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The 2018 Volkswagen Tiguan continues Volkswagen's heritage of fun to drive vehicles. A turbocharged engine (which runs on regular fuel as opposed to premium like in the past) is matched to an 8-speed Tiptronic® automatic transmission, providing a smooth and steady source of power. Not only does this allow the 2018 Tiguan to be exceptionally quick, but it also makes for improved fuel economy thanks to all the power available at lower RPMs. The 2018 Tiguan is also nimble; Volkswagen's 4MOTION® All-Wheel Drive, an intelligent AWD system that provides variable power distribution, ensures that you can handle any conditions you may encounter on the road.
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It does to me. I'm pretty good at finding reasons to justify my complacency.
Like take this morning. I overslept. And in my fleshly mind, I had a good reason! I have a 5-month old baby<|fim_middle|>" – they didn't know him.
They didn't see their master for who he truly was: kind, powerful, and wise. In reality, he was a master so good that the reward for the faithful was to enter into his joy. But the wicked stewards had a distorted view.
They didn't know him because they didn't see him properly.
It's not the systems or the knowledge or the "temporary" busy periods that are keeping you from being a good steward. It's that, in the moment, we forget what a great God it is that we serve. I overslept this morning because at that point I valued another few winks of sleep over the pleasure of serving the living God.
How easy it is for us to forget.
Do you see Him properly?
Do you really know Him?
Does that inspire you to serve Him?
Some of the links in this post may be affiliate links. However, this doesn't affect what I write about, what I choose to say, or what I recommend. Learn more here. | that has a real set of lungs on him when he gets crying. But when I woke up naturally at 6 AM, I knew I should get out of bed – I just ignored my conscience and hit my pillow again.
Maybe you think you've got your own reasons for struggling with being a good steward. You don't have a good system. Now is not a good time. You don't know enough.
But Jesus tells us what the real reason is.
Both of these parables feature good stewards who were rewarded. Both also have servants who were poor stewards – who are called "wicked" and received punishment.
Aha! It's because they were afraid of their master, right?
But take a look at why they were afraid: because the master was "a hard man" and a "severe man." He reaps where he doesn't sow. He takes what he didn't deposit.
Here's the key. Even though they called him "Master" and "Lord | 201 |
These two verses have always interested me. They feel pregnant with more meaning<|fim_middle|> them. Where something has been a source of focus, the connections are deeper and more difficult to override. While this man was born blind, he couldn't have begun to fathom the beauty of sight. As he was being revealed this new truth, his entire life and it's belief systems were transitioning also. At first, when he physically only saw in part, he was shown a much deeper truth - that men are walking thoughts, acting out of their beliefs, and that those beliefs, regardless of accuracy or truth, have the potential to root us down with great strength. As the blind man chose to believe the new reality that Jesus was gifting him, his sight appeared, and his life was revived.
We are called to renew our thoughts daily, momentarily. We do that by meditating upon the Holy Scriptures, upon His truth, not what we see before us right in this very moment. When we consistently have our thoughts on him, our hearts can hope, and our brains are hard at work creating new and healthy branches that can tie our entire network of thoughts together, re-creating our lives entirely. | than I myself could ever gather. I've read theological interpretations, basically all agreeing that the man's sight was initially healed in part (seeing men like blurry trees) so that his own faith would help bring about his complete healing. This could be true, but after reading a book called "Who Switched Off My Brain?" by Dr. Caroline Leaf, I have another interpretation.
This book is revolutionary in proving the Proverb that states "For as he thinks in his heart, so he is." Dr. Leaf discusses the notion of epigenetics, which simply put, is that our perceptions of life shape our biology. I did a little more studying on the concept of the epigenome to find that it is basically cellular material that will tell your genes how to express themselves and their resulting appearance. When we consciously use our free will and utilize our ability to think, we are making the determination of which genes will be expressed, and which genes will not. What we think about shapes and forms the appearance and function of our genes, which in turn, tells our bodies how to maneuver, and what its overall health will be. The manner in which our body acts is all due to the fact that our thoughts are either healthy or unhealthy.
So it's easy to then add that our behavior, along with our genes, follows our thought life. We all know that already, don't we? The way we believe things to be is our filter for everything else. We react out of those filters and produce either healthy or unhealthy reactions. If our minds are negative, we will react being fear-based and insecure. If our minds are renewed, cleansed, and focused upon what God has called us to think upon ( whatever is noble, right, pure, lovely, admirable, and praise-worthy) then we will have a more peaceable nature. Whatever we act on originates from what we think and believe. Actions are simply reactions to thoughts and belief systems.
It's no coincidence to me then that the thoughts in our brain look like little trees. They are electrical impulses that grow stronger and have more interconnectedness the more you meditate upon and believe in | 433 |
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The photo above is an immediate trigger for me, in that today is Labor Day in the USA. It is a holiday I recall with fondness from my youth. It signified the end of summer, which was never in itself to be celebrated, but it also signified the beginning of school. And for me school was the center of life, so the closing of summer meant back to all good things. This year, as summer closes, not so much. But the photo above allows me a moment of solace.
Amie and I recently passed through Los Angeles en route to a wedding, and came across this "questionably named"restaurant (not the one pictured above, but the one referred to in the first paragraph below). I do not think of myself as a prude, but when I see a name like that I immediately become uninterested. The shock of the new is not the problem. Coarsening of<|fim_middle|> to eat?
At Alvin Cailan's first sit-down restaurant, in the Nolitan Hotel, the Eggslut creator graduates to the full bird.
For the chef Alvin Cailan, the egg came first. The egg sandwich, to be specific, a messy, photogenic one on a brioche bun, first served in 2011, from a food truck, questionably named Eggslut, in Los Angeles. Eggslut became a pop-up in New York (since popped down) and then a mini-chain, with several outposts in the L.A. area and one in Las Vegas. Cailan built his name on the egg. Now, at the Usual, his first proper sit-down venture, recently opened in the Nolitan Hotel, he has graduated to the chicken. | language and culture is the problem. Enough. A good rule of thumb might be something like this question: would you be happy telling your young child(ren) the name of this place where we are going | 41 |
A Beer Called Lambic
Navigating the twisting, turning streets of Brussels, I was surprised to find myself squinting in the light of the sun's rays as they boldly cut through the city's customary gloom. This is a beer drinker's town—with more interesting brews and good places in which to enjoy them than perhaps any other place in the world—and it has a beer drinker's climate, its usually gray days more suited to the insides of dark cafes than to outdoor boulevards and parks. Still, I had many blocks yet to cover on foot, so I welcomed the sunlight.
The brightness vanished the minute I opened a creaky wooden door on rue Gheude and entered the Brasserie Cantillon, near the Gare du Midi, a century-old brewery producing beer so ancient, so idiosyncratic, that it is often spoken of in the reverent tones reserved for grand cru bordeaux and the rarest single malts.
The beer is called lambic, and the traditional sort has anappetizing dryness, an invigorating tartness, and a complexity that rivals the finest sherry's; it's a beer boasting aromas suggesting everything from lush fruit to mineral earth; a beer that makes you suspect that everything else you know about beer is a lie. Great lambic is the brewing world's Holy Grail, Cantillon its most sacred temple.
A rarity today, lambic was once the defining drink of the Pajottenland, a rich agricultural region southwest of Brussels on the Senne River. Cast an eye on any of Brueghel's famous depictions of Flemish celebrations, and you'll spy jugs of what is believed to be the peasants' notorious "yellow beer" being consumed with great relish. In countryside cafes, you can still find the locals—many of whom look as if they'd stepped out of themasterpiece known as Peasant Wedding Feast—enjoying lambic poured from rough-hewn pitchers alongside plates of mussels, radishes, herbed cheese, and tete pressee (head cheese).
Likewise, parts of the world's most famous lambic brewery appear unchanged from Brueghel's time. At Cantillon, as at all traditional lambic breweries, scant attention is paid to the rules of modern beer making. Whereas other beers are fermented with carefully controlled yeast strains, lambics owe their fermentation to a wildparty of airborne microflora that includes more than 100 identified yeast strains and 50 kinds of bacteria. Since virtually everything in the brewery is thought to have the microbiotic potential to affect this spontaneous fermentation, there is a certain endearing grubbiness to Cantillon. The air inside the brewery makes for an olfactory adventure, perfumed as it is with a musky potpourri of damp wood, wet grain, and a heady mix of barnyard aromas known collectively and affectionately as "horse blanket".
But lambic's unique microbiotic mix provides only part of the great beer's character. The winey, aggressively citric flavor of traditional lambic is also influenced by its years of aging in wooden barrels, some of them decades old, arranged in shadowy racks. Astringent notes are added through the use of a large percentage of unmalted wheat, along with the more typical malted barley. And in the case of the famed lambic called gueuze—produced by the methode champenoise-like blending and bottle-refermenting of lambics at least one and up to three years old—the aging process plays a vital role in giving the beer an enormous complexity that makes it quite unlike any other.
Lambic's fiercest advocate is Cantillon's Jean-Pierre Van Roy. An affable grandfather with the physique of a man half his age, Van Roy is utterly unwavering in his commitment to traditional lambic. He refuses to sweeten his gueuze in order to tone down its natural tartness, as is the practice at many commercially oriented breweries. In a similarly purist vein, he uses only whole fruit in his fruit-flavored lambics—never juices or<|fim_middle|>3 Fonteinen.
The going has not been easy, Debelder says, and he is unsure whether his brewery can survive on the production of traditional lambic beers. He cites the difficulty of selling tart, complex beers in a world of sweet, simple lagers but reiterates that he's determined to do it anyway.
As I leave 3 Fonteinen, Debelder stares deep into my eyes, his face a portrait of pure emotion. "It is my one hope that this beautiful thing will survive," he says. "Because it would be terrible if future generations were not able to experience this magnificent beer."
More Drink | syrups. In Cantillon's fruit beers, pounds of cherries, raspberries, apricots, and even grapes are added to the already two-year-old barrels of lambic to macerate for as long as ten months. Then the renewed fermentation continues for at least three more months—sometimes even for several years. Van Roy declines to join the lambic brewers' association because other members make sweetened beers in addition to traditional lambics. "Those other beers, they are not lambics," hesays with a shrug. "I would like them to make an association of only producers of real lambics, and I would join that, but I cannot join this group." The "other beers" Van Roy speaks of so dismissively are what most people think of when they hear "lambic". Sweetened with sugar or fruit juice and profoundly fruity in flavor, those brews, from brewers like Lindemans and Chapeau, have little in common with, say, the musty-dry, tart kriek (cherry) and framboise (raspberry) created by traditional methods.
Real or not, the sweetened lambics help pay the bills nearby in Vlezenbeek at Lindemans, at least according to Roger Mussche, one of the brewing world's leading microbiologists and a close friend of and consultant to the Lindemans family. Mussche does not hesitate to say that Lindemans's sole traditional lambic, a firm and flavorful gueuze called Cuvee Rene, is his favorite of the brewery's beers. But it is the fruit beers—young lambics blended with 25 to 28 percent pure fruit juice—that make up the overwhelming majority of this country brewery's annual sales of more than 10 million bottles of beer. "If we could ask the same price as Champagne, we'd start producing all traditional lambics tomorrow," says Mussche. "But at over 32,000 hectoliters [of production], the capital and space requirements would make it impossible any other way."
For that reason, most traditional lambic producers run small operations, with outputs measured in the hundreds rather than the thousands of hectoliters. Some, like Hanssens Artisanaal, of Dworp, don't even brew the beer themselves. Instead, they buy it from others (the day it's made) and age it on the premises.
The practice of aging and blending lambics, requiring skills similar to those of an expert whisky blender, was once commonplace across the Pajottenland. For centuries, cafe owners and beer distributors bought lambic from the brewers after it had been inoculated by the wild yeasts but before fermentation truly took hold, then fermented and aged the beer in their own barrels in their own cellars. Since so much of a lambic's character comes from aging and blending, those beers are considered to be creations of the cellar rather than of the brewing process.
