation, it was said that he would naturally advance to the role of Manager of the Creamery when the present manager retired in six years' time. Being a manager before he was barely thirty years old was unheard of, and so Sean was as keen as mustard to protect his image and reputation; indeed, do anything required to safeguard the bright future that beckoned.
While Sean had frequently caught the same bus as Mary did after finishing work, whenever additional business did not keep him behind, he had never sat with her previously. It was not until after that afternoon in the rain when he had behaved like a chivalrous knight and had given Mary his coat that he started to view her in a different light and started sitting alongside her on the bus whenever they caught it on their way home together.
Having looked closely at Mary that day in the rain and having seen her wet clothes make the outline of her breasts more fulsome, had stirred a passion in him for this Portlaw woman, which had not previously existed. He had many a wet dream over Mary during the month ahead as he imagined them both as lovers dancing in the rain, followed by making mad passionate love before a log fire as they dried off back at his cottage.
As fate decrees, those who seek it not, sometimes find, but not to expect it at all is one sure way of having it fall into one's lap!
Within a short space of time, Mary and her Supervisor Sean had crossed the divide from that of admirer to one of greater intimacy. That which had started as a harmless gesture by a rainy bus stop, gradually grew into the development of a closeness between the couple, followed by the 'chance meetings' they might have in Waterford where a cup of tea and a chat might be had over flirtatious chatter and naughty thoughts. Even in public places like tea houses or the lounge of a public house, Sean often found it impossible to keep his hands off Mary. She was flattered by the attention he paid her and which she badly needed.
The first time Mary and Sean had sex was to be the only time they slept together. It happened one night when Mary's husband Paddy incurred an accident and was kept in hospital for the week with a badly broken leg. Mary told Sean she would be visiting her husband that evening in hospital and they agreed to meet up afterwards by the clock on the quayside.
As Mary waited for Sean as arranged beneath the clock tower, she thought about all those happier times when she had met her husband Paddy there during their courtship days. A large part of her felt guilty about being a married woman and secretly meeting another man in clandestine circumstances, especially when her husband was laid up in hospital, while a bit of her was simply bursting to feel alive again. She needed to feel wanted again by someone; anyone! She craved the attention.
Shortly after Mary and Sean met up, he indicated his fear of being seen in public, outside work hours, especially with a married woman by any of the Creamery workers. He feared damage to his reputation if he and Mary were to become the topic of salacious gossip in their communities and work place. As they walked out along the quay to arrange transport home, Sean asked Mary to pull her collar up if they passed anyone to avoid recognition.
He suggested to Mary to come back to his cottage with him on the Carrick-on-Suir road for the night. Not being the kind of woman that any man could persuade if she did not want persuading, Mary surprised Sean and herself and agreed to sleep overnight at the cottage.
It had been a long time since Mary had experienced sex with her husband Paddy and their exclusivity had often made her wonder in the last year, what it might be like with another man. Paddy was the only man she had ever slept with, and part of her was curious as to how having sex with Sean would compare. She wanted to know if the experience would be better than what she'd known before.
She was sad to find the experience highly disappointing. Her encounter with Sean was no more satisfying than her experience with Paddy had been. Indeed, in some ways, it was far worse. It was more painful and much more degrading in its after effects.
Sean did not display the gentleness and consideration which her husband Paddy did. There was little foreplay and no time to waste as far as Sean was concerned, and he employed a mechanical process that he'd reduced to three quick moves before obtaining checkmate. His three moves of seduction included getting Mary undressed, getting it in and getting it off as fast and as roughly as he could!
This illicit nightly stopover provided Mary with more shame than she'd ever felt before. The following day, she had the day off work pretending to be sick. She had plenty of time to think about what had happened and after having had time to dwell on her actions, an avalanche of Catholic guilt descended to curse her foolish infidelity.
When Mary next saw Sean at work, she cornered him later in the morning and indicated she was ending their relationship before it went any farther and destroyed both their lives. Mary told him, "Sorry, Sean, but it's been a ghastly mistake, a 'one off' that should never have happened. It won't be happening again. Sorry."
To her surprise, Sean seemed extremely relieved at her decision and indicated his agreement, saying that he was sure she was right. In truth, Sean had found his sexual encounter with Mary to be more of an anti-climax than he had envisaged, and even less sexually pleasurable than what he could have achieved in a night of his own company! He believed Mary to be a cold fish out of water with whichever man she found herself in bed; a veritable ice maiden that was hard to turn on and warm towards!
Mary's unhappy marriage to Paddy continued until the last quarter of 1915, when Paddy packed his case and left her for good. It was the 4th October when Paddy left Mary. While the couple had tried to rub along against any odds of success over the previous year, the situation became untenable for either party to continue their sham of a marriage once it became clear that Mary was pregnant. This pregnant state of his wife told Paddy that she had been unfaithful to their marriage vows and left Mary being unable to deny it, even had she wanted to!
Paradoxically, Mary was only partly shocked to discover that she was with child to another man outside her marriage. Contrary to her predicament, another part of her produced thoughts of anticipated pleasure to come by giving birth to her very own child.
Indeed, Mary even started to wonder if she had unconsciously engineered the situation of her night out with Sean that had led to her subsequent pregnancy. Thinking back upon the occasion, she recalled that prior to having sex with him, she made no attempt to get Sean to use a sheath to avoid becoming pregnant. She'd employed this convenient 'oversight' unconsciously, knowing that while any pregnancy which occurred as a result would not be unwanted by her. Indeed, during the height of his sexual arousal, as he approached ejaculation and the point of no return advanced ever closer, she made no move or spoke no word that would lead to his withdrawal and the spilling of his seed outside her. Instead, she did the very opposite to keep | 2,008 |
The Fly Fishing Lodge British Columbia is a full service wilderness lodge catering to a maximum of twelve guests in a secluded, pristine setting. Larry and Marlene Loney will welcome you with genuine old-fashioned hospitality, spoil you with<|fim_middle|> day you will find one or two boats. The possibility of being the only boat out on a lake is a balm for the soul.
With over fifteen lakes and only twelve guests there is never a crowd. Pause, reflect, enjoy life and share the moment with a friend.
It's great just hiking up to a lake with only tackle and lunch in hand to find rowboats waiting in the water, easily launched from small docks.
After five trips in just three years, I have run out of superlatives. Thanks for everything! | fine dining and share with you the precious peace and quiet.
You will be met at the lakeside parking area by Larry and enjoy a scenic ten minute boat ride across Caverhill Lake. The world and your worries will be left behind. As you round a bend in the lake, the log lodge and lake shore cabins will come into view. Marlene will drop her chef coat and take the time to catch the boat and welcome you ashore. Once you have settled into your cozy cabin, you will be offered fresh cookies and strong coffee. At this point you will know that this will be a fly fishing vacation that exceeds your expectations.
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The cookie jar is sitting on top of an aerial view of fifteen lakes that are yours to fish. Slide the jar to the left as you snag another cookie and talk about the unique fishing experience. Wild Kamloops Rainbow trout are readily available. Each lake offers a challenging puzzle for the fisherman and the reward of the fight and acrobatics of a wild rainbow trout. The lakes are accessed by boat and a network of well marked trails lined with wild flowers and moss gardens. On arrival at your chosen lake for the | 242 |
> This Wednesday: Brit Award-nominated singer-song writer Nerina Pallot will grace the Dundee stage
This Wednesday: Brit Award-nominated singer-song writer Nerina Pallot will grace the Dundee stage
Nerina Pallot (<|fim_middle|> memories of Dundee are that it was really pretty – and there's a Primark there!
Pallot was nominated for British Female Solo Artist at the Brit Awards, and an Ivor Novello Award for her single Sophia – both in 2007.
Basically, she's outstandingly talented and you don't want to miss out on her Dundee performance this week.
Wednesday 27 February, 2019.
Clarks on Lindsay Street.
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People of Dundee: Pop singer Kirsty Grant's Dundonian beginnings
Kirsty Grant is the newest name to join the likes of The Associates, The View, and Snow Patrol on the growing list of talented musicians who call Dundee home. The | Photo: DCT Media).
Whether you're particularly musically inclined or not, there's no denying that British singer-songwriter Nerina Pallot has the voice of an angel.
AN ANGEL, folks.
And who would have thought that this London-based artist with such an exceptional set of vocal chords would have an inherent connection with our wee city?
Well – she does. Pallot's aunt and uncle, who wrote the iconic pop song 'Everybody's Gone To War' in response to the Iraq War in 2003, used to live in Dundee.
Pallot composed the political masterpiece on a bass guitar, so her career dramatically flourished alongside her Dundonian aunt and uncle's.
That's probably why Pallot is looking forward to returning to us this Wednesday to perform a range of her old and new songs. When asked about Dundee, she stated:
I've been to the railway station a fair bit over the years. My aunt and uncle lived by the river. My | 202 |
Global, which was hard hit by the global financial crisis, undergoing two debt restructurings, also posted 2015 revenues of KD1<|fim_middle|>-based businesses.
Global's board proposed a 5 percent cash dividend, subject to shareholders' and regulatory approvals.
The company said in a statement that its continuous efforts to control its cost base resulted in reducing its operating cost base by KD1.5 million.
Commenting on the results, Ibrahim Saad, chairman, said: "Global has achieved significant growth in net profit for the third consecutive year, thanks to its management's efforts in implementing the company's strategy of growing its core businesses while minimising risk.
"We are delighted by these excellent financial results, which were generated during difficult times for the capital markets and the investment services industry."
Maha Al-Ghunaim, vice chairman and group CEO, added: "Despite the extremely volatile and challenging times, we successfully widened our client base, enhanced our product offering, signed new mandates, raised new money and maintained our profitability momentum. Furthermore, we reduced our operating costs by 10 percent in spite of expanded business activities." | 6.4 million, 75 percent generated from fee | 12 |
Before they were outmoded, they were The Future.
If you are a 1.2-mm-thick circle of polycarbonate plastic used to store digital data, then today is a bittersweet one. On the one hand: You are, sorry to say it, a compact disc. You are part of the long line of data storage devices—the cylinder phonograph, the vinyl record, the audiocassette, the CD-ROM, even the flash drive—that have been made either obsolete or quaint by other, better storage technologies.
On the other hand, though: Today is a milestone for you. Thirty years ago, on October 1, 1982, the first audio CD players were released to the public -- and with them, the first commercially available audio CDs.<|fim_middle|> tapes. CDs were, in short, a vast improvement over what had preceded them, and were, as a technology, pretty advanced for their time. Even when they were playing Billy Joel. | (CDs had been first manufactured, by the Philips company, in August of the same year.) Sony released its CDP-101 player—a bulky affair that, for better or worse, doesn't look all that different from the stereo systems we still use today—to the Japanese public for around $730. The device offered the same play/pause/fast-forward-rewind buttons that consumers had become accustomed to in their cassette players. But it included a significant innovation: the slide-out tray that would become the standard, if not the universal, loading mechanism for CD players throughout the years they dominated the market.
And along with its new machine, Sony would launch, through a collaboration with CBS, the world's first 50 CD titles—the first of them being Billy Joel's 52nd Street.
In retrospect, in a world of iTunes and Spotify and Pandora, it's easy to make fun of a technology that is, to 2012 sensibilities, bulky and unwieldy and pricey—a machine whose principal failing is, like so many other machines nowadays, the fact that it is made of atoms. But it's also worth remembering that the commercialized CD ushered in nothing short of a technological revolution in the music industry. It brought about the shift from analog to digital music that would lead to the MP3 and the many innovations that came with it. It facilitated the move away from LPs by allowing individual tracks to be displayed more readily as singular units. And it was, Philips points out, "the first ever digital mass consumer product to find its way into almost every consumer's home."
It's also worth remembering a broader, and maybe just slightly sadder, thing: that when compact discs and their players were introduced in 1982, CDs were The Future. Not only were they decided on as the standard for digital audio discs by the music industry; they were also futuristic in a more aesthetic way. They were almost impossibly thin. They had that knowing, mirrored gleam. They let you skip from song to song, fast-forwarding and rewinding digitally rather than mechanically. They could endure scratches and still, for the most part, work. Their sound quality was relatively sharp and relatively clear. You could write directly on their surfaces—a nice quality for recording devices that had the potential to store the next generation of mix | 478 |
Pascal is a French Restaurant offering traditional as well as creative cuisine executed by Chef Pascal Olhats. The chef/owner has been one of Orange County"s favorite chefs for three decades and at the new location, has dedicated an intimate 24-seat dining room as part of his fine gourmet food store. This dining room offers an exclusive prix fixe menu that includes dishes that are now signature of his cuisine and dishes that are prepared with seasonal, mostly organic and from local sources. The decor and table setting have French accents with French linen and fresh roses. You may feel like you have just spent a moment in one of France's wine country auberge. Most of the produce is grown at a local farm in Irvine where Chef Pascal enjoys picking it up himself in the morning hours. The cuisine is as close as you could find in France with influence from Provence as well as Normandy gastronomes.
Our fave restaurant! The sea bass au thyme is outstanding. So sorry he has to close.
What a memorable meal!! Excellent service of exceptional food! What a shame it is closing but understandable reason. Wishing Pascal all the best as well as the new owners best of luck!
This was our last meal at Pascal as the restaurant is closing on March 30 sadly. Pascal Olhats continues to be the best chef in Orange County and here's what he told me the night we enjoyed our last dinner "look for my food somewhere else, like "Where's Waldo?"" I'll be looking.
Although the ambiance is somewhat casual (not like his original restaurant in Newport with linen tablecloths and tons of roses everywhere) our meals at Pascals were perfection! We started with the oysters - so many amazing flavors sharing one shell- wow! My salad was amazing too; I loved the egg on top. But the true star for me was the Thyme Crusted Seabass. It was incredible!! My hubby had the rabbit and loved it too.
Pascal Olhats is truly such a talented chef and in my opinion he put fine dining on the map in Orange County. What can I say, the guy is a rock star. I hope to enjoy many more of his perfect meals.
Pascal has been our go-to restaurant for birthdays, anniversaries, Valentine's Days, and any other special occasions for the past several years. We have never ever been disappointed, and the incredible service from head waiter JB has always been like being served by a close friend. Pascal is a gem from bygone days in today's jungle of noisy, see-and-be-seen restaurants that appeal to today's millennials and diners with egos. With just eight tables in an intimate setting, this is a one of a kind romantic venue. Sadly, on last Friday night's dining experience we learned that Pascal in San Juan Capistrano will be closing following next Saturday nights dinner - March 30, 2019 - a sad day indeed. Even more sadly, this is being brought about because of some health issues and struggles by famed chef Pascal who will be stepping back a bit to smell the roses and focus on his remaining dining enterprises in the Newport Beach area. Thank you for so many great meals over the years Pascal, and God speed back to good health and a more stress-free life! We are at a loss as to where to find another venue equal to your San Juan Capistrano facility.
Love Pascals. Always a wonderful experience.
Fabulous food and service. An amazing family experience in exposing them to French cuisine. A special evening for us. A hidden gem. Cheers!
We enjoyed dinner at Pascal on Friday evening. The food was excellent overall. The service was a little slow, but I took this to be part of the French ambiance.
I read that Pascal is closing on 3/30 and a different owner is coming in to make changes and turn it into a French veggie place (seems like a contradiction in terms).
So, our new found quiet place with very good food will soon be gone.
I had been wanting to try this place for awhile and when I read that they were closing that was the catalyst that got me in there. I wish I had gone sooner because the food was outstanding and we really enjoyed our night. The only reason it wasn't truly 5 stars was because the service was very slow. We were only drinking water and our glasses were empty for extended periods of time. Aside from that we enjoyed our meals very much. This place will be missed.
The dining room is small and only has about ten tables. It is adjacent to the 'take-out' portion of the business. There are also several 'diner-type' of tables in the take-out area. the dining room is pleasant enough but not what creatively well done. But you are not there for the view, you are there for the food, which is wonderful; The service is excellent and the head waiter is very knowledgeable; ask him for wine pairings.
They have a four-course meal for $75.00 where you choose an appetizer, salad/soup, main entree, and dessert from any of the items on the menu. You can also get wine pairing for an additional $40. It is a little pricy but well worth it. If you are not that hungry, they have a three-course plan or you can just order off the menu ala carte.
We had the French Onion Soup for a starter. I had the Sea Bass for an entree and my wife had the rack of lamb; we finished with the dessert sampler for two. It was all excellent, we'll be back soon and encourage you to check<|fim_middle|> new, seasonal entrees. Yes, we will return.
We were celebrating a birthday. JB, our server, made our celebration so wonderful. He selected a wonderful Cote du Rhône wine for us. We started out with the wonderful Onion soup. It was so feeling and warming-it also came with a small glass of port. We all enjoyed the Chilean Seabass and Lamb Chops- both with wonderful sauces. Everything was made with such care and beautifully presented. We finished off our course with the lava chocolate cake and custard. Pascal is amazing!
We will look forward to our next visit.
Wonderful French food, exceptional in the OC, JB was a delightfully charming and efficient server. Great wine pairing recommendations. Can't do any better for classic French cuisine ! Thanks to Pascal!
Most of the reviews were 5+, so my wife and I decided to find out, and we were not disappointed !
Outstanding French food and wines in a small dinning room suitable for conversation. We had the Sea Bass, which was likely the best we've ever had. Dedicated owner/chef who delivers the best of French cuisine.
A hidden gem in OC. Top level French cuisine. Small intimate, like an auberge in the French countryside.
Pascal was trained by Paul Bocuse and the cooking proves his expertise. Wonderful food.
We had a birthday celebration at Pascal's and enjoyed an outstanding evening. They have one seating for the evening and spend their time making the dining wonderful for all diners.
We love this place. The food is always amazing, and the service is friendly and fun, yet still professional.
Food was excellent, helped with ordering so that we did not order too much food. Had a candle on the cheese plate for my birthday . Going to try lunch next.
Fabulous as always. We were a party of 6 and everyone enjoyed their 3 course dinner. One of us has dietary restrictions and it was no trouble to change dishes to make sure it worked. Wine was reasonably priced too!
PASCAL IS ONE OF THE FINEST CHEFS IN ORANGE COUNTY. HIS AUTHENTIC FRENCH CUISINE IS ALWAYS PREPARED FROM THE FINEST INGREDIENTS, IN AN IMPECCABLE MANNER, AND PRESENTED BEAUTIFULLY AND ARTFULLY. SEATING IS LIMITED SO SERVICE CAN BE PERSONAL AND PROMPT. IT'S ALWAYS A SPECIAL OCCASION TO DINE WITH PASCAL!
We met Pascal through his dining experiences at Sherman Library and Gardens, and after enjoying several dinners there we went with our 4 co-diners/friends to Pascal's restaurant. From Pascal's personal greeting when we arrived to JB's attentive service to the amazing food, we couldn't have asked for anything more. We especially recommend the grilled octopus, beet salad, duck a l'orange, sea bass, lamb chops, and any of the desserts. They also have a pastry case in front so if you just want a snack or dessert to go, I'll bet you will be glad you stopped in.
Side note: I personally wish he wouldn't offer foie gras due to the inhumane treatment the ducks/geese endure so I hope he will reconsider this.
One of our favorite french restaurants. It never disappoints. While it might seem a bit more expensive than some other restaurants, the quality makes up for it in every way. Highly recommend.
Pascal has good French food, which is hard to find in OC. Having said that, the same problems remain--two waiters, overworked, one hustling like mad, one in slow-mo mode. Actually, the menu has become a bit boring--they got rid of the duck confit on the dinner menu. Why? Plus, why is the duck breast served luke warm? This happened last time, too. I think carry out and lunch is the way to go. High quality food, with no expectation of good service.
Celebrated my birthday and everything was perfect! Food, wine, service and I couldn't pick a more perfect place! | it out.
As always, the food and the service were wonderful. The Sea Bass is always delicious and never disappoints. My wife had excellent bacon-wrapped salmon that also was delicious. The Onion Soup is so tasty, and the foie gras appetizer was fantastic. And as always JB provided great service, was funny, and helped make the evening a beautiful experience. I can not recommend Pascal's highly enough. Truly a neighborhood gem that should not be missed.
We had been wanting to try the restaurant for a long time. It was a great surprise - terrific food and intimate.
The food at Pascal's is excellent. We had the Octopus appetizer, pear and goat cheese salad, bouillabaisse, as sea bass -- all very tasty. The Chilean Pinot Noir wine was outstanding. If you wish to bring your own wine the corkage is $18.
It is so difficult to find a restaurant with the quiet and elegant ambiance offered by Pascal. So often we leave restaurants with disappointment because it was so hard to carry on a conversation with all of the super-charged energy that seems to be vogue today. Give me the Pascal experience anytime!
Pascals is terrific and the waiter JB is one of a dying breed. Totally professional without being too stiff and formal. The guy has personality and pizzazz and serves the table with top notch style. The food is always terrific.... try the bouillabaisse and see how it is cooked in the old world. Not a large place so it gives the ambiance of a country restaurant in rural France.
As always we enjoyed everything about our visit...food, service, ambience. We did miss seeing pascal tho this time!
Amazing food and service. Pre fixe menu with wine pairing is over the top. Happy birthday to me!
The sauce with the sea bass dish was delicious. The rabbit was also very tasty. My wife loves French onion soup and she thought it was the best she had ever tasted.
It takes us about 2 hours to get to Pascal, but it is worth the drive. Our third visit in about a year, the menu hasn't changed much, but Chef continues to plate interesting variations of the menu items. Everything was delicious, and the (very small) restaurant was packed for the evening. The single waiter had his hands full keeping up, but did an excellent job. It would be nice to see some | 490 |
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CALCULATION OF INDICATORS OF<|fim_middle|>, one can create graphological structures to perform calculations of reliability indicators. The approach can be used in the development of algorithms and software solutions on computer problems, based on assessments of the structural reliability of systems. Such tasks, in particular, include: assessing the safety of nuclear units, planning their repairs, assessing the reliability of directional systems for transporting media, and estimating the residual resources of technical facilities. Various private methods have been developed for their solution. However, it is not possible to stan-dardize calculations of reliability indicators because of the diversity of systems and condi-tions of their operation. The presented approach is focused on the automation of calcula-tions of indicators of structural reliability of a wide class of technical systems. It is based on the proof of the existence of a calculation algorithm on a set of typical structural schemes. It is assumed that the computer recognizes images of typical structures as part of graphological images of systems. The content of the problem is as follows. A technical sys-tem is given. It is required to build a graphological image and calculate the index of its structural reliability. The proposed calculation method is based on the representation of the graphological image of the system in the form of a composition of graphological images of typical structures, the reliability indices of which are calculable. They are substituted by individual elements with calculated values of the reliability index. Such substitutions make it possible to simplify the initial graphological image of the system by reducing the total number of elements and calculate the system reliability indicator. The calculation and sub-stitution procedure continues until the graphical image of the system has one typical struc-ture for which we calculate the reliability index. The number of elements in the system is unlimited, since the subsitution procedure is carried out sequentially until the formation of one typical structure. A significant limitation in the application of the method to the calcu-lation of the structural reliability of a wide range of complex technical systems is due to the limitations of many typical structures. However, such a bank of typical structures can be created and used in the development of appropriate design programs.
Keywords: algorithm, system, structural reliability, typical schemes.
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Journal Journal of Mechanical Engineering
Publisher A. Podgorny Institute for Mechanical Engineering Problems
National Academy of Science of Ukraine
Issue Vol. 22, no. 2, 2019 (June)
Cited by J. of Mech. Eng., 2019, vol. 22, no. 2, pp. 53-59
Leonid I. Zevin, A. Podgorny Institute of Mechanical Engineering Problems of NASU (2/10, Pozharskyi Str., Kharkiv, 61046, Ukraine), e-mail: leonid.zevin@gmail.com
Hennadii H. Krol, A. Podgorny Institute of Mechanical Engineering Problems of NASU (2/10, Pozharskyi Str., Kharkiv, 61046, Ukraine)
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As we have had some time now to absorb the data on 2015 charitable giving provided by the release of the Giving USA 2016 report, we thought it would be helpful to look at the implications of the data for those fundraisers involved in higher education advancement.
To recap, according to Giving USA 2016, total charitable giving in the United States grew by 4.1 percent to $373.25 billion in 2015. This marks the highest total amount given in the 40 years Giving USA has tracked this data, both in current dollars and when adjusted for inflation.
The past decade has been a tumultuous one for both the economy and philanthropy. This data suggests that the years of crisis and ensuing period of recovery have now been replaced by a period of stable growth. For the past six years, total giving to charitable causes in America has steadily increased. Giving by all the primary sources of philanthropic dollars – foundations, corporations, individuals, and charitable bequests – have reached new heights when measured in current dollars. When we look at recipient organizations, all but one subsector (giving to foundations) experienced positive growth from 2014 to 2015, and five different subsectors (education, public society benefit, international affairs, the arts and the environment/animals) saw growth of 5 percent or more during that time period<|fim_middle|> of their favored institutions and a compelling vision.
Be cognizant of college debt and the role it will play in giving decisions. The national conversation regarding growing individual college debt has taken on a new level of prominence during this presidential campaign year, and is likely to continue to be a topic among current and future donors. Help older more established donors understand that philanthropy is part of the solution to the debt issue, and work to find ways to engage younger donors in giving back to their alma mater even when debt may limit their means and inclination to give financially. | .
Giving USA estimates that giving to education organizations (of which giving to higher education accounts for 70 percent of the dollars) increased 8.9 percent in 2015 to $57.8 billion. This tracks closely with similar results from the Council for Aid to Education's Voluntary Support of Education (VSE) survey, which found a record 7.6 percent increase in contributions to higher education organizations during the same time period.
Over the past two years, Giving USA estimates that giving to education grew 16.4 percent, which outpaced growth in all but one other subsector (giving to the arts). Perhaps more impressive, giving to education experienced the largest absolute growth of any subsector in 2015, increasing $4.7 billion dollars.
This tremendous growth has been driven largely by the generosity of individual donors, who provided 46.8 percent of all contributions to higher education in 2015 according to the VSE. A slight majority of these individual gifts (57 percent) came from alumni. Giving from alumni grew at an impressive rate of 10 percent in 2015, but that increase was dwarfed by the dramatic 23 percent increase in giving from non-alumni individuals.
Giving by high net worth donors has likely fueled this rapid growth. Several studies have found that giving by wealthy individuals increased more quickly following the recession than giving by low and middle income households. High net worth households felt the benefits of the economic recovery more quickly than those at the lower end of the economic scale, which has allowed them to give more, and studies have consistently found that education organizations are the most likely recipients of gifts from high net worth households. The end result has been, and will likely continue to be, tremendous opportunity for higher education institutions.
Invest in your major gifts program. Overall growth in giving to the nonprofit sector and giving to the education subsector has primarily been produced by the increased giving of individuals – specifically high net worth individuals. Though the major gift portion of the higher education development portfolio has always been an efficient and important source of gifts, it may also be the area with the most potential for continued growth at this time.
Maintain and/or upgrade your institution's capacity to engage donors online. Blackbaud analyzed data from its partner organizations in 2015 and found that higher education institutions experienced 15 percent growth in online giving in 2015. That was the largest growth in online giving experienced by any subset of Blackbaud clients during that time. The same data found online giving programs at higher education institutions generated increases in the median online gift size, as well as the number of first time donors captured, and the number of repeat donors.
Engage donors in your areas of highest need. 2015 saw a growth in giving to current operations (up 13 percent) according to the VSE, but we also know that a large number of sizable capital campaigns also reported success, including numerous significant – even transformative – capital campaign gifts in 2015. This data suggests that donors are ready and willing to respond to the needs | 642 |
The Irish Mathematical Society aims to further Mathematics and Mathematical research in Ireland. Its membership is international, but it mainly represents mathematicians in Universities and other third level institutes in Ireland.
The Society publishes its bulletin twice per year (July and<|fim_middle|>oney. Maintained by MM. | December approximately).
The IMS runs an annual conference in August/September, devoted to mathematical topics ranging from current research to educational issues.
The Society has a sub-committee to discuss issues and formulate positions concerning Mathematics education. The sub-committee has produced a Short Guide to Second-level Maths.
Reciprocity agreements are in place between the IMS and a number of other mathematical societies.
The Society is a member of the European Mathematical Society.
The Society provides financial assistance to the cost of running conferences and meetings of a mathematical nature, within its means.
The Fergus Gaines Cup is awarded annually by the Society to the best performer in the Irish Mathematical Olympiad (IrMO).
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Felix: Today, I'm joined by Melissa Gersin from Tranquilo Mat. Tranquilo Mat is a portable soothing mat that mimics the womb with constant motion and sound to calm crying babies and help them to sleep. It started in 2015 and based out of Boston, Massachusetts.
Welcome, Melissa.
Melissa: Hi, Felix. Thank you for having me.
Felix: We described a little bit about the business, about the product. Talk to us a little about the typical customer. Who is the ideal customer? Who's your ideal demographic?
Melissa: Obviously, everyone can suffer when there's a crying baby, even innocent bystanders, so to speak. But our customer is parents and folks who are pregnant or expecting a baby. We get a lot of first-time parents. A lot of seasoned parents purchase our product. Pretty much anyone who has a baby 0–12 months. It's most effective for babies 0–6 months, which is when they are usually experiencing what's sort of referred to as the fourth trimester. It's essentially they're missing being inside the womb. In the womb, it's as loud as a vacuum cleaner, and they're in constant motion because they're suspended in water. They come out into the wide world, and we put them in a stationary crib in a silent womb, and they don't really want to sleep.
I'm a maternity nurse, and I knew kind of the science behind keeping them calm, by using that constant motion and sound and also just came up with a product that way, and so those are our customers, our … Well, I guess in many ways, our end users are the babies, but their parents are buying it for them because they just need a little bit extra sleep.
Felix: Yeah, that makes sense. I'm actually expecting my first child. I don't have this product yet, but I'm sure when I'm in the throes of it all, I'm going to want to get your product as soon as possible. That brings me to my point, which is that do the customers, the actual buyers, do the parents typically buy before they have the baby? Or do they typically buy when the baby's born already? When in that kind of cycle in their life do you find that customers are coming to you?
Melissa: It's both. I would say some parents have heard about us while they're pregnant. Maybe they haven't decided to buy or they put us on their registry and they don't get the item or nobody buys it for them. But we do have parents who purchase before their baby's born. They're super excited. Baby's born, they use it. And then of course, we get the parents who either have heard of us or haven't, but now they have a baby, they have a crying baby, they have that kind of pain point, and they find us that way.
We use a lot of techniques to kind of reach those particular customers. Social media is a big referrer to our sites. Social media ads as well and things like that. That's usually when parents are finding us is one of those two times. Is either when they're setting up their registry and then getting it for their registry gift or when they have a new baby, and they're experiencing the pain and trauma, so to speak, of many sleepless nights.
Felix: A couple of different I guess customers or at least a couple of different stages in their life: their life before the baby, their life after the baby, and then of course anyone that is giving a gift to new parents. Do you have to change up the messaging in any way? I know you mentioned the different ways that you do reach them through social media. But do you change up the messaging in any way to touch these potential customers at these different points in their lives?
Melissa: We've been every fortunate. Those who are buying as a gift are generally grandparents, so they've had kids before or are friends who may already have children. A lot of people that are purchasing end up being people who immediately see value in a product like ours because they're used to taking their baby out, like let's say a long drives or using a product maybe like a swing to keep their baby quiet. They kind of understand that babies miss the constant motion, and then when we let them know about the constant sound, they're like, "Oh, that makes total sense. My baby would always fall asleep at a party, so it makes sense that they actually miss the noise instead of the quiet." It's pretty easy to actually to convert those customers because they often see the value pretty quickly, so we don't necessarily need to change our messaging there.
I would say that new parents are often more overwhelmed with the things that are coming their way. In some cases, we have to have many more touchpoints with those folks to be able to convert them into actual customers just because they're looking at this for their registry on a Saturday, and then they're going back to do their own research on the various products, and they're kind of refining their registry for their baby shower. Things like that, and so there's … Or they just don't know what it's like to have a crying baby, or they think they're going to have a baby, they'll be, "Oh, it'll be fine," and they actually get into the thick of it, and they're like, "Oh, man. This really sucks."
I would say that our messaging kind of remains the same, but the number of touchpoints that we need with a customer might change. I will also say that on the rare occasion that we're getting the gift buyer who doesn't have children but is buying for a friend who's pregnant, those folks often, a lot of the millennials these days are very tech-savvy. We consider our products, we're based on science, the science of mimicking the womb and calming babies. A lot of people just think it's a cool, kind of techy gadget because it's something new that they haven't heard of. Those the same types of people that often frequent like a Kickstarter, an Indiegogo to buy cool tech products themselves, so when they see something like ours, they're like, "I'm going to be the coolest person at this baby shower." That's usually another easy kind of convert.
That's kind of our customer, but our messaging for the most part stays similar.
Felix: It sounds like it revolves a lot around the concept of the registry. It's either someone putting it on a registry or someone maybe bringing a gift that may or may not be on a registry. But when it is on a registry, it obviously improves the chance of someone buying it because now you exposed it so many different potential buyers that are coming to celebrate and to buy a gift for the new parents. Are there ways to make your product stand out or become more attractive to get onto a registry because obviously yours is for new parents, but I could imagine new homes or marriage or even a holiday wish list. Being on some kind of a list, I think is a great way to drive traffic and potential sales.
What have you noticed about how to get on a registry?
Melissa: When it comes to kind of the big box registries, I would consider that to be stores like Babies R Us, Buy Buy Baby. Even Target has registries. Those are often, you either have to be on their platform, which fortunately we are for Buy Buy Baby and Target these days, but you have to, often, it's kind of pay for play to get on those registries and to be able to be more known and seen. That, as a small startup, we just don't have that kind of cash.
We've been, again, utilizing more social media tactics doing kind of, there are often baby shows that crop up for parents in various big cities. Both parents will go to those to kind of scope out the baby products while their pregnant or when they've got a new baby, they check out new products that they might not have known about, so we really optimize on going to those as well.
But getting on a registry these days, one of the great things for us is a list called the Babylist. They allow for registries on … Essentially, you can set up a registry there, but shop at any other independent website. That's been really helpful for us, and then of course, the thousand pound elephant in the room is Amazon. They're kind of the fasting growing registry these days, and so we love to take advantage of linking our Amazon through our Shopify. It makes it really easy for us to, we pull in the orders directly from Amazon. They come right into Shopify, and we can just deal with everything in Shopify. All of our information goes straight to our, from our warehouse from Shopify.
So being on Amazon is another crucial piece for our business, but we do it through Shopify in a way. We find Shopify to be a much better system for us to manage all those orders and to manage those customers.
Felix: Got it. You mentioned that they are, it sounds like there are two types of registries out there. There's the organic ones that are created by customers, by soon-to-be parents in this case, and then also these pay-for-play registries. Can you talk about those specifically? What are these pay-for-play type of registries?
Melissa: We haven't dove too much into that, so I can't speak that much to it, to be honest, but I will say that I know for Target, when a parent registers with them, they often either receive in the mail or receive in store a booklet that has suggested items or potential marketing information for the parents to look at different products. To be on something like that would be great because you're getting in front of every single person that's signing up on a registry for, let's say Target. But you have to actually pay Target to be in … Excuse me, to be in those guides. That can be very costly for a company like ours. We're not just talking a couple of thousands dollars. We're talking tens of thousands of dollars each year. It's just not something that we have at this stage, so we're trying to find more of the organic ways to be in front of those customers. Banner ads or social media referrals that are actually driving customers either to our site or to support our channel partners like Target because we're on Target.com.
Felix: Got it. Now, when you are focused on driving the organic registries, are these banner ads and social media content, is it saying things like, "Add this to your registry," or do you just focus on driving them to the product and getting them potentially to buy there, or do you try to get into that intermediary, I guess step of just getting them to add it to their wish list?
Melissa: We actually try to just refer them to the website to learn about our product and to convert them that way. We have better margins on our website or on Shopify because we use Shopify, of course. So yeah, we have the best margins there, so we do drive them there.
We do find that once a customer knows about our product, it is a pretty easy step for them to want to add it to a registry. So they learn about us through other things or keeping, presented to them on their social media channels via ads and things like that.
