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Q: Canvas equivalent of CGRectUnion I was looking for the javascript equivalent of the CoreGraphics function of CGRectUnion. I<|fim_middle|> Math.min(bottomEdge1, bottomEdge2) - Math.max(r1.y, r2.y)
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A demo can be found here:
http://jsfiddle.net/zfaqrnth/
| found isPointInPath. I was reading about clip paths so thought this was very much a possibility.
What this function does is take two rectangles.
function CGRectUnion(rect1, rect2) {
}
Each rect object has 4 keys, w, h, x, and y. x and y is the top left coordinate of the rectangle and w and h are the width and height.
The function returns false if no portion of rect2 overlaps rect1. If rect2 overlaps rect1 it then returns a rectangle object of the common area between the two rectangles.
Is there a built in function like this in javascript, especially canvas related area?
Thanks
A: I haven't heard of a function like that for canvas, however it's a pretty simple function so you can just implement it yourself like this:
function CGRectUnion(r1, r2) {
var rightEdge1 = r1.x+r1.w;
var rightEdge2 = r2.x+r2.w;
var bottomEdge1 = r1.y+r1.h;
var bottomEdge2 = r2.y+r2.h;
// first check if the rectangles overlap at all, if not return false
if(r1.x > rightEdge2 || rightEdge1 < r2.x || r1.y > bottomEdge2 || bottomEdge1 < r2.y) {
return false;
}
// return a new rectangle for the intersection
return {
x: Math.max(r1.x, r2.x),
y: Math.max(r1.y, r2.y),
w: Math.min(rightEdge1, rightEdge2) - Math.max(r1.x, r2.x),
h: | 349 |
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Home / Big Data / The Rx for Better Healthcare Data Management? A Dose of Blockchain
The Rx for Better Healthcare Data Management? A Dose of Blockchain
By Jim Schulenberg | April 11, 2018 with 0 Comments
With other sectors seeing blockchain technology as a way to transform how their information is protected, healthcare will be next.
A load of personally identifiable information, a web of institutions guarding that information and a series of regulations that aim to protect that data — healthcare and the financial services industry have a lot in common when it comes to dealing with and protecting the public's information. So with banks and Wall Street seeing blockchain technology as a way to transform how their information is protected, it's no surprise that the healthcare industry wants to follow suit.
But what does the technology that serves as the backbone of cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin have to offer outside of financial gain? And is it more than just hype?
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Blockchain technology at its core is a way to ensure that any transaction — be it a payment, contract or any other sort of data exchange — is permanent and secure. These transactions require a private key to be matched with a second key, and the resulting information is stored once a set of rules are met across a distributed network of miners. The data is stored in a so-called block, and each subsequent block relies on all the data in the blocks made prior to it<|fim_middle|> delivering value within leading BFS&I services firms in North America, Europe and Australia, Jim has seen the impact of process and technology change across industries for more than 25 years, and now focuses on accelerating the converging impact that blockchain, telematics, process automation and advanced analytics offer across the BFSI sector. Leveraging his deep experience in customer experience solutions and aligning to these emerging industry mega-trends, Jim is helping DMI's clients enter new markets, introduce new products, address new customer segments and adjust to the behaviors of changing customer expectations within the BFSI industries. As these converging trends will ultimately be driven and aligned to customer-centric platforms, DMI – with the focus on mobile-compute platforms – is uniquely suited to bring these together in the most forward thinking, timely and cost effective fashion
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Historically healthcare has been a sector slow to adopt cutting-edge technologies. However, the industry is turning over a new leaf in the age of electronic health records (EHRs), robotic surgery and artificial intelligence (AI) driven image recognition. Blockchain offers the healthcare industry a high-tech solution that it desperately needs, considering healthcare breaches comprise 27 percent of cybersecurity incidents. So any technology that promises to secure permanent transactions could make a huge difference when it comes to keeping patient data safe.
This technology is evolving from an incubation phase to an ideation phase. Understanding the applications of blockchain and the potential barriers to adoption can help the healthcare industry get a hype-free look at how this new technology can transform the industry's digital footprint.
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The implementation of blockchain technology in healthcare will likely focus on some easier-to-implement use cases to start.
Claims Adjudication and Billing Management
Blockchain-based systems can provide realistic solutions for minimizing medical billing-related fraud — a highly relevant use case given the number of fraudulent activities around improper medical billing and reimbursements across the payer institutions. For example, in a situation where a health plan and patient are dealing with a contract, the blockchain could automatically verify and authorize information, as well as the contractual processes — eliminating the back-and-forth between multiple parties. This would increase transparency and efficiency, leading to lower administration costs, faster claims processing and less money lost.
Interoperability and Clinical Health Data Exchange
Blockchain could enable data exchange systems that are cryptographically secured and irrevocable, fostering seamless access to historic and real-time patient data, while eliminating the burden and cost of data reconciliation. Of course, this is much easier said than done, given the nature of the structured and unstructured data from multiple sources in the healthcare industry.
Many clinical trials record their data in silos, meaning the information is not easily shareable among the medical community. This isn't just a data management issue, it's a safety issue. Blockchain could serve as a permanent ledger to store these trials' processes and results, so the medical community can have an easier time validating outcomes and collaborating on future research.
Instead of relying on Health Interoperability Exchange (HIE) systems, organizations can use blockchain technology to eliminate intermediaries and access patient databases on a large scale. Blockchain presents the opportunity to potentially leapfrog population health by providing trust where none exists, including continuous access to patient records and directly linking information to clinical and financial outcomes.
Drug Supply Chain Integrity
Counterfeit prescription drugs are a $75 billion global problem, and approximately 80 percent of these fake products are shipped to the U.S. from overseas. But by creating a digital key when a high-value product like a pharmaceutical is physically created, blockchain can be used to trace the origin of the product until it reaches a consumer. When the physical product moves, the blockchain token changes hands as well, mirroring its real-world chain of custody.
Managing AI-Generated Data
As AI and machine learning proliferate in healthcare, the industry undoubtedly must deal with more data than it ever has before. Not only that, but this data will have to be highly shareable, among the patient, doctors, medical facilities and healthcare providers. This large amount of data contains very sensitive information, and blockchain will allow for both big data discovery and data democratization to occur without posing a security risk.
There were more reported healthcare breaches in 2016 than ever seen before — and it's looking like this year is following suit. In fact, the Ponemon 2016 Cost of Data Breach report found that within the healthcare industry, the average cost per stolen record was $355, which is more than twice the average cost of a stolen record worldwide. As health data digitization continues to evolve, cybersecurity challenges will continue to persist. Blockchain has the potential to change the evolution of cybersecurity in healthcare by bridging the gaps of device data interoperability while ensuring security, privacy, and reliability.
If these uses seem far off, there is a steady stream of industry momentum that says otherwise. In fact, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently started researching how blockchain could be used to create secure, shareable electronic medical records, clinical trials and health data gathered from wearable devices. Industry IT vendor Change Healthcare is commercializing Hyperledger Fabric 1.0, aiming to be one step ahead of the healthcare industry as it seeks more cohesion in managing EHRs and processing claims.
However, like all shiny, new technologies, blockchain has a few barriers the healthcare industry must address as it moves to adopt it. One of the primary barriers to using a new method to store secure data is the fact that companies have already put a lot of money into existing secure data storage solutions. It was not that long ago that healthcare companies were tasked with transforming their data into digital EHRs. Getting smaller organizations like a doctor's office to overhaul its data management practices a few years after already doing so is not always easy.
Additionally, blockchain storage uses a vast amount of energy. For instance, it currently takes about a city's worth of power to support Bitcoin; and, while data mining hardware is decreasing in cost, the demand for cryptocurrencies is not, meaning that eventually, the supply might outweigh demand.
Exactly how blockchain technology in healthcare will work isn't clear, but some say the revolution is coming fast. In fact, 35 percent of healthcare companies plan on adopting blockchain by year's end. Understanding how this new technology can be leveraged — and what its limitations are — could potentially transform healthcare into one of the most secure data management industries in existence. We at DMI have started working with clients around blockchain and exploring ways of how we can evolve this from ideation to incubation with the ultimate goal of commercialization.
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Arctic ice reveals 1500 years of progress
Lead concentrations tell a story of human environment.
Drilling ice cores on the Greenland ice sheet. Credit: Joseph R. McConnell
Lead concentrations trapped in Arctic ice cores parallel periods of growth and technological progress across centuries and give insights into the pollution produced by industrial activities.
The ice cores show that lead pollution escalated 250- to 300-fold from the Early Middle Ages to the<|fim_middle|>It found that persistent increases in lead emissions started around 1000 BCE, coinciding with Phoenician expansion into the western Mediterranean.
The present study extends the record from 500 to 2010 CE and draws from a larger area spanning half the Arctic, including 12 ice cores from Greenland and one from Severnaya Zemlya in the Russian Arctic.
"Using an array of 13 ice cores instead of just one," says McConnell, "this new study shows that prior to the Industrial Revolution, lead pollution was pervasive and surprisingly similar across a large swath of the Arctic and undoubtedly the result of European emissions.
"The ice-core array provides with amazing detail a continuous record of European – and later North American – industrial emissions during the past 1500 years."
Lead concentrations in the ice cores reflect major emission increases from industrial activities ranging from mining and ancient Roman smelting of lead-silver ores for coins to more recent fossil fuel burning.
Interestingly, they increased during times of imperial expansion and political stability, new technologies and economic growth; for instance, the discovery of new mining areas in central European locations like the German Harz and Erzgebirge Mountains.
Lead pollution fell when plagues, including the Black Death and cholera pandemics, wiped out vast regions during the Late Middle Ages and Early Modern Period. Other drops coincided with wars, famines and climate disruptions such as the Little Ice Age.
While the research helps environmental scientists understand the impact of human activity on the planet, it also reveals how nations have historically responded to challenging times, says co-author Andrew Wilson, from the University of Oxford, UK.
"These core ice-records … are helping historians to understand and quantify the ways that societies and their economies have responded to external forces such as climate disruptions, plagues, or political unrest," he says.
The study is published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
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Natalie Parletta is a freelance science writer based in Adelaide and an adjunct senior research fellow with the University of South Australia.
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Since then, lead levels in the ice cores have fallen more than 80% – but they are still about 60 times higher than they were at the beginning of the Middle Ages.
To measure them, a multidisciplinary research team led by Joseph McConnell from the Desert Research Institute in Reno, US, used advanced atmospheric modelling to determine movement of lead through the atmosphere before it settled on the Arctic ice sheets.
They used established methods to accurately date lead concentrations which they then aligned with historical events.
The study extends work published by some of the authors in 2018.
That research analysed lead levels in a single ice core from Greenland and found they corresponded closely with historical European events between 1100 BCE and 800 CE – a period that included the Greek and Roman empires.
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Poland's visitor numbers steadily increase year on year, with tourists and expats alike arriving to hike in the soaring mountains, take a dip along the Baltic coastline, wander the atmospheric old towns, and party in the vibrant cities.
Whether you're planning a short trip to Poland just for fun - or moving over to work or study - you're going to need some cash. Getting cash from local ATMs is a convenient choice for many travellers and expats, and means you can get the money you need, when you need it, rather than exchanging everything you need for your stay in advance.
Here's all you need to know about using ATMs in Poland.
Where do I find ATMs (Bankomat) in Poland?
Poland has a developed banking system and is well served by local, regional and global banks. You'll have no problems finding an ATM in the towns and cities - but if you're heading off somewhere more rural you might find them somewhat more difficult to find. Grab the cash you need when you pass an ATM, just in case.
Will my credit or debit card work in Poland?
Visa and Mastercard are widely accepted in Poland. Discover cards have 'moderate' acceptance rates - they'll be accepted at some ATMs, including those run by Citibank, and those marked with the Euronet logo - but not necessarily elsewhere.
Amex cards can be used in ATMs run by a number of local banks, including Millenium and Pekao, so if that's your main card you'll want to get familiar with local branches, using one of the ATM locators below.
Bank cards issued in Poland have 4 digit PINs. If you have a chip and PIN card with a 4 digit PIN - from another country in Europe, the UK or Australia, for example - it should be accepted in Poland with no problem.
Of course, not all bank cards have a PIN for everyday use. If, for example, you use an American-issued magnetic stripe card, you'll need to request a PIN for the card from your bank before you travel.
If you're not sure whether your card can be used internationally, or just need a little reassurance the first time you try, use an ATM in a bank branch during working hours. That way you can easily check with staff if you have any problems.
There is no standard limit for ATMs in Poland. What you can take from a single ATM, or on a single day will depend somewhat on your home bank, too. That's because, if you've set a maximum daily cash withdrawal limit with your home bank, you'll find that it'll apply in Poland just like in your home country.
If you have no maximum limit on your card then the ATM provider will apply its own limit. Although this can vary, travellers report encountering ATM limits in the region of PLN1,200-PLN2,000 during their stay in Poland.
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To make sure you can use your card as normal in ATMs, shops and restaurants, during your trip, you'll need to tell your bank where you<|fim_middle|> to offer their customers free or reduced fee cash withdrawals if they use specific ATMs while travelling. Ask your home bank before you travel, to make sure you get the best deal.
Are there any tips to avoiding ATM fees in Poland?
Even if you can't get rid of fees altogether, you can reduce ATM fees in Poland with a few simple tricks.
Some bank accounts offer better terms for international ATM use than others. There are some accounts, for example, which are specifically marketed to travellers and promise free - or cheap - withdrawals wherever you are.
If you have more than one bank account check out which offers the best deal for overseas cash withdrawals. You might even consider opening a new account specifically for travel, which offers a good deal on overseas cash withdrawals.
Remember DCC? It's a frustrating - but entirely avoidable - expense for travellers and expats using a foreign credit or debit card. Choose to pay in local currency, to make sure you dodge DCC's high fees and poor exchange rates.
For a convenient - alternative, check out TransferWise. TransferWise only uses the real, mid-market exchange rate for transfers, with just a small fee per transaction. And there are no nasty surprises to worry about - there's a transparent fee structure for each transaction, so you know exactly what you're getting.
If you have a local bank account in Poland, or you're visiting someone who does, you can transfer money between accounts before your trip. Then withdraw cash from the local account using fee-free ATMs, as and when you need it.
Or, see if you could save even more with a borderless multi-currency account from TransferWise. You can keep your cash in any one of dozens of different currencies, including Polish zloty, and there's no monthly service fee added to your account. If you set up a debit card for the account and spend using that, you might even be able to avoid ATM fees, and rip-off exchange rates, entirely.
ATMs are popular with travellers because they're convenient to use, and as long as you're careful about DCC, you can often keep fees down to a minimum. Alternatively, why not give TransferWise a try. Send money to a local account, and avoid international ATM fees altogether. | plan on travelling.
If not you might find yourself abruptly unable to get your hands on your cash, as bank fraud departments might block or limit your card if they spot unusual spending patterns until they can confirm it's you using it.
What are the fees at ATMs in Poland?
If your regular bank account is with one of the international banks represented in Poland, such as Raiffeisen or Citibank, you might get free or cheap cash withdrawals if you stick to their ATMs.
But even if you strike lucky, there are a few extra fees - and scams - to watch out for if you use your foreign card in an ATM in Poland.
If you're a regular traveller then you've probably been asked, in a bar, or restaurant, for example, if you'd like your card transaction to be processed in your home currency instead of the local currency. This is because of something called dynamic currency conversion (also known as DCC for short) - and you might see it in action at ATMs, too.
DCC is a pretty common rip-off for foreign ATM customers. You only ever see the cost of your withdrawal expressed in your home currency, which means you don't get to check to see if the exchange rate used is fair. And to make sure the vendor makes a profit, the exchange rate used is often not the real, mid-market rate - the one you'd find on google. Instead, the ATM provider or merchant can mark the rate up and pocket the difference. You'll get a better deal if you always choose to pay in the local currency instead.
Many regular bank accounts charge for international ATM usage. That means that as well as avoiding DCC, you have to know what your own bank will charge you. These fees can mount up, and give you quite a shock when you check your account balance.
Find all the details for your specific account online, or on the back of a bank account statement - before you travel.
Finally, you could also be charged a fee by the local bank, or ATM provider for the use of the ATM. This is especially likely if you're using a private ATM, in a bar or nightclub for example.
Many Polish banks, however, don't add any extra fee - and you should be shown the costs before you complete the transaction. That means it's worth shopping around if you're in a city and have a choice of ATMs. You could find that there's one nearby with lower fees.
And as we mentioned above, if you're already banking with a regional or global brand which is represented in Poland, you could also find you get cheap or fee-free withdrawals, if you stick to their ATMs.
Can I get free cash withdrawals in Poland?
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"The key here is we really have to refocus on what we can control."
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After pro-Trump extremists stormed the Capitol on Wednesday, the nation has carried on in a nightmarish haze. This is especially true for DC residents: Even if you didn't experience the mob directly, it's still horrifying to know a coup attempt happened just a Metro ride away.
It's understandable, then<|fim_middle|>urrection, say mental health professionals. And the effects of this week's events are likely building upon the already considerable mental toll of 2020. "I think we've all been developing this pre-existing anxiety because we've been in this pandemic, and it's so horrendous, for so long," says Fairfax psychiatrist Susan Trachman.
The events of 2021 can be especially harmful to people who've experienced prior trauma or assault, says Trachman, or who have a history of substance abuse or mental illness. She also points out that people of color may be particularly traumatized after watching the mostly white rioters raid the Capitol, given the disparate police response toward them and Black Lives Matter demonstrators last summer.
Bottom line: we could all probably use some suggestions for how to cope after this week. Here are some tips from mental health professionals.
Self-monitor
If you're unsure whether you're experiencing anxiety, depression, or trauma, check in with yourself and keep an eye out for red flags, says Lisa Ferentz, a Maryland clinical social worker who specializes in trauma. These could include changes in behavior, such as sleeping too much or too little, disconnecting from friends and losing interest in usual activities, or experiencing unusually pessimistic thoughts. Also a red flag: experiencing chest palpitations, heart racing, body pain, or sweating, which can be physical symptoms of anxiety. And keep an eye out for "any self-destructive behavior that is done for the purpose of numbing or self-medication," she says—this could be anything from increased alcohol or recreational drug use to over-eating.
Just log off
It may seem like the natural thing to constantly refresh Twitter while CNN plays in the background, but you're not helping your mental health. "When our brains and our bodies are repeatedly subjected to the visual imagery, the stuff from newscasters and the talking heads and the things on social media, this really exacerbates the feelings of helplessness and hopelessness and anxiety and anger and divisiveness," says Ferentz.
Trachman puts it a little more bluntly: "Stop watching the freaking TV."
Control what you can
"The key here is we really have to refocus on what we can control," says Ferentz. "With all the stuff that's going on, we often become hyper-aware of what's not in our control."
Trachman agrees: "People get scared when they feel things are out of control," she says. "And what can you control? Your environment." Both point to things like exercise, eating well, limiting alcohol, getting enough sleep, and reaching out to friends and family as crucial to maintaining a healthy environment. Self-care is important, too, says Ferentz, and she suggests using aromatherapy, a gratitude journal, or positive affirmations.
Also critical: Not being afraid to seek professional mental health help. "There's no question that now, more than ever, people really deserve the support of therapy," says Ferentz. This could mean scheduling an appointment with a therapist, many of whom are seeing clients virtually right now, or looking into options such as online support groups or mental health workshops.
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It is easy to see how pyracantha got its common name, Firethorn. This shrub blazes with fiery berries in autumn and has very sharp thorns. For this reason, it is often used as a hedging plant to deter unwanted visitors from the garden.
This is a great plant for adding some stunning colour to the garden as it will be smothered in berries from September to February. It also features masses of white flowers in late spring and early summer. The shrub is evergreen so provides good structure and colour to the garden in all seasons.
This<|fim_middle|> in winter. Many varieties are now resistant to scab.
Fireblight is a disease caused by the bacterium Erminia amylovora. If affected your pyracantha's leaves start to turn black and look cracked as if they have been burnt by fire, which is what gives the disease its name. The symptoms also include flowers that wilt and die, shoots that shrivel, a slimy white liquid oozing from infections and cankers where infected shoots join larger branches.
Infected parts of the plant should be removed and destroyed. Cut the plant back to healthy wood. Remember to disinfect your pruning tools after each cut to avoid spreading the disease.
Q My firethorn has not produced any berries this year. What could be wrong?
There are several possible reasons for your plant's lack of berries. If your plant generally produces berries, then it is likely that it is weather conditions that have affected your plant.
If your shrub did not get enough water this can cause the berries not to develop. This can be a problem in a dry, sunny border or in a plant that is against a wall or building. Late spring frosts can damage the flowers, resulting in no berry production. Also, the flowers require pollination in order to produce berries. If the plant flowers when the weather is cold and wet, bees and other pollinating insects will not be active and this can result in a lack of berries.
If your plant failed due to weather conditions this year, then hopefully it will do better next year. However, it is worth checking your plant for pests and diseases to make sure there is not a more serious underlying factor.
Q The leaves on my pyracantha have turned yellow. What can I do to get it back to good health?
If it is the older leaves of your plant that are turning yellow it may have been affected by Fusarium wilt. Prune out and destroy any affected parts of the plant. In addition, check that drainage and air circulation are good.
If it is the new leaves that are affected it indicates a mineral deficiency. This can be caused by overwatering or waterlogged soil. I would suggest that you reduce watering and apply a slow release, organic fertiliser in spring to see if this sorts the problem out.
Q I planted a pyracantha hedge two years ago, but it hasn't had a single berry. What could be wrong?
As these plants are still quite young, I think it is just that they are not mature enough to produce flowers and berries yet. Give it another year and you will probably begin to see some as long as the hedge gets enough sun and is not waterlogged. | shrub can be grown as a specimen plant, trained up a fence or wall or used as hedging. It can also be planted in a large container. Bees will love the flowers of your pyracantha and birds may like to nest in it, as the thorns keep them safe from predators and the berries provide a steady supply or winter food.
These plants can tolerate very cold temperatures in winter and very hot ones in summer which makes them virtually indestructible. They are also easy to grow and require little maintenance. Regular pruning can keep your plant looking its best.
Read on to find out how to choose and grow this plant and for advice on planting, propagating and taking care of it.
Can reach a height of 4 metres (13 feet) however, it can be kept to a smaller size with regular pruning.
Pyracantha leaf-mining moth and woolly aphid pests.
All pyracantha are large shrubs that require little maintenance. They can, however, be pruned to keep them to a smaller size if required. They produce white flowers in May and June and have abundant berries in autumn. Some varieties are better for hedging and some for training on walls or fences. In addition, some tolerate shade better than others so choose your variety carefully depending on your conditions and what you want from your plant.
This shrub can sometimes be affected by fireblight and scab, however, newer varieties have been bred to be resistant to these diseases. Look for varieties in the Saphyr series which include 'Cadrou' (orange-red berries), 'Cadange' (orange berries) and 'Caduane' (yellow berries).
This variety has bright yellow berries that birds love. It grows best in well-drained soil and can tolerate partial shade. It reaches a height of 3 metres (10 feet) but can be kept smaller by pruning. It can be used as a hedging plant, as a specimen shrub or it can be trained against a wall.
This variety has bright red berries. When used as hedging it provides a good, dense, prickly hedge. It can also be trained against a wall, fence or trellis. It will tolerate a position in partial shade. This is a fast-growing shrub that will reach a maximum height of 3 metres (10 feet), but it can be pruned to whatever size required.
This variety has orangey-red berries and prefers full sun to partial shade. It is very resistant to diseases such as fireblight and scab. It reaches a maximum height of 3 metres (10 feet).
This variety is smaller with a compact spreading habit. It can reach 1.8 metres (6 feet) tall, but if well pruned can be used to provide ground cover. It has orange-red berries. This variety could also be grown in a large container.
This variety is a vigorous upright plant that has some resistance to scab. It can be grown against a wall or used as a free-standing shrub. It has orange-yellow berries. It can reach a height of 4 metres (13 feet).
This variety has unusual purple-black stems that contrast stunningly with the orange-red fruits. It is a medium-sized variety reaching 2.7 metres (9 feet) in height. It can be pruned to keep it to a smaller size.
These shrubs are very hardy and easy to care for. Once established they will give you years of trouble-free pleasure.
Pyracantha like plenty of sunshine if they are to flower well and thus produce abundant berries. Many types will tolerate partial shade, however. Generally, as long as they get a few hours of sunlight each day they will be fine.
This plant is very deep-rooted which makes it drought hardy. Once established it will not usually need watering. The only exception is if it is grown against a wall where it might not get all the moisture it needs. In this case, it should be given a thorough watering, weekly, in dry conditions. It is more important to ensure that your plant does not become waterlogged as this can cause roots to rot. Plant it in free draining soil and add plenty of coarse grit if the soil is at all heavy.
These shrubs prefer fertile well-drained soil; however, they will tolerate most soils. If you are planting in clay, add lots of coarse grit and well-rotted compost and choose a fairly well-established plant as they will cope with wet soil better than immature plants.
If you have poor soil, apply blood fish and bone or other fertiliser in spring and autumn.
The best time to plant this shrub is spring or autumn. If you are planting against a wall or building, make sure your shrub is at least 20 inches from the foundations. This will give its roots room as well as ensuring it is not kept dry by gutters or overhanging rooves. It is best not to plant these shrubs at the corner of two fences or walls as this will limit air circulation and could lead to fungal diseases.
Dig a hole twice the size of the rootball. Add a handful of blood, fish and bone or other organic fertiliser and work it in a little. Situate the rootball so that it is at the same depth as it was in the pot, backfill and firm in. Water well to settle the roots and remove any air pockets.
If you are planting a pyracantha hedge you should position the plants at 60 cm (2 feet) intervals.
Once planted, a layer of mulch should be applied to suppress weeds and retain moisture as well as providing nutrients as it rots down. Keep the mulch a few centimetres clear of the stem so that it does not stay moist and begin to rot.
These plants do best if planted in the soil and are not always happy in a container. If you do plant one in a container it is best to choose a smaller, variegated variety and plant in a nice big pot. You can keep the plant compact by regular pruning.
These plants require very little maintenance. However, they are large shrubs, so a good pruning regime will keep them looking their best and keep them the size that you require.
In addition, it is advisable to remove and destroy fallen leaves in autumn to reduce the risk of fungal infections.
Container grown plants will need regular watering and feeding.
A good pruning routine will help maintain a nice shrub to the size that you desire. In addition, proper pruning ensures plenty of air circulation and reduce the chance of fungal diseases.
In the first two or three years, your shrub will be establishing its structure and root system so will not need pruning. Simply cut away any dead or dying stems. Remember to wear good, thick gloves to protect you from your shrubs thorns.
Pyracantha is easy to prune as you can tell where the berries will be by where it has flowers. So, by pruning when it is in flower you can easily see which stems to leave so you don't lose berries. When it is in flower you will easily be able to tell the old growth that is not flowering anymore. You do not want to remove all of this growth however as it is still adding to the structure of the shrub and providing nice evergreen foliage. Generally, it is best to cut back one third to half of these non-flowering stems.
It is also advisable to thin out some of the stems to allow good air circulation. Cut back about one in five of the oldest stems within the crown of the shrub.
You can also trim up any over long or weak stems to create a nice balanced shape to your shrub.
If you have an overgrown pyracantha it will withstand quite hard pruning. You can cut the whole shrub back by half without any long-term ill effects. You may have fewer berries in the following year but in time the plant will come back better than ever after its regeneration.
It is easy to create new pyracantha plants by taking cuttings. This should be done in late spring or early summer, though they can be taken right up to autumn if necessary.
Prepare a pot for each cutting using a mixture of potting compost and sand or horticultural grit to create good drainage. Make a hole for each cutting using a pencil.
Choose stems that are just beginning to go woody at the base. Pinch out the soft tip of the stem. The stem can then be divided into cuttings. The base of each cutting should be cut just above a leaf node as this is where the plant will create new roots. Each cutting should be 7-15 cm (3-6 inches) long. Remove the lower leaves. You can dip your stem in hormone rooting powder as this will encourage rooting and help prevent the cutting from rotting. Insert each cutting into its pot and mist generously with water.
Cover each pot with a plastic bag secured with an elastic band and place them in a warm sheltered spot in good light but out of direct sunlight.
Check your cuttings weekly. At this time, you should give them an airing for at least ten minutes, remove any dead or dying material and water them.
Your cuttings should produce roots in a few weeks at which time you can remove the plastic bag. Keep watering them regularly and will be ready for planting out the following spring.
These shrubs are not generally susceptible to pests; however, they can occasionally be attacked by the Pyracantha leaf-mining moth or woolly aphid pests.
The larvae of this moth feed inside the foliage causing a silvery-white discolouration to the upper surface of the leaves. The caterpillars of the moth make a mine along the central leaf vein. Once it has finished feeding, it spins silk webbing within the mine which causes the leaf to fold upwards. This moth can make your plant look unhealthy, but it does not actually damage the plant much. This seems to be a problem in some years more than others. New growth will be healthy so generally, no treatment is required.
Woolly aphids are sap-sucking pests that feed on your plant. They are tiny and usually a green or blue colour. They are covered with a white, waxy material that makes them look 'woolly'. They can cause twisted and curled leaves, yellowing foliage and poor growth. Some stems may even die back completely. You may also see a sticky residue known as honeydew.
These pests rarely do significant damage to the plant; however, they can make it look unsightly. An application of insecticidal soap or neem oil may get rid of them, however, usually, they are kept in check by predators such as lacewings, ladybirds and parasitic wasps.
This is a fungal disease that can cause black marks on the leaves and berries. It usually occurs in summer but may not be noticeable in the first year. However, when the infected leaves fall in autumn the fungus spores survive overwinter. Then, in the following spring, spores are released from the fallen leaves and spread to the new leaves through wind and watering.
In order to prevent this disease, it is advisable to remove and destroy all fallen leaves | 2,283 |
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Bryan Strickland, a lifelong Coloradoan, is a man of many talents. He writes, draws, paints, and sings. Well, no, he doesn't really sing; though he loves music and plays violin and guitar. Writing is his passion and focus. He is a storyteller, a creator of worlds, a lover of characters, and a crafter of memorable scenes and vivid descriptions. He is a student and lover of words; particularly those grandiose and archaic.
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Lyra Rayne: Ground Zero is a work of epic science fiction and superhero fantasy penned by author Bryan Strickland. The titular and central character Lyra wants to make a change in the world, and her work battling the ecological problems of energy production seems to be a way to do that. But when an experimental reactor turns deadly, Lyra escapes with her life and a whole new host of abilities to contend with. But being a hero is not automatic because of her powers, and Lyra must learn to control her own fallibilities on a much larger scale if she is to become a force for good rather than destruction.
Author Bryan Strickland has created a truly superb and totally contemporary superhero tale that will engulf cross-genre fans from the sci-fi, military fiction, cli-fi, and LGBTQ+ readerships. Charming and stylish, but also hard-edged and filled with gritty action and adventure, Lyra is a realistic hero in the sense that her humanity is her downfall as much as it is her strength. The commitment<|fim_middle|> of. After testing her abilities to the limit, she realizes she now has the potential to do so much more good, and off she goes, headstrong and eager.
Bryan Strickland's writing style draws you in, winding tales that force you to confront your worldview. His characters find themselves in situations that leave you wondering what you'd have done. They learn hard lessons, and realize things about themselves that they don't necessarily like, and figure out how to keep moving forward because the only way out is through. And in the end, they come out better for it.