Hanssens Artisanaal, only recently handed down from Jean Hanssens to his daughter Sidy and her husband, John Matthys, is one of the few blenders left in Belgium. Like the beers of Cantillon, the Hanssens lambics are the stuff of legend, particularly in the United States, where traditional lambics have won a small but growing contingent of aficionados. One Hanssens beer of particular note is the kriek, which exemplifies how lambics fermented with whole fruit differ from those flavored with juices. Rather than the sweetness of raw juice, the Hanssens beer displays the complexity of fruit skins, flesh, and pits that comes from the cherries' having been added whole to the barrel and fermented down to a pile of bare stones. This more intense fruitiness complements rather than overwhelms the dry, tart character of the lambic and makes the beer well suited to main-course dishes based on beef (and on horsemeat, much appreciated in Belgium), not just sweet desserts.
Ten minutes from Hanssens, in the village of Beersel, Armand Debelder grins when discussing his desire to make the transitionfrom blender to brewer. A former chef whose family has been producing lambics for two generations, Debelder, along with his brother Guido, inherited the 3 Fonteinen restaurant and its lambic cellars in the 1980s. Until recently the only place to sample the house lambics (the gueuze is now sold elsewhere in Belgium), the restaurant has long attracted beer enthusiasts from around the world.
Debelder's love of traditional lambic pushed him to take the next step. After years of discussion, he and his brother have nowseparated the company into two businesses, Guido assuming control of the restaurant and Armand taking charge of the beer. Incooperation with the blender Van Vereweghe, located in nearby Gooik, Armand has installed a brewery at | 1,018 |
WELCOME to the University of Minnesota Building Code Department (BCD) website.
The University of Minnesota has its own building code department within University Health & Safety. We contribute to the mission of ensuring a safe University community through regulatory compliance with the Minnesota State Building Code (MSBC). The University's Building Code Department is the "authority having jurisdiction" to administer the codes in accordance with the rules, regulations, and laws as adopted by the State of Minnesota. The department's mission is to protect the health, welfare and safety of University of Minnesota students, employees and visitors in the built environment through education and code enforcement. The BCD has code jurisdiction on all University campuses or property owned or leased by the University.
The University BCD provides all of the permit, plan review, inspection, and code related support services applicable to designing, constructing, occupying and using all University facilities. We are the permitting and enforcement authority for all building, plumbing, mechanical, electrical, fire and low pressure steam system<|fim_middle|> will need to comply with the current edition of the MSBC. Design professionals are encouraged to contact the BCD staff early in the design process. Final construction documents will need to be reviewed and approved for code compliance prior to construction. Construction change orders and responses to requests for information will generally need to be reviewed for code compliance prior to construction implementation. The University Building Code Department can be reached by phone at (612) 625-2437.
It's exciting to be a part of the challenges and opportunities that present themselves in each new building, remodel or tenant finish project. The application of the codes to the built environment is part of that challenge. Staying focused on the mission and applying the codes judiciously will assure that the campus facilities where we live, work and play are safe and sustainable. | work. The State of Minnesota maintains authority for high pressure steam systems, elevator installations, and contractor licensing and bonding. The BCD serves as the liaison with other outside regulatory agencies on code issues that affect the design, construction, and occupancy of University facilities.
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The City of Ashland is required by State Statute to form and maintain a Disabled Parking Enforcement Assistance Council. Organization began when there were minimal parking spaces designated to be for those who were in need of this type of assistance. Today, this is regulated through the City's zoning ordinances to allow for a certain number of spaces within a parking area or lot when development is in its earliest phase.
The Council continues to meet as needed to address issues of those who are in need of signage to designate parking space near their home or a place of business, or to remove signage no longer needed. This is not to be confused with the rearview window hanger for handicapped parking; one would need to get those from the Department of Transportation.
If you are interested in participating<|fim_middle|> to the Mayor at City Hall, or call the Clerk's office at 715-682-7071. | in this or any other volunteer committee for the City of Ashland, send your completed Offer to Volunteer form (PDF) | 24 |
Riverside Mennonite Church (Harman, West Virginia, USA)
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Riverside Mennonite Church in West Virginia on 15 July 1949.
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Riverside Mennonite (Mennonite Church) Mission Church, near Harman, Randolph County, West Virginia, under the Virginia Conference. The work was begun near 1900, and services were held in Dry Fork, Bonner Mountain, and Pennington schoolhouses previous to the building of the Riverside church in 1932. The 1957 membership was 70, with Menno J. Brunk as minister.
Address: HC 70 Box 75, Harman, WV 26270-9601
Location: Route 32, Harman, West Virginia
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Adapted by permission of Herald Press, Harrisonburg, Virginia, from Mennonite Encyclopedia, Vol. 4, p. | 425 |
An all-around star from a Colorado high school has verbally committed to join the CSU football team.
Holy Family's Kyle Helbig announced Monday on Twitter his intention to join the Rams.
Helbig is listed at 6-foot-4, 225 pounds on MaxPreps and plays both sides of the ball at Holy Family. He's listed primarily as a tight end<|fim_middle|> recruits until they sign a National Letter of Intent or financial aid agreement, but he did talk in Monday's press conference about getting out in Colorado and recruiting during the Rams' bye week.
"I was able to go out Friday and watch a game here in state, which was good," Bobo said. "We had five coaches in state, including myself."
Helbig is the fourth known commit in CSU's 2019 class, joining Aidan Cullen (three-star defensive end from Palmer Ridge High School), Xavier Goldsmith (three-star cornerback from Cass Technical in Detroit) and Jacob Wilton (unranked offensive lineman from Fort Scott Community College in Kansas).
CSU also signed the top Colorado tight end a year ago in Fort Morgan's Trey McBride. | in recruiting services and in the graphic provided by Colorado State University that he tweeted with his commitment.
His stats show a player who shows up all over the field for the Tigers. He has 20 catches for 265 yards and six touchdowns this season. He has also carried the ball 51 times for 462 yards and 13 touchdowns. He's Holy Family's leading passer, completing 60 of 127 passes for 1,109 yards, nine touchdowns with three interceptions as a fill-in at QB when Holy Family battled injuries at the position.
Defensively, he has 21 tackles (17 solo), five sacks and three interceptions.
He's rated as a three-star recruit by 247Sports, which places him as the 12th-best prospect in the state and best tight end in Colorado. His offer list included Iowa State, Wyoming, Utah State and Air Force, among others.
Holy Family is 7-3 and the No. 12 seed in the Class 3A playoffs. The Tigers will face No. 5 Harrison in the first round of the playoffs Friday.
CSU football coach Mike Bobo can't comment on | 248 |
Top Tier Gifts began as an idea in 2016, when the owner of Simply Seattle approached Allison and asked her to create a custom gift department specializing in locally sourced gift baskets and boxes.
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From our hometown to theirs, send these Jet City faves. | attention to detail, and exceptional ability to cultivate long-lasting relationships, Allison then built Simply Seattle's gift department from the ground up. Catering to individuals and corporate clients alike, her vision grew into such a success that a few years later she decided it was time to start her own business.
And so, in 2019, Top Tier Gifts was born!
Now, Allison and her fantastic team are dedicated to bringing you the perfect, unique gift for any occasion. Whether it's a custom system for your team to use throughout the year, a one-of-a-kind gift for a VIP, or a personalized gift for a friend or family member, the team will work with you to make sure each and every experience is effortless, memorable, and of the highest quality.
Assisting individuals and businesses in the Pacific Northwest and beyond, Top Tier Gifts is the premium choice for all your gifting needs.
Allison Rogers
Having grown up soaking in all things Pacific Northwest–from her birthplace of Portland, OR, to Port Angeles where she grew up, to Ellensburg, WA for college, and finally Seattle itself–Allison wanted to create the sort of business that reflects the beauty that helped shape her, while simultaneously bringing delight to both the givers and receivers every day.
With an extensive background in retail management, salons, and specialty stores, Allison has acquired a broad knowledge of local brands and self care items over the years. It would one day be those very brands and items that would come to be a part of the carefully cultivated collections Top Tier Gifts features today.
Her vision began while working for an established Pike Place Market business, where she created a custom gift-building department from scratch. After seeing how successfully her efforts took off, she decided to start her own business, where she could expand her love of local craft goods and gifts.
With a natural talent for organization, creativity bursting at the seams, and a lifelong dedication to bring joy to others, getting to showcase these traits every day through her own business has been a dream come true.
When she's not working, Allison enjoys running, hiking, watching basketball games with the hubs, and taking care of her 50+ plant babies, as well as her dwarf lionhead bunny named Moo.
Tara Warolin
Tara has known Allison since junior high, though it would take a number of years, and an eclectic work background that kept her traveling, before she would get to reconnect on a deeper level and join the Top Tier Gifts team.
Having graduated college with a Graphic Design and Communications degree, Tara became the senior graphic designer for Little i Confections. From there, she moved to L.A. for eight years to act, co-starring in roles in film and television before starting a new career as a flight attendant based in Houston, TX. Unfortunately, fate (and a pandemic) would have it that her flight attendant career would come to a halt–but luckily her new career at Top Tier Gifts was just beginning!
Tara has always been a creative person, with a passion for music, art, and film. Thus, getting to utilize her passions through photography at TTG, as well as using her creative eye with every gift assembled, was a natural next step.
Working for small businesses has always felt more meaningful to her, as it's easier to make deeper, more personal connections and relationships with those with whom you work. Being able to use her talents as a means of connecting people, as well as helping the business grow even more successful than before, has been amazing!
Outside of work, Tara continues her passion for creativity through photographing mostly nature and everyday life, and loves to go hiking whenever she can.
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Julia Hjelte
Julia has been a writer since she was eight years old, submitting pieces to the Reading Rainbow Young Writers and Illustrators Contest. She would later earn a degree in Creative Writing, though for some time, writing continued to be a hobby (though a daily, passionate one), rather than a vocation.
As with most artists, she earned her income not through her art, but by working in the service industry, eventually landing a job in the wine industry at a business near Pike Place Market–where she would first meet Allison!
Julia got to watch almost daily Allison progress from just having begun her own gift department working for someone else, to developing her very own business and now working for herself! Meanwhile, Julia was gaining a deeper knowledge of wine, as well as beginning to write blog posts for her employer's company.
She would eventually find herself working at a wine bar on Capitol Hill, where she now writes monthly newsletters for the bar's multi-tiered wine membership. When she was then hired by Allison not only as the content writer for the Top Tier Gift website, but also to help with production, it felt like a match made in heaven!
Julia couldn't be happier to get to work with one of the most thoughtful people she knows, while doing the thing that she loves: Writing! Getting to support a company that genuinely believes in community, as well as leaving the world better than you found it, has been incredible.
When not serving wine or content writing, you'll find Julia wine tasting, hiking, reading, or writing her very first high fantasy novel.
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Pistons bounced by Hill, Pacers
Hill returns for Indiana and scores 20 in Indiana's victory over Detroit
Pistons bounced by Hill, Pacers Hill returns for Indiana and scores 20 in Indiana's victory over Detroit Check out this story on battlecreekenquirer.com: http://bcene.ws/1D0AfDs
Published 10:55 p.m. ET Feb. 4, 2015
Indiana's George Hill (3) drives to the basket against Detroit's D.J. Augustin (14) on Wednesday night in Indianapolis.(Photo: Brian Spurlock-USA TODAY Sports)
INDIANAPOLIS – George Hill returned to the starting lineup and contributed 20 points and six assists, leading the Indiana Pacers over the Detroit Pistons 114-109 Wednesday night.
Hill made just his fourth start of the season, and first in six games after being sidelined by a strained left groin. Slowed by a knee injury, he's been limited to 11 games.
Roy Hibbert had 16 points and 12 rebounds and C.J. Miles added 15 points for the Pacers.
Andre Drummond had 18 points and 16 rebounds, and Greg Monroe scored 16 for the Pistons. Detroit had won the first two meetings against Indiana this season.
Miles made back-to-back 3-pointers that helped give the Pacers a 102-96 lead, and they led the rest of the way.
The Pacers went on a 17-2 run in the third quarter to take a 70-58 lead.
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•WEDNESDAY: Indiana 114, Detroit 109.