Once a customers signs up on our website, we'll include them on our email list, and then of course, they're getting updates. We're providing content to them. As a nurse, I'm providing various, like a Facebook Live video to teach them about how to calm their baby or what to expect with their first diapers or how to swaddle a baby, and then we send those out in an email blast so that we're also educating customers. That usually keeps them engaged with us and our platform and obviously keeps our product in their mind so that they're very likely to add it to their registry and thus covert.
At the end of the day, either when somebody buys it for them or, like I said, when they're realizing how difficult it is on those sleepless nights, and they, it's 3:00 in the morning and … We get quite a few orders actually, probably more than most Shopify stores at 3:00 in the morning.
Felix: I bet. Very busy customers, it sounds like, which means probably a longer sales cycle, which means more touchpoints that you need to be in front of them so they keep you top of mind. Based on all your entire funnel, what do you think is the most important piece of that funnel? What have you found to be the highest converting or the most important piece that [inaudible 00:12:13] out would have pretty large impact on your funnel?
Melissa: Interestingly enough, I mean I mentioned this a few times already is social media. It's especially Facebook. When you look at demographics, a lot of moms spend time on Facebook. They're actually either Facebook or Instagram, but those are kind of the main channels as opposed to like SnapChat is a different type of social media that we don't engage with customers on because it's not a lot of moms. It's more for the younger set. I'm not saying no moms that we experience are on SnapChat, but it's not something that we found to be worth our while to be on that platform, but especially Facebook and some other things, if that were to be knocked out, taking advantage, like I said, a Facebook Lives where we provide content, and we provide customers engagement. We just provide good content for them to learn about because if they're learning about how to swaddle a baby, they're going to think about us or think about the product when they're swaddling that baby and then just the swaddling does work. I would definitely say that Facebook is kind of our biggest thing. Having the customers to be out there and engage with our brand in that way.
We also have been taking advantage of online influencers. Initially, it didn't necessarily take off as expected, but then we were fortunate enough to air on Shark Tank. That kind of boosted our brand and boosted our know how. Instead of getting in front of influencers who then were suddenly more interested in our product. It was a great product before, but it gets stuck in an inbox, and so we ended up restarting that program. Now, we've got more blogger involvement and folks who are also just …
We have guest bloggers. Mom and fathers kind of come on our Facebook channel as well. We end up kind of using some nice cross promotions between us. Those, I would definitely say that Facebook and Instagram.
We do a lot of giveaways as well with other brands. That's another great way for us to build our list because folks have to … If you want to win the various products, you have to sign up with our email, and then we can take advantage of, continuing to market to the folks who haven't necessarily won, and we'll often follow up with coupons. "Hey, sorry you didn't win, but here's a coupon for you."
I would say that those, and Facebook is one of those, Facebook and Instagram are those two channels, but Facebook primarily where we're seeing a lot more engagement, a lot more moms coming to engage with the product as well as signing up for those free giveaways and things like that.
Felix: You said a lot of great things there. Lots of great valuable information. You gave away a lot of that. I want to dive into each one of these. You mentioned first, which I think is most interesting is Facebook Live. I think that it's great that you're out there and representing your company and being the face of your business and talking directly to your customers. Where did this idea come from? How did you get motivated into [inaudible 00:15:19] a live video of yourself?
Melissa: I have an amazing team that I work with. It came from one of our social media gurus on the team that was like, "Hey, Facebook Live is really taking off. We should try to take advantage of this. Especially being a nurse, we should try to really promote that content because you're an expert in a lot of different things, and so we can get in front of our customers and provide them with good content." We also, like I said, we tried it, and that's what we saw. We started with kind of the basics. The product is based on the five S's, which is a very famous … It's by Harvey … It was a famous theory-
Felix: Happiest baby on the block or something?
Melissa: Exactly. Yeah, happiest baby on the block, and so I knew those. I had taken a special crying specialist course since I was very adept in those. We stared with the Facebook Center Live. Each week, I did one overview the first week of what the five S's were, and then I did each one, swaddling one week, and then swaying another week, which is the constant motion piece and kind of talking about it. It's great because you can provide really great content, and then you can at least, especially on those topics, you can end up working the product right into.
And then we ended up finding sleep consultants and other doulas. In the space, doulas are kind of trained non-medical professionals that help with births. We've had some other experts kind of come on and provide really great content for our users.
It has been a really great way, like we end up seeing people pop on for, it comes on their feed, and they join us on the video. We're getting them to engage by saying, "Hey, let us know where you're joining in from." We've actually had customers or people on our channel … I had a cold one week, and somebody sent me some cold remedies. They followed up after and emailed and said, "Wanted to let you know that with your colds, you could try to use different homeopathic remedies."
A lot of times, we get people who chime in for the first time. Even though the topic isn't necessarily about our product, they end up asking several questions about the product, and it's great because then everyone else who's watching can hear kind of a little bit about our pitch and our product from me. I try to have the product handy on the videos.
As a nurse, I am not a mother. A lot of my team members are mothers and moms, but I don't often have a real baby on hand for these live videos, so I have a nice baby doll that's weighted that kind of acts like a doll that we use at shows. So I bring … I think the baby needs a name, but I guess him or her out and kind of demo various things.
A few weeks ago, we did something on diapers. I'm going to follow up with a part two coming up shortly. We find that we get a ton of engagement, lots of hearts and shares and things like that.
We also did a really creative thing. We're definitely going to take advantage of that in the future is Facebook Live giveaways. We had folks tune in, and we were talking about our [inaudible 00:18:21] free products. It was right before Christmas. That was just … I mean we had crazy engagement on that one. It was awesome to be able to promotes. Of course, we got involved with other brands, so then they shared our lives after the fact too with their channels. It was a just a phenomenal idea. We're going to do that into the future.
Felix: I'm certainly going to have to follow you on Facebook right after this podcast. When you are ready to go live, I think this is pretty daunting, I guess channel for a lot of people because a lot of entrepreneurs out there like the idea of online business because you can kind of just run your entire business without never seeing your customers, right? But you're getting out there. You're presenting a lot of great content. You're ready to go live for the time. Do you just push a button, and you're live, or what kind of prep do you like to do maybe early on or these days?
Melissa: My team, we all work together. I have a blog prepped beforehand so that the blog corresponds to … The blog actually helps me get prepped for the live, so I know that I've got just the right amount of content. We don't want to overload people. Sometimes, I'll pick a particular topic, and it'll end up being like an eight-page … the equivalent of an eight-page Word document blog. We're like, "Okay, we got to scale that back because when I talk about it, it's going to be an hour plus." That's a challenge for moms.
Baby might be crying, or you're just going to get distracted and that, so we try to keep it shorter and sweeter to that effect, and so we have a blog prepped in advance. Then, we do a little bit of prep announcing the event with a photo and a description. Then, when I do go live, yeah, it's a matter of, I have the Facebook, the business app. Facebook, it's Pages on my phone. I click into there. One of the things right under our cover photo is live. I click on that.<|fim_middle|> partners of yours? For Facebook Live.
Melissa: Who tune in to watch a video?
Felix: No, I think you mentioned that sometimes there are other folks there are running the Facebook Live or that provide content.
Melissa: Got it. Yeah, so we actually allow them right onto our platform. We just make them a user on Facebook's backend so that they're able to-
Felix: I see.
Melissa: … be on their phone for the day of the week, to be able to click live on pages for us through that. And then on occasion, there is a split screen option. I'm not terribly sure how that works, so you could have somebody almost like Skype with them almost. You'll see a split screen, and so we're hosting and asking them questions, and then they're answering, but we're in two different locations.
That doesn't have a tendency to work so well. Something about that split screen option, Facebook kind of doesn't promote that as well. But it is an option for us. I would say if people host for us, we either provide them the option, or in the case, like I said, one of my colleagues who is not … We had two moms on our team who did our giveaway. They were doing it for us, and they work remotely. We're located out of Boston, but they live in New Rochester, New York, and so they were filming from there that days.
Felix: I think you mentioned that you just started with the giveaways at least on Facebook Live. Can you say a little bit more about that? How is it set up? How is it promoted? What was required for someone to participate in the Facebook Live giveaway?
Melissa: I believe they had to … See, I don't run these. I could be wrong, and I apologize for that, but I believe they had to like our page and leave a comment about why they wanted to win. They might've even had to tag a friend in the link to, a friend who might need the product or something like that. But those are various ways. Regardless of that, if that's not how we set up that particular giveaway, those are ways that we have done in the past to increase engagement in general in giveaways.
Felix: And then, when it comes to Facebook Live, do they have to tune in to hear the winner? How is that component of it tied in?
Melissa: For this particular one, they did not have to tune in. I mean they had to engage with the video at some point, ideally in the live setting, but they had to engage with it before a certain kind of cutoff, and then we announced the winner, I believe by email. And then that's when we follow up with a, "Hey, here's the winner," and then, "Sorry you didn't win, but here's a coupon," has been a great followup for us.
Now that I'm thinking about it, they probably not only had to like, but they had to actually enter their email because that's another just way for us to grow our list and to be able to re-market or target these folks as well.
And then what we have thought about and we may not may not do in the future but about actually announcing the winner live. You tune in for one live, you engage with the content, but then you have to come back for the second live to be the winner or to hear who the winner is. We haven't done that yet. But we know that every quarter, we're going to be doing giveaways on Facebook Live.
Our first last quarter was our first, so December right before Christmas. We'll do another one in the next month or two.
Felix: And you're partnering with other companies too to create some kind of bundle for these giveaways. How do you identify which companies to work with?
Melissa: We work with people who are often compatible with our product in some way. We just did a giveaway with a company that does a type of wrap that's specifically for the beach. You can take it in the water. You can get it wet. It's lightweight. We showed photos of how our product works well with theirs.
For the Facebook Live giveaway, we worked with other … It was our favorite sleep products, and so we are a sleep product, and then we used other compatible, non-direct competitor products. We were able to reach out to them and get them to provide one free product, and then they share it, we share it. I think there were four or five different products that we used. There were four or five different companies that were engaged in this particular process, and they're all sharing the content as well on their channel. That's, again, increasing your engagement, increasing your customer base, getting new emails from …
If I'm a parent and I recently bought a swaddle blanket but I don't have the Tranquilo Mat, then it's a great way to … They're learning about it through the swaddle blanket. They just bought it on that Facebook page, and then they want to enter to win because they need more sleep and they need the other S's of the swaying and the sound, so they're entering, and then we're getting that information and being able to show them our product.
Felix: Are there specific apps or tools that you rely on to help run these giveaways?
Melissa: Yes. Rafflecopter is certainly the biggest one. We use [Privy 00:38:52] as well to, in general, just boost our subscribers on the website so folks can interact in that way. Yeah, so I mean referral can be, it's definitely … Sorry, not referral can be. Rafflecopter is the big one. We do use Referral Candy as well to have customers be able to refer family and friends, so, "Hey, I bought a Tranquilo Mat, and if you share this and your friend buys it through the link, we provide you, you'll get $5 off your next order," or something like that. But for the actual giveaways, is the Rafflecopter because it's an easier way to track how many people are engaging. Let's say you make them go over to Instagram and like you, or they're coming from the swaddle company's website and they have to like your page, and so it keeps track of how customers are engaging in an easy way for us.
Felix: Got it. You also mentioned the nother partners you work with or these influencers. What platform do they usually come from? Which social media platform?
Melissa: Instagram has been one of our best, I would say referrers of influencers in that sense. There are a lot of moms out there just creating some really beautiful content. Really cute pictures of their kids. Beautiful photos. A lot of people really enjoy that site, so we're getting a lot of influencers in that space. We're also getting some traditional mommy bloggers, but they often also have either a very active Facebook or a very active Instagram. That's generally how we're engaging with those particular customers.
Again, like I said, certain platforms just aren't, like some companies might do well with a LinkedIn. Ours is not that kind of company. We don't see a lot of customers. We don't get a lot of referrals through Twitter, but other companies might.
Felix: Yeah, I guess it depends on what platform works best where you look for influencers in that space. Can you say a little bit more about how the, I guess the partnerships or deals work with these influencers? Are they just looking for the product or is there more involved in a deal with an influencer?
Melissa: Yeah, I mean it very much depends on who the influencer is. Because we're a startup, again, we try not to engage … We just don't have the cash to engage in pay for play. There are some mommy bloggers and influencers out there who want money, the 100, 200, sometimes 500 bucks just to get a blog post out there or things like that. We really, we try not to do that at all. I don't think we've done that at all in the last year or so just because we're trying to be scrappy and save our money for the things that we really need to.
And so in those cases, we do provide free product. Again, we try to work with them in other ways. They'll write a blog for us, and we'll share it, or vice versa. Essentially, we have a pretty huge following on social media. You're going to ask me the number, so you're going to have to give me two seconds to actually look it up, but yeah, we have a pretty good following, and so we also offer essentially like, "Hey, we would love for you to try our product, review our product, and then we'll share your handle and your information on our platform," so that they can gain new subscribers as well. That's a way that we try to work with influencers.
We also do two ways too sometimes with them so that their platform is going to get a free mat if they engage with their particular post or Instagram or what have you.
Felix: I like the idea of being scrappy and not just think about how much or not to resort to paying cash. You can find other ways to help mutually benefit your partners by doing things that help promote them because as they get larger, they can potentially work on bigger deals with other brands as well. There's certainly a lot of value they can provide that doesn't just come down to cash.
It sounds like a lot of this ties back to the email list too, right? People that sign up for the giveaway, people that come through the influencers at their website, through Privy and all these others apps you have set up is to drive people too to your email list and in your markets in that way. When a potential customer lands in your email list, are there different emails that you have funnels that you send them through, depending on how they signed up or how intricate does it get?
Melissa: We do have what's called the welcome series email. That's obviously, "Welcome to the family." We follow up with, "In case you missed it," or, "Here's some interesting content." Related to either the mat or calming babies, and so we do have this welcome … I think one of the things on the welcome series is a thank you from me for joining the family, so to speak.
And then once customers have purchased or if they have an abandoned cart where we have a different set of emails for the abandoned cart to remind them. We have them at set intervals for when they're engaging with … It's like 24 hours and then 36 hours … There's certain timeframes. It's not 36 hours. It's like three days later, so we're engaging with them at several touchpoints along an actual abandoned cart segment, so we're trying to recoup that.
And then once you purchase, there's also additional emails. We ask them for reviews. That's another really great way. We use a great app on Shopify for product reviews and add-ons. Essentially they get an email x amount of days after their purchase, asking them to review, and they can attach photos. That's been a really great thing because that just promotes like when a customer lands on that actual shop page, they can then see all those reviews. That's part of the post purchase email series. We have several different funnels for them, I would say.
I believe it's about three to four emails per funnel. I'm really hoping, by the way, that my marketing team is not going to beat me up [inaudible 00:45:14] with all the misinformation that I've given out there because they're just such masterminds with all of this. Certainly, I'm involved in several capacities, but I don't know the nitty gritty of a lot of those details.
Felix: No worries. It sounds like definitely at least different types of funnels that you send them through depending on what stage they're at in their purchase, whether it's before or whether they abandoned a cart, whether they've already made a purchase. When you are sending out these emails, do you know how frequently these are going out? Do you try to be conscious of what, I guess cadence works best?
Melissa: Yes. I would say that if you're on the list, we really try to give maybe one email per … per week. Excuse me. If it's more than that, it's only because you're also in, let's say the welcome series. If you've been welcome to the family already, you've abandoned your cart once, and you've come back and purchased, so you're through the post, post purchase, you'll only see emails from us maybe once a week. They'll often relate to the lives or the blogs or other content that's educational for you or the giveaway. There's other thing for you to engage in, as opposed to just like spamming you like trying to buy the product. If you receive more than maybe one email a week, it's because you're within one of the other funnels as well, but we do try to be very conscientious of people's time.
We do, this is very common in marketing, A/B testing, where you're looking at, okay, "I'm providing this picture in the email and this subject line. Does that do better or worse than this other one that's very similar, but instead of 'calm your crying baby to sleep in seconds,' it's 'stop babies crying in seconds.'" It's just slightly different copy and maybe one different picture, and you're seeing which one has a better open rate, which one has better click-through rates and things like that. You're trying to figure out what your customers and your audience appreciate and kind of what their trends are.
Felix: Is that automated or do you look at the reports afterwards and then decide, "Let's stick with this subject line," or, "I'll stick with this content that seems to work better?"
Melissa: We do use MailChimp, although we … If folks out there have other suggestions, we are looking to possibly change that. So you do the A/B testing. You set it up in their system for the actual email, and then they do send out the A and the B to x number on your list, and then once they determine which one is better, it does automatically send only the remaining folks on your list, the higher opening rate one. So it is kind of an automated … I mean obviously, you have to create the content for both. That's never going to be automated, but it does kind of market test which content will be better for a certain subset, and then it'll send out the highest performing to the rest of your list, so that's been a nice time saver for our team.
Felix: Any other applications or, whether they be Shopify apps or off of Shopify that you rely on to run the business?
Melissa: Yeah. Our company, like I said, we had a few team members who tune in remotely, and so we use Slack to communicate with our team. We also use Trello, which is a cool project management … It's got different segments of the company, so you can keep track of what everyone's working on, the various things that are due and due dates. Again, I mentioned MailChimp.
Of course, Shopify. We love Shopify. I will say that I used a different platform before the business, it was formed back in 2015, and for about a year, I struggled on a very different platform, and then we switched to Shopify, and it was like night and day. [inaudible 00:49:15] Shopify.
Like I said, we do, one of the huge things there, there's a way to tie in, I believe this is directly through Shopify actually. You can just tie in your Amazon store through Shopify. That's been awesome because like I said, it's just one easy way … We track our inventory that way. We track our returns through that because everything's coming in one platform, and we don't have to kind of look at, "Well, how much do we owe in the sales tax?" But I have to look on Shopify and on Amazon, so it's a good way to bring that information in one space. Those are the kind of the tools in and outside of Shopify.
And then the apps that we use. I mentioned love the product reviews and add-ons that allows customers to be able to provide photos and reviews pretty instantly through a post-purchase email. Privy is the way that we boost subscribers and get people onto our company list. Referral Candy is something that we used for customers to refer other customers. It gives them a nice discount.
And then we also have a store locator on our website. That's kind of a newer thing because we've started to break into more retail channels, and so as we're selling to other channels, we want customers to be able to find their local and national retailers for selling our product and be able to … If you have a crying baby and you want a solution, you might not be able to wait the two or three days it takes to … Even with expedited shipping sometimes, [inaudible 00:50:50] the product, so you might want to just go to the local store if it's a couple of miles down the street. We do use the store locator, which has been very helpful. I know our channel partners really appreciate that.
Felix: Thank you so much for your time, Melissa. TranquiloMat.com is the website. That's Tranquil with an O. M-A-T.com. Where do you want to see the business go next? What kind of big goals you have for this year?
Melissa: I mean I want to continue to grow the business. We, like I said, we aired on Shark Tank last year and just saw some really tremendous growth. We've opened up, like I said, a lot of new retail channels lately, so you'll start to see our product on stores shelves. Target and Buy Buy Baby, and then a few other partners. I believe Babies R Us may or may not be … We're looking to expand there. We're also looking to expand into Canada and some other international channels, so we're just going to continue to get the word out there to folks about us and get this thing into the stratosphere.
I would definitely say those are the goals, just to continue to grow. Even though we went from a small business to over a million dollars last year in sales, and we want to obviously just keep growing there from there. Let's shoot for two million or more this year. That's my goal. Shoot big.
Felix: Awesome. Thank you again so much for your time, Melissa.
Melissa: Thanks, Felix.
Felix: Here's a sneak peak for what's in store the next Shopify Masters episode.
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Certainly, there's different techniques within that, but fortunately, I guess that I have some social gurus now on my team who have taught me all the tips and tricks.
The cool thing about Facebook Live is that people want to engage with you. They want to know the face behind the brand. They love it when you are like, "Where are you tuning in from?" And you say their name, and then you follow … They show up the next week, and you follow up with them. You kind of get to know them. That really makes them think twice about your brand in good and positive ways. You just want to be real and honest with them. Let them see you and see kind of your home and see the face behind the business. It's been a really great tool for us.
I'm not camera shy, but even some of our team members who are camera shy, they actually ended up … like I said, for that giveaway, we had one of our other team members who hates cameras and interviews and press and anything like that, she participated with one of other moms on the team, and they crushed it. They knocked it out of the park because you kind of forget you're talking to a camera. You're talking to people. People's names are popping up. They're asking you questions. You're like, "Hey, Carla. Thanks for tuning in."
Really, is it, yeah, you're nervous at first. I would definitely say the first Facebook Live, you feel like you're super nervous, but you kind of get into a nice groove about it. After the first few, it's old hat. It's really nice to kind of talk to your customers and understand because you also get a lot of insight on what type of messaging is working for you and what isn't, right? If you constantly say one thing about your product and your customers are engaging with that and they're still showing up on Facebook Live to ask you the same questions over and over, you're obviously not getting the message across the same way you think you are. So it's a great way to really, in a way, close that gap and have a face-to-face conversation [crosstalk 00:22:23]
Felix: It's like this instant feedback that you can take right away. There's a loop that you created. Can you think of any examples off the top of your head that you've been able to close the particular gap in the messaging?
Melissa: Yeah, I would definitely say … To be fair, we're still trying to close the gap. It's one of those, you think you've closed it, and then you're like, "Oh, I forgot about that email campaign," or, "I forgot about that old blog post," and you kind of have to go back and edit.
One of the things that we're really trying to close the gap on these days is the difference between our product. We have two sizes. We have a large mat that is more for sleep settings, so it's for cribs, bassinets, Pack 'n Plays, activity mats. I mean certainly, it's still very portable. Roll it up, toss it in a diaper bag and go, but it is bigger, and it's more … When parents get that size, they understand baby is supposed to lay on it, right, because it's sized that way. But they think large, and they think it's going to be larger than it really is, and so we're trying to really close the gap on how big that is. The lives have helped with that because it is that live video. They're seeing the baby doll. They're seeing it next to me, live and in real time. They're understanding how baby fits on it versus the small, which is much smaller.
We're likely going to go in the direction of kind of even marketing it completely different in the sense of like changing its name and considering it an accessory as opposed to the actual product. But that's a little ways a way because we have to change all our packaging and things like that.
In that sense, though, the small size is, it's much smaller. It's the size of a sheet of paper, essentially. It's 8 by 11. It doesn't really fit an entire baby on it. It can be used though in a car seat. It's much more flexible in that sense. It's just a better size for that. You can use it, you strap the baby in and place it on top of the baby, so if you're driving around and the car stops moving and baby wants to wake up, they're not going to because they're going to have that consistency of using the mat.
You can also use it in baby carriers, which is a big thing these days, baby wearing. That's something that we're trying to close the gap on in educating the customers that there's very … It's very specific on which size you want, right? Most people purchase the large because of its size, versus if you've got a kid, there are kids like this out there who are what are called car seat screamers who just, the minute their butt hits the car seat, they just scream at the top of their lungs and hate it. Those parents are the ones who love our product for that. It ends up calming them and making four instead of a five-hour long car ride with crying the entire five hours. Or the baby wears out. They're letting them know that our product is another kind of nice combination with the actual wearing to keep baby calm.
We're trying to close that gap in educating those customers on those differences. I think we found that out through lives and through actually engaging with the customers and understanding how they engage with our content.
Felix: Now, to get this kind of messaging out to as many potential customers as possible, what kind of promotion do you try to get in before going live? Is there a good way to announce that you're going to go on Facebook Live soon?
Melissa: Yes. You create an event on Facebook. I know most people have created events for parties and friends and things like that. So you create an event. We'll also post maybe a few times on Facebook or Instagram as well because you just post a photo that has a [inaudible 00:26:05] and a little blurb, and then we may or may not push it out to our listserv as well and let people know that we're going to be live on Facebook. We're kind of engaging with people across multiple platforms.
Maybe we haven't seen Grandma Jo. She might've purchased the product, she might not have, but she's on our mailing list, and she … There are some grandmas who are tuning in and loving our product. I will certainly say there's plenty who aren't, and that's fine too.
Felix: Now, do you wait for like quorum or like how many people do you wait to join before you get started?
Melissa: Oh, you just get started. For Facebook Live, you just go. I would say it depends on the particular topic. We've had anywhere from 10–20 active users, upwards of 50–75. Obviously, when you're new to starting a Facebook Live, it might be lower and again, depending on the content, the topic. You're learning what your customers actually want to hear about versus what they don't. Yeah, so I would say, and you're trying to grow that every time, and so the more people you have tune in, the more … Or the more relevant it is to your customers, Facebook is going to kind of prioritize that content. It'll show up on people's feeds.
Felix: Got it.
Melissa: No, you just start it. Certainly, you can wait. What you would do is be like, "Hey." You kind of introduce yourself. You say, "If you can hear me, give me a heart or a like." You're kind of doing this little basic kind of prep stuff that is engaging with them, and also the more they like or give a heart or anything like that, that's increasing your engagement as well.
Felix: [crosstalk 00:27:46]
Melissa: That's getting in front of more customers. You can do things like that at the beginning, but you do kind of just dive in.
And then throughout the live, you're actually reminding people, you're asking questions to engage with them, so you're getting more comments. Again, that's popping that up higher on other customer's feeds then, so that more people may join. You're asking them to share it. "Hey, if what I said was interesting or if you've learned anything, don forget to share. Even if you're tuning in afterwards, don't forget to leave us a question. We always check back and answer questions." Things like that to continue the engagement, which continues to snowball that ability.
Felix: I really like that idea of telling them that, "Hey, still leave a comment even if you're watching this later," because you're going to check in again and answer questions anyway because I think that's one of the, sometimes downfalls of these live videos is that once it's done, it's kind of dead, right? No one's, for the most part, people assume that if the content is done, there's no more engagement, but you really help extend that life of the video by letting people know they could still interact with the video and you're going to come back in and still engage with them.
Melissa: Yeah. It's important too, right? Because if you've touched on a particular topic, and you know, I talked about with diapers, I talked about circumcision and circumcision care. If a customer has any questions about that, if you just kind of leave it hanging, that's not really a great way to engage with a potential customer. The more positive touchpoints they have, the more positive they're going to think about you think about purchasing your product.
Felix: What about things like time of day? Have you found a good time, or I guess I'll ask that first, and then a second part of that is do you keep that time consistent each week or however frequently you do the lives?
Melissa: What we ended up doing was finding when we had the most engagement in general on Facebook and kind of looking to see what … We were toying with when our posts would go, right? We tried some 3:00 a.m. posts. We would try 9:00 a.m., 3:00 p.m., etc. The various days of week. We found that Thursdays in the afternoon, so we do … It's the afternoon on the East Coast, so it's noon. It's every Thursday at noon.
On occasion, we do have to skip a week because I'm traveling, and I can't do it, or our guest drops out at the last minute because they're sick or something like that, but we do try to keep it very consistent. We try to keep it at Thursdays at noon.
That being said, of course, I know this coming week, we will not have one. That's because I'm traveling and nobody else could cover or fill in. But yeah, so we do try to keep it consistent. We try not to have gaps. We do try to have kind of multi-part series, so that folks …
That's another way that you can do it. Like if you do Diapers Part One, folks are going to tune in, and then when you do Diapers Part Two, you could tell them, "Don't forget." Tune in for Diapers Part Two, so then you're getting engagement across different days. And then similarly when you're on the second part of that, you can be like, "Hey, just so you know, we're talking about this today, but if you want to know more about x, y, and z, it was on the first part. We're going to leave the link here," and so then, you're cross engaging even within post.
Felix: Having that continuity between all of the videos, I think, that's a great way to get people to kind of binge watch a lot of what you put out there. Is there a particular length that seems to work well for these videos?
Melissa: Yeah. I would say if we can keep it, 30–45 minutes tends to be the best time for us. Occasionally, we do go longer than that, but anywhere in the 30–45 minute range. That would include question and answer, so we always provide the content, and then the Q&A kind of extends it or depending on how many questions there are out there in the audience.
Felix: You mentioned that some content it sounds like works really well for Facebook Live. Have you found that some content, it should be better suited for a written blog versus live? What have you found in terms of noticing or identifying what's going to be a good topic for a Facebook Live?
Melissa: Yeah, I mean I think I would say anything that's educational. We have because of the benefit of me being a nurse, I would have the tendency to see the highest engagement on those because those are things … Parents can become self-conscious about calling the pediatrician every two seconds, even though that's, the pediatricians expect it from new parents. They appreciate that there's additional ways to learn about things, and then they get to engage with experts and ask questions, right?
That's something that has kind of been the best for us. But certainly, despite the topic, we try to provide a blog to go with the live, and then we link the live to the blog and vice versa, so again, you're getting people across content. So grandma might know how to get to your website, might've read your blog, but she hasn't actually seen your Facebook Live ,and then she can click right to that video after the fact.
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Felix: For educational.
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What are the Pretrial Litigation Process?
Pleadings - paper work that inities and responds to a lawsuit. They include:
1. Complaint
3. Corss-complaint
4. Intervention
5. Consolidation
Discovery - process of discovering facts of the case from the other parties and witnesses
1. Depositions
2. Interrogatories
3. Production of documents
4. Physical and mental examiniation
Dismissals and Pretrial Judgements,
What is Pleadings?
the paper work that is filed with the court to initiate and respond to a lwsuit is referred to tas pleadings. The majority pealdins are the complain, the answer, the cross-complaint and answer (reply).
What is a Complaint?
filed by the plaintiff with the court and served with a summons on the defendant. it sets forth the basis of the lawsuit. (Part of Pleadings of pretiral litigation process)
Who is a plaintiff?
party / person who is suing. Person who files and starts the the case.
What is a summons?
A court order directing the defendant to appear in court and answer the complaint. The compalin and summos are served on the defendant by a sheriff, another government official or private process server.
What is an Answer?
which is filed by the defendant with the court and served on the plantiff. It usually denies most allegations of the complain. (Part of Pleadings of pretiral litigation process)
What is a default judgement?
A default judgement establishes the defendant's liabilty. part of Pleadings and reply / answering process) if the defended does not respond or answers the complaint, a default judgment is entered against him or her. Then the pleintiff then has only to prove damages.
What is affirmative defenses?
In addition to answering the complain, a defendant's answer can assert affirmative defenses. For example, if a complaint alleges that the plaintiff was personally injured by the defendant, the defendant's answer could state that he or she acted in selfdefense.
Another defense would be an assertion that the plaintiff's lawsuit is barred because the statute of limitations (time within which to bring the lawsuit) has expired.
What is statute of limitations?
Time within which to bring the lawsuit
What is Cross-Complaint?
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What is Fact Finding?
The parites may hire a neutral third person, called a fact-finder, to investigate a dispute and report his or her findings to the adversaries. (Part of Alternative Dispute Resolution)
What is a Judicial Referee?
With consent of the parties, the court may appoint a judicial referee (usually a retired judge or lawyer) to conduct a private trial and render a judgment. The judgment stands as the judgement of the court and may be appealed to the appropriate appellate court. (Part of Alternative Dispute Resolution)
What is Administrative Law?
Administrativ Agencies are created by federal, state and local governments. they range from large, complex federal agencies, such as the federal Department of Health and Human services to local zoning boards. They consist of professionals having an area of expertise in a certain area of commerce who interpret and appply designated statues.
Administrative Rules and Regulations - agencies are empowered to adopt rules and regulations that interpret and advance the laws they enforce.
Administrative Procedure Act - this act establishes procedures (i.e., notice, hearing) to be followed by federal agencies in conducting their affairs. States have enacted their own procedural acts to govern state agencies.
What is litigation?
The process of birining , maintaining and defending a lawsuit is called litigation.
What is a non judicial dispute resolution?
a way to resolve issues without having the expense and difficulty of brining a lawsuit. It is also know as "Alternative Dispute Resolution" which are being used more and more often to resolve commerical and e-commerce disputes.
Who are the administrative agencies?
The legislative and executive branches of government have created numerous administreative agencies is governed by a body of administrative law. Becauseo f their importance, administrative agencies are informally referred to as the "Fourth branch of government'
Judicial, Administrative, Alternative and Online Dispute Resolution | the plantiff. The defendant is the cross-complainant, and the plaintiff is the cross-defendant. The defendant is cross-defendant must file and serve a reply(answer). (Part of Pleadings of pretiral litigation process)
A defendant who believes that he or she has been injured by the plaintiff can file a cross-complaint against the plaintiff in addition to an answer. In th ecorss- complaint, the defendant 09now the corss-complainant) sues the plaintiff (now the corss-defendant for damages or some other remedy. The original plaintiff must file a reply (answer) to the cross-complaint. the reply, which can include affirmative defenses, must be filed with court and served on the original defendant.
CONCEPT SUMMARY:
Type of Pleadings / Description
1. Complaint - a doucment filed by a plaintiff with court and served with summons on the defendant. it sets forht the basis of the lawsuit.
2. Answer - a document filed by a defendant with a court and served on the plaintiff. It usually denies most allegations of the complaint.
3. Cross-complaint and reply - A document filed and served by a defendant if he or she countersues the plaintiff. The defendant is the corss-complainant and the plaintiff is the cross-defendant. The corss-defendant must file and serve a reply(answer).
What is Intervention?
a person who has an interest in a lawsuit may intervene and become a party to the lawsuit. (Part of Pleadings of pretiral litigation process)
What is Consolidation?
a court may consolidate separate cases against the same defendant arising from the same incident into one case if doing so would not cause prejudice to the parties. (Part of Pleadings of pretiral litigation process)
What is Statue of Limitations?
Statue of Limitations establishes the period during which a plaintiff must braing a lawsuit against a defendant.
What are Depositions?
Depositions are oral testimony given by a deponent, either a party or witness. Depositions are transcribed. (Part of Discovery of pretrial litigation process)
What is Interrogatories?
Written questions are submitted by one party to the other party. They must be answered within a specified period of time. (Part of Discovery of pretrial litigation process)
What is Production fo documents?
a party to a lawsuit may obtain copies of all relevant documents from the other party. (Part of Discovery of pretrial litigation process)
What is Physical and mental examination?
Examinations of a party are permitted upon order of the court where injuries are alleged that could be verified or disputed by such examination. (Part of Discovery of pretrial litigation process)
What is Dismissals and Pretrial Judgements?
1. Motion for Judgement on the Pleadings
2. Motion for Summary Judgment
What is Motion for Judgement on the Pleadings?
alleges that if all facts as pleaded are true, the moving party would win the lawsuit. No facts outside the pleadings may be considered. (part of Dismissals and Pretrial Judgement)
What is Motion for Summary Judgment?
alleges that there are no factual disputes, so the judge may apply the law and decide the case without a jury. Evidence outside the pleadings may be considered ( e.g., affidavits, documents, depostiions) (part of Dismissals and Pretrial Judgement)
What is a Settlement Conference? aka Pretrial hearing
The settlement Conference aka pretrial hearing occurs prior to trial between the parties in front of the judge to facilitate the settlement of th ecase. If a settlement is not reached, the case proceeds to trial.
List the Phases of a Trial
Jury Seleciton
Opening statements
The plaintiff's case
The defenddant's case
Rebuttal and rejoinder
Closing arguments
Jury deliberation and verdict
Entry of Judgement
What is Jury selection?
It occurs through a process called voir dire. Biased jurors are dismissed and replaced. (Phases of a Trial)
What is are Opening Statements?
The parties' lawyers make opening statements, which are not evidence. (Phases of a Trial)
What is meant by "the Plaintiff's case" during the process of a trial?
The plaintiff bears the burden of proof. The plaintiff calls witnesses and introduces evidence to try to prove his or her case. (Phases of a Trial)
What is meant by "The defendant's case" during a trial?
The defendant calls witnesses and introdcues evidence to rebut the plaintiff's case and to prove affirmative defenses and cross complaints. (Phases of a Trial)
What is rebuttal and rejoinder ?
The plaintiff and defendant may call additional witnesses and introduce additioanl evidence.
(Phases of a Trial)
What are closing arguments during a trial?
The parties' lawyers make closing arguments, which are not evidence. (Phases of a Trial)
What are Jury instructions?
The judge reads instructions to the jury as to what law they are to apply to the case. (Phases of a Trial)
Explain Jury Deliberation and verdict?
The jury retires to the jury room and deliberates until it reaches a verdict. (Phases of a Trial)
What is Entry of Judgement?
The judge may:
a. Enter the verdict reached by the jury as the court's judgement
b. grant a motion for judgement n.o.v. if the judge finds that the jury was biased. This means that the jury's verdict does not stand.
c. Order remittitur (reduction) of any damages awarded if the judge finds the jury to have been biased or emotional.