I didn't realize how much I needed this book.
The situations in which Lyra finds herself are harrowing. The science she works with is intriguing. The fight scenes even kept me on the edge of my seat. But Lyra's humanity is what hooked me. Her determination and gumption are what will have me waiting with bated breath for the next book. | to development holds the novel together with a powerful emotive central journey, which is accompanied by an excellent plot that showcases her talents and gives Lyra the chance to rise up during this, her origin story novel. An openly gay and female protagonist gives an authentic contemporary feel to the tale, used here not for gimmicks but as a genuine expression of Lyra's heart. Overall, Lyra Rayne: Ground Zero is a superb opening to a very promising and exciting science fiction series.
Rayne Millaray
So I'm not super into superhero books (comic or otherwise) as a general rule. I like the movies, and I love the characters. But the stories often embody a lot of patriarchal BS mixed in with narcissistic hero complexes. They tend to paint women as little more than sex objects who exist solely for the male gaze (Wonder Woman was written expressly for that purpose). As a queer woman, I don't really see myself represented in many superhero stories, which are mostly spun in a heteronormative, hypermasculine society. And the fight scenes make my eyes glaze over. I don't have the attention span for them.
Bryan Strickland's Lyra Rayne: Ground Zero steps outside of all that.
Lyra Rayne is an intelligent grad student who enjoys mixed martial arts, partying with her friends, and helping people as much as she can. She stands up for what she believes in and takes no crap she isn't owed.
Lyra works as a research assistant with her mentor, Professor Grant Hill, and his other assistant, Gerald. They're research is focused on an energy source that would eliminate the need for fossil fuels. Their world is like our world, with similar problems and political debates. Their efforts are altruistic: affordable, 100% clean energy for the entire world.
Lyra's also very human. She empathizes with people who aren't like her. She speaks up when she sees people being mistreated. She gets to the lab late more often than not. She makes questionable decisions and beats herself up when they blow up in her face.
And boy, do some of them blow up in her face. My mistakes pale in comparison to some of hers. But then she picks herself up, dusts herself off, and heads back into the fray to fight again. Every single time. Which is part of the beauty of this book, and one of its many life lessons.
Every superhero needs its origin story, and Lyra is no different. One day, the university's lab explodes, Lyra nearly dies trying to save Gerald. When she wakes up the next morning, she's got abilities most people only dream | 545 |
Halladay's Future
By Eric Seidman
Roy Halladay pitched relatively well on Sunday, scattering five hits and a single run over eight innings of work. He worked quickly, needing just 87 pitches over those eight frames, and threw twice as many strikes as balls. Doc also kept the ball on the ground, generating nearly 50 percent grounders on a day when he managed just two strikeouts.
Two schools of thought were formed after he exited the game. Some fans instantly wrote his performance off as being a byproduct of facing the punchless Marlins. Other fans took this as a big step in getting back on track.
As per usual, we're looking at a little from Column A and a little from Column B.
Halladay no doubt threw better on Sunday but he still made several mistakes that an actual major league offense — you know, one that doesn't include Placido Polanco and Greg Dobbs as the bread in a Giancarlo Stanton sandwich — would have exploited. Though the results didn't bear this out, he struggled with both command and control during the first few frames, and if he makes some of those same mistakes against the Cardinals this coming weekend, we're again looking at a potential 4 IP, 9 H, 6 ER outing.
Perhaps that is part of his current growing pains in adjusting to his lesser 'stuff' but it's something he will need to figure out quickly. He adjusted on the fly, incorporated his curveball far more, and by the latter stages of the game had seemingly settled into a nice rhythm. He pitched well, but if you remove the end results and focus on the process this game wasn't really that far off of his last start against the Mets.
However, maybe all he needed was a solid results-based outing to get some of his mojo back.
As fans in Column B were quick to point out, Halladay has repeatedly said that he feels fine, physically, and that he's struggling with the mental side of things right now. I'm no psychologist but perhaps throwing eight effective innings of one-run ball was enough to prove to himself that he could still get batters out and go deep into games. With that reinforced knowledge perhaps his confidence grows.
We can't simply discount this start because of who he faced but we also can't assume he is anywhere near back yet. This may have been a step in the right direction but we're dealing with a pretty big staircase. Getting Halladay right is a Chrysler Key to the Season and Sunday's outing moved the needle in the positive direction.
However, during each of his three starts this season I have ruminated on his future. I'm trying to<|fim_middle|>, I thought his best inning in terms of hitting spots and putting the ball where he wanted was the inning in which he surrendered the tying run. From that point on, he looked confident and threw purposeful pitches in effective spots with accuracy. The overall results aren't what should produce confidence — his last couple of innings should have signaled a change for the better. He can get by with lesser stuff if he pitches that way.
But with all these question marks, one major question is what happens to him from here.
Halladay has repeatedly said that he wants to finish his career in Philadelphia, but his value isn't as cut-and-dried if he has the same name on the back of his jersey without the same abilities. Would he take a significant paycut to stay in Philadelphia? Would he sign a multi-year deal with low base salaries that are loaded with incentives? Would a team like the Rays prove attractive with, say, a 1 yr/$12 million deal?
It's obviously still early to appropriately answer these questions, but I can't help but think about them each time he toes the rubber.
It once seemed inconceivable that his 2014 option wouldn't automatically vest. Now we're dealing with the issue of whether the Phillies would even want him back next season. As I see it there are three different scenarios that could play out. He could rebound and remain effective, throwing something like 190 innings with a 3.40 ERA and 3/1 K/BB ratio. He could re-injure himself, thus lending some more credence to the idea that there are physical maladies at work. Or he could continue to pitch in a boom and bust fashion, with fans and teammates never really knowing which version is going to show up on a start-to-start basis.
That first scenario Halladay is still worth guaranteed money over multiple years. That second scenario Halladay is worth a flier on a deal loaded with incentives. That third scenario Halladay is puzzling, because his age should dictate a decline but many teams may feel they have identified a singular flaw and can fix him and return him to his Cy Young Award form.
For the Phillies, the ideal situation is that Halladay identifies his own flaws and incorporates fixes this season in order to help them get back to the playoffs. Sunday's start against the Marlins had more positives than negatives but the true test will come in his next start, when he opens the game with the approach he took in the latter innings against the Fish. It's still far too early to speculate on how he'll pitch and what he'll make next year, but this weekend's start against St. Louis could go a long way towards shaping his 2013 campaign.
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Phillies Road Trips to Boston, New York and Chicago | focus on his present and what he can do to get back on track but what happens to Halladay after this season has the potential to represent one of the most compelling free agent situations in recent history. Simply put, he is a big unknown this season and that carries material financial implications heading into next season.
Halladay is a Hall-of-Fame pitcher and the best of this era. He easily outpitched his $20 million contract in 2010 and 2011 and even last season his peripheral statistics and 2.4 WAR in ~150 innings belied a better pitcher than his 4.49 ERA. He wasn't worth $20 million but he pitched at a 3 WAR pace which is worth $14-$15 million.
On the other hand, I used the term '3 WAR pace' because he missed time with an injury last season, and at age 36 his likelihood for injuries will only increase.
On top of that, nobody has any idea what to expect when he pitches, and it isn't as if the range of possibilities is 8 IP-1 R to 6 IP-3 R. As we saw in spurts last season and against the Braves and Mets, Halladay has very little room for error right now, and when he makes mistakes the games can get out of hand quickly.
Other pitchers have lost their best stuff and made adjustments late in their careers but Halladay's situation feels different. It doesn't seem like a physical ailment that requires more time for him to properly recover. It isn't a dead arm phase where his velocity will return in a couple of weeks. It's as if, almost overnight, Halladay went from the elite of the elite to a decent #3 starter, without any real explanation whatsoever.
During spring training and in his first two starts it seemed like he tried to pitch like his old self without the same 'stuff' that made the old self so effective. He wasn't hitting spots, the pitches felt flat, and he did un-Halladay-like things like elevating changeups. He looked like the Halladay that initially struggled in his first couple of years in Toronto and not the guy baseball fans fell in love with.
Sunday's start against the Marlins saw him make proper adjustments later in the game, and ironically | 475 |
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A forward contract is a contract between two individuals, you might call them counter-parties, to deliver at a future date called the exercise date or maturity date. Historically, forward contracts preceded futures contracts. A futures contract is a more sophisticated idea. So for example, what was happening in Dojima before the 1670s, rice farmers would make a deal to sell their rice to a warehouser. Now they could just wait until the harvest is in and then bring it to Dojima and see what price they could get, but they have an alternative of establishing the price earlier and locking it in. Farmers like to do this because they don't know what the price will be when they sell it. So you put in a lot of expense to produce the product, and it might not pay you back all of your expenses, so you don't like that. So they typically like to lock in the price. That's called, if you do it directly and typically you would sell it to a warehouse or a grain elevator as they're called. There would be a local grain, I don't know about rice, wheat or corn or any of these. In the countryside, there's a local grain elevator, and you can go to that person and say, "I'm planning to harvest rice at such and such a month. Will you buy it and can you give me a price today?" Most farmers don't hedge in the futures market. It's too complicated and sophisticated. But the grain elevator or the warehouser I think they almost always hedge because they're going to be storing. The hedging, the storage business is a tight margin business. It's very competitive. You could store a lot of grain or promise to buy grain at a price that turns out to be unprofitable for you. So what happens is these stores of grain are the hedgers and they will quote prices to farmers as a forward price. There's other kinds... It's not just grain. Grains are historically the origin of forwards and futures, but let's talk about other things. You can also make a forward contract to exchange pounds for yen or dollars for yen or any number of combinations. If I make a forward contract, both sides are locked into the contract, so they have no liquidity. Why do they do it? Well, they do it because they don't want to fit into one of those standard contracts that are offered at the exchange. They might want a different delivery location, they might want a different date, they might want a different quality, and<|fim_middle|> but that's the settlement formula. | so they make forward contracts are big. But the problem with forward contracts is you can't get out of them and you don't necessarily trust the counterparty. What if the farmer just doesn't, he gets drunk and doesn't plant and you're standing on the other side of the contract? So you're out of luck. The advantage of futures contract is that you don't have to worry because your counterparty is the futures exchange. It's not between the producer of wheat and the manufacturer of breakfast cereals. The producer of wheat deals with the futures exchange, and so does the manufacturer of breakfast cereals who might be taking effectively the other side. So they have to... If you're going to go with forwards, you have to worry about your counterparty, and you have to check the counterparty out, and you need to establish that the counterparty has good credit so they're inherently limited. Futures markets. You want to trade? You can call up a broker tomorrow and trade. The broker will do it with anyone who posts margin. But let me come back to that. Forward exchange futures, a forward exchange contract, FX forwards can be thought of as a pair of zero coupon bonds stapled together in two different currencies. Suppose I'm selling goods. I'm a Japanese producer of goods which I'm selling in the United States. I'm going to sell them for dollars of course, Americans pay dollars. And then I want to repatriate the money to Japan, so I'm going to exchange it into yen. But I want to have a forward contract which locks in the price today. I don't have to go through the forward market. I can borrow the money today in dollars, exchange it at the spot exchange rate today into yen, take the yen back to Japan and put them in some interest bearing account in Japan earning the Japanese interest rate. So I'm going to be charged the dollar interest rate but I'm going to be credited the Japanese interest rate. And so I have an amount left at the end equal to the product of the spot exchange rate times 1 plus r yen divided by 1 plus r dollars. So that's what I could do without entering the forward exchange market, just by trading currency, by borrowing and then investing in Japan. So this number should equal the forward exchange rate by arbitrage, because it's two different ways of doing the same thing and so they should be the same number. So that means that the forward exchange rate, yen dollar exchange rate is not as interesting a number as you might think. You might think that the forward exchange rate is some prediction of the spot exchange rate. Well, maybe it is, but it's also just this. It reflects the relative interest rates in the two countries. If you look at forward exchange rates and compare them with spot exchange rates and check out this formula, it works pretty well explaining the forward interest rate. So that's called forward interest parity. Forward rate agreements use a formula which looks a little, it's not exactly what I just showed you. They typically actually just have a settlement which is the actual interest rate on the contract date minus the contract rate times the days in the contract period times the contract amount divided by B, which is depending on the convention either 360 or 365 days. We're in leap year this year, so we have 366 days so that you know the formula won't be exact because it's either... They went back to 360 days for formulas like this because people couldn't divide. They wanted a round number. So that's an old tradition and 366 doesn't appeal to anybody | 744 |
This summer, NAMI Mercer is offering<|fim_middle|> at Drexel University. | a series of 5 expressive arts workshops. (See descriptions below.) There is no charge for NAMI Mercer members. A goodwill offering from nonmembers would be welcomed when you attend.
Registration is capped at 25 per workshop, so register now before they fill up!
Enjoy a fun evening and create your own summer-themed masterpiece!
Light refreshments and sparkling grape juice will be served.
Paint, easels, canvases, aprons, brushes will all be provided. No previous art experience is necessary. Everyone is welcome!
Diane Forer is a retired art teacher with awards to her credit. She has been doing painting parties for children, adults, and as fundraisers for more than 2 years. Diane's favorite quote is from Picasso, "Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life."
Produce your own vivid writing about your everyday life. Learn from your unique way of putting words on paper. Leslie says it is all about perspective -- and you can turn crummy into funny.
Leslie Handler is a syndicated columnist and freelance writer who recently authored a book, "Rats, Mice and other Things You Can't Take to the Bank," a collection of essays from humorous to simply human.
Musicians Colleen Ryan and Jim Gaven will lead the group in a round of fun, positive, and uplifting music activities. Silly vocal warmups to break the ice will flow into a handful of sing-a-long songs, and finish off with a series of percussion related activities to get everyone in rhythm with one another before parting ways.
Armed with the goal of helping others, Jim Gaven, a musician on a mission, is inspired to write songs that make you think of a good time in your life, make you feel good about yourself, and most of all, put a smile on your face. The upbeat singer/songwriter from Hamilton, NJ wants to make a positive difference in the world and truly believes that music has the ability to do that.
Colleen Ryan Barringer is a singer/songwriter from Ewing, NJ. She is a graduate of Rider University, with a BA in Fine Arts and a music concentration. Her EP of original songs, The Getaway Plan, was released in 2016 and is available on iTunes. She performs locally and is a private voice instructor.
This workshop is designed to explore emotions and engage your creativity. Put pen to paper to express how music makes you feel. Then, create a vibrantly-colored silk scarf using stamping, folding and tying techniques.
Lisa Brown is an accomplished artist who has created many different types of work which she exhibits and sells, including mixed media. She has been teaching classes for over 35 years and has developed a series of art-as-therapy workshops to support those dealing with illness and adversity. She is also an author.
FUNdamentals of Improv will cover the basic skills and techniques of comedy improvisation. How do you quell your anxiety and know what to do when there's no script??? This class will put your mind at ease!
David Lee White is a playwright and educator who has worked with a number of theaters and theater programs in NJ/NY/PA. His work runs the gamut from crowd-pleasing comedy, political satire, oral history-based docudrama, musical theater, educational theater and mental health advocacy. He has been teaching and performing improvisational comedy for 25 years and is currently on the theater faculty | 702 |
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I love biscotti ('course I purdy much love all food). This sounds really good. Thanks for all the good recipes. | would make the biscotti with that theme, so I drizzled chocolate all over them and then tossed on a mixture of some red, white and pink sprinkles and heart sprinkles that I had. Aren't they just sweet? And you know what - this combination with the orange zest is just downright delicious too!
Why don't you make some for your sweetie? Or heck ... just make some for yourself! You deserve it. You know you do.
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Combine all of the ingredients in mixer bowl except for the orange zest and chocolate chips. Mix on medium speed until well combined. Add in the zest and chips and mix to combine. Divide the dough in half, roll each half into a long tube shape, 12 inches in length. Place on an ungreased baking sheet approximately 3 inches apart and bake at 350 degrees for 25 minutes.
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Construction is complete on the $10.9 million, 60,000-square-foot Corky McMillin Elementary School located on a 10.3-acre site in Chula Vista. The project represents a prototype designed, in collaboration with the district, to reflect a new way of thinking in education facilities for the information-technology age.
The project team worked directly with the assistant superintendent for business services and support and the school district during a two-week charette, or series of workshops, where the two groups examined<|fim_middle|>), structural engineering; Randall Lamb (San Diego), electrical and mechanical engineering; Winzler & Kelly (San Diego), civil engineers; and Wimmer, Yamada & Caughey (San Diego), landscape architects. | case studies and interviewed teachers, administrators, maintenance personnel and community members for input on a design that would best suit both elementary schools.
The campus encompasses nine single-story buildings, including an administration building, a multipurpose building, a library and six classroom buildings that will hold 750 students in grades K to 6, with extra space to accommodate growth.
Design goals consisted of a depiction of a village-like atmosphere where buildings are compatible with surrounding residential neighborhoods. The exteriors have Californian stucco finishes and standing-seam metal roofs. All the buildings have covered walkways.
The administration building is located near the main entry to represent a "downtown" village for easy public access and overall supervision of campus activities. This building houses the reception area, staff offices, conference room, teachers' lounge, workroom and a nurse's office.
Tucker Sadler Noble Castro Architects (San Diego, Calif.) is architect for the project. Key project consultants included Simon Wong Engineering (San Diego | 199 |
Posted on March 2, 2022 October 21, 2<|fim_middle|> that you are looking for. In the rapidly-changing world of SaMD and the challenges of smoothly regulating it, a specialist recruitment agency with an established network of SaMD regulatory specialists looking for new opportunities could be just the answer you are looking for! Get in touch with our team today to discuss your hiring requirements. For extremely urgent and flexible hiring needs, a contract SaMD hire might be your best option. Get in touch with Elemed Interim to speak to an expert and find out more.
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Hiring for experts in software as a medical device
Software as a medical device is an aspect of healthcare that is set to keep growing. The ever-increasing digitisation of the world and interconnectedness has created many new opportunities and challenges, especially in the digital health sector. Software as a Medical Device (SaMD) is improving the way we approach the healthcare system by aiding clinicians to be able to make quicker and more informed decisions for providing patients with treatment options and diagnosis. SaMD can be updated and modified with reactive ease to reflect the latest advances in medical technology, providing clinicians with the most up-to-date help at their fingertips. But the ease with which SaMD can be updated presents challenges for regulators in keeping these medical devices safe and controlled, whilst also treading a fine line in not negatively impacting on the massive innovation and growth that this sector is experiencing and is expected to continue to experience. To succeed, Software as a Medical Device companies should be on the lookout for passionate regulatory affairs professionals who can navigate the fine line between innovation and safety.
What is software as a medical device?
Software as a Medical Device (SaMD) is a type of standalone medical device that directly serves a function impacting patient treatment, this differentiates it from Software in a Medical Device (SiMD) which is software that assists the functioning of a medical device. This is clarified by the FDA in that SaMD is 'designed to carry out one or more medical purposes'. A key feature of Software as a Medical Device is that it requires no hardware, which removes many of the barriers in being able to update the technology industry-wide efficiently. It can take the form of software or mobile applications that can help to detect, cure, and manage the entire treatment process of diseases and medical conditions.
Another key feature is that SaMD can utlilise big data and is capable of constantly collecting it through a myriad of sources to allow clinicians to offer the most sophisticated treatment management options. Likewise, SaMD has a clear benefit in being able to gauge user feedback in real time as it is available across multiple devices. This combination of being able to constantly source information and feedback leads to quicker production and innovation, which in turn positively reflects on improved health outcomes and treatment options. SaMD is also closely linked with AI/machine learning and AIaMD, and the development and application of this technology to medical device innovation presents a further fuzzy area for regulators to effectively monitor, as the rate at which medical technology and innovation advances can continue to increase at an exponential rate, leaving regulators playing catch up.
In this rapidly-developing industry, it is crucial that your organisation is making the right decisions when hiring a SaMD regulatory professional that is able to keep up with the pace of change. Elemed's dedicated network of motivated SaMD professionals could be just the resource you need to ensure you are staying compliant as regulations evolve.
What are the regulations for software as a medical device?
In order for a product to access the European market, a prospective SaMD product must comply with all of the relevant regulations outlined in the Medical Devices Regulation (MDR) (EU) 2017/745, which includes complying with health, safety and environment legislation, and having a mandatory CE certification. For the UK market, the relevant regulations are outlined in the UK Medical Devices Regulations (UK MDR) 2002. The FDA has also developed clear guidelines regarding SaMD products' interfaces needing to support clinical vocabulary, and that manufacturers need to outline the possible negative implications of their device.
The complexity of regulating SaMD in a balanced manner has been addressed by the International Medical Device Regulators Forum (IMDRF), which acts on a voluntary basis to help coordinate regulation aimed at SaMD. One way they have attempted to address this is through the establishment of the Software as a Medical Device Working Group in 2013 that has produced a framework defining the level of risk that a particular SaMD product has in relation to being able to accurately treat patients. The actions of the IMDRF has helped to close the gap in addressing the public health risks of SaMD with that of existing regulations that are not always adequate at keeping up with the unique risks posed by digital health technology, the sheer amount of patient/consumer data that SaMD capitalises on, and the rate of innovation and change.
To help mitigate this risk, your organisation should be on the lookout for exemplary SaMD professionals that can expertly navigate the changing regulations, and have the right specialist knowledge to fit your specific requirements. They can be a real challenge to find, which is why it is worth investing in securing the right SaMD professional.
Key things to look for when hiring a software as a medical device regulatory affairs specialist
We asked our CEO Elena Kyria for her expert opinion on hiring SaMD professionals: "Regulatory/Quality experts with specialist knowledge of Software as a medical device and IEC 62304 is a high growth area for Elemed. The demand for this specialist experience will only continue to increase as we see technology companies move into healthcare and disrupt the status quo."
The importance of an agile mindset
The importance of an agile mindset cannot be understated when looking for a software as a medical device regulatory affairs specialist. Given that SaMD is by its nature agile technology, finding a professional that similarly embodies an agile mindset can help strike a perfect balance for your organisation.
What is an agile mindset? It is essentially a state of mind that involves staying extremely flexible through a commitment to collaboration and continuous learning. Having a workforce of people with agile mindsets can allow an organisation to flow seamlessly from one challenge to the next without becoming bogged down and left behind by the latest best practices. This is especially important in keeping up with the fast-moving world that is the Software as a Medical Device industry.
An agile culture allows for an organisation or team to achieve strong results through having a cohesive understanding of 'why' being agile is important, which in turn fosters continuous collaboration and a support structure where everyone is striving to self-improve, optimise their work, and reflect on mistakes. Therefore, having an agile mindset mimics the fluidity and innovative qualities of SaMD, and being able to work in sync with how SaMD devices are developed can lead to exemplary SaMD regulatory professionals.
Agile vs Waterfall approach
Agile management is about being as flexible and adaptive as possible. In contrast, the 'waterfall' approach places emphasis on pre-planning and having fully defined goals prior to commencing on a project. Planning and design becomes easier when a framework has been agreed upfront, and the project can flow forward much like a cascading waterfall. The waterfall approach is commonly used in medical device companies in product iteration, and both the agile and waterfall approaches have their differing strengths.
Finding a SaMD regulatory professional that can fluidly work in both of these approaches could be a game changer for your organisation's regulatory prowess and project work. Elemed can do the hard work for you in finding these difficult to find SaMD experts that can allow you to navigate the entire product lifecycle with ease.
Finding great regulatory affairs professionals for software as a medical device
CEO and founder of Elemed, Elena Kyria, says: "Right now, software as a medical device represents the future of healthcare. Its role in our ever-digitising world is becoming more and more important, and this isn't set to change. So, companies should be on the lookout now for talented SaMD professionals because the demand for them is about to skyrocket."
It can be difficult to find great regulatory affairs professionals for SaMD – at Elemed we use our extensive network of industry-leading contacts to ensure that you can find a candidate who meets the exact profile | 1,569 |
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"All three students are very motivated to learn Chinese," says Colorado Academy Upper School Mandarin Chinese teacher Julie Wei. Brothers Eric and Evan Rumsfeld worked in the Hebei Province, and Junior Alena Holbert volunteered at an orphanage in Hunan Province. Eric and Alena spent their summer break after freshman year doing independent study and were able to skip CA's Chinese 2 course. Their teacher says both of them will be in AP Chinese next year.
The Rumsfeld brothers were so taken by their experience, they say they plan to return to volunteer again next summer, and this time, they will take their younger sister, Natalie.
For Alena, the work was already a return trip of sorts. Hunan is the place from which she was originally adopted. Here are the students' travel memoirs:
ALENA HOLBERT
"In 2000, I was left at a train station. Due to the "one-child policy" in China and overwhelming preference for boys, I, along with thousands of girls, found myself at an orphanage. While I don't know anything about my birth family, and though I have a thousand questions, I trust that they love me because they left me to be found. They wanted a good life for me, and that's what I got. Through CCAI, an adoption agency, I was adopted from ChenZhou, Hunan, which is about 253 miles north of Hong Kong and 140 miles south of the ZhuZhou City Children's Social Welfare Institute. This past summer, I returned to China with 23 other adoptees to volunteer through a program called Adopteen.
The one-child policy ended at the beginning of 2016, dramatically affecting the population of Chinese orphanages. The stigma in China around disabilities is high to say the least, as evident by the fact that many places are not handicap accessible. These days, over 90% of the children in orphanages suffer from a physical or mental handicap. Traveling back to an orphanage, this is what I expected to see. What I didn't expect, though, was how much the children wanted to give and receive love.
We pulled up to the front of the orphanage in a bus not knowing what to expect. There were some kids outside waiting for us, and they were watching and giggling the entire time as the director gave us a tour of the facility. The campus was beautifully open, green, and inviting, complete with colorful classrooms, rehab equipment, a cafeteria, a playground, and even foster homes which are a unique part of this orphanage. Many of the children would live in a home with up to five other kids, and they would eat, play, and attend classes during the day. They rarely, if ever, get to go off campus. So, the first day, we took them to go watch Despicable Me 3 in a theater.
For most, this was their first time seeing the world beyond the orphanage, and it was incredible to watch their eyes light up with excitement, curiosity, and appreciation for simply going on a bus and watching a movie, something most of us take for granted. Meanwhile, we were having a hard time communicating with the children.
Before leaving, we met the roughly 30 children who were able to go (many didn't come because they were too young, would have a difficult time getting around, or were unable to leave their beds) and paired up with them. I walked up to a girl named XiaManQing who was 10 years old. She was extremely patient when I tried talking to her in my limited Chinese, and I learned that she loves getting her picture taken, she loves having her own things, she loves hugs, she gets cranky when she's tired, and, though she can walk perfectly, she likes people to carry her. She also has Down Syndrome.<|fim_middle|>spoken bond connected by this daily walk
As interns, we had specific daily jobs that assisted in taking care of the children living there. My task was to play with, and give attention to the children that couldn't attend the on-campus school. These kids were either too young to go to school, or had some sort of condition that would prevent them from attending. Often times, these kids are more neglected and left to their own devices throughout the day.
My daily routine consisted of spending an hour at each of the five on campus houses to play with the children. It was great to visually affirm that I was making an impact there when I would see the kids' faces light up every day as I walked into each house with our box of toys. Including the kids that were too young to go to school, the kids I interacted with daily had cerebral palsy, muscular dystrophy, mental delay, and other forms of developmental delay. I quickly learned that although these conditions play a major role in these kids' lives, it is their personality and character that better defines who they are. A favorite memory was pushing Maya around in a stroller; Maya has cerebral palsy. We walked around campus every day. We developed an unspoken bond connected by this daily walk
that gave her the basic experience of enjoying outdoors. Without those walks, it is unlikely that she would ever go outside. During my sojourn in Tianjin, I experienced first-hand what it means to make a positive impact on someone else's life.
In a world where these children would otherwise be neglected, their need for attention and love leading to self-validation is ultimately the reason why it is important to support places like Shepherd's Field. Although these children are often defined by their disabilities and differences, I have learned through their laughter, playfulness, and friendship the extent of their fantastic personalities. The memories and friendships from this trip are something that I hold dear and will always remember.
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They act like kids, they talk like kids, and they love like kids, because that's who they are. From the moment they got on the bus, they were ecstatic. For most, this was their first time seeing the world beyond the orphanage, and it was incredible to watch their eyes light up with excitement, curiosity, and appreciation for simply going on a bus and watching a movie, something most of us take for granted. Meanwhile, we were having a hard time communicating with the children.
ZhuZhou is not very westernized, therefore rarely anyone knew English. Looking back on it now, I realized I was telling ManQing to stand, but she knew that I meant sit, and we bonded over hugs and my relatively poor Chinese.
I'm so lucky to have been adopted into such an amazing family that provides me with a limitless amount of opportunity, including this one that allowed me to give back to such an important part of my life. As a healthy and happy baby, the odds were stacked in my favor, but this element of chance means not every child finds their forever family. It was equally inspiring and heartbreaking to be back in an orphanage and to see where my life could have been. It was a wake-up call for me to recognize the opportunities that I've been blessed with. While the orphanage is providing well, and the nannies, directors, teachers, and foster parents are doing a marvelous job with their unflagging devotion and compassion, children thrive on the love and attention only a family can give.
The last moments at the orphanage were bittersweet. After making dumplings, visiting a museum, tie-dying shirts, doing crafts, singing, dancing, playing outside, and even celebrating some birthdays, we had to say our goodbyes. We cried, then they cried, then we cried some more.
We were leaving to return to our happy homes and wonderful families, but they were staying in ZhuZhou. Perhaps we gave them hope, hope that there is a family waiting for them, hope that there's an entire world for them to explore, hope that they will find the life they've always dreamed of. What I am sure of, though, is that we loved them with every ounce of our being, and they loved us back even more.
EVAN RUMSFELD
This summer my brother, Eric Rumsfeld, and I travelled to the Beijing and Tianjin municipalities in northeastern China. During the first couple of days of our trip, we toured around Beijing with our dad and bought food and groceries so my brother and I would be able to live independently in Tianjin, China 6,350 miles away from home.
We quickly became accustomed to the time difference, food, and language. Although some people are able to speak English with varying degrees of fluency in Beijing, as we moved farther away from the capital and into a more rural setting, it became more rare to be able to talk to someone without having to use Chinese. There was a further level of complexity in communication when trying to speak with people who have a specific accent or dialect, such as our driver taking us to the Great Wall.
Despite these complications, I could tell my pronunciation and overall fluency in the language improved a little each day. After our dad left, we lived in an orphanage in Tianjin to help the more than 60 children living there in any way we could. Shepherd's Field Children's Orphanage provides shelter, clean water, food, education, and medical assistance to special needs children who have been taken in from other orphanages across China.
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French time trial champion Sylvain Chavanel (Omega Pharma-QuickStep) goes all out on the streets of Liege. (Image credit: Sirotti)
French time trial champion Sylvain Chavanel (Omega Pharma-QuickStep) was in the hot seat until Wiggins then Cancellara beat his time. (Image credit: Sirotti)
Tony Martin (Omega Pharma-QuickStep) saw his challenge unravel due to bad luck. (Image credit: Bettini Photo)
Tony Martin (Omega Pharma-QuickStep) had to switch bikes following a flat time and conceded 23 seconds to prologue winner Cancellara. (Image credit: Sirotti)
World time trial champion Tony Martin (Omega Pharma-QuickStep) set the fastest time at the first time check during Saturday's Tour de France prologue in Liège only to fall victim to a mechanical.