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With Hill starting again, Indiana looked for him to have an immediate impact. He delivered with a basket and a 3 that gave the Pacers a 5-0 lead.
Monroe scored just before halftime to give the Pistons a 49-48 lead at the break.
After Indiana's big run early in the second half, the Pistons went on a 10-2 run late in the third quarter to get back within two.
John Lucas III hit a 3-pointer and Anthony Tolliver made another to make 74-72 with 1:31 remaining in the third quarter.
Pistons: Detroit began the day with an average of 8.7 3-pointers per game, the highest rate in team history. The Pistons shot 12 of 24 on 3s, and the Pacers were even better at 12 of 21.
Pacers: Indiana wore Flo-Jo jerseys as part of the NBA's Hardwood Classics program. The Pacers wore the jerseys throughout the 1990s and will wear them in six games this season.
Pistons: Host Nuggets on Friday.
Pacers: Host Cavaliers on Friday.
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Who Will Win 49ers vs. Vikings? AI Predicts
Will it be a ransacking?
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Jimmy Garoppolo is undefeated as a starting quarterback for the 49ers, and his head coach Kyle Shanahan will look to give him freedom against Minnesota's defense on Sunday at Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara, California. On the opposite side of the ball, Kirk Cousins has been added to the Vikings offense. The addition of an elite player, one that Washington fans are sure to miss, should be the Vikings gain this season.
To predict the result of this Week 1 match-up, Unanimous A.I. used what's known as swarm intelligence to forecast the week's slate. About 50 NFL worked together as a hive mind to make picks. As you can see in the animation below, each participant controlled a little golden magnet and used it to drag the puck toward the answer they thought was the most likely outcome. As the users saw the puck move toward a particular outcome, it triggers a psychological response. They readjust their decision-making, building toward a consensus.
The swarm has low confidence that the Vikings will defeat the 49ers away.
It's a close call, but the hive-mind of 34 NFL experts is 72 percent confident it has low confidence that Minnesota will win Week<|fim_middle|> its ability to forecast games in the National Hockey League. In a 200-game, 20-week-long study of its Swarm AI in the NHL, it was able to easily outperform Las Vegas expectations, and its "Pick of the Week" was right 85 percent of the time, producing a 170 percent ROI. The paper, titled "Artificial Swarm Intelligence versus Vegas Betting Markets," was presented at the at the IEEE Developments in eSystems Engineering Conference (DeSE 2018) this month at Downing College in Cambridge, England. In a press release issued with the study, co-author Gregg Wilcox says the technology can be applied to matters outside sports, too. "While it's fun to predict sports, we are currently applying the same techniques to a wide variety of other domains, including financial forecasting, business forecasting, and medical diagnosis, all with positive results."
Want to join the hive mind that picks NFL matches every week? Sign up to participate in future predictions | 1 at home. the 49ers play the Vikings at 1 p.m. Eastern on Sunday. The game is on Fox.
Unanimous A.I. has made some scarily accurate predictions in the past using swarm intelligence, as our previous article explains. For instance, the swarm picked this year's Oscar winners with 94 percent accuracy. Here's Unanimous A.I. founder Louis Rosenberg explaining swarm intelligence at a recent TEDx Talk.
In related news, Unanimous A.I. recently presented a scientific study of | 110 |
Home News Bitcoin ABC Lead Developer Amaury Séchet: Post Fork, Lawsuit, BCH's Future
Bitcoin ABC Lead Developer Amaury Séchet: Post Fork, Lawsuit, BCH's Future
CoinSpice was able to snag the lead developer for Bitcoin ABC, a team dedicated to bringing peer-to-peer electronic money to the world in the form of Bitcoin Cash (BCH), Amaury Séchet, for a wide-ranging podcast interview. It has been a hell of a year for him, and he's now thrust into the crypto celebrity sphere rather reluctantly it seems. On this episode of Milk, listeners will get a sense of where Séchet is at just two months after the chain split of 15 November last year. Whether you're an investor, code geek, political junky, BCH fan, Séchet's work and mindset is<|fim_middle|> taken up too much of his time, we'd find another avenue to chat about. I hope that makes for interesting listening. In any event, he was fun to speak with and I think our conversation will help settle some nerves out there. | important to know.
Bitcoin ABC Lead Developer Amaury Séchet Speaks!
Some people really love attention. They like being in the general mix, enjoy attributions and a kind of celebrity importance. I've long had the sense Amaury Séchet is not one of those people.
He's an engineer, a software developer, and seems to prefer that mode. His work in Bitcoin Cash, however, has changed all of that. He's now a hero, a villian, or guru depending on who is analyzing his contributions to the space.
Without a doubt, he was a pioneer in the most successful fork of Bitcoin Core (BTC) thus far. Safe to write that had Séchet not been around during the scaling debate, much of what we have come to know as Bitcoin Cash would have never happened.
More Than Just Controversies and Code
For that reason alone, he's important. Since then, however, he's taken on greater significance in the BCH road map. He's seen as a main thought leader in how to proceed with incorporating larger blocks while maintaining network integrity.
In this episode, listeners will get a sense of the man, how he sees the world. We don't just talk about controversies and code. We also discuss his hobbies and how economics is playing a greater role in helping to better understand our relationship to one another.
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About 6 cm (2.4 in) high and 4,5 cm (1.8 in) wide with sport weight cotton yarn and a 1,75 mm crochet hook.
You should know how to crochet single crochet stitches (double crochet in the UK), start a piece with an adjustable loop, increase, decrease, finish a closed piece, and hide yarn tails. If you have not mastered them yet, take a look at my tutorials library.
Yarn. I used sport weight cotton yarn, 125 m = 50 g (135 yd = 50 g) / 4 ply / 14 wpi (Madame Tricote "Camilla", Steinbach Wolle "Capri"), but any yarn can be used. You will need about 6-10 g of yarn for each egg.
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ADISA responded and provided feedback on the 2018 Examination Findings issued by FINRA last month. ADISA routinely submits comment letters and related submissions in response to industry-related initiatives undertaken by regulators at the federal and state levels, and engages in frequent dialogue with legislators and regulators in order to supply them with useful information about alternative investments and their use in client portfolios.
While the report will provide FINRA members with a sense of what the organization is seeing in the course of its examination program, the report could be further enhanced by clearly prioritizing or characterizing its observations, as well as identifying the standards FINRA used in determining whether to include an observation in the report.
Within the topics covered, ADISA believes that it would prove useful for FINRA to include information about potential solutions or steps that members<|fim_middle|>, if any, between FINRA's beginning-of-year examination priorities and observations made in the course of a calendar of examinations.
The letter was drafted by Catherine Bowman, The Bowman Law Firm, chair of ADISA's Legislative & Regulatory Committee; Larry Sullivan, Passco Companies, vice-chair of ADISA's Legislative & Regulatory Committee; and John Grady, DLA Piper, ADISA Board of Directors member. It was signed by ADISA Executive Director John Harrison. | used or may use to address shortcomings and other problems observed.
ADISA also believes that providing greater clarity around FINRA's standards used for including an observation in the report would lead to fewer instances of the report's conclusions being "sensationalized" in the press and elsewhere.
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Belay, A., G. Prekas, M. Primorac, A. Klimovic, S. Grossman, C. Kozyrakis, and E. Bugnion, "The IX Operating System: Combining Low Latency, High Throughput, and Efficiency in a Protected Dataplane", ACM Trans. Comput. Syst., vol. 34, no. 4, New York, NY, USA, ACM, pp. 11:1–11:39, 2016. Download: 2016.ix_.tocs_.pdf (1.18 MB)
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Delimitrou, C., S. Sankar, K. Vaid, and C. Kozyrakis, "Decoupling Datacenter Studies from Access to Large-Scale Applications: A Modeling Approach for Storage Workloads", IEEE International Symposium on Workload Characterization (IISWC), Austin, TX, 11/2011. Download: paper (3.25 MB); slides (2.07 MB)
Delimitrou, C., S. Sankar, A. Kansal, and C. Kozyrakis, "ECHO: Recreating Network Traffic Maps for Datacenters of Tens of Thousands of Servers", IEEE International Symposium on Workload Characterization (IISWC), San Diego, CA, 11/2012. Download: paper (8.76 MB); slides (4.22 MB)
Delimitrou, C., S. Sankar, K. Vaid, and C. Kozyrakis, "Storage I/O Generation and Replay for Datacenter Applications", IEEE International Symposium on Performance Analysis of Systems and Software (ISPASS), Austin, TX, 04/2011. Download: paper (260.56 KB)
Talbot, J., R. M. Yoo, and C. Kozyrakis, "Phoenix++: Modular MapReduce for Shared-memory Systems", Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on MapReduce and Its Applications, New York, NY, USA, ACM, pp. 9–16, 2011. Download: paper (756.45 KB)
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Artist Lynette Wallworth explains why finding meaning is an art and making meaning is art
Artist Lynette Wallworth on art that draws on lived experiences to become a tool for transformation in the lives of others.
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Artist and Crystal Award winner, Lynette Wallworth, describes how her work calls attention to moments happening on the periphery – such as individual moments of loss.
The capacity to see the narrative in the moment and to help to elevate it into meaning is what an artist does. This practice deeply relates to wellbeing.
This article is being published as part of the Centred-Self series, drawing on the voices of the Forum's Cultural Leaders to engage the perspective and leadership of artists to catalyse a culture of wellbeing for social change.
All of my work is based on true story, real people, the things of life. For those I have filmed, whose lived experiences become the heartbeat of a work, I have often explained that art is taking the personal and turning it around in such a way so that it reveals the universal. The gift from those who let their stories unfold in an artwork is that their lived experiences can become a tool for transformation in the lives of others. The capacity to see the narrative in the moment and to help to elevate it into meaning is what an artist does. In the art that comes from life the hyper local and the universal entwine, the unfolding drama happening in a far-off corner can have resonances that reverberate across the politics of nations.
One of the singular inspirations of my artistic life points to exactly this idea. It is Pieter Bruegel's painting Landscape with the Fall of Icarus, c1560 and the poem Auden wrote upon seeing the work in the Brussels museum where it<|fim_middle|> traveling to Memphis to see her Dad, and it was possible her Dad was dying. The man next to her, didn't engage her much in conversation. He was doing a sudoku puzzle. He had a whole book of puzzles. The flight was only about an hour and half long and as we descended the woman did what anyone who is anxious might do, she turned on her phone. I didn't notice, I only heard her moan and turning, saw the long text that I knew held the worst possible message for her. She put her head in her hands and wept. The man next to her asked if she was okay and she nodded without lifting her head, so he went back to doing his puzzle.
After a few minutes she turned and lent her head on the plane window, a tiny window covered with small droplets of winter night, her shoulders heaved, and she cried silently there.
The plane landed and everyone did what they do, grabbed their things and, impatient to be somewhere else quickly, left the plane. Except for her, because she was struggling. So, I waited and when the plane was emptying, I crossed the aisle and sat by her side. She cried and said, "I'm 63 it's not meant to feel like this." I said, "He was your Dad, and you are his child."
She cried as I helped her gather her things and we slowly left the plane. While we walked down that sad, badly lit airbridge, she sobbed softly, telling me she had recently taken on two jobs to pay for her father's chemotherapy and she had thought the chemo was working. She was in shock. By now the airline stewards had noticed us and one of them asked me if she need a wheelchair, I said yes and a lovely, kind, young man said he would not let her walk, even when she complained that she would be fine. He said, "You still have a long way to go, let me help you".
So, as he carefully pushed her towards the baggage claim where her children would be waiting, we walked behind her in a strange cortege that now included the flight crew. The stewards asked me if she was my friend and I said no. "She is just a woman I noticed on the plane, but she is going to remember this night forever and amidst those painful memories I want her to be able to recall, that on a plane full of strangers she was not alone. Someone noticed that worst thing in world had just happened.
Even in our most tired, busy and distracted days, there is always the opportunity to turn towards the one small thing that matters. That is the joy of art and life, there is always meaning to be made.