What is an Appeal?
Both parties in a civil suit and the defendant in a criminal trial may appeal the decision of the trial court. Notice of appeal must be filed within a specified period of time. The appeal must be made to the appropriate appellate court.
What is Alternative Dispute Resolution?
Alternative dispute resolution (ADR) is a nonjudicial means of solving legal disputes. ADR usually saves time and moeny compared to litigation. The following is a part of Alternative Dispute Resolution;
Concilation
Fact-finding
Judicial Referee
What is Arbitration?
In arbitration, an impartial thrid party, called an arbitrator, hears and decides a dispute. The arbitrator makes an award. The award is appealable to a court if the parties have not given up this right. Arbitration is designated by the parties pursuant to:
1. Arbitration clause - an agreement contained in a contract which stipulates that any dispute arising out of the contract will be arbitrated.
2. Submission agreement - an agreement to submit a dispute to arbitration after the dispute arises.
(Part of Alternative Dispute Resolution)
In mediation, a neutral thrid party, called a mediator, assists the parties in trying to reach a settlement of their dispute. The mediator does not make an award. (Part of Alternative Dispute Resolution)
What is Concilation?
an interested third party, called a conciliator, assists the parties in tyring to reach settlement of their dispute. The conciliator does not make an award. (Part of Alternative Dispute Resolution)
What is a Minitrial?
A minitrial is a short session in which the lawyers for each side | 1,493 |
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The boy she married, he was pretty smart. He could see that there was something more to her than just loving horses.
He could see the magic she kept so carefully hidden; and he believed in her magic.
And he told her to use it.
Now that was a scary time for her, learning to use that magic. She made mistakes, people laughed at her, and at times she almost gave up. But that cute boy kept cheering her on, and now . . .well, now the story is pretty simple.
She makes magic every day, for a living, with the words she writes, spinning stories and creating worlds out of nothing but the belief she has in her heart. The cute boy still cheers her on, and she still loves horses, but now . . . .now the people around her realize that magic isn't that far away. Not if you know what you're looking for.
This is Lysa, Shannon Mayer's Assistant. I wanted to take a moment to thank you for being a part of the Release Event for Blind Salvage.
Thanks again for participating and I hope you'll join us for future events! | have the upper hand.
How very blind can one person be when it comes to a salvage?
When I was sixteen, I was accused of killing her; our parents believed the police. But I don't really want to talk about that as it was over ten years ago. I'm trying to let it go.
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Tasman, naish and anadem earned literary fist bumps from comment writers on The New York Times crossword blog. One person was gobsmacked at the success of the day's puzzle featuring those obscure words.
It was created by David Steinberg of Edmonds.
He is 14 years old.
David just finished eighth grade at Lakeside School in Seattle.
Before getting into crosswords, he loved Jumble puzzles and Scrabblegrams.
The New York Times crossword puzzles get more difficult as each week progresses.
His parents bought him an online subscription to The New York Times crossword so<|fim_middle|> David is the third youngest published crossword builder in the newspaper's history.
Amlen wrote that she was impressed with the fun, fun puzzle.
David's published creation was no fluke. He's since had two more puzzles accepted to run on Mondays.
His family, including a Keeshond named Skipper, is moving to California this week, David said.
He will attend Palos Verdes Peninsula High School this fall and said he will miss Lakeside.
David said he has no college plans yet, but thinks he would like to study computer science, engineering and robotics.
One person who commented on The New York Times blog about the young constructor said we should hope David uses his amazing brain for good, not evil. | he could keep up to date.
His father, Paul Steinberg, is a communications analyst and his mother, Karen Steinberg, is a psychologist.
He works through what is called "autofills" in Crossword Compiler until he find one he likes. The only way he rejects a word for a puzzle, David said, is if it's too big for the grid.
Deb Amlen, a puzzle constructor, wrote in The New York Times Wordplay blog that | 96 |
Hi, Debs/Monti Bianco here, well not only have they got me lugging piles of antique cow manure they now have me writing their blog for them!!Well actually Breezy thought she'd just give you a rest from her babble so you can have mine instead!! W e all awoke to a howling wind breezing through the apartment, which did not bode well. The previous days<|fim_middle|> to hear you are getting in some boules practice must start that on your return. Well must get on a be a bee. Think muck shiffting must be easier than this baby sitting. Lots a luv to you all and keep at it. | forecast informed we were in for storms in the afternoon so we were prepared for a bit of horrible day-aha but fear not the wind died down and the sun was shining by the time we left the apartment!! Another fantastic and productive day, was had by all up at the Bergerie, we got absolutely stacks done. Much to Breezy and Alun's relief the slate has all been stacked and graded, the bridge preparation for cementing has been completed, brambles burned and a big chunk of cow dung has been removed from the inside of the barn hoorah,hoorah!! A slightly early finish as we'd achieved so much and then off to the bar for a swift beverage or two and then a game of boules to top off the evening before dinner-lovely! I shall leave you on that note to peruse the piccies as I'm now off to cook dinner-oh no rest for the wicked!!!
Hi. Good to hear all seems to be moving on a pace down there. Could do with a few more picures of the place rather than pictures of people with drinks in their hands. Glad | 228 |
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Tue, May 18th 2010 08:00 am, by kgriffiths
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Viatran celebrated today with an official grand opening and ribbon cutting ceremony for its new headquarters in Calamar's mixed-use development, The Woodlands Corporate Center East. Viatran's New York operation signed a lease with Calamar to occupy approximately 18,000 square feet of space at 3829 Forest Parkway, a 42,000 S.F. multi-tenant facility in Wheatfield. Viatran, a Dynisco company, is a worldwide leader providing pressure and level sensors in applications such as oil and gas services, steel productions, food and medical equipment, injection molding, die casting and chemical production.
The Woodlands Corporate Center East is a 120-acre mixed use park developed by Calamar comprised of commercial, industrial, office, and residential components with both build-to-suit land opportunities as well as multi-tenant flex facilities. The Woodlands Corporate Center is located just minutes from Amherst at the Niagara/Erie County borders and represents the largest mixed-use development in Niagara County. Calamar is dedicating over $150,000,000.00 of capital investment and is expected to create and retain 2,500 jobs.
Viatran was formerly headquartered on Grand Island and considered other locations and out-of-state options before selecting The Woodlands Corporate Center. "Total building value" was a large factor in the selection process as was the Empower Niagara program. Empower Niagara is a non-for profit Development Corporation that is authorized to enter into agreements for the purposes of providing certain electric power benefits to those industries that meet certain qualifying criteria.
"We're honored to welcome such a dynamic, world wide organization to our property", said Calamar President Kenneth M. Franasiak. "We're extremely pleased to announce this important step for The Woodlands Corporate Center, which is attracting strong interest and will further our strategy to position the park as a destination for national and international clients". Calamar is presently home to several international organizations.
"The signing of an established and stable corporation like Viatran, who has been in business for over 40 years, to The Woodlands Corporate Center reflects the efforts of many. We deeply appreciate the commitment demonstrated by our partners in this endeavor - State Senator George Maziarz, Niagara County Legislature Chairman Bill Ross, The Department of Economic Development, Chairman Henry Sloma and Executive Director Sam Ferraro of The Niagara County Industrial Development Agency who were instrumental in procuring hydro power for this project through the Empower Niagara program, a program designed to<|fim_middle|> facility.
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Viatran, which began operations in 1965 with only three people inside an old garage on the west side of Buffalo has grown tremendously and has offices in Franklin, MA as well as Malaysia. They currently employ approximately 50 people and anticipate hiring an additional 25 persons within the next three years. They have already hired three new employees and foresee hiring more in the very near future.
Ken Brown, Dynisco's President, is very thankful to Calamar and the representatives of Niagara County who have worked so hard to bring Viatran to The Woodlands Corporate Center. This move is a major step in Dynisco's strategic growth plan and will allow product expansion opportunities in a first class manufacturing | 175 |
Sarah Kloke wanted to see her father realize his romantic, near-impossible dream of climbing Everest. It's something her dad, Bernie, had been wanting<|fim_middle|>. | to do since his teen years. And so Kloke, 31, spent a year of carefully planning their venture.
Every dollar spent and morsel eaten felt connected to preparation for the trip. She spent hours scouring the Internet and making calls to procure a local guide and porter. She researched the ethics and risks of the climb. She ramped up her running regimen; her dad did stair climbs with bricks in his backpack.
Sarah Kloke and her dad, Bernie, climbed to Everest Base Camp in May 2016.
After a year of planning, and 10 days of exhaustive effort, the pair reached Nepal's south base camp, an altitude of 5,364 metres, on May 14, 2016.
The one thing she didn't plan for was coming back down. The "Everest bubble" burst a few months after returning home.
"Things haven't been the same for me," Kloke said. "I've never felt so much like myself as when I was on that mountain. I felt so focused on this achievement. And now it's hard to remain focused here because I don't have the same motivation or ambition," said Kloke, a student counsellor.
Kloke is no stranger to the rigours of travel: she has visited more than 60 countries, including Japan, where she climbed Mount Fuji. But Everest was different.
"It was so consuming because of the amount of information, and the investment we had in the planning," Kloke said.
Since her return, Kloke has backpacked around Nicaragua and portaged in Algonquin Provincial Park. Both trips were enjoyable; neither came with the same emotional commitment, the same risk or the same climax. Kloke was highly aware Everest was a once-in-a-lifetime trip, especially for her 59-year-old father. Even a year later, someone brings up the trek every time they meet.
Kloke isn't the only one who has experienced the "what now?" feeling of crossing off a bucket-list item or felt the post-vacation blues. Vacations are a break from everyday routine, loneliness or even drama that can feel even more harsh upon returning from a relaxing or thrilling time away.
When it comes to achieving a major travel goal, it's important to unpack the experience and bring it back to real life, said clinical psychologist and avid traveller Dominique Morisano, clinical psychologist and professor at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health, who studies goal theory.
People should "examine what about that adventure was inspiring to you, what about that adventure was exciting to you," she said. If you can't make those elements a part of your life at home, maybe your life needs to change, she said.
When Morisano returned, as a teen, from an exchange in Russia, she brought home some tea to drink as a subtle reminder of her experiences abroad.
For Rachel Phan, visiting Europe this spring felt like falling in love. So much that she and her boyfriend, Michael Eastman, planned a professional photo shoot in front of Westminster Abbey and other famous landmarks.
Like a jilted lover, she spent her first weekend back in Toronto moping, tearful and antisocial.
The pair also visited her sister in Berlin, and had anticipated the trip for the year between booking the flights and finally seeing the city that Phan, a history buff with a love of Queen Elizabeth I and the Tudors, grew up fantasizing about.
"Here in Toronto there's history, but you're not going to turn a corner and see where someone really famous got beheaded," said Phan, 28, who works at a non-profit.
The way she's coping is by seeking out local history. Toronto does have a few historical walking tours, and Phan has been looking into trying one.
In the long run, there's no downside to setting a goal, unless it's objectively impossible to attain, says Gary Latham, professor of organizational behaviour at the University of Toronto's Rotman School of Management, who studies the psychology of goals. Any letdown or inertia following goal attainment is usually momentary, even if the moment lasts weeks or months.
"The odds are high that, as a result of a very significant achievement, (travellers like Kloke and Pham) will come up with another one," Latham says. Some of his MBA students report feeling a blue after completing their rigorous program, which dissipates after they find a sense of fulfillment and purpose in other realms, such as a new job or improved work-family balance.
And ultimately, goals help develop self-efficacy, or a person's belief in their competence. They have a protective effect on setbacks later, so that if one trip is a disaster, all is not lost.
As for Kloke, she has no desire to climb another mountain, though she's planning a camping trip to Iceland later this year.
Tips on recovering from the post-travel blues from clinical psychologist Dominique Morisano.
Don't forget to factor in jet lag. It can take weeks for a circadian rhythm to readjust.
Write in a journal during the trip to make the memories more likely to stick; write in a journal after returning to work through the emotions, positive and negative.
Re-live the experience through food or drink from the country you just visited.
Find a way to incorporate adventure in your daily life, even in small, inexpensive ways | 1,112 |
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Oswego's own Lil' Big Band takes home first at Rolling Meadows Jazz Fest
Ryan Burdo, Staff Writer
Photo provided by Kyle Bachara
Last weekend, the top jazz combo at Oswego High School traveled to Rolling Meadows High School to compete against over 100 jazz bands and combos from five different states. The Jazz in the Meadows Festival is one of the largest and most highly regarded jazz competitions in the Midwest. The group of musicians won first place in the combo grouping.
The Combo perform for the judges and other audience members at Rolling Meadows High School. Photo provided by Kyle Bachara.
Combo one, also known as Oswego's Own Lil' Big Band, is composed of trumpet player Ryan Kazda (senior), drummer Ryan Boone (senior), trombonist Kyle Bachara (senior), saxophone player Tony Cassidy (senior), pianist Atharva Iyer (junior), and bassist Erik Dralle (senior). Although they have known each other for quite some time, these students first started working together over the summer and have played in many gigs and competitions since, including playing at Oswego's Christmas Walk, Woodfield Mall, and eventually playing at the Wine on the Fox Festival.
Even though the combos are first initially organized and set up by assistant band director and head of the jazz band Kevin Schoenbach, much of the group is self led without the help of anybody. The Jazz Ensemble One here at OHS is split into four different combos of varying ability.
This group of musicians meet together every single day of the week for at least 15 minutes, as well as an hour after school on Mondays and up to three hours on select Saturdays. Specifically with the upcoming competition, the combo worked on learning three songs.
Not only did the combo win first place overall, but some additional awards were granted. Bachara, Kazda, and Cassidy also received "Outstanding Musician" awards for their performance as horn players. Kazda, the head musician of the group, explained what this extra award meant to him.
"It feels good, I mean any<|fim_middle|> a short amount of time to transition into a new arsenal of music, the combo had to work hard to prepare it to get it to the level. Bachara gave us his thoughts on what it was like to play these select charts.
"I think made really great selections, and especially with our last song played, St James. That song is more of a story than anything else," Bachara said.
Even with five of the six members of the combo graduating in April, the musicians still plan on staying together to perform at more events and continue working with each other for a long time.
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Point: Soleimani killed hundreds. His death was necessary and just. | award is always a nice reminder of kind all of the hard work and practice and extra hours you put into it. It's a true kind of testament to the dedication I've done. It feels good, it's a nice honor, but as a whole to know that half the combo got outstanding awards is saying something," Kazda said.
Before even finding out that they had won the whole event, Kazda explained what he thought of some of the other combos and schools who visited the festival.
The champions hoist their trophy. Photo provided by Kyle Bachara.
"I actually recognized a couple of the out of state schools because there are kids from a summer camp I went to, Birch Creek, who were at those schools…We didn't get to hear much of the combos, but knowing their school and knowing their programs, it was seriously a true honor to be up there with them," Kazda said.
At the competition, the group's setlist included Jig-A-Jug by Joshua Redman, Cherokee by Ray Noble, and St. James Infirmary (unknown composer, but popularized by Cab Calloway) (Links include Kazda's recordings on his YouTube channel). All three of the charts were arranged by Kazda himself.
"He arranged all the music by himself. We did contribute some of our own ideas to the overall arrangements, but having us solo on specific pieces that we knew we were good at and highlighting some of our strengths and talents," Iyer said.
Kazda was really the main leader and organizer of the group. He pulled all of the strengths of each performer and worked them together to create the award-winning performance at Rolling Meadows.
Earlier this year, the musicians competed at the North Shore Jazz Festival and took home third place amongst their combo division. At that competition, they played completely separate music compared to the one they played with at Rolling Meadows, which Kazda explains as pretty rare.
The group of musicians celebrate their win with a Portillo's run. Photo provided by Kyle Bachara.
"That's pretty uncommon for most highschool groups, they usually stick to the game pieces for every competition they do. But I wanted to challenge the combo a little more and just within 4 weeks we prepared three new tunes, three new arrangements, new solos, everything," Kazda said.
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The 7.8-million-square-foot Westchester County community-neighborhood shopping center market was in balance as<|fim_middle|> increases are forecast to be larger, no year through 2016 is expected to see an increase of more than 3.5%. | of the second quarter of 2012, with limited new supply matched by limited demand leading to limited rent increases. Though the vacancy rate fell 40 basis points during the second quarter to 7.8%, the rate was up 20 basis points from a year earlier. Net absorption varies from slightly negative to slightly positive here, while the vacancy rate remains well below the U.S. average. The rate was 7.9% in August, and is forecast at 7.8% at year-end 2012.
The 1.3-million-square-foot retail component of the Ridge Hill mixed-use project in east Yonkers completed construction in August, and is likely to be the last major addition to retail space here for some time. In the community-neighborhood shopping center segment, the 70,500-square-foot first phase of the Premier Plaza neighborhood center completed construction in Tarrytown in August, leaving the 36,400-square-foot The Market At Armonk Square in Armonk under construction. Reis predicts no other community-neighborhood shopping center space will complete construction through 2016, as the vacancy rate is forecast to fall to 5.6% by the end of that year.
Both the average asking rent and the average effective rent for community-neighborhood shopping centers increased 0.1% in the second quarter, to $35.53 psf and $31.97 psf, respectively. Rents were up 0.5% by both measures from a year earlier at mid-year, and each average added a penny by August. Reis predicts a 0.5% increase for each for all of 2012, and although subsequent | 363 |
Merkur Transforms for Growth with Kyndryl
Real-time operational visibility helps Merkur Insurance improve customer care and enterprise performance
VIENNA, Austria, April 27, 202<|fim_middle|>gy and skills. Merkur selected Kyndryl for this latest implementation because of its deep expertise in core enterprise, security and resiliency.
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press@kyndryl.com | 2 - Merkur Versicherung AG, Austrian private health insurer headquartered in Graz, announced today that Kyndryl (NYSE: KD), the world's largest IT infrastructure services provider, has completed a core enterprise transformation intended to streamline IT operations and improve flexibility, scalability and security to drive business growth.
Digital innovation is transforming the insurance industry. Insurers must embrace change and rethink business models to move towards a compliant, secure and digitally-enabled operating model to enhance customer experiences and innovate. This requires a stress-resistant IT infrastructure as a foundation.
To support its business in Austria and across Southeastern Europe, and to further transform its insurance operations and develop new services for its clients, Merkur Versicherung AG has selected Kyndryl to migrate its data center, network, and software capabilities to Kyndryl's highly available and resilient data centers. Kyndryl will also manage Merkur's ongoing core enterprise operations. This strategic shift will help Merkur accelerate time to market for new offerings and enhance customer service. Merkur Versicherung AG will also be able to evolve its services with new features that leverage Kyndryl's capabilities as a managed infrastructure service provider.
"While more businesses and individuals in Austria recognize the importance of having insurance coverage, penetration rates still have a considerable way to go if we want to protect the majority of our citizens and especially those who need it most," said Christian Kladiva, CEO, Merkur Versicherung AG. "At the end of the day, innovation must be tangible for the customer. For this, you need partners who shape the future with you and who also think outside the box with vision. With Kyndryl, we are working on constant optimization in the areas of data and failover security. Here we have found not only expertise and the courage to innovate, but above all a reliable companion for our journey into the future."
Additionally, Kyndryl helps Merkur to ensure secure business operations. Merkur will be able to perform early issue network detection without influence on its operations, achieve increased network efficiencies through granular planning, and gain a zero trust network with micro segmentation and visibility across all IT environments. By using Kyndryl's deep expertise in security and cyber resilience, Merkur has increased protection for its datacenter workloads, keeping their vital systems secure, available, reliable and recoverable.
"Adopting this innovative infrastructure sourcing model will help Merkur Versicherung AG benefit from future automation technologies," said Maria Kirschner, Managing Director, Kyndryl Austria. "Our approach is based on the highest security standards and it will ensure insurance operations that are secure, scalable and fast."
Merkur Versicherung AG and Kyndryl have a long strategic partnership over decades where Kyndryl has been recognized as a trusted advisor for Merkur in various infrastructure projects by providing its industry expertise, technol | 585 |
PROGRAMME: Catch Up On 1st Editions
Leo Tyrie
Read the first two editions of E10 from the 2012/13 season online
WE'VE revamped our matchday programmes for this season with a fresh new look and if you missed out on the first two editions, you can now catch-up on them online - and free of charge.
The club are making the Stevenage and Hartlepool programmes available via our website, and there's plenty for you to read!
In the Stevenage edition, all of our new signings were introduced in the main feature, while Jamie Jones talked about his return to Everton in the Hartlepool programme.
In addition, we have interviews with Nathan Clarke, Jimmy Smith, former player Ted Phillips, an introduction to our new scholars and<|fim_middle|> O's fans, including interviews, club news, pictures, stats, opinion and much more - all for just £3! | loads more.
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Back at the cloister of the Sisters of Mary Magdalene, they tell a story of one of the Mothers of the Dessert (yes, I mean to have 2 's' in the word) who was living a life of prayer and solitude. The Sisters of the Dessert committed their lives to celebrating the sweetness of all creation. In those days, the Sisters saw their cloister as a place of solitude, and as a milieu for learning and deepening respect for justice and for the dignity of all sentient beings and for the ecology which nourished and nurtures us. The good sisters also believed in teaching through their example.
When the sisters heard this, they said no more of the fault of the young Sister, but forgave her. The example of the Wise Mother was all the lesson they needed to be reminded that each of us is in need of forgiveness. In their solitude they learned to see themselves as they truly are, unvarnished, unadorned. In their solitude they took the time to look to their center, into their hearts and find the core of love that nurtures the soul of each of our beings.
For the Sisters of the Dessert, solitude helps them to find the place where they were balanced, gentle and caring. In their solitude they became compassionate through their realization that nothing human is alien to us. They stopped judging others, stooped evaluating themselves and<|fim_middle|> of Mahatma Gandhi I learned about compassion and forgiveness – for others and maybe even for myself. So, here is a bit about Gandhi … just enough to whet your appetite for more, I hope.
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was born on October 2, 1869, in Porbandar, a small state in western India. Though his family was lower caste, they were also middle-class, cultured, and devoutly religious Hindus. When Gandhi was thirteen, he was married to Kasturbai, a girl of the same age – child marriages, arranged by the parents, were then the common practice in India.
While he was in school a friend convinced Gandhi that the British were able to rule India only because the British ate meat and the Hindus did not. The friend said that eating meat built strength and with strength freedom could be gained. Gandhi and his family were strict vegetarians, and his dreams of freedom for India were strong. He struggled with this conflict, and one day, he snuck off to a secluded place with his friend who gave him some cooked goat's meat. Gandhi disliked the taste of the meat and after he ate it he immediately became ill. He tried to eat meat again several times, but finally decided that it was not worth the guilt. He never ate meat again, and went on to work to free India with a moral strength rather than physical might.
In many ways Mohandas Gandhi was a normal teenager. There is a story that once, when he needed money, stole a bit of gold from his brother. He was overcome by guilt for his crime, and so he confessed to his father, expecting him to be angry and violent. Instead his father wept. "Those pearl drops of love cleansed my heart," Gandhi later wrote, "and washed my sin away." It was his first insight into the impressive psychological power of ahimsa, or nonviolence.
When he finished high school Gandhi wanted to go England where he could earn a law degree in three years. After he vowed he would not touch liquor, meat, or women, his mother gave him her blessing and his brother gave him the money. Leaving his wife and their infant son with his family in Rajkot, he sailed for England on September 4, 1888, just one month short of his nineteenth birthday. In England Gandhi was a disciplined student. He was frugal and studied hard. While in England, two English brothers asked him to study the Bhagavad Gita, a part of the sacred Hindu scriptures, with them. The Gita is a dialogue between the Hindu god Krishna and Arjuna, a warrior about to go into battle. At about the same time he was searching through the Gita, a Christian friend persuaded Gandhi to read the Bible. The New Testament, particularly Christ's Sermon on the Mount, moved him deeply. Both sacred Hindu and Christian texts set the foundations for Gandhi's philosophy of nonviolence.
Three years later, in 1891 Gandhi returned to his family at Rajkot. He reunited with his wife and son, but he was unable to earn money to support them. He was at his wits end about what to do with his life when a large Indian firm asked him to go to South Africa to assist in complex legal case in the courts there that would take about a year to resolve. He would be paid all his expenses plus a salary. Gandhi accepted, bade his growing family farewell and in April, 1893, not yet twenty-four years old, he set sail to try his luck in South Africa.
In South Africa Gandhi found his voice, his philosophy, and his following – but only after much struggle. When Gandhi arrived in South Africa he had to travel across the country to Pretoria. On the journey he was beset with discrimination because he was a dark skinned man from India. The humiliations he experienced stayed with him even as he worked at resolving the case that brought him to South Africa. Gandhi also worked with the local Indians to discuss their condition. As he met with them his indignation freed him from his shyness and he made his first public speeches. Through his repeated experiences of harassment, exclusion and discrimination he began to find his voice and his ability to speak out and protest. He formed an organization called the Natal Indian Congress to work for Indian rights in South Africa. Gandhi liked to live simply and independently, eating mostly fresh fruits and nuts and starching his own shirts.
While he worked, his political aims continued to fuse with his spiritual and emotional life. He studied the Bhagavad Gita pasting portions of it on a wall, memorized verse after verse as he stood brushing his teeth for fifteen minutes every morning. The Gita became his guide to living and he embraced its teaching that truth could be gained only through renunciation of all possessions and all pleasures. While in South Africa, Gandhi often shuttled back and forth between Johannesburg and Durban. On one of his long train journeys he read a book called Unto This Last by John Ruskin, English author and critic. Gandhi said the book transformed his life by teaching him that the good of the individual is contained in the good of the group, that manual occupations are as valuable as intellectual ones, and that the life of the laborer–the man who works with his hands–is the only life worth living. Immediately, Gandhi translated principle into action. At this point Gandhi's family rejoined him. They lived as close to Ruskin's ideal as they could, grinding the meal and baking their bread by hand. In 1906, not quite thirty-seven years old, he took a vow of celibacy which he never broke, and the bride of his childhood, Kasturbai, relinquished the role of wife to become a devoted follower.
And the work went on. Gandhi comes to call his work satyagraha, a combination of two words meaning truth and force. Gandhi's battle was to be fought with truth and love. His soldiers were to be known as satyagrahis. In July 1914, after nearly twenty years in South Africa Gandhi returned to India having lead a movement that helped to eliminate the major grievances experienced by the Indians in that country.
Back in India Gandhi took up work for Indian independence from England. The independence campaign had thus far been waged by a small clique of upper-class intellectuals who aped the British in manners and aloofness. Gandhi saw this was a path that led nowhere. Until that time he had worn European dress; now he discarded it for the simple trousers of the peasant. Some eighty percent of his countrymen were peasants; freedom could not be won without their support. For Gandhi freedom meant not the substitution of select Hindu rulers for the Viceroy but a truly representative government. It also meant freedom from poverty, ignorance, and discrimination.
In India a religious retreat is called an ashram, and Gandhi's cooperative community came to be known as the satyagraha ashram. But it was as political as it was religious. "Men say I am a saint losing myself in politics," Gandhi once commented. "The fact is that I am a politician trying my hardest to be a saint." To the horror of orthodox Hindus he admitted into his ashram a family of untouchables, who by implacable Hindu tradition are condemned from birth as unclean and outcaste. Reforming India was as much a part of Gandhi's program as was home rule.
From 1914 through until August 15, 1947 the struggle for India's independence from England went on. Gandhi organized strikes and protests. The British physically attacked the protestors, passed oppressive laws; put hundreds of thousands of people in prison. The protests continued; Gandhi fasted, he traveled the country lecturing, he organized ashrams and called for civil disobedience. He worked at newspapers to educate the people about the ideals and the costs of satyagraha. Gandhi spent years in prisons where he took his spinning wheel and his writing tools, he spend days and months fasting.
Gandhi was widely regarded as a Mahatma, a great soul, across India. Those who did not call him Mahatma often call him bapu or father. And for all of this, Gandhi was not fully the saint he strove to become. His work, his traveling, his advocacy on behalf of the poor was costly. From about 1921 Gandhi presented himself to the public dressed only in the dhoti (loin cloth) that was worn by the poorest Indians. And yet his followers have noted that it took a lot of Indian millionaires to keep Gandhi in poverty. Gandhi worked tirelessly for the freedom and independence of all Indians. And yet he frequently left his wife and children behind as he set out on his work. Early in his adult life, he committed himself to chastity. It is said that he tested his chastity and demonstrated the strength of his commitment by sleeping in the same bed with naked young women. The appearance of these acts – feigned poverty, neglect of his family, use of others to his own ends – much of this grates on my feminist, my humane sensibilities. I want my heroes to be perfectly heroic. And yet there is so much that I have learned from Gandhi. He is a hero to me. He is also wonderfully human. He is not perfect; maybe he is even far from perfect. Yet, he has taught me about commitment to values and ideals. He has taught me about persistence. From him I learned about satyagraha. And from his imperfections I have learned to cherish the foibles of other human beings, and to open my heart with forgiveness if I will keep open my mind to learning.
Why Gandhi? Why now? I am moving ever more deeply into my second year of being retired. On occasion I think about what I have accomplished or not accomplished. On occasion I find myself thinking about greatness and how far I fell from that mark (I never wrote the text book I envisioned, even with the detailed outlines, even with the endless drafts of the first three chapters; I never achieved the rank of full professor, I never … so many things I never). I find myself thinking about excellence, and there I might actually judge myself a bit less harshly (I do believe that I was a reasonable good teacher, with a solid command of my subject; I think I may have touched a life or two for the better). So, early in my retirement, early in my 60th decade, I find myself thinking about greatness and excellence, and wondering about how they are defined. And in all of my feminist arrogance, I find myself challenging working societal definitions, and wondering, what would greatness look like if its definition were wrested from power and grounded in love?
What do greatness and excellence look like to you? Who are some of the heroes in your life? How do you judge the consistency of their lives and their actions?
What are you committed to? What do you struggle and strive for? What compromised have you made in your commitments and values?
What would greatness and excellence look like in a world where there justice, fairness and human dignity were fully respected? What would greatness and excellence look like in a world of compassion, generosity, patience, diligence, wisdom, loving kindness and joy?
As with all good stories, once upon a time in a place very near to your heart, the mother of all wisdom was walking in her garden enjoying the flowers when she looked over the cliff and saw Melissa, one of her daughters struggling in the depths of hell. This young soul (we are all young souls to the great mother), this young soul had been an assassin, an arsonist, a burglar and generally an all around criminal. A lifetime of lawless actions put her in hell, where she was in the company of others much like her.
The mother of all wisdom looked deeply into Melissa's life and saw a moment where the woman had come upon a spider. She had raised her foot to stomp on the spider, but then she had remembered a story one of her teachers told in class about how the Native Americans honored spider woman as one of the world's creators. At that one moment, Melissa smiled to herself, and thought, "maybe this spider is a descendant of the first spider woman." And so, the woman picked up the spider and moved it to a safer place.
Seeing this one act of kindness, the mother of all wisdom took a spider thread and lowered it into the depths of hell with the intention of saving Melissa.
Melissa saw the thread, reached for it, and found it strong enough to hold her weights. Using all of her strength she began to life herself from hell. As she was making some progress, she looked down and saw hundreds of others behind her climbing up on the same spider thread. Melissa looked back and yelled, "Get off! This is my thread." And looked down and shook the thread to dislodge the others, the thread broke and Melissa fell back into hell.
This story also kind of reminds me of the story about fear, generosity and spoons with long handles. I guess a world of justice and respect will include forgiveness and second chances and openness to community, which by its nature requires forgiveness and second chances. People! community! it can be a pain to live with them, and you can't live without them. … forgiveness and second chances. Somedays it really does seem that we are all just hangin by by a spiders thread!
Once upon a time, there lived a great warrior. Even when the warrior was quite elderly, no one was able to best the fighter, every challenger was defeated. The reputation of this great sensei extended far and wide throughout the land and many students gathered to study in the dojo.
One day an infamous young warrior arrived at the dojo. He was determined to be the first man to defeat the great master. Along with his strength, the stranger had a unique ability to spot and exploit any weakness in an opponent. He would watch and wait for his opponent to make the first move. In that first move, weaknesses were revealed, and the stranger would then strike mercilessly with both speed and force. He would dance like a butterfly and sting like a scorpion. He would poke and jab and taunt and test. No one had ever lasted with him in a match beyond the first move.
When the stranger challenged the great master, the old master gladly and graciously accepted, much to the concern of the students in the dojo. As the two squared off for battle, the young warrior began to hurl insults at the old master. He threw dirt and spit in the face of the master. For hours he verbally assaulted the sensei with every curse and insult known to humanity. But the sensei stood calmly, motionless waiting. Finally, the young warrior exhausted himself. He recognized and acknowledged his defeat and left feeling shamed.
Hmm … everyone is a teacher. Everything offer to us, everything hurled at us is a gift. It is always and everywhere our choice as to whether and how we will accept the gift. | became free to be compassionate.
And so the Sisters of the Cloister of Mary Magdalene practice solitude. We too might take up the practice, each of us in our own small way. Ten to twenty minutes in the morning is not an impossible pathway to solitude. Solitude can help to mould each of us into gentle, caring, forgiving people as we acknowledge our own faults and become aware of the mercy and compassion that have graced our lives. Imagine the world of peace, justice and respect for dignity we might envision and build from a place of solitude. Meditation is not just for navel gazing. It is for healing the wounds of oppression and discrimination. It is for clearing our vision and opening our hearts to the more that is possible. Imagine!
I was going to call this "How the Readers Digest made me a Leftist" but I'm not quite sure that that is how I would describe myself. But indeed my mostly to the left (call it progressive, call it radical, call it what you like) political orientation is largely due to the Readers Digest. And yes, it is quite true that the Readers Digest is not known for being in the vanguard of politics or radical reform. But here's my memory of how it changed my thinking.
I was a child of the 1960's and 1970's. That in itself says a lot, I think. So, in April 1968 I was in high school and the Readers Digest published an article about Dr. King and the Poor People's March on Washington, DC. I read it and was taken with the clarity and courage of Dr. King. Somewhere in what I read (or in listening to others around me talk about what I had read there), I learned that Dr. King had studied the strategy and tactics of someone called Mahatma Gandhi. This Gandhi fellow was from India and even though he was a leader in securing his country's freedom from England, people around me then didn't like him very much. Of course that made him an immediate hero to me. So, when I had to choose something to write about for my senior year Problems of Democracy class, Gandhi was a no brainer selection. He has been a hero of mine ever since. Well, mostly ever since. There was a period of time when I learned that even Gandhi was not an impeccable saint, and I was too through with him for having flaws. Now that I am older and have noticed a flaw or two in myself, I am much more tolerant of the imperfections in others. There are even moments when I've learned a bit from the flaws of others.
So, because of the Reader's Digest I learned about Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and because of Dr. King I learned about Mahatma Gandhi. And eventually because | 574 |
Over the past 12 months, Korean manufacturer Doosan has invested more than £1m in production and testing technology at its Bobcat Innovation Center in Dobris in the Czech Republic.
The Innovation Center is the R&D hub of an integrated site at Dobris that includes manufacturing, sourcing and training at the same location.
Doosan Bobcat believes that the ability to design, test and manufacture Bobcat machines locally is one of the company's competitive advantages in the Europe, Middle East and Africa (<|fim_middle|> mandatory for new engine implementation and for application approval on the supplier side.
A 300 kW dynamometer with six electric generators is now installed in the Innovation Center. Bobcat can test and optimise cooling performance in the 'hot' climate-controlled chamber at temperatures up to 55 °C. Advanced functions of the dynamometer allow replication and simulation of real duty cycles in a laboratory environment based on data from the field. | EMEA) region. The new investments are intended to boost these advantages and involve every part of the operations in the Innovation Center, from prototype design and assembly to performance and durability testing.
The facility has more than 8,000 m2 of floor space for prototyping and testing and 1,400 m2 of offices.
Over the last 12 months, the Bobcat Innovation Center has brought in new a CNC horizontal boring machine, a CNC five-axis milling machine, and a dynamometer.
The CNC machines have been installed to support faster prototype builds, giving Bobcat full control of all processes without the involvement of third parties.