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Much had been expected of the dual between the German and eventual winner, Fabian Cancellara (RadioShack-Nissan) in the build up to the 6.4km race against the clock, but it was the time of Martin's teammate Sylvain Chavanel which restored some pride for the high-flying Belgian squad.
Martin looked to be on course for the yellow jersey when a flat tire saw him dramatically back off the pace.
"I had a flat tire after the first split time," Martin said. "I could feel that I was slipping away on the last roundabout and thought 'OK, maybe it's just a little bit slippery,' but then I realized I had a flat in the back and had to change the bike. I think it was a quick change, but it kills the morale and the rhythm. I'm really disappointed.
"I still have a good time, and I think would have a made a really good time without the flat tire," he continued. "I wanted<|fim_middle|> Wiggins (Sky) and usurped by Cancellara.
Martin will get another chance for a showdown with Cancellara on Stage 9 with a 41.5km time trial between Arc-et-Senans and Besançon. | to fight for the yellow. I'm disappointed, but I thought 'just keep on fighting, the long time trials are coming.' I can tell I have very good condition and now I have to fight now for the next time trial."
Despite the misfortune, Martin still posted a time that would fall 23 seconds off the winning pace of Cancellara.
French chrono champion Chavanel, celebrating his 33rd birthday, was 113th rider out of the start gate in Liege with over an hour to wait to see if his time of 0:07:20 would stand up to the traditional time trial powerhouses.
"I did a great race," Chavanel said. "I wanted to make a good performance. From the beginning of the season I'm doing good in the time trials. I knew that the specialists could have beat me, but I'm super happy in any case. I have no regrets. I really did my best to honour my brand new French champion jersey. It's a third place in a prologue of the tour against the best time trialists of the world.
"I'm disappointed for the flat tire of Tony," he explained. "Today he was really strong and he could have fought with Cancellara until the end. The Tour is just getting started. I have time to try to attack and do something good. Today is my birthday and even without a victory, we are going to celebrate!"
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What Are Some of the Fiercest Gay Bars in Union Square San Francisco?
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What Can<|fim_middle|> District is back in action after a reboot by the Future Bars team (Rickhouse, Branch and Bourbon). It features a new alley entrance and welcomes guests in a relaxing basement lounge with reasonably-priced wine, beer and cocktails named for the San Francisco's historic haunts, including Ghost of Gingers, Lexington Manhattan, Deco Lounge Sidecar and Esta Noche. One of its strange specialty shot is the Death Drop Kamikaze, which is a combination of lime, vodka and blood orange.
Aunt Charlie's Lounge
Located at Turk Street, this eclectic Tenderloin gay bar is known for its cheap drinks and awesome drag shows on select evenings. Aunt Charlie's Lounge is not a dress up and get fancy bar; the snacks are mostly on the floor and the beers are in cans. However, it's a great time for those people who know how to loosen up. Drag shows are only performed every Friday and Saturday night. On Thursday nights, the bar throws a wild dance party called Tubesteak Connection which starts at 10 p.m.
Last Call Bar
Situated in the heart of the Castro, this modest bar features the longest happy hour in the city, which runs from noon to 7 p.m., seven days a week. Last Call Bar's wood paneling decor and vintage 1970s fireplace creates an Irish pub-like atmosphere. The pretention-free patrons partake in cheap drinks (PBR on tap, well drinks and select beer bottles all for three dollars or less), good conversation and a range of music on the jukebox. | You Order at the Cigar Bar & Grill in San Francisco, CA?
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San Francisco has long been known for its vibrant LGBT community, and it has a bunch of gay bars to prove it. Some of the best gay bars in the city can be found near Union Square. From San Francisco bars featuring wild dancing and themed drinks to clubs featuring costume nights and drag shows, Union Square has a wide variety of fierce bars that surely make gay people's nightlife unforgettable. Here's a look at some of the fiercest gay bars in Union Square San Francisco.
Located at 6th Street, Club OMG! is a hopping gay hangout space that features drag shows, happy hour, a large dance floor with a domed ceiling and a variety of fantastic cocktails. Aside from dancing and drinking, patrons can also enjoy open mic comedy nights and karaoke. The best thing that OMG! offers would probably be its free salsa and chips. The bar's happy hour runs from Tuesday to Friday (5 p.m. to 8 p.m.).
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| : Anything Slider: Linking Directly To Slides from Static Links Can anyone help?
I am using the fantastic jQuery 'Anything Slider' by CSS Tricks. I can't work out how to link directly to slides from static links.
It is mentioned as a option (see below) but my knowledge of jQuery is very limited.
"Target the link using and ID or Class (or whatever), and apply a click handler. Then call the plugin function and pass it a number of the slide you are trying to link to:"
I guess I'm looking for a demo, so I can see how this technique is used.
http://css-tricks.com/anythingslider-jquery-plugin/
A: I think I understand your question, but just to make sure: You want to click on a link and have the slider go directly to, say, slide 5.
In this case, you would follow the example that they have listed on the plug-in page:
Your markup:
<p class="slide-jump">Click me to go to Slide #5!</p>
Your script:
$('p.slide-jump').click (
function() {
$('.anythingSlider').anythingSlider(5);
}
);
A: look at the url and see how it changes:
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Departure Day/ Day A - Richmond International Airport to Colorado Springs
On June 27, 5 youth and 3 adults headed out on a plane to Philmont from Troop 799. Everyone met at the airport very early in the morning where we went through the airport security and began our journey. We went from Richmond to Dallas to Colorado Springs. In Colorado Springs, we were met by a bus and our Blue Sky Adventure guide. In Colorado Springs, we got to visit the Air Force Academy and then do a short hike through the Garden of the Gods. We then stayed in the Marriott hotel that night.
Day B - Colorado Springs, Colorado to Philmont
The next morning we woke up really early to get on a bus to Philmont. When we got to Philmont after a few hours, we were met by our guide, Liam, and went through the whole registration process and slept there for the night in "tent city". While there, our Crew Leader and Adviser went through logistics, and the crew got to check out the Tooth of Time Traders.
Day 1 - Basecamp
After breakfast in base camp, we got our stuff together and got on a bus with our guide to Ponil Turnaround. From there we received our orientation on most things Philmont and started with a short hike to Ponil. Once we got to Ponil we heard about the result of the flash flooding in the area and could see that one of the cabins at Ponil was swept off its foundation. There, we got to check out our first swap box and get a few things branded. After that, we set off for our first night a couple miles away at Sioux campsite. There, we learned the ropes of the bear bags and how to setup the campsite including the Bear-muda Triangle.
Day 2 - Sioux
The next morning we headed off to Dan Beard, a staff camp, which would start our time with Leave No Trace Camping. This involved LNT bear-lines and no campfires. Our ranger, Liam taught us how to set the LNT bear-lines up at our campsite. In the Northern country, you could see the results from the 2002 Ponil Complex Fire that burned down miles and miles of trees. At Dan Beard we took part in some team building activities which offered quite the challenge. The staff at Dan Beard were very nice, and we even met one of them who goes to VCU. We also go to check out the swap-box that they had.
Day 3 - Dan Beard
The next morning, we said goodbye to our ranger and he left us with a pound cake for Franklin's birthday. We then headed on to Seally Canyon campsite, but not without a lovely afternoon rain-shower/ lightening storm to brighten our hike. Before the storm, we actually spotted a herd of elk about two football fields away from us along the trail. We continued hiking through the storm and ended up walking a couple miles the wrong way. Everybody kept going though, and we were still able to make it to Seally Canyon, a staff camp, in time. The program offered was Search and Rescue so we learned about that as well as a Full Body pat-down for an injured person. Once we had been educated, we were taken upon surprise to have one of our own Scout leaders missing, so we took part in a drill where we had to safely rescue Mr. Graff and use all the skills we had just learned. That night we had a massive thunderstorm, but fortunately everyone was mostly dry in their tents.
Day 4 - Seally Canyon
The next morning however, we discovered all our boots were water-logged as the dining fly had blown over. We continued though and headed onto Whiteman Vega, but not first without stopping at Ring Place, a historic farm and Philmont Staff Camp, to pick up our food from the commissary. At Whiteman Vega, we did our conservation project which was moving rocks into the dirt road to ensure the supply trucks with food could make it to the staff camp and their Yurt. After that, it was too late to start, but Whiteman Vega also offered a cool Mountain Biking Program. Once again, that night we had a wonderful thunderstorm that was rather entertaining to watch. You could also see the cattle from the campsite we were at as well. This time, everybody kept their boots under their tents' rain-flies.
Day 5 - Whiteman Vega
After an extended morning packing up our rather tent belongings from the night before, we set off from Whiteman Vega towards Iris Park. Along this trip, we went back through Ring Place and continued through the Valle Vidal meadow-walking. We were encountered with a nice afternoon shower on our way, however we weren't too upset because the views were so cool. Iris Park was a nice trail camp that was filled with many crews that night. We were able to meet some cool people, as well as camp right up on an incline with a nice view of the mountains despite the burned down trees from the 2002 Ponil Complex Fire.
Day 6 - Iris Park
The next morning the crew packed up quickly to get set for a long trip to Upper Greenwood. However, before packing, we realized that it was July 4th. Upon this realization, one of the Scouts had the Star Spangled Banner recorded on his phone which had been brought along the trip to take pictures. Everyone sang it and enjoyed our simplistic celebration. After singing we headed out of the campsite before most of the other crews. This was one of the first days that we had to climb a bit of altitude. We had to go up and over a ridge, but after that, we got to walk in a really cool looking valley. Along this valley there were two rather large stream crossings that we encountered. Before both streams, we stopped for some Scouts to put on their Crocs, while others dared to brave walking on some rather thin fallen trees lying across the streams. Fortunately everyone made it across without boots that were too wet. We made it in very good time to one of the lower Upper Greenwood campsites and we were able to get settled before the afternoon storm was supposed to hit. This time however, it passed by us with only a couple drops. In this odd campsite that was situated on the side of a mountain, we found it rather difficult to put up our LNT bear-lines, but in a group effort we were able to do it.
Day 7 - Upper Greenwood
After packing up again, we set out the next morning for what we had heard so much about, Baldy Town. This however was not an easy trip. The beginning of the day involved an almost completely straight up hike along some switch-backs that proved to be quite challenging. We kept pushing and soon realized how high up we were. At this point, we realized we had some cell-phone service as we were about 11,000 feet high, so some guys were able to call home. We still needed to continue though, so we hiked to the top of this mountain that is right next to Baldy Mountain but was about 1,000 feet shorter. We got some cool views, and had to head down this unnamed mountain to get to our destination. Along the way there were some great pictures of the cone of Baldy Mountain. Once we made it to the bottom, we headed from Copper Park to French Henry on some flat land. We visited French Henry where we were able to each try some metalworking as well as pan for gold in the stream. Unfortunately nobody was able to find gold, but it was a really neat experience. By this time it was almost dinner-time, so we set out for Baldy Town. We were able to make it in just before the commissary closed at 6 and make dinner. Baldy Town had a commissary, a museum, a trading post, and even a shower house! The area used to be a mining town with some pretty neat history. We made sure to get some sleep though as the next day we planned to hike up Baldy. We were also overjoyed to be able to use Philmont bear lines and build fires because we had entered back into Philmont property and we were out of the Valle Vidal.
Day 8 - Baldy Town
The next morning we had to wake up very early and pack our day-packs to hike up Baldy Mountain. We started hiking around 6:45 am and were able to make it up in good time. The beginning of the trail featured some gradual road switchbacks to head up the mountain. As we continued, the trail got steeper, until you could see the rocks that make up the cone of Baldy Mountain. Once we began hiking on the rocks, the trail became ridiculously steep and offered for an interesting hike. Although it was very challenging, including the altitude change and temperature change as you go up, everyone was able to make it to the top. On the top, we were actually standing in between two cloud layers. One cloud layer was below us while we could see the other one above us. When we got to the summit, we were able to see as far as the eye can see to one side, but soon the clouds moved in. It was rather chilly at the top, so everybody had to bring their warmest gear to the top, but everyone felt great that we had made it to the top of Baldy Mountain, 12,441 feet above sea level. On the way back down, it was quite a trip as the incline of the mountain was so steep. We found ourselves almost sliding down with the rocks under our feet. A hiking pole was a very helpful tool during the descent. After coming back down to Baldy Town, we all had the chance to wash up in the shower house, visit the trading post, and check out the museum. The museum became a popular place in the afternoon because it began to pour outside and there was a fireplace in the museum as well as shelter. The rain continued, but the crew was able to have dinner and rest after the big day back at our campsite in Baldy Town.
On the day after hiking Baldy Mountain, we had to dry out some of our gear after a rainy afternoon and night. After packing up, we set off for the campsite known as Baldy Skyline. This day was filled with rain and fog which made for an interesting hike. We stopped for lunch in Ewells Park, a trail camp, on the way, where we found some big trees to shelter us from the rain while we ate. The rain didn't stop, and we didn't either, so we set off for Baldy Skyline, pushing through the rain. Before we knew it, we arrived at the trail sign marking Baldy Skyline campsite. We found the best campsite in Baldy Skyline and stayed there. However due to the fog, we could not find the skyline. With the extra time we had, we attempted to build a fire to dry our gear. After a few attempts, we were able to build a small fire. Around this small campfire, we were able to catch up on our Philmont devotionals and have a nice reflection.
Day 10 - Baldy Skyline
The next day, we headed our from Baldy Skyline to the place where we started, Ponil. On the way, we stopped in Pueblano, a popular staff camp, to check out the swap-box and see what they had to offer. We didn't have time to do it, but they offered telephone poll climbing which looked quite scary. We continued though, as this was our last official day on the trail and we were anxious to get back to Ponil. There were some fun mountain creek crossings that we encountered on the way to Ponil and everyone hiked eagerly as we knew we had almost made it. Once we finally made it to Ponil, we celebrated as we had essentially completed our trek. We signed in with the staff and were able to sign up for the Cowboy Action Shooting. Everyone was given the chance to shoot a rifle, a pistol, and a double-barrel shotgun. After the shooting, we were given the opportunity to take part in a chuck-wagon dinner. There, we had stew, cornbread, and cobbler to share with a bunch of other crews, served out of a chuck-wagon. To cap off the day, we went to the Cantina to check out the Cantina Show. The show was probably the highlight of some of the guys' treks as the staff performing were great and very entertaining.
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The Troop 799 Philmont crew went on a shakedown hike on Priest Mountain in Nelson County, Virginia. A crew of five Scouts and three adults backpacked up the mountain and camped at the top among some other Boy Scout Troops making the hike on a beautiful day for hiking. Everyone ate freeze dried food and had fun building a campfire. The next morning was a much easier hike downhill and of course was finished off by a visit to Five Guys on the way home. Overall it was a great hike with great weather and great views.
Petersburg Campout 2015
Troop 799 visited Pamplin Historical Park, Sutherland Tavern, and Petersburg National Battlefield on the week of sesquicentennial celebrations of the battles there in and around Petersburg, VA. All three places offered different perspectives and acknowledged different aspects of the Civil War itself. We camped out at Albright Scout Reservation due to its close proximity to Petersburg, great campsites, and lack of a camping fee.
Pamplin Historical Park is a rather nice museum/ park in Dinwiddie County. At the park, there were fortifications remade to look like the Confederate line looked back in 1865. They used massive earthworks lined with spiked sticks to defend them. These mounds were weaved back and forth and made a rather interesting site. At the park there will still some of the original earthworks from the war about a 100 yards from where we were able to see the real life model of them. Then, a reenactor there gave us a demonstration on how the new rifle of the Civil War, made in the United Kingdom, offered greater accuracy and a new style of warfare. After that, we walked through the Life of the Soldier Exhibit. In this exhibit called "Duty Called Me Here", we were each given the opportunity to follow the life of the soldier during the war. There was an audio track assigned for each level that you walked through in the museum. In there, a narration would play and then you would hear an update on your solider on a little iPod-like device. In this exhibit were wax figures and props all around the walking pathway that allowed you to feel as if you were there in the war itself. Some of the most interesting parts of the exhibit talked about snowball fights, baseball, and religion during the war. We finished our trip to Pamplin around lunch and then headed to another site.
The next stop that we made was drastically different than the marvelous technology and planning put into Pamplin. We drove up to the 19th Annual Southside Virginia Day at the Sutherland Tavern after lunch. When we came up on the site, all we saw were Confederate flags and an old beaten up house. We walked up to find a lot more. There, we met a blacksmith making knives in the front yard, a Civil War Era gun salesmen on the side, and an excavation crew in the backyard. We went around to each station until the next tour of the Tavern started. We received a tour of this old house from a woman named Mrs. Olger and her husband, who currently own the house. The tavern was built by a wealthy Scottish man, Mr. Sutherland in 1803 at the fork of two major roads in Petersburg. The house was most famous for its involvement in the Civil War where it was the site of the Battle of Sutherland Station. This battle was fought in the front yard of the tavern and was actually used as a hospital after the battle. The owner continued to tell us about the blood stains on the wood floor that we were standing on from the battle. The house was filled with old clocks from the time and pieces of artwork that the owners collected and offered a very interesting and personal tour of a historic landmark. Though the owners still live there, the house was kept to look fascinatingly similar to Civil War times. When we realized that we still had daylight, we set out to Petersburg National Battlefield before it closed.
We were able to get in the gates just before the Park Rangers closed the park and drive through to the Crater itself. We walked down to the tunnel of the crater and then walked up along the path of it to the actual crater. The tunnel had closed off, so there was only just a peak of what it would have looked like. However the massive amount of land was still there from the Crater explosion. There were small stations that gave the positioning of the troops during this battle and described the magnitude of the event. The battlefield was maintained quite well and though it was quite cold when we visited, the sky and the endless fields of green grass with the Crater in the center of the field with trees surrounding made a stunning spectacle.
Each one of these sites that we visited gave a different experience in telling the story of the Civil War which made it a very unique. Overall it was a very successful campout.
Merit Badge Weekend 2015
Troop 799 had 16 Scouts go to the Cardinal District Merit Badge Weekend at Camp T. Brady Saunders.
Troop Yard Sale
The Annual Troop 799 Yard Sale was held Saturday, March 14th in Trinity Hall at Trinity United Methodist Church. We had a successful sale with support from the Scouts, adult leaders, families, and other members from the community to raise enough money to allow the Troop to run each year. Thank you to Mr. Prideaux for taking pictures.
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On our last day on the trail, we packed up in Ponil and said goodbye to all the great staff at Ponil. From there, we hiked a little over a mile to Ponil turnaround to be picked up by a bus. Once we made it to the bus, we were all exhausted, yet overjoyed that we had made it officially. The bus took us back to base camp where we were able to clean our gear, buy souvenirs in the Tooth of Time Traders, and charge our phones for the trip back home. Most importantly, everyone got to shower and use the laundry-mat available at base-camp. That night we had the chapel service and then the closing campfire, where we got another great performance from the staff, and our Crew Leader accepted the award for everyone completing the trek.
Day C - Bascamp
The next morning we got up and ate our last meal at the base-camp dining hall. We also donated one of our Troop 799 Philmont 2015 shirts to be hung up in the dining hall. Everybody made their last purchases at the Tooth of Time Traders, and then we all got on our Blue Sky Adventures bus. The bus took us back to the Colorado Springs Airport where we got on the plane from Colorado Springs, to Dallas, Texas, to Richmond, Virginia where we met our parents just around midnight in Eastern Time. Everyone completed the trip, and made lots of lasting memories that Philmont leaves with everyone.
Some tips and notes for future Troop 799 crews:
Make sure to follow the packing list well or you will have to break the bank at the Tooth of Time Traders buying gear. This includes a beanie, a long-sleeve shirt, a pack-cover, a 30 degree or below sleeping bag, a rain jacket, 4 L worth of water bottles, and a broken-in pair of boots.
During the end of June and beginning of July, at Philmont there is a thing called "monsoon season". It rains almost every day, so be prepared with waterproof boots, a pack cover, a good rain jacket, and maybe even some rain pants.
There really isn't much cell-phone service at all at Philmont. The service at base-camp is very spotty, and the only other place you will get service is on top of Baldy. So unless you plan on using your phone for taking pictures, you won't really need it.
Don't put the icing in your backpacks, it will explode and you will have to hang your backpack on the bear-line each night.
Lake Drummond Canoe Trip
On the weekend of August 21st, 2015, the Troop went on a weekend summer canoe trip again with 9 Scouts and 5 adults. This year we went to Lake Drummond through the Great Dismal Swamp Canal. Last year, we did a bike trip on the path right next to the canal. We put our boats in on Friday night at the canal and canoed only with our headlamps and glow sticks. After about two hours, we made it to the campsite which marked the access point into Lake Drummond. We were amazed at how nice the campsite was, as there was a nice dock, recently cut grass, overhead lights, running (not potable) water, electrical outlets, working bathrooms, and a few shelters. Saturday morning, we moved our canoes and kayaks over the small little peninsula we were on to get to the other side. There was a little tram on a track meant to move boats, but it didn't work anymore. We then headed towards the lake from there and fulfilled all the requirements for the Canoeing Merit Badge, including swamping a canoe and flipping it back over. After finishing the Merit Badge, we headed back to the camp to eat dinner and build a fire. Despite being tired, most of the group went back out on the lake again to watch the sun set which was an incredible sight along the water. The next morning, everyone packed up and canoed back along the canal to the boat landing and headed home. Overall, it was a great trip and everyone had a great time.
Caving Trip May 2015
Troop 799 went caving with the wild GUYdes in Bridgewater, Virginia. We went down into the largest cave in Augusta County where we learned about the dangers of caving and the safety procedures we must follow while caving. The guide took us to the many unique parts of the cave which included the commando crawl, the dungeon, and the crypt. We also got a taste of vertical climbing and had a fun time helping each other out. We ended up back at the entrance and took an after picture of the group now completely covered in mud. This was a great experience that everyone loved!
Thanks to Nicholas S. for writing this, to Mr. Goodman for planning the trip, and to Mr. Jones for the pictures.
Summer Court of Honor
The Troop held the annual Summer Court of Honor at Deep Run Park on May 31, 2015. We had lots of awards, good food, and good weather to celebrate the year. Thank you to Mr. Jones for the pictures.
Troop Dodgeball Tournament
This past Monday night at the last Troop Meeting of the school year, the Troop had the Annual Dodgeball Tournament. It was held in the parking lot of Trinity UMC. The winning patrol was the Green Bar Patrol who won over the Spartan Patrol in the final.
On Memorial Day (Monday, May 25, 2015), Troop 799 had a few Scouts sign the Pledge of Allegiance in American Sign Language at the Virginia War Memorial's Memorial Day Ceremony. Among the speakers at the ceremony were state military officials and Governor Terry McAuliffe himself. This was all coordinated by Mr. Sofinski who works as a Sign Language Interpreter and taught our guys how to sign the Pledge of Allegiance. According to news sources, there were about 1,500 people at the ceremony.
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That's not to say that certifications are useless; they're not. The confidence a certification provides a networking professional is unmatched. There's nothing else that says you know networking and gives you the confidence required to make changes to networks responsible for carrying millions of dollars' worth of data and transactions. But certifications aren't a viable career path anymore.
The traditional NetOps career path is the well-trod trail of certified network engineer. It's a safe path that will get you to the end of your career without bumps along the way. You've got critical business and operational networking knowledge at your fingertips; you are what is known as an essential employee. There aren't enough of you to go around, after all, so if you choose to continue down the well-traveled path, it's not a bad way to go.
The other branch is, in the words of the great poet Robert Frost, "less traveled by." It's the one just starting to emerge as networking pros put down their CLIs and took up APIs in their stead. It's the path that leads to automation, process optimization, and the ability to scale operations to volumes previously unachievable by manually-driven network operations.
It will, in the future, be the path everyone takes. And it won't be a path or even a trail, but a four-lane highway. Hey, I'm from the Midwest, so a four-lane highway is a big deal.
Whatever metaphor you want to use, the reality is that NetOps is in the midst of a digital transformation of its own. Operations can no longer scale with people to meet the insatiable demand and (sometimes unrealistic) expectations of the business. Tools and technologies, automation, and agile networking are a must -- that means network engineers with the capacity to code.
We're not talking about full-blown, client and server, web and mobile applications here. We're talking about using APIs and templates and treating infrastructure as code to enable the next generation of network operations. That means going beyond command-line invocations using wget or curl and learning to use a language to codify the processes you use to move applications and updates into production.
You're going to need to get familiar with repositories like Git and comfortable with sharing scripts with others in NetOps. You'll have to know how to<|fim_middle|> These skills have been traditionally eschewed by network engineers because they weren't necessary for a successful career in network operations, but they are about to become critical.
Network engineers today have a choice which path they will take their career. Automation is not yet so pervasive as to force businesses to close down the well-traveled path of the traditional network engineer. Even though we see that most organizations are sometimes using automation to deploy both major and minor changes in production, only a brave subset, about 7%, are fully automated today. But those days are numbered.
Learn a language. Python is the most popular, but any scripting language is a good choice. The logic constructs of any language are applicable to pretty much all languages. Syntax is simple to synthesize once you've got the basics down.
Explore HTTP. As a text-based protocol, it's less rigid than the protocols you're used to working with. Familiarize yourself with the basics, especially HTTP headers.
Start playing with APIs. Postman is the best too, hands down, I've found for tinkering with APIs and HTTP-based traffic. Bonus: it can help you understand HTTP in a way that's just not possible using command-line constructs.
Check out Git. Get an account, clone a project, create a project, check in a project. Git isn't just for code; you can also use it manage configurations, scripts, and that novella you've been secretly writing between network incidents.
Read about DevOps. Network operations isn't app dev, but as you start to adopt the tools and technologies DevOps has brought to the table, you'll want to understand and apply many of its principles. Foremost amongst them: CAMS. | interact with REST APIs with the same alacrity you now navigate an IOS CLI. Collaboration and code reviews will become a natural part of your routine. And you'll need to speak HTTP as fluently as you speak IP and TCP.
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Delfina Fantini van Ditmar
PhD Innovation Design Engineering, 2012–2016
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What Your Kitchen Thinks It Knows About You... 'The Internet of Things', Natural History Museum, London, Delfina Fantini van Ditmar, project in collaboration with Michael Kann 2014
I did my BA in Biology, in Chile. Before that, I was much more into the arts and architecture, but I had this burning question when I was about 18 years old: how do thoughts emerge from cells? Studying neurons seemed to be the way to find out, so I applied to study at the South American equivalent of University College London. It was a five-year programme, really tough, and none of the friends I started with stayed the course. Years afterwards, looking back, I realised it was silly to think that I would ever find an answer; I also realised that the more you understand the brain, the more mysterious it is, and that's fascinating. It's also why I left science, because I wanted to retain that fascination.
I enrolled on a design MFA at Konstfack University in Stockholm and completed one year. When I was there, I wrote a paper for an architectural conference at Sint-Lucas School of Architecture in Brussels, about fragility in architecture. I was considering doing a PhD at the time, and stayed in Belgium to research possibilities. By chance, I met someone who asked me about my interests and introduced me to Ranulph Glanville, who was Professor of Research in Innovation Design Engineering at the RCA and President of the American Society for Cybernetics from 2009 to 2014. Very sadly, he died in December 2014. He was extremely intelligent, and beyond that, such a great character, a lovely man. He really challenged me, and introduced me to so many incredible ideas; even though he's dead, he is still the person I have the best conversations with; but, of course, I miss his brilliance.
The PhD started with ubiquitous computing and the idea that technology is always in the background of our lives. Now, I'm looking at a critical framework in relation to the Silicon Valley mentality towards SMART technology, questioning what 'SMART' means, and that whole deterministic, linear problem solving approach. My work has changed<|fim_middle|> some of the technicians at Battersea, and there are so many opportunities to collaborate."
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Eun Kyung Shin | and developed a lot over the years. Focusing on the home has allowed me to bring together many different interests. Ranulph's expertise in cybernetics was also a huge influence, and has helped me to see some of the problems of artificial intelligence, for example.
In the first year, I worked super hard and was in College Monday-to-Sunday until they kicked me out, and that's how I learned the system: who operates the workshops, who to talk to, how a PhD works, and I spent so much of that time with other people. Coming from biology, which was another galaxy, I'd never dealt with the 3D world, so I did a couple of MA courses when I first arrived, to help me make that transition. It was great to work with MA students, because I could help them with a critical approach, and they could help me with material and design issues.
I've learned a lot about art and design. I was thrown into this with no practitioner experience, and there was no chance to learn things slowly, so that's been super valuable. I've met incredible people at the RCA, like some of the technicians at Battersea, and there are so many opportunities to collaborate. There are two other PhD students with whom I meet up to crit and discuss each other's work and related issues; for example, today we're discussing whether somebody should be referred to as a person or a user. It's a small, self-initiated community, not only intellectual and practical, and super tough and critical, but also affectionate and supportive, and I've learned so much from that.
One project I've done was called Becoming Your 'SMART' Fridge, in which I became the algorithm of a SMART fridge. I went to have dinner with some students who were likely to be early adopters of SMART fridges, where we discussed their eating habits over the meal. I took something to drink and told them to cook food only using what they had in their fridge, and not to buy anything. I looked at the contents of the fridge, and afterwards produced the outcome of a SMART fridge delivered by email – a graphic report, combining SMART technology responses as well as my knowledge of the individuals, playing with sense and nonsense, use and abuse, pushing the potential of the technology. Being in the position of the algorithm was such an interesting role and made me reflect on so many things.
At the moment, I'm working out how to do the next iteration of the project, which I think will be something like a real-time responsive interaction, and then I'll write up my PhD thesis. We'll see what new knowledge emerges.
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From Hell is a 2001 American horror film directed by the Hughes Brothers and written by Terry Hayes and Rafael Yglesias.It is loosely based on the graphic novel From Hell by Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell about the Jack the Ripper murders.
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Music by: Trevor Jones
Starring: Johnny Depp, Heather Graham, Ian Holm, Robbie Coltrane
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Hellraiser II: Hellbound (1988) You would expect every Hellraiser film to depict hell in some form or the other, though it was Hellraiser II: Hellbound that really took us into the abyss to visit the lair of the cenobites and the dreaded underworld per way of the "Lament Configuration,".
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Remember my earlier entry about the Kavalan ConcertMaster Single Malt Whisky?
I had the opportunity last night to try their Kavalan Single Malt Whisky which is supposedly the better grade of single<|fim_middle|> ConcertMaster as I have mentioned in my previous entry was price incorrectly i.e. too expensive.
This one is more expensive albeit marginally, which make this lagi less value-for-money.
Dont mate never tried that brand before.. but i feel Chivas regal 12 years to be very smooth and best for me..
welcome to the blog. I take it that you are not familiar with Single Malts. You should try it. They are heavenly if you are a whisky drinker. I recommend the Macallan 12 Years Old to start. It is a very easy single malt to drink.
Here's two of my earlier entries on whisky for your reading pleasure.
I suggest you start with the regular Macallan 12yo then work your way up to the Sherry Oak. Otherwise, you may not appreciate the latter fully.
Besides, the regular one should be cheaper too. | malt in the Kavalan product line.
I tried it and I didn't like it. The ConcertMaster was smoother than this one.
Heck, I would even go to the extent of saying this one is pretty rough by single malt standard.
I reflected this to the Kavalan folks much to their protest.