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In the painting, a seascape on a sunny day where someone fishes by the water's edge, the ploughman passes by with his cart and the shepherd gazes fixedly at the benign sky, in a far off edge a small pair of white legs have fallen into the green sea and are about to be submerged. That is Icarus. He of the story. Deadalus, his father, was an artist, he built the Labyrinth of Crete. Like many artists during times of political upheaval, Deadalus is imprisoned along with his son in order that he not share his artistic understandings with the public.
So, under this persecution Deadalus and Icarus attempt to flee. Deadalus builds mechanical, wax covered wings which they will use. Like many who have come after them, the refugees are attempting to escape in a shaky craft. Icarus, youth-filled, forgets his father's warning and flies too close to the sun, his waxen wings melt, and he ends his life, like many who have followed him, drowning in the unforgiving sea. In the painting, for all it's activity, no one notices.
Auden wrote of this work, "about suffering they were never wrong the old masters, how well they understood its human position, how it takes place while someone else is eating or opening a window or just walking dully along". He talks about "how everything turns away, quite leisurely from the disaster."
Pieter Bruegel, Landscape with the Fall of Icarus, c1560
That is why the painting inspires me. I have always understood that my work, is to try to call attention to a small moment, but perhaps the most significant thing, happening in a far-off quarter in a busy world. The thing that no-one is noticing. We cannot stop the world, so how do we draw attention to a moment of alteration, that might signify much.
Auden understands this challenge and writes of "the expensive, delicate ship that must have seen something amazing, a boy falling out of the sky, but has somewhere to get to, and sails calmly on." We know this is how much of life is lived. Our busy, personal perspectives draw us ever onward and, enmeshed in our own lives, we can miss world changing moments that slip by out of sight. I make my work the endeavour to pull attention towards the small, unfolding, essential drama that might be otherwise overlooked.
This "pointing to", is the stuff of my work, but an alertness to these moments has trained me, and so it is also, the stuff of my life. I am in some way, always in the painting looking for the event. That is where the ritual and ceremony of making art and making meaning, becomes a useful practice.
A few years ago, I was travelling to Memphis to show Collisions, my VR work, at a film festival there. My travel took me from LA to Denver, then a brief change of carrier for a late-night flight from Denver to Memphis. As we lined up to board, I noticed a woman ahead of me, something in her demeanour caught my focus and I paid attention.
When we boarded, I was in the same row as her but across the aisle and so I listened as she told her seat mate that she was | 745 |
Why not try something new this Saturday and join a 9:00 a.m. free Tai Chi class? The Dailey Method will be offering a free workout class at 10:00 a.m. which is another great opportunity to get the weekend off to a healthy start.
Come to the Market ready to stock up on produce because it's National Farmers Market Week and we are celebrating! Three local farms will be at Market<|fim_middle|> p.m. in ChocolateTown Square Park — see you there!
Market on Chocolate would not be possible without the support of our sponsors. A special thank you to Shaner Hotels and Chafia Capital Partners for their support of Downtown Hershey's Life on Chocolate events. | with a large assortment of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and meat. Family-run farms depend on local markets to help support their families and stay in business, which means more fresh and delicious produce for you and your family. Thank you for shopping local, which helps these wonderful farmers to continue providing us with fresh food, for today and for the next generation.
We couldn't celebrate local Farmers Market Week without having something special planned for the kids. Prairie Fire Farm will be bringing some of their beautiful miniature horses to Market for their Downtown Hershey debut. Smiles will definitely be in store as children interact and visit with the "minis." If there wasn't already enough fun packed into this day, little ones can participate in a free make-and-take art project from SPLAT studio, face painting and activity games with UNITE Youth.
Emmanuel Nsingani and Momo Baz will be coming back to Downtown Hershey with their musical tunes that carry a strong flavor of traditional folkloric Congolese, elements of jazz, rock, pop, Latin, R&B, and world music. If you heard them play at Culturefest, you will remember what talented musicians they are! These artists will be bringing their exceptional sounds to a 12:00 – 2:00 p.m. set of live music.
Breakfast and lunch options will include delightful and tasty menu items from Chomp Chomp Food Truck, Grappling Crab Shack, 3Js Coffee, and Grandview Granola. Midstate Distillery and Olivero's Vineyard will also be there with great selections for the adults.
A line up of 28 vendors will have a unique collection of handcrafted products for you to browse and enjoy. Starting with candles and jewelry right through to guacamole and apparel items, there will definitely be a special find for everyone! For a complete list of our vendors and activities, visit our August calendar.
It's going to be a fun day! Market runs from 10:00 a.m. until 2:00 | 416 |
JUNE 12: NIGERIANS WOULD NOT TOLERATE INJUSTICE AGAIN- BUHARI
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L-R; President Buhari Presenting MKO Abiola's Post Humor Award as the President-Elect for June 12 Presidential Election to Mr. Kola Abiola, Son of the Late Politician.
REMARKS BY HIS EXCELLENCY MUHAMMADU BUHARI PRESIDENT OF THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA AT THE COMMEMORATION AND INVESTITURE HONOURING THE HEROES OF JUNE 12 1993
WEDNESDAY 12TH JUNE, 2018
Today, I am very happy to be present and to preside over the Commemoration and Investiture, marking the formal official Federal Government recognition of June 12 as National Democracy Day.
2. The decision and this event is not meant to be and is not an attempt to open old wounds but to put right a national wrong. Nigerians of their own free will voted for Late Chief MKO Abiola and Amb. Baba Gana Kingibe, the Presidential flag bearer and running mate of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) in the 1993 elections. The Government of the day inexplicably cancelled the elections when it was clear who were going to be the winners.
3. We cannot rewind the past but we can at least assuage our feelings; recognize that a wrong has been committed and resolve to stand firm now and in the future for the sanctity of free elections. Nigerians would no longer tolerate such perversion of justice.
This retrospective and posthumous recognition is only a symbolic token of redress and recompense for the grievous injury done to the peace and unity of our country.
4. Our decision to recognize and honour June 12 and its actors is in the national interest. It is aimed at setting national healing process and reconciliation of the 25 year festering wound caused by the annulment of the June 12th elections. I earnestly invite all Nigerians across all our national divide to accept it in good faith.
5. Our action today is to bury the negative side of June 12, the side of ill-feelings, hate, frustrations and agony. What we are doing is celebrating and appreciating the positive side of June 12. The June 12, which restate democracy and freedom. The June 12 that overcome our various divide and the June 12 that produced unity and National cohesion. This is the June 12 we are celebrating today and we will nurture it to our next generation.
6. Accordingly, on behalf of the Federal Government, I tender the nation's apology to the family of Late MKO Abiola, who got the highest votes and to those that lost their loved ones in the cause of June 12 struggle.
7. At this juncture, Ladies and Gentlemen, I would like everybody present to stand and observe a minute silence in honour of the memory of Chief MKO Abiola and Chief Fawehinmi and indeed all those who lost their lives in the struggle of June 12 1993.
Thank you all and God bless Federal Republic of Nigeria
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A dedicated residence manager, a chef-on-call and a personal assistant are assigned exclusively to each private residence to welcome on arrival and are at the guests' full disposal and service. Taking care to note the daily preferences and habits of their residents, the team is never intrusive, yet are always present to ensure a truly enjoyable stay is experienced. The team is on hand to assist with restaurant reservations, private transfers, excursions and activities, spa treatments, special gifts to add to any celebration such as champagne, wines, birthday cakes and flower arrangements or any additional requests. | private residences, each with its unique charms and patios, lie nestled in a forest of pine and cork trees between Sierra Bermeja and Sierra Palmitera, along the road to Ronda. Situated within El Madroñal, one of the most desirable residential communities in Benahavis, both the MUSE Casa Marbella residences offer exclusive accommodation for guests to explore, connect, celebrate or simple relax and rejuvenate. Protected by round-the-clock security and | 95 |
Q: Extracting a scraped list into new columns I have this code (borrowed from an old question posted ont his site)
import pandas as pd
import json
import numpy as np
from selenium import webdriver
driver = webdriver.Chrome()
driver.get("https://www.baseball-reference.com/leagues/MLB/2013-finalyear.shtml")
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
doc = BeautifulSoup(driver.page_source, "html.parser")
#(The table has an id, it makes it more simple to target )
batting = doc.find(id='misc_batting')
careers = []
for row in batting.find_all('tr')[1:]:
dictionary = {}
dictionary['names'] = row.find(attrs = {"data-stat": "player"}).text.strip()
dictionary['experience'] = row.find(attrs={"data-stat": "experience"}).text.strip()
careers.append(dictionary)
Which generates a result like this:
[{'names': 'David Adams', 'experience': '1'}, {'names': 'Steve Ames', 'experience': '1'}, {'names': 'Rick Ankiel', 'experience': '11'}, {'names': 'Jairo Asencio', 'experience': '4'}, {'names': 'Luis Ayala', 'experience': '9'}, {'names': 'Brandon Bantz', 'experience': '1'}, {'names': 'Scott Barnes', 'experience': '2'}, {'names':
How do I create this into a column separated dataframe like this?
Names Experience
David Adams 1
A: Simply pass your list of dicts (careers) to pandas.DataFrame() to get your expected result.
Example
import pandas as pd
careers = [{'names': 'David Adams', 'experience': '1'}, {'names': 'Steve Ames', 'experience': '1'}, {'names': 'Rick Ankiel', 'experience': '11'}, {'names': 'Jairo Asencio', 'experience': '4'}, {'names': 'Luis Ayala', 'experience': '9'}, {'names': 'Brandon Bantz', 'experience': '1'}, {'names': 'Scott Barnes', 'experience': '2'}]
pd.DataFrame(careers)
Output
names
experience
David Adams
1
Steve Ames
1
Rick Ankiel
11
Jairo Asenc<|fim_middle|> bit with pandas. Have it pull the table, then you just want the Names and Yrs columns.
import pandas as pd
url = "https://www.baseball-reference.com/leagues/MLB/2013-finalyear.shtml"
df = pd.read_html(url, attrs = {'id': 'misc_batting'})[0]
df_filter = df[['Name','Yrs']]
If you need to rename those columns, add:
df_filter = df_filter.rename(columns={'Name':'names','Yrs':'experience'})
Output:
print(df_filter)
names experience
0 David Adams 1
1 Steve Ames 1
2 Rick Ankiel 11
3 Jairo Asencio 4
4 Luis Ayala 9
.. ... ...
209 Dewayne Wise 11
210 Ross Wolf 3
211 Kevin Youkilis 10
212 Michael Young 14
213 Totals 1357
[214 rows x 2 columns]
| io
4
Luis Ayala
9
Brandon Bantz
1
Scott Barnes
2
A: You can simplify this quite a | 30 |
From the stork
Rod and Samantha Dudley, of Lochbuie, welcome a son, Wyatt James Dudley.
Wyatt was born July 4, 2009, at Good Samaritan Hospital in Lafayette. He weighed 7 pounds, 15 ounces and measured 20 ½ inches.
Paternal grandparents are Kris and Shirley Dudley, of Brighton, and two great-grandmas, Patsy Dudley, of Commerce City, and Jean Laas, of Brighton. Maternal grandparents are Jack and Lisa Stieber, of Delta, and great-grandparents are Jim and Maxine Pugh, of Delta, and Rich and Marlene Stieber, of Fort Lupton.
Wyatt is welcomed by sister, Cydni.
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Yuridia Mendez and Jorge Rodriguez, of Brighton, announce the birth of their daughter, Abigail Rodriquez Mendez.
Abigail was born July 27, 2009, at Platte Valley Medical Center. She weighed 7 pounds, 11 ounces and measured 20 inches.
Abigail's grandparents are Eva and Angel Mendez, and Maria and Ignacio Rodriguez, all of Brighton.
Abigail joins sibling, Osvaldo, 2, at home.
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Frederiksen-Hart wed
Lauren Elizabeth Frederiksen and Truitt Ray Hart were married June 6, 2009, at Brookside Gardens in Berthoud.
The bride is the daughter of Nancy and Chuck Wilkinson, of Burns, Wyo., and Bruce Frederiksen, of Loveland. She graduated from Fort Lupton High School in 2002 and earned a bachelor of science degree in agricultural education from Colorado State University in 2006. Lauren teaches at the Career Development Center in Longmont.