The dynamometer measures engine or powertrain system loadings in laboratory conditions (pictured below). Based on the loading, machine performance (cooling, hydraulic parameters, fuel consumption and so on) is tested in a set ambient temperature. Testing on the dynamometer is | 184 |
De Mariakapel is een niskapel in Welten in de Nederlands Zuid-Limburgse gemeente Heerlen. De kapel staat aan de westrand van de wijk aan de Mergelsweg aan de splitsing waarbij de straat De Thun hierop uitkomt. Binnen 20 meter naar het westen ligt de A76.
De kapel is gewijd aan het Maria, specifiek aan Onze-Lieve-V<|fim_middle|> in Heerlen
Kapel in Limburg (Nederland) | rouw van Altijddurende Bijstand.
Geschiedenis
In 1954 werd de kapel gebouwd en op zondag 16 mei 1954 werd de kapel ingewijd door de pastoor.
Bouwwerk
De zeer open kapel is opgetrokken in gele bakstenen en wordt gedekt door een smal houten zadeldak met shingles. De kapel bestaat in de hoofdzaak uit een muur waarin een nis is aangebracht en ervoor is een altaar geplaatst. Dit altaar is tegen de bakstenen muur aangebouwd en opgetrokken in mergelsteen. Aan de voorzijde van het altaar is in metalen letters een tekst aangebracht:
Op het altaar is een groot Mariabeeld geplaatst dat gemaakt is door beeldhouwer Sjef Eijmael. Het beeld heeft een hoogte van ongeveer 150 centimeter en stelt Maria voor met een kind op de rechterarm en twee kleine gestalten aan haar voeten. De linker gestalte houdt een anker vast dat symbool staat voor hoop, de rechter houdt een kruis vast dat symbool staat voor geloof.
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Lijst van weg- en veldkapellen in Heerlen
Bouwwerk | 312 |
Farm Tractor Books to Add to Your Bookshelf
Check out these farm tractor books that focus on the International Harvester line and evolution of the Farmall tractor.
By the Farm Collector staff
| July 2016
Typical of the fine photography throughout Red Combines and Red Tractors, this shot shows a mint-condition IH 5488 — one of the last tractors produced by International Harvester — paired with an original condition 1990 Case IH 1640. Image courtesy Red Combines 1915-2015.
Photo by Lee Klancher
"Red Combines 1915-2015: The Authoritative Guide to International Harvester and Case IH Combines and Harvesting Equipment" by Lee Klancher.
Cover courtesy Octane Press
"Red Tractors 1958-2013: The Authoritative Guide to International Harvester and Case IH Farm Tractors in the Modern Era" by Lee Klancher.
"International Harvester Trucks: The Complete History" by Patrick Foster.
Cover courtesy Motorbooks
"Tractor Superstars: The Greatest Tractors of All Time" by Tharran E. Gaines.
Cover courtesy Voyageur Press
"Farmall: The Red Tractor that Revolutionized Farming"<|fim_middle|>Tractor Superstars: The Greatest Tractors of All Time, Tharran E. Gaines, softcover, 160 pages, color photography throughout; Voyageur Press. To order a copy, visit our store.
Evolution of the Farmall
Award-winning author and photographer Randy Leffingwell and renowned tractor historian Robert N. Pripps tell the story of the Farmall tractor in this newly updated text. Farmall: The Red Tractor that Revolutionized Farming is packed with handsome color and archival photography. Tracing the evolution of Farmall, the text covers tractor model variations, improvements, engine and hydraulic advances, and accompanying implements through every Farmall generation.
Fully updated from the first printing in 2007, Farmall covers 21st century tractors from Case IH, New Holland and Steyr, including new versions of the Farmall. Packed with tractor models and specs!
Farmall: The Red Tractor that Revolutionized Farming, Randy Leffingwell and Robert N. Pripps, hardback, 256 pages, color photography throughout; Voyageur Press. To order a copy, visit our store. FC
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Brotherly Love for Antique Engines | by Randy Leffingwell and Robert N. Pripps.
Mr. Klancher's opus
Make sure your bookcase is on a load-bearing wall before adding this stellar pair to your library: Two massive tomes by Lee Klancher weigh in at a combined total of 13 pounds. Pound for pound, they're a solid investment. Red Combines 1915-2015: The Authoritative Guide to International Harvester and Case IH Combines and Harvesting Equipment and a companion volume, Red Tractors 1958-2013: The Authoritative Guide to International Harvester and Case IH Farm Tractors in the Modern Era, are a knock-out punch on International combines and tractors built from 1958 to 2013.
Drive down any rural road in America, Klancher notes, and you won't have to look hard to find a vintage red tractor pulling chopper boxes, raking hay or powering grain augers. But Klancher's passion for the International Harvester line goes well beyond the casual drive-by. The acclaimed author and photographer demonstrates that in this remarkable pair of books covering a seemingly infinite number of tractors and combines.
Red Combines tells the story of the extensive research and development behind International's Axial-Flow combine, a machine that took the market by storm when introduced in 1977. More than 100 of the key engineers and leaders who designed, built and sold the machines were interviewed for the book, and their stories offer an intimate and unique perspective on the way innovations are brought to the marketplace.
Klancher and his talented crew deliver an uncommon blend of appetizer and entrée, easily digested nuggets and meaty, in-depth text. Every page in both volumes sparkles with Klancher's fabulous photography, archival images, and images that have never previously been published anywhere.
There is the definite sense that once he got started, the author just couldn't stop. He tells the whole story of International's combine development against a background of rich context. Red Combines starts with a bit of American history and proceeds at a steady clip through ag industrialization, evolving technology, impact of foreign and domestic economies, labor relations, mergers, research and development, corporate intrigue, competition, construction of the modern combine, development of combines in foreign countries, special use combines, custom harvesting and absolutely incredible futuristic concept images. No matter what your favorite line is, this is fascinating stuff.
Red Tractors presents a thorough history of IH tractors from the 560 and 460 to the 50 series, as well as Case IH tractors from the early Magnum to the present day. With fresh perspective from the engineers, industrial designers and others who actually built the tractors, as well as more than 700 archival images, prototype drawings and Klancher's glorious photos of restored tractors, this book provides an unprecedented history of red tractors during the past 50 years.
Richly detailed and phenomenal imagery, Red Tractors contains thousands of documents and texts, fresh interviews from more than two dozen current and former IH engineers, managers, designers and other employees. Including Dr. Glenn W. Kahle and Ed Harnach, the lead engineers during creation of the 50 series and the Magnum, as well as Greg Montgomery, the industrial designer who penned the 50 series, original Magnum and MX series Magnums.
Both books are also available in collector's editions, leather-bound and packaged in a clamshell case that includes four prints of concept drawings of tractors that were never built.
Red Combines 1915-2015: The Authoritative Guide to International Harvester and Case IH Combines and Harvesting Equipment, Lee Klancher, hardback, 384 pages, fully illustrated with photos, illustrations, vintage promotional pieces and more; Octane Press. To order a copy, visit our store.
Red Tractors 1958-2013: The Authoritative Guide to International Harvester and Case IH Farm Tractors in the Modern Era, Lee Klancher, hardback, 384 pages, color photos, illustrations, vintage promotional pieces and more; Octane Press. To order a copy, visit our store.
Definitive history of IH trucks
The International Truck & Engine Corp. has built the trucks that have been a staple of agricultural and industrial trucking for nearly 100 years. International Harvester Trucks: The Complete History tells the story of the light-, medium- and heavy-duty trucks, vans and station wagons built by International Harvester during the course of more than a century, beginning with the company's early days, through its first truck model in 1907, right up to the present.
The focus is on the trucks themselves, including collectible pieces like the Travelall and Scout. Author Patrick R. Foster is a recognized transportation historian, and that expertise shows through in an accessible writing style illustrated with hundreds of never-before-seen archival photos. The definitive history of one of the world's most prolific truck manufacturers!
International Harvester Trucks: The Complete History, Patrick Foster, 2015, hardback, 208 pages, color photography throughout; To order a copy, visit Quarto Knows.
Greatest tractors of all time
From John Deere to International Harvester, hundreds of manufacturers have built farm tractors. Some have been innovative, changing the face of agriculture and influencing design across the industry. Some have been quirky flash in the pans. The best of the bunch is celebrated in Tractor Superstars: The Greatest Tractors of All Time.
Author Tharran Gaines focuses on 79 favorites, ranging from the Hart-Parr 17-30 to the Allis-Chalmers WD. Matching technical information and captivating historical detail with high-quality photos of each tractor, Gaines delivers a fascinating sweep of old iron in one compact package. A fine addition to your library!
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Since Valentine's Day is over, it's only natural that we should rush right into the next holiday, right?! It's crazy<|fim_middle|> Green is my favorite color too!
Ahhhh! green is my favorite and being Irish, we are all about rocking the green for the next month! Love that outfit for Riley!
So cute! I must check out those green loafers!
I've been eying all of the girl picks for weeks now- love love love your selection here girl :) I wish Scarlett were here for St. PAtty's day this year, but I guess we'll have to wait and have our lucky charm here next year!
just bought B that striped green top from baby gap last week. great minds think alike!
I really like the little green shoes! They are so stylish looking.
I can't keep up with all these holidays! Although I am doing Easter outfits of course. Skinny jeans ARE just too cute - but cute on boys too.
Max looks GREAT in his skinny Gap jeans (but he is also skinny so maybe that's why they look nice - and actually they don't look "skinny" on him, they just actually fit him). | that the stores have already stocked up on Easter decor and goodies...but I'm not about to let St. Patty's Day pass on by. Oh no...when you have a baby, every holiday counts!
Besides, I really love the color green...it's my favorite! And crisp and fresh greens seem like the perfect palette to introduce this new season. So above, is a preview of all things that I'm loving for the baby. Of course, you know I've got the boys dialed in, but I shrieked a little seeing all the cute girl things out there. Those skinny jeans and peplum top? I die.
By the way, I'm linking up to Trendy Tot Tuesday today. It's a cute new series that some of my favorite mommy bloggers put together. Hop on over for some stylish ideas for your little ones.
PS...I'm over at Meet the Sullivans talking about my diaper bag essentials...check it out here!
Dying over the cuteness! | 205 |
On December 28, 1949, Th. Goldschmidt AG ordered the first forklift for todays's<|fim_middle|> world. Incidentally, forklift trucks had been invented in the USA in 1917 by the very company Clark that delivered the first one to Essen in 1949. However, by 1945 the technology had not yet gained acceptance in Germany. | Goldschmidtstrasse site. Today it is impossible to imagine logistics without themat the Evonik sites .
As so often happens, this revolutionary development also began with an administrative process, in this case a purchase order. On December 28, 1949, Th. Goldschmidt AG ordered a "Clark Truclift" with a load capacity of 900 kg for its Essen plant, today's Goldschmidtstrasse site, for the princely sum of 15,000 Deutschmarks. This first forklift evidently proved worthwhile, revolutionizing transportation technology in such a positive way that by 1954 another four units had been purchased in Essen.
Around the mid-1950s, forklift trucks became an increasingly common sight at the sites of all companies. A lot has happened since then: Forklift trucks have become much larger and more powerful, as well as indispensable for Evonik's warehouse logistics at sites around the | 205 |
Little Labors
Rivka Galchen
Not your mother's motherhood lit. Brief, gemlike reflections on adjusting to life under the rule of a baby daughter (called 'the puma'): it's a book that will ring both familiar and strange.
—NPR (Best Book of the Year)
In paperback at last: Rivka Galchen's beloved baby bible—slyly hilarious, surprising, and absolutely essential reading for anyone who has ever had, held, or been a baby
Fiction by Rivka Galchen
In late August a baby was born, or, as it seemed to me, a puma moved into my apartment, a near-mute force…. I had imagined that I was going to meet, at birth, a very sophisticated form of plant life, a form that I would daily deliver to an offsite greenhouse; I would look forward to getting to know the life-form properly later, when she had moved into a sentient kingdom, maybe around age three.
In paperback at last: Rivka Galchen's beloved baby bible—slyly hilarious, surprising, and absolutely essential reading for anyone who has ever had, held, or been a baby. In this enchanting miscellany, Galchen notes that literature has more dogs than babies (and also more abortions), that the tally of children for many great women writers—Jane Bowles, Elizabeth Bishop, Virginia Woolf, Janet Frame, Willa Cather, Patricia Highsmith, Iris Murdoch, Djuna Barnes, Mavis Gallant—is zero, that orange is the new baby pink, that The Tale of Genji has no plot but plenty of drama about paternity, that babies exude an intoxicating black magic, and that a baby is a goldmine.
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Clothbound (published May 17, 2016)
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Little Labors offer a glimpse into an unknown future, a chance for women still unsure about children to see how their lives and minds might change.
Little Labors has range. It contemplates both "the royalty of infants" and the uselessness of babies (compared to other animals). It's rare to find a work of likewise small stature grow so ponderously into such an expansive, magnanimous, and living thing. Like a child — if you want — or a book with meaning.
This essay collection from fiction and science writer Rivka Gal<|fim_middle|> so that a sentence never quite ends up where you expect.
—James Wood, The New Yorker
A brilliant young writer.
To read Rivka Galchen is to enter a wonderland where the bizarre and the mundane march in unlikely lockstep.
—Michael Lindgren, The Washington Post
Galchen's sentences catch your attention and hold it with a tight fist: Delicious.
—Alan Cheuse, NPR
Witty and delightfully intelligent.
—Carolyn Kellogg, Los Angeles Times | chen is not your mother's motherhood lit. Brief, gemlike reflections on adjusting to life under the rule of a baby daughter (called 'the puma') are interwoven with literary and historical references. It's a book that will ring both familiar and strange.
—Anya Kamenetz, NPR
A highly literary and stylized exploration of motherhood, Little Labors focuses perhaps most on its mysteries. But one thing is clear (and a point Galchen makes with great clarity): "little" and "minor" are often not synonymous.
As Galchen adeptly demonstrates, the pram in the hall is no longer the sombre enemy of good art—ignoring it is.
—Gavin Tomson, Maisonneuve
Galchen is, for my money, one of the most gifted stylists writing in American English today. Her funniness is otherworldly; she is the reigning champion of litotes, or understatement for effect. Preternaturally deft, Galchen can do almost anything with next to nothing.
Galchen writes like a wide-eyed oracle, in a state of knowing calm, and often plays the observing diarist, noting how the presence of the puma/chicken elicits fresh and baffling reactions from the people she sees daily: her family, a disliked neighbor, the corner drunk. In these short essays, anecdotes, and aphorisms, Galchen views motherhood in equal parts euphoria and dread, and her forays into literature, mostly Japanese, look to unravel the myth of the woman writer, but more so of the mother writer.
The book is an endearing compilation of social criticism, variously contentious, commonplace, funny and incisive.
Galchen is an elegant and careful writer.
—Willa Paskin, Slate
A book of extraordinary savour, with nearly every sentence calling for an emphatic underline.
—Naomi Skwarna, National Post
An engaging mind offers reflections on being a mother, being a writer, and having a baby.
Galchen does something more profound than tackle motherhood; she utterly reinvents and reanimates the subject.
—Christopher Bollen, Interview Magazine
A highly original book: I adore Galchen's quiet and bravery. I am confident that many mothers (and other sleepless readers) will pickup this book and feel that they have found an unexpectedly intimate friend.
—Sarah Ruhl, The New York Times Book Review
Galchen is to fiction what Ferran Adrià is to gastronomy, serving up the whimsical, the startling, and the revelatory in the guise of the delightfully familiar.
—Garth Risk Hallberg, The Millions
Galchen has a knack for taking a thread and fraying it, | 560 |
You've tried every diet on the planet, and you're fed up. You realize that dieting is no longer a viable option, not only because it has failed you, but because you're on a path to body positivity and making health a priority over weight—but you've probably been perplexed about what the next step might be. You know in your heart of hearts what you don't want to do, and you can't continue life with your disconnected eating habits. What do you do?
Intuitive eating offers you a way out of this misery and a way in to a happier, freer eating life--with less food stress. But to move from dieting to intuitive eating, you might have to take a leap of faith to jump into these unchartered waters. To encourage you to take that leap, intuitive eating offers you a carrot (see what I did there?) to fully commit to this process: the vision of being able to find true satisfaction in your eating experiences.
Discovering the satisfaction factor explores one of the principles of intuitive eating that is the touchstone for each of the intuitive eating principles. When you begin to focus on satisfaction while eating, a new world of mindfulness in eating opens up for you.
But before we go into<|fim_middle|> It will teach you to sense when that pleasure diminishes because you're full, and to understand that separating negative emotions and language from eating will increase your satisfaction level. You can work on this alone or with your kids.
Taking satisfaction in good food is one of the gifts of life. Give yourself this gift, and find the deep level of joy that has been missing in one of your most fundamental life experiences. You deserve it.
Elyse Resch, MS, RDN, CEDRD, is a nutrition therapist in private practice in Beverly Hills, CA, with over thirty-five years of experience, specializing in eating disorders, intuitive eating, and health at every size. She is coauthor of The Intuitive Eating Workbook. | that, ask yourself one important question. Do I deserve and desire to feel satisfaction when I eat?
Now, that's a powerful question, which at first glance seems to have an obvious answer: Of course, I do!
Japanese culture promotes pleasure as one of their goals of healthy eating. Other cultures in the world also maintain the wisdom of pleasure in eating. Long lunch breaks are de rigueur throughout Europe. French culture is known for their rich pastries, crisp French fries, and crunchy French breads. The French don't worry so much about fat in their food, as they know that the fat carries the flavor in food. In Italy, folks love pizza and pasta and don't worry about the carbs or gluten. Go anywhere in the world, and you will find that the foods there are celebrated.
Once you've taken the leap of faith into intuitive eating, you'll discover that seeking satisfaction will cause you to ponder your attunement with your hunger and fullness levels (who would want to go into an amazing restaurant having just eaten a peanut butter and jelly sandwich!?). You'll start to explore the freedom to make all foods emotionally equivalent (there will no longer be any "good" or "bad" foods). Intuitive eating will put you on the path of creating satisfying, sensory eating experiences by staying present to the pleasure of your meals. | 272 |
Dip the chicken pieces into the flour until they are all coated. Fry the chicken with the butter in a medium size pot. Add the carrot, sweet peas, onion, fennel, orzo, tomato, hot water, salt and pepper. Cover and cook until the chicken is tender over low-medium heat.
Place the Chicken with Fennel on a serving dish. Sprinkle the fronds over the tops.
-Chicken Soup with Rice, Shakshuka, Roasted Red Peppers with Garlic, Lima Beans in Olive Oil, Cantik and Sekerpare.
Saute the onion, stems and bell pepper with olive oil for about 2-3 minutes. Add the rice, continue to saute 2 more minutes. Add the water, leaves, salt and pepper. Cook until the rice is softened at a little bit under medium heat.
Meanwhile in a bowl, mix all the yogurt sauce ingredients. After the rice is cooked, take a few spoons of liquid from the pot and mix into the bowl. Then slowly pour your mixture into the pot while stirring very slowly. Cook for about 5-6 more minutes over low heat. Stir occasionally. Sprinkle some dry mint and serve immediately.
-Chicken Chokertme, Eggplant Boat with Cheese, Chickpea Salad, Cig Borek, Ayran with Fresh Mint Leaves and Turkish Ricotta Dessert.
Place the mulberries and sugar in a medium sized pot. Crush (or wait for about an hour) the berries with the sugar using your hand. At this stage you should wear plastic glove to prevent coloring your hand. Add the lemon juice and water and simmer for about 15-20 minutes. Let it cool down. Then cover the bowl and leave in the fridge at least 4 hours*.
Place a strainer with cheese cloth on top over a bowl. Pour the mixture in it. At the end squeeze cloth the get all the juice out. Serve it with the ice cubes.
Sherbet "şerbet" is the world's first soft drink. Ottoman Turks drank sherbet before and during each meal. There was no custom of drinking water during the meal; sherbet or compote taken in the end replaced the water in the Palaces. Sultans drank fruit juice, lime juice or a sherbet during meals. They used an embroidered porcelain or coconut shell spoon placed on a special open box.
Sherbet is also served during Ramadan in crystal bowls or in tall cut glasses, or ornamented (with gilt flowers) glasses with ice cubes or snow. The sherbet glasses should be placed on a tray covered with lace or a piece of embroidered cloth.
Sherbet is still a traditional cold drink in Turkey. It is believed that sherbet has healing effects. In the gardens of the Ottoman Palace, spices and fruits to be used in sherbets were grown up under the control of pharmacists and doctors of the Palace.
Traditionally cold sherbet is served on especially hot summer days to please visitors. Also at weddings or during childbirth to increase lactation of the mother. This type of sherbet is called "Lohusa Sherbet" lohusa şerbeti/ birth sherbet)" which is crimson in colour and is flavored with cloves and herbs.
Sherbet is made from fruit juices or extracts of flowers or herbs, combined with sugar, water and ice or snow. Depending on the season, types of fruit sherbets include; pear, quince, strawberry, apple, kizilcik (cornelian cherry), mulberries, pomegranate, bergamot, mint, strawberry, orange, etc. There is also a honey sherbet and a green coloured violets sherbet which is made by pounding violet-flowers and then boiling them with sugar.
I use homogenized milk to make my own yogurt. But if you think it is too fatty for you, you can use any kind. Making yogurt is very easy!
Bring to boil the milk first, then turn to heat down to low and simmer for about 4-5 more minutes. Turn the heat off. Add the peppers in it, stir. Pour the warm milk into a clean bowl with a lid. Put aside until lukewarm. The best and traditional way<|fim_middle|> over the top. Drizzle some extra virgin olive oil all over the salad. Serve immediately.
*It is a Turkish cheese made from sheep's or mixed milk, harder and saltier than white cheese.
Bring the sugar and water to boil in a medium cooking pot. Turn the heat down to very medium-low and add the peaches in it. Cook for about 10 minutes over medium heat. Turn the heat off.
Pour into a bowl and let it cool. Then chill in the fridge. Sprinkle the walnuts in it before serve in individual bowls.
Wash the zucchinis and cut off a thin slice of the bottom of each one, so that they can stand up straight. Cut off the tops (as in the picture) and carve out the insides. Lightly fry the zucchinis in the oil. Put them aside.
To prepare the filling; saute the ground beef with onion until the colour turns to light brown. Do not over cook! Leave some juice in it. Mix all the filling ingredients with a teaspoon and stuff the zucchinis. Then cover the zucchinis with the tomato slices. Place them in a small oven proof dish.
Mix the water with crushed tomatoes and red pepper paste. Pour all over the zucchinis.
Preheat the oven 400 F (200 C). Place the dish on middle rack. Cook until the tops lightly brown. | to measure the temperature of milk is to dip your pinkie in it. It should be warm but shouldn't burn.
Spread a thick towel out over your kitchen counter. Place the bowl on the towel. Add 2 tablespoonfuls of yogurt and mix well to ferment the new yogurt. Cover, then cover the bowl with the towel. If it is winter, the yogurt will be done within 6 hours, otherwise during the summer it'll take 4 to 5 hours. I generally ferment my yogurt after dinner or before going to bed. The following morning my yogurt is ready to be placed in the fridge. When you place the yogurt into the fridge do not shake it! Keep it in the fridge for a day.
Yogurt should has kaymak on the surface. So when you mix the yogurt with milk try not to touch (or not to break) to the surface of the milk which already has thin kaymak. When you add the yogurt, you need to mix it by inserting the spoon to the bottom mix it under the kaymak without touching it.
Do not discard the water content of yogurt when you strain it, instead use it when making pide and bread at home. Or, you can drink it which is quite good for health:) Strained yogurt contains no vitamin B, since this ingredient is moved out along with the liquid as it is strained off.
About a thousand years ago, Central Asian Turks were the first to make Yogurt. As it was first spreading into Europe, this dairy product was used for therapeutic purposes. The word comes from the Turkish word "yoğurt", deriving from the verb "yoğurtmak", which means "to blend" - a reference to how yogurt is made. It is consumed plain or as a side dish or to make soups, desserts, sauce, to marinate meat and it is a big part of Turkish Cuisine. You can't find a Turkish house without yogurt.
You should eat yogurt every day, at least one cup :) Yogurt has beneficial bacteria, calcium and protein. We believe yogurt cleanses the body from toxins and poisons.
Mix all the ingredients in a service bowl. Put aside for 15 minutes (tastes better this way), then serve with any kind of Kebab.
-Eggplant Kebab, Carrot Patties with Black Olives, Creamy Yogurt Dip, Lentil Borek, Asparagus with Mushrooms in Olive Oil, Turkish Shortbread and Turkish Rice Pudding.
Knead all the meatball ingredients. Make 16-17 meatballs, put aside. Lightly fry them in the mixture of sunflower oil and butter in the pan. Put them aside.
Place sliced onion and potatoes in the same pan and lightly fry. Add the lightly fried meatballs, cumin, vinegar, red pepper paste, paprika, salt and hot water into the pan. Cover and cook until a small amount juice left inside at low-medium heat.
Serve the Pan Meatballs with the Tomato Couscous.
-Green Lentil Soup with Yogurt, Fried Eggplant and Green Pepper, Red Pepper Dish, Romano Beans in Olive Oil, Gozleme and Revani.
Saute the pasta with the butter for a few minutes in a pot. Add the grated tomato and salt, cover the lid halfway. Turn the heat to low and cook until the couscous absorbs all the water. Turn the heat off and put aside for 5-6 minutes. Stir with a fork and serve.
Tomato Couscous goes well with any kind of meat or chicken dish as a side.
Peel the eggplant skin in strips lengthwise. Cut the eggplant vertically in 3-4 pieces, each about 1 inch thick. Then cut again horizontally, each piece about 2 inches long. Soak in water with a tablespoon of salt for about 15-20 minutes. Then dry with paper towels.
Fry the eggplants on both sides until golden brown. Then, place on a paper towel to soak up any extra oil.
Meanwhile, cook the ground beef with onion, salt and pepper. Then add the cubanelle pepper and crushed tomatoes, cook for 3-4 more minutes.
Lay out half of the eggplants in ovenproof dish. Place the half of the beef mixture over the eggplants. Arrange the rest of the eggplants over the mixture. Then place the rest of the beef mixture over the eggplants. Sprinkle the cheese all over the top. Garnish with some paprika.
Preheat the oven to 400 F (200 C). Place the dish on middle rack of the oven. Cook until the colour of cheese turns to light brown. Do not over cook!
Serve Eggplant Moussaka with Turkish Rice Pilaf and Cacık on the side.
You may also like Eggplant Moussaka and Eggplant Moussaka with Chickpeas (Afyon).
*Moussaka basically is the cooking of vegetables chopped into small pieces with small chunks of meat or ground beef and onions.
-Rustic Red Lentil Soup, Shredded Borek, Roasted Eggplant, Green Pepper & Tomato Dip , Sweet Peas in Olive Oil and Almond Pudding.
Roast the pepper, peel and cut in bite size. Place on a service plate. Squeeze lemon juice and drizzle extra virgin olive oil all over the them. Sprinkle some crumbled feta cheese and red pepper flakes.
Toast a few slice of Turkish bread. Drizzle extra virgin olive oil all over the slice. Season with salt and pepper. Serve it as a breakfast or an appetizer.
Cut off the tops of the red peppers. Discard the seeds. Cut each pepper in half. Set the oven to broil (grill), and heat it up. Place the red peppers on an oven tray (inside facing down) and place in the oven. Roast them for about 15 minutes. Leave them in a paper or plastic bag for about 10 minutes to peel off the skin easily. Alternatively, you can barbecue it until softened. Just place the red peppers out side facing down on the barbecue.
To prepare the cheese filling, first place the bulgur in a large bowl and pour a cup of hot water on it (it should stay like this for 5 minutes). Then wash and drain the bulgur, and mix it the rest of the filling ingredients with a spoon.
Meanwhile, fill a large pot half way with water and boil. Cut the stems off the leafs boil for about 1-2 minutes and drain. Pour the cold water all over it.
Cut off the hard part at the middle of the leafs. Place the hard parts in a medium shallow pot (should be oven proof) first. Cut the leaves in 2 or 3 depends how long they are to fill them. Use a teaspoon to put the ricotta filling on the leaf (picture). First fold over the top, then fold the two sides and roll to close it up. Line up all the rolls over the hard parts in the pot tightly.
Pour 1/4 cup hot water in to the pot. Over, turn the heat up to high first. Then turn the heat down. Cook at low heat until all the water evaporates. Then pour the cream all over it. Preheat the oven to 400 F (200 C). Place the pot on the middle rack of the oven and cook it for about 10 more minutes.
Meanwhile caramelized the onion with butter and olive oil. Pour all over the Stuffed Swiss Chard Rolls with Ricotta Cheese and serve while still warm.
* Don't throw the stems, make Swiss Chard Stems with Yogurt Sauce.
**Dargın Otu which only grows the city of Bayburt in Black Sea region.
Boil all the ingredients with a little bit water, drain. *Do not boil the tomatoes more than 2 minutes, peel and cut in 2 or 4. Mix the dressing ingredients. Pour over the boiled vegetables, stir.
Rest the Pickled Summer Vegetables in the refrigerator for at least an hour. Serve this dish with any kind of meal.
Cut the ends of cucumber. Cut in half along the length. Discard the seeds using the tip of teaspoon. Sprinkle some salt and sugar all over. Chill it out in the fridge to make them crispy for about an hour.
Grape Molasses is a good source of energy and carbohydrates because of its high sugar content. It is ideal for daily doses of calcium, iron, potassium and magnesium. Plus, it contains lots of minerals.
You can purchase Tahini (Tahin) and Grape Molasses (Pekmez) from Turkish or Middle Eastern Grocery Stores or online at Tulumba.com.
In a medium size pot, saute the onion with olive oil for about 3-4 minutes. Add the rest of the ingredients. Cover and cook until the rice is soft over medium-low heat.
Cut the dough into a little bit smaller than egg sized pieces. Flat in 1 cm thick with your hand. Then place some filling inside, close it up. When the oil heats up, fry the doughs on both sides until golden brown. Afterwards, place on a paper towel to soak up any extra oil.
The Turkish horsemen of Central Asia used to preserve meat by placing slabs of it in pockets on the sides of their saddles, where it would be pressed by their legs as they rode. This pressed meat was the forerunner of today's pastirma, a term which literally means 'being pressed' in Turkish, and is the origin of the Italian pastrami. Pastirma is a kind of cured beef, the most famous being that made in the town of Kayseri in central Turkey.
The 17th century Turkish writer Evliya Çelebi praised the spiced beef pastirma of Kayseri in his Book of Travels, and Kayseri pastirma is still regarded as the finest of all. Good quality pastirma is a delicacy with a wonderful flavour, which may be served in slices as a cold hors d'oeuvre or cooked with eggs, tomatoes and so on. Although pastirma may also be made with mutton or goat's meat, beef is preferred.
Cook wheat, until they are softened in a pot at medium heat. Add the chickpeas salt and pepper continue to cook for about 5 more minutes. Turn the heat off. Whisk the yogurt in it.
Heat up the olive oil then add the peppers in it, stir. Take it from the heat and pour all over the soup. In hot summer days, you can serve this traditional cold soup by adding some ice cubes or water to dilute when you serve.
*If you use pearl barley instead of wheat for the soup, it is called Urfa Style Barley-Yogurt Soup (Arpa Lebenisi).
**When gently rub one handful chickpeas inside of your palms all the skin will be come off easily.
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Saturday, <|fim_middle|> How to Grow Matches – A Live Lit Celebration.
Back in the Spring I was asked to be a poetry judge at Sarah Leavesley's Launch for How to Grow Matches, published by Against the Grain Poetry Press. Following her Launch in London in March at the Poetry Cafe, Sarah had a local launch in May.
This is Sarah's 7th poetry book and she made sure that this was a Launch with a difference. She used her Launch as an opportunity to raise money for St. Paul's Hostel who help people through homelessness. The evening was filled with Poetry and Fiction, as Sarah was also launching her latest novella Always Another Twist.
Sarah's Guest Poets/Writers were Jenny Hope, Liz Kershaw and Holly Magill, the evening was MCed by Charley Barnes, there was an Open Mic with prizes (hence the poetry judging). The prizes were amazing – bags of poetry books and poetry pictures.
The evening started with a translated reading by Sylv Coultier of 'Matryoshka Portrait', the opening poem in How to Grow Matches. Followed by Guest readings, open mic poets and readings from Sarah.
It was a lovely evening and thoroughly enjoyed. Appreciation and generosity were the feelings I took away from the evening.
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OutDaughtered Parents Show off LuLu's Hilarious Drawing — Watch!
What a masterpiece! Adam and Danielle Busby got a total kick out of their daughter's drawing and we don't blame them for sharing the hilarious moment on the 'gram. The OutDaughtered stars showed off Olivia (LuLu)'s artwork on Oct. 8 and it might take you a second to figure out why they're laughing. Watch the video above to see the drawing and don't forget to subscribe to our YouTube Channel.
Obviously, their little girl was just coloring a pretty picture, but she scribbled something phallic looking, so Adam and Danielle couldn't help but chuckle. The stars were asking LuLu what she was drawing and Adam, 36, had the funniest reaction when his wife, 34, questioned if he saw it too. Fans can't get enough of the kids and luckily, Adam treated them to an adorable clip just one day ago. He shared a video of Hazel reading to her sister Olivia and it was the cutest thing ever, especially due to Hazel's precious commentary.
Just last week, the fourth season of OutDaughtered concluded, but it ended on a high note<|fim_middle|>ke, Ava, Parker, Riley, Hazel, Ava, Olivia, Uncle Dale, as well as Aunt Crystal to Hawaii for some fun. The quintuplets even learned how to hula dance and they were able to follow the moves from instructor Aunty Tutu. Everyone traveled 17 hours with a six-hour time change to reach their destination, but clearly it was worth it!
Fast forward to now, and sparks are still flying between the reality TV parents. Adam and Danielle recently celebrated their 12-year wedding anniversary, and it's their chemistry is still off the charts. The lovebirds shared cute photos, including one on the beach. "Having some down time with this beauty," Adam gushed over his wife. "12 years of marriage has been good to us. Best 12 years of my life and they keep getting better." Danielle also posted a rare PDA snap with her hubby on Sept. 4, so we're so happy to see them thriving! | ! Adam and Danielle brought Blay | 7 |
Alexey Voevoda Vegan Arm Wrestler
February 10, 2016 Vegan Celebrities
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There are plenty of reasons as for why one would want to switch to a vegan diet. Usually, it starts with vegetarianism, a diet free of meat and sometimes restraint from all by-products of animal slaughter. Veganism takes it a step further, with the complete abstention of all animal products, such as cheese on a diet but also makeup or clothes that do not test or use animal body parts.
Although veganism is often a controversial topic, many celebrities have decided to live the vegan life and are known animal activists. It is particularly famous in Hollywood, and more generally in America. Indeed, many associations and famous people have preached for everyone to go vegan, but they are not the only ones.
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For example, Alexey Voevoda, a famous Russian arm wrestler. He has been vegan for more than 3,5 years. The diet seems to have worked wonders, considering he has won<|fim_middle|> Vegan Celebrity – Tobey Maguier
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Natalie Portman Living a Vegan Lifestyle | gold at the World Championship. About his veganism, he has said that at first, it was only for scientific purposes. Later on, he realized it was also a matter of being honest with himself. In fact, he said that someone who called themselves an animal lover while eating a cheeseburger or drinking a glass of milk was only being "hypocritical".
Stating that he loved and cared for animals and their well-being, he decided he would choose a way of life that would allow him to live in harmony with nature. He has rejected what he said was something "we are conditioned from birth to believe", which is the idea that "animals are here for us to use". He said that veganism, to him, only meant living in truth.
Asked about the direct benefits of his diet, he has said his health had improved. His physical well being is primordial as an athlete, and his vegan way of life helped his body "become lighter, so to say, clearer". He also admitted to have increased "flexibility and elasticity," that are more than important in his profession. On top of that, he advocated for the cause by saying he had not been sick or suffered from a cold or a flu ever since he changed his diet.
He compared his current health with his past self, that used to eat meat and milk, and said he used to lack energy, and gain weight too quickly. With veganism, almost all of his physical problems have stopped, and he has become a better athlete as well as a better person.