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LaVeta Jones is a community outreach event coordinator, freelance media producer and communication consultant. She has coordinated events with the school district of Philadelphia and elected officials including Councilwoman Cindy Bass. She also works extensively with the faith-based community and the Philadelphia Police Department and has taught community policing workshops and presented for department press conferences.
Her media experience includes production at 48 Hours/CBS News, Disney/Touchstone Pictures and Banyan Productions. LaVeta has also penned a family humor advice column, The Opinionated Housewife. She began working for BRN in 2007, where she has assisted in telling the stories of our BRN churches.
LaVeta earned a bachelor of arts in film and media arts at Temple University, graduated Summa Cum Laude and served as class valedictorian.
LaVeta currently serves her community as a member of the Philadelphia Police Department 14th District PDAC (Police<|fim_middle|> She's learned that by working together we can all make a difference.
LaVeta has two heroes: her father, Jose Andino, and her husband, Solomon Jones. Her father was born during the Great Depression. He dropped out of school to care for his mom and siblings. Despite not completing his education, nor being formally trained, he went on to have a furniture design and manufacturing business. He personally designed the furniture and the manufacturing assembly line. Some of his customers included Sears, local banking institutions and nursing home facilities. He was known for his kindness and generosity—always willing to help others.
Her second hero is her husband. He has a heart to please the Lord and compassion for people. He tirelessly serves our city, community and family. Solomon is committed to playing his part in order to improve the lives of others.
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LaVeta Jones is a community outreach event coordinator, freelance media producer and communication consultant. She has coordinated events with the school district of Philadelphia and elected officials including Councilwoman Cindy Bass. She also works extensively with the faith-based community and the Philadelphia Police Department and has taught community policing workshops and presented for department press conferences. LaVeta, who earned a bachelor of arts in film and media arts at Temple University, graduated Summa Cum Laude and served as class valedictorian, began working for BRN in 2007, where she has assisted in telling the stories of our BRN churches.
What are the benefits you hope our churches will receive as a result of your work/role at the BRN?
My goal is for our churches to be engaged and inspired to take innovative approaches to ministry through the content that I create. My work as a communicator acts a nucleus connecting our churches to the national convention, state convention and to one another; fostering a symbiotic relationship all for the purpose of transforming lives and communities through the spreading of the Gospel.
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LaVeta has a passion for her community. Over the years she has become a conduit, bringing together the various organizations with whom she works. Those collaborations have served the greater good of the community. By first personally partnering with organizations, then cultivating partnerships among them, she has been able to make a greater contribution to her community compared to doing it alone, she said. | 355 |
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Cream of Asparagus Soup is the soup you never knew you needed. Creamy and delicious it's the perfect soup for a chilly day or any day.
Do you know that I had never had Asparagus until a couple of weeks ago at the Mixed Conference I attended. After having it, I can't believe I've never eaten it before. It's always been one of those vegetables I've told myself I hate without even trying. I'm looking at you broccoli. But this Asparagus Soup has converted me.
After eating a couple of roasted asparagus at lunch, I knew I wanted to try this Cream of Asparagus Soup I came across in the book I was reading at the time, Stir: My Broken Brain and the Meals<|fim_middle|> immersion blender (or if using a regular blender - wait until contents cool a bit before adding to blender) to purée asparagus.
Season with salt and pepper. Add cream and mix together.
Add lemon juice to soup before eating. Add bacon pieces to soup for garnish.
Recipe adapted from Jessica Fechtor. | That Brought Me Home (*Affiliate link) by Jessica Fechtor. I don't even remember how I got acquainted with this book but I'm so glad I took the time to read it.
This memoir touched close to home for me and I knew I had to review it. I have a cousin who also suffered a brain aneurysm when she was a young lady so reading about Jessica's personal tragedy helped me to understand some of what my cousin went through. Jessica's determination and tenacity while she was going through this was inspirational. She never was a woah is me person throughout the process, not even when she knew something was wrong even before the doctors did. Once Jessica got a diagnosis, she went through so much to get back to being herself.
My mom also went though something similar when she was in the hospital – she had surgery and in recovery she knew something wasn't right. The doctors kept telling her she was fine but she was insistent that she wasn't. Something was wrong and she ended up staying in the hospital for a month. A couple of times Jessica also knew something wasn't right in her recovery. It's so important to listen to what our bodies are telling us.
This book tells the story of Jessica's journey of self-discovery and how food helped her through her recovery. I'm a fan of any story that leads to food and amazing recipes. That's why I started the #ReadingFoodie book review portion of my blog. Food always brings people together and I'm so glad Jessica shared this, and the other recipes in her book.
This soup is so creamy and the perfect fall weather soup. It's also an excuse for me to use my Immersion Blender (*Affiliate link). Score!
In a medium saucepan, cook bacon over medium heat until crispy. Remove bacon.
Add onions to bacon grease and cook until softened. Add asparagus pieces and cook for five minutes, stirring occasionally.
Add 2 cups of chicken stock and bring to a simmer. Partially cover pot and cook for 15 minutes, stirring occasionally.
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Glenn Miller And His Orchestra – When Johnny Comes Marchin´ Home + 3 (1957)
Posted on September 14, 2018 by allerlei2013riffmaster
Bandleader Glenn Miller inspired the World War II generation and boosted morale with many popular songs.
Born in 1904 in Iowa, bandleader and musician Glenn Miller inspired the World War<|fim_middle|>Franco was raised in South Philadelphia. He was playing the clarinet by the time he was 9 years old and within five years had won a national Tommy Dorsey[2] swing contest.
He began his professional career just as swing music and big bands—many of which were led by clarinetists like Artie Shaw, and Benny Goodman—were in decline. While most jazz clarinet players did not adapt to this change, DeFranco successfully continued to play clarinet exclusively, and was one of the few bebop clarinetists.
In 1950, DeFranco spent a year with Count Basie's Septet. He then led a small combo in the early 1950s which included pianist Sonny Clark and guitarist Tal Farlow. In this period, DeFranco recorded for MGM, Norgran and Verve; the latter two labels were owned by Norman Granz.
During the years 1960-64, DeFranco released four innovative quartet albums as co-leader with the accordionist Tommy Gumina.
He was bandleader of the Glenn Miller Orchestra from 1966 to 1974, under the name, "The World Famous Glenn Miller Orchestra, Directed By Buddy DeFranco". He also performed with Gene Krupa, Charlie Barnet, Art Tatum, Oscar Peterson, Billie Holiday and many others, and released dozens of albums as a leader.
DeFranco died in Panama City, Florida at the age of 91 (by wikipedia)
As far as I know, this Album was never released as Cd …
So enjoy another sentimental, listen to this brilliant Big Band Sound … ad you´ll hear some magic moments and much more !
Bob Crea (saxophone, cornet)
Danny D'Imperio (drums)
Buddy de Franco (clarinet)
Bobby Hackett (trumpet, cornet)
Pat LaBarbera (Saxophone)
much more musicians
01. Medley: Moonlight Serenade (Miller/Parish) + In The Mood (Garland) 4.05
02. A String Of Perls (Gray) 3.36
03. Sunrise Serenade (Carle/Lawrence) 3.33
04. My Sentiment (Fischer/Guttmann) 2.54
05. Magic Moments (Bennett) 2.49
06. Bugle Call Rag (Myers/Schoebel/Pettis) 4.05
07. Tuxedo Junction (Feyne/Hawkins/Dash/Johnson) 3.06
08. Serenade In Blue (Warren) 3.24
09. The Odd Couple (Hefti) 5.00
10. American Patrol (Whitney/Gray) 3.07
11. St. Louis Blues March (Handy) 3.48
13. The complete concert (in one take) 41.14
Posted in Franco Buddy de, Glenn Miller Orchestra (Buddy de Franco), Jazz, Miller Glenn, Year Of Recording: 1971 | Leave a reply | II generation. He was one of the most popular bandleaders in the late 1930s and early 1940s with such songs as "Moonlight Serenade" and "Tuxedo Junction." In 1942, Miller enlisted in the U.S. Army and was assigned to lead the Army Air Force Band. He boosted the morale of the troops with his many popular songs before mysteriously disappearing on a flight from England to Paris, France. Miller's original recordings continue to sell millions of copies. He died on December 15, 1944. ((by www.biography.com)
And here´s an EP from 1957 …
Enjoy the era of Big Band Jazz … but you should be in a sentimental mood …
01. When Johnny Comes Marching Home (Dickinson/Conway/Finnegan) 3.12
02. Below The Equator (Tobias/Friend) 3.23
03. I'll Never Smile Again, Until I Smile At You (Lowe) 2.40
04. Say "Si Si" (Stillman/Luban/Lecuona) 2.39
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Glenn Miller – In The Mood (2000)
Posted on April 24, 2018 by allerlei2013riffmaster
Born in 1904 in Iowa, bandleader and musician Glenn Miller inspired the World War II generation. He was one of the most popular bandleaders in the late 1930s and early 1940s with such songs as "Moonlight Serenade" and "Tuxedo Junction." In 1942, Miller enlisted in the U.S. Army and was assigned to lead the Army Air Force Band. He boosted the morale of the troops with his many popular songs before mysteriously disappearing on a flight from England to Paris, France. Miller's original recordings continue to sell millions of copies. He died on December 15, 1944.
Born in Clarinda, Iowa, on March 1, 1904, bandleader and musician Glenn Miller started out playing the mandolin as a child, but quickly switched to the horn. His family moved several times in his youth—to Missouri, then to Nebraska, and finally to Colorado in 1918. In high school in Fort Morgan, Colorado, Miller played in the school band. He turned professional after graduating in 1921, becoming a member of Boyd Senter's orchestra.
In 1923, Miller quit the orchestra to go to college. He spent a year at the University of Colorado before dropping out to return to the music business. Moving to Los Angeles, California, Miller worked with Ben Pollack's band for a time. He then headed to New York City, where he freelanced as a trombonist and an arranger. In 1934, Miller became the musical director for Tommy Dorsey's band with brother Jimmy Dorsey. He then formed an American orchestra for British bandleader Ray Noble.
While he first recorded under his own name in 1935, Glenn Miller struggled for several years before establishing himself as a musician and bandleader. He formed his own orchestra and then reconfigured it several times until he found the winning combination. It was his band's gig at the famed Glen Island Casino in New Rochelle, New York, in 1939 that helped put Miller on the map. Their performances there were broadcast on the radio, giving them great public exposure.
Miller scored his first hit with "Wishing (Will Make It So)" that same year. He penned his even bigger successful single, "Moonlight Serenade," which climbed the charts in 1939 as well. With their distinctive swing jazz style, Miller and his orchestra became the country's top dance band. They dominated the music charts with such tracks as "In the Mood," "Tuxedo Junction" and "Pennsylvania 6-5000" in 1940.
In 1941, Miller made his first film, Sun Valley Serenade, with Sonja Henie. The film featured another one of his signature songs "Chattanooga Choo Choo." The following year, he appeared in Orchestra Wives (1942). That same year, Miller had to put his successful music career aside to serve his country. He was inducted into the U.S. Army, later transferring to the Army Air Force.
Miller headed up the U.S. Army Air Force Band, which gave numerous performances to entertain the troops during World War II. He was stationed in England in 1944 when he learned that his band was to go to Paris. On December 15, Miller boarded a transport plane headed to the newly liberated French capital. He intended to make preparations for his group's new series of concerts there, but he never arrived.
What happened to Miller's plane remains a mystery. Neither the plane nor Miller's body was ever recovered. He left his wife Helen and their two children. Miller's military band continued to play for months after his death, and the Glenn Miller Orchestra was revived after the war to honor his legacy. Collections of his greatest hits did well on the charts for several years after his passing as well. Jimmy Stewart later starred in the popular film The Glenn Miller Story (1954), which was loosely based on Miller's life. (by www.biography.com)
And here´s another nice sampler with 20 classic Glenn Miller tunes ..
Glenn Miller And His Orchestra
01. In The Mood (Garland/Razaf) 3.34
02. Pennsylvania 6-5000 (Sigman/Gray) 3.14
03. Moonlight Becomes You (Burke/v.Heussen) 3.18
04. Sunrise Serenade (Lawrence/Carle) 3.25
05. Moonlight Serenade (Parish/Miller) 3.22
06. Elmer´s Tune (Albrecht/Gallop/Jürgens) 3.06
07. Juke Box Saturday Night (Stillman/McGrane) 3.05
08. Tuxedo Junction (Johnson/Dash/Feyne/Hawkins) 3.26
09. Chattanooga Choo Choo (Gordon/Warren) 3.24
10. Caribbean Clipper (Gray) 2.28
11. Moonlight Cocktail (Gannon/Roberts) 3.17
12. Amrican Patrol (Meacham) 3.18
13. (I Got A Gal In) Kalamazoo (Gordon/Warren) 3.14
14. Danny Boy (Weatherly) 2.15
15. Serenade In Blue (Gordon/Warren) 3.26
16. A String Of Pearls (Gray) 3.13
17. At Last (Gordon/Warren) 3.05
18. Going Home (Traditional) 2.19
19. I Know Why (Gordon/Warren) 2.59
20. Don´t Sit Under The Apple Tree (Brown/Tobias/Stepf) 3.09
Glenn Miller (March 1, 1904 – December 15, 1944)
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Arthur Barrow – In The Mood + Moonlight Serenade (1985)
Posted on August 7, 2017 by allerlei2013riffmaster
This a carzy little 12 " single … inspired by the motion picture "The Glenn Miller Story".
Side one was recorded by Arthur Barrow:
Arthur Barrow – a young musician trying to find his way – decides to teach himself the electric bass in 1974 while attending the University of North Texas in Denton, Texas. He was studying composition and organ, at the time but had different aspirations. The emerging fusion of rock and progressive music was taking hold, and Barrow became fascinated with the work of Frank Zappa. A year later (1975), he decides to move to Los Angeles with one of his main goals being to play in Zappa's band. In 1978, he auditions and makes the cut.
In Zappa's band, he spends the better part of twelve Zappa albums and four tours working that gig (including albums like Joe's Garage Act I & II, Shut Up 'n Play Yer Guitar, You Are What You Is, and many more). Along the way, he also became a colleague with Robby Krieger from The Doors (who he is still working with) and played with everyone from Joe Cocker and Keith Emerson to Billy Idol and Janet Jackson.
After his Zappa stint, he worked very closely with famed songwriter/producer Giorgio Moroder. You have heard his work in soundtracks for Scarface, Top Gun, The Doors and many more. He has his own slew of solo discs and has worked in many other band situations. Most recently, he has published a memoir of his music business experience titled, Of Course I Said Yes! – The Amazing Adventures of a Life In Music. (by notreble.com)
He recorded two versions of the Gelnn Miller classic "In The Mood" … including a very modern "dub" version …
On the B-side you´ll hear "Moonlight Sernenade" recorded by Thelma Houston:
Thelma Houston (born May 7, 1946) is an American singer and actress. She scored a number-one hit in 1977 with her cover version of the song "Don't Leave Me This Way", which won the Grammy for Best Female R&B Vocal Performance. (by wikipedia)
She was often compared with Aretha Frankin !
What a great version of this song !
Arthur Barrow:
01. In The Mood (Garland) 5.39
02. In The Mood (dub version) 6.08
Thelma Houston:
03. Moonlight Serenade (Miller/Parish) 7.23
This is another item from the great greygoose record collection.
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Glenn Miller Orchestra (directed by Buddy de Franco) – Recorded Live Royal Festival Hall London (1971)
Posted on March 4, 2017 by allerlei2013riffmaster
Boniface Ferdinand Leonard "Buddy" DeFranco (February 17, 1923 – December 24, 2014) was an American jazz clarinet player. One of few clarinetists playing bebop, DeFranco was described by critic Scott Yannow as the leading American jazz musician on his instrument from the 1940s until Eddie Daniels came to prominence in the 1980s.[1] In addition to his own work as a bandleader, DeFranco led the Glenn Miller Orchestra for almost a decade in the 1960s and '70s.
Born in Camden, New Jersey, De | 2,463 |
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Drink of the Week: The Savoy Tango
By Bob Westal on November 10, 2017 Vices
It takes two to tango. I have to resort to that wildly over-used cliche because this week's drink is the Savoy Tango, presumably so named because it is comprised of two evenly matched ingredients. It's also one of only three drinks in Harry Craddock's magnum opus, "The Savoy Cocktail Book" to actually be named after the world famous high end lodging where Mr. Craddock tended bar. "This cocktail is a very great favourite at the Savoy Hotel, London, where it was invented," he adds in a rare commentary below the recipe
Savoy Stomp proprietor Erik Ellestad, expressed some skepticism about whether it was really all that popular at the hotel bar when he wrote about this drink back in 2010. However, seven years back it was relatively challenging to find both of this week's two ingredients in a drinkable form. Today, apple brandies both American and French-style are proliferating, and so are the numbers of quality sloe gins. (The crappy ones have always been with us, it seems.)
Finding just the right two brands to make the best possible version of our drink of the week seems like a worthy aspiration, though not one I'm certain to ever achieve. That being said, this drink really is a case of two great ingredients that go pretty good together.
The Savoy Tango
1 1/2 ounces apple brandy — either French calvados or American applejack
1 1/2 ounces sloe gin (don't even think about using the cheap stuff)
Combine the two ingredient in a cocktail shaker or mixing glass and stir or shake, as you prefer. (Craddock says to shake this, and most of his other drinks; I lean slightly in his direction on this one.) Strain into a well chilled cocktail glass and toast the fruits of the earth that provide us with such our boozy bounty.
The Savoy Tango may have only two ingredients, but there's a lot going on<|fim_middle|> 100 proof brandy and the the bittersweet sloe gin was definitely the most austere but maybe also the most fascinating, The Savoy Tango might not the smoothest dance, but it's definitely memorable.
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Drink of the Week: The Prairie Oyster | . There's some sweetness it's quite strong, and can get stronger depending on the proof of the apple brandy. The apple and berry flavors pair well, though the apple largely subsumes the berry, at least when the drink is at its best.
My brandies were Calvados Coquerel, Laird's 100 proof Straight Apple Brandy and a very cool new product, Laird's Straight Applejack 86, which is being billed as the return of the pre-prohibition spirit so prominent in so many of the lesser known cocktailian classics. The 86 proof Applejack is cheaper than it's boozier brother, but still extremely flavorful. The reduced heat allows a bit more sweetness to come through. I used Plymouth Sloe Gin, and a lesser known expression from the Spirit Works Distillery up in Northern California.
Plymouth Sloe Gin remains the standard and worked in every iteration. Spirit Works worked very nicely with the 100 proof straight apple brandy but it has a slightly medicinal quality that, for whatever reason, was strangely amplified by the straight applejack. Blech.
Otherwise, I was varying degrees of happy with pretty much every combination I tried. As you might expect, the calvados version was the most mature and low-key combination and the 86 proof applejack was the sweetest and most user-friendly combineed with Plymouth, in contrast to the Spirit Works iteration. The interplay between the very strong | 301 |
Lexington, Mass – February 5, 2015 – Microchips Biotech, Inc., a developer of implantable drug delivery devices, today announced that its Chief Executive Officer, Cheryl R. Blanchard, Ph.D., was elected as a member of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE),<|fim_middle|>. Microchips Biotech is developing and exploring potential applications for the microchip platform in female contraception, diabetes, osteoporosis and multiple sclerosis. Microchips Biotech was co-founded by renowned MIT researchers Robert Langer, Ph.D. and Michael J. Cima, Ph.D., and is funded by leading healthcare and technology venture investors including Polaris Partners, Medtronic, InterSouth, Flybridge Capital and InterWest. | noted to be among the highest professional distinctions accorded to an engineer. Dr. Blanchard was recognized for creation and commercialization of biomaterial products and gender-based medical devices for musculoskeletal health.
"Membership in the NAE is widely considered the most prestigious honor in the engineering profession, and Cheryl's election is a much-deserved recognition of her established track record as a leader and innovator of medical devices and in the healthcare industry," said Richard Mott, Executive Chairman of the Board of Microchips Biotech.
Dr. Blanchard is one of 67 newly elected members this year and will be formally inducted into the Academy during the NAE's annual meeting on Oct. 4th, in Washington, D.C. According to the NAE, the Academy membership honors those who have made outstanding contributions to "engineering research, practice, or education, including, where appropriate, significant contributions to the engineering literature", and to the "pioneering of new and developing fields of technology, making major advancements in traditional fields of engineering, or developing/implementing innovative approaches to engineering education".
Microchips Biotech, Inc. is dedicated to improving the lives of patients by revolutionizing drug delivery. The company's proprietary platform technology is a microchip-based implant which can store and release precise doses of drugs at scheduled intervals for up to 16 years. The microchip-based implant has the potential to address significant unmet needs by simplifying dosing regimens and enhancing compliance for patients who need frequent dosing or require regular injections | 311 |
Home » James Bernard, Composer to Count Dracula: A Critical Biography by David Huckvale
James Bernard, Composer to Count Dracula: A Critical Biography
David Huckvale
Published May 1st 2006
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Abstract A novel integration of a trans-critical CO 2 refrigeration cycle with thermoelectric modules in the gas cooler and sub-cooler is presented, wherein a two-stage thermoelectric generator (TEG) produces power from the waste heat of gas cooler, which is a considerable amount of required power in two-stage thermoelectric cooler (TEC) to sub-cool the refrigerant before expansion device. Mathematical simulation of TEG and TEC as well as energy and exergy based thermodynamic analysis of the proposed system is performed, and the effects of some important parameters on the system performance are investigated. A comparison is carried out between the proposed system and the simple CO 2 refrigeration cycle, indicating that the proposed configuration improves the coefficient of performance (COP) about 19%. Also, it is observed that the TEC and TEG have better performance in a two-stage configuration. The parametric study reveals that the new configuration decreases the cycle operation pressure at maximum COP and exergetic efficiency. Highlights A novel configuration for transcritical cooling cycle is presented and analyzed. TEG and TEC are used for recovering waste heat and sub-cooling | 251 |
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That's exactly what Alex Barnett, Intuit's director of the Development Group, addressed in his keynote speech at Scaling New Heights, on June 6 in Orlando, where he announced the exciting new feature within QuickBooks® Online Accountant (QBOA) that allows you to<|fim_middle|> find the right mix of apps to address their particular needs. While doing so, you'll also be creating firm-level efficiencies by standardizing the way your clients' businesses operate. And, you can connect apps to your own firm's free version of QuickBooks as well.
"We are excited to deliver this new feature in response to your feedback about how your clients are looking to you as their technology advisors to deliver them the right applications to streamline their applications," said Barnett. "You also told us how powerful it is for you to use the same apps across clients who have similar needs, as you look to take their experience to the next level through more consistent engagement and more enabled efficiencies."
All of this can be done directly from QBOA – the one place you need to manage your practice and your clients across all the services you offer. This reflects our goals and vision at Intuit.
The platform previously focused on developers and small businesses, but now incorporates a third layer: accountants.
"Adding accountants provides a three-sided platform to enable them ProAdvisors use the apps to run their own practice and help them be better trusted advisors to their clients through powerful apps," said Barnett.
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These stuffed mini peppers are a perfect addition to an appetizer spread. Filled with cream cheese, olives, dill, and red peppers, this appetizer is a perfect one bite wonder.
A while back, I had made something quite similar to this on a whim (really) and when I had the opportunity to class them up a bit, I totally did! I love these stuffed peppers for a holiday party because they are so reminiscent of the old-fashioned Christmas lights to me! I think these truly reflect the feel of Christmas and will surely bring some holiday cheer to your appetizer spread.
I love how the dill adds a pop of green and reminds me of pine needles (only more delicious and not so floral) and the roasted red pepper reminds me of red confetti and red Christmas lights just sprinkled around in this cheesy filling!
I like to add a bit of Sriracha sauce to this mix, just to jazz up the flavors a bit. Feel free to add a dab of your favorite hot sauce to this mix.
It might be a little hard to find sweet peppers in the winter time, try looking at specialty food stores because they might carry them. If, however, you are not able to find them,<|fim_middle|> And so cute, on top of that!
I am so glad that you agree, Caroline! | make this cheese mixture and serve with a veggie platter! Yum city!
Try out these yummy peppers any time of the year but especially for the holidays.
Using a mixer with a paddle attachment, beat cream cheese until smooth.
Add stuffing mix-in's, folding with a spatula.
Place stuffing into a baggie and cut one corner.
Slice peppers in half and fill with cream cheese mixture.
Be sure to mix in the olives, pepper, and dill instead of combining in the beginning as the colors will bleed into the cheese and the specks won't be as pronounced.
These sure do look like Yum City! | 128 |
day 310 and i was<|fim_middle|> looks fantastic. It's my favourite vegetable - I could eat it every day!
You had me hooked there, I thought you were going to combine those two ingredients!!! | completely indecisive today so we have gone with two creations ... roasted broccoli and skinny strawberry fool, except for the strawberries were replaced with blueberries making it a blueberry fool (if there's such a thing) instead. both recipes are pinned to my recipe must do's board on pinterest. the roast broccoli recipe comes from the barfoot contessa courtesy of the amateur gourmet's website. the skinny strawberry fool recipe is from skinny taste ... if you are doing weight watchers, or any diet really, this website is AMAZING! so pleased to have found it given i am just starting weight watchers.
outcome: both are embarrassingly easy to create but trust me you will want to make then bother over and over again. the broccoli is so good with the garlic which seems to make it slightly sweet and just so scrumptious. to make it a little more healthier, next time i will try just spraying it with oil olive rather than using several tablespoons! steve and my mum were sitting there eating the skinny (blueberry) fool and kept saying "this is actually really good" and such like ... i think they were a little sceptical when i pulled out a can of "cream" to put in the dessert, not something i have used often!
That broccoli | 254 |
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La estación de Wiesendangen es una estación ferroviaria de la comuna suiza de Wiesendangen, en el Cantón de Zúrich.
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La estación de Wiesendangen fue abierta en el año 1855 con la apertura al tráfico ferroviario de la línea que unía a Winterthur con Romanshorn, del Schweizerische Nordostbahn (NOB), y en 1902 se integró en los SBB-CFF-FFS.
La estación se encuentra ubicada en las<|fim_middle|>ación está integrada dentro de la red de trenes de cercanías S-Bahn Zúrich, y en la que efectúan parada los trenes de varias líneas pertenecientes a S-Bahn Zúrich:
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Wiesendangen | afueras del noroeste del núcleo urbano de Wiesendangen. Consta de un andén central al que acceden dos vías pasantes.
La estación está situada en términos ferroviarios en la línea férrea Winterthur - Romanshorn. Sus dependencias ferroviarias colaterales son la estación de Oberwinterthur hacia Winterthur y la estación de Rickenbach-Attikon en dirección Romanshorn.
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TOLEDO (AP) — The operator of an Ohio nuclear plant along Lake Erie has found several more cracks in the concrete building housing the nuclear reactor and says some cracks found earlier have grown a bit.
But the findings do not mean the structure shielding the nuclear reactor at the Davis-Besse plant near Toledo is unsafe, FirstEnergy Nuclear Operating Corp. said on Friday.
"The robust building continues to function safely and reliably," site Vice President Ray Lieb said in a statement.
The reinforced concrete building surrounds a 1<|fim_middle|> up a monitoring and testing program to make sure the building remains sound. The agency said on Friday that it was aware of the latest findings.
"Based on the current information, this issue does not compromise the safety of the plant or the public," the agency said in a statement. | 1/2-inch-thick carbon steel vessel containing the reactor and is intended to protect the plant from events such as storms or terrorist attacks, and protect the public from a catastrophe.
The company said high-definition cameras used for inspecting core samples identified cracks not visible with previous inspection equipment.
Several hairline cracks were found in the structure's 21/2-foot-thick concrete two years ago. FirstEnergy determined they were caused by wind-blown moisture seeping into the concrete and freezing during a blizzard, and that the structural integrity wasn't affected.
At that time, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission accepted a company proposal to weatherproof the concrete and set | 131 |
Wenlock Water - The Water with the EDGE !!
Wenlock water<|fim_middle|> | is a crystal clear natural spring water that emerges deep from its natural underground source filtering through the geologically famous rock strata of the Wenlock Edge.
The Wenlock bottling plant is in the heart of the Wenlock Edge, in a designated area of outstanding natural beauty and a SSSI (Special Site of Scientific Interest) and this unique natural spring water has filtered through the limestone strata for several years before it reaches the bottle.
It is this long filtration period that ensures the quality and purity of the water. Wenlock Water is a refreshing, sweet-tasting water that has a good balance of minerals and is high in calcium.
Wenlock Spring Water is regularly tested by both in house microbiologist and independent laboratories and complies with all the strictest European regulations and standards.
Every Wenlock Water bottle is thoroughly cleaned inside and out with our modern bottling facilities, that are hygienically sealed from the outside world. | 186 |
St. Clare principal looks forward to school year
byWilliam Cone, Florida Catholic Media Staff
NORTH PALM BEACH | Smiles were mixed with tears.
The first day of school is a hectic, emotion-packed time for students, parents and educators. The combination of anxieties, relief and fatigue can make for a rough few days.
Rita Kissel, principal of St. Clare School in North Palm Beach, spoke with the Florida Catholic Aug. 9, 2022, as students began returning to their classrooms.
"There's a lot of buildup over the summer," she said. "We're here all summer, preparing for everything, purchasing everything, cleaning everything, fixing everything."
The 2022 summer projects at St. Clare included remodeling the parish hall with new paint, blinds, kitchen countertops and bathroom countertops, Kissel said. They also air-conditioned four student bathrooms, replaced other air conditioners and painted what needed it.
On Aug. 8, St. Clare had its Meet the Teacher event, where students and parents got to see their classrooms and bring their supplies. There also was a used uniform sale.
"Yesterday was a great day, and at the end of the day I walked around and asked the faculty how it went and they said, 'Great. Great families.' Really positive," she said. "I was in the parish hall most of the day and we got a lot of nice comments about our new teachers. That's really uplifting and what we want, so it has me in a good frame of mind for beginning the day."
At St. Clare, as with most schools in the area, several teachers are new, either from another school or brand-new to the profession.
"We have new teachers because getting teachers is hard," Kissel said. "Not everyone wants to do it anymore. It's tough. And even here, a faith-based community, where it's a lovely place to work. We have wonderful people working here who are all here because they want to be, not just because they need a job. But finding people is tough.
"It's a learning and a growing process every day. Even for me," she said.
With student enrollment at more than 400, Kissel is looking forward to welcoming parents to Back to School nights Aug. 24 and 25 and building solid relationships with moms and dads.
"The parent relationship is really important to me, so we work hard at that," she said. "Communication and creating good relationships with parents, because, if we don't have that, it's hard for their child to be happy and for the teacher to do what they need to do. We're excited to get to know the new parents."
A sign of continued easing of COVID-19 restrictions is the fact that parents are again invited to attend school Masses, Kissel said.
The school's mission statement emphasizes that students at St. Clare are there to<|fim_middle|>"That was rewarding because that was the first time a parent said it to me," Kissel said. "That's a great thing that we do here. And of course, love is the faith part, and that's what we're trying to teach kids, to be good people and go to heaven."
To learn more about St. Clare School, visit https://www.stclareschool.com/ or call 561-622-7171. For information on all schools in the Diocese of Palm Beach, go to https://www.diocesepbschools.org/ or call 561-775-9500.
To read this and other stories in Florida Catholic, click here. | learn, lead and love, which is tied to the Leader in Me concept from Stephen Covey, author of "The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People."