Tracy and William Lynch, of Lochbuie, announce the birth of their daughter, Amiah Lynch.
Amiah was born June 20, 2009, at Platte Valley Medical Center. She weighed 6 pounds, 4 ounces and measured 19 ½ inches.
Amiah's grandparents are Rick and Andi Pennetta, of Brighton, and Carol Hullet, of Little Rock, Ark.
Amiah joins sibling, Amber, 16, at home.
Blanca Garcia, of Brighton, announces the birth of her son, Carlos Yvann Garcia. | About 40 people enjoyed the food and fellowship. The alumni association awarded two $1,000 scholarships to graduating seniors from the class of 2009. Zachary Nash, who will be attending Fort Hays State University in Hays, Kan., and Lauren Rausch, who will be attending South Dakota State University in Brookings S.D., received the scholarships.
Krull-Ferguson wed
Alexis Krull and Scott Ferguson were married June 20, 2009, at the Community Lutheran Church in Hill City, S.D. Alexis is the daughter of Dennis and Kim Krull, of Hill City. She graduated from Hill City High School in 2004 and earned a bachelor of science degree in business from Black Hills State University in Spearfish, S.D., in 2008, where she was a member of the women's basketball team. Ferguson is the son of Walter and Toni Grant, of Fort Lupton.
Lorena Montoya and Arturo Huerta, of Brighton, announce the birth of their son, Arturo Abran Huerta.
Arturo was born July 13, 2009, at Platte Valley Medical Center. He weighed 7 pounds, 7 ounces and measured 20 inches.
Arturo's grandparents are Lawrence and Veronica Montoya, of Brighton, Loretta Montoya, of Macon, Ga., Fidelia Lopez, of Fort Lupton, and Lorenzo Huerta, of El Paso, Texas.
Arturo joins sibling, Angelique, 9, at home.
Alexis Krull and Scott Ferguson were married June 20, 2009, at the Community Lutheran Church in Hill City, S.D.
Alexis is the daughter of Dennis and Kim Krull, of Hill City. She graduated from Hill City High School in 2004 and earned a bachelor of science degree in business from Black Hills State University in Spearfish, S.D., in 2008, where she was a member of the women's basketball team.
Willy and Heather Taylor, of Fort Lupton, along with their three boys, William, Weston and Walker, welcomed another son and brother into the family.
Wyatt Dalton Taylor was born July 8, 2009, at Presbyterian/St. Luke's Hospital weighing 7 lbs. 14 oz. and measuring 20 inches.
Maternal grandparents are Bonnie and Ed Kovtynovich, and Jim and Marsha Hunt. Maternal great-grandparents are Bill and Ann McQueary and Geraldine Mayfield. Paternal grandparents are Bill Taylor, Bonnie Talbert, and Bill and Betty Taylor-Carton.
MetroWest Newspapers employee Bret Baker and his wife, Shay, welcomed an addition to the family.
Ellye Marie Baker was born April 28, 2009, at Platte Valley Medical Center. She weighed 6 pounds, 13 ounces and measured 19 ½ inches.
Ellye's grandparents are Chuck and Vickie Denny, of Aurora, and Dorie Baker, of Brighton.
Ellye's two big sisters, Alyc, 8, and Jaycie, 3, welcomed her home.
Frenzen
Linsey Hatton and Rick Frenzen, of Longmont, welcome a son, Caden | 696 |
Freeman Street, Grimsby, at the junction with Wellington Street.
The public was served by an electric tram service which ran from the Lincoln Arms to Welholme Road and the fare was a penny which took you to anywhere in the borough.
Freeman Street was an ever dusty thoroughfare, even after the advent of macadam roads and motor traffic. It was a constant job dusting in the shop and wiping down the windows.
It was a regular thing at five o'clock to see the trams leave the end of Freeman Street chock full of lumpers and others with five or six standing on the rear buffer.
The tram track had loops at intervals as it was only a single line.
On Freeman Street, I recall the Prince of Wales Hotel with a life-sized painting of the gentleman himself.
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I well remember that on Saturday nights Nelson's frozen meat shop would sell off its remaining meat at a shilling (5p) a stone.
Saturday night was a night out and Freeman Street was crowded with shoppers.
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The post office in 1905 was not in Cleethorpe Road, but at Moore's chemists shop at the corner of Kent Street.
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I must quote some of the prices of things in 1905 – a good strong cotton shirt, 2s 6d; all-wool cashmere socks, 1s; ties from 6½d; braces 6½d, grey worsted socks as worn by fishermen 6½d.
Between Dyburn's and the Freemasons' was a passage which gave access to the rear of the Telegraph premises among others.
On Saturday evenings during the season, football fans used to gather there waiting for the Football Telegraph.
A blind man named Parrott used to come out of this passage with as many Telegraphs as he could carry.
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A brewpub, operated by Pizza Man restaurants' owners, will be part of Milwaukee Brewing<|fim_middle|>70,000-square-foot building, along N. 8th St., has been converted into a self-storage center operated by Extra Space Storage. That portion of the building is separately owned. | Co.'s new development at downtown's former Pabst complex.
The brewpub, which isn't yet named, would include a large room for weddings, corporate meetings and other events, said Scott Lurie, who owns the building.
Sarah and Zach Baker, who operate the local Pizza Man group, will manage the restaurant, which Lurie described as an updated version of Milwaukee Ale House.
The Ale House is a Historic Third Ward brewpub where Milwaukee Brewing Co. got its start in 1997.
The new restaurant will focus on Milwaukee Brewing's brands but will feature other beers, Lurie said.
The 10,000-square-foot restaurant will include the 3,800-square-foot private room, as well as an outdoor deck overlooking downtown from its hillside location on N. 9th St., between W. Juneau and W. Highland avenues.
It will likely open by late summer, Lurie said Thursday.
Lurie's investment group, Bull & A Boy LLC, is seeking a $500,000 loan from nonprofit business lender Milwaukee Economic Development Corp. to help finance the $3 million restaurant project.
Those funds would be used to buy equipment and furnishings, and provide working capital. The restaurant is expected to open with 40 full-time and 60 part-time employees, according to the MEDC.
The restaurant will be adjacent to Milwaukee Brewing's new brewery, which is under construction.
That will become the main brewery for the company, which will continue to operate its facility in the Walker's Point neighborhood.
Lurie also plans to develop offices in the upper portion of the building, which is Pabst Brewing Co.'s former distribution center.
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As the first bike designed, engineered and manufactured by Allied Cycle Works, the Alfa really set the ball rolling. Delivering performance and efficiency in bucketloads, the Alfa also champions simplicity and durability, something a lot of high-performance race bikes don't always do.
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Like the Alfa, the All-Road | 468 |
Pa. completes decade-long land acquisition, creating the biggest state park near Philadelphia
Catalina Jaramillo
Big Elk Creek in early spring in Elk Township, Pennsylvania. (Courtesy of Jerry Monkman
Southeast Pennsylvania has no shortage of nature.
There are a number of state parks open year-round for those who want to escape the hustle and bustle of urban life and the heavy heat of sweaty summer days — Benjamin Rush, Fort Washington, Neshaminy, Ridley Creek — just to name some near Philadelphia.
"But, by far, this is the largest parcel, the largest state park near Philadelphia, and the most pastoral, rural-feeling park as well," said Mike Redding, statewide manager for land projects and acquisitions for the Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources.
After 11 years of negotiations, Pennsylvania completed the acquisition of over 1,700 acres of land for preservation in southern Chester County. The new public space is connected to other parks in Maryland and Delaware, creating one of the largest undeveloped open areas in the mid-Atlantic, with about 8,000 acres available for recreation.
The decadelong project to expand the White Clay Creek Preserve was coordinated by The Conservation Fund, and funded by the Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources (DCNR), Chester County and Mt. Cuba Center, a botanical garden in Delaware.
The last portion of land, 978 acres, was purchased this week for $16.2 million from the previous owner, George Strawbridge Jr., an educator, philanthropist, and heir and former board member of the Campbell Soup company. In 2009, the same public-private group bought 735 acres.
Big Elk Creek and hay fields in early spring in Elk Township, Pennsylvania. (Courtesy of Jerry Monkman)
Redding said the biggest attraction of the park, which expands north from what's known as the Big Elk Creek section of the White Clay Creek Preserve, is that it's quiet and not developed, yet very close to big cities like Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore. The Springlawn Trail, which is 2.5 miles and has some smaller trails that lead to Big Elk Creek, is a good way to get a glimpse of it, he said.
"A very short trip would get you out into a … feeling of being in nature,<|fim_middle|> from sunrise to sunset and allows biking, hiking, horseback riding, hunting and swimming. There are no overnight facilities. Limited parking is available for the Springlawn Trail along route 841 and on Strickersville Road.
Preserving Our Water: How we use our Delaware Watershed.
The project is funded by The William Penn Foundation.
Pa. offers First Day Hikes statewide, to get more people outside and active in the new year
The Department of Conservation and Natural Resources plans more than 40 free, guided hikes at dozens of state parks on Jan. 1.
Wissahickon Valley Park is getting more bathrooms
The Friends of the Wissahickon is working with architects on a master plan that aims to bring new bathroom facilities to the sprawling forest park.
Guided hikes and movie nights: A fall 2021 guide to exploring Philly's parks
As the delta variant drives a surge in new COVID-19 cases, the outdoor recreation boom may continue. Here's a guide to exploring Philly's parks this fall.
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@cjaramillo cjaramillo@whyy.org | and the ability to go for a walk in the coolest of the shade of trees and maybe perhaps go to Big Elk Creek and take a dip in the water, or fish, or birdwatch or just relax," Redding said. "And go for an afternoon for picnicking, something of that nature."
The park is habitat for 690 plant species, 15 of them considered endangered or rare in Pennsylvania, including three varieties of orchids and a species of trillium. Deer, rabbits and birds coexist with rarer species such as the regal fritillary butterfly and short-eared owl. It contains a section of the Big Elk Creek, a tributary to the Elk River and Chesapeake Bay, as well as 2.1 miles of the Mason-Dixon line along the Pennsylvania/Maryland state border.
The property includes about 190 acres of flood plains, 600 acres of woodlands, 100 acres of native grass meadows and 800 acres of farmlands. It's also connected to the adjacent 5,565-acre Fair Hill Natural Resource Management Area in Maryland and other lands with conservation easements.
Blaine Phillips, mid-Atlantic director for The Conservation Fund, said preserving a large landscape like this was very complex: It required many partners and years of negotiations.
It's crucial to an area that is getting overdeveloped.
"It was really a matter of time before houses were going to pop up in these fields," Phillips said. "What we're realizing is that we don't have many opportunities like this left in Chester County. This is one of the largest privately owned pieces left, and keeping it intact is not only important for wildlife and recreation, but also for things like flood prevention and making sure we have good clean water sources downstream."
Phillips, who has been coordinating the project for the last 11 years, said the more land is preserved, the better-prepared the region is for future impacts of climate change.
Pennsylvania's DCNR contributed $5 million to the project. Chester County committed another $5 million to the funding and Mt. Cuba Center committed $6.25 million.
"As pressure from development, climate change and other threats pose unprecedented risks for biodiversity, one of the most important things we can do to support flora and fauna is to conserve open space and the habitats it comprises," said Ann Rose, Mt. Cuba Center's president in a press release.