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FLAMENCO ARABIA
Syrian Flamenco guitarist, teacher and composer Tarek Ghriri has performed across the Middle East and Toronto Photo By: Image courtesy the artist
Nazih Borish began studying the oud at the age of five in Lattakia, Syria, where he was born. He is now based in Montreal. Photo By: Image courtesy the artist
Multi-talented, Claudia Aguirre has trained as a flamenco dancer and vocalist and studied jazz vocals, classical upright bass, Bollywood dance, hip-hop, and musical theatre. Photo By<|fim_middle|> more than 10 years beginning with her move to Spain, where she lived with Romany families who took her under their wings, exposing her to Romany life and flamenco in all its colours, nuances, and dynamics.
Ali Massoudi arrived in Canada from Tehran in mid-2016, having a long career training under and performing with a wide variety of masters and projects. He's performed with the Tehran Symphony Orchestra, Iran's National Orchestra, and various popular groups across Iran, Europe, Canada, China. and Cuba. He is the author of five educational books for tombak, daf, and udu.
Nour Kaadan is a percussionist and video creator. In 2010, she started her music career in Damascus – Syria, playing classical Middle Eastern and Flamenco rhythms including Rumba, Tangos and Bulerías on her instrument; the Cajon. She has been performing in Lebanon since 2014 and since moving to Toronto in 2017, she has continued to play.
In 2015, Nour began to use her musical skills to help children who suffer from trauma to express themselves through music, rhymes and songs. She also facilitated workshops in Syrian refugee camps, using music as a therapeutic activity to help children in or from war zones to overcome their trauma.
Since moving to Toronto, her new home, she has continued to play the Cajon with Arabic and Spanish music, and she has also facilitated music workshops around Toronto in order to create more awareness with regards to the type of music she is passionate about.
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Lose yourself in the mesmerizing melodies of Flamenco Arabia. This Arabic-Andalusian music blends the Spanish sounds of Andalusia with contemporary Arabic music. An enchanting guitar performance containing Arabic rhythms intertwines with flamenco music setting the stage for professional flamenco dancers. As each note is sung in Arabic and English, the brushstrokes of a masterpiece come together as history reunites Arabs with their long-gone past and presence in Andalusia.
This performance is part of the Canadian Arabic Orchestra's second annual Festival of Arabic Music and Arts (FAMA).
Flamenco is an art form built on three Abrahamic faiths and the musical expressions of three continents – at first glance, these traditions and contexts seems disparate and irreconcilable. But flamenco is the ultimate example of what happens when artists look beyond limitations imposed by the outside world. The dance form continues to evolve and is shaped by scenes across the planet, as you will experience during the performances and film screening at our fourth annual Duende: Flamenco Festival: Artists demonstrating what awaits on "the other side of fear."
The show is the brainchild of Syrian Flamenco guitarist, teacher and composer Tarek Ghriri, who has performed across the Middle East and Toronto, as well as having taught at schools around the world.
Claudia Aguirre's training in Spanish dance began with one of Toronto's flamenco and Spanish dance pioneers, Paula Moreno. She later spent several years training as a flamenco vocalist with Carmen Romero, who continues to be a mentor to this day. More recently, Aguirre has studied with Toronto's newest flamenca on scene, Maria Serrano, while taking regular trips to Spain to study under master flamenco instructors. Aguirre runs CaluJules with her spouse, Julian Berg, and together they cultivate the flamenco scene in the suburban districts of the GTA and in Kitchener-Waterloo.
Nazih Borish was born in Lattakia, Syria, where, at the age of five, he began studying the oud. By 13, he was playing in pop bands and had created a new style freeing the instrument from its traditional limits. In 2005, he founded the Syrian Oud School in his hometown, which grew to see more than 100 students, many of whom are currently working as musicians and, in 2016, he moved to Montreal, where he is now based.
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For anyone that doesn't know Jim, and that can't be too many, he is one of the most committed supporters of the Puget Sound Kn<|fim_middle|> Jim - couldn't happen to more deserving knapper!
Fun'a\s over - Back to Business - Flintknapping! | appers. A member for over 20 years, Jim has probably attended more annual PSK knap-in than any other member and currently attends two weekly knap-ins almost every week of the year! He has participated in countless demos – from schools to museums, and can always be counted on to support the PSK and flintknapping community at large. Jim not only donated two fine points to this Kabuki Fundraiser but he also purchased $100 worth of tickets.
You can find more about Jim and his involvement in the Puget Sound Knappers and the flintknapping community in gerneral by simply visiting the Event section of the PSK website. Jim can be seen at almost every knap-in and at many, if not most of the volunteer events.
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Create excitement on the casino floor by using a lottery-ball machine for dozens of creative casino promotion ideas.
More and more properties are incorporating lottery-style promotions into their monthly casino promotions. You can go with traditional lottery theme, or consider the draw machine as a prize board which greatly expands the themes and concepts. A lottery machine can be used for "add em up" style games where the player must total to a certain number of points, yards or dollar amount. Or, maybe you collect certain colors or symbols. With the draw machine, you don't need an envelope, which makes the draw result faster and more visual for your players. Below are a few concepts to get start. Contact Smartplay for more casino promotion ideas.
If balls add up to a specific number (e.g. 200), the player wins the grand prize. Certain balls or amounts could be designated for special prizes.
As numbers are selected, the temperature goes up and the player wins more money. Or player reaches prize levels as they move up the thermometer.
Player progress is noted on the thermometer scoreboard.
Bring two or more players on stage.
Draw numbers from the machine for each player. The first player to make it to a certain number is the winner.
Create a prize board that tracks a path for each contestant toward the big money.
If one player totals an exact specified amount (e.g. 100) they win an insured or guaranteed grand prize.
Race (colors and numbers) – for an added twist, use multi-colored balls with numbers. Contestants are each assigned a color. The host selects balls and numbers revealed are applied to the contestant matching the ball color selected.
Football Cash – Similar to race concept, the numbers revealed are yardage amounts. Two "teams" are playing each other, trying to make it to the end-zone first. Football field prize board adds to the visual presentation. This same idea could be used for other themes — horse racing, auto racing, track, and field, etc.
Lottery balls are then revealed one at a time on stage and prizes are awarded accordingly based on matches.
This is a promotional game that plays similar to roulette.
Lottery balls are drawn and players earn points or dollars based on the result.
MultiPick draw machine draws multi-colored balls. Multi-colored balls are placed in the chamber.
The object is to reveal two or more balls of the same color. As long as you do, you continue to progress. The player could have one or more "saves" so they don't lose on the first attempt.
Distribute scratch cards, which could be designed to play one or more games. More secure cards could be distributed for higher-value prize giveaways.
Players could win tickets which play for the next drawing. Tickets could be good for one or more of the automated drawings. For example, a ticket could say "good for any drawing on Wednesday" or "good for any<|fim_middle|> in free play.
This is just start. Contact Smartplay for more casino promotion ideas and a list of our lottery-machine rental inventory items. | drawing between 4 and 6 pm in June. This process could also be automated, based on visit frequency, coin-in, etc.
This concept would use the Draw Station noted above.
The guest gets a random number between 1 and 200 texted to their phone every 30 minutes.
The player can walk by the machine at any time to see if their number matches. If the number matches, they get X | 88 |
Home Business CEO Adam Stroud named one of UK's Most Ambitious Business Leaders in<|fim_middle|> been struck by the way business leaders have overcome challenges and adversity to run fast-growing and successful companies, proving that difficult circumstances can become the biggest driver of ambition."
Paxton has nearly 40 years of experience in the security industry, exporting its products to over 60 countries. Currently, they have more than 400 employees globally.
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CEO Adam Stroud named one of UK's Most Ambitious Business Leaders in 2022
Adam Stroud, CEO of Paxton, has been named one of The LDC Top 50 Most Ambitious Business Leaders, recognising his achievement in steering Paxton on its journey to international growth and market resilience.
The LDC Top 50, in partnership with The Times, celebrates the inspiring leaders behind some of the UK's most successful and fast-growing medium-sized companies. This year LDC received more than 750 nominations, a record number in its fifth year of the awards.
Ranking in the top 50 is great recognition for Adam, who started at the company in 1996. In his role as CEO since 2012, Adam has been leading the company to success, during which time Paxton has enhanced their product offering championing free-of-charge installer training and world-class customer support to ensure their customers have the best experience with their systems. Paxton also focuses on creating a great company culture and working environment, ranking in the Best Companies to Work For list in 2022, the fourth time in the last five years.
Adam said: "Aspiring for world-class products and customer service is part of our DNA at Paxton. I firmly believe in the power of ambitious goals to motivate and align us. As a company, we are determined and passionate about what we do.
"I am proud to have been included in The LDC Top 50 Most Ambitious Business Leaders and represent Paxton in this celebration event."
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Over the last few years, Paxton has evolved under the impact of various global issues. The electronic components shortage is a continual challenge faced by manufacturers globally. Paxton has been working to increase their stock level to ensure the availability of its product to customers worldwide. In response to the pandemic, Paxton quickly switched to a remote working model, maintaining normal customer service. They also launched a range of new access control features that helped in preventing the spread of viruses whilst training up thousands of their customers online.
Adam continues, "Whenever we encounter challenging situations, we must position Paxton as a long-standing and resilient company. We take positives from these challenges, and that is what continues to make us stronger.
"We have a five-year growth strategy, including increased production capacity, enhanced customer service, and expanding global infrastructure. One objective that will always stay with Paxton is to continually develop and manufacture world-class and simple-to-use access control products and services."
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Remote-control vehicles in the news
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\section{Introduction}
\label{sec:intro}
Direct imaging of exoplanets is expected to play a vital role in characterizing Earth analogs in habitable zones and beyond.
Substantial work has gone into predicting detectable features in disk-integrated spectra of Earth and other planets, as they are observed from an astronomical distance.
Disk-integrated spectra or even multi-band photometry (colors) in principle include the effects of the surface reflectance as well as the atmosphere. (We use the terms spectra and colors interchangeably.)
However, interpreting disk-integrated colors is not trivial.
This is particularly true for Earth-like planets that harbor diverse atmospheric and surface characteristics, including liquid water, partial cloud cover, continents, and possibly vegetation.
A key here is to leverage the time variation of the spectrum/color \citep{Ford2001}: the regions that contribute to the scattered light change due to the planetary rotation and orbital motion, so the time variability can be used to map the heterogeneity of the surface environment \citep[for a recent review, see][]{Cowan2017}.
\citet{Cowan2009, Cowan2011} performed principal component analysis (PCA) on the observed multi-band photometry of Earth. They found that the number of surface types can be inferred from the number of dominant principal components: (\# of surface types) $\ge $ (\# of principal components) $+ 1$.
\citet{Fujii2010, Fujii2011} decomposed multi-band photometric data of Earth assuming the template reflectance spectra of the known major surface types, and they found that the relative abundance and longitudinal variation of these surfaces are approximately recovered.
Moreover, by coupling the rotational variation with orbital (phase) variation, a two-dimensional map of the surface may be retrieved \citep{Kawahara2010, Kawahara2011, Fujii2012}.
\citet{Cowan2013} took another approach to the same inverse problem.
Their strategy was to estimate the reflectance spectra of surfaces and their geographical maps across the globe simultaneously, by making all of them fitting parameters.
They applied their method to the light curves of Earth observed by EPOXI, and appeared successful in that they obtained reflectance spectra roughly matching the average spectra of clouds, oceans, and continents.
However, the longitudinal map of these components did not match the actual geography.
Motivated by this unsatisfactory result, we revisited their analysis.
We start by creating mock light curves to see if we can fully retrieve the known answer.
Taking a close look at the mathematical relation between<|fim_middle|> number of possible combinations each location can make to enclose all of the data points.
In this case, the trajectory of planetary color is far from the boundary because the color variations of the real Earth are muted by the cloud cover.
Consequently, we do not see three peaks.
Nevertheless, we are likely to find one surface type in the upper part of the allowed region, near label A, which can be interpreted as ocean.
\section{Discussion}
\label{s:discussion}
\subsection{Confounding Factors}
\label{ss:confonting_factors}
\subsubsection{Uncertain Planetary Radius}
\label{sss:uncertain_radius}
So far, we have assumed that the data can be expressed in terms of apparent albedo.
In reality, the primary observables from direct imaging observations are the intensities of the planet and the star.
In order to convert them to apparent albedo, we need to know the orbital distance from the star, the phase angle, and the planetary radius.
While the former two may be constrained from multi-epoch observations, the radius continues to be severely degenerate with albedo.
How would the unknown planetary radius affect our retrieval?
Not knowing the planetary radius and hence the normalization of the planetary albedo, we cannot put a tight upper limit on the surface albedo spectra, $s_{kj}$.
Thus, the condition (\ref{eq:tilde_s_range}) or (\ref{eq:s_range}) is essentially reduced to $0 \leq s_{kj}$.
How much this limits our estimation depends on the configuration of the PC space in the $J$-dimensional color space.
For example, in the case of our mock data, the three significant constraints actually come from $0 \leq s_{kj}$ (see Figure \ref{fig:trajectory} and its caption), therefore the unknown normalization of planetary albedo does not affect the permitted region.
Thus, the constraints of the spectral shapes of the surfaces can be obtained (but not the absolute scale).
On the other hand, in the case of EPOXI data, roughly half of the boundaries of the permitted region originate from the upper limit for albedo, $s_{kj} \leq 1$.
In this case, not knowing the normalization would change the permitted region itself.
Nevertheless, because the upper boundaries still come from $0 \leq s_{kj}$, the inference that at least one surface type is present near the upper left corner will hold.
\subsubsection{Additional Coplanar Surface Spectra}
The retrieval would become more complicated if the actual number of surface types were larger than the dimension of the PC space plus 1 ($K > N + 1 $).
For example, if there were four important surface types in EPOXI rather than three, all in the PC plane we obtained, then we would have to consider a tetragon to enclose all of the data rather than a triangle, thus affecting our estimates of surface spectra.
The greater $J$ is, the more probable it is for important surface colors in the $J$-dimensional space to be affinely independent (i.e., to make a simplex).
Thus, obtaining light curves in as many bands as possible will help disentangle the surface colors and reduce the uncertainty in the number of surface types.
\subsubsection{Deviation from Lambert's Law}
\label{ss:deviate_Lambert}
We have assumed that the surface scattering obeys Lambert's law, but in reality they are not perfectly Lambertian.
In particular, scattering by surface liquid water is characterized by specular reflection and the reflectivity increases when the incident light is grazing, or equivalently at crescent phase \citep[e.g.,][]{Williams2008,Robinson2010,Robinson2014}.
Scattering by cloud/haze layers exhibits prominent forward scattering, which also becomes evident at crescent phase \citep[e.g.,][]{Robinson2010}.
For surfaces with strongly anisotropic scattering, apparent albedo can even exceed unity.
Furthermore, the albedo spectrum of a surface overlaid by an atmosphere changes with phase angle.
Considering these effects, the trajectories of the light curves at different phases do not have to reside in the same PC space.
These light curves can be analyzed independently, and the components varying with phase would give us insights into the anisotropic scatterers.
\subsection{Enhancing Constraints}
\label{ss:enhancing_constraints}
\subsubsection{Power of Many Bands}
As we discussed in Section \ref{ss:guess}, constraints on surface spectra rely on the relative configuration between the light curve trajectory and the boundaries of the physically permitted region, namely that the albedo of any surface must be between 0 and 1 at all wavelengths.
It depends on geography and the albedo spectra of the surface types, neither of which we can directly change.
However, we can potentially increase the number of boundaries of the permitted region by increasing the number of photometric bands, and some of them may have tighter constraints than others.
Obtaining light curves in as many bands as possible will therefore be beneficial.
In particular, observing at wavelengths where one or more surface types have albedos close to 0 or 1 constrains the possible albedos more tightly.
Albedos close to 0 (i.e., the condition of $0 \le s_{kj}$) are more useful because they do not depend on the uncertain planetary radius.
In reality, the albedo of ocean is close to 0 at longer wavelengths toward the near infrared, that of sand is small at 0.4 $\mu $m and shortward, that of vegetation is close to 0 at 0.7 $\mu$m and shortward, and that of H$_2$O snow is close to 1 in the visible and closer to 0 at the 1.5 $\mu$m and 2 $\mu$m bands.
Observations at different bands covering these characteristic wavelengths would be useful.
\begin{figure*}[hbt!]
\begin{minipage}{0.33\hsize}
\begin{center}
\includegraphics[width=\hsize]{IGBP_PCplane_Nside2_ver2.pdf}
\end{center}
\end{minipage}
\begin{minipage}{0.33\hsize}
\begin{center}
\includegraphics[width=\hsize]{IGBP_PCplane_Nside1_ver2.pdf}
\end{center}
\end{minipage}
\begin{minipage}{0.33\hsize}
\begin{center}
\includegraphics[width=\hsize]{IGBP_PCplane_Nside0_ver2.pdf}
\end{center}
\end{minipage}
\caption{Making the map coarser from the upper panel of Figure \ref{fig:mockdata}. Pixelating the surface into 192 (left), 48 (middle), and 12 (right) equal-area pixels using HealPix, we plot the synthesized pixel colors with crosses on the same PC plane as Figures \ref{fig:trajectory} to \ref{fig:swap}. The triangular shape of the locus of points becomes apparent with as few as 48 pixels. Thus, resolving the surface colors in 2 dimensions eases the challenge to identify surface types. }
\label{fig:lowresolution}
\end{figure*}
\subsubsection{Utilizing Light Curves at Different Phases}
Light curves at different orbital phases are useful for spectral unmixing because they are sensitive to different locations on the planet, exploring the PC space in different directions.
As a result, the volume of color space where the solution can exist will be narrowed.
In particular, the diurnal light curves at thinner phases tend to exhibit larger color variations, giving tighter constraints (but see the caveat in Section \ref{ss:deviate_Lambert}).
In addition, diurnal light curves at different orbital phases in principle allow us to map the color in two dimensions \citep{Kawahara2010,Kawahara2011,Fujii2012}.
We could then use the spectra of various surface patches resolved in two dimensions to identify different surface types, in the same spirit as that of estimating the end-member colors from the colors of the longitudinal slices.
In fact, this ``map first'' approach is likely more appropriate with 2-dimensional maps than with longitudinal maps.
In the diurnal light curves at a single phase, colors of very distant pixels beyond the correlation length of the geography are mixed together, even at crescent phases---for example, the colors of the Arctic, tropics, and Antarctic are mixed in an equatorial observation, no matter how extreme the orbital phase is.
As a result, the colors of longitudinal slices never approach the colors of vegetation or sand regardless the number of slices, as shown in the right panel of Figure \ref{fig:PCplane}.
The situation is different when we gradually lower the resolution of the 2-dimensional maps.
Figure \ref{fig:lowresolution} shows the colors of HEALPix pixels \citep{Gorski2005} with varying resolutions: from left to right, we change the resolution from 192 pixels, to 48 pixels, to 12 pixels, starting from the map in Figure \ref{fig:mockdata}.
The triangular shape of the locus of points becomes apparent with as few as 48 pixels.
Thus, resolving the surface colors in two dimensions will potentially ease the challenge of identifying surface types.
\subsubsection{Invoking Additional Assumptions}
Occasionally, we may want to adopt additional constraints on the behavior of $\tilde f _{ik}$ ($f_{lk}$) or $s_{kj}$ based on prior knowledge.
For example, we may assume that the covering fractions of surface types vary ``smoothly'' as a function of time or longitude.
Such an assumption could be implemented via a Gaussian process \citep[e.g.,][]{Rasmussen2005}, i.e., the area fractions at different times/longitudes have a joint gaussian distribution with the relevant correlation length.
We must exercise caution because the actual covering fractions of surface types are not necessarily Gaussian processes and can exhibit sharp boundaries.
We could also consider a regularization on albedo spectra as a function of wavelength.
This can be regarded as a prior probability distribution on the PC plane.
For example, in Figure \ref{fig:PCplane}, albedo spectra corresponding to the upper part of the permitted region exhibit a dramatic decrease in albedo between 0.65~$\mu $m and 0.75~$\mu $m, which may seem implausible.
However, the albedo spectrum of vegetation in fact has a sharp feature, the red edge; similar, unfamiliar features may exist on other planets.
In addition, with an atmosphere, absorption by atmospheric molecules can also produce sharp changes in albedo spectra.
\section{Conclusion}
\label{s:conclusion}
In this paper, we revisited the problem of estimating the albedo spectra of major surface types and their distributions from disk-integrated colors of exoplanets.
We pointed out the inherit degeneracy that makes it impossible to find unique solutions.
Despite the degeneracy, the following physical conditions narrow down the possible solutions for surface albedos, on the assumption of Lambertian surfaces:
the actual surface albedo spectra in the $J$-dimensional color space are
(1) to be located in the PC subspace,
(2) to enclose all of the data points of the disk-integrated colors, and (3) to be in the $J$-dimensional hypercube, bounded by 0 and 1 for all axes. %
We demonstrated using both a simplified toy model of Earth and the observed data by EPOXI that such constraints point us to the approximate spectrum of ocean.
In general, we find that the success of the estimates critically depends on the degree of excursions of the time-dependent trajectory of the disk-integrated colors, and its orientation in the color space. %
In other words, the estimates will be better if the covering fraction of each surface type becomes close to 1, as intuition suggests.
In addition, observations at wavelengths where surface albedos are close to 0 or 1 could improve the estimates.
As the wavelength coverage/resolution increases, and as the light curves are obtained at more orbital phases, precision for surface estimates will improve.
\acknowledgements
We thank the anonymous referee whose comments helped us greatly improve the clarity of this manuscript.
We acknowledge the Exo-Cartography workshops supported by the International Space Science Institute (ISSI).
We thank D. Foreman-Mackey for a useful discussion of parameter retrieval.
Y.~F. is thankful to Eric Smith and Haru Negami for discussions on the geometrical aspect of the study.
Y.~F. acknowledges the generous support from the Universities Space Research Association through an appointment to the NASA Postdoctoral Program at the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies.
Y.~F. is also supported by the NASA Astrobiology Program through the Nexus for Exoplanet System Science.
J.~L.~Y. is supported by the NASA Astrobiology Institute's Virtual Planetary Laboratory under Cooperative Agreement number NNA13AA93A.
N.~B.~C. is supported by the McGill Space Institute and l'Institut de recherche sur les exoplan\`etes.
| the colors and geographical maps of the surfaces, we discuss the degeneracy among the parameters to be estimated.
We then demonstrate, using mock data, how our estimates are nevertheless constrained by boundary conditions, including the expectation that albedo is between 0 and 1.
We also apply the same procedure to the EPOXI data.
This paper is organized as follows.
In Section \ref{s:mockdata}, we introduce our toy-model multi-band diurnal light curves of Earth.
We analyze the mock data in Section~\ref{s:frame} and develop a general framework for this problem.
In Section \ref{s:EPOXI}, we apply our procedure to the EPOXI light curves and attempt to estimate the surface colors of Earth.
In Section \ref{s:discussion}, we discuss possible improvements and a few confounding factors, including the degeneracy between the planetary albedo and radius.
We conclude in Section~\ref{s:conclusion}.
\begin{figure}[h]
\begin{center}
\includegraphics[width=\hsize]{mockdata_ver2.pdf}
\end{center}
\caption{Our mock data based on the IGBP classification map of Earth. \emph{Top panel:} distribution of three surface types (ocean: blue; sand: red; vegetation: green). \emph{Next panel:} assumed albedo spectra with matching colors. \emph{Bottom four panels:} rotational light curves in four photometric band with varying phase angles, $\alpha = 135^{\circ }$ (purple, long-dashed), $90^{\circ }$ (olive, solid), and $45^{\circ }$ (gold, short-dashed). }
\label{fig:mockdata}
\end{figure}
\section{Preparing Mock Data Sets}
\label{s:mockdata}
In order to facilitate the discussions in the following sections, in this section we introduce a mock dataset to be used for demonstrations.
We consider diurnal light curves of a toy model of the atmosphere-less Earth, in four photometric bands.
We use a simplified surface map as shown in the top panel of Figure \ref{fig:mockdata}.
This map is based on the land classification scheme of the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP)\footnote{\url{https://climatedataguide.ucar.edu/climate-data/ceres-igbp-land-classification}}.
Although the original classification assumes 16 land surface types plus ocean, in this paper we adopt three surface types for simplicity regarding ``Open Shrublands,'' ``Permanent Wetlands,'' ``Urban,'' ``Snow/Ice,'' and ``Barren/Desert'' as ``sand'' (red in the top panel of Figure \ref{fig:mockdata}) and other land surface types as ``vegetation'' (green), while keeping the ``ocean'' (blue) regions.
The assumed albedo spectra of these surface types in four photometric bands are shown in the middle panel of Figure \ref{fig:mockdata}.
These four photometric bands correspond to 0.4--0.5 $\mu $m, 0.5--0.6 $\mu $m, 0.6--0.7 $\mu $m, and 0.7--0.8 $\mu $m, respectively, but we will simply refer to them by the band indices ($j$) unless otherwise noted.
The albedo spectrum for an ocean is based on \citet{Mclinden1997},
and the data for sand and vegetation are taken from the ASTER spectral library\footnote{\url{https://speclib.jpl.nasa.gov/}. Specifically, we adopt ``Brown to dark brown sand'' for ``sand,'' and ``Grass'' for the ``vegetation.''}.
Scattering from the surface is assumed to obey the Lambert law, i.e., the radiance is (incident flux)$\times $(albedo)/$\pi$, independent of the direction of scattering.
Note that in reality they are not Lambertian scatterers; among others, scattering by the ocean is particularly anisotropic at the crescent phase (see Section \ref{ss:deviate_Lambert}).
The diurnal light curves are synthesized given the relative positions of the star, planet, and observer.
For the sake of simplicity, we consider a planet with zero obliquity in an edge-on orbit, and change the phase angle (the planet-centric angle between the star and the observer) denoted by $\alpha $ to $45^{\circ }$, $90^{\circ }$, and $135^{\circ }$.
We also assume that the spin period is significantly shorter than the orbital period and that the orbital phase does not change in a single spin rotation.
However, the following discussion does not depend on these assumptions.
We consider noise-free data. Clearly, noise in real observations of Earth twins is expected to be substantial, and the effect of such observations will be discussed in a forthcoming study.
The bottom panels of Figure \ref{fig:mockdata} display examples of diurnal light curves in four photometric bands, represented in terms of {\it apparent albedo}.
Apparent albedo is the albedo of the planet weighted by illumination and visibility; it is obtained by normalizing the planetary intensity by that of a lossless Lambert sphere with the same radius and at the same phase \citep{Qiu2003, Seager2010}.
In this paper, we use apparent albedo unless otherwise noted.
The apparent albedo is straightforwardly obtained from the observed planetary intensity, if and only if the orbital phase of the planet, the distance between the star and the planet, and the planetary radius are all known.
We assume these quantities are known, but discuss the effect of unknown planetary radius in Section \ref{sss:uncertain_radius}.
The problem throughout this paper is that, from these kinds of multi-band diurnal light curves, we would like to know how---and how well---we can retrieve the albedo spectra of different surface types and the longitudinal distributions of these surface types.
\section{Inverse problem}
\label{s:frame}
In this section, we discuss the general framework for analyzing the diurnal light curves, and present some demonstrations using mock data created in the previous section.
Sections \ref{ss:model} and \ref{ss:PCplane} are essentially the recapitulation of previous papers, in particular \citet{Cowan2013} \citep[see also][]{Cowan2009,Cowan2011,Fujii2010,Fujii2011}.
We choose to include these discussions, however, as a baseline to establish the later arguments.
\subsection{Algebraic Formulation}
\label{ss:model}
\begin{table}[b]
\caption{Indexes}
\begin{center}
\begin{tabular}{lcc} \hline \hline
Name & Symbol & Maximum \\ \hline
Observation Time & $i$ & $I$ \\
Band & $j$ & J \\
Surface Type & $k$ & $K$ \\
Longitudinal Slice & $l$ & $L$ \\
Principal Components & $n$ & $N$ \\ \hline
\end{tabular}
\end{center}
\label{tab:index}
\end{table}%
Assuming that the planetary surface is everywhere Lambertian scattering, and that it is composed of a certain number $K$ of spectrally distinct surface types, then the disk-integrated scattered light is a weighted summation of the reflectance spectra of different surface types, as shown below.
The apparent albedo of the planet at time $t$ and at wavelength $\lambda $, $d (t, \lambda )$ (``$d$'' for data), is the integral of the local albedo (denoted by $s (\lambda, \bm{\Omega })$, where $\bm{ \Omega }$ indicates a position on the planetary surface), weighted by the cosine of the zenith angle of insolation (denoted by $\theta _0 (t, {\bm \Omega})$) and the cosine of the zenith angle of the observer (denoted by $\theta _1 (t, {\bm \Omega})$), i.e.,:
\begin{eqnarray}
d (t_i, \lambda_j) &=& \displaystyle \frac{ \int_{{\rm IV}_i} s (\lambda _j, {\bm \Omega }) \, W (t_i, {\bm \Omega}) \; d \Omega }{ \int_{{\rm IV}_i} W (t_i, {\bm \Omega}) \; d \Omega } \\
W (t, {\bm \Omega}) &\equiv & \cos \theta_0 (t, {\bm \Omega}) \cos \theta_1 (t, {\bm \Omega})
\end{eqnarray}
where $i$ and $j$ are the indices for time and wavelength, respectively, and ${\rm IV }_i$ represents the illuminated and visible area of the planetary surface.
The weight function, $W (t, {\bm \Omega})$, is also referred to as the convolution kernel \citep{Cowan2017}.
In the following, the maximum values of $i$ and $j$ are denoted by $I$ and $J$, respectively, as summarized in Table \ref{tab:index}, along with other related indices.
By decomposing the local albedo as $s(\lambda _j, {\bm \Omega }) = \sum _k s_{kj} f_k({\bm \Omega })$ where $s_{kj}$ and $f_k({\bm \Omega })$ are the spectrum and the local area fraction of $k$-th surface type, respectively, the above equation becomes
\begin{eqnarray}
d (t_i, \lambda_j) &=& \sum _{k} s_{kj} \; \displaystyle \frac{ \int_{{\rm IV}_{i}} f_k (\bm \Omega ) \, W (t_i, {\bm \Omega}) \; d \Omega }{ \int_{{\rm IV}_i} W (t_i, {\bm \Omega}) \; d \Omega } \notag \\
&=& \sum _{i,k} \tilde f_{ik} \, s_{kj} \label{eq:tilde_d_f_ast_s}
\end{eqnarray}
where $\tilde f_{ik}$ represents the apparent covering fraction of $k$-th surface type at time $t_i$:
\begin{equation}
\tilde f_{ik} \equiv \frac{ \int_{{\rm IV}_{i}} f_k (\bm \Omega ) W (t_i, {\bm \Omega}) \; d \Omega }{ \int_{{\rm IV}_i} W (t_i, {\bm \Omega}) \; d \Omega } \label{eq:def_ftilde}
\end{equation}
Thus, spectral unmixing is equivalent to estimating both the apparent covering fraction ($\tilde f_{ik}$) and colors ($s_{kj}$) from the apparent albedo of the planet ($d (t_i, \lambda_j)\equiv d_{ij}$).
Because $f_k({\bm \Omega })$ should not be negative and should sum up to unity, $\tilde f _{ik}$ should also not be negative and they should sum up to unity at each observation time, $i$. In addition, reflectance spectra, $s_{kj}$, should be between 0 and 1 for any surface type ($k$) at any band ($j$).
Therefore, the constraints on apparent covering fraction ($\tilde f_{ik}$) and colors ($s_{kj}$) of the surfaces are:
\begin{subnumcases}
{}
0 \leq \tilde f_{ik} \;\;\; & \mbox{for any $i$, $k$} \label{eq:tilde_f_range} \\
\sum_k \tilde f_{ik} = 1 & \mbox{for any $i$} \label{eq:tilde_f_sum} \\
0 \leq s_{kj} \leq 1 \;\;\; & \mbox{for any $k$, $j$} \label{eq:tilde_s_range}
\end{subnumcases}
The time variability of the apparent covering fraction, $\tilde f $, due to the planet's rotation, is related to the surface inhomogeneity in the longitudinal direction.
From Equation (\ref{eq:def_ftilde}), $\tilde f _{ik}$ may be approximately written as the weighted sum of the average area fraction of the $k$-th surface type in the $l$-th longitudinal slice, denoted by $f_{lk}$:
\begin{eqnarray}
\tilde f _{ik} &=& \frac{ \int_{{\rm IV}_i} f_k (\bm \Omega ) \; W (t_i, {\bm \Omega}) \; d\Omega }{ \int_{{\rm IV}_i} W (t_i, {\bm \Omega}) \; d\Omega } \\
&\approx & \sum_l W_{il} f_{lk} \label{eq:Wf}, \\
W_{il} &\equiv & \frac{ \int_{{\rm IV}_i \cap \Omega _l} W (t_i, {\bm \Omega}) \; d\Omega }{ \int W (t_i, {\bm \Omega}) \; d\Omega }
\end{eqnarray}
where $\Omega _l$ denotes the $l$-th longitudinal slice.
Strictly speaking, the approximation is valid only when the local area fraction, $f_k(\bm{\Omega })$, does not change or changes little across each longitudinal slice for all $K$ surface types.
One can therefore recast Equation (\ref{eq:tilde_d_f_ast_s}) in terms of the longitudinal map, $f_{lk}$:
\begin{equation}
d_{ij} \approx \sum _{l,k} W_{il} \, f_{lk} \, s_{kj} \label{eq:d_f_s}
\end{equation}
Again, the area fractions in each longitudinal slice, $f_{lk}$, cannot be negative and should sum up to unity. Thus, a set of conditions similar to Equations (\ref{eq:tilde_s_range})-(\ref{eq:tilde_f_sum}) is imposed:
\begin{subnumcases}
{}
0 \leq f_{lk} \;\;\; & \mbox{for any $l$, $k$} \label{eq:f_range} \\
\sum_k f_{lk} = 1 & \mbox{for any $l$} \label{eq:f_sum} \\
0 \leq s_{kj} \leq 1 \;\;\; & \mbox{for any $k$, $j$} \label{eq:s_range}
\end{subnumcases}
Now the relevant problem is to estimate both the geographical map ($f_{lk}$) and colors ($s_{kj}$) given the time series of apparent albedo of the planet ($d_{ij}$), subject to the constraints of Equations (\ref{eq:s_range})-(\ref{eq:f_sum}); this is where \citet{Cowan2013} stood.
In principle, constraints (\ref{eq:f_range}) and (\ref{eq:f_sum}) for the longitudinal geographical map are more stringent than constraints (\ref{eq:tilde_f_range}) and (\ref{eq:tilde_f_sum}) for the apparent covering fraction, due to the low-pass filter nature of the convolution from map to light curve.
\begin{figure}[b!]
\begin{center}
\includegraphics[width=0.9\hsize]{schematics_ver2.pdf}
\end{center}
\caption{Schematic figure to illustrate the relation between observed data ($\{{\bm d}_i\} $; crosses) and surface spectra ($\{{\bm s}_k\} $; filled points). The dashed cube shows the range of physical albedos (between 0 and 1). }
\label{fig:schematic}
\end{figure}
\subsection{Graphical Conception of \\Principal Component Plane}
\label{ss:PCplane}
Equation (\ref{eq:tilde_d_f_ast_s}), coupled with the conditions (\ref{eq:tilde_f_range}) and (\ref{eq:tilde_f_sum}), indicates that the observed planetary albedo ($d_{ij}$) is a convex combination of the colors of representative surface types ($s_{kj}$).
Geometrically, this means that in the $J$-dimensional color space, $\{{\bm d}_i\}$ are located in the convex hull with $K$ vertices, $\{{\bm s}_k\} $.
For example, in the case of $K=3$, this convex hull is simply a triangle, and thus $\{{\bm d}_i\}$ are confined in the triangular region of a plane.
Figure \ref{fig:schematic} graphically shows this relation in the case of $K=3$ and $J=3$.
In general, the data points, $\{{\bm d}_i\}$, are in a $K-1$ dimensional subspace of the $J$-dimensional color space.
This subspace can be identified by performing PCA \citep{Cowan2009,Cowan2011}, as PCA extracts the major, mutually orthogonal axes along which the data are scattered.
Consequently, the number of dominant principal components (PCs) is less than or equal to $K-1$ \citep{Cowan2011}.
Note that non-Lambertian reflectance, partially transparent cloud cover, or observational noise would in practice ensure that the PC space has some additional dimensions (see also Section \ref{ss:deviate_Lambert}).