"We subscribe to that and teach our kids those seven habits and use them to help them be leaders of themselves, of others or whatever in their life," Kissel said.
She recalled that, at the eighth grade graduation in June, a mother thanked her for the Leader in Me program, which the woman credited for the behavioral transformation of her eighth-grader.
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The full harvest moon has come and gone, but it sure was a beautiful sight.
A stinky brown army is marching across Kentucky this fall, accidentally entering your homes and offices and they look for protective overwintering sites.
A note from Ben: I asked Teri Carter and she agreed to do an occasional point-counterpoint on issues of the day. Here's the first installment.
My apologies for missing last week. I was Burgooing. What a huge difference in weekend weather. Thankfully, I had a mostly on-the-farm weekend and the temperature was lovely for outdoor chores.
Livest<|fim_middle|> section of the Lawrenceburg Green that wasn't swallowed nearly whole by a circus tent. (More on that in a minute). | ock and forage producers can learn about new concepts relate d to pasture weed control during the Kentucky Grazing Conference.
This week I'm celebrating the Anderson County Band's big win in Nelson County. They swept the competition, coming out grand champions.
The real bright spot for me from this year's Burgoo Cook-off didn't really involve any of the participating teams. It was a pair of Boy Scouts who joined us on the tiny | 86 |
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PWD completes road works on Featherbed Alley; workers commended for dedication to duty
April 5, 2016 in NIA
Featherbed Alley in Charlestown on April 01, 2016, the most recent road constructed by the Public Works Department in the Ministry of Communications and Works on Nevis
NIA CHARLESTOWN NEVIS (APRIL 05, 2016) — Featherbed Alley in Charlestown is the most recent public road constructed in the Ministry of Communications and Works small road enhancement projects. The Public Works Department (PWD) commenced work on the 300-feet-long-13 ½ feet-wide road on March 24, 2016 and was completed on April 01, 2016.
During an update on the project on April 01, 2016, Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Communications and Works Ernie Stapleton used the opportunity to congratulate the workers for their efforts.
"I must first of all commend him [PWD] Director Raoul Pemberton and his team for doing a fantastic job.
"This road is a small road but it is a road that would enhance the traffic flow in the area and would improve the vicinity where persons would use this area to access various business places in Charlestown and I must commend them for a job well done," he said.
Pemberton, who was on hand during the visit, gave some detail on how the department tackled the Featherbed Alley project. He considered the road works there as significant.
According to the director, the team worked throughout the Easter holidays to complete drainage work, layout and preparation for the foundation. The asphalting was done on the last day. He commended them for their dedication and tireless work.
He noted that the road was a small one because it is an existing road and they could only use the available space.
"Usually when we undertake road construction we look for a minimum of 16 feet but because of the constraints that we had in this area we had to take the width that was available to us," he said.
Meantime, Pemberton outlined some of the other ongoing road projects the department is engaged in and what it has planned for 20 | 632 |
I didn't know why I was so nervous meeting up with Seth. It was not like I liked him in a romantic way at all. I mean yeah, sure, he was gorgeous, but he knew it and that was a huge turn off. I had a strict rule on dating men who were "pretty boys". My first run in with a pretty boy was freshman year of college. I dated a guy who I swore looked like a cross between Dustin Jieber and Sean Hyatt of Fine Lines. It didn't last more than two dates. Every time we'd pass a window, he'd stop to mess with his hair in the reflection.
But after spending a little time with Seth, I figured out he wasn't like that. He just knew how to throw his words around and tick me off. But I would give him credit for actually being very friendly and nice to me the whole time I was at his place this morning. And he did me such a gigantic favor that I could never repay...how could I not at least show up? And besides. It sounded fun. I'd always liked going to the spice festival. There were all these different vendors, games, lots of food, and fireworks.
When I saw him standing there waiting on me, something inside me hummed. I hadn't felt like this since I was a wide eyed child the night before Christmas. What did I expect to happen? This was Seth Gallegher. The snarky jerk who liked to give me trouble every time he saw me. The guy who thought he could spear women with the flash of his mesmerising crystal green eyes.
Well, not this woman.
When I reached him, my mouth started doing weird things all on its own. "H-Hey, there."
Before he could say anything, I went on, "I-I h-hope, I mean...like...that you don't get the wrong impression of me. I don't normally go out with guys who pick me up from a bar and take me home when I'm black out drunk. Heh...s-so, we're just going as friends...to this...um...festival...right?"
He gripped me with those infuriatingly handsome eyes of his, not saying anything. I twisted inside.
Grabbing my hand, he pulled me along, saying, "No, it's a date."
My face caught fire as I stumbled over myself trying to keep up with him. I had to take three steps to just one of his.
"Do you like island cuisine?" he asked. "I think there's a vendor open now."
"Island cuisine? I don't know. l haven't visited the islands<|fim_middle|> ocean off our yacht just to get some sleep."
He smirked. "Remind me never to piss you off or you'll push me overboard."
I laughed. "You do have a knack at making me mad, that's true. So yeah, that would be smart. Make sure you're never around any bodies of water like a lake or a river or a pool..."
"Or a hot tub?" He clipped me with the corner of his eye and my stomach swooned.
God he was good at this.
As we approached the vendor, the man whistled at us and crooned, "Ahh...I see you got a hot sexy woman, brah. You've come to the right place. What you get for her today?"
He ordered us Tanjine. I had no idea what that was, but I was all for trying it out.
This flavorful dish was a mixture of rice, edamame, mango, papaya and pineapple with grilled shrimp on top. So good!
"Do you like it?" Seth asked.
"Yes, very much...do you?"
"I should...it's a recipe from my homeland."
"Your homeland?"
"Yeah, I'm from Pongo. It's a small Pacific island. Lived there most of my life."
He did have a Polynesian look about him. "What made you relocate? Did your parents bring you here when you were young?"
He shook his head. "No....I came over here to go to college and work. My island is very poor. There's not much opportunity for education there, so my folks sent me here."
"Wow...I bet you miss it. Is it gorgeous like Sunlit Tides?"
"Yeah...the most beautiful place on the planet, but I didn't mind leaving. I have three annoying older brothers." He chuckled.
I giggled with him. "I get that. I have two annoying younger brothers...but we're close so...I don't mind being in the same city with them." This reminded me of why we got closer and a pang of sadness swept through me.
Noticing my change in mood, Seth added, "Well, I'm half a world away from my brothers. I'll have to admit, I do miss them. Haven't seen them in five years."
"Five years? Why haven't you visited them?"
He shrugged. "I don't have the money for a plane ticket home. That's why I work all the time."
Chewing on the spicy shrimp, I swallowed and asked, "You said you got an education...in what?"
"Oh...I'm a doctor still in residency. I work at S M General in the E.R."
A doctor. That knocked the breath out of me. I had conflicting emotions about this. My mother and stepfather were doctors. Just living with them alone left a bad taste in my mouth. But that wasn't fair to judge Seth on the likes of them. It showed he was very driven. So different from my initial thoughts of him. "But why do you work as a bartender?" I asked. I knew doctors, even in residence, made a decent living.
Wiping his mouth with a napkin, he grinned, sheepishly. "I send most of what I earn back home. And I'm paying off student loans. I'm lucky E lets me live in that fancy apartment for free. He's a trust fund brat."
"Like me?"
"Um....oops?" he said, wincing.
He was cute when he got in trouble. "I'll let it slide...just this once."
After we finished eating, Seth led me toward the horseshoe pits. It was surrounded by adorable stuffed animals you could win. I said, "Aww...we should play. I bet I can beat you and win a prize."
Just then someone came up behind me and honked my nose. "Hel-lo, lovebirds!" Fashionista sang.
"So you finally talked this pretty lady into coming with you, huh, Seth?" He whispered in my ear, "Smart move, honey. I guess you've ascended to a two-night stander."
Laughing, I shoved Fashionista away.
Seth took my hand and pulled me beside him. "Leave her alone, Jayden, before she kicks your sorry ass. You don't want to make her mad. Believe me. Her scary eyes will turn you to ash in an instant."
I squinted at him. "What scary eyes?"
Pointing, he said, "See? You're doing it right now." He shivered, wiggling his huge body. "Terrifying."
I punched his rock hard arm. My God. The guy must constantly work out.
"Listen, kiddies," Fashionista taunted, "the only people that are going to be terrified are you two after E and I wipe your bodies off the floor from our slam dunk at horseshoes. I sooooo want that vampire teddy bear with the adorbs red eyes."
"Yeah," Emerett agreed, wrapping his arm around his boyfriend.
Fashionista pointed at us with a menacing smirk. "Oh and E was the horseshoe champ of Apaloosa Plains. You're so going down."
E pumped his arm for effect.
Without a glance at me, Seth raised his fist to signal a knuckle bump. "Want to take 'em, Siobhan?"
"Oh...it's on," I said in a low, menacing voice.
Unfortunately, Seth and I were HORRIBLE at horseshoes.
"Tell your boy to give up, Shiv," Fashionista jeered. "He hasn't even hit the stake once."
I laughed. "I know. For a guy who looks so athletic, he's pretty much a spaz. I'm carrying our team."
"Hey, now," Seth said, closing his eyes in concentration. "Is that any way to talk about your teammate who incidently bought you dinner?"
"Just hit the stake, teammate, and I'll stop talking smack."
In the end, we weren't even close. But Fashionista gave me the stuffed bear. He said it didn't match the dark theme of his apartment. He wanted the vampire bear, but they ran out of those.
"Where to next?" I asked. I couldn't believe how much fun I was having. Seth was beyond great. He was so funny and easy to be around. Plus, I'm not going to lie, he gave me butterflies constantly throughout the night. We had this connection I couldn't describe. I was blown away, surprised by it all.
"Want to get a drink?" he asked me, rubbing my arm. "I mean...of anything. I'm sure you don't want alcohol." He lifted the side of his mouth at me in jest.
"You got that right. I'm good for right now."
We found a bar area that had a fire going and stood around there. It was a romantic spot. Seth wrapped his warm body around me and I snuggled into him. It was nice. Music was playing on the speakers and we all sang along.
The guys got some beer although I passed. But after a while, I began to get thirsty. "Hey, I think I'll walk over to the cafe on the corner of the festival and get some coffee. Do you want anything, Seth?"
"I'll go with you," he said, taking a swig of his beer.
"No, that's alright. I'll only be a minute."
Walking toward the cafe area, my eyes widened in shock as I stopped short. Julien was manning the cafe bar.
Just when I hadn't thought about him all day and was having such a great time, Julien appears. Why couldn't I get away from him?
Siobhan ran off, but I felt uneasy leaving her by herself, especially since I'd noticed her dumbass ex working at the cafe where she'd decided to get coffee.
"Hey, Siobhan," I called out. "Wait up!"
She had stopped right in front of the festival cafe. Following her gaze, I saw the British bastard giving her a mopey face. I wanted to deck him. I had no clue what he did to her, but she was obviously messed up over him. I'd never seen anyone down drinks in misery like she had last night.
Turning around, she scampered away, not even looking at me. "Hold on! Siobhan, wait!" I cried, chasing after her.
Grabbing her, I whispered, gently, "Hey...are you okay?"
Whipping around, she clung to me tightly, surprising me. I felt her shoulders shake as she cried.
Patting her shoulder, I whispered, "You want to go? I don't mind."
Wiping her eyes, she sniffed and nodded. | much, though I've been to Barnacle Bay, but they served pirate food. Does that count?"
"Pirate food," he said, grimacing. "What's that?"
"Oh, I don't know...if I remember correctly, we ate a bunch of fish and chips with lots of vinegar. My daddy bought me a talking parrot doll, too. The stupid thing wouldn't shut up, so I had to launch it in the | 89 |
Treat dad like the king he is this Father's Day and explore Downtown June 17 – 19. Treat the man of the house to museums, music, a delicious dinner and much more all weekend long. (It sure beats buying him a card).
Bring dad to the Indiana State Museum to enjoy cultural performances, food from local restaurants, merchandise vendors and activities (read: Bollywood dancing, Tai Chi and Chinese chess). The festival is free.
June 18, 11 a.m. – 4 p.m.
<|fim_middle|> a beer menu, perfect for making sure dad can unwind from the week. Bonus: outside to the Biergarden for live music Friday and Saturday.
Bring dad to Tastings for his favorite bottle of wine. On Sundays, the wine bar offers half-priced bottles of wine, brunch with a $5 Bloody Mary Bar and $5 Mimosas and live music at 6 p.m. Sit on the patio while sipping for a great people watching, Downtown Indy experience!
Take dad to Georgia Reese's for their Sunday brunch buffet from 10:30 a.m. – 3 p.m. The brunch features some of Georgia Reese's best dishes, including fried chicken, creole shrimp cocktail, prime rib carving stations, cream cheese stuffed French toast and more, plus live jazz music.
Give Dad a day off from grilling and visit Weber Grill on Father's Day. Specials include grilled steak, ribs and grilled red grouper. Can't come on Father's Day? Order the steak package for dad to grill at home. Orders can be picked up June 20 or June 21. | Let freedom ring and celebrate Juneteenth! Juneteenth is Freedom Day, a holiday commemorating emancipation of African Americans in the Confederate South. There will music, performances, demonstrations and food. Museum admission is free all day Saturday for you to explore family history and help create a community mural.
June 18, 3 – 7 p.m.
Unlimited craft beers, 50 local breweries, live music, food vendors… this shouldn't be a hard sell to dad. Enjoy this outdoor block party style beer fest. Tickets are $30 in advance, $40 day of, $50 for VIP and $10 for designated drivers.
June 17, 5:30 – 8:30 p.m.
On Friday night the Zoo will be be rocking for the annual summer concert series Zoolapalooza. Bring dad to the Indianapolis Zoo not just for the animals and gorgeous backdrop, but also for live music, rides and delicious food. Dad is sure to also enjoy the beer and wine samplings.
June 18, 2 – 5 p.m.
Chill out with dad at Easley Winery's Groovin' in the Garden concert series with rock/blues group 3:1. Not only is the event free, but the winery will also let you bring your own food or have food delivered from a local restaurant.
Treat dad to a nostalgic night that will be sure to have him reminiscing to his 90s favorites Keith Sweat & Friends: K-Ci & JoJo, Mint Condition, Silk, MC Lyte, SWV and Whodini. Tickets range from $55.99 – $65.99.
Enjoy the rest of Saturday guilt free when you start your morning with a 5k run/walk. The run begins at the NCAA Hall of Champions and winds through the Downtown Canal. Dad more of a biker? There is also an 8.5-mile group bike route that starts and finishes at the same location. Proceeds from the run help provide families with the financial support they need in order for their children to stay at Ronald McDonald House at little or no cost.
Take dad to Bankers Life Fieldhouse to catch the Indiana Fever as they take on the New York Liberty. Tickets start at $13 for a great time cheering on Indy's WNBA team.
Start getting in the Olympic spirit with dad as you watch more than 100 of the nation's best divers compete to represent the United States at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. The trials take place Saturday at IUPUI and tickets are $15-$50.
Does Dad bleed blue and white? Buy dad a special Father's Day visit from Blue! Blue start with a visit to his office, school or home and bring confetti, two free rounds of golf and a $25 Colts Grille gift card. Deliveries take place June 13 – 17 and cost $150.
From Jäegerschnitzel to Filet Mignon, the menu at the Rathskeller includes authentic German food as well as steak, seafood, chicken, pork and vegetarian entrees. The Rathskeller also features an extensive wine list and | 673 |
[Excerpt] Title I of the Ticket to Work and Work<|fim_middle|> program: Overview and current issues. Washington, DC: Congressional Research Service. | Incentives Improvement Act of 1999 (P.L. 106-170) established the Ticket to Work and Self-Sufficiency program (hereafter referred to as the Ticket to Work or Ticket program), which is administered by the Social Security Administration (SSA). The purpose of this program is to enhance work incentives for Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) and Supplemental Security Income (SSI) beneficiaries. The legislation created a "ticket" system to expand choices in the numbers and types of providers that SSDI and SSI beneficiaries may choose to assist them in receiving employment services. The legislation also expanded Medicare and Medicaid coverage for individuals with a disability who are working or could work. Most notably, the Ticket to Work program created a market for public and private providers of support services known as employment networks (ENs) to which Social Security disability beneficiaries can voluntarily assign their tickets in exchange for a range of employment support services. The goal of the Ticket program is to reduce dependence on disability benefits and help Social Security disability beneficiaries enter or reenter the workforce. ENs would then be eligible to receive payments from SSA based on ticket holders achieving employment "milestones" or outcomes.
This report provides an overview of how the Ticket to Work program operates and addresses several issues related to the Ticket program. First, it provides a brief background on the SSDI and SSI programs and a legislative history on how the Ticket program evolved. Second, this report provides an in-depth explanation on the various components and regulations of the Ticket to Work program in its current form and prior to major regulatory changes in July 2008. Third, it examines other work incentive programs created by Ticket to Work legislation and concludes with a discussion on the issues surrounding implementation of the Ticket program.
Morton, W. R. (2013). Ticket to Work and Self-Sufficiency | 381 |
Range Extent Comments: Central WA to CA, east to MT, se. OR, and w. NV. Peripheral.
Global Range: Central WA to CA, east to MT, se. OR, and w. NV. Peripheral.
General Description: Yellow-staining Collomia is an annual with branched stems reaching up to 15 cm high. The alternate, linear leaves are 1-5 cm long with entire margins. Foliage is glandular and hairy. 2-5 short-stalked flowers are clustered in the leaf axils or where branches the diverge. The pink or lavender, tubular corolla is 8-14 mm long and flares into 5 lobes. The<|fim_middle|> GYMNOSTERIS. American Midland Naturalist 31:216-231. | calyx tube is expanded where it flares into 5 triangular lobes. The 5 stamens are of different lengths and attached to the corolla tube. The fruit is a globose capsule.
Diagnostic Characteristics: C. LINEARIS has flowers that are clustered near the branch tips. MICROSTERIS GRACILIS has a white or yellowish corolla tube, and the calyx is glandular and hairy.
Wherry, E. T. 1944. Review of the genera COLLOMIA and | 109 |
Oprah Winfrey will debut on XM Satellite Radio beginning in September in an exclusive three-year deal announced today by XM and Harpo Radio.
XM will create an "Oprah & Friends" channel on XM that will include an exclusive original weekly radio show with Oprah and her friend Gayle King, as well as regular segments hosted by personalities from the "The Oprah Winfrey Show," and The Oprah Magazine. Personalities such as Bob Greene, Dr. Mehmet Oz, Dr. Robin Smith, Marianne Williamson and Nate Berkus will discuss topics including nutrition, fitness, health, self improvement and current events.
XM paid $55 million for the three-year contract with Oprah, according<|fim_middle|> Stewart Living Radio began airing on Sirius in November.
In a written statement XM quoted Oprah as saying, "Together with my friends, we look forward to creating programming that will entertain, inform and inspire our listening audience on XM," said Oprah Winfrey.
XM president/CEO Hugh Panero said Oprah will help attract a more diverse subscriber base.
Published reports compared the $55 million price for the Oprah contract with XM as a bargain compared to the $600 million Sirius is paying over five years for Howard Stern. Stern however, appears live four to five hours, four days a week compared to Oprah's weekly appearance on XM, an industry member noted. | to a report by the Associated Press.
The launch of the channel helps XM target the women's market. Sirius made a similar high-profile deal last April with Martha Stewart to lure female subscribers. Published reports said Sirius paid $7 million a year for the four-year contract. Martha | 55 |
October 30, 2017by Pam KaseyNo CommentsFall 2017, Taste, Tastemakers
Dominick Cerrone has turned a Wheeling landmark into a food lovers' haven.
A stop at the L.S. Good mansion reminds a visitor of old Wheeling's wealth and refinement. Built in 1905 by the prominent downtown department store owner and philanthropist, the townhouse features a three-story stairwell atrium, 28 stained glass panels, parquet floors, and lush woodwork throughout.
It's also a mouth-watering introduction to the refinement of today's Wheeling. For the past 11 years, the Good mansion has hosted Good Mansion Wines, a top destination for foodies in the tri-state region.
Proprietor Dominick Cerrone tells the shop's origin story as a series of accidents. An engineer by trade, he was living in East Wheeling in 2003 when the mansion came up for sale in his neighborhood. He made a lowball offer without any real intentions and, to his surprise, his offer was accepted. He found the stately interior intact and mainly just had to do some work on the mechanical systems to bring it up to date.
Still, he had no real use for the mansion. Then one day in 2006, he and friends were lamenting the lack of a comprehensive wine seller in Wheeling, and he came to think his mansion might make a good wine shop. "The state wholesalers had a pretty handsome selection of wines, largely because of the demand at The Greenbrier, most of which had no exposure here in the northern part of the state," he says. "I realized I could bring something new to market." He opened Good Mansion Wines in 2006.
Good Mansion's wine selection is more European-focused than the typical California-centric American wine store. "My shop probably represents a more international palate—we've been told by importers who visit that we have the most comprehensive selection of Italian wines in the whole mid-Atlantic region," says Cerr<|fim_middle|> says. "We got trained in breadmaking, and we buy imported French flours."
It's hard to imagine that an authentic French bread could be a hard sell, but he has found that American dietary preferences can be grounded in strong beliefs. "People are afraid to death of carbohydrates. They're going on gluten-free kicks and trying to eliminate breads from their diets, just when we're saying, 'Let's perfect bread—this newly declared evil in people's lives,'" he laughs.
But what Cerrone and his staff have learned about flours and bread raises interesting questions. "When you use the mother yeast, that's the sourdough, and the flour that's intended for baguettes—flour is a much more precise science and passion in France—the yeast is providing probiotic benefits, and you're reducing glycemic spikes." He wonders if the pesticides used on American wheat fields and additives like folic acid in American flours might contribute to what we call gluten sensitivity. In any case, his breads have won a following. "We introduced the most pure, elemental French baguette and we sell hundreds every week."
That baguette serves as the basis for Good Mansion's long list of sandwiches made from the charcuterie: sandwiches like Le Parisien, with Creminelli prosciutto cotto and Normandy butter, or El Manchego, with Serrano ham, aged manchego cheese, olive oil, and greens. "We feature six of our sandwiches every day, with different salumi and cheese from France, Italy, and Spain on our baguettes," Cerrone says. "They're fantastic."
Also coming out of Good Mansion's kitchen these days are pastas, quiches, and fresh sausages. They bake a range of pastries—French croissants and palmiers, Swiss brioche, and others—and serve those up alongside Italian coffee.
Visitors from larger cities across the U.S. tell Cerrone there's no shop where they live that sells the variety and quality Good Mansion Wines offers in a city of 27,000. "In their defense, it's our small market that has allowed for this kind of diversity in one shop," he says. "If I had a wine shop in New York City, why would I bother making bread or selling cheese? The market here has kind of forced us to be innovative and do the whole 360 experience."
Good Mansion's ongoing expansion continues next with a meal kit service. "We've got so many foods we want to help people feel comfortable using—regional foods, traditional staples in good Italian grocery stores," Cerrone says. "The Good Mansion Wine Supper Club is an opportunity for us to push our imported products with a recipe and a story about the foods, and we'll be working with local produce and meat sources where we need those things." Look for that in the fall of 2017. 95-14th Street, 304.233.2632, goodmansionwines.com, "Good Mansion Wines" on Facebook
Photographed by Nikki Bowman
Written by Pam Kasey
Pam Kasey has traveled, brewed, farmed, counseled, and renovated, but most loves to write. She has degrees in economics from the University of Chicago and in journalism from West Virginia University. She and her husband and their teenage son live in Morgantown with their cats, Perry and Kellin.
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It's not just because his parents came over from Italy. In Cerrone's view, Italian and French wines are the most versatile. "I'm not a sipper. I think it's best to appreciate wine with food," he says. "Something reactive happens that's greater than the sum of the parts. You don't understand a wine until you understand its reactive potential with fats and sauces and other components." German and Spanish wines round out the shop's Old World offerings, and there's a good selection of New World wines, too, including wines made in West Virginia.
Good Mansion offers wines for every occasion and pocketbook, with its wide selection and price range. "We have lots of expensive wines, and the interior can be intimidating, like a museum, but customers can also get their $10 favorites here," Cerrone says. The shop also educates customers' palates through Friday night tastings that he started soon after he opened—a new theme every week, no reservation required. "We make a great effort to expose customers to wines that your average consumer would not have access to or ever think of purchasing," he says. The shop's customer base has become more sophisticated over time. "We have regulars now who, when we're busy, they'll just cut loose and help other customers on the floor. It's a real family. And I can probably say that we've really changed consumers' tastes over the years."
Like Cerrone, Good Mansion's customers like to experience wine with food. Over years of tastings, they kept asking for cheese, and eventually he started offering imported cheeses. "We now have 100 varieties, the complete anthology of European cheese." His selection has grown to rival the popular cheese room at Pennsylvania Macaroni Company in Pittsburgh's Strip District, he says, and includes some cheeses that aren't available even there. Then he got into salumi—cured meats, both imported and domestic—so, since 2014, Good Mansion has offered an extensive charcuterie.
Why stop there? "Everybody loved that so much that the natural extension was more imported food products. We got into it because the availability of good Italian products is so sparse." Here he talks about that rumor so many of us have heard: that the mafia controls the distribution of Italian specialty foods, and that the Italian products Americans have access to are low-grade industrial versions.
"I'm in Italy often, meeting with people, and I started importing foods from small family producers," Cerrone says.
"These are truly 100 percent artisanal foods from families that are rooted to their land for many generations. They're growing and producing in a tight food chain, very, very good quality products that are awarded and written up by Italian food media. Some products, we're the first U.S. importer, and that's something you don't see in Pittsburgh." Even the shops in Strip District, known for its wide range of specialty Italian products, don't import directly, he says—they buy from U.S. importers that get their goods from larger producers. Good Mansion's inventory of top-shelf products includes internationally awarded olive oils, traditional balsamic vinegars, regional pastas, sweet panettone and pandoro loaves, truffles and truffled product, specialty condiments, and more.
All of that, of course, just begged to be accompanied by bread. "We did a kitchen addition and put in French bread ovens back there," Cerrone | 726 |
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Business blogging can often take place from the ideas of others. If you're doing research, and you find an article from which you want to pull information, link to that article. Don't be afraid of sending your audience that way because people appreciate credible sources. As your writing improves, other business bloggers may begin to reference your work and send people to you. Networking is important for any business, no matter which form it takes!
Every business has competitors. Rather than pushing yourself onto your audience by trying to convince them that you're the best and the brightest on the market, show your value more humbly. Offer advice or stories that are entertaining and useful to your readers without trying to convince them that no one is as great as you are. Your audience will appreciate the free tips, and you'll come across as an authority in your industry without scaring away potential customers. | Be a human when you're interacting with your customers, and you'll likely see a positive reaction overall.
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Direka untuk kedua-dua tujuan perniagaan dan percutian, Simola Hotel, Country Club & Spa terletak di lokasi strategik di Knysna; salah satu kawasan yang paling popular di bandar tersebut. Dari sini, tetamu boleh menikmati akses mudah kepada semua yang bandar meriah ini boleh tawarkan. Hotel moden ini berada di sekitar kawasan tarikan bandar yang popular seperti Monkeyland, Denai Berbasikal Gunung Homtini, Hutan Knysna.
Di Simola Hotel, Country Club & Spa, segala usaha dilakukan untuk membuatkan tetamu berasa selesa. Oleh yang demikian, hotel ini menyediakan perkhidmatan dan kemudahan yang terbaik. Kemudahan utama hotel termasuklah Wi-Fi percuma dalam semua bilik, meja penyambut tetamu 24-jam, simpanan bagasi, tempat letak kereta, layanan bilik.
Semua bilik tetamu menawarkan pelbagai jenis tahap keselesaan. Banyak bilik turut menyediakan akses internet (wayarles), internet tanpa wayar (percuma), bilik tidak merokok, pendingin hawa, pemanas untuk memuaskan hati tetamu. Hotel ini menawarkan kemudahan hebat, termasuk pusat kecergasan, sauna, padang golf (dalam jarak 3 km) , kolam renang luar, kolam renang dalam, untuk membantu anda berehat selepas hari yang penuh aksi di bandar. Kemudahan yang hebat dan lokasi yang sangat baik membuatkan Simola Hotel, Country Club & Spa menjadi asas yang sempurna untuk menikmati penginapan anda di Knys<|fim_middle|> eingerichteter Küche, einem großen Schlafzimmer und einem Badezimmer mit Wanne und Dusche und räumlich abgetrennter Toilette. Das Essen im Restaurant war vorzüglich. Das Personal war geschult und sehr aufmerksam. Der Golfplatz liegt unmittelbar am Hotel. Sehr gepflegt.Interessant vor allem für gute Spieler.Man muss ein E-Cart benutzen.
Un hôtel qui de l'extérieur n'est pas très joli et loin du Guest House avec un acuueil personnalisé. Mais une suite de 115m² avec une vue exceptionnelle sur la baie de Knysna et sur le parcours de golf en contre-bas. On y a passé un très bon moment avec de bons burgers servis sur la terrasse et une vue sur la compet internationale de golf qui se déroulait à ce moment-là. | na.
Had a very relaxing few days here! Facilities were excellent, apartment very nice with a superb view!! We dined in the hotel both evenings as the food was delicious and very reasonably priced. Staff were very friendly, helpful and attentive. Wished we has stayed here longer! Would definitely stay here again and highly recommend it.
We had a very good time despite an awful weather. The rooms are spacious, comfortable and very well decorated. The hotel is located on top of a hill and overlooks beautiful landscapes as well as the gold course.
our apartment was stunning with beautiful furnishings and fittings. the view from the large balcony was breathtaking. although we were in knysna for sightseeing we had to spend time at the hotel. not only was our family apartment luxurious but the pool, restaurant and spa had stunning views as well. the breakfast buffet was very good and the dinner buffet offered excellent variety and the food was delicious. the chefs in this hotel know what they are doing! all in all we loved everything about our stay at simola!
Though located away from the town centre the location was very picturesque. The family apartment was just fantastic. The staff were friendly. They organise drop and pick up to the town centre at 100 ZAR per trip. Ideally this should be complimentary. OPtherwise a great place to relax.
Enormous rooms, great views and friendly staff.
Arrived about 4p.m. Longish check-in, but efficient. Accompanied to our apartment by a charming bell boy who could not have been more helpful. We were expecting a room and we got a house! Two bedrooms, both en-suite, and a lounge-kitchen-dining room with fabulous views of Knysna Bay. Having checked out the main dining room we stayed for dinner - good food and service. Played golf the next day - good course but not walkable. A very pleasant stay.
Excellent for total peace and relaxation.
the hotel and the surrounding area is simply beautiful.breakfast is also very good.
Friendly, helpful staff. Very good breakfast - all you can ask for.
as a golfer simola perfect, and even if you are not it is. the hotel is situated high up on the with magnificent views of knysna and surroundings. the rooms are spacious and of the standard you expect from a good hotel. we were greeted very kindly when we arrived late, and arranged for us to eat in the bar even though it had closed. the buffet breakfast was excellent - everything was fresh and omelets made while waiting for it.
Excellent food served at the restaurants.