The park is free and open every day of the year | 515 |
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I. The Origins of Intellectual Assessment
1. A History of Intelligence Assessment: The Unfinished Tapestry, John D. Wasserman
2. A History of Intelligence Test Interpretation, Randy W. Kamphaus, Anne Pierce Winsor, Ellen W. Rowe,and Sangwon Kim
II. Contemporary Theoretical Perspectives
3. Foundations for Better Understanding of Cognitive Abilities, John L. Horn and Nayena Blankson
4. The Cattell–Horn–Carroll (CHC) Model of Intelligence, W. Joel Schneider and Kevin S. McGrew
5. Assessment of Intellectual Profile: A Perspective from Multiple-Intelligences Theory, Jie-Qi Chen andHoward Gardner
6. The Triarchic Theory of Successful Intelligence, Robert J. Sternberg
7. Planning, Attention, Simultaneous, Successive (PASS): A Cognitive Processing–Based Theory of Intelligence, Jack A. Naglieri, J. P. Das, and Sam Goldstein
III. Contemporary Intelligence, Cognitive, and Neuropsychological Batteries (and Associated Achievement Tests)
8. The Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale–Fourth Edition (WAIS-IV) and the Wechsler Memory Scale–Fourth Edition (WMS-IV), Lisa Whipple Drozdick, Dustin Wahlstrom, Jianjun Zhu, and Lawrence G. Weiss
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20. Cognitive Hypothesis Testing (CHT): Linking Test Results to the Real World, Catherine A. Fiorello, James B. Hale, and Kirby L. Wycoff
21. Processing Approaches to Interpreting Information from Cognitive Ability Tests: A Critical Review,Randy G. Floyd and John H. Kranzler
22. Testing with Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Populations: Moving beyond the Verbal–Performance Dichotomy into Evidence-Based Practice, Samuel O. Ortiz, Salvador Hector Ochoa, and Agnieszka M. Dynda
23. Linking Cognitive Abilities to Academic Interventions for Students with Specific Learning Disabilities (SLD), Nancy Mather and Barbara J. Wendling
V. Assessment of Intelligence and Cognitive Functioning in Different Populations
24. Cognitive Assessment in Early Childhood: Theoretical and Practical Perspectives, Laurie Ford, Michelle L. Kozey, and Juliana Negreiros
25. Use of Intelligence Tests in the Identification of Giftedness, David E. McIntosh, Felicia A. Dixon, andEric E. Pierson
26. Use of Ability Tests in the Identification of Specific Learning Disabilities (SLD) within the Context of an Operational Definition, Dawn P. Flanagan, Vincent C. Alfonso, Jennifer T. Mascolo, and Marlene Sotelo-Dynega
27. Assessment of Intellectual Functioning in Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), Laura Grofer Klinger, Sarah E. O'Kelley, Joanna L. Mussey, Sam Goldstein, and Melissa DeVries
28. Cognitive and Neuropsychological Assessment of ADHD: Redefining a Disruptive Behavior Disorder,James B. Hale, Megan Yim, Andrea N. Schneider, Gabrielle Wilcox, Julie N. Henzel, and Shauna G. Dixon
29. Intellectual and Neuropsychological Assessment of Individuals with Sensory and Physical Disabilities and Traumatic Brain Injury, Scott L. Decker, Julia A. Englund, and Alycia M. Roberts
30. Use of Intelligence Tests in the Identification of Children with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (IDD), Kathleen Armstrong, Jason Hangauer, and Joshua Nadeau
VI. Contemporary and Emerging Issues in Intellectual Assessment
31. Using Joint Test Standards to Evaluate the Validity Evidence for Intelligence Tests, Jeffery P. Bradenand Bradley C. Niebling
32. Using Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA) to Aid in Understanding the Constructs Measured by Intelligence Tests, Timothy Z. Keith and Matthew R. Reynolds
33: The Emergence of Neuropsychological Constructs into Tests of Intelligence and Cognitive Abilities,Daniel C. Miller and Denise E. Maricle
34. The Role of Cognitive and Intelligence Tests in the Assessment of Executive Functions, Denise E. Maricle and Erin Avirett
35. Intelligence Tests in the Context of Emerging Assessment Practices: Problem-Solving Applications,Rachel Brown-Chidsey and Kristina J. Andren
36. Intellectual, Cognitive, and Neuropsychological Assessment in Three-Tier Service Delivery Practices in Schools, George McCloskey, James Whitaker, Ryan Murphy, and Jane Rogers
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10. The Stanford–Binet Intelligence Scales, Fifth Edition (SB5), Gale H. Roid and Mark Pomplun
11. The Kaufman Assessment Battery for Children–Second Edition (KABC-II) and the Kaufman Test of Educational Achievement–Second Edition (KTEA-II), Jennie Kaufman Singer, Elizabeth O. Lichtenberger, James C. Kaufman, Alan S. Kaufman, and Nadeen L. Kaufman
12. The Woodcock–Johnson III Normative Update (WJ III NU): Tests of Cognitive Abilities and Tests of Achievement, Fredrick A. Schrank and Barbara J. Wendling
13. The Differential Ability Scales–Second Edition (DAS-II), Colin D. Elliott
14. The Universal Nonverbal Intelligence Test (UNIT): A Multidimensional Nonverbal Alternative for Cognitive Assessment, R. Steve McCallum and Bruce A. Bracken
15. The Cognitive Assessment System (CAS): From Theory to Practice, Jack A. Naglieri and Tulio M. Otero
16. The Reynolds Intellectual Assessment Scales (RIAS) and the Reynolds Intellectual Screening Test (RIST), Cecil R. Reynolds, Randy W. Kamphaus, and Tara C. Raines
17. The NEPSY-II, Robb N. Matthews, Cynthia A. Riccio, and John L. Davis
18. The Wechsler Nonverbal Scale of Ability (WNV): Assessment of Diverse Populations, Jack A. Naglieriand Tulio M. Otero
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Use Facebook and Instagram as extensions of your blog. For Facebook, you can create a detailed photo album for each listing. Unlike personal pages, your professional realtor Facebook page should be without any privacy restrictions. That way anyone in the general public can view what you have to offer, and your content is much easier to share.
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Any realtor will tell you that a large part of success in the industry is due to networking. Not everyone is looking for a house right at this moment, but perhaps in the future they will, or they may run across someone else who will. You want your name to be the first that comes to mind when the opportunity presents itself.
LinkedIn is a great social platform to connect with colleagues or people you've done business with in a more professional setting. As with the other social platforms discussed, LinkedIn is an extension of your blog. You want to get in on the conversation on LinkedIn. Join relevant and local real estate groups, respond to questions and mingle with other agents. Also publish your complete blog posts, because your articles become part of the LinkedIn feed and will be seen by many people.
Both Facebook and Google+ are great for interacting with potential leads. Google+ has a tool called Hangout where you can host a video conference. This would be a great way to impart real estate wisdom to potential homebuyers with an even more personal connection than your blog. With Google Hangout coffee shop meet-ups is a thing of the past. Also, this is a great way to meet with a larger number of people at once and not feel like you are taking that much time out of the day to do it.
First step for Facebook is that you should make it a point to have your own professional page for your real estate clients and colleagues to follow. As a part of the millennial generation, I can say for sure that most people my age are more likely to check Facebook before even going to Google. This can be because the ease of Facebook's search engine or just simply we are always on Facebook.
Facebook is another avenue where you can build the accessibility of your brand. You want to be a realtor that others come to for real estate advice and help. Linking back to your blog posts along with posting relevant curated content is how you establish that accessibility. Being a realtor relies on extremely responsive customer service, so you need to be visible and where your customers are.
After you become comfortable with your social media marketing you may want to add email marketing to the mix. You can develop your mailing list by offering a free report that is of interest to your audience in exchange for an email address. Advertising on the report on Facebook should result in a growing list of subscribers. Your content could be a newsletter, a personalized market report, or just notices of your new listings and sales.
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Matt Burke's latest single 'Missed My Chance' is a song about regret with an optimistic twist
Since moving to Nashville in 2019, Matt Burke has been working hard to develop his voice and sound as a solo performer and songwriter, after tragically losing his musical collaborator Leona Ellis to an undiagnosed illness. Ellis was the keys player for the Matt Burke Band and the pair had grown up together in Florida public school band programs since the 6th grade. Ellis' death marked the end of the Matt Burke Band era<|fim_middle|> eagerly awaited body of work to be released over the next year.
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Burke's new material shows sophistication and maturity as a singer-songwriter and invites comparisons to Chris Stapleton and early Zac Brown. He sings songs about love, family, traveling, loss and heartbreak, and his soulful, powerful voice captivates audiences across the country.
Matt Burke's latest single 'Missed My Chance' is a delightful song about a love affair coming to a premature end. The lyrics speak of heartache and drowning one's sorrows in a bar. The feeling is both a sombre one yet there's a glimmer of hope - 'tonight the beer is colder than it was before', but 'tonight feels like a chance to try something new'. By the third and fourth verses the speaker has well and truly realised that there might just be a fresh start on the horizon, with a blue-eyed beauty giving him the eye and the band playing something that's got him in the mood. There's an echo of what he hears as a sort of mise-en-scène at work; the instrumental middle eight of the single brings this image of the band to life.
With his voice discovered and sound defined, Matt Burke is poised to make a big mark in the Americana and Country music industries alike with an | 264 |
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ITG Reports Third Quarter 2016 Results
ITG.com – NEW YORK – ITG (NYSE:ITG), a leading independent broker and financial technology provider, today reported results for the quarter ended September 30, 2016.
Third Quarter 2016 Highlights
GAAP net loss of $23.9 million, or $0.73 per share compared to GAAP net income of $2.7 million, or $0.08 per share for the third quarter of 2015.
GAAP results for the third quarter of 2016 include the establishment of a reserve for the potential settlement of an SEC inquiry into activity involving pre-release American Depositary Receipts (ADRs). The firm discontinued transacting in pre-release ADRs in the fourth quarter of 2014. The settlement reserve of $22.1 million, together with related legal expenses of $1.6 million in the quarter, reduced after-tax earnings by $0.68 per share. A substantial portion of the reserve represents anticipated disgorgement of approximately $15 million in revenue for the period 2011 through the fourth quarter of 2014, as well as pre-judgment interest. The rest relates to an anticipated civil monetary penalty.
GAAP results for the third quarter of 2016 were also impacted by (i) a translation gain that was reclassified from equity to earnings upon the substantial wind-down of the Company's Israel entity, (ii) proceeds from an insurance claim for the recovery of previously expensed legal fees related to the arbitration settlement with ITG's former CEO and (iii) the amount expensed for upfront awards granted to ITG's current CEO. GAAP net income for the third quarter of 2015 includes legal and other fees related to the August 2015 SEC settlement of $2.5 million pre-tax, or $0.04 per share after taxes.
Adjusted net loss of $2.8 million, or $0.08 per share, compared to adjusted net income of $4.2 million, or $0.12 per share in the third quarter of 2015, in each case excluding the charges and gains listed above.
Revenues of $104.2 million, compared to revenues of $120.4 million in the third quarter of 2015.
GAAP expenses of $132.0 million and adjusted expenses of $109.7 million compared to GAAP expenses of $117.2 million and adjusted expenses of $114.7 million in the third quarter of 2015. Adjusted expenses exclude the charges and gains listed above.
Average daily trading volume in the U.S. of 116 million shares versus 152 million shares in the third quarter of 2015. POSIT® average daily U.S. volume was 45 million shares compared to 67 million shares in the third quarter of 2015. Total average daily U.S. volume traded through POSIT Alert® was 11 million shares, compared to 9 million shares in the third quarter of 2015.
In Europe, average daily value traded in POSIT was $857 million compared to $1.2 billion in the third quarter of 2015, including the effects of currency translation. Total average daily value traded through POSIT Alert in Europe increased 26% compared to the third quarter of 2015.
Repurchased 426,000 shares of common stock for a total of $7.2 million under ITG's authorized share repurchase program. Repurchases since the first quarter of 2010 have totaled $253 million for a total of 16.6 million shares, resulting in a decrease in shares outstanding, net of issuances, of more than 25%.
Commenting on the results, ITG President and Chief Executive Officer, Frank Troise, said, "We remain focused on executing on our strategic operating plan which includes investing in ITG's global capabilities in liquidity, execution, analytics<|fim_middle|> nine months of 2016 was $31.6 million, or $0.96 per share, and adjusted net loss was $1.7 million, or $0.05 per share.
For the first nine months of 2015, revenues were $410.6 million, GAAP net income was $9.2 million, or $0.26 per share, and adjusted net income was $32.3 million, or $0.92 per share.