From the mock light curves prepared in Section \ref{s:mockdata},
we extract two PCs through PCA, with other components having virtually zero contributions, consistent with the three input surface types.
The PCs extracted from the light curves at $\alpha = 90^{\circ }$ (olive lines in Figure \ref{fig:mockdata}) are presented in the upper panel of Figure \ref{fig:trajectory}.
For later use, we denote these PCs by $V_{nj}$, where $n=1$ or $2$, corresponding to the first and second PC.
The PC spaces (plane) of the light curves at different phases are the same, since we use the same three surface spectra as inputs, while the individual PCs may be rotated.
Using the PCs, $V_{nj}$, and the time average of the colors, $\bar d_j$, in the case of $\alpha = 90^{\circ }$, the light curves are projected onto the PC plane by:
\begin{equation}
d_{ij} = \sum_n U_{in} V_{nj} + \bar d_j
\end{equation}
where $U_{in}$ represents the time-dependent trajectory on the plane.
The trajectories of the light curves at different orbital phases are shown by the colored lines in the lower panel of Figure \ref{fig:trajectory}.
The color excursions are greater at a larger phase angle (crescent phase), because less surface area is averaged together.
Likewise, the albedo spectra of representative surface types may be projected onto the PC plane by
\begin{equation}
s_{kj} = \sum_n t_{kn} V_{nj} + \bar d_j ,
\end{equation}
where $t_{kn}$ are the coordinates of the albedo spectra on the plane.
The circle, square, and triangle in the figure indicate the input albedo spectra of ocean, sand, and vegetation, respectively, projected onto this plane.
As described above, the trajectory of the observations is always in the convex hull (triangle in this case) of the surface albedo spectra.
\begin{figure}[t]
\begin{center}
\includegraphics[width=\hsize]{PCplane_mockdata_lc_ver2.pdf}
\end{center}
\caption{\emph{Upper panel:} principal components of the light curves at $\alpha = 90^{\circ }$ shown in olive lines in Figure \ref{fig:mockdata}. \emph{Lower panel:} trajectories of the four-band light curves on the PC plane, defined by two PCs shown in the upper panel, in the cases of $\alpha = 135^{\circ }$ (thick indigo line), $\alpha = 90^{\circ }$ (olive line), and $\alpha = 45^{\circ }$ (thin gold line). The points indicate the input albedo spectra of an ocean (blue circle), sand (red square), and vegetation (green triangle) on the PC plane. Points in the gray region violate the condition (\ref{eq:tilde_s_range}); specifically, the left, right, and bottom boundaries are set by $s_{k,4} > 0$, $s_{k,1} > 0$, and $s_{k,3}> 0$, respectively.
The dotted lines are random triangles that could be solutions (see the text). }
\label{fig:trajectory}
\end{figure}
\subsection{Degenerate Solutions}
\label{ss:degeneracy}
When it comes to the inverse problem of estimating surface spectra given the trajectory/-ies, {\it any} set of $\{ {\bm s}_k \}$ that encloses the data points $\{{\bm d}_i\}$ in the PC plane can be a solution of Equation (\ref{eq:tilde_d_f_ast_s}) subject to the conditions (\ref{eq:tilde_f_range}) and (\ref{eq:tilde_f_sum}).
Two such examples are shown by the dotted lines in Figure \ref{fig:trajectory}.
Note that the associated matrix, $\tilde f _{ik}$, can always be found.
Additional constraints come from the condition (\ref{eq:tilde_s_range}) that the albedo of each surface be between 0 and 1 in each band.
In Figure \ref{fig:trajectory} any points in the shadowed region are rejected based on this condition: specifically, the left, right, and bottom boundaries are set by $s_{k,4}> 0$, $s_{k,1}> 0$, and $s_{k,3}> 0$.
In other words, surfaces lying in the forbidden gray regions have negative albedos in the fourth, first, and third photometric bands.
While in this particular example the permitted region happens to be a triangle, the shape can differ depending on the location of the PC plane relative to the albedo boundaries.
Since each of the four bands has lower and upper bounds on albedo, the physically allowed region of color space is a 4-dimensional hypercube, also known as a tesseract. Depending on the orientation of the PC plane with this tesseract, the allowed region may have a variety of geometries.
In general, the allowed region is an $N$-dimensional slice through a $J$-dimensional hypercube.
The randomly drawn two triangles in Figure \ref{fig:trajectory} also satisfy the condition (\ref{eq:tilde_s_range}) for an albedo, in addition to the conditions (\ref{eq:tilde_f_range}) and (\ref{eq:tilde_f_sum}), as do many others.
Thus, predicting $\tilde f _{ik}$ and ${\bm s}_k$ from ${\bm d}_i$ is clearly degenerate.
For example, with a large triangle one can have spectrally interesting surfaces with boring geography (small longitudinal variation in area fractions), while with a small triangle one can have boring surface spectra (different surfaces have nearly the same color) and interesting geography.
A formally equivalent degeneracy is found in Equation (\ref{eq:d_f_s}) coupled with the conditions (\ref{eq:f_range})-(\ref{eq:s_range}).
Essentially, the term $\sum _k f_{lk} s_{kj}$ represents the average albedo spectra of $l$-th slice.
Suppose that ideally we can retrieve the average spectra of longitudinal slices from the light curves through $W_{il}$; the black trajectory in the bottom panel of Figure \ref{fig:trajectory} represents the color variation as a function of longitude based on the upper panel of Figure \ref{fig:mockdata}.
We again have different sets of end-member colors, $\{ {\bm s}_k \}$, that enclose the averaged albedo spectra of longitudinal slices {\it and} are located in the region of physical albedo presented by condition (\ref{eq:s_range}).
Nevertheless, the excursions of the longitudinal colors are more dramatic than the disk-integrated colors of the light curves, thus the possible solutions are somewhat restricted.
\subsection{``Best Guess'' of the Surface Types}
\label{ss:guess}
\begin{figure*}[tbh!]
\begin{minipage}{0.33\hsize}
\begin{center}
\includegraphics[width=\hsize]{PCplane_mockdata_90deg_3types_t360_hatch.pdf}
\end{center}
\end{minipage}
\begin{minipage}{0.33\hsize}
\begin{center}
\includegraphics[width=\hsize]{PCplane_mockdata_135deg_3types_t360_hatch.pdf}
\end{center}
\end{minipage}
\begin{minipage}{0.33\hsize}
\begin{center}
\includegraphics[width=\hsize]{PCplane_IGBP_lon_hatch.pdf}
\end{center}
\end{minipage}
\caption{Probability of surface albedo spectra estimated from the light curves at orbital phases of $\alpha = 90^{\circ }$ (left), $\alpha = 135^{\circ }$ (middle) as well as from the colors of longitudinal slices. The hatched region is not permitted because of negative albedo. Points indicate the input albedo spectra of ocean (circle), sand (square), and vegetation (triangle) on the PC plane. }
\label{fig:PCplane}
\end{figure*}
Given that any three vertices in the PC plane that enclose the trajectory/-ies can be a solution, the choice of the solution depends on the prior probability distribution.
With no assumptions or information on the geography or spectral albedo of the surface types, it is reasonable to assume that any points in the PC plane except for the forbidden regions are equally likely to correspond to a surface type.
Despite this uninformative prior, the location of the light curve trajectory allows us to constrain the location of the surface spectra in a probabilistic sense.
For example, in Figure \ref{fig:trajectory}, in order to enclose the trajectory with three surface types within the permitted region, we must have at least one point near the bottom left corner of the permitted region; this is consistent with the fact that one of the input albedo spectra (ocean) resides there.
In order to evaluate this more quantitatively, we assume that any combination of three points that enclose the data is equally likely to be a solution for surface end-member colors. We then compute the marginalized probability for the location of one surface type in the PC plane.
Specifically, we make a grid on the PC plane with an interval of 0.2 and only consider grid points in the permitted region. For each point, we compute the number of combinations of two other points with which it can make a triangle that encloses the trajectory. The number of such triangles is proportional to the probability of there being a surface at that location in color space. This number is normalized so that the integral over the permitted region is unity.
The resultant probability distribution is shown in Figure \ref{fig:PCplane}.
As expected, we find a definite peak near the ocean color.
The vegetation in the bottom right corner is moderately constrained.
On the other hand, the very light gray color in the upper part of the triangle indicates that the location of the end-member there (sand) is essentially unconstrained. Note that when one integrates the probability over the upper light gray region, it sums up to about 1/3, implying that one of the end-members should exist ``somewhere'' in the light-gray region.
\subsection{Conditions for Successful Guess\\of Surface Spectra}
\label{ss:guess}
We reiterate that in this framework the success of the surface retrieval critically depends on the relative configuration of the trajectory within the allowed region.
More specifically, the good constraints on the colors of an ocean appear to be due to the combination of the large covering fraction of the ocean and the location of the ocean color close to a corner in the PC plane (due to low albedo at longer wavelengths).
In order to illustrate these two effects and see under what conditions we can faithfully retrieve surface spectra, we create two additional mock light curves, (a) with the geographical maps of sand and vegetation swapped, and (b) with the geographical maps of sand and ocean swapped.
The left and right panels of Figure \ref{fig:swap} correspond to (a) and (b), respectively.
\begin{figure}[htb!]
\begin{center}
\includegraphics[width=\hsize]{swap_map.pdf}
\includegraphics[width=\hsize]{PCplane_mockdata_90deg_3types_t360_swap_hatch.pdf}
\end{center}
\caption{\emph{Left:} trajectory of the light curves with the geographical maps of sand and vegetation swapped, and the resultant color contour of the probability for albedo spectra of surface types. \emph{Right:} same as the left panel but with the geographical maps of sand and ocean swapped.}
\label{fig:swap}
\end{figure}
When we swap sand and vegetation (left panel), the covering fraction of vegetation becomes smaller, and the trajectory of the light curves does not approach the vegetation end-member. As a result, the constraints on the color of vegetation become weaker. Thus, a large covering fraction of the surface type tends to yield a better constraint on the albedo spectra of that type; this agrees with our intuition.
Meanwhile, in (b) we swap sand and ocean.
Although sand is now the dominant component,
our analysis prefers other locations toward the top of the allowed region, because there is more space there.
Therefore, a large covering fraction is not a sufficient condition for obtaining strong constraints on the color of a surface.
Better constraints on a surface spectrum can be obtained if its location on the PC plane is close to more than one boundary of the allowed region.
In other words, a surface spectrum can be well retrieved if it has a favorable geography (ideally an entire hemisphere solely covered with that surface) {\it and} it has a favorable albedo spectrum (albedo close to 0 or 1 at as many wavelengths as possible).
\section{Application to EPOXI data}
\label{s:EPOXI}
\begin{figure}[t!]
\begin{center}
\includegraphics[width=0.9\hsize]{PCs_raddata_2_norm.pdf}
\includegraphics[width=0.9\hsize]{PCplane_raddata_2_norm.pdf}
\includegraphics[width=0.89\hsize]{PCplane_raddata_2_norm_spectra.pdf}
\end{center}
\caption{\emph{Top panel:} the two dominant principal components from EPOXI June data \citep{Livengood2011}. \emph{Middle panel:} color contour similar to Figure \ref{fig:PCplane}, but based on EPOXI June data. The red line shows the light curve trajectory. The hatched region is not permitted because of the physicality constraints for albedos. \emph{Bottom panels:} spectra corresponding to the locations (A-J) shown in the upper panel. The ocean, sand, and clouds appear to be close to A, D, and F, respectively. }
\label{fig:EPOXI}
\end{figure}
In this section, we apply our procedure to the multi-band light curves of Earth obtained by the EPOXI mission.
Specifically, we use the same datasets as \citet{Cowan2013}, i.e., the seven-band diurnal light curves observed in June 2008 \citep{Livengood2011}.
We obtain the two dominant PCs shown in the top panel of Figure~\ref{fig:EPOXI}, which suggests at least three spectrally distinct surface types, consistent with \citet{Cowan2013}.
Using these two PCs, we perform the same analysis described in the previous section.
The middle panel of Figure \ref{fig:EPOXI} shows the trajectory of the light curve on the PC plane, with the hatched region being forbidden by the physicality constraints for albedo.
While the permitted region appears to be close to a square, it is in fact a heptagon, bounded by seven inequalities (2-dimensional slice through a 7-dimensional hypercube).
Overall, the upper boundaries come from the requirement that albedo cannot be negative at any wavelength, i.e., $s_{kj}>0$, while the lower boundaries comes from the requirement that albedo should be less than unity, i.e., $s_{kj}<1$.
In principle, any three or more points that enclose the trajectory can be solutions for the surface albedo spectra. The example albedo spectra corresponding to different locations in the permitted region are shown in the lower panels of Figure \ref{fig:EPOXI}. This library conservatively represents the range of possible surface spectra.
Going one step further, we evaluate the preferred surface spectra following the procedure discussed in Section \ref{ss:guess}. We assume that there are three spectrally distinct surface types. The grayscale in the middle panel of Figure \ref{fig:EPOXI} indicates the probability distribution equivalent to those in Figures \ref{fig:PCplane} and \ref{fig:swap}, which is simply related to the | 7,476 |
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Carolina Panthers tight end Greg Olsen runs away from New York Giants' Craig Dahl during a game on Sunday, Dec. 20, 2015. (Julie Jacobson / AP)
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — The first thing you have to understand about the Bears' trade of Greg Olsen five years ago is that the team was in a position with no good options.
It's easy to take aim at former general manager Jerry Angelo for misses. Beating him up for the Olsen trade — the Panthers acquired him for a third-round draft pick, the best trade in their history — would miss the mark.
Sure, the trade was bad for the Bears and it is painfully obvious when you dissect it now. It wasn't as easy to interpret at the time. The pick received was packaged with another in the third to deal for wide receiver Brandon Marshall, who is long gone. The Bears signed Martellus Bennett in 2013 and have paid him $15.1 million.
But they had their own homegrown talent in Olsen, who has been selected for the Pro Bowl for the second consecutive year and is preparing to play in Sunday's NFC championship game against the Cardinals at Bank of America Stadium.
The last time he reached this level of the postseason was with the Bears in their title game loss to the Packers on Jan. 23, 2011, his final game with the team that drafted him in the first round in 2007.
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"I remember very clearly," Olsen said after practice Thursday. "It feels like a lifetime ago."
Olsen's game has taken off with the Panthers, and you could make a strong case that other than Rob Gronkowski there isn't a tight end in the league who means more to his team's passing game.
Olsen averaged 14.3 yards per reception this season, a career high. His best year in four seasons with the Bears was 10.6. He was on the field for 95.6 percent of the Panthers' offensive snaps, more than he ever played for the Bears.
At the time the trade was made, the Bears were fresh off that trip to the NFC championship game and things were looking up. Offensive coordinator Mike Martz expressed his concern that Olsen wasn't an ideal fit for his system after Olsen had 41 catches for 404 yards and five touchdowns in 2010. Through his first four seasons, Olsen hadn't produced statistically like he has with the Panthers.
Panthers then-general manager Marty Hurney called Angelo in the spring to inquire about Olsen. He knew Olsen was entering the final year of his contract and everyone had questions how he fit into Martz's scheme. The Panthers had veteran Jeremy Shockey but wanted a second tight end for then-offensive coordinator Rob Chudzinski, preferably a younger one.
So Panthers tight ends coach Pete Hoener did some film work on Olsen and so did pro scout Donnie Warren, who played the position for 14 seasons for the Redskins. They had concerns about his blocking but believed Olsen would be a perfect fit in their vertical-passing game.
"I knew something might happen ahead of time," Hoener said. "I don't know why they traded him, but brother, I am glad they did."
Olsen had made it clear to the Bears he was ready for a contract extension, which first-round picks who had played well for their first four seasons were getting at that time. There were three clear routes for Angelo:
• Sign Olsen to an extension even if the coaching staff, coming off a deep playoff run, had concerns about his fit at a time when things looked good for the Bears. Without Olsen, they started 2011 7-3 before quarterback Jay Cutler was injured. Bashing Martz is popular, but Cutler was 18-9 (including postseason) as a starter with him.
• Olsen was under contract and the Bears could have forced him to play out the deal and then decide how to proceed after the 2011 season. That wasn't very practical because Olsen was adamant about a new contract and without a deal there would have been a very disgruntled popular player in the locker room. That's a bad situation and significant consideration because Olsen had sway with teammates.
• Trade Olsen and get something in return.
None of the three choices was appealing. Trading Olsen wasn't something Angelo particularly wanted to do, but he called Hurney back after that season's lockout and a deal materialized when the Panthers were able to negotiate a contract with Olsen's agent Drew Rosenhaus.
"There is no question it's the best thing that happened to me for a lot of reasons," Olsen said. "We love Charlotte. We love being here, being part of this community. Professionally, I have had a great run here. Playing with Cam (Newton) has been great. Playing with this organization has been great."
The trade goes on Angelo's record as he was the GM, but Olsen doesn't fault him for how things went down with plenty of distance between the emotions fueling him at the time.
Tight end Greg Olsen runs after making a reception against Seattle Seahawks' during Bears' 35-24 win in an NFC divisional playoff game at Soldier Field on Jan. 16, 2011. (Scott Strazzante / Chicago Tribune)
"I just think I was pigeonholed," Olsen said. "They gave one person in the organization (Martz) a lot of power and control over the direction and unfortunately it wasn't the head coach."
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The Panthers offense led the NFL in scoring this season without a No. 1 wide receiver. Olsen is Newton's No. 1 target and deep threat Ted Ginn Jr. is able to keep defenses honest.
Olsen isn't doing anything Bears fans didn't see; he's just doing it a lot more frequently. Just think of the acrobatic outstretched catch he made for a touchdown in the victory over the Seahawks last Sunday.
"Greg's going to be a problem because he's everywhere," Cardinals coach Bruce Arians said. "He is their focal point. If we take him out of the passing game, that's 40 percent of their offense. That's our goal. That's hard to do, though."
Olsen, 30, signed a $22.5 million, three-year extension last March. He hasn't missed a game since the first two weeks of his rookie season and has been a machine in Carolina.
"I always have felt like my production, especially over these last handful of years, is as good as anybody's," he said. "When you have team success, people realize it more.
"I always have taken a lot of pride in my production, but most of the time I take pride in my consistency — playing every day and every down. Those are the big things. There are a lot of guys who can flash and have<|fim_middle|>.com
Twitter @BradBiggs | big years and then have drop-offs. I try not to. I think I have been able to do that."
It's a shame Olsen is not nine years into his career in Chicago, but a multitude of factors in 2011 created a situation with no good outcome for the Bears. It's not the most lopsided trade when you consider deals in the last 20 years for Hall of Fame running backs Marshall Faulk and Jerome Bettis, but it's the one that stings most in these parts.
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Use the format approved by your school system or school board if your memo to teachers is to be sent via an internal delivery system. Alternately, use these four fields to start the communication: To: teachers' names and titles, From: your name and title, Date: and Subject:--a pithy summation of the topic. Use standard titling protocols. Place the word "Memo" or "Memorandum" at the top of the page.
2 Get to the heart of the matter
Get to the heart of the matter immediately by stating the reason you're writing the memo, whether it is a notice of a faculty meeting, a request for data on a student, a discipline problem that needs to be addressed or a save-the-date notice announcing a dinner honoring the principal. Follow this succinct paragraph with a second one that outlines background data readers of the memo require to make a decision or understand the situation. Avoid clichés and rambling to keep the message professional and on target.
3 Delineates the action
Draft a third "call-to-action" paragraph that clearly delineates the action you want teachers to take after reading the memo. Include deadlines, pertinent addresses, phone number(s), email addresses, the names of parties gathering responses and a resource for answering questions about the memo (this may be you, so say so).
4 Strive for brevity
Strive for brevity by rewriting your memo several times, removing all nonessential words. Establish a polite tone. Focus on the reader by using action verbs and pronouns so the information is clear. Avoid preaching, lecturing or threatening. Instead, adopt a conversational tone and make a final check of the document to confirm that all the information contained therein is relevant.
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Check the final memo draft for language that could be misconstrued as being insensitive or offensive. Make certain every name listed in the "To" field is essential to informing and resolving the issue that spurred the memo's publication. Spell-check the final version and check the punctuation—after all, you're writing to an academic community and few things negate the impact of a memo more than sloppy mistakes.
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Print out a hard copy of the memo before you send it to catch errors before it's too late. Distribute the memo to all of the teachers on your list by placing a hard copy into teacher mailboxes or distribute the document as an attachment via the school's website to save paper and time.
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"If you don't understand people, you don't understand business," Simon Sinek, an author and marketing consultant, once said. But what happens when people don't understand each other even in things that are unrelated to business? Companies have employees from different generations, including those who remember black-and-white television and rotary phones to those who have never known the world without the Internet or smartphones. Place them just a table away from each other and watch what happens.
Working for many years with various companies, we've seen that developing and training your employees directly depends on successful communication between all the participants. No community is without dissent. Everybody thinks different. Hence, it's crucial to understand generational differences in attitudes and perceptions that influence employees' learning preferences in order to train them effectively.
While you are developing a training program, keep in mind that each generation has its own preferred learning style and has specific motivations for engaging in the learning process. These motivations result from your employees' experiences in the educational system; the way their parents worked; learning approaches that were widespread when they were in school and earlier in their career; and the technologies they are accustomed to. Personalized training takes into account these cognitive features and helps to get rid of each trainee's knowledge gap.
Traditionalists are good mentors for younger generations. The important thing about teaching others is that you also learn from your mentees (especially about how to deal with modern technology). Allow traditionalists to learn at their own pace and emphasize how newly learned material will contribute to a company. Introduce discussions and problem-solving simulations, as traditionalists see them as one more source of learning.
Based on our data, the right approach to training Baby Boomers is to focus on self-ref<|fim_middle|> Include mentoring as a way to rally your employees, encourage them to share their experiences, and develop new ideas.
Welcome your employees' diversity of thoughts. Recognize their ideas to make them feel valued and listened to. Get to know their aspirations and professional development goals and align them with your business objectives. Allow your employees to make mistakes. Not all ideas can lead to success, but they are a crucial part of learning, experience enrichment, and innovation.
Provide flexibility where possible. Our 2017 research shows that work-life balance becomes more and more important, and not only for Millennials and Generation X. Introduce flexible working hours and allow telecommuting. Flexibility is not only about time. Let your employees choose their preferred style of learning by offering them suitable training options.
Set clear objectives. Every time you assign a new task to your employees, make sure they understand what they have to do, what steps to follow, what are the deadlines, and explain how this task will contribute to the bigger company goals. The same clarity should be incorporated in your training program as well.
Incorporate rewards and recognition programs. Everybody wants to be acknowledged for the work they do. There are different ways of saying "thank you," including extra days off, a 401k retirement plan, on-site health services, a free gym membership, and the like. Keep in mind, valued employees are loyal employees.
Choose the right learning platform. All the above-mentioned tips can be easily implemented when you've got a smart learning platform that serves as a facilitator for talent development. We know from experience that these features are a must when it comes to developing in-house talent: mobile learning, that allows your employees to access the necessary training content anytime, anywhere, and through any device; interactivity and social functionality that enable seamless collaboration around communities and activities; ability to track your employees' progress and more. But the most important feature to help you automatically deliver personalized training to any of your employees is machine learning capabilities that make training truly smart.
To manage your employees well, you should understand their backgrounds. To train your employees effectively, take into account their learning styles and cognitive preferences. We've seen that generational diversity at the workplace is not insurmountable when you use personalized learning tools. Such tools help to build richer and diverse learning experiences that lead to a strong learning culture in a company which in its turn helps businesses achieve their goals: business growth, innovativeness boost, and strong competitive abilities.
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This generation is known as the most independent one as they used to be the "latchkey kids." Let them explore. Provide a learning environment that is both supportive and challenging, and don't stand over their shoulders. Present new material as an exchange of information, and give them more freedom to plan their own training schedule. Control over their learning will be a powerful engagement tool.
Millenials are digital natives and they are accustomed to receiving immediate feedback via social networking apps. If you give them immediate responses during their training and teach them as a mentor, they will thrive. Provide only relevant information in short chunks so that they could apply it to practice right after.
According to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, 97 percent of the US workforce consists of three generations: Baby Boomers, Generation X, and Millennials. However, by 2020, Millennials will represent at least 50 percent of the workforce. Thinking strategically, if Millennials become the predominant generation, then training should focus more on their cognitive characteristics.
Introduce microlearning. Microlearning provides trainees with short, simple, and concise bits of material for better acquisition of information. Thanks to our continuous work with companies with large and diverse workforces, we know that this training delivery method is the most effective for all four generations since it caters to short attention spans, personalized learning styles, and the limited amount of time that employees can devote to learning.
Focus on employee performance. We retain information better when it's essential for us. So, if employees encounter difficulties in performing their job, overcome them with training. Relevanton-demand material will improve employees' productivity and engagement as well as contribute to the achievement of company's goals in the long run.
Define knowledge/skills gaps in a timely manner. Never force your employees to learn. Instead, provide tasks, projects, or situations that would require them to expand their knowledge and acquire new skills. Ensure you eliminate any gaps that prevent your employees from being productive to maintain a smooth workflow.
Keep generations engaged with each other. Keep generations engaged with each other. Don't let stereotypes run the process. Neutralize judgments and miscommunication. Assign projects to multigenerational teams. Make sure that when you create the teams you set clear goals, familiarize all team members with each individual's skills that will contribute to a successful project, and give on-demand feedback. | 519 |
The Butte Archives and NorthWestern Energy will present a special Brown Bag Lunch on Wednesday, December 19, with a presentation by Jim Michelotti, Chris Fisk and Jim McCarthy about the Christmas displays created by the Meaderville Volunteer Fire Department from 1945 until 1960. Several original pieces are on display in the lobby of the North<|fim_middle|> | Western Energy building at Park and Main Streets. The presentation will begin at noon and run about an hour in the auditorium of NorthWestern Energy, located at the corner of Park and Main in uptown Butte.
The Meaderville Volunteer Fire Department began building the elaborate displays as a holiday greeting to lift the community's spirits following World War II. In 2003, the Montana History Club recreated a display at the Anselmo Mine. The club has installed one every year since, moving to the Race Track Fire Hall in 2006. Michelotti will present the history of the original displays through photos and research. Fisk and McCarthy will speak about the Club's work in recreating the displays each year. Members of the Meaderville Volunteer Fired Department have also been invited to attend.
Guests are encouraged to bring a sack lunch. Coffee and water will be provided. For more information, contact the Archives at 782-3280. | 199 |
Top 10 Bibimbap in Metro Manila
Sometimes, you just need to take a break from samgyupsal.
by Chinggay Labrador
PHOTO BY Toto Labrador
(SPOT.ph) Asian cuisine is famous for its rice. And even outside Asia, nearly every country can speak of one signature dish that captures the flavor profiles of that region using rice as the main ingredient. Spain has its paella, Japan has its kamameshi, Italy has its risotto, China has its many fried rice variations. For Korea, it's bibimbap, which literally means mixed rice ("bibim" means mixed ingredients, while "bap" is rice).
Typically, various vegetables, beef, and an egg are topped over a bed of rice in a bowl and mixed with one of Korean's best-known condiments, gochujang (chili pepper paste). Dolsot bibimbap, on the other hand, employs a hot-stone pot to cook it all up. The best part about the hot stone is that if you leave your bibimbap to cook a little longer, you end up with tutong that adds more texture and crunch to the whole mix. Korean food has grown so popular over the last few years in Manila that nearly every corner of the city can offer you a spot for bibimbap. For this story, we skipped the long, unlimited Korean barbecue lines and headed straight for the main event, the dolsot bibimbap, and ranked them based on the toppings, presentation, overall flavor, and quality of rice.
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10. Bibimbap from Korea Garden Restaurant (P320)
Just a hop and a skip away from Bel-Air Village, Korea Garden Restaurant has been a go-to spot for quality Korean food for many, many years. The vibe here is homey—a house converted into a neighborhood restaurant that offers excellent service you're not likely to find in typical Korean joints. All grilling takes place outside the dining area so you leave smelling fresh without a trace of smoke. Korea Garden's bibimbap offers a petite serving of mixed rice (good for one, if you're really hungry) coupled with some complimentary egg-drop soup. The rice is light and clean—exactly like the ambience of the place. The smattering of meat accompanying the dish is good and offers just the right amount of flavor to go with the subtleness of the bibimbap<|fim_middle|>. The Dolsot also comes with complimentary bone-marrow soup. Yum.
Sariwon has branches at Promenade, Greenhills Shopping Centre, San Juan City; and BHS Central Square, Bonifacio Global City.
4. Dolsot Bibimbap from Seoul Galbi (P280/order, P510/two orders; mandatory one order per person)
Before a night of drinking in Poblacion, drop by this little restaurant along General Luna Street to fill up your belly. Open until 11:30 p.m., a serving of Seoul Galbi's delicious Dolsot Bibimbap will be just the thing to rev you up for a night out on the town. A word of advice, though—you'll have to eat your fill or bring a friend when you go to this restaurant. We ordered a bibimbap to share and after we had dug into our rice and ban chan, we were notified by the server that ordering just one dish for two people (and the bibimbap was substantial in size) was not allowed. That said, Seoul Galbi can probably make these kinds of demands on their customers because one, their offerings are some of the most reasonably priced menu items in the city; and two, because their bibimbap is really good. The tutong comes up right away, and the thin layer of oil in the bottom of the stone pot may have something to do with how tasty the dish is. In any case, they have come up with exactly the right ratio of rice to vegetables to chili paste to make this dish pretty unforgettable and worth the traffic jam to Poblacion.
Seoul Galbi is at 5362 General Luna Street, Poblacion, Makati City.
3. Dolsot Bibim Bab from Dong Won (P350)
Get ready to throw away any expectations of a fancy Korean restaurant when you step inside Dong Won. This long-time staple along Jupiter Street is as casual as casual gets. It is fronted by a mini-market with fresh produce, meat, fish, and your typical Korean grocery items; and has familiar customers walking in and out of its doors at all hours. Populated by both Koreans and Filipinos, the people who eat here know this is where it's at. Dong Won's bibimbap is mixed with beef, egg, and vegetables, but its most surprising ingredient is a generous serving of shrimp. It's beautifully textured and lighter than most bibimbaps out there—the vegetables also add bite to the mix. Bibimbap is such a simple dish with very similar ingredients, but Dong Won's version makes you wonder how some can stand out in flavor above most others. This one is excellent if you're willing to sacrifice ambience for a good, solid meal.
Dong Won is at 53 Jupiter Street, Bel-Air, Makati City.
2. Bibimbap from Masil (P380/small, P650/sharing)
Formerly located along Oranbo Drive in Pasig, Masil fans can breathe a sigh of relief as they have opened their doors again, this time in Megamall. The Pasig go-to has remained consistent in taste and service over the years, and with their new branch, customers can expect an even better, more heightened Masil experience. You'll feel like you're being taken care of in this space—eating at Masil is almost like you've secured a spot in a premier lounge before your flight. The pork bibimbap consists of charcoal-grilled pork mixed with rice and assorted vegetables. Only the single serving gets the Dolsot treatment—sharing portions of this dish are served in a regular, non-hot stone bowl. The dish comes with your regular gochujang but is also accompanied by a separate sauce. Pinoys love their condiments so this bodes well for most people. The bibimbap gets a very subtle flavoring from the pork. For the most part, the dish is smooth and understated, never overwhelming to the taste buds.
Masil has branches at 4/F Mega Fashion Hall, SM Megamall, Mandaluyong City; Tiendesitas, Pasig City.
1. Stone Bowl Bibimbap from Namoo House (P395)
Uptown Parade offers you a host of restaurants to dine in, but we suggest you drop by Namoo House even if the only thing you plan on ordering is the bibimbap. Namoo House gets it right in terms of ambience, décor, and most importantly, food. Their Stone Bowl Bibimbap mixes assorted vegetables and rice. It doesn't take too long for their signature "crispy effect" to come into play. Even those who don't like tutong will become converts once they've had a taste of this delectable rice dish. The most unexpected thing about Namoo House's take on bibimbap is the use of black rice. You would think it would drastically change the texture of the dish, but all it does is add smoothness and substance (especially for those who are avoiding white rice). A similar twist this restaurant introduces is a lovely smattering of roe. The mix of the vegetables, rice, and roe all add up to a very earthy flavor that highlights a unique blend of spices. Another reason to make this your next bibimbap stop? The lovely bean-paste stew that comes with every bibimbap order. It'll be hard to forget this one!
Namoo House is at G/F Uptown Parade, Uptown Bonifacio.
Photos by Toto Labrador
Bibimbap Korean Restaurant Korean Food Guide Top 10 Best Must-try Dolsot Bibimbap Korea Garden Kaya Jin Joo Min Sok Jang Ga Nae Sariwon Seoul Galbi Dong Won Masil Namoo House Rice Uptown Bonifacio Megamall Mandaluyong Pasig Makati Poblacion Bgc Sm Aura Paranaque Bf Homes San Juan | 's vegetable toppings. This is exactly the place you should go to bring your family, parents, or grandparents—clean, well-appointed, with servers on standby to bring you everything you need.
Korea Garden is at 128 Jupiter Street, Bel-Air, Makati City.
9. Dolsot Bibimbap from Kaya (P320)
Most traditional Korean restaurants close up shop between 2 p.m. and 5 p.m. so when an intense bibimbap craving hits you during merienda or early dinner, you're not likely to get what you're looking for. Kaya's advantage is that they have multiple locations across the Metro. And while they have a standalone branch along Jupiter Street, their presence in the malls makes them accessible and easy to get to. A reliable favorite, Kaya's Dolsot Bibimbap has a strong sesame flavor coupled with your basic, straightforward bibimbap. It's impossible to go wrong with Kaya because they've been around for years—they know exactly what they're doing. Their version of the mixed rice has beef and assorted vegetables, and comes with a clear soup. If you like your spice, this might be the dish for you as its gochujang is potent and extremely flavorful.
Kaya has branches in Rockwell, Jupiter Street, and Glorietta in Makati City; The Podium, Mandaluyong City; and Santolan Town Plaza, San Juan City.
8. Beef Bulgogi Dolsot Bibimbap from Jin Joo Korean Grill (P400)
If you're ready to contend with the crowds and coupon holders in line for promos, unlimited meat, and all the noise that comes with it, a trip to Jin Joo Korean Grill would be worth it. This restaurant wins the award for the most number of bibimbap variations out there: Marinated Chicken (P350), Tofu and Mushroom (P320), Grilled Pork (P350), Spicy Seafood (P420), and our preferred pick, Beef Bulgogi (P400). The restaurant's service takes a while (all the servers are catering to the people in it for the unlimited stuff), but when you get your bibimbap delivered to your table, you'll feel that the hassle is worth it. First, the serving size here is huge—three people with tame appetites can probably share one dish. Second, the vegetables in their Dolsot Bibimbap look vibrant and fresh, and the egg that it comes with is hardly cooked so you can control just how runny or cooked you want your topped egg to be. And third, the bulgogi adds a distinctive sweetness to the mix that will appeal to most Pinoys. Hot tip: Let your bibimbap sit a while to cook so that you get the full awesomeness of its tutong.
Jin Joo Korean Grill has branches at The Podium, Mandaluyong City; Glorietta 4, Makati City; SM Mall of Asia, Pasay City; Eastwood Citywalk, Quezon City; and SM Aura Premier, Bonifacio Global City.
7. Dolsot Bibimbap from Min Sok (P320)
Every fan of Korean food knows that to get to the main source, you need to walk the narrow streets of Poblacion. Before this neighborhood became a hotbed for new restaurants, bars, and hip hangouts, it was the go-to for authentic Korean food. Min Sok is no exception—situated along Don Pedro Street (which has many other Korean restaurants), this joint is worth pointing out because it opens as early as 10:30 a.m. We can't think of a better way to brunch than with their Dolsot Bibimbap. The staff at Min Sok are extremely accommodating, and while their bibimbap is petite in size, it comes topped with a generous serving of lettuce. The greens have a certain magic to them. It almost feels like you're doing your body a favor by scarfing down a bowl of rice and wild vegetables. Min Sok's bibimbap tastes clean, fresh, and is the perfect morning pick-me-up.
Min Sok is at 5655 Don Pedro Street, Poblacion, Makati City.