Hotel facilities were far beyond expectations.Very friendly staff. Breakfast served was excellent.
this hotel was just perfect for a stay in knysna. set in the hills it offers spectacular views over the lagoon and surroundings. all hotel staff were friendly with a smile and were personal. the hotel was not busy when we stayed and this just added to the relaxation we had here. knysna is not a busy place so it was good to use the top rated facilities of a 5 star hotel during day and night. we recommend this hotel, it was so nice that we stayed for another night!
the hotel was really nice. full five star service. the rooms were very good in size. the location is not central but we had our car so no problem at all.
the hotel was really nice. full five star service. the rooms were very good in size. the location is not central but we had our car so no problem at all. they upgrade us to there bigger room which was around 145 sqm. love this hotel.
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How Multifamily Properties Are Rebooting Best Practices
By Jeffrey Steele
Five industry leaders share COVID-inspired strategies that have staying power.
Never let a crisis go to waste: Such was the sage advice of Winston Churchill more than 75 years ago. Today, that could be the mantra of many COVID-tested multifamily executives. Managing through the pandemic has posed formidable challenges, but it has also prompted the industry to embrace innovative strategies, often years earlier than they might have been adopted otherwise. Implementing those practices effectively could help stand communities in good stead for years to come.
Multi-Housing News recently invited five industry leaders to weigh in on lessons learned, challenges and solutions. Participants in our virtual roundtable were Cindy Clare, COO of Bell Partners; A. David Lynd, CEO of Lynd Living; Patrick Carroll, CEO of CARROLL; Sheryl Klein, COO, Alta Housing, and Kristina Rauscher, marketing director with P.B. Bell.
How are you applying lessons from COVID to management?
Patrick Carroll
Patrick Carroll: Historically, we've had a 50 percent turnover rate, and now we have 75 percent retention. People are more inclined to stay put at home if you make it more attractive through community events and other affirmative activities. People want more space, so we're prioritizing workspaces in renovations. We're also prioritizing high-speed Internet and moving Google Fiber into more properties.
David Lynd: Overcommunicating. In the absence of communication, people default to the worst possible outcome. Step two is to build morale. People were sitting around, drinking, eating and watching TV. They'd lost jobs. We created a door-decorating contest, which carried a month's free rent for every first-place winner in every property across the U.S.
Cindy Clare
Cindy Clare: It showed us we need to meet our residents and prospects where they want to meet us. Many liked the idea of AI and self-guided tours. When we went into the pandemic, we got most of our residents doing rent and renewals through (automated clearing house). We looked at virtual events. We couldn't do inside events but (we) could bring a food truck and have people come outside.
Kristina Rauscher: We're using different ways to communicate: by text, email, social media and Zoom. The more you communicate, the less likely you'll feel you're in the dark.
What are your current operational priorities?
Clare: We use revenue management software, and the recovery from the pandemic has rent rising this year as dramatically as it fell last year. You have to watch that very carefully and make sure you're adjusting as quickly as things change.<|fim_middle|> locate and buy value-add properties, upgrade them and reposition (the assets) just beneath new construction deals, so we offer the consumer a higher-quality, lower-cost option to new developments. I'm seeing rent increases I've never seen in 20 years.
Carroll: It's keeping up with a fast-moving market. It's almost a daily thing, watching where rents need to be and managing the limited supply of units we have available, and trying to turn those units as fast as we can.
Sheryl Klein: We are making sure our (personal protective equipment) supplies are plentiful and readily available. We have also expanded our list of vetted vendors and suppliers, so we can continue to maintain our apartments and properties.
What's the top strategy in your marketing toolkit?
Kristina Rauscher
Carroll: Ninety percent of our marketing is online, with online advertising, specific placements and traditional online ads. We are also marketing within our own portfolio, marketing to existing clients. If they're looking at relocating, we want to be the company they choose.
Lynd: We're doing more high-quality video and investing in that to evoke emotions in people. We're beefing up our online photos and videos, to give prospective renters a sense of how it is to live in our properties, and the lifestyle the properties promise.
What are your renters' biggest requests?
Clare: Space for working from home—and that leads to the next question, which is a request for larger units. That doesn't necessarily mean they all want two-bedrooms. They could still want one-bedroom units but instead of 550 square feet they want 650 to 700 square feet.
Sheryl Klein
Carroll: Higher-speed Internet is the No. 1 request and top priority. With people working from home, the bandwidth has to keep up with the downloads.
Klein: Many of our residents continue to be negatively affected by the pandemic. We continue to provide them with resources and help so they can get rental assistance. In addition, we have been working with other local nonprofits to keep providing residents with groceries and food as needed.
What are your goals for the next six months?
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The first significant public/media exposure of the asbestos danger at Wittenoom & the danger to everyone from blue asbestos came in July 19<|fim_middle|> broadcast Matt Peacock's seven-part series for the Broadband radio program in which he investigated the dangers to workers' health in Australia's asbestos industry. In February 1978 the West Australian published a feature article by Catherine titled 'Blue Asbestos – The Latent Killer', which also told of asbestos workers' deaths both here and overseas and warned readers of the fibre's extreme danger.
Here Matt Peacock recalls how he became aware of the asbestos issue and the challenges he faced trying to bring them to public attention.
It all started when he was producing his 1977 award-winning Broadband radio series about asbestos for ABC Radio National.
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Matt Peacock embarked on a laborious process of researching into asbestos – which required a lot of digging in the 1970s before the age of the Internet when information is just a click away.
As Matt Peacock continued his research he discovered that while asbestos was already a big story overseas, it was one the media in Australia had totally ignored. In his view this was owing to a deliberate media strategy on the part of the main asbestos manufacturing group, James Hardie Industries.
Matt Peacock found that, when he began exposing the truth about the dangers of asbestos, the two main unions covering asbestos workers, the Australian Workers Union and the Miscellaneous Workers Union, were not helpful. They did not believe there was a problem.
The broadcasting of Matt Peacock's Radio National series began to have an impact, raising awareness about the hazards of asbestos around the country.
Once on the trail of asbestos Matt Peacock began to see it everywhere and became aware just through his own experience of how pervasive it was in our environment. This led to more stories.
Matt Peacock's dogged reporting did have an impact – soon government attention was focused on introducing regulations to control asbestos, even though pressure from the James Hardie company meant it was many years before asbestos was finally banned in Australia.
Matt Peacock joined Australia's first current affairs TV program, ABC's This Day Tonight, as a researcher in 1973. He soon became a specialist trainee at Four Corners, Monday Conference, AM and PM, then moved to ABC Radio's Science Unit where in 1977 he produced an award winning series on asbestos.
A radio career followed which took Peacock to Washington and New York, reporting for the ABC's AM, PM, The World Today and Background Briefing programs. From 1997-2000 Matt Peacock was chief political correspondent for ABC Radio's current affairs Canberra bureau, and was subsequently posted to London, where he won the Foreign Press Association's 2003 award for best story by a locally based foreign correspondent.
Since 2004 Peacock has been a senior reporter with ABC TV's 7.30 Report. He has written for a number of newspapers, magazines and journals and has previously published two books based on his radio programs: Asbestos: Work as a Health Hazard and The Forgotten People – A History of the Australian South Sea Islander Community.
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Sunday evening being the only time I get to introspect:
To re-evaluate the purpose of Nojoto and constantly sharpening it up & re-focusing to single most important thing:
The '#Why'?
The single biggest question for a business & for an individual.
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It's the reason why we have Gandhi, Hitler, Eric Clapton, Jim Carrey, JK Rowling and anyone else.
It's always the "Why" which defines an individual or a business.
Google, Amazon isn't tech company, Netflix is not media subscription company.. these are current business model, or the core enabler to solve for "Why".
"Why" is about figuring out "problem, and for whom", and then its about all actions towards it.
And in the end,
- Technologies come and go
- Business models evolve
And all things change, and that's always how life is.
One thing that doesn't change throughout is
"Why ?"
For all my friends who are starting up business, or Pursing Creative Expression Such as Comedy, Poetry, music, art or any other thing - Question yourself
"Why?" & Stick to your hypothesis unless it's proven wrong, in that case iterate, but stick to "Your Why", Your Original "Why".
Most people fizzle out on why, and lose it - whether they have money or fame - doesn't matter.
It's the only thing that makes you run at 100x and still not feel tired, it's the only thing that will keep you humble at all points in life, and probably the only thing that no institution or person teaches you.
If you'be got 20 mins free, watch Jim Carrey's Commencement speech on YouTube for further information, it was and will be the single most thing I cherish | 309 |
Two summers ago one of my best friends walked a 60 mile journey. He began at Melrose Abbey, following the ancient route of St Cuthbert's Way and parts of Hadrian's Wall before ending his journey at Lindisfarne (Holy Island). He walked entirely alone for several days. At the end of each day he<|fim_middle|> sense of searching for something. It was a very long walk, but it wasn't a personal pilgrimage.
Ancient pilgrims travelled using the transport methods of their day, mentioned earlier, such as 'on foot' and 'on horseback'. These relatively slow methods of transport made for journeys which might last for days on end. And while this slow journeying seems to be an essential component of the pilgrimage experience perhaps the intentional setting aside of time, the will to keep stepping away from something, and towards something else, also plays a key part.
Friends of mine recently took time to take turns praying in a quiet room which was set aside for that very purpose. They reported deep spiritual connections and breakthroughs. Perhaps it's not only the physical distance covered during a pilgrimage which is restorative, it's the spiritual intentionality, the deliberate setting aside, the seeking after God and the determined quest for answers which generates fresh meaning. | checked in with friends and family via social media. A keen photographer and thinker, he also shared highlights and brief reflections about his journey. The rain held off, the knees held up, he was rewarded with tranquil scenery and time alone with God. It was fascinating to follow the story. He was engaging in that ancient Christian practice, the pilgrimage.
Michael Hanselmann/WikipediaA section of Hadrian's Wall facing east towards Crag Lough.
Blending the physical and the spiritual into a unified experience, and becoming aware of that, sounds like an experience worth striving towards. And I suspect there's a universal appeal about the idea of taking yourself out of the familiar in the hopes of achieving precisely that. My home church, in the UK, currently employs team members who've travelled all the way from Germany, Poland, the USA and New Zealand. Some of the children who grew up in my church have now left the area to work further afield in Africa, Germany and Switzerland. Do these modern-day missionaries experience the spiritual elements of journeying towards something? Do they find new inspiration in being apart from their everyday lives, set loose from the limitations which home might place upon their identity? Do they experience, in part, what we might understand as pilgrimage?
A good distance away from most of us is Iona, a tiny and beautiful Hebridean island off the west coast of Scotland, the cradle of Christianity in Scotland. It was there in 563AD the Irish monk Columba established a monastic settlement that evangelised large parts of Scotland and the north of England and became an important centre of European Christianity. In the Middle Ages it became the site of a Benedictine abbey, and over the centuries it has attracted many thousands of people on their own pilgrim journeys.
Jenny Ross/Iona CommunityIona Abbey is a place of pilgrimage.
The daily services of the Iona Community in the Abbey church and worship elsewhere on the island are open to all. There is a year-round population of over 100; long-established island families as well as more recent arrivals, including those who work for the Iona Community in its centres as staff or volunteers. The abbey is now managed by Historic Environment Scotland; the Iona Community remains in residence as a living, worshipping presence. The islanders, the Iona Community and Historic Environment Scotland, work together to maintain Iona as a place of welcome.
There are lots of places to stay on Iona, retreat centres, hotels, B&Bs, camping and hostels.
Alternatively, the Iona Community also has a centre on Mull at Camas which offers kayaking, abseiling, swimming and wild camping.
The Abbey itself is open daily but the Abbey Residential Centre on Iona is temporarily closed for refurbishment and scheduled to reopen in 2020 when residential guests can enjoy a varied programme.
The British Pilgrimage Trust has a fascinating website with a wealth of information about what it means to experience a pilgrimage. The website includes a huge selection of ancient routes to follow with variable duration. These are primarily walking pilgrimages with a wide range of interesting destinations. It suggests that the thousands of cathedrals, churches, and chapels of Britain, whether in use, redundant or ruined are holy places. Furthermore attending the glorious musical service of Evensong, performed free of charge in churches and cathedrals across Britain is a worthwhile addition to your personal pilgrimage.
In addition to ancient buildings, water has historical links to pilgrimage. Britain was once famed throughout Europe as a land of water. Our freshwater springs were sweet and ever-flowing, providing mineral richness and clean drinking for all inhabitants of the land. Great trees, particularly the majestic yew, sometimes pre-dating the birth of Jesus, are a reminder of the beauty and strength of creation and hold a special meaning for many a pilgrim. Ancient monuments and hill tops are often considered to be holy places, where some find it easier to contemplate and pray.
Eugene Birchall/WikipediaGlastonbury Tor has Christian and pagan associations.
Glastonbury has longstanding connections with the myth that Christ himself may have visited the area with Joseph of Arimathea and 'walked upon England's mountains green'. It's part of an ongoing story which captured the imagination of many a pilgrim of old. Rich in history, heritage, myths, legends and spiritual enrichment there has been a church on the site of Glastonbury Abbey for at least 1500 years with evidence of even earlier occupation. Even though Glastonbury is perhaps best known for the revelry of its five day festival of performing arts (in June 2019) the area still boasts some tranquil spots worthy of the modern pilgrim. Glastonbury Tor, known for its Christian and pagan connections, is a hill just outside the town of Glastonbury with spectacular 360° views from the top.
I recall Good Friday walks with fondness. My school friends and I would spend the whole day walking to the top of our local hill for a picnic. Everyone did it. It was a wonderful day out in the fresh air but I had absolutely no idea why we were doing it. There was no spiritual intentionality on my part, no | 1,075 |
See the Highlights From 2018 CMA Music Fest, Day Two [Pictures]
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Carrie Underwood, Blake Shelton and more of the top artists in country music hit the stage on Day 2 of the 2018 CMA Music Festival in Nashville on Friday (June 8), as part of a star-studded lineup that ran all day and into the night.
Shelton and Underwood were part of the lineup at Nissan Stadium on Friday night, headlining massive shows that draw country fans from all over the country every year for the biggest event in country music.
Tyler Farr, Cam, Drake White, Eric Paslay and more were among the acts that performed daytime sets at the various stages that dot downtown Nashville for 2018 CMA Fest, including the Riverfront Stage and the Breakout Stage, which features sets from some of country music's fastest-rising artists. Old Dominion, Charley Pride, Lee Brice, Jake Owen, Brett Young, Luke Combs and more also graced the nighttime shows at Nissan Stadium Friday night.
There's plenty of great music still coming before the 2018 CMA Fest wraps up on Sunday (June 10), including performances from Chris Stapleton, Devin Dawson, Michael Ray and more.
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See the amazing translucent photovoltaic roof planned for OMA and KOO's arts centre for the University of Illinois
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The expansive complex will rise on the school's Chicago campus / OMA/KOO
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The University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) has selected OMA and KOO to plan its US$95m (€85.1m, £75m) Center for the Arts.
The 88,000 sq ft (8,175.4 sq m) complex will have a translucent roof with embedded photovoltaics that will reflect light from the performance halls.
The facility – to be located on the school's north-west campus – will comprise a 500-seat concert hall and a 270-seat auditorium, as well as a rooftop terrace, rhearsal rooms, exhibition spaces and F&B outlets.
Speaking on the project, Shohei Shigematsu, a partner at OMA's New York office, said: "Our design focuses on fostering dialogue between performance and the public – the new building will be a connector between the city and UIC's urban campus."
Walter Benn Michaels, interim dean of UIC's College of Architecture, Design, and the Arts, commented: "This design both creates a central space for thinking and making and provides a vivid image of the innovative work of the schools of the college."
Fundraising for the scheme is currently underway.
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Fundraising for the scheme is currently underway / OMA/KOO
The University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) has selected OMA and KOO to plan its US$95m (€85.1m, £75m) Center for the Arts. The 88,000 sq ft (8,175.4 sq m) complex will have a translucent roof with embedded photovoltaics that will reflect light from the performance halls. The facility – to be located on the school's north-west campus – will comprise a 500-seat concert hall and a 270-seat auditorium, as well
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A new cryptocurrency start-up has received $133 million in private investments. Intangible Labs will use the money to develop "basis", a stable coin that will be built on the Ethereum blockchain.
Basis: A Coin With a Variable Supply
Intangible Labs is the brainchild of three Princeton University graduates. The company has already received investment from some rather exciting groups. Amongst them are Bain Capital Ventures, venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, Lightspeed Foundation Capital, and Google's venture department GV. Individual contributors include billionaire Stan Druckenmiller, and former Federal Reserve Governor Kevin Warsh. The total raised so far is over $133 million.
The co-founder and CEO of Intangible Labs, Nader Al-Naji, spoke to Reuters about the decision to build a stable coin earlier today:
"Volatility of cryptocurrencies has prevented their widespread adoption… We are trying to build cryptocurrencies that have all the benefits of crypto but is stable."
Basis will be built atop the Ethereum blockchain as an ERC20 token. The idea behind it is that it will hold its price by expanding and contracting its total supply according to varying demand for the token. This will, in theory, keep the price consistent at all times.
Al-Naji first spoke to Reuters about Intangible Labs' idea for basis back in October of 2017. He told the publication that the inspiration had come to him whilst penning a post for his personal blog, Nader Theory, in June. During the post, the Princeton graduate discussed the idea of having a coin that could increase and decrease its supply according to demand. This formed the idea behind basecoin – later re-branded as basis.
So far, all the funding received by Intangible Labs has been raised through private investors and venture capital groups. The company are still undecided as to whether they will hold a public sale for basis. According to Al-Naji, the current regulatory environment surrounding ICOs might mean holding one is detrimental to the startup. The decision will be made after due assessment has been done of current and pending regulations governing the space.
Recently, there has been concern raised by various regulatory bodies over the funding method that shot to fame in 2017. With more regulators around the world considering implementing rules and guidelines, many ICOs have been put on hold until their founders are sure that their sales will be conducted legally. The SEC in the US has already started policing the space with several ICOs coming under fire from the regulatory body. One of the most recent examples was the Floyd Mayweather-endorsed Centra Tech, the founders of which were charged with fraud for selling | 551 |
An End of Summer Update from Haiti
August 10, 2018 • srobinson495
We went into this summer expecting craziness because that is sometimes the name of the game in Haiti. It's hot, there are lots of bugs, and we have kids at our house pretty much non-stop. With my (Steph)'s not too distant heat stroke (2 years ago), I knew I still had to be careful. So, we would like to think we were prepared for crazy.
But, apparently we were prepared for some kinds of crazy. This summer, like others before it, provided so much "random" and different crazy! Shortly after we flew in, we were bombarded with news articles and updates about protests in Port-Au-Prince and Cap Haitian, the two bigger cities in Haiti. They got particularly out of hand as the corruption from both the international community and the bureaucrats was too much for the people to take.
We were totally fine and hardly heard anything in our small, coastal town. However, our first team was unable to come in and we did the second week of camp completely Haitian run. As stories continued, the Embassy marked Haiti as a "do not travel to" country, which perplexed not only us but many of the international community here in Haiti. While Haiti's protests were out of hand for a few days, it had settled down. That's when we started to read more and more of the reports.
I don't want to get into it too much, because this is a subject that I am quite passionate about. What I will say is that the stories coming out of Haiti, dripping with fear and layered in misunderstanding, further point to the necessity of local voices telling their stories. The articles I read and continued to read all shared one or two western team's perception of the issues happening in Haiti. I just wonder how we (Americans) would feel if this happened to us.<|fim_middle|> training: like a children's school and a vocational school.
We are doing more training for our water organization!
We are SO excited for the future and all that it holds. Will you please be in prayer for all of this? We believe in Haitian-run programs, Haitian-dreamed dreams and collaboration. We are always learning more about what it is about and how it looks for us.
If you are interested in making a donation to ANY of this, please do so at konbithaiti.org. We SO appreciate it and can't do it without you!
Prepping for July and August
Fall Update | Haiti's systems are different, and what is often perceived as dangerous is not. We had a challenging time explaining this to even our closest friends and it was difficult for us. I am sharing this to be honest. We do not know everything about Haiti, but we trust our Haitian resources and friends completely.
Because of the travel warning and various reports coming from Haiti, few of our teams were able to come this summer. While it was a lot harder for our local staff and partners due to lack of energy and materials, I was also reminded about why we have Konbit Haiti in the first place. Haitians can do it. We are all capable of doing things here without the help of someone from the outside. And, this was so proven to me this summer. We kept standing back and watching our staff and leadership grow in ways that Haitians often times are not allowed to grow because they "stand in the back" (a term my Haitian friend David has used to describe Haitians roles in development and ministry when collaborating with western faces). Here they were, standing in the front and leading!
By the time a team did come, our Haitian staff was so willing and able to work alongside our western partners. We were honestly so blessed by the people who did come. They brought some very special teachings with them that we will be using for a long time. Check it out:
We had dance competitions, games, and water balloon fights in the weeks before teams came, and we had one team send us boxes of supplies to talk about the Miracles of Jesus, thanks again!
We had a team from New Orleans teach on Emotional Regulation from a Trauma Informed perspective, which was SUCH a gift to us and our kids. Weeks later, and we are all still using these methods!
Our last team was Eastern Shore Rep, a theatre company from Fairhope. Hearing the kids share about their dreams and create their own songs and skits was the highlight of my summer, personally! Thank you for the hard work you put into helping our kids share their stories.
We then had a closing ceremony for our 5-week long competition.
We played games, like sack races and egg carrying races and swam in the ocean.
The kids (and all of us) had a blast!
We are now in a "break" period, but this has given us and our leadership team time to plan. And, we are so excited for the future.
We are restructuring Fanm Konbit, our sewing program. We will be doing this over the fall and look forward to more quality products and TONS more training.
We are in the beginning phases of multiplying our kids' program in another area.
We are in the planning phases of more | 551 |
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Powered by one of the EcoBoost V6s used in developing the GT, custom 1977 F-150 features world's<|fim_middle|>. | largest 3D-printed metal part.
Not too long ago, hooning icon Ken Block dropped his latest installment of the beloved Gymkhana series, starring his newest ride, a 1977 Ford F-150 dubbed 'Hoonitruck.' Powered by an EcoBoost V6 used in the development of the current Ford GT, the Hoonitruck lives up to its name with over 900 tire-smoking horses.
As if that's not big enough, the Hoonitruck, with the help of Ford Performance, is a literal record holder: it holds the world's largest metal part ever to be printed from a 3D printer.
Mounted atop the EcoBoost V6 is an aluminum air intake designed to send the air it captures from the twin turbos into the cylinders. The beast of an intake was a collaborative effort between engineers in the U.S. and Europe, who then sent their findings and plans to RWTH Aachen Digital Additive Production Institute in Aachen, Germany, who then printed the final result | 216 |
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Like most food categories in center store, salty and packaged snacks have seen a rise in the healthier, organic and natural subcategory of products — but unlike other categories, these better-for-you alternatives haven't hurt sales of the traditional, more indulgent products.
Market research firm Packaged Facts forecasts the U.S. salty snacks market will exceed $2<|fim_middle|>, sugar and calories," said Vehon.
World Peas Brand's Peatos cheesy crunchy snacks made from pulses including yellow pea and lentil are taking the snack aisle to the next level. Peatos are available in four flavors — Classic Cheese, Fiery Hot, Chili Cheese and Masala — and have twice the protein and three times the fiber of traditional corn-based cheese snacks.
Kettle Brand continues its commitment to better-for-you snacking with the launch of Almond Oil Fiery Thai potato chips cooked in 100% almond oil. The Non-GMO Project verified and certified gluten-free chips feature a fusion of sweet lemon grass, ginger and classic Thai heat to create an aromatic and crunch indulgence snack treat. | 9 billion in 2022 — up from $24 billion in 2017, an increase of more than 17%. According to research director David Sprinkle, how Americans eat has evolved to match the frequently hurried and hectic lifestyles of today's consumers. The shift has been a boon to convenient food options, including salty snacks such as potato chips, popcorn and pretzels.
Year-over-year at Bashas', salty snack sales are up 3.8%, meat snacks are up 3.7% and snack cakes are up 1%.
At Bashas', sales of single-serve salty snacks are up 2.5%, and the "tube-snack" packages of trail mix, nuts and candy are up 28%. "Many brands have downsized their packaging as they promote cleaner labels and snack options with less sodium | 175 |
In a new study published this month in the journal Psychological Medicine, a group of researchers from London's King's College found that participating in life long exercise can significantly<|fim_middle|> on the study: 'It appears that intensive exercise may offer benefits for brain functioning in later life over and above those resulting from regular yet less intense exercise. Clinical trials are required to further explore the benefits of exercise for cognitive well-being among older adults, whilst examining the effects of exercise with varying levels of frequency and intensity." | improve an individual's cognitive capabilities at the age of fifty. Fitting adequate amounts of physical activity into a sedentary work day is a challenge for most employment aged individuals however. TrekDesk Treadmill Desk may offer a unique solution to this dilemma.
This study is one of the first to identify the long term benefits of staying active related to later life cognitive capacities. Dr. Alex Dregan of King's College stressed the importance of the new study's findings and the need for long term lifestyle changes that combat sedentary lifestyles.
As exercise represents a key component of lifestyle interventions to prevent cognitive decline, cardiovascular disease, diabets and cancer, public health interventions to promote lifelong exercise have the potential to reduce the personal and social burden associated with these conditions in late adult years."
The 9,000 study participants were analyzed as to the amount of exercise they engaged in from the ages of 11 to 50. Date collection was performed beginning at the age of 11 and continued intermittently up to the age of 50. Participants were measure via cognitive tasks designed to assess memory and executive functioning. The study found those participants that exercised at least once per week during the study period performed markedly better than those that did not.
Dr. Dregan elaborate further | 260 |
July 15 Community Resources Fair: Over 40 community-based agencies will be available to explain what they do and give families helpful information<|fim_middle|> there will be games, activities, arts and crafts, student performances and more.
July 22 Kid's Night: This is the night for kids to let their hair down – literally. There will be free haircuts and face painting in addition to games, activities, arts and crafts, student performances and science fun.
The Family Fun Nights series is a collaboration between multiple agencies and organizations. Organizers said the goal is to work closely with neighborhood residents to build relationships; provide educational, health, and community information and resources; and promote career awareness and higher education to youth and families.
Family Fun Nights will be 6:30-8:30 p.m. July 8, 15 and 22, at the Apostolic Jubilee Center, 821 Lassen Ave., Modesto. For more, call Jorge Pérez at 209-595-9654 or Madie Herrera at 209-996-7721. | . For kids | 3 |
The Importance of Self-Promotion
You've got your phone or your DSLR, you're out making videos on your own, but now you have the difficutl task of having to pay the rent. And, while driving for Uber is fun, maybe, you are hoping that you can atually earn a living with your video skills.
But how do you do this?
The TV/video industry has very rapidly transmuted from being a business in which one went to work for NBC or CBS and is now one is which everyone is making their own product. It's a big change, and it requires a change in attitude and approach to succeed.
The world of print underwent this very same transformation some 500 years ago,<|fim_middle|> job at CBS and started to shoot my own stuff and sell it (if I was lucky) back to networks, I met with my first billionaire partner (to be), a man named Jan Stenbeck.
Stenbeck was the Ted Turner (or if you prefer, Elon Musk) of Scandinavia, and he was just in the process of building the first commercial TV network in Sweden - what would become TV3.
Stenbeck immediately understood the economics of what I had done- I had gotten rid of the cameraman (they were almost all men in those days), the sound person, the producer and the reporter- but the product was just as good (I would say, better). Hello VJ (or MoJo or MMJ).
Stenbeck said to me: 'What do you do?"
So I said that I travelled around the world with my video camera shooting stories.
"No!" he said. "You are the world expert in the Video Journalism revolution!"
I said, "I don't think so"...
and here he got annoyed and raised his voice.
"Yes you are. You just keep telling everyone you are. Let them say you are not."
You don't get career advice from billionaires all that often, so that is what I did. And it was true that for the first few years, I sounded ridiculous, but I kept going, and soon enough, I was getting treated much better, and getting hired a lot more and getting paid a whole lot more.
So let's hear it for self-promotion.
And here's the lesson for all aspiring VJs or MoJos or MMJs.
Yell your name to the world.
Because no one else is going to.
Three cheers for self-promotion.
In fact, it's sort of the very foundation of our business. | with the arrival of the printing press. Suddenly, people who had ideas could write and publish, but how to get your name out so that people are willing to pay for your work?
Then, as now, the answer is - self promotion.
I am motivated to write this because I have recently been 'warned' by a Facebook page devoted to MoJos (that is, mobile journalists) that I cannot post things that are self-promotional. Well, it's their website, but I think the just don't understand how to best succeed in this new and very competitive world of freelance video makers.
I begin by quoting the very wise words of the philosopher Maimonides (1135 AD) who wrote:
If I am not for me, who will be? If I am only for me, what am i? And if not now, when?
VERY wise words to live by.
Even from 1135 AD.
But allow me to quote from a more recent source.
In 1988, after I quit my | 213 |
The 2021–22 FA Vase (Known for sponsorship reasons as the Buildbase FA Vase) was the 48th season of the FA Vase, an annual football competition for teams playing in Levels 9 and 10 (steps 5 & 6) of the English National League System. The competition is played with two qualifying rounds followed by six proper rounds, semi-finals, and the final played at Wembley Stadium. All ties this season were played to a finish on the day. For this season there were no replays in any of the rounds to minimise fixture congestion due to late start of the football season brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic. If games finished level after 90 minutes, the match was decided by penalties to find the winner of the tie, apart from the Final where there were 30 minutes extra time (15 minutes each<|fim_middle|>14 March 2022.
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The draw was made on 27 September 2021.
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Mythical creatures to live at Opera House Lane
Dragons and taniwha, as well as bears and sharks, are moving into Opera House Lane. At least 20 young people are right now buffing, undercoating and preparing the lane before they take to the fresh canvas with their stencils and paints over the weekend.
Led by the Boys and Girls Institute (BGI), this is the start of a number of projects Wellington City Council wants to undertake in Opera House Lane to improve people's sense of safety.
The Council's Social Portfolio Leader, Councillor Stephanie Cook, says the project came about through the Council-led Ethnic and Pacific forums that took place last year.
"There was an overwhelming call for greater visibility of ethnic and Pacific communities in the city's public art. And when Opera House Lane was identified as an area that needed to be cleaned up in time for the Rugby World Cup 2011, local young people leapt at the chance to create something new for the lane. It's going to look great," says Cr Cook.
BGI youth worker Rod Baxter has been working with a large group of young people over the last few weeks to plan the collaborative artwork. He has long been interested in urban and street art, and was the perfect choice to lead the project. The primary artist – Thijs de Koning (aka Yelz) – is also well-respected in the street art<|fim_middle|>hipene-Mercer. "Tournament Parking – the guys who own the building – have been immensely supportive of it, and we expect we'll encounter a similar level of enthusiasm from other building owners in the city.
"This is just one of a number of public art projects that we have under way around at the city at the moment – work is also about to take place at Te Aro Pa and also Te Aro Park. And we're also having a look at Luke's Lane," says Cr Ahipene-Mercer.
Living brought to you by | scene, and has worked alongside Rod and the other participants to bring the design together.
Rod says the mural includes the journey of Pacific people to Aotearoa, as well as the people who have populated the land since.
"The animals that you see on the mural – the bear, the shark and dragons – all signify the four elements Pacific people battled all those years ago to get here (earth, fire, wind and water). We've also got Maui hauling Wellington up out of the sea and, as we approach Matariki, we felt it was a good idea to represent the stars among the artwork," says Rod.
Young people from all sorts of cultural backgrounds – European, Pakeha, South American, Pacific Islander, Maori and Asian – will get the chance to make their mark on the lane.