To supplement our financial information presented in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the U.S. ("GAAP"), management uses certain "non-GAAP financial measures" as such term is defined in Regulation G promulgated by the SEC. Generally, a non-GAAP financial measure is a numerical measure of a company's operating performance, financial position or cash flows that excludes or includes amounts that are included in, or excluded from, the most directly comparable measure calculated and presented in accordance with GAAP. Management believes the presentation of these measures provides investors with greater transparency and supplemental data relating to our financial condition and results of operations, and therefore a more complete understanding of factors affecting our business than GAAP measures alone. In addition, management believes the presentation of these matters is useful to investors for period-to-period comparison of results as the items may reflect certain unique and/or non-operating items such as acquisitions, divestitures, restructuring charges, large write-offs, significant charges associated with litigation or regulatory matters together with related expenses or items outside of management's control.
Adjusted revenues, adjusted expenses, adjusted pretax (loss) income, adjusted income tax (benefit) expense, adjusted net (loss) income and adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA), together with related per share amounts, are non-GAAP performance measures that we believe are useful to assist investors in gaining an understanding of the trends and operating results for our core business. These measures should be viewed in addition to, and not in lieu of, results reported under GAAP.
Reconciliations of adjusted revenues, adjusted expenses, adjusted pre-tax (loss) income, adjusted income tax (benefit) expense, adjusted net (loss) income and adjusted EBITDA to revenues, expenses, (loss) income before income tax (benefit) expense, income tax (benefit) expense and net (loss) income and related per share amounts as determined in accordance with GAAP for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2016 and September 30, 2015, respectively, are provided in the accompanying supplemental tables at the end of this release.
Conference Call on 3Q16 Results
An investor conference call to discuss ITG's results will be held today at 8:00 am ET. Those wishing to listen to the call should dial 1-844-419-9270 (1-213-358-0776 outside the U.S.) and enter conference number 359 7794 at least 15 minutes prior to the start of the call to ensure connection.
The webcast and accompanying slideshow presentation will be available at: investor.itg.com. A replay will be available for one week by dialing 1-855-859-2056 (1-404-537-3406 outside the U.S.) and entering conference number 359 7794. The replay will be accessible approximately two hours after the completion of the conference call.
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"While much work lies ahead, with disciplined investment and a commitment to excellence, we will continue to focus our efforts on gaining significant market share. We are assembling a team to deliver world-class client solutions and significant value for our shareholders," he concluded.
Third Quarter Regional Segment Results
North American revenues were $62.5 million in the third quarter of 2016 compared to revenues of $80.9 million in the third quarter of 2015.
ITG reported a net loss of $4.8 million in North America in the third quarter of 2016, compared to net income of $2.4 million in the third quarter of 2015.
U.S. revenues were $48.8 million, compared to $66.0 million in the third quarter of 2015 including the impact of the research divestitures in December 2015 and May 2016.
Canada revenues were $13.7 million, compared to $14.9 million in the third quarter of 2015, including the impact of currency translation.
Europe and Asia Pacific revenues were $41.4 million in the third quarter of 2016 compared to $39.3 million in the third quarter of 2015, including the impact of currency translation.
ITG reported net income for its Europe and Asia Pacific operations of $4.7 million in the third quarter of 2016 compared to $3.6 million in the third quarter of 2015.
European revenues were $28.9 million in the third quarter of 2016 and $29.0 million in the third quarter of 2015, including the impact of currency translation.
Asia Pacific revenues were $12.5 million, up from $10.3 million in the third quarter of 2015.
Corporate activity reduced GAAP net income by $23.8 million in the third quarter of 2016, including the reserve for a potential resolution of the pre-release ADR matter and related legal fees in the quarter, the translation gain, the recovery of legal fees from insurance and the charges related to upfront awards to ITG's current CEO.
Corporate activity reduced GAAP net income by $3.3 million in the third quarter of 2015, including the legal and other related fees associated with the August 2015 SEC settlement.
Corporate activity includes investment income and non-operating gains, as well as costs not associated with operating ITG's regional and product group business lines including, costs of being a public company, intangible amortization, interest expense, costs of maintaining a global transfer pricing structure, foreign exchange gains and losses and certain non-operating items.
Year-to-Date Results
For the first nine months of 2016, revenues were $349.5 million and adjusted revenues were $347.0 million. GAAP net loss for the first | 660 |
There is one way to make artworks from our favorite artists become more affordable. I call this Taking-Turns Artwork project.
If there are two people, for example, putting money together, annually, at the beginning of the year to buy or commission an artwork, we already have a Taking-Turns Artwork project. At the end of the year, one person receives the artwork, and we have a celebration get-together. The second person, in turn, collects the second artwork the next year. We gather, wine and dine, admire our artwork, and celebrate art and culture. A Taking-Turns Artwork project like this becomes very appealing and doable. We spend less money each year, we do an incredible and a very meaningful thing every year, and we<|fim_middle|>s Artwork project. The more people join, the more money there is, the more appealing the project becomes, the more choices there are with types of artworks and duration of a turn, and the more fun we have.
I call this living with style.
The catch is you can only do this kind of project with people you trust! | each get one original painting every two years. If there are three people working together, it will be a 3-year Taking-Turn | 27 |
After the initial reactions following her death (the most precious being 10 lessons Toni Lane Casserly taught the world, written by her friend Lucian Tarnowski) it appears her memory has vanished from media. No celebrations, not even mentions, even if she has been a prominent figure in the early crypto days who remarkably fitted the archetype of the empowered woman.
While Toni was very generous and kind, like all charismatic figures she was not always easy to deal with. Not all were fond of her, and certainly the establishment wouldn't endorse<|fim_middle|> keep inspiring people for generations to come 🙏
Barabeke's Mona Lisa and her curious adventures | her philosophy which foresees and promotes its dismantlement.
That's perhaps the reason for the silence that fell around her, and that's why I feel it's good to do my little part in keeping her memory alive.
From my very limited and partial point of view, Toni was the most extraordinary woman I have ever come across. Her intelligence, charisma, and spiritual awareness were out of this world. I have never witnessed all of them combined in one person to that degree, and at such a young age.
Her leadership was very feminine, she reminded me more of a matriarch from traditional societies than a tech entrepreneur. Even if she was very modern, emancipated, and eccentric, I felt there was something ancient and sacred in her.
The time in which she shined is recent but seems to have happened ages ago. A time when crypto was full of dreamers and visionaries who wanted to change the world.
One of Toni's Telegram stickers
People like the mysterious philanthropist behind The Pinapple Fund, who in 2017 donated 5,057 BTC (equivalent to $241 million today) to humanitarian causes. If someone told me there was Toni behind that, I'd believe it. I think a similar action was in her chords, and as an early Bitcoin adopter and prominent figure she might have been able to accumulate that sum.
Today, only a few years later, people like Toni or this philanthropist seem to have disappeared from the crypto scene. As big money started to flow, crypto is getting colonized by corporate, media, and governmental power. The centralized oppressive world of greed and fear Toni was fighting against is taking over. You hardly hear of humanitarian projects anymore, at most some charitable initiative that serves some marketing purpose.
I believe Toni would greatly dislike recent developments, which I guess she saw coming. From an opportunity of liberation, crypto risks becoming a vehicle of unprecedented control and oppression. Nation States, whose dissolution Toni predicted, are investing big in their own blockchains which are obviously going to be centralized. The exact opposite of the dream of early crypto believers.
In this TedTalk Toni gave in Berlin back in 2017 she shared her vision on how blockchain can transform the world and empower people. We should never forget her words and these two pillars of the crypto revolution: decentralization and self-sovereignty. Our future depends on it.
It won't be an easy journey, but I believe history will prove her right.
See you again, Toni. You may be gone but your spirit can never die. It has been a privilege to know you, I regret not having been more helpful. May your figure be remembered and | 546 |
All-female team delivers a first for Gravity Media Australia at the FINA World Swimming Championships (25m) in Melbourne
Gravity Media has congratulated an all-female crew who delivered audio requirements for the television production of the FINA World Swimming Championships (25m) in Melbourne.
Gravity Media Australia was the "host" broadcast company for the Championships, producing more than 48 hours of live coverage and delivering the complete "turn-key" global television production.
Jessica Paynter, Kelly Doherty, Janine Moorley, Joanna Atalla, Aster Caplan and Amy Harkom form the team who delivered all aspects of audio production for the global "host" television production for the Championships.
Amy – mentored by Jessica as part of Women in Broadcast Operations mentoring programme at the<|fim_middle|> filmmaking with ARRI equipment
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Jessica Paynter, Audio and Communications Engineer at Gravity Media Australia, said: "It's great being able to go from being 'the woman in audio' to just one of the women in audio. Finding women in technical roles has become common place.
"This was only a matter of time. We hope this encourages other women to go into all technical departments, not just audio."
Ben Madgwick, Director, Media Services and Facilities at Gravity Media Australia, added: "We could not be more proud of this great crew playing a mission-critical role in the delivery of the global television production.
"They – along with our entire crew – have delivered an outstanding result. All of us at Gravity Media Australia look forward to further expanding opportunities and encouraging women to take up these exciting roles in broadcast technology delivery and production."
Gravity Media Australia accessed internationally acknowledged camera and broadcast and production technologies designed and developed by Gravity Media.
Gravity Media Australia deployed two state-of-the-art high definition broadcast trucks, DSNG vehicles, more than 30 cameras, including speciality and robotic cameras and drones, and a crew of 110 to deliver coverage across major international broadcast platforms.
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100: Delegate or Die: The Self-Employed Trap by Derek Sivers on How To Escape the Rat Race
Derek Sivers talks about the importance of delegation.
Episode 100: Delegate or Die: The Self-Employed Trap by Derek Sivers on How To Escape the Rat Race
Originally a professional musician and circus clown, Derek Sivers created CD Baby in 1998. It became the largest seller of independent music online, with $100M in sales for 150,000 musicians. In 2008, Derek sold CD Baby for $22M, giving the<|fim_middle|> his wife and two daughters, going to Pittsburgh Pirates games, planning their next trip to New York City, and visiting the beach. | proceeds to a charitable trust for music education.
He is a frequent speaker at the TED Conference, with over 5 million views of his talks.
Since 2011 he has published 34 books, including "Anything You Want" which shot to #1 on all of its Amazon categories.
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I was recently at the Arkana Sacred valley back in January 2019. It's a great center! I highly recommend anyone wanting to do a Ayahuasca ceremony to go there. Not only do they offer Ayahuasca but also Sapo and San Pedro. The Shamans are knowledgeable and wonderful! They are very open and kind. They both have about 40+ years each of experience with the medicine . Their Icaros are amazing and literally move you!
The facilitators are also just as amazing. They are always within reach and always more than happy to answer any questions for you. They all have amazing voices which are wonderful to hear while under Ayahuasca. Everyone there is so kind and always happy to help. The people that run the center are always available for any questions and happy to help. The kitchen staff is wonderful! The food is delicious and they cater to any dietary needs. The staff that cleans the rooms and does laundry is also<|fim_middle|> out magnetism therapy as well. Highly recommended!
When I say everyone there was helpful and kind I mean every single person I saw at the center. Even the resident dogs and cat!
The center is located near a river that sounds amazing when in ceremony.
Arkana sacred valley also offers a trip to Machu Picchu. I would recommend you take the trip. It is extra but definitely worth the money.
I honestly can not find one thing I did not like about the center.
This trip was life changing!
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This is my initial product launch formula review.
The quick summary is the stuff rocks. Super easy to understand, powerful info I have never come across before.
There has been an interesting effect though that I have never seen before.
Once I started promoting Jeff's stuff, I got comments and responses to my e-mails like I have never seen before. I've seen this before. It happens in my chiropractic office sometimes.
Jeff's message is so clear, and strong, and confident, with no apology. He is saying, and after seeing the materials I believe it, that if you study his material and follow it step by step, you will be able to make some money online.
When you see what he is outlining I can totally see how if someone was completely dumb about it, and just followed his instructions to the letter, I can not imagine how after doing it a few times, they would make back the money they spent on the course, and then have a job type income for the rest of their life. That is my opinion if they did it in a dumb lazy way.
On the other hand, the type of people who read my blog, who are mostly savy internet marketer types. If any of you guys followed this, well buddy, skies the limit.