6. Dolsot Bibimbap from Jang Ga Nae (P350)
Ortigas folks know that there's a growing Korean contingent in the area, and that the row of Korean restaurants near UA&P is the hub of most of its superstars. Jang Ga Nae has been known for their reasonably priced, tasty food and while their meat selection is usually the highlight, their Dolsot Bibimbap deserves to take center stage, too. The mixed rice is incredibly soft and is countered by lots of fresh, crunchy vegetables. If texture is important to you, then this is the perfect place for you. The dish also comes with a complimentary miso soup—it's a great way to take that strong chili pepper paste taste off your mouth. Jang Ga Nae's bibimbap is flavorful—which is particularly interesting considering that the dish rests solely on its mix of vegetables and condiments.
Jang Ga Nae has branches at Escriva Drive, Ortigas, Pasig City; and Aguirre Avenue, BF Homes, Parañaque City.
5. Dolsot Bibimbap from Sariwon (P380)
Sariwon has delivered consistent Korean hits over the years, and has also been servicing folks from both north and south of the Metro with their conveniently located branches in Greenhills and BGC. While their set menus are the most bang-for-your-buck items on the menu, you and a friend can head over and order a bibimbap to share and leave feeling completely full. The Dolsot Bibimbap here comes to you with definite snap, crackle, and pop. You hear the rice cooking in the stone bowl way before it's brought to your table. While many Korean restaurants in the city don't bother with presentation and flair, you do get a bit of it at Sariwon. If you're not a fan of gochujang, you'll enjoy this bibimbap variation as it has less of the chili pepper paste than most restaurants. The taste of the vegetables is subtle and sublime—if you're a fan of bean sprouts, you'll enjoy the crunch that Sariwon's bibimbap brings. P.S | 1,342 |
Aliran Eye-witness Account
Azizah receives a rapturous reception in George Town while Karpal apologises if he had hurt the feelings of Muslims
by Anil Netto and R.K. Surin
8.30 pm, Monday, 1 February 1999
Dewan Sri Pinang, Penang
The 4,000-strong crowd at the auditorium fell silent - you could hear a pin drop - as veteran DAP politician Karpal Singh walked slowly up to the rostrum to respond to a politically charged question from the floor.
A Muslim member from the audience had asked Karpal to explain his previous strong stand against the setting up of an Islamic state in Malaysia. Almost a decade ago, Karpal had ruffled PAS members when he declared that there would be "an Islamic state over my dead body." PAS' goal of setting up an Islamic state has, in the past, been a stumbling block in attempts to forge a united opposition front with the DAP.
"I was very hurt by your remarks," said the Muslim who had dashed to the mike as soon as the question-and-answer session started to ask Karpal to explain his stand. Baiting Karpal, someone in the crowd yelled, "Tarik balik!" (withdraw the remarks), adding to the pressure on the DAP leader.
How would Karpal handle this delicate situation? For the first time, a DAP forum had succeeded in drawing large numbers of Malays - a mix of ADIL supporters, disenchanted UMNO members, and PAS faithfuls, all exuberant and high-spirited - besides the usual non-Malays and NGO activists who had come in the spirit of Reformasi.Would Karpal put the Muslims off again? Indeed, the DAP veteran's response would have a significance that would extend far beyond the confines of the packed auditorium: it could either further cement or break the new-found sense of unity among opposition parties.
"We in the DAP are not anti-Islam," Karpal began. "If I had hurt anyone by my past remarks, I apologise." At this, sections of the audience - probably Muslims - burst into applause. One Malay following the proceedings over one of the closed circuit screens outside shot a 'thumbs up' sign.
Karpal explained that the Constitution regards Islam as the official religion. "We accept that," he continued, but pointed out that the Constitution also provided that all other religions may be professed in peace and harmony. "All religions are for fairness and equality," he stressed. His remarks seemed to placate the Malays present.
This episode illustrates the underlying differences and tensions within the Reformasi movement, which comprises a whole spectrum of Malaysians of various ideological strands - Islamic groups, DAP supporters, pro-Anwar UMNO members, ADIL activists - seeking justice. Indeed, the Islamic state issue is likely to be a stumbling block - though not an insurmountable one - in efforts to unite the various parties in the Reformasi movement.
Karpal went one step further and offered to provide free legal aid to relatives of victims of the Memali tragedy - a move that went down well among the Muslims in the crowd, one of whom had complained bitterly about the authorities handling of the incident in the mid-1980s.
Earlier that evening, as we were driving to the Dewan for the 'Justice for All' forum, we got stuck in a massive jam about a kilometre away from the venue. The police were deployed at a road-block and were scrutinising each vehicle.
"Oh no," we thought "Here they go again ...." On our left was a red sporty Proton Satria - with a big Reformasi sticker on its back windscreen. On our right, another car - with a "Justice for Anwar" sticker. We were on the right track....
The police "checked" our road tax, and then, hurriedly waved us through. "What a relief!"
After parking near the venue, we hurried across to the Dewan. Already scores of people were making a beeline for the hall. The talk was to start at 8.30 pm, but by 8.15, the organisers could not admit any more people as the hall was already packed with about 1,500 people.
We had a look around outside - four close-circuit television sets had been placed at strategic locations outside the hall and huge crowds had already gathered around them. Looking around, we spotted friends and colleagues who had all along been secret - and unlikely - Reformasi supporters. It was like a big "coming-out" party - people whom you never expected to be there were there, including many middle-class Malays: it was like innocent employees by day, Reformasi supporters by night.
Faced with a huge crowd pressing in, the organisers finally relented and opened the doors for everyone. A sea of humanity surged into the already packed air-conditioned auditorium. By now, it was standing room only. On stage were DAP secretary general Lim Kit Siang, K<|fim_middle|>. The crowd hung on to her every word.
Kit Siang was the last to speak. He highlighted his son Guan Eng's plight in prison and the exorbitant highway tolls following privatisation - or 'piratisation" as he calls it. Throughout the evening, one or two people in the audience would pepper the proceedings with shouts of 'Undur Mahathir!' (Mahathir, resign) at which the crowd would laugh. Outside, vendors did brisk business selling the by-now famous Reformasi iced drinks and a host of Reformasi paraphernalia: books, magazines, tapes
Someone was even selling T-shirts with the message 'No matter how hopeless…" on the front. At the back was written, "we will never surrender" with a portrait of Anwar raising a clenched fist.
That night in Penang was a beginning - and an important one. For the first time, Malays including PAS members had thronged a DAP event on Penang island, turning it into a multi-ethnic event. For the first time, DAP leaders had addressed a DAP forum in Penang island almost entirely in Bahasa Malaysia. For the first time, Wan Azizah had addressed a major public forum in the heart of Georgetown, bringing the message of Reformasi to a predominantly ethnic Chinese area.
The questions relating to Islamic issues raised by PAS members during the question-and-answer session appeared to make some of the non-Muslims feel a little uneasy. But the very fact that PAS members were at a DAP talk in large numbers and raising issues peacefully was a significant breakthrough in forging a multi-religious and multi-ethnic opposition.
It also marked a logical progression in the Reformasi movement to a stage where differences are not glossed over but tackled honestly and forthrightly. The process of exploring what Malaysians have in common - a quest for justice based on universal values - while recognising, accepting and respecting differences in ideology may be painful at times. But the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow - a new society founded on the ideals of justice and truth - promises to make that journey well worth the effort. | arpal, poet-cum-human rights lawyer Cecil Rajendra, journalist and ADIL protem committee member Rustam Sani and…the biggest attraction of them all, Dr Wan Azizah!
Still, the crowd kept streaming in.... Already Malays, Chinese and Indians had filled the hall to bursting point. So packed was the auditorium that the organisers resorted mid-way through the forum to inviting women who were standing to come up on stage to sit on rows of seats placed behind the speakers.
The Chinese guy on my right was reading Harakah and then turned behind to the Malay gentleman seated behind me to start an animated political discussion. Elsewhere in the hall, others were engrossed reading Aliran Monthly!
Someone said that he had seen the Penang chief of police in uniform coming in earlier to take a seat in the hall. The police presence was barely noticeable although a few police trucks were discreetly parked outside. Still, the place must have been swarming with plainclothes police personnel!
When Azizah entered the hall, people of all ethnic groups rose to their feet as one, chanting "Reformasi!" The auditorium shook with their thunderous heart-thumping cries. Those near Azizah mobbed her, photographers jostled and cameras flashed. The crowd broke out in rapturous applause, as she inched her way forward to the stage.
More and more, it seems that Azizah, who heads the new Social Justice Movement (Adil), is the only person who can bring together all the different strands in the Reformasi movement. "It was electrifying - that this humble person could command so much admiration from the crowd," observed an Aliran member in the audience, of the superstar reception that Azizah received. There was no doubting who the crowd's favourite was, despite the presence of veteran politicians such as Karpal and Kit Siang, on whose home turf in Tanjong sits the Dewan Sri Pinang.
The organisers kicked off the evening by thanking the Police for allowing the talk to go ahead (credit has to be given where it's due).
Rustam recounted the injustice surrounding his father's detention in the 1960s, while Cecil spoke as a concerned Malaysian citizen about recent disturbing political developments and ended his speech with a couple of stirring poems.
When it was Azizah's turn to speak, she greeted the crowd in Mandarin "Ni how mah?" (how are you?) in typical Anwarian style. In a soft, soothing, almost mesmerising voice, she recounted the ordeal that she and her family had to go through after Anwar was sacked as deputy prime minister. When she saw the multi-ethnic crowd present that night, she said it gave her hope.
Allaying the uncertainty hanging over Chinese Malaysians, she stressed that the Reformasi movement does not condone rioting or violence from any side. Quoting from Confucius, she spoke about taking "the middle-path," about not going to extremes. Above all, she envisioned a Malaysia that is peaceful, harmonious and prosperous, and one that is free from corruption and abuse of power | 636 |
The<|fim_middle|> to learning more about your plants on Plantsmap.com too. | following photos were our most popular #2017BestNine on Instagram this year. Since there is so much more to learn about these plants beyond just 1 photo, we like to go deeper and share our links to their plant stories on Plantsmap.com. All of the plants and many more photos can be found on the Plantsmap.com profiles of co-founders Tracy Blevins or Bill Blevins. All of the photos have been taken by us.
Why Plants Map? We are often asked how we came up with the idea of Plantsmap.com. One of our ideas was to build a tool that allowed us to save all of our botanical photos to a photo gallery for each plant. We found this would help to keep the plant photos better organized and easier to find when we wanted to share them with others.
Additional wish list tools included the ability to keep an authentic story of our plant with our own growing details, notes, the ability to map our plants (with a public or private option) and the ability to easily order interactive plant tags to identify and connect with what we had planted. And our biggest goal was to have all our plant information accessible via our smartphones or tablets while we were in the garden or when we had visitors to our landscape. This is how Plantsmap.com and the My Plants Map tools were developed, with the desire to connect people with more than just photos, but the plant stories as well.
We hop you enjoy learning more about the plants behind our #2017bestnine on Instagram. Thanks for the likes!
#1 Heuchera x 'Wild Rose' | Primo™ Coral Bells – Dramatic foliage was the top winner.
#2 Calycanthus floridus (Carolina Allspice) – A native woody ornamental shrub was close behind.
#3 Sarracenia alata x wherry 'Waxy (Pitcher Plant) – People love carnivorous plants. Or perhaps it was the frog?
#4 Iris histrioides 'George' – An early blooming species dwarf Iris.
#5 Helleborus x ericsmithii 'Angel Glow' – A winter flowering perenial favorite.
#6 Picea pungens 'Fat Albert' (Colorado Blue Spruce) – A favorite conifer of ours as well as the birds.
#7 Convallaria majalis (Lily of the Valley) – The birth flower for May, fragrant and sweet.
#8 Prunus cerasifera 'Krauter Vesuvius' (Purple Leaf Plum) – A very early February peak bloom.
#9 Cornus florida (Flowering Dogwood) – Gone but not forgotten.
We hope you have enjoyed these plant stories and we look forward | 561 |
Creative Imitation in Chinese Painting
- Jan 8 2017
The distinction between creativity and imitation inherent in Western art had been abandoned by some of China's greatest painters as early as the late 13th century. By the 17th century, all but the most innovative artists sought to reinterpret the compositional principles and brush techniques of earlier masters in new and self-expressive ways. In their inscriptions, many of these later painters typically described their pictures as executed "in the style of" specific predecessors, with whose works they might be familiar from surviving examples, descriptive records, or the works of close contemporaries. For these later artists, the ideal was to assimilate rather than replicate the works of chosen masters.
By the 17th century, painters often displayed this original yet art historical approach to their work in the format of multi-leaf albums in which the pictorial style of each leaf evoked that of a different predecessor. Each of these albums could represent either a collaborative project of several painters or an independent work by one painter of extraordinary versatility. The album of 1642 by Lan Ying (1585–about 1642), exhibited here, is a superb example of the latter. Also included are two roughly contemporary works of reinterpretation: a mountainous landscape dated 171<|fim_middle|>97), a highly imaginative allusion to the landscapes of the 10th-century master Li Cheng.
Credit: Exhibition overview from museum website
15th - 17th Century | 5 by the so-called "orthodox" master Wang Yuanqi, after the 14th-century painter Wang Meng, and a rendering of soaring peaks by Mei Chong (1623-16 | 43 |
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© 2021 SuperyachtNews.com. | aneo 116' is the fourth yacht to enter the SeaNet fleet and will be cruising the Mediterranean during summer and on the USA/ Caribbean route during winter season. Offering the potential for a seasonal ownership structure, this new vessel represents an important moment in time, where alternative ownership models may be a better way to operate and use a superyacht, a vital subject matter which is due to be discussed at The Superyacht Forum.
The 35m yacht has accommodation for up to ten guests split between five staterooms comprised of a main deck master suite, two lower deck VIP rooms and two convertible twin rooms.
SeaNet offers potential clients the opportunity to purchase a third season ownership of this vessel, which is designed to allow individuals to enjoy the benefits of yacht ownership at a fraction of the cost.
A third season ownership structure entitles customers to three sets of guaranteed fortnights on board either during the Mediterranean or the Caribbean high season. SeaNet will coordinate each owner's time on board using a reservation system that is agreed and signed upon beforehand by both parties.
"I'm extremely proud that two of our current SeaNet Benetti Delfino 93' co-owners will upgrade to this larger 35m yacht" says Matty Zadnikar, CEO of SeaNet. "In our three year existence, this proves that current owners recognize the benefits of co-ownership with SeaNet being the ideal partner. This additional yacht in our fleet will be the first yacht operating in two seasons a year and she will have two crews of seven in a two-months on and two months off rotational scheme."
The addition of another yacht to the co-ownership fleet demonstrates the change in attitude towards superyacht ownership. Zadnikar's business model may seem unusual and although in the early stages, he currently has seven owners that have bought into the co-ownership model: "six of which have net worth's in the region of €100-500 million and one who is a billionaire" he said in a recent interview with SuperyachtNews. "So, the inability to buy a whole vessel is a moot point, they just don't see an attractive value proposition in the purchase of a whole vessel."
As an owner himself he believes that there are people who no longer see the point in parting with huge sums of money for something that they are only going to be able to use for a few weeks a year. Another advantage of this model is that the management is put into the hands of SeaNet, relieving the owner of the hassle of managing crew and charter but still giving them a sense of ownership while on board.
Emerging ownership structures such as this show the changing needs and desires of superyacht owners. Although this may not be a solution that suits everyone, challenging the traditional model of ownership helps to iron out the issues our industry faces and improve the superyacht experience overall.
On the second day of The Superyacht Forum 2019, we plan to discuss and examine the ownership models of the future to discover if there are better ways to operate and use a superyacht. Here, on a panel with Andrea Pezzini of Floating Life Int, Rob Tobin of Riela Yachts and Gunter Alvarado of Al Seer Marine we will explore a variety of models that could inspire the next generation of buyers and users. Join the conversation and click here to register for this year's event.
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Manuel Pellegrini expressed his hope that it won't be long before Sergio Aguero finds his best form after his winner against Watford on Saturday.
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Pellegrini believes the goal will bring an even greater improvement for Aguero as he praised his side's defiant spirit.
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From Lance Armstrong to Tiger Woods, via Eric Cantona, we present a selection of apologies and non-apologies
Disgraced cyclist Lance Armstrong in his televised interview with Oprah Winfrey in January 2013. Photograph: Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images
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1) Lance Armstrong apologises to Oprah
To err is human, to forgive is divine: athlete messes up, then fronts up before the media to express contrition and ask for mercy. In a world where even the most nimble feet are often made from metaphorical clay, the public apology has long been a sporting staple. Many are utterly sincere, others not so much. Some are forced, quite a few are unnecessary. Then there's the vague non-apology, where – through gritted teeth – a sportsman or woman who clearly feels they've done little wrong apologises to anyone "if" they were offended. One of many, a personal favourite came in 2013 from cyclist Peter Sagan, who famously issued one notable classic of the genre, when after publicly goosing podium girl Maja Leye in the wake of the Tour of Flanders, he tweeted that it "was not my intention to disrespect women today on the podium. Just a joke, sorry if someone was disturbed about it." Splendid.
Mastering the mea culpa can be tricky and for all his drug-assisted success as a cyclist, Sagan's one-time colleague Lance Armstrong has yet to get the hang of it. Having been railroaded into admitting his guilt and role as ringleader in the most sophisticated drugs operation in cycling history, the disgraced seven-times Tour de France winner agreed to prostrate himself before his public in an eagerly anticipated and pre-recorded televised interview with noted cycling enthusiast and take-no-prisoners interrogator Oprah Winfrey.
We've all seen it by now. Finally owning up to having cheated his way to victory in a lengthy exchange that prompted almost as many new questions as answers, the Texan looked uncharacteristically uncomfortable as he confessed to much, if not all of the skulduggery that had enabled him to pedal his way to glory in Paris on all seven occasions, while steadfastly refusing to implicate any of those who had helped him along the way.
The second part of Lance Armstrong's chin-wag with Oprah. Guardian
His battle against cancer and good works for charity were mentioned regularly, while in keeping with his persona as the bully he admitted to being, it was notable that at times, despite his best efforts, Armstrong just couldn't stop himself sneering and smirking his way through an apology that occasionally seemed heartfelt, but more often than not suggested he was really sorry for himself, his dwindling bank balance and his rotten luck in getting caught.
2) Phil Taylor apologises to Raymond van Barneveld
For all his undisputed excellence and indefatigability as a sportsman, 16-times world darts champion Phil Taylor can sometimes be difficult to admire. Occasionally more spiky in victory than other players are in defeat, his occasional habit of patronising opponents and interviewers can be wearing, although it should be noted that he could scarcely have been more magnanimous in defeat during his press conference following his most recent World Championship reverse at the hands of Gary Anderson. It was in stark contrast to his reaction at the end of his semi-final victory over Raymond van Barneveld in the same competition<|fim_middle|> couple of months before attempting to pitch his way out of the bunker of shame in which he'd found himself with his sand wedge of regret.
In front of a carefully hand-picked gathering made up of sympathetic press, friends, business associates and his mother, among others, the golfer proceeded to apologise for everything while admitting very little in a televised mea culpa that lasted almost 10 minutes and pointedly referenced his many good works for charity before concluding with one of his all-too-regular broadsides at the media for bothering his family.
Quite why Woods felt the need to apologise to so many people for something that was absolutely none of their concern remains unclear, although he did offer a clue. "As Elin pointed out to me, my real apology to her will not come in the form of words," he said. He wasn't wrong; it came in the form of a divorce settlement estimated in some quarters to be as much as $750m.
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Having hit double 16 to win the match and put an end to a thrilling comeback by his close friend and rival, Taylor was suitably delighted and celebrated in front of a crowd that had rowed in behind the Dutchman as he clawed his way back into the match from 5-1 down to make it 5-4. As Barney took his hand to shake it, Taylor was happy to accept the congratulations, but his pleasure turned to indignation and then outright irritation as Barney continued shaking, yanking him backwards as he refused to let go of his hand, before throwing a congratulatory arm around his shoulder. Ducking out of the embrace, Taylor proceeded to tell Barney to "fuck off", then subjected his vanquished and clearly bewildered opponent to another torrent of abuse as they left the stage. Another conciliatory gesture from Barney was rejected and Taylor walked off alone, effing and jeffing as Barney was restrained from following him by match officials. It was all quite baffling. The following morning, Taylor couldn't have been more contrite.
"Well, I'm a bit gutted about what happened at the end, obviously," he said in an interview with Sky Sports News. "Trying to put the record straight, Raymond is a big lad. I don't feel too well and he just hurt me a bit when he was squeezing me hand and pulling me around the neck. I reacted wrongly, it was disgraceful really and I can only apologise for that. Obviously it will never happen again. He just hurt me a bit so I told him 'stop it' and I swore at him … ugh." At this point Taylor rubbed his face, in a bid to hide his shame, his obvious embarrassment evident for all to see.
"I've spoken to Raymond this morning and I'm gutted, obviously," he continued. "It's playing on my mind, it's upset a lot of people … I don't know what to do about it really. At the minute I could just walk away tomorrow night and just retire … go out on top really. I'm a bit disillusioned about everything at the minute. Obviously I don't feel very well so really I need a break. To be honest I don't care about the darts at the minute. I know I'm in the final but I don't feel excited, I don't feel chuffed about being in the final … I feel very, very down at the minute."
Taylor emerged from his slough of despair to beat Michael van Gerwen 7-4 in the following day's final, his 16th and most recent victory in a tournament he shows no sign of abandoning. Having been one of just a handful of players to offer Van Barneveld support when he was the victim of a Dutch blackmailer in 2010, Taylor was not about to be cut loose by his old pal. "We go back a long way, and I don't want to spoil many years of friendship over a split-second reaction after a tense world championship semi-final," said Barney, who claimed to be mystified by what it was exactly he had done to send Taylor into such a bizarre tantrum.
3) Eric Cantona apologises to an imaginary prostitute
Following the tsunami of moral outrage prompted by his assault on Crystal Palace fan Matthew Simmons in January 1995, Eric Cantona didn't so much have the book thrown at him as the entire contents of the British Library. As well as being convicted of assault and receiving a two-week jail sentence that was later overturned and reduced (or increased, depending on your point of view) to 120 hours' community service, the French striker was stripped of the French captaincy and handed a four-month ban and £20,000 fine by his club at the behest of the Football Association. Inevitably, he was also summoned to a hearing at the headquarters of the FA, whose chairman Graham Kelly described an attack many fans found genuinely hilarious as "a stain on our game".
Eric Cantona heads for the Selhurst Park stands. Photograph: STR/AFP
Truth be told, Cantona didn't do himself too many favours, as the then FA chief executive David Davies would later recall in his memoirs. Standing before FA blazers Geoff Thompson, Ian Stott and Gordon McKeag, the normally recalcitrant player appeared to be on his best behaviour and his exercise in contrition was going well. It began with an apology to the commission, then apologies to Manchester United, his lawyer Maurice Watkins and boss Alex Ferguson. So far, so humble. "I like to apologise to my team-mates. I want to apologise to the FA," he continued, showing what appeared to be genuine remorse. And finally? According to Davies, Cantona finished up by saying: "And I would like to apologise to the prostitute who shared my bed last night." To the sound of jaws hitting the floor and the great surprise of nobody, his ban was doubled and he was fined an extra £10,000.
4) Joey Porter apologises to everyone except Kellen Winslow
Following a midweek win over the Cleveland Browns in December 2006, Pittsburgh Steelers linebacker Joey Porter found himself in hot water after ridiculing the vanquished side and subjecting their tight end Kellen Winslow to some off-colour homophobic abuse. In a post-game interview, Porter labelled his opponent a "fag", adding that Winslow had "tried to dap me up [shake hands] before the game. He's soft though, I don't pay attention to him."
Porter's outburst was not over the Cleveland man's attempted friendly greeting before the game, but in response to what he perceived to be a late hit on a team-mate perpetrated during proceedings, which seemed a bit rich coming from a man who, three years later while playing for the Miami Dolphins, would be voted the joint-second dirtiest defensive player in the league by 296 of his peers.
"It was late," said Porter of the tackle. "That's what fags do. He's soft. He wanna be tough but he's really soft. He tried to give me a handshake before the game. He's not my friend. He don't know me. What you trying to shake my hand for? He talks too much and he hadn't done nothing. He threw a cheap shot. He's weak. He's for real weak. He's soft. He might want to play receiver because he don't want to play tight end. He's not gonna block anybody."
The following week, Porter issued an apology … of sorts. In a classic of the non-apology apology genre, he said sorry to anybody who had been offended by his remarks, explaining that he had only meant to insult the player at whom they had been aimed. "You know, that was probably a poor choice of words," he said. "So if I offended anybody, I apologise for that … I don't know … I guess because how we used that word freely, me growing up using that word, I didn't think anything of it. Like I said, I apologise to anyone I may have offended. I didn't mean to offend anybody but Kellen Winslow."
So that's alright, then, although if nothing else you can't help but admire the man's candour. The NFL were less impressed and fined Porter $10,000 for what they called "vulgar, inexcusable statements". Three months earlier, Porter had been forced to issue a more sincere and unreserved apology, when two of his dogs – a pit bull and a mastiff – escaped from his garden and killed a miniature horse at a neighbouring property. "I have reached out to the owners of the horse and will do whatever I can to help them get through this very unfortunate situation," he said. It was an unfortunate situation he was forced to help another neighbour "get through" while playing for the Arizona Cardinals in 2011. On this occasion, according to the Bakersfield Californian, four of his dogs savaged and killed a luckless hound.
5) Andrew Flintoff apologises to England cricket fans
Andrew Flintoff seems to have spent much of his cricket career apologising for assorted indiscretions, even if his occasional forays into the world of amiable, often drink-fuelled buffoonery have served only to further endear him to those who like their sporting heroes served up with generous dollops of human failing. Just this week, the former England all-rounder tweeted an apology to viewers of Ten Sport TV in Australia, after a stump microphone caught him castigating himself in the strongest possible terms after missing a shot while batting for the Brisbane Heat in the Big Bash. Like many of the likable all-rounder's gaffes, it was no big deal, but in a world where taking offence appears to have become a popular pastime, it's probably better to be safe than sorry.
Flintoff's most famous apology came in 2007, when after a night on the lash with some team-mates in St Lucia in the wake of a Cricket World Cup defeat at the hands of New Zealand, he decided it would be a good idea to join Ian Botham for a nightcap. Flintoff was walking along the beach at the time and believed the Sky Sports pundit to be attending a soiree on an unspecified boat moored further out at sea.
"I thought: 'I can't swim … that would be dangerous,' so I was going to get a kayak," Flintoff would later tell Piers Morgan in an episode of Life Stories. "I couldn't find the oars, so I dragged this pedalo into the water. The next morning I woke up, I was on my bed and … still wet and … sand between my toes." Oops.
Reports vary on what exactly happened between the moment Flintoff dragged his vessel into the water and woke up in his hotel room, not least because there seems to be a very good chance he doesn't actually remember. While he insists he never actually set sail, the general consensus appears to be that at some point he fell out or off of it and had to be rescued and helped ashore. Whatever happened, the metaphorical fallout was spectacular: the still bedraggled Flintoff was summoned to the hotel room of England coach Duncan Fletcher, stripped of the England vice-captaincy, dropped for England's next game and subsequently forced to explain himself to members of a press pack who almost certainly couldn't believe their luck.
Andrew Flintoff offers his apology sat next to Duncan Fletcher in St Lucia. Photograph: Clive Mason/Getty Images
"I'm embarrassed and ashamed," announced a chastened Flintoff, who looked genuinely contrite. "It shouldn't have happened. There's no secret we had a few drinks on Friday. It's been documented in the press what happened afterwards with a little bit of poetic licence. There was water involved and a pedalo as well. But I don't want to go into detail. I don't think my life was in danger."
During his long walk of shame across the hotel lobby into the press conference, Flintoff admitted that he was unable to make eye contact with England fans "who were only months previously cheering my name and high-fiving me" but were now "shaking their heads". A few minutes later, on the return journey, the same supporters greeted him with loud applause.
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bigfrank 9:37 Sun Nov 28
Carlton Cole
In hot water here after comparing our defeat to man city to the holocaust.
Don't want to see him punished but if it is happening to whitey surely it has to be the same outcome for him
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SurfaceAgentX2Zero 12:49 Thu Dec 2
All equally true of course.
Although if those remarks were made in the original inquiry held - and published - by Yorkshire CC, then he would not have that privilege and could indeed be sued.
I'd be a little more believing of the known racist, liar and pederast's accusations if he would make them outside of parliamentary privilege and open himself up to defamation actions.
Fo the Communist 6:50 Wed Dec 1
'If Vaughan did say what is alleged ("there's too many of you lot, we need to do something about that" then he (nor me) can have no complaints about BT's actions. It is not an uncorroborated claim either is it?'
What did he mean by 'you lot'? Nobody has spelt it out yet. Why? Because unless there was nobody in the group he allegedly addressed the remark to who wasn't Asian, then it isn't racism. And unless there is nothing that links that group other than their race, for instance all being young, uncapped or fringe players, then it isn't racism.
But, of course, the usual suspects not only believe Vaughan said it, but there is no possible way that 'you lot' can be used other than in a racist connection.
bigfrank 8:10 Wed Dec 1
Exactly, same with the Michael Vaughan scenario 👍🏻
mallard 8:03 Wed Dec 1
People are making it about race when they don't need to
White Person gets sacked for something which there is no evidence of.
Wonder if the same will happen with coley or will he get let off because of his skin colour.
Glad you prefer wome
Question is do women prefer you? 🤔
The same thing Vaughan then. People are making it about race when they don't need to.
Desperately failling? Ok 😂
On The Ball 7:35 Wed Dec 1
So if Cole is let off because of his skin colour, why was Barton let off?
It's because what they said wasn't considered that bad. Simple as that. Race doesn't come into it.
You can ONLY compare what Cole has done with Barton - nothing else, because no-one else is being accused of saying what he said. You're just desperately trying - and failing - to make it about race when it's not.
And I've told you that I prefer women.
I make it easier for you to understand.
If you want me to compare it with joey b, fine. Both said the same thing. Joey shouldn't be involved in football full stop for his history.
How old are you by the way are you a liberal?
You're wrong because you're insisting on comparing apples with oranges - you could compare apples with apples, but you refuse and can't explain why.
Why won't you compare what Carlton said with the exact same thing? They committed the same 'offence', they're getting the same 'punishment'. Why are you trying to make more of it than it is?
I've proved that I don't like people bullshitting, that's all.
Eerie Descent 5:09 Wed Dec 1
If Vaughan did say what is alleged ("there's too many of you lot, we need to do something about that<|fim_middle|> came back when the fuss had died down and I expect MV to do the same.
I said to ignore the point at hand.
Why has Michael Vaughan had his career finished for being accused of saying 'You lot' 12 years ago, but Rafiq, for whom there is categorical, actual evidence of racism (I won't mention the other stuff) is being held up as a hero?
What's gone on there, On The Crusade son? | " then he (nor me) can have no complaints about BT's actions. It is not an uncorroborated claim either is it?
And I think Rafiq has got off lightly - but not scot free - as there is indeed an imbalance in the way issues of race are reported. That's said, you can't really talk about like-for-like punishments because he is not employed as a commentator. Like Vaughan, his reputation has been sullied though for sure - just look at the comments on here and elsewhere.
What am i wrong about son?
Vaughan sacked for something that he may have or haven't said(no evidence)
Carlton Cole - will he face the same treatment?
You have shown your age and mindset there son. 😂😂⚒🇬🇧
BillyJenningsBoots 5:28 Wed Dec 1
What's your point Auntie?
Auntie Thermite 5:24 Wed Dec 1
Holocaust [hol·o·caust]
A religious sacrifical offering to the Gods
a "burnt sacrifice" or "an offering wholly consumed by fire."
Like one could describe the events in Hiroshima or Dresden in WWII, for example.
How about what BT Sport have said about why the are cancelling Vaughan?
And I'm assuming the BBC will take an even harsher stand against Rafiq himself?
More importantly, do YOU think the punishment handed out to Vaughan fits the crime?
And how has Rafiq seemingly got off Scott free from his litany of misdemeanors?
According to the BBC he was stood down because he was at the centre of a issue that was likely to discussed during TMS and, as such, his impartiality was tainted (my word) by that.
I don't know whether he will get paid. I assume he works as a contractor and therefore wouldn't if he is not providing his services.
My point was not the rights and wrongs of the issue - I was merely questioning the notion that he was sacked. There is a whole lot of nonsense spoken from both sides of the race debate and I just think its important that the facts of the matter at hand are not left behind. Not a particularly exciting or conclusive standpoint I grant you but one that is honestly held.
Why? What's the got to do with Carlton?
Bigfrank said that "whitey" would get punished for saying what Carlton said - but the FACT is that whitey DID say it a couple of weeks ago - and got moaned at and then forgotten, just the same as Carlton.
Bigfrank is wrong but won't admit it because he wants to make a different point. Bigfrank is upset about something that didn't happen, yet called me a hypocrite and a snowflake - oh, the irony.
All I've done is point out that he's wrong. I haven't passed any judgement about anything else. No crusade here.
Why has he been 'stood down'?
We he be on full pay for the duration?
You can take it at face value or not but MV has not 'had his career ruined' has been 'stood down' from TMS coverage of the Ashes. The language of the BBC statement hints that he will return after the current furore dies down. A contrite interview he has already given to the BBC is probably part of that redemption.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/59391682
There was similar outrage on there that Ollie Robinson's career had been 'ruined 'by suspension by the ECB following the discovery of some injudicious Tweets, He soon | 745 |
co-morbidity, DSM criteria, substance induced disorders
Why we need to be more accurate in diagnosing co-morbidity.
Posted on August 28, 2014 by alcoholicsguide
In this blog we have repeatedly queried whether the co-occurrence of so-called co-morbidities with substance use disorders (SUDs) is as high as reported in many studies (1).
In a blog from yesterday Are most co-morbidities really substance-induced disorders? that diagnosis is often flawed in many studies and that the so-called diagnosis of co-morbidity is not borne out long term with many presumed co-morbid disorders disappearing in time.
In an recurring example given, the author uses the high prevalence of so-called comorbidity with mood disorders to illustrate how alcoholics and addicts appear to have a similar range of mood disorders as that of a normal population sample, i.e. as normally in society, around 15%.
This is in keeping with our ancedotal evidence of attending numerous AA meetings over a number of years has shown that in the vast majority of individuals the symptoms of a supposedly co-morbid disorder such as General Anxiety Disorder (GAD) or major depression (MD) appear to dissipate after some weeks.
This either means that there 12 step program of recovery outlined in<|fim_middle|> and pre-existing impairments in emotion processing and regulation.
A chronic addict is emotionally distressed most of the time, who do dopaminergic models explain this emotional response or the fact that most relapse is stress or emotional distress based and prompted.
Or the effects of maltreatment or abusive childhoods, or economic deprivation or deviant peers. Observing addiction as a inherited emotional regulation and processing deficit, exaggerated by sometimes dysfunctional parenting (especially if the parents are also addicts and alcoholics) and persistent stress allows us to observe how genes in certain individuals are influenced by environment and manifest in behavioural undercontrol, emotion lability and reactivity and impaired, impulsive decision making in those at risk from later addiction. It may be important to study what is impaired before the neurotoxic effects of chronic drug and alcohol use profoundly aggravate these "pre-morbid" impairments.
To conclude, there is "overlap of the biological substrates and the neurophysiology of addictive processes and psychiatric symptoms associated with addiction"
Pani et al suggest the "inclusion of specific mood, anxiety, and impulse-control dimensions in the psychopathology of addictive processes."
We suggest these can be accommodated under the umbrella of emotional regulation and processing deficits as the above and additional deficits seen in alcoholics and addicts are more satisfactorily covered by this nosology.
We agree with Pani et al, that "addiction reaches beyond the mere result of drug-elicited effects on the brain and cannot be peremptorily equated only with the use of drugs despite the adverse consequences produced."
We infer that emotional dysregulation is at the "very core of both the origins and clinical manifestations of addiction and should be incorporated into the nosology of the same, emphasising how addiction is a relapsing chronic condition in which psychiatric manifestations play a crucial role."
We agree that "addictionology cannot be severed from its psychopathological connotations, in view of the undeniable presence of symptoms, of their manifest contribution to the way addicted patients feel and behave, and to the role they play in maintaining the continued use of substances."