The Council's Arts and Culture Portfolio Leader, Councillor Ray Ahipene-Mercer says the mural will go a long way to rejuvenate the tired old lane.
"And by all accounts, it will be a great addition to a large number of murals in Wellington," says Cr A | 223 |
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A Safari Honeymoon in Botswana
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I honeymooned in Botswana ten years ago and the country remains one of my favorite destinations in the world. It's ideal for adventurous couples. What could be more romantic than sipping a gin and tonic while watching the giant sherbet-orange African sun slowly drop down over the bush and a herd of giraffe, zebra or elephant meander by? A honeymoon here is for those who are seeking up-close animal encounters, interaction with amazing locals and experiences like no other. I recommend a stay at the Natural Selection properties, which have locations throughout Botswana.
Start your trip in the Makgadikgadi Pans, one of the world's largest salt pans formed on an ancient lake that has long since evaporated, leaving a beautiful desert scene in its wake.
Spend a night at Jack's Camp, one of the most well-known and highly-regarded safari camps in Botswana. Situated in the middle of the Kalahari Desert, the tented camp still maintains a 1940s style. The camp features seven twin and three double tents with en-suite bathrooms, as well as outdoor showers. The guides here are some of the best to be found, so don't be surprised if you get within feet of a variety of animals – including lion cubs. For a real treat, be sure to go for a meerkat bush walk. These inquisitive little creatures will walk right up to people (if you're sitting down, they may even climb over you). This destination is one of the best places to see meerkats in all of<|fim_middle|> surrounded by the sounds of nature. Your view will look like someone threw a bag of glitter in the sky. A stay at Skybeds is one of the most unique – and romantic – experiences that can be had while on safari in Africa.
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Next, head to Makgadikgadi Pans National Park, which is located in north-eastern Botswana and is reportedly home to the largest tree in Africa, a world famous 5,300-year-old Baobab. Stay at Meno a Kwena Tented Camp, a luxury safari camp located in front of a river, where it's possible to see a great array of wildlife, including one of Southern Africa's largest zebra and wildebeest migrations in the dry season (May to November). Activities here include game drives, walking safaris, quad biking, tours to Gweta Village and bird watching. In the wet season, massive amounts of wildlife are drawn to the lake including cheetah, hyena and a large flock of pink flamingoes.
From there, head to Khwai Private Reserve: over 440,000 acres bordering both the Moremi Game Reserve and Chobe National Park in northern Botswana, near the world famous Okavango Delta ecosystem. This region has some of the most diverse habitats in northern Botswana, including riverine woodlands, floodplains, open savannah, mopane forests, rivers and lagoons. You can spot tons of wildlife here including elephant, lion, leopard, wild dog, cheetah and the sable antelope.
Be sure to book a stay at Sable Alley, which has 12 luxury en-suite, solar powered tents raised on comfortable decks. Each tent has a private veranda overlooking the lagoon and floodplains, stretching towards the unfenced boundary of the Moremi Game Reserve. Many of the staff here are made up of members of the nearby Khwai Village. A favorite excursion is taking a mokoro water safari in private dugout canoes; game viewing from the waterways provides eye-level action of the animals.
For the finale of your safari, be sure to include a night at Sable Alley's sister property, Skybeds. It's one of the most romantic "glamping" places in the world. The Skybeds are three-story, raised platforms that resemble stand-alone tree houses and overlook the wild. The walls and ceilings are open, so honeymooners will be sleeping directly under thousands of African stars and | 466 |
How many licks does it take to<|fim_middle|>2 cm into water so that the water dripped at a variable speed (0.1 to 1 m/s). Lollipops of different sizes and forms were used from cylindrical to spherical shapes.
The experiment allowed researchers to observe the form of the lollipop as it reduced in size. The turbulence produced from the stream of water caused the bottom of the lollipop to flatten. Each lollipop, regardless of it's original form, ended up with the same shape. According to the researchers all the lollipops ended up being carved in the same way before disappearing, with a flattened bottom and a bulging top.
Researchers also studied the speed at which the lollipop was sculpted. According to the research the dissolving speed of the lollipop increased with the squared root of velocity. Therefore a lollipop measuring 1 cm would take a thousand licks to finish while a classic round lollipop measuring 2.5 cm would take 2,500 licks. On the other hand, the study does not take into account the fact that a person licking a lollipop can not reproduce the same uniform effect of flowing water running onto a motionless lollipop.
Despite the fun nature of this study the interesting results obtained could also be applied to industries which dissolve materials. Geology researchers could also be interested as it could help them understand the erosion process of rocks by water whether it is sea or rivers.
Why do our teeth go yellow?
Are coffee capsules dangerous for our health? | finish a lollipop?
This question might have made you laugh but a team of researchers has already set out to determine the number of licks needed to finish a lollipop! But what for?
It is a well known fact that finishing a lollipop without resorting to crunching the last bit is hard to achieve. All joking aside, a very serious study on how many licks it takes to finish a lollipop was carried out in 2015.
Researchers at the University of New York estimated that it took up to 2, 500 licks to finish a normal lollipop! The research project wasn't intended to remind the public that licking a lollipop without crunching it can last a long time. We all know that! In fact the study could be useful for several other applications.
Scientists placed several lollipops, measuring from 1 to | 179 |
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New York. J. J. Augustin. 1946. First edition. Cloth-bound hardback, dust jacket. 136 pages. Over 10<|fim_middle|> images were reproduced in a series of books published by J. J. Augustin and this volume follows Hellas and Egypt. Mexican Heritage is divided into three sections - archaeology, landscape, art and architecture. There are no captions and no people, the pictures speak for themselves and celebrate the rich archaeological and artistic history of the Mexican nation. | 0 full-page b&w photographs. 285 x 225mm (11¼ x 8¾"). 0.75kg. . English Near fine; some light surface rubbing to jacket, slight ruffling at head and base of spine and forecorners, a couple of short 1cm nicks at rear, not price-clipped; no inscriptions, a clean copy with the fragile dust jacket in a very well-preserved state.
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I have been living in Bath for about four months now. And on one of my first days here, walking to the Sainsbury's in town, I met a guy named Bamf. He works in the Green Park Station selling clothes. He is a friendly 50 something year old man, with a full beard and no teeth. He often wears a hat that covers up a pink streak in his hair. He has a delightfully high voice that goes well with his positivity and friendliness. He is curious about me as a person, my thoughts on Bath and is eager to share his opinions and beliefs. I stop by to chat with him every time I see him.
One day I was talking to him and his friend came by to chat with him as well. I asked how they met, which turned into me learning how Bamf lost his teeth. About twenty years ago, some guys had jumped Bamf and his jaw was broken. The doctors put a wire in his jaw to fix it, and when they took out the wire they ripped out all the enamel in his teeth. So they just ended up pulling out all of the teeth. He eats a lot of chocolate and apparently steak too.
The day he told me that story was the day that you my friend Verity hosted a yoga event at my accommodation. I told Bamf that I might attend, when I finished with my interaction with him and was leaving he said, "Have fun at the bendy thing!" I asked what he meant and he said he was talking about the yoga event. Which made me laugh, as he tends to do.
Another time I was chatting with him at his clothes stand, a man stopped to look in the Chili Hut that was across from his clothing stand. Bamf went to assist him there. He then began to rattle off all of his knowledge about the various bottles of chili. I was seriously impressed, he was describing all of the different flavors that he'd tried, and what uses they have on different foods.
For at least fifteen minutes I was just standing there listening to Bamf go on about all of these chili sauces, giving the customer and me taste samples. When he finished with one section of the chili he would begin to say, "that's about all I can tell you... OH!" Then he<|fim_middle|> and visit him at the Green Park Station.
My Road Trip through Ireland!!!! | would move on to another section of chili with excitement and continue to describe more chili. I had no reason to stick around other than it interested me immensely. After Bamf went through about all of the chili that he supposedly knew, the customer settled with Mega Death. Disregarding all of Bamf's suggestions, and going for the hottest sauce available. I have a feeling that he was enjoying tasting different samples, and listening to Bamf go on about all of the chili as much as I was.
Bamf went back to packing up his clothing post. He described that encounter as taking a break from cleaning up. I saw it as hard work describing all of that chili, but he is so knowledgeable that it was easy for him. He is fascinating, and interested in people, talking to anybody else who passes by. He is a kind and honest man, which makes him a not great salesman. Although, to me it seems that it is more important for him to be friendly and helpful than to make money. I admire him for that, and it is why I continue to go back to see him. I suggest anyone who reads this to go | 232 |
How iPads kill happiness and creativity.
Boredom proneness is dangerous. It's associated with increased feelings of aggression (Rupp & Vodanovich, 1997; Dahen, 20004), anger, substance abuse (Rupp & Vodanovich, 1997), procrastination (Vodanovich & Rupp, 1999), shyness (Maroldo, 1986), coronary-prone and Type-A behavior (Kass & Vodanovich, 1990), depression, anxiety (Ahmed, 1990; Vodanovich, Verner & Gilbride, 1991) and low self-actualization (Vodanovich & Rupp, 1999).
I thought I'd follow up with a story about how iPads destroy creativity, curiosity... and even language and other cognitive skills.
Her eyes twinkled as they darted from the pictures in the magazine to real-life clues on the airplane. Her lips scrunched and unscrunched. Her eyebrows furrowed. She muttered to herself, while looking at the image of the 747, "I don't think there's an upstairs... I don't see a staircase..."
Around this point, the girl's dad handed her an iPad, but she wasn't interested. So he turned it on and picked out a movie for her. Then he told her to watch it -- in the same way that I tell my dog, "Ruby, drink your water," even when she isn't actually thirsty. Because that's the routine. Lead the dog to water, try to make it drink.
Lead the child to a mobile device... try to make it stare, click and swipe.
It made me sad. There was this wonderful little girl, and her little wheels were turning. She was solving a mystery! Exploring the inside of an airplane. And then... bleh.
It's not good for kids to be entertained. Unstructured play teaches them how to entertain themselves. It causes them to look up, to ask questions and talk more. In turn, they learn language skills and develop social and emotional intelligence. It allows them to make observations and ask questions about the world around them. It fosters their curiosity and creativity.
And it's not just true for children. It's also true for grown-ups.
Different plane, different passenger next to me. A tall, handsome and slightly older one. We got to talking about how difficult it is to fly in "our condition." (I'm tall, too.) Next thing we know, I've learned how to use RFID chips to eliminate bottlenecks on dairy farms, and he's learned about misattribution of physiological arousal. We talked and joked a bit longer, and, honestly, I sort of felt in love with him a little. Eventually, we each got back to our books... but those two hours we spent talking were really fun.
This was two years ago. I still smile when I think<|fim_middle|> noticed a common thread of emphasizing the importance of unstructured play, where an individual improvises, taps into, and has adventures with the shifting elements and people around them.
I've also noticed criticisms of more passive or structured forms of play, things like iPads, smartphones, and video games. As a video game designer, I am often questioning what value games can provide to people. Certainly there are times when people use them to shut off, or shut out. I think there are also games that can inspire, reveal, and bring people together.
The real world is always the most important one. I suppose it is a question of whether structured play ultimately brings the individual back to the real world improved or enlightened in some way, or whether it is mere escapism and passivity. I want to make games that do the former. I know it is possible, and it continues to grow more prevalent as the art and technology of designing them mature. But it depends as much on the individual player as it does on the form of the game. And this is the big ongoing question for me: what type of good am I providing to people who play with the structures I give them, and how it could be better?
I would love to hear your thoughts on this. You have thought about and researched play in a broader scope than I have.
First, I wanted to ask you if you could explain more clearly what you mean by passive and active entertainment. Is listening to a speech passive entertainment too, or reading a book? People have always been reading books, so does that distract from acquiring playfulness skills and being mindful in life?
Secondly, as you have referred to your master's thesis and findings multiple times in your posts, I wanted to ask if it is published anywhere, so that I could read it? It sounds absolutely fascinating.
Thirdly, can you recommend any scientific books that deal with the importance of mindfulness or mindfulness in general? | about it.
This sort of interaction used to be a lot more common than it is now. Like, people used to meet other people in transit. And in laundry rooms, or while waiting in line. But now, they plug their ears and stare at screens. They don't smile about the Star Wars reference on your shirt, or ask you what trucks you've got on your longboard. They don't say bless you when you sneeze. Conversation, flirting and banter are beautiful forms of play. But they are a dying art. Carefully scripted, edited and online encounters have largely replaced spontaneous, surprising and real-world ones.
Perhaps an even bigger problem is that our devices take us out of the present. We don't experience the people and the world around us, because we're busy scrolling through our Twitter feeds. We don't just watch the sun rise. We don't just observe the sights and sounds of the city. We're not just mindful and present in our surroundings.
And that's a shame, because there's power in mindfulness. It was the earliest form of psychology -- and, in a way, psychiatry and neuroscience. Mindfulness makes us feel younger. It makes our day seem longer. It brings us mental clarity. And it helps us recognize opportunities and resources for fun. Fliers for a show you might want to see. A little sculpture you've never noticed before. A - wait, what? - a swing! Over in that tree!
You know. The little things that turn normal days into mini-adventures.
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Good article - I have two children, the 8-year old is a device geek, who craves to be entertained on iPad, smartphones and computers. Minecraft and various online games are his favourite. He's ADHD and television helps him to bliss out.
But I won't let him.
We've made 'screen time cards' that he can exchange for ten minutes of screen time, but when they're up he's done and needs to entertain himself.
It doesn't help that my wife and the in-laws are nerds who are chained to their iPads and computers, so he doesn't have it from a stranger. His five year old sister is more like me, she's always drawing and playing, rarely interested in television or computer games.
In this and some of your other articles I've | 496 |
Back in January, my mum messaged me telling me that I should watch a Netflix show<|fim_middle|> Soi, but as luck would have it….. Mum's magazine clippings happen to have a Khao Soi recipe. And I'd bookmarked it before I even saw Somebody Feed Phil.
Life has a silly way of bringing things together.
So, finally, I got round to trying the Khao Soi recipe. Now, usually it's made with both chicken and beef – but as I had a TONNE of vegetables to use up, as well as some tofu – I went the veggie route. While I have no experience of the real thing, this dish has me smiling. It is warming, comforting and filling. Granted, not usually what you eat at the end of a hot and humid day… but we're in Asia – it's going to be hot and humid from here on until December. Noodles are a must, no matter the weather.
So, thanks to Mum's clippings, and the need to clear out the fridge of perishables (of which I still have a few), I got to enjoy making this dish.
As a side note, I'd also suggest storing all of your veggie scraps in a big ziplock (or plastic-free) bag, and shoving it in the freezer until you have enough to make your own stock. I'm nearly there, just a few more veggie dishes to go.
Cook the egg noodles according to packet instructions, drain and set aside.
Add the coconut oil, curry paste and garlic to a large wok over medium heat for a minute.
Add in the coconut cream, and stir to combine with the paste.
Next add the tofu and vegetables to the wok, and mix thoroughly.
Pour in the stock, curry powder, turmeric, fish sauce and sugar.
Stir well, and allow to simmer for 10 minutes.
Portion noodles into 4 bowls, and pour equal amounts of the curry mixture over the noodles.
It takes hardly any time, and is absolutely delicious. | called Somebody Feed Phil, because one of the episodes is based in and around Lisbon. So, I jumped onto Netflix, and found this show Mum was talking about.
For those of you that haven't been hounded by me to watch it (meaning – you don't see me enough for me to bring it up in conversation), it's about one of the creators of Everybody Loves Raymond, called Phil Rosenthal. The show focus on Phil's travels to 6 different regions of the world (some cities, some countries) and the food that he eats along the way. He meets local food bloggers, he meets local chefs, he stands in line for food not knowing what he's in line for.
It's not a show about a chef trying to cook local cuisine, it's not a show about somebody trying to act as a travel guide. In fact, Phil is just your bog-standard tourist who states the obvious, and has about as much knowledge about most of the places he visits as your average tourist.
But that's not what makes the show great. It's his eyes that light up when he eats something; the way he explores the city as a genuine "tourist" – he focus on the popular places that will always draw a crowd, as well as the quieter, not-so-well-known joints. He eats his way around countries and cities, in a way that makes my mouth drool. That's basically the premise.
So, I flicked to the first episode, where he visits Thailand. Bangkok and Chiang Mai specifically. Phil visits Gaggan, for a special occasion, and eats boat noodles from a boat the floating market. But… one dish caught my eye in particular because I've never had it. While visiting Chiang Mai, Phil gets to enjoy a bowl of Khao Soi, a noodle dish from Northern Thailand. My obsession with is two-fold: noodle dishes make the best comfort food, and the curry sauce that it comes in looks incredible.
Now, I may not have been travelling around Chiang Mai, nor have I been to a Thai restaurant to try Khao | 428 |
CD Reissues Of The Year | Sci-Ence! Justice Leak!
Andrew Sandoval just posted a link to "Ultimate Classic Rock"'s list of the best reissues of the year, and it looked frankly dull for the most part — deluxe editions of 'classic' albums we've all heard a million times. Elvis, Beatles, Van Morrison, Nirvana. Yes, yes. All very nice, I suppose, but not really any use to anyone. You already know if you're going to buy box set versions of Rumours or Tommy, and nothing I can say<|fim_middle|> then had the knack of finding great people to work with and writing catchy pop hooks.
Nilsson's voice was pretty much shot by the time he recorded this, but he still manages an interesting version of the Van Dyke Parks/Lowell George Latin song Cheek To Cheek, and a decent stab at his own Lennon collaboration Old Dirt Road. It's hardly essential, but if you're going to spend the fifty quid for all Nilsson's other albums in the box set, you might as well add this — the only proper Nilsson album not included in the box — as well and get the complete set. This had never been released on CD before this year, and had been out of print for thirty years, so even though it's not great it's nice to have it available.
It's also bookended by two Eric Idle songs — it begins with Idle singing a song he'd written about Nilsson, and ends with Nilsson's cover of Bright Side Of Life (possibly the first cover of that song ever recorded) — an appropriate ending for Nilsson's last ever album.
"Where Is She" shows how expressive Brian's voice was, back in the day. Imagine how different his solo albums would be if he still had *that* voice in his arsenal. | will persuade you not to if you plan to.
These, on the other hand, you might not even realise you wanted. But you do.
I reviewed this when it came out, and I stand by everything I said. A gorgeous 17-CD collection, this collects fourteen of Nilsson's proper albums, along with mono versions of the first two albums and well over a hundred additional tracks (either as bonus tracks on the albums or as bonus discs). It's *slightly* more Nilsson than you really need, but there's a hundred and fifty or so tracks here that stand up to any music you'll ever hear, and even the worst of it is interesting.
Beefheart's first album doesn't get much love from his fans, who see it as too poppy. That's precisely why I *do* love it — this is Beefheart at a point where he and his band still seemed to see commercial success as a possibility, and they were making music aimed at a broad audience but without watering down the strangeness of the music. The result is, at times, incredibly close to the sound of Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn & Jones, Ltd by the Monkees (which was recorded around the same time with the same engineer).
This CD reissue restores the original mono mix on CD for the first time, and while it's not as vast a difference as with some 60s mono versions, it does cohere slightly better this way.
A six-CD box set of *nearly* all the Beach Boys you need, this is a career-spanning set covering everything from Surfin' in 1961 to Isn't It Time in 2012. Roughly three CDs of it is material you've already got if you have the slightest interest in the band, but it sounds clearer than ever, while the other three CDs worth of material is made up of unreleased tracks, live versions and alternate mixes, including some truly spectacular unreleased songs like You're Still A Mystery and Where Is She?
The Monkees Present is one of the Monkees' weaker albums, recorded when pretty much everyone had lost interest in the band, including the band themselves. But Andrew Sandoval and his colleagues at Rhino Handmade have made something of a silk purse from it with this 3CD set, collecting together all the sessions from that era, including in particular several great Nesmith and Dolenz songs which remained unreleased at the time for God knows what reason. Putting it all together in one place shows that there was a great album in there if anyone had been bothered to release one at the time.
Ruthann Friedmann is best known for writing Windy for the Association and Candy Apple Cotton Candy for Pat Shannon. This collection of unreleased recordings from the 60s, demos and recordings for a never-released solo album, features both those songs plus versions of High Coin and I Think It's Going To Rain Today, and has Van Dyke Parks, Curt Boettcher and Randy Newman contributing as producers and musicians, along with Lee Mallory from the Millennium and several of the Wrecking Crew. Soft-pop folk loveliness.
This was actually reissued in November 2012, but I didn't do one of these lists last year and I'm feeling generous. This is *very* much in the mould of Nilsson's Aerial Ballet, having the same producer, arranger, cover designer and record label (and one song co-written by Nilsson), but also has something of the feel of Odessa or Genuine Imitation Life. It's a concept album, possibly the first "rock opera" ever, and anyone who likes toytown pop music will love it — song titles like Melancholy Vaudeville Man and Mrs McPheeny (Has Flu In The Chest And Has Needed A Rest For So Long) give you some idea of what kind of thing it is.
The band, after a couple of lineup changes, went on to be moderately successful as The Wackers.
Michael Fennelly was one of the most underrated songwriters of the 60s. He wrote and sang lead on Go Back by Crabby Appleton, but these days he's probably best known for his contributions to The Millennium, including the gorgeous To Claudia On Thursday.
This collection of demos spans his pre-Millennium recordings, The Millennium, Crabby Appleton, and the recordings for his Chris White-produced solo album Lane Changer.
Before Andy Paley became known as a collaborator with the Beach Boys, Madonna, and Spongebob Squarepants, he and his brother Jonathan were playing CBGBs and making catchy skinny-tie pop-punk. This compilation, featuring collaborations with the Ramones, Brian Wilson, Phil Spector and Jonathan Richman among others, shows a very good but not quite great pop duo who even | 999 |
HAMILTON ISLAND is the largest of the Whitsunday Islands and is the gateway to one of the seven natural wonders of the world, the Great Barrier Reef. The lush green hills of the island quickly give way to the warm, azure waters of the Coral Sea and it is at junction of the two, on the northern end of the island that you'll find luxury resort qualia.
Yes, luxury is a word that is overused today but it's hard to find a superlative that more accurately captures the qualia experience and it's an experience that begins as soon as you step foot off the plane.
Our flight was met by qualia representatives who greeted us by name and handed us fresh face cloths and cool bottles of mineral water before collecting our bags from the carousel and delivering them straight to our pavilion.
We entered the resort through the large wood and stone gateway playfully dubbed 'Jurassic Park' by qualia staff and arrived at The Long Pavilion, the stunning centrepiece of the resort where we were greeted with glasses of Veuve Cliquot and an almost dizzying water view that stretches from the infinity plunge pool at the edge of the pavilion and over the Coral Sea creating the illusion of a single body of water stretching to the islands beyond.
The Long Pavilion is resplendent with polished wooden floors, low slung furniture and is also home to a discreet restaurant and bar where we would have our breakfast each morning.
After a very relaxed check in process, we collected our golf buggy (The best way to get around the island) and drove the short distance to our pavilion. We were staying in a Leeward Pavilion which has views over the bush and of the Coral Sea.
Our pavilion had all of the conveniences you would expect from a resort of this calibre. A separate lounge area with minibar, large flatscreen TV with 120 complementary latest release films<|fim_middle|>oca chu, the newly launched South East Asian restaurant headed up by Executive Chef Adam Woodfield (ex Jimmy Liks, Sydney and Betel Restaurant, New York.) The menu presented a modern and seasonal take on South East Asian hawker food with the delicate balance between sweet, savoury, salt and sour that is the hallmark of Thai cuisine. Highlights included delicate morsels of lobster served on betel leaves and a rather menacing looking but sweet fleshed whole cooked fresh fish.
After dinner, it was straight back to the pavilion to prepare for the main event the next day, the Vogue Living Champagne Dinner at qualia, which I'll cover in the second of my two part series on Hamilton Island.
Jeremy Bowell Travelled to Hamilton Island, dined and stayed at qualia as a guest of Hamilton Island.
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You're right, luxury is the word for it. I love the mental image of you dancing around on the balcony to your 'eclectic' music!
We stayed in the windward villa in June. The best and most relaxing holiday experience I've ever had. It sets such I high standard though. I don't think anything else will compare!
It is an absolutely stunning place to stay!
Love Hamilton Island. And love that Aesop slab of soap – it has an incredible fragrance! What an amazing trip, Jeremy. | on demand and the real kicker for me, a remote controlled sound system with iPod input and ceiling mounted speakers so I could plug in my own music and have it stream throughout the pavilion.
Mercifully for our neighbours, each of pavilions is positioned for complete privacy so the sounds of my rather eclectic music collection wouldn't disturb them and I could dance like an idiot on the sun deck without being seen. The bathroom was also impeccably laid out, with a separate standalone bathtub and rain shower, twin sinks and Aesop toiletries.
Our first afternoon was spent exploring the island by buggy. The marina on Hamilton Island plays host to a number of stores and cafes. Handy, as I managed to leave my board shorts back in Sydney.
Dinner that night was at c | 158 |
Roundup Nokia this week announced an SDN-based open optical transport management suite of products for optical transport management, WaveSuite.
The Finns said WaveSuite has tools for service enablement, node automation, and network insight.
The company said<|fim_middle|> SDN system, Nokia Network Services Platform, and the FlowOne Operational Support System (OSS).
Disaggregation is coming to silicon: networking SoC company Netronome has unveiled its contribution to a new "open architecture" collaboration, with what it calls the "Open Chiplet Architecture".
The architecture is part of a seven-company collaboration between Achronix, Global Foundries, Kandou, NXP, Sarcina, SiFive, and Netronome dubbed the Open Domain-Specific Accelerator Workgroup (ODSA).
The ODSA Workgroup wants to cut the admittedly steep cost of silicon development by publishing an architecture and specifications for chiplets – subsystems shared between chip designers.
The focus of the ODSA Workgroup is on the various kinds of accelerators now winning acceptance to offload tasks from CPUs, partly in response to the slowing pace of "Moore's Law", but also to help silicon business contain the size and complexity that lifts the cost of development while reducing manufacturing yield.
There's already a healthy proprietary market in boards that can move processor-intensive tasks like firewalls and SSL acceleration away from the CPU.
Designers also need reduced latency, smaller form factors, and reduced power consumption, Netronome said.
The OSDA Workgroup wants a complete stack of components, with "known good die, packaging, interconnect network, and software integration stack" so that "any vendor's silicon die can become a building block that can be utilised in a chiplet-based SoC design".
SiFive is offering its RISC-V Core IP as a chiplet.
The OSDA Workgroup is soliciting participation at the application layer, memory management layer, link layer, PHY interface layer, and the substrate layer.
If you're inclined to dismiss quantum communications as a science project, think again: the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) is taking its first tentative steps towards drafting standards for the technology.
Right now, it's baby steps: on 21 October, the IETF went public with a "Quantum Internet Proposed Research Group", with the proposed charter to look at "Research on Internet protocols for emerging world of internet-scale quantum communications".
Delft University of Technology QuTech quantum boffin Stephanie Wehner will chair the research group, if the proposal goes ahead.
Ciena has clouded up a bunch of analytics into a single offering called Insights Service, in a three-tier subscription model.
NetOps can use Discover to get visibility of network assets, service availability, network health, and risks; machine learning helps process trend information for network optimisation in the Analyze offering; and Predict is designed to help spot likely network issues before they occur.
As well as supporting the company's own packet optical solutions, Ciena said it also supports third-party vendor kit.
Different tiers are selected according to the visibility the customer needs, the offering includes customisation and implementation services like network audit, geo-analysis, optimisation, and integration with IT service management.
US mobile roaming risk management vendor Mobileum this week acquired Brit company Evolved Intelligence for an undisclosed sum.
Evolved Intelligence specialises in providing security for the notoriously vulnerable SS7 telecommunications signalling protocol, and also offers roaming and signalling analytics products.
Mobileum promised to maintain Evolved Intelligence's platform and architecture, while integrating it with its own Active Intelligence platform.
The deal also gives the US company a better presence in Europe.
How's it going with those Arista cats?
Arista rode on the back of 20 million cloud networking ports to report record earnings. On the back of $563.3m Q3 2018 revenue (up 28.7 per cent from the same quarter last year), the switching upstart's GAAP net income went from $134m in Q3 2017 to $168.5m.
Neustar and Verisign have signed an agreement that will see Verisign exit DDoS, DNS Firewall, and DNS managed services. | it was designed to complement its carrier | 7 |
Boston's HarborLights announced that they've signed to Deathwish, Inc. The label will release the band's debut full-length album this summer. "Hold The Dark," the first single from the album, is available now.
We're super stoked. Deathwish was the #1 label we were shooting for. We're ecstatic that they<|fim_middle|>13, and they'll be in Syracuse on May 17, Bethpage on May 19, and Tonawanda on June 23. See a full list of show dates below. Follow on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram for updates. | 're taking us on.
First formed eight years ago, HarborLights has released a few EP's of their own and splits with Ember Wreath (Boston, MA) and Superblonde (Brooklyn, NY). The band consists of four friends united by their passion for creating music: Matthew Wright (guitar, vocals), Christine Smith (bass), Jordan Rodriguez (drums), and Andrew Diaz (guitar).
HarborLights is currently on tour, and will be hitting Brooklyn hot spot The Well on April | 105 |
Executive producers, Dr. Zoanne Clack and Dr. Fred Einesman talk "Grey's"'medical mysteries.
Each week on "Grey's Anatomy: Post-Op," host Gordon James will ask cast, writers, producers, and crew members to give behind-the-scenes secrets, discuss iconic scenes, and share their favorite memorable moments from the show's 14 seasons on-air.
On this week's episode of "Post-Op" Gordon James is joined by executive producers, Drs. Zoanne Clack and Fred Einesman. Both use their training as emergency medicine practitioners to advise "Grey's Anatomy" writers and producers on all things medically feasible. They've grappled with some of the shows biggest medical<|fim_middle|> and more. | mysteries, from toxic blood to inoperable brain tumors, and consult with experts to make sure that everything that happens on "Grey's" is as close to real as possible. The doctors sit down with Gordon to tackle those questions, chat about how they both ended up melding medicine with career in television, | 62 |
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Saving the Watts Mill Road Bridge: Part 1
May 8, 2019 by Guest Contributor | 2 Comments
The biggest obstacle for a small trail or historic preservation group to assume ownership of a historic bridge is usually funding. They operate on lean budgets and do not always have the extra resources to purchase, rehabilitate and maintain a historic bridge. However, a success story is in the making with the transfer of the Watts Mill Bridge from PennDOT to the people of Beaver County.
Watts Mills Bridge spanning the north fork of the Little Beaver Creek in northwestern Beaver County.
Beginning in the mid-1990's, PennDOT undertook a study to address the crossing of the Watts Mill Road over the North Fork of the Little Beaver Creek in northwestern Beaver County. PennDOT looked at rehabilitating the Watts Mill Road Bridge or bypassing the bridge and constructing a new upstream crossing to address concerns with the geometry of the approaches at the existing location. That project was eventually put on hold and minor maintenance measures were undertaken to keep it open to vehicular traffic. Except for a few short-term closures, the Watts Mill Road Bridge remained in use until it was closed to all traffic in November 2012.
Condition of Watts Mill Road Bridge at time of closure in 2012.