Pani, P. P., Maremmani, I., Trogu, E., Gessa, G. L., Ruiz, P., & Akiskal, H. S. (2010). Delineating the psychic structure of substance abuse and addictions: Should anxiety, mood and impulse-control dysregulation be included?. Journal of affective disorders, 122(3), 185-197.
comorbidity DSM criteria substance induced disorders substance use disorders
Are most co-morbidities really substance-induced disorders?
It Works if you Work It!
The "Yets" Illustrate the Progression Of Alcoholism. | mutual support groups like AA can provide profound therapeutic effect on other disorders (which they very well may do) or that the co-morbidities highlighted in many studies is greatly exaggerated.
This exaggeration has two major consequences. The study of and research into SUDs is hampered by relegating affective dimensions to that of co-morbidity while not exploring the specific emotional dysregulation at the heart of SUDs ( in particular dyscontrol over subcortical/amgydaloid emotional responding appears at the heart of most of these psychopathologies so they have common neural substrates and mechanisms but they may not manifest in the same behavioural responses – in other words there may be common emotional dysregulatory mechanisms but different pathomechanisms)
That is not to say that co-occuring disorders can not exaggerate the trajectory of a SUDs as disorders such as post traumatic stress disorders may, for example, add to distress based responding and may also require further and more specific treatment in addition to that for a SUD.
Also research needs to not only to predict behaviour e.g. in the case of addiction, relapse, but also to help prevent conditions arising. Thus it is imperative that research more fully informs prevention and intervention in children and adolescents at risk from later SUDs.
Thus the specific aspects of emotional dysregulation specific to a SUD such as, for example, a tendency to act rashly or impulsively under distress may be addressed by considering whether this is also the function of emotional processing deficits which mean emotions are "avoided" rather than processed by cortical areas, resulting in more reactive sub-cortical responding which has consequence for a decision making profile which is more based on alleviating this distress state, this unpleasant feeling state, than it does the recruiting via effective emotional processing and regulation of more cortical areas of the brain. All of which has ramifications for a more accurate study of the aetiology of addiction per se and it's prevention.
For example, teaching at risk children how to identify, label, and verbalise their emotions at an early age will help them learn how to process and regulation them; to then use these feeling states to guide goal-directed adaptive behaviour rather than and recruiting more subcortical emotive-motor parts of the brain to flee these distress states resulting in more reactive decision making and emotional management. It would also help with reducing the effect that initial alcohol use has on adolescents as emotional dysregulation potentiates reward, so distress/stress make the rewarding effects of drugs and alcohol heightened. It may also mean heart rate variability is also higher so that the smoothing, calming effects of alcohol are not as exaggerated. It would help put some neural brakes on increasingly out of control behaviour.
It would help tackle the premorbid distress at the heart of vulnerability to later addiction at its source, its manifestation as emotional reactivity.
It would return us to a theoretical conception of addicts as suffering human beings not neurobiological machines, which can be tweeked by this neurochemical or that!
This leads me onto the second short point. If we relegate the anxiety, impulsivity mood and affective dimensions of a SUD to co-morbidity we limit our understanding of the overlapping and interlinked roles of emotional processing and regulation deficits on reward processing for example.
There is a tendency in some researchers to see addiction purely in terms of neurbiological processes, usually dopaminergic, equating addiction to the effects that a drug or alcohol has on the neurobiology and neuro-anatomy of the brain, and not to see how these deficits may not be simply drug induced but also linked to stress dysregulation which itself is linked profound | 744 |
Emory Eye Center Study Finds Laser Treatment Does Not Prevent Vision Loss
Low-intensity laser treatment, thought to be possibly beneficial in slowing or preventing the loss of vision from age-related macular degeneration (AMD), is ineffective in preventing complications of AMD or loss of vision, according to a study published in the November 2006 journal/ Ophthalmology/.
The findings are a result of a study conducted by Emory University and 21 other clinical sites nationwide. The study, called the Complications of Age-Related Macular Degeneration Prevention Trial (CAPT), looked at more than 1,000 people with AMD. The study was supported by grants from the National Eye Institute (NEI) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
Early signs of AMD include the presence of yellowish deposits under the retina, called drusen. Eyes with large drusen are at increased risk of progressing to advanced AMD, with accompanying loss of vision. First considered in the 1970s, low-intensity laser treatment has been shown to reduce the extent of drusen. However, the studies evaluating the impact of laser treatment on vision have been small, and the results inconsistent.
This study was designed to assess the safety and effectiveness of laser treatment in preventing vision loss among people with large drusen in both eyes. It found there was no difference in vision or in progression<|fim_middle|> its refractive surgery trials were conducted in the 1980s, and it remains at the forefront of many national clinical trials, including those on macular degeneration and glaucoma.
Kathi Baker | to advanced AMD between treated and untreated eyes, which were closely observed for the duration of the trial.
"We've known for years that we could use laser treatment to make drusen disappear," says G. Baker Hubbard, MD, retina specialist at Emory Eye Center. "The real question has been whether or not making drusen disappear translates into long-term improvement of vision and less likelihood of loss of vision. We've never known the answer to that question with certainly, and now we do," he explains. "These results are very important for that reason."
NEI director Paul A. Sieving, M.D., Ph.D., says, "AMD is the leading cause of vision loss in the United States for people over age 60. This is an important study because after 35 years of inconsistent results from preventive laser treatment trials, we now know that this approach does not seem to stop vision loss from AMD. Doctors using this technique should reconsider its use in patients with good vision, such as those studied in this trial.
"At present, the only established way to decrease the risk of vision loss in people with large drusen (early AMD) is to take daily supplements of vitamins and minerals as used in the NEI-supported Age-Related Eye Disease Study (AREDS)," Sieving continues. "This study found that high-dose antioxidant vitamins and minerals (vitamins C and E, beta-carotene, zinc, and copper), taken by mouth by people at risk of developing advanced AMD, reduced the risk of progression to advanced AMD by 25 percent and the risk of moderate vision loss by 19 percent. People at risk for AMD are advised not to smoke and to maintain a healthy lifestyle, with a diet including leafy green vegetables and fish."
A total of 1,052 participants over the age of 50 (average age of 71) who had 10 or more large drusen and a visual acuity of 20/40 or better in each eye were enrolled through 22 clinical centers. One eye of each participant was treated and the other eye was observed throughout the five years of the trial. After five years, 20.5 percent of the treated eyes and 20.5 percent of the untreated eyes had lost three or more lines of visual acuity on a standard eye chart. Likewise, 20 percent of treated and untreated eyes progressed to advanced AMD. Change in visual acuity was strongly associated with the development of advanced AMD, but not with treatment group.
The NEI has just launched a new nationwide study to see if a modified combination of vitamins, minerals, and fish oil can further slow the progression of vision loss from AMD. This study, called the Age-Related Eye Disease Study 2 (AREDS2), will build upon results from the earlier AREDS study. # # #
The National Eye Institute (NEI) is part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and is the Federal government's lead agency for vision research that leads to sight-saving treatments and plays a key role in reducing visual impairment and blindness. For more information, visit the NEI Website at_ http://www.nei.nih.gov/_.
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) - The Nation's Medical Research Agency - includes 27 Institutes and Centers and is a component of the U. S. Department of Health and Human Services. It is the primary federal agency for conducting and supporting basic, clinical, and translational medical research, and it investigates the causes, treatments, and cures for both common and rare diseases. For more information about NIH and its programs, visit/_ http://www.nih.gov/.
The Emory Center includes the Department of Ophthalmology, part of the Emory School of Medicine, its clinical sector and all aspects of research. Ranked in the top 20 of/ the U.S. News & World Report's/ annual survey of the nation's best eye centers, Emory Eye Center remains in the top ten of the peer-evaluated/ Ophthalmology Times/ survey. The South's first corneal transplant was performed in Georgia in 1947; | 853 |
I love looking back on that season of life as I was stepping out of high school and into a new phase of independence and adulthood. So many hopes and dreams still brewing, so much uncertainty and many fears also present. It made it exciting. I think that's why I love photographing these sessions now as an adult…it really allows me to flashback and do an inventory on all the incredible things that have happened since then, how so many of my dreams and hopes have changed, how a few have remained, and how new ones have continued to grow.
I love speaking into each of these seniors lives in a small way and encouraging them to lean into this season of life and not be afraid of trying a bunch<|fim_middle|> a great time and you will leave with some images that will serve to nostagically transport you back in time as you grow and see your hopes and dreams change, shift, and come to fruition. | of new things and chasing after those dreams. From an artistic standpoint it is also so refreshing to spend time with these rad people and allow them the space to blossom in front of my camera. Some are super comfortable, some struggle to loosen up at first, but by the end we are always all laughing and having an amazing time.
If any of you have seniors about to graduate or if you are a senior about to graduate, take advantage of scheduling a session like this…it's something I wished I had done when I was going through that transition. I promise we will have | 114 |
Our Building's History
History of the Hazard Mill on the Saugatucket River in the Village of Peace Dale in South Kingstown, Rhode Island
The Hazard family settled in Rhode Island in 1639 in towns surrounding what is known today as Portsmouth, RI. The next few generations of the family moved across the bay into South Kingstown where they owned large plantations with sheep<|fim_middle|> that has diagonal lines or ridges on both sides, made with a two-up, two-down weave. The worsted variety is used in making military uniforms, suits, great coats and trench coats.
** Cheviot, woollen fabric made originally from the wool of Cheviot sheep and now also made from other types of wool or from blends of wool and man-made fibers in plain or various twill weaves. | .
In 1799 the Hazard's home weaving moved from farmhouse to mill when Rowland Hazard purchased half interest in the Peace Dale mill from Benjamin Rodman. His involvement in the business grew and by 1812 he had purchased the mill privilege outright. He invested money in machinery including primitive water power looms for carding wool and by 1815 he ran a small fully operated manufacturing operation that is said to be one of the first such textile plants in America. In 1819, his sons Isaac Peace Hazard and Rowland G. Hazard took over mill operations. The purchase of this mill was the beginning of the Hazard family empire, which dominated village life for more than a century.
In 1823, Peace Dale had about 30 inhabitants and was growing slowly. In the mid 1840's the original mill burned down and was replaced by a building made out of a fireproof stone with additions added in the following years. In 1848 the Peace Dale Manufacturing Company was incorporated and led by Isaac and Rowland G. who installed a power spinning jack and began manufacturing kersey cloth and linsey-woolsey. This was a major turning point for the small village of Peace Dale. In 1858, many new buildings began to be erected due to Rowland G. Hazard's funding and design. The smaller buildings were used for many mill activities including wool storage, a workers' dining room, even a chemical laboratory. The additional buildings also included a meeting house, a church, and most importantly an office building which included a post office, a village store, and a mill workers'quarters. Over the next several decades Rowland G. Hazard influenced the construction and design of numerous additional buildings, accounting for more than half of what is built today in Peace Dale.
During the Civil War, the mill had a contract to make 50,000 army blankets. President Lincoln received one of the Peace Dale shawls. After the war, a new 3-story weaving building was constructed that covered a half acre. In this building they manufactured serge* and cheviots**. Peace Dale cloth won first prize at the Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia. Its serges won first prize at the Chicago World's Fair, as well as a gold medal in Paris in 1901. By 1900 the Peace Dale population was 1500 and 40% of that population worked in the mill. During World War I, women asked the mill to make knitting yarn so they could knit items for the soldiers. The mill manufactured khaki colored cloth for the army as well. One thousand workers were said to be employed in the mill during WWI.
In 1918, Rowland Hazard III, son of Rowland G. Hazard, sold the mill to M.T. Stevens and Sons who operated it until 1947. The two-story stone facade and bell tower are all that remain of the stone mill built by the Hazards in the mid-1840's.
Interesting fact about Rowland Hazard III: Rowland Hazard III struggled with alcoholism, which led to his direct involvement in what is today Alcoholics Anonymous (AA). His own efforts at recovery were markedly influenced by his consultation with psychologist Carl Jung.
* Serge is a type of twill fabric | 693 |
The trio outscored the visiting Ivy Leaguers by themselves, combining to score 71 points for the Hoyas (9-1) in the team's final tune-up before opening Big East play New Year's Eve against St<|fim_middle|> pushed out well beyond the 3-point arc on Georgetown's perimeter players, taking away the long-range jumper but virtually begging the Hoyas to attack with dribble penetration.
Harvard actually kept pace with the Hoyas for most of the first half, knotting the score at 33-33 on a basket by sophomore point man Oliver McNally (11 points) with 3:31 remaining. But courtesy of some smothering defense, a slew of steals and resulting transition baskets, Georgetown closed the first frame on an 11-0 run to take a 44-33 lead into intermission. | . John's.
An exam break removed from an impressive two-game run through New England that saw Harvard push Connecticut to the wire in a 79-73 loss and drop crosstown big boy Boston College for a second consecutive season, the Crimson (7-3) employed an unusually aggressive halfcourt defense against the Hoyas. Led by Ivy League MVP favorite Jeremy Lin (15 points), Harvard's guards | 84 |
With a little Royal Oak inside.
With several teasers and a handful of leaks the Audemars Piguet Code 11.59 was already a hot topic, but now it's official. The Code 11.59 is a new line – six models in all – that is the flagship range of round watches for Audemars Piguet.
Starting with a time-only model and chronograph, both powered by new<|fim_middle|>129,000.
The Code 11.59 Tourbillon Openworked is hand-wound and skeletonised, with the movement bridges finished in a dark coating. Available only in 18k pink gold, it costs SFr175,000.
And the final watch is the Code 11.59 Minute Repeater Supersonnerie. The best looking of the line, and unfortunately the most expensive, it's only in white gold with a smoked blue enamel dial.
The movement inside is the hand-wound cal. 2953, with the case being Audemars Piguet's patented Supersonnerie construction, with the repeater gongs being mounted on a sound board that's covered by a perforated outer case back. This boosts the volume of the images to a surprising degree.
The Code 11.59 Supersonnerie is the most wearable and most appealing minute repeater Audemars Piguet makes, and it's priced at SFr295,000.
The Code 11.59 watches will be available starting February 2019 only at Audemars Piguet boutiques. Production will be about 2000 watches in 2019, but Audemars Piguet predicts the Code 11.59 will eventually account for 20% to 25% of total output.
Correction January 13, 2019: The Code 11.59 case is curved on the bezel, and not on the back; the lug screws are hexagonal, and not octagonal.
Additions January 15, 2019: Clarified the sections on the lug construction, first in-house chronograph, and annual production. | in-house movements, the Code 11.59 also includes two tourbillons and Supersonnerie minute repeater. The Code 11.59 replaces the discontinued Jules Audemars collection.
Having seen the watches in the metal, the cases are marvellously well constructed and finished, though the dials for the simpler models are visually simple though expensively executed.
The Code 11.59 case is 41mm in diameter for all models, and built like a sandwich. In between the bezel and back sits the case middle, which is octagonal in shape. And the screws for the strap, on the other hand, are hexagonal in shape. Both are naturally inspired by Audemars Piguet's most famous watch.
Notably, the finishing of the case, including the octagonal middle, is a combination of brushed matte and mirror-polished surfaces, again meant to be reminiscent of the complex finishing of the Royal Oak. Even the interior edges of lugs are so finished; the lugs, in turn, are fixed to the bezel.
Though the lugs appear open-worked, they are not, strictly speaking. Rather the lugs are welded to the bezel, with the lower section of each lug nesting against, but unattached to, the edge of the case back.
The surface of the bezel is also curved, and unusually for a watch with a round case, the sapphire crystal is also curved, on two planes no less, giving the watch a surprisingly sleek profile.
In contrast to the case, the dials for the Code 11.59 are simple in form, modelled on a look found on several Audemars Piguet watches of the 1950s. While the dials are made of pricey materials – the applied markers, logo and hands are solid gold – they are restrained compared to the case.
The simpler models have solid colour lacquer dials, while the pricer watches take it a step further: the perpetual calendar has an aventurine glass dial, while the repeater and tourbillon have it in fired enamel.
Amongst the most notable features of the Code 11.59 are the three newly developed calibres. The first two are more significant, being built on a new production facility in Le Brassus.
One is the cal. 4302, a 32mm automatic movement with a 70-hour power reserve. It is larger than the widely used, current in-house automatic cal. 3120, and also has a longer power reserve while running at a higher frequency of 28,800 beats per hour.
More crucial is the cal. 4401, the first in-house automatic chronograph movement, or more specifically, the first pure-play chronograph without any other complication. It has an integrated chronograph mechanism with a column wheel and vertical clutch, as well as an instantaneous date and 70-hour power reserve.
The third new movement is the cal. 2950, a flying tourbillon with automatic winding, pictured below.
NB: The three-hand and chronograph models are accompanied by a pin buckle, while the complicated watches have folding clasps.
The Code 11.59 Self-winding is available in 18k pink or white gold, and is powered by the cal. 4302. It is priced at SFr25,000 before taxes.
The Code 11.59 Self-winding Chronograph is also available in 18k pink or white gold, and is priced at SFr39,500 before taxes.
The Code 11.59 Perpetual Calendar is only available in 18k pink gold with a blue aventurine glass dial. It's equipped with the cal. 5134, the same ultra-thin automatic movement found in the Royal Oak Perpetual Calendar. The price is SFr69,500.
Available in 18k pink gold with a black enamel dial, or white gold with a smoked blue enamel dial, the Code 11.59 Self-winding Flying Tourbillon is powered by the cal. 2950 automatic tourbillon movement. It's priced at SFr | 895 |
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Raekwon, Mos Def and Jay-Z Lead the Way in Exclaim!'s Best Hip-Hop Albums of 2009
By Del F. Cowie
Conventional wisdom dictates that sequels are not as good as their originals, but they don't always suck either. For proof, look at Exclaim!'s Beats & Rhymes year-end best-of list.
While no one is seriously suggesting that Raekwon's Only Built 4 Cuban Linx... Pt. II is better than the incredibly influential 1995 original, it's clearly no dud either, as the Wu-Tang Clan's best-known practitioner of criminology secured the No.1 slot on the list.
To see<|fim_middle|> Moon: The End of Day, the only record by a debut artist to make the list.
To see Beats & Rhymes complete best of 2009, click here.
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Staying busy despite the uncertain future of Wu-Tang Clan's Once Upon a Time in Shaolin album, Ghostface Killah has lifted the curtain on a... | why the album has claimed the top spot for yourself, you can listen to Raekwon's Only Built 4 Cuban Linx... Pt. II here on Exclaim.ca, where it will be streaming all week.
While on the surface it looked as if the record would be retreading an all too familiar path, the diminished role of Wu-Tang focal figure RZA (who produced the entire original album), coupled with the sonic contributions of both new and established beat makers outside of the Wu-Tang camp, presented a refreshing twist on a familiar concept. In many ways, the same is true of many of the other selections in the year-end top ten, with many artists returning to form or reinventing themselves.
Mos Def's The Ecstatic got things back on track after a run of disappointing material from the Brooklyn MC, while The Blueprint 3 broadened Jay-Z's appeal and sound while reaffirming his firm grip on popular culture.
Canadians weren't left out with K'Naan further refining his uniquely diasporic take on hip-hop, and D-Sisive further distanced himself from his smart aleck origins with Let the Children Die.
DOOM returned from an extended hiatus to show he is still king of the bizarre non-sequitur, while Eminem also came back on a mission to show he could still spit.
Technically, the hiatus for Q-Tip's Kamaal the Abstract, an album that had been on the shelf for almost a decade, was the longest of them all. The record featured the MC reveling in stretching his singing voice, an approach echoed by Kid Cudi's experimentally hazy Man on the | 335 |
Pep Guardiola is happy for the "dream" of a warm-weather training camp to wait as Manchester City pursue glory on four fronts.
City have taken advantage of mid-season gaps in the fixture schedule in previous years to travel to work in Abu Dhabi.
Rivals Manchester United have spent the past week in Dubai but City could not head abroad because they were involved in the Carabao Cup semi-finals.
With one Premier League game already needing to be rearranged, and title-chasing City also continuing in the FA Cup and Champions League, it may not happen this year.
"It would be a dream," City boss Guardiola said.
"Last season this period was quite similar but after Wigan beat us in the FA Cup we took time to go there.
"But this morning I saw the schedule. The Everton game is going to be fixed in another week. We don't have many (gaps).
City are firmly back in the title race after beating Liverpool to cut the Reds' lead at the top of the table to four points in their crunch clash last week.
With a star-studded squad and the considerable weight of past league successes behind them, City could make life uncomfortable for the Merseysiders but Guardiola feels the crown is still Liverpool's to lose.
"I prefer to be in Liverpool's position," said City boss Guardiola at a press conference to preview Monday's encounter with Wolves.
PEP @aguerosergiokun was sick right after the game against Liverpool. He is a little bit better, and today was his first training session. @VincentKompany is recovering. He's getting better. The rest are fit.
City will hope to have Sergio Aguero back to face Wolves after a bout of illness but Gabriel Jesus excelled in his place in Wednesday's 9-0 thrashing of Burton, scoring four times.
The 21-year-old put his renewed confidence of late down to having<|fim_middle|> stay from Brazil but they are now due to return home.
Guardiola accepts it can be difficult for youngsters to settle in different countries but has promised that City will be there to support him.
He said: "The players know they are in an incredible club who try to take care of all of us, all the people working in this organisation.
"The private life is the private life and if they need something we are there. We are there to help.
"Of course, we cannot substitute the mother and when the family can't be there, it's difficult. They have to handle the situation but of course he is not alone, he has friends.
"He has an incredible relationship with the Brazilian guys, like Danilo, Fernandinho, Eddie (Ederson), Bernardo, many, many players here.
There were suggestions Kevin De Bruyne, who only recently returned from injury, was unhappy about being substituted after 58 minutes against Burton but Guardiola claimed to know little about it. | his family over to | 4 |
I somehow missed posting this last year, when it was published. An excellent article by our very own Salim Virani, on the topic of ecosystems.
Sal and the rest of the FounderCentric team spend a lot of time working with incubators, acceler<|fim_middle|>. There are many ways to build successful businesses, and the "funded mega-high-growth startup" way, the unicorn chasing approach, is simply not a smart approach for most parts of the world.
If you're interested in startup ecosystems, read the full article here. | ators, governments, outreach teams at large companies, etc, and helping them develop their startup scenes. Their mission comes from the heart (they really care about helping startup founders), and they are, as far as I know, the best at it at this point, in Europe.
He leaves us with the final takeaway "Support only the best people who have set the objective of being the 1 in 50,000". So, only support the hugest successes - and leave the others stranded?
From a broad ecosystem perspective, investors are often stumps we have to ignore and grow around to get to the next level. "Like a rotting treestump in the forest, they've established themselves from a past leadership position, still get all the attention, but get in the way of progress." They do what works for them, but we have to see the broader picture to grow a successful ecosystem.
Investors aren't bad guys; most work in the best interests of startups from their point-of-view.
The problem is when they perpetuate the idea that the "best" startups for them are the best startups for everyone.
Taking the Silicon Valley definition of a "successful startup" and requiring that everywhere in the world as a bar to entry is short-sighted for people who want to bootstrap a startup ecosystem in a city where there is none | 273 |
Bacteria often dwell in porous habitats (e.g. soil, food, ...) where successful colonisation and survival<|fim_middle|> capable of chemotactic response.
** The ability of organisms to direct their motion towards chemically favourable environments and away from toxic ones is known as chemotaxis. | often depend crucially on chemotactic** motility. Agar, a polysaccharide gel, is seldom thought of as porous when studying bacteria. High agar concentrations (10-20 g/litre) are mixed with nutrients to make ''hard'' gels on which cells are cultured. When studying bacterial chemotactic motility, however, lower (''soft'') concentrations (1-4 g/litre) are employed to make gels which are penetrable by bacteria. The chemotactic motion of bacteria in liquid environments has been extensively studied, and is well understood. The study of bacteria in gels, however, is found wanting. The understanding of bacteria in similarly porous media is more advanced, but also incomplete. One would expect bacterial chemotactic motion in a gel (porous medium) to be perturbed by the latter's microstructure. Indeed, amongst other results, in this seminar I will present evidence of the drastic changes a gelatinous environment can affect on bacterial motion: increasing agar concentration (within the ''soft'' range) can ''switch off'' chemotaxis in a population of Escherichia coli cells genetically | 236 |
Stabilization Feats
Characters, Book Characters, Lord of the Rings,
Good Characters
Element Users
Concept Users
Non-Corporeal Characters
Creation Users
Earth Users
Empathic Manipulation Users
Invulnerability Users
Ainur
Valar
Aratar
Aulë was a smith and worker of the world, and as such he was among the Valar most similar in thought and powers to Melkor, in that they each glorified the fashioning of artful and original things. Both also had the desire and power to create beings of their own, albeit soulless ones. But while Aulë strove to be loyal to the original intent of the Ainulindalë, and submitted all his works to the will and judgment of Ilúvatar, Melkor dominate all things, and was jealous of the creations of others so that he would try to twist or destroy all that they made, such as when he created the orcs in mockery of the Elves. This comparison highlights the themes in LOTR of creation and sub-creation: Whereas Melkor desired to create things of his own, in defiance of Eru, the original and only true creator, Aulë desired to be a sub-creator, in that he desired to create things knew within the area Eru had designed for him. This is contrasted against Melkor's hubris,<|fim_middle|>ë possessed the famous Ainur ability to transform and reshape the form of one's body, appearing in whatever form she desired. They can also appear as inanimate objects, such as when Yavanna appeared as a tree.
Spirit form: As one of the Valar, it was highly likely that Aulë had the typical Ainur ability to cast off her physical form like a snake shedding its skin, and take on an intangible and non-corporeal spiritual form. In this spiritual state, the Ainur can travel forward and backward in time (Though they are unable to affect the future or the past, only see it). Of the Ainur's spirit forms and precognitive powers this was said:
" They could move backward or forward in thought, and return again so swiftly that to those who were in their presence they did not appear to have moved. "
Key: Manifestation | True form
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2 Ichigo Kurosaki (Post-Timeskip) | where believed himself equal to God, and capable of making things knew to even Eru. Predictably, there was long strife between Aulë and Melkor, because of their thoughts on Eru, creation and sub-creation, both before and after the creation of Arda. Aulë, however, often opposed attempts to fight Melkor, for fear of the damage that would be wrought to Arda, as he was one of the greatest help in its creation.
Desperate for students whom he could pass his knowledge onto, and growing impatient with the wait for the emergence of the Children of Ilúvatar, Aulë created his own race of beings: The Dwarves. However, he did not have a very clear idea of what the Children of Ilúvatar would be like, and because of the workings of Melkor (Spreading chaos, creating beasts, summoning phantoms, etc.), Aulë made the Dwarves strong and unyielding, and not willing to endure the domination of others. He also made them embody some of his values, desires and plans for Middle-earth and Arda (And possible even Eä) in general. The oldest of these was Durin the deathless. However, as Aulë did not possess the Flame Imperishable, which was within Eru alone, he could give his creations independent life, they could act only when his thought was on them.
Showing his meticulous care, when Aulë completed his work he began to instruct the Dwarves in the language he had made for them, which he named Khuzdul. Then Ilúvatar spoke to Aulë, asking why he would seek to exceed the bounds upon his power and authority by attempting to make new life. Aulë repented, responding that the drive to create was kindled in him by Eru himself, and that he only wished for other beings to love and teach, with whom to share in the beauty of the world, like the Children of Ilúvatar. He confessed that his impatience and unwillingness to wait for the Children of Ilúvatar had driven him to folly and submitted his creations to Ilúvatar's judgement. Thanking that they would be destroyed, he moved to smite the seven Fathers of the Dwarves he had made with his great hammer. As he raised the hammer to crush them the Dwarves shrank from the coming blow, but Ilúvatar stayed Aulë's hand. He showed that he had accepted Aulë's offer by gifting the Dwarves with spirits of their own, or else they could not have been afraid or shrunk from the blow.
Ilúvatar accepted the Dwarves as his adopted children, however, as it was ordained that the Elves were to be the first-born of all the races, Iluvatar set the Dwarves to sleep until after the Awakening of the Elves, and Aulë hid them in the earth. He told Aulë that while both were indeed his children, their creation was outside the scope of the Ainulindalë, and he foretold that strife would arise between the Dwarves and the Elves as the events of the world unfolded. The Dwarves believe that after they die their spirits move to halls that Aulë (Whom they name Mahal) has set aside for them alone, and that their role will be to rebuild Arda after the Final Battle, Dagor Dagroth.
When the Elves came to Valinor, the Ñoldor, who Aulë was most fond of among the Elves, became his students. Fëanor was his greatest pupil, and from him learned to make gems through methods of craftsmanship that are now forgotten. This would eventually lead to the much sought after Silmarils, the greatest creation of craftsmanship within Arda, and likely all of Ea: Magic gems which contain the light of the Two Trees. The Ñoldor who returned to Valinor under Finarfin, after the flight of Fëanor and Fingolfin. named themselves the Aulendur, followers of Aulë. Despite his lordly skill in craftsmanship, and his love of the earth, Aulë was humble and compassionate, and indeed the Dwarves survived only because Aulë submitted them to the will and judgment of Ilúvatar, as he was wont to do (See above). He was married to Yavanna, who was a spirit of life and nature, reflecting their duality.
Tier: At least 4-A, likely 3-B | At least High 3-A, likely Low 2-C
Name: Aulë
Origin: The Silmarilion
Age: As old as the universe
Classification: Ainu, Vala, Aratar, father of the Dwarves
Powers and Abilities: Superhuman Physical Characteristics, Flight, Regeneration (Low-Godly), Immortality (Types 1 and 3), Shapeshifting, Size Alteration, Elemental Manipulation, Earth Manipulation, Fire Manipulation, Empathic Manipulation (The lords of the Ainur can create joy), Creation (He created the Dwarves, though he could not give them true souls), Telekinesis, Transmutation, Precognition, Invulnerability (The Ainur are immune from harm via conventional weaponry, as seen when, upon unlocking more of his divine power, Gandalf became invulnerable), Resistance to Death Manipulation (In Lord of the Rings the land of the dead is a real tangible place, Mandos, and can be affected and exited. Ainur don't go there upon death, rather becoming spirits until the regenerate. The only way to keep them there is if they are physically brought there and held by physical might), Intangibility and Non-Corporeality (At the very least in spirit form) | Intangibility and Non-Corporeality, Reality Warping, Conceptual Manipulation (All of the Ainur created or altered certain concepts, the Valar especially. Aulë either created or has conceptual-level control over the earth and its materials), Acausality (Likely Type 4; Can interact in the Timeless Halls like the rest of the Ainur)
Attack Potency: At least Multi-Solar System level (Comparable to Varda), likely Multi-Galaxy level (Helped build the physical universe) | At least High Universe level, likely Universe level+ (One of the 14 Valar, all of whom control aspects of the universe, and are second only to Eru Ilúvatar. He should be at least somewhat comparable to Melkor, who was capable of effecting the Themes of the Ainulindalë, of which the third created the universe, with his very thoughts. All Valar are incomparably superior to their Maia counterparts)
Speed: Unknown. Massively FTL+ combat speed and reactions (Doubtless superior to Ancalagon the Black) | Immeasurable (Existed in the Timeless Halls, a place that transcended linear time and is best likened to a higher temporal dimension)
Lifting Strength: At least Stellar, likely Universal (Comparable to Varda) | Immeasurable
Striking Strength: At least Multi-Solar System Class, likely Multi-Galactic | At least High Universal, likely Universal+
Durability: At least Multi-Solar System level, likely Multi-Galaxy level | At least High Universe level, likely Universe level+
Stamina: Extremely high | Limitless
Range: Extended melee range. Universal with magic (Comparable to Varda) | At least High Universal, likely Universal+
Standard Equipment: None notable, aside from perhaps his hammer
Intelligence: Extremely high (As one of the Valar, he has unfathomable knowledge of the universe)
Weaknesses: None notable
Notable Attacks/Techniques: Like all Ainur, Aulë has access to a wide range of dangerous powers, mostly related to the elements.
Creation: Aulë was most like Melkor in that he desired to create new things, that had never before been made. Yet he instead of defying Eru and seek to create something new, he rather attempted sub-creation, honoring Eru and surrendering all his work to him. He showed this power many times; bringing new things from the earth, such as the Two Lamps and the Sun and Moon. He can also create life (Soulless life, albeit life nonetheless), in the form of the Dwarves.
Powers of the Ainur: As a Vala, Aulë has access to wide variety of potent and devastating supernatural abilities, for the Ainur (The Valar specifically) were created as elemental spirits, and each have divine authority and absolute control over a certain aspect of nature. Each and every one of the Ainur is also able to manipulate magical energies and reality to serve their needs, and take any form they wish, even intangible and non-corporeal spiritual forms. Given she is a Vala, above any of the Maiar, there is no doubt he can use all of the basic Ainur powers.
Elemental manipulation: Aulë was a spirit of the earth first and foremost, having control over its elements and nature. He raised the Two Lamps and shaped the continents of Arda in its beginning, and was one of the chief reasons for its current shape, rather than it's first unformed appearance.
Foresight/Hindsight: The Ainur can see the past and the future (Though the latter is fallible). Aulë would find some use in this power, if at least in menial proposes (I.e. Telling when a mine might cave in). However, like most other Ainur, he has no cases of using it.
Empathy: The Ainur are surrounded by an a powerful aura, which can affect those around them, bringing joy and presumably sorrow to those near them: "In Beleriand King Thingol upon his throne was as the lords of the Maiar, whose power is at rest, whose joy is as an air that they breathe in all their days, whose thought flows in a tide untroubled from the heights to the deeps."
Shapeshifting: As one of the Ainur, it is highly likely that Aul | 2,142 |
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Former Trump Aide to Kick Off Washington Term Speaker Series Marc Short '92 will deliver a lecture to the campus community entitled "Serving in the Trump Administration."
By Taylor Bryant
Marc Short speaks during an off-camera press briefing at the White House in Washington, Monday, July 10, 2017. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
On Wed., Feb. 6, at 7 p.m. in the Hillel Multipurpose Room, Marc Short '92 will deliver a lecture entitled "Serving in the Trump Administration," as part of the broader Washington Term Speaker Series "From the Colonnade to the Capitol… and Back."
Assistant Professor of Politics Brian Alexander, the new director of the W&L Washington Term Program, started this speaker series as<|fim_middle|>00 W&L students a unique experience in Washington since its founding in 1987.
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Tagged //politics, lecture, speaker, Marc Short '92, government, public talk, Department of Politics, Washington Term | a way to connect the D.C. experience of Washington Term with the campus community.
Next in the series will be a talk by Tolu Olubunmi '02, CEO and founder of Lions Write on Tues., March 5 at 7 p.m. in Stackhouse Theater. Tolu has established and led several organizations and campaigns focused on immigrant integration, youth empowerment, education, access to technology, and employment.
"The speakers reflect the full breadth of the success of W&L alumni, whether like Marc in key positions on Capitol Hill and the White House, or with Tolu in global leadership and advocacy for migrants, refugees, and internally displaced people," said Alexander. "These are the kinds of futures awaiting not just students of Washington Term, but all W&L students."
Marc Short has held roles in major conservative non-profits, the executive branch, election campaigns and both houses of Congress. He is currently a practitioner senior fellow for the Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia.
Previously, Short served as the White House director of legislative and intergovernmental affairs and assistant to President Donald Trump until July 2018. He also served as chief of staff to Vice President Mike Pence, spokesman for the Department of Homeland Security, chief of staff for Republican Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison, and an aide to then-Congressman Mike Pence. Pence named him chief of staff for the House Republican Conference in 2009.
Short worked for McGuire Woods Consulting and served as president for Freedom Partners, a nonprofit organization proposed to promote the benefits of free markets and a free society, located in Arlington, Virginia, from 2011 to 2016.
Born in Virginia, Short went on to receive an M.B.A. at University of Virginia's Darden School of Business in 2004 after graduating from Washington and Lee University in 1992.
This series is sponsored by the Washington Term Program with the support of the Department of Politics and the Williams School.
About Washington Term
The Washington Term Program is an undergraduate living-learning experience in Washington D.C., combining full-time internships, college coursework, and a lecture series. Each spring, a select group of sixteen students spend four days per week working in their internships. On Fridays, they attend a morning class led by Professor Alexander and afternoon guest lectures by prominent political figures in Washington. The program, open to all majors, has given over 4 | 500 |
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