The Watts Mill Road Bridge was constructed in 1878 by the West Penn Bridge Company of nearby Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania. The bridge was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988 for its engineering significance as an early and rare example of a pin-connected, two-span Pratt pony truss. A very notable feature of the bridge is the use of a center vertical post which illustrates period thinking about the design of multi-span metal truss bridges.
Watts Mill Road Bridge design included vertical members for additional support.
As the owner of the Watts Mill Road Bridge, PennDOT needed to make a decision: rehabilitate, replace or remove the bridge. Ultimately, PennDOT determined that there was not a need to maintain a vehicular crossing at this location and decided to plan for the removal of the bridge by the end of 2018. The Little Beaver Historical Society was aware of the historical importance of the bridge and the impact loss of the bridge would have to the area. The historical society took a proactive approach by first contacting State Representative Jim Marshall to inquire about the disposition of the bridge.
In January 2018, PennDOT held a meeting which was attended by the PHMC, the Little Beaver Historical Society, Beaver County Historical Research & Landmarks Foundation (BCHRLF), North Country Trail Association and State Representative Marshall. Discussion revolved around PennDOT's decision to remove the bridge, and PennDOT explained the process by which the bridge could be acquired by a third party for adaptive use. While no final decisions were made on the fate of the Watts Mill Road Bridge, the meeting resulted in the formation of an informal committee who would continue to explore an alternative to the permanent loss of the bridge. Brenda Applegate, Executive Director of BCHRLF, led the effort.
Throughout the Spring of 2018, the group met with PennDOT several times to come up with a way to save the Watts Mill Road Bridge from demolition. Officials from Beaver County and the adjacent townships (Darlington and South Beaver) joined the conversation. The group had an ardent desire to keep the Watts Mill Road Bridge within Beaver County and preferably at its original location. BCHRLF and Little Beaver Historical Society were very active in promoting the history and historic resources of Beaver County, yet both organizations had limited staff and funds to take on ownership and maintenance of a bridge. The bridge would enhance the North Country Trail Association's trail connectivity, but a project this size was beyond their means. As the group continued to talk and consult, the fate of the Watts Mill Road Bridge started to look bleak because of the many challenges involved, not the least of which were the estimated $1 million dollars needed to rehabilitate the bridge, even for pedestrian use, and the need to identify a party willing to own the bridge.
Mark Young, PennDOT District 11-0 Environmental Manager, devised a plan to provide preservation assistance to a potential new owner of the Watts Mill Road Bridge. The amount to be made available would be based on the costs PennDOT would incur to design a demolition plan, including environmental review as part of preliminary engineering, to pay a contractor to remove the bridge, and to fund a mitigation effort commensurate with the loss of a significant historic bridge. Mr. Young made the pitch to an internal PennDOT team, and Cheryl Moon-Sirianni, District Executive for 11-0, approved that up to $<|fim_middle|> 2019, with plans to reinstall the Watts Mill Road Bridge by the end of this year.
Perseverance from Workin' Bridges, the county and the community will save the Watts Mill Road Bridge and give it a new life as a pedestrian crossing at the original site where it was built. PennDOT devised an innovative plan to fund the preservation of a historic bridge and worked with the community to realize their goal. Beaver County, in its willingness to take final ownership, is helping to preserve a piece of its past, not only for its citizens, but also for everyone who appreciates history and engineering technology. Lastly, the knowledge and expertise of Workin' Bridges came at the right moment to effect a positive outcome for the Watts Mill Road Bridge.
Today's Guest Author is David Anthony, Historic Preservation Specialist with PennDOT District 11.
Categories: Beaver, Bridges, Environmental Review, Historic Preservation, Mitigation Files, PennDOT, Section 106, Transportation | Tags: Little Beaver Historical Society, North County Trail Association, Pratt Pony Truss, Representative Jim Marshall, Watts Mill Road Bridge, West Penn Bridge Company, Workin' Bridges | Permalink
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The Pennsylvania Historic Preservation Office occassionally asks our partners to share their news, successes, challenges, and perspectives on historic preservation matters in Pennsylvania. | 500,000 could be used as preservation assistance.
Ms. Applegate organized a planning meeting on June 7, 2018 with the purpose of trying to get one step closer to determining a local owner for the Watts Mill Road Bridge. The Beaver County Commissioners were invited to the meeting, with Daniel Camp accepting the invitation. Julie Bowers, Executive Director of the organization "Workin' Bridges", a non-profit historic bridge preservation organization out of the state of Iowa, was invited to attend. Ms. Bowers spoke to the group about the mission of Workin' Bridges, the assistance their organization could provide, and a general plan to save the bridge was devised. Of particular interest to the group was the fact that Workin' Bridges could take temporary ownership of the bridge, although a final owner still had to be determined. Within weeks, Workin' Bridges was contracted to provide a cost estimate to rehabilitate the Watts Mill Road Bridge for pedestrian use.
The estimate provided by Workin' Bridges for the rehabilitation of the bridge came in $16,000 less than the preservation assistance allocated by PennDOT. With that good news, the group focused their attention on finding a local owner for the bridge, while PennDOT proceeded with auctioning the bridge through the Pennsylvania Department of General Services (DGS), as is required by state law. Beaver County emerged as a logical choice to own the bridge because the county already had resources in place which would ensure future maintenance of the structure. Additionally, the Watts Mill Road Bridge was an important cultural asset for the citizens of Beaver County.
On September 27, 2018, the Beaver County Commissioners passed Resolution 092718-33 whereby they agreed to enter into a Memorandum of Agreement with The North Skunk River Greenbelt Association (the parent organization of Workin' Bridges) to assume ownership of the Watts Mill Road Bridge after restoration and inspection of the bridge was completed. Meanwhile, the transfer of ownership from PennDOT to Workin' Bridges through DGS was underway.
View of Watts Mill Road Bridge from bank of Little Beaver Creek.
With the successful transfer of the Watts Mill Road Bridge to Workin' Bridges in October 2018, PennDOT was presented with the unusual situation where the preservation funds were being requested prior to completion of the project, or a portion of the project. Under normal circumstances, the work is completed first and then reimbursement for those expenditures occurs. However, Workin' Bridges, being a non-profit organization, did not have the funds to front the work. PennDOT's Office of Chief Counsel determined that a portion of the preservation funds could be disbursed to Workin' Bridges under the auspices of Chapter 19 of the Commonwealth Procurement Code. A reimbursement agreement was executed on November 27, 2018 providing an initial payment to Workin' Bridges and allowing them to move forward with dismantling of the bridge.
Due to weather challenges by December, Workin' Bridges was not able to dismantle and transport (for off-site restoration) the Watts Mill Road Bridge. Dismantling of the bridge began during the last week of March 2019. Although another issue emerged in April which has delayed the completion of the dismantling, that work is expected to continue in the coming weeks, followed by restoration in the summer of | 688 |
Abducted university workers freed in Nigeria: police
A police truck is stationed outside the University of Abuja Staff Quarters gate where unknown gunmen kidnapped people amongst whom were 2 of the university professors, lecturers and their family members in Abuja, Nigeria on November 2, 2021.
Photo credit: Kola Sulaimon| AFP
Nigerian security forces Friday rescued six people<|fim_middle|> according to the UN.
Most of the victims are released after negotiations with the captors. The gangs are not known to have any ideological motivation.
The violence is just one of the challenges facing President Muhammadu Buhari's government, also battling a 12-year-old insurgency in the northeast and separatist agitation in the southeast. | who had been seized at a university near the capital's international airport, police said.
The victims were kidnapped Tuesday from the University of Abuja in Giri, raising fears for security around the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport some 20 kilometres away.
Abuja police spokesperson Josephine Adeh said in a statement:
Nigeria responds as banditry overwhelms states
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Nigerian bandits free 75 abducted students
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After the incident, Adeh had confirmed that six people were abducted "by criminals."
The university said on its Facebook page that those taken were four staff members and their children.
Police said Friday that the hostages were rescued in the "early hours of today" in a joint operation by security agencies.
Nigeria, Africa's most populous nation of some 210 million inhabitants, is struggling with widespread criminality.
Gunmen known locally as bandits have increasingly targeted schools and universities in recent months.
Gangs have kidnapped at least 950 students since December, | 227 |
Course Description:<|fim_middle|>Determine how to search using Boolean connectors, automated searching, and intelligent browsing, locate an all-in-one site for a case, legislation and regulation search, and identify a gateway site that sum-marizes tax sites by category. | The digital divide is upon us! There are those who are getting on the information highway and those who will be left behind. This course gives the practitioner the ability to immediately access information-rich tax Websites at tremendous savings. Emphasis will be given to the substantial speed and cost advantages of the Internet over traditional paper and CD tax "services." If you want "instant" tax information that's down to the wire - this is the course.
Recognize the mobility of Internet sites and how to monitor such lo-cation changes, and identify ways that the Internet is changing the tax and legal professions.
Determine what constitutes the "Internet," recognize its evolution noting contributing organizations and specify ways that it can serve cli-ents, benefit users and maintain professional skills.
Cite differences between the Internet and the World Wide Web, recognize how to navigate the Web using browsers and hyperlinks to access information, identify the function of favorites or bookmarks, and locate sites that catalog hyperlinks.
Determine how to access the Internet safely and efficiently by choosing appropriate hardware, implementing security measures, and identify the parts to an Internet connection noting their function and how to optimize performance.
Specify ways to connect to the Internet including cable, satellite, and modem, identify the function of modems noting the importance of modem speeds and how to connect a modem disabling conflicting ser-vices, and locate computer chip speed.
Identify Internet service providers (ISPs) and on-line information services, specify the features of supplied and offered browsers, and de-termine how to "surf the net" by typing a URL into an address bar noting the function each part of the address.
Recognize the online threat protection provided personal information and data.
Specify how to securely and politely send and receive e-mail with at-tachments, identify the components of an e-mail address, recognize the use of e-mail software and multiple service accounts, and determine how to organize and filter e-mails, identify the differences between newsgroups and mailing lists noting professional mailing lists focused on tax issues.
Recognize the strengths and weaknesses of Internet tax research, identify online libraries, site lists, newsgroups and individual websites for current and pending federal and state tax law, articles, newsletters and developments, determine how to e-mail legislative representatives, and locate tax forms.
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Some of the reasons for this move are to improve efficiencies, improve workflow for inside and outside functions, combine workforces, and have a state of the art facility for the next generation. The new building is roughly the size of both the old buildings put together, and it was built to accommodate all 38 EECA employees as they merge together in the new office space. Built with energy efficiency in mind, the new facility is equipped with such features as geothermal and automated LED lighting throughout. EECA was also able to utilize a USDA REAP Grant for the improvements from the old sites to the new one.
As both Murphysboro and Steeleville facilities will be closed to the public, membership can visit the new EECA's lobby or drive-thru during regular business hours of 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., Monday through Friday, to make payments or speak to a customer service representative as usual. Payments can also be made after hours outside of the building at the drive-thru drop-box or kiosk.
Payments can also be made 24/7 by automated pay-by-phone at 844-759-3977. Off-site kiosks are located at 2301 N Reed Station Road in Carbondale at the Marketplace Shell, open 6 a.m. to midnight, and at 1306 N Market Street in Sparta at Wright Do-It Center, open 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday and 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Saturdays for members' convenience.
The Murphysboro office is currently for sale with a realtor, but the Steeleville will continue to be owned by EECA. Although the front office will be closed to members, it will still be used as an operation center for employees. Crews will work outages that occur after hours, along with other responses and warranted daytime work, out of the Steeleville Operations Center. No open house date is currently scheduled, but EECA hopes to announce one for the Spring of 2018. For more information, go to EECA's website at www.eeca.coop.
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Our new headquarters site is underway! Site work is almost completed and all parts of the building are under roof. Projected move in timeframe is September 2017. For more information on our new building, visit our New Headquarters page.
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The Egyptian Electric Cooperative Board of Directors entered into an agreement with Cooperative member Samron Midwest Contracting of Murphysboro to build a new corporate headquarters south of the intersection of Route 4 and Route 13/127. The new facility replaced the current Murphysboro facility, and a portion of the Steeleville facility. It has been decided to retain the Steeleville site as an operations center. As it has always been, electric service for all of our members and the cost to our members throughout the entire service area will continue to be of the highest priority.
MURPHYSBORO – Egyptian Electric Cooperative Association (EECA) has announced the closure of its existing Murphysboro and Steeleville offices as it prepares to officially open its new headquarters facility in Murphysboro later this month. "Although it is bittersweet closing both offices that have been operational for many years, we look forward to providing better resources to our membership and employees with our new headquarters for generations to come," says EECA Interim Manager Shane Hermetz.
The existing Murphysboro and Steeleville offices officially closed for business on Thursday, Oct. 19 at 4 p.m. Egyptian Electric and was closed for employee training on Friday, Oct. 20. The new headquarters facility | 402 |
The work of Terese Nielsen has captured the imagination of the gaming and comic book industry. Whether you're immersed in the beauty of "Stream of Life" or "Moonsprite," you're sure to agree that you haven't been left untouched. She has made her place in the world of fantasy art, lurking in the upper echel<|fim_middle|> Steeped in motherhood, it is not uncommon for Terese to spend hours bringing to life some visionary masterpiece of her hopelessly creative nine-year-old son. More often than not, she can be found quietly listening to the ramblings of little girls who share their lives with her as she paints. With much accomplished and far more to come from the studio of Terese Nielsen, her greatest achievements are undoubtedly mirrored in the eyes of her loved ones. | ons as one of the foremost female artists in the field, and has been honored in the last five volumes of Spectrum. The horizon brims with delighted expectancy for this talented artist of rare potential.
Of humble beginnings, (not unlike a few others of historical note) she was born along with her twin brother to farmers in the small town of Aurora, Nebraska in 1966. She grew up running through miles of cornfields and learning to work hard, entrusted with important tasks from a young age. As there were no houses in close proximity, she and her two brothers constituted the "neighborhood" and played together for hours. More often than not, the cold winters would find them huddled around a stack of paper that was never depleted, thanks to their encouraging mother. While they all enjoyed the time-honored process of drawing and coloring, Terese always felt that she couldn't rival the unquestionable creative genius of her older brother, Ron Spencer. She never quite had the passion for it that he did, and didn't consider pursuing art as a career until her third year in high school.
With early interest in physiology and psychology, she actually always planned to go into the medical field. It's not often that you hear of a junior high student with a subscription to Psychology Today. (This would almost be scary if you didn't know that her perennial intrigue in the workings of the mind, in figuring out "what makes people tick," has served her well and continues to be a thriving theme in the tapestry of her life). Becoming a doctor was out when she couldn't grasp mathematics, but she didn't give up on some sort of tech position until· chemistry. So she decided to get a real job and start drawing again, and leave the traditional pursuits to those less fortunate.
Terese was heavily influenced by comic book and fantasy artists Boris Vallejo, Rowena Morrill, Frazetta, Michael Whelan, Barry Windsor Smith and Jim Fitzpatrik (and, of course, Big Brother). During Ron's two-year absence, she was finally convinced that she could make the grade without his divine tutelage. With remarkable pencil sketches and ink pointillism, she earned profuse recognition and basked in the warmth of being a very big fish.
The pond got bigger as she followed her brother to Rexburg, Idaho to study art at the small, but reputable Rick's College in the fall of 1984. A little intimidated and afraid of being swallowed up by the competition, she sacrificed her sleep night after night for her desire to be as good, or better, than everyone else. This relentless pursuit of excellence quickly earned her a spot at the top of the class, and she was the only one to wring an A+ out of the most rigorous and challenging course at the school. Contemporary illustrators Leon Parson, Robert Heindel, Mark English, Bernie Fuchs and Bart Forbes embodied much of what she desired to become during this period.
Despite the acclaim and artistic achievement she enjoyed while there, the pinnacle of her experience had nothing to do with art at all. It came one day as she succumbed to the cajoling of a very macho teacher, and finally consented to the arm wrestle he had been begging for. He knew she lifted weights, but being significantly bulkier, he greatly anticipated the opportunity to put her in her place. He was never quite the same after that day. The "baby with biceps" had struck, and all of a sudden taking a sabbatical looked very appealing to that poor man.
While at Rick's, Terese managed to marry the competition, and after graduation they made their way to California with hearts full of promise. They rolled into L.A. with $200 in their pockets and half a tank of gas in the old '61 Rambler that had belonged to her grandmother. Being young, they had no idea that the odds were stacked against them. All they had were their dreams to attend the prestigious (and expensive) Art Center College of Design in Pasadena·but that was all they needed.
Terese began her intensities at Art Center in September of 1988. She entered under the fading shadow of the dark and moody Matt Mahurn to take her place among a very special group of people. Every so often when planets line up just so, a convergence of souls takes place, as if everyone involved had suddenly awakened to rush to an appointment all but forgotten. Instructor after instructor confirmed that they hadn't seen such a talented class in ten years. In fierce, but friendly, competition this handful of students pushed each other and became the grading standard for the rest.
It was here that her ability to get into the minds of her teachers and know what they wanted came in especially handy. (All those issues of Psychology Today, no doubt). Her peers would scratch their heads and wonder why she was one of the few to survive a crit.
When she arrived, Terese was leaps and bounds ahead in figure drawing and painting. She had a preference and gift for portrait work, and would have pursued fashion illustration if the industry hadn't cycled into a preference for photography early in her Art Center career. Inspired by contemporary illustrators Malcolm Liepke, Thomas Blackshear, Charles Bragg, Robert Rodriguez, Dave McKean and Bill Sienkiewicz, she shifted gears and began to develop a portfolio using the challenging medium of gouache to render pieces aimed at the book cover, comic book and movie poster markets. Also beginning to be of major influence were the early 1900 artists John Singer Sargent, Joaquin Sorolla and Gustav Klimt.
It was during her time at Art Center that she couldn't help but notice the male-dominated nature of the business. All but two teachers in seven years had been male. One of her peers lamented, "You're so talented, one of the best in the whole school, but you'll never really make it because you're a woman." This poignant reproach might have deflated some, but Terese looked upon it as an opportunity to rise above biased assumptions. Of no small import was the support and opinion of her husband, Cliff. He never bought into the cultural myth and her confidence grew. Everywhere she showed her book she got a job. To date, she maintains that her gender has been fairly irrelevant in the flow of work; that it's been neither boon nor bane, which, of course, is how it should be.
Terese graduated from the Art Center College of Design with "great distinction," the highest honor, in April of 1991. Having ridden the tides of good fortune and hard work, and almost full scholarship, she was prepared to launch into the world of professional illustration.
Not surprisingly, Terese had a steady and almost effortless flow of work following graduation. One of her early clients was Landmark Entertainment. With dramatic color and lighting she breathed life into their theme park designs. She painted computer game CD covers for Phillips through Maddocks Design Firm in L.A. Other clients included Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, NPQ, Writer's Guild and Administrative Radiology. It wasn't long before she landed several superhero trading cards with DC and Marvel, which was the beginning of her work in the comic book and gaming industry. Perhaps the highest profile comic book she produced was Marvel's "Ruins," which was actually a project she and her husband co-illustrated. Incidentally, it was the last project they ever worked on together, as their paths diverged. They were formally divorced by the time "Ruins" hit the newsstands.
Wizards of the Coast caught wind of her work in 1996 and she emerged within Magic the Gathering through Alliances that same year. She has been in most of the card sets since then, and continues to be a powerful artistic influence within the role-playing world. She has been flown across the Atlantic and Pacific to be present for signings, representing the international appeal of her work. One of the art directors for WOTC commented, "You're one of the few artists I don't pigeon-hole. You do everything well."
Perhaps Terese's intuitive powers are just as responsible for her success as the delicate strokes of her brush. She has a gift for getting into the minds and hearts of writers and art directors. It is often uncanny how she is able to capture the visions of creators, and then push it one step further to deliver something even better than they had imagined. When Terese renders a character, she wants to do it on more than an extrinsic level. She wants to get inside the character's head and represent him or her in a way that produces several reads. You'll find yourself coming back again and again, drawn almost involuntarily to hold the intense gaze often encountered in her paintings. There is a tantalizing depth and complexity in her work. This is well depicted in her interpretation of Gerrard for a 1998 Duelist cover. She is able to imbue these pawns of imagination with such force and presence that they actually come to life, taking their rightful place among the other sentient beings of the Universe.
Within the last five years, Terese has felt many influences as her preferences have evolved. She continues to be compelled by the work of Gustav Klimpt, Alphonse Mucha (and others in the Art Nouveau period), the Pre-Raphaelite artists, Adolphe Bouguereau, J.W. Waterhouse and Sir Frederick Leighton. Also significant are artists from the golden years of American illustration: N.C. Wyeth, J.C. Leyendecker, Dean Cornwell, Howard Pyle, Andrew Loomis and Maxfield Parish. The contemporary comic book artist Bernie Wrightson continues to inspire her with his early work exhibiting dramatic compositions and intriguing patterns of light and dark.
Terese is captivated by the feminine psych and enjoys portraying women in all genres. The images are often intense and provocative (as in "Revelation," "Elvish Ranger," and "Keeper of the Flame"), but can also be soothing, ethereal, mystical (as in "The Enchanted," and "Foresight"). With this in mind, it seems completely natural that she would revel in illustrating the immortal Xena, Warrior Princess. She painted the cover for the premier issue of the Xena comics produced by Topps in 1998. She subsequently illustrated seven other covers, which can be viewed on-line under "Paintings" above.
"Vampirella" was published in 1995 for Topps as part of their Vampirella Gallery Set. Created with thin layers of oil and delicate applications of gold leaf, the rich textured colors satiate the palate. Within the tall, thin, Klimpt-inspired format, the deep reds against the stark white flesh are tantalizing. Not of little interest to Terese, as you might imagine, is the sanguine paradox she represents. Where Vampirella comes from, drinking blood is as natural for her as drinking water is for us, but placed out of context in our world, the beauty of this simple, almost sacred act is defiled with evil overtones. She becomes a formidable shadow, a temptress, a murderess in her desire for the breath of life, yet notice how serene she is in this rendering. She accepts, without judgement, who she is. What she must do is done in reverence, almost as sacrament. In a world where dichotomy is worshipped, anything that illustrates ambiguity or challenges absolute interpretations of "good" and "evil" are fascinating to this artist.
"Stream of Life," commissioned by Wizards of the Coast, came out in the Fifth Edition card set for Magic the Gathering in 1996. This mystical, sensual portrayal of dipping into the stream symbolizes the primordial urge we have to seek sustenance from the Source or Stream of all life. The feline beast represents great power, the elf, great wisdom; one is led to muse on the possible relationship that exists between these creatures of the wood, which by nature can never be completely defined. This arresting image was composed with transparent washes of acrylic intermingled with light glazes of airbrush.
"Moonsprite," another WOTC piece, emerged through the Portal set not long after "Stream." Produced in a mixed medium of acrylic, gouache, colored pencil and the esteemed gold leaf, this image mirrors the birth, the release of the creative. The pose, mood and underlighting conspire to issue an enticing call to freedom. The exquisite sense of emancipation imparted by the fairy is almost tangible. We are witness to a timeless transcendence into higher levels of awareness and expression, and are invited to participate in the same. This "decorative piece of jewelry" remains a favorite with fans as well.
Although she is certainly capable of making your skin crawl, Terese is currently feeling "maxed out" on the dark images she has often been commissioned to paint. She has felt the stirrings within and is heeding the call to depict images traced with light. Wanting to reach beyond the macabre, she yearns to spend more time reflecting her current interests.
Archangel Michael and Miriam of Magdala are two recent examples of personal work that reflect such interests.
The urge to find and use her own voice has become irrepressible, and she desires to find purpose in her work. In her perfect world, she would be able to encourage balance and harmony through art. She would inspire the viewer to explore the great untapped potential within, and give form to dreams yet in embryo. She would be able to entice people into the workings of their own soul, and with a dash of Piscean intuition, guide them into a grander expression of themselves. Whether this is through the painted medium, or through stained glass windows and tabletop fountains, the goal is the same. (Although, she might just settle for Art Director of Psychology Today).
Regardless of her professional expression, however, she accomplishes this design with her intimate associations. Terese currently resides in Temple City, California with her partner and their four children. | 2,908 |
Since the coming of the Kingdom on Earth, God has made himself accessible to all followers of Jesus. He is not a remote and hidden mystery, an entity to be communicated with only rarely and through another person ordained to the task. Rather, all who live with God's spirit (meaning, all who are born again) and who in fact have become God's foster children, can communicate with their Dad at any time. Consequently, I know God personally as my heavenly Father, my Dad, my Daddy. And he knows me, inside out, communicating with me using words, images and references from my personal history. He knows me better than I know myself; he alone knows what my soul needs, and he alone can provide<|fim_middle|>, everything the world lusts after and settles for. Only in loving God as my Father do I have everything and everyone I'll ever need. Amen.
By abornagainbeliever in Uncategorized on January 9, 2015 . | it. In John 17, Jesus prays to God to give us the same relationship with God as he has with him: "that they may be one as we are…." God answered Jesus' prayer, just as he always did.
Temples of worship are no longer required, as we born-agains are each of us a temple, and our souls are the tabernacle for God's spirit. Under the New Covenant ushered in by Jesus, the Living God no longer dwells in buildings of stone and wood, but in the living flesh of his foster children. When God's spirit comes to live with us, we embark upon the most intimate, loving, satisfying and profound relationship we'll ever experience in our lives – a relationship with the creator of all things. Yet he comes to us as our Dad, and it's his covenanted duty to do and be for us everything a good father must do and be.
So, he loves us like a father, he watches over us like a father, he indulges us like a father, he's proud of us like a father, he guides us like a father, he defends us like a father, he tells us stories like a father, he amuses and entertains us like a father, he humors us like a father, he protects us like a father, he provides for us like a father, he corrects us like a father, he admonishes us like a father, and, if need be, he punishes us like a good father should.
He loves us more than anyone on Earth could possibly love us because his love is absolute, not conditional: it cannot change or die. Each and every one of us is the apple of God's eye, and he wants only the best for all of us. Being his foster children, we are potentially his heirs, so that all that is his may some day be ours, if we choose to remain his children.
And it is still our choice while we are yet on Earth, in our Earthly bodies. We can still choose against God, with our God-given free will. Hopefully we won't.
I am my Father's daughter. My Father's name is God Almighty. My Father has promised never to leave or forsake me, as long as I keep his commandments and walk in his way. Through his written and spoken Word, he teaches me how to do this: His written Word is the Holy Bible, and his spoken Word is that which he directly speaks to me and to my 'brethren' (other born-agains). I don't need an interpreter or an intercessor to understand his written or spoken Word for, as he promised, he himself will teach me. He speaks to me in my own language, using words, images, nuances and juxtapositions unique to my own experience and at a level I can comprehend. My soul is as my fingerprint; there is only one in all creation. Likewise, my understanding of God is unique. This is how he becomes our 'personal God'. If we do not know him uniquely and intimately – that is, personally – then we do not know him at all.
God my Dad knows me better than I know myself and he loves me more than I can comprehend. He fiercely protects me from my enemies and takes stumbling blocks out of my path. When he closes a door, he opens a window; when he shuts the window, he lifts up the roof and lets down a ladder for me to ascend. There is nothing my Dad will not do in his love for me, his foster child. And he wants more than anything else to adopt me so that I can go home to heaven, where my soul was created. But this will only happen if I follow his will and his will only, just as Jesus did.
I can only know his will by constantly consciously being in his presence (or, as Paul would say, praying without ceasing). Consciously being in God's presence means talking to him, listening to him, asking his advice (and following it), and letting his spirit permeate every iota of my being, all my thoughts, words and actions, all the time, not just for a few seconds on Sunday.
I would without hesitation choose that one day with God, because without him, without his spirit inside me, I'm not alive, I have nothing of value, even if I have everything the world tells me makes for happiness | 901 |
<|fim_middle|> | I've been playing recently with Corel Painter, which lets you fake the look of natural media (like paintbrushes, watercolors) on a computer. It's a lot of fun, and whilst it's clearly fake, it sure impresses those who haven't seen it before.
I've also been wasting my youth enjoying my holidays with the latest incarnation of the game Civilization. Gameplay and balance works quite well in Civ 4, although I'm still not convinced on the change from 2D to 3D graphics. I think that Civ 1 had the most usable graphics – even if they weren't pretty, you could easily tell different units and different terrain apart. Civ 4 looks more subtly blended/integrated and "realistic" (although either I have very tall people or very small buildings), but it's harder to distinguish between a temple and a cathedral, for example. Wesnoth is 2D, and I quite like it's distinctive visual style (is the 1990s sufficiently old to be "retro"?) in the current climate of games-must-be-3D think. As a bonus, some guy made "ye olde mappe" style Wesnoth maps.
And, with 3D, you sometimes get images like these, as spotted on the Civ forums. | 270 |
Our aim in teaching English is to encourage a love of literature and an appreciation of imaginative, original and expressive writing.
English at the School is designed to be accessible to all pupils, regardless of their first language, at the same time as providing stretch and interest. The subject is not just about reading and writing, although these core skills are explicitly developed. English plays a key role in promoting intellectual curiosity and academic attainment across the curriculum and emphasis is placed on accuracy and discernment in the use of the English language.
The subject's particular suitability for discussing moral, social, historical and philosophical concerns is celebrated and explored at all levels, and this can be particularly exciting in a school where so many different cultures converge. The style of teaching embraces many of the arts, and pupils will often examine a painting<|fim_middle|> at the end of each year.
The School's creative writing magazine, Bits and Pieces, appears on an occasional basis, providing all pupils with an opportunity to share their stories, poems and ideas in an exciting way. Creative writing is also encouraged for the School's own Brackenbury Awards.
The School play is produced each year, often performed in the spring term, and is open to all pupils who wish to take part, whether as an actor or in a technical capacity. In recent years the School has performed an adaptation of Shakespeare's The Tempest, set in a boarding school rather than on an island, and a new play written for the pupils about the domestic life of the 17th Century diarist Samuel Pepys. Both plays used live music composed and performed by the pupils.
C, B and A Groups are taught by Head of English and Drama Alan Humm, supported by Kendra Shute with the Cs. | or music, for example, as a way to enhance their enjoyment of literature.
Each year-group follows a similar pattern through the academic year, and pupils can expect to encounter poetry, drama, fiction and non-fiction in many forms, as well as practice in public speaking and presentation. We exercise our independence robustly, and the small class sizes mean that texts can often be chosen with the pupils' own interests and tastes in mind at the same time as broadening their own horizons.
The B1 and B2 years follow a two-year course of study towards IGCSE public examinations in both English Literature and English Language. Exam results are very strong. Those choosing to take public examinations at A Level will enjoy a rich and demanding course in English Literature, again designed around the interests of the group. The A Level is taken over two years, with exams | 171 |
What's so special about the flat enamel hanging grill?
You are grilling and frying at the same time; there's plenty of enamel coated metal in it. This means you can start cooking sooner and<|fim_middle|> also spin/turn the grill over the fire, using the twiddle handle if your fire has hot spots. | don't have to wait for the fire to burn down to charcoal as with a conventional barbeque. The chain allows you to alter the height above the fire/embers, and you can swing the grill around to vary the heat.
What is the little handle at the top of the tripod for?
The tripod comes with a fixed chain and a twiddle handle on top. This can be used for turning the grill over the fire for an even cook.
Is it better to have the grill attached to the t ripod legs or, as with your set, hanging from a central chain?
The enamel grill hanging from the central chain is more flexible. The chain does not get hot and you can move the grill up and down the chain without a glove. You can | 153 |
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