I consider myself fairly sharp at this internet marketing stuff, but this guy is on a whole nother level. The day I do a million in sales in a few hours, then I will start criticizing him. But of course I wouldn't.
By the way, the thing has a money back guarantee before X number of days.
I highly recommend if you have any desire to make money, to try it, but if you haven't followed it and started making some money quickly, then get a refund.
Criticisms? I wish there was a way to speed up the playback so I could hear it faster and save a few minutes, but you know what, I allready made back my investment from this the first week, so who cares?
Check out Jeff Walkers Product Launch Formula.
And yes if you click on the links above and purchase I get a little chunk of change. That being said, everything above is my truly honest opinion.
Great post DK. Glad to hear you got in on it too. I don't normally comment, but I felt like supplementing.
I think your readers are going to rock this because I'm a reader and I'm going to rock it. See you in the billionaire club.
This formula seems to put all of the older strategies by other marketing gurus in the category of old and tired. This method originally changed how many went about marketing, so for this to be extensively updated I can imagine this will highly increase people's earnings. I'm gonna' this a shot and will let you know my outcome.
That's cool. So you bought the PLF program. I am deep into it, find me in there.
This program is amazing. The PLF program taught me things that I didn't know about online marketing, and has helped me with another mini job. I love it<|fim_middle|> on how to be able to make some money on the net. Maybe this formula is the way. But certainly would like a bit more description about it before giving it more time.
I'm really excited to try this program!
It sounds like an interesting program, but at the same time I am quite skeptical.
I've been in marketing for ten years and this looks like just the boost I need.
The product lunch formula rocks!!!!!!! Where do you get this stuff.
Any info on when it will be made available again? I'd love to see what it is about, it sounds great.
Well this has to be easy to start up, the program seems to do the work for you.
Woah, this product sounds rad. I love that everyone seems to be all about it. When you say "job-like income" that gets me really excited. AND it's easy to understand. I want to learn more about this product, it seems like a worth while investment. | , and will rate a 5/5 (Which I rarely do); and I will continue to buy products.
Hope to see everyone a few years later when they've made a lot of money :D.
this program is great.. i would recommend every on to get it..
What an individual, smart, and easy way to start making money! I plan on investing in this some time, I've done the research and the prospects are amazing, this needs to be spread far and wide. Hopefully not too far and wide though, competition isn't exactly my forte, but I would love to see how you guys are keeping up :)!
Looks like a great program, I'll have to try it when I can get around to it.
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I.M. Pei's first museum scheme, the Everson in Syracuse, turns 50
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The 60,000 square foot facility is constructed out of concrete blended with local granite—an example of American brutalism that achieved a level of refinement and luxury sometimes lacking in the attitude of its peers. Pei's plans for the small-museum were quite unique at the time; his obsession over small details and his iconic circular staircase helped to make it a success.
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A Macro Perspective of Canada's National Security Review of Foreign Investment: Considering Sustainable Economic Security
Posted on January 13, 2018 by Alex Healy
This paper will examine the legal, political, and economic implications of the Canadian government's use of the foreign investment national security review powers provided to the Governor in Council (federal cabinet), and the Minister of Innovation, Science and Economic Development (ISED), in consultation with the Minister of Public Safety.
Beginning with a quick overview of the paired foreign investment review tests, an examination of domestic financial policies, as well as international trade and economics are followed to offer deeper perspective on the development of Canadian policies. A breakdown of the national security review powers is read in the light of Canada's position in the global economy, to reveal flaws in the embodiment of the Investment Canada Act[1] (ICA) which could be putting Canada's national economic security and sovereignty at risk.
Recommendations are made to include a more weighted consideration of sovereignty and economic independence, and formalize review behaviour, under the ICA's national security review powers. The goal of this paper is to broadly examine perspectives related to integrating elements of economic security into Canada's definition of 'national security'.
The "Net Benefit" Test
Prior to 2009, the net benefit test embedded a national security review under general calculations of whether a proposed foreign investment would constitute a net benefit to Canada.[2] Once a financial threshold is triggered, the Minister could consider: the effects on employment, resource processing, the use of parts and services produced in Canada, and exports from Canada; the degree and significance of participation by Canadians in the affected Canadian business/industry; the effect of the investment on productivity, industrial efficiency, technological development, and product innovation/variety in Canada; the effect of the investment on competition within any industry in Canada; the compatibility of the investment with national industrial, economic and cultural policies; and the contribution to Canada's ability to compete in world markets.[3]
National Security Review Procedure Overview
The national security review process is highly consultative in nature, and invites input from the federal cabinet, departments of the federal government, as well as provinces affected by the transaction. All of these bodies are heavily influenced by public concern over high-profile transactions, especially those subjected to extensive media coverage. Foreign investors are advised by the government to recognize this, and to tailor government and public relations strategies to be consistent with the approach taken under the ICA.[4]
Canada's formalized national security review test in 2009 was described as a fleshing out of and compliment to the "net-benefit" test[5], but applies to a broader range of investments due to the lack of a financial threshold; the target does not need to be a "Canadian business"; and the investment may be proposed or already implemented.[6]
Dimensions of Canadian National Security
Three important dimensions (or levels) of 'national security' to consider include: (1) Economic welfare (protection of domestic industries); (2) National security (strategically sensitive for defence reasons); and (3) Super-national security (protect the homeland from investment by countries viewed as a security risk).[7]
Canada's current legal frameworks address each level in a fragmented way. With the most recent amendments strengthening protections against unwanted foreign government influence – the national security review process provides the most efficient means to ultimately ensure each dimension is covered. However, to find success in any of these dimensions, there must be no limitation on the potential for supply of information, as exists in the current framework.
Domestic Anti-Money Laundering & Counter-Terrorism Financing
Much of the legwork of Canada's domestic, operational oversight of national financial security is carried on by the Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions (OSFI), in conjunction with the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) established by G7 countries in 1989. Together, they serve to contribute to the safety and soundness of the Canadian financial system. Their responsibility is mainly inward-looking, towards banking-type institutions, providing support in anti-money-laundering and anti-terrorist-financing initiatives.
The FINTRAC agency, born from the Proceeds of Crime (Money Laundering) and Terrorist Financing Act[8], collects, analyses, assesses and discloses information in order to assist in the detection, prevention and deterrence of money laundering and of the financing of terrorist activities, and in order to assist the Minister of Finance and Minister of Public Safety in their duties.
A 2016 report conducted under the responsibility of the International Monetary Fund highlighted a number of key deficiencies in Canada's legal framework.[9] FINTRAC's notable issues included: a lack of power to request further information from certain entities; the limited or incomplete access to some administrative information (e.g. fiscal information); and also that FINTRAC is not able to disseminate upon request information to some authorities (e.g. Environment Canada, Competition Bureau). Furthermore, law enforcement and investigative authorities are unable to compel a witness to give statement in money laundering investigations; and only law enforcement agencies can ask for designated information from FINTRAC. Notable issues with (corporate) legal persons included: insufficient risk mitigating measures in place to address money laundering or terrorist financing risk posed by bearer shares and nominee shareholder arrangements; in some provinces, there is no legal obligation to update registered information within a designated timeframe; and a lack of information required for, or collected on beneficial ownership.[10] Many threats stemming from these deficiencies are echoed by a 2017 Transparency International report entitled "Doors Wide Open".[11] A Public Safety report from this year also reiterates a concern for additional oversight and operational capacities for FINTRAC to carry out and co-operate in its duties.[12]
The exercise of the federal government's existing powers over financial or economic security can be characterized as currently being limited to 'anti-crime' domestically, and defence-focused internationally. Legal gaps still exist and can be quickly filled within the current framework by altering behaviours to address a wider scope of economic security considerations before parliament might consider a new legislative scheme in the future.
Canadian Trade & Investment
"Trade is about money and money is a powerful instrument to foster political relations. Trade can be used as a 'carrot' or a 'stick'."[13] Trade is a necessity in the capitalist economic framework to attain efficiency and equilibrium between supply and demand, with scarce resources, to keep prices at an affordable level to consumers. In many international trade theories, trade (export) specialization is necessary: (1) to achieve what is described as "comparative advantage" through high productivity or low wages;[14] (2) to take advantage of specific factors of an economy;[15] (3) to take advantage of relatively abundant factors of production;[16] (4) to achieve monopolistic competition to lower prices;[17]; or (5) as a result of historical accident which earned the country a 'head-start' advantage which is much easier to maintain.[18]
Canada's trade history is described by historical economists as a solidified, staples-export 'hinterland' economy throughout its development.[19] Legally, Canada was hindered by the UK though intentionally contrived jurisdictional issues in the Canadian constitution's division of powers, coupled with the doctrine of repugnancy and UK control over the Privy Council. Canada's independence and immediate adoption of protectionist trade policies in the late 1800s helped decrease UK control, but did not afford it enough development to hold-off the domestic effects from the Great Depression or the boom of US industrialization.[20] Post-WWII saw a massive increase of multinationals being used to bypass tariff restrictions, especially from the US who would dominate the estimated one-third share of foreign ownership or control over enterprise in Canada.[21] A 1957 report of Canada's Economic Prospects ('Gordon Commission') observed that the growth of the country would have been slower without FDI from the US and UK; however they also noted issues with the massive levels of non-resident ownership and control over certain industries in Canada, as well as the fear of US economic dominance and integration to the point of a loss of political independence.[22] The 'Watkins Report' in 1968 urged for mandatory Canadian participation in multinationals (to be enforced by an administrative body), and recommended adding an 'upper-limit' to foreign investment, as well as obligations pertaining to subsidiaries of multinationals to engage in activities seen as beneficial to Canadians (such as research and development).[23] In the early 1970's, the 'Wahn Report' offered recommendations for an investment screening process; and the 'Gray Report' urged that national objectives should include sovereignty and independence, warning of the overexposure of the Canadian economy to decisions outside Canada and that FDI weakens Canadian economic control.[24]
Then spawned the era of the Foreign Investment Review Act[25] when Canada had a chance to shape what benefits it<|fim_middle|>.
A Statistics Canada study examined 2014 levels of inward foreign direct investment data for both immediate and ultimate investor countries and found that the US share of investment dominated overall for both an immediate ($352B) and ultimate ($368B) basis; alongside notable increases of ultimate investor countries including the UK, Brazil, China and Japan. Part of the reason behind a differentiation between immediate and ultimate investor countries is due to "round-tripping" as Canadian-based corporations channel funds abroad and then return to the same country in the form of direct investment – usually through tax-havens or tax-friendly countries.[66]
Keeping in mind that an impact on a nation's economic control is tantamount to an impact on state sovereignty; Foreign direct investments in the forms of mergers and acquisitions, as well as the creation of a Canadian corporate personality, have direct impacts on society. These foreign owned or controlled businesses pay wages to directors and employees, and taxes to provincial and federal governments; they make decisions over purchases of capital, and business consolidations which have a direct impact on jobs, as well as individual citizen and government incomes.
The Canadian government aims to promote foreign investment in order to cater towards foreign market demands which in effect will create further foreign control over the impacted industry – foreign control then theoretically extends to both global commodity-pricing (which can be highly influenced by speculation and cartels), as well as commercial (and potentially political) decisions within the affected Canadian industry.
Leal-Arcas argues that "the attitude of the BRIC's [Brazil, Russia, India, China] towards multilateralism is unclear. Moreover, the BRIC's assume little responsibility to maintain international order in global economic governance."[67] One example of the impacts these policies have in reality is exemplified in the decline in prices of potash (good for consumers) in 2013 following the breakup "of a Russian-Belarusian marketing cartel that previously helped limit supply."[68]
Global Affairs Canada stated in their 2017 Trade and Investment Update, that "Although the declines in commodity prices moderated during 2016, they continued to exert substantial influence on Canada's trade. Overall export prices fell 13.8 percent in the energy sector and 1.1 percent overall; meanwhile, the price index of Canada's imports rose 1.2 percent. As a result, Canada's terms of trade deteriorated further in 2016, dropping two percentage points." [69]
These numbers fall contrary to the benefits which should be offered under the Ricardian model of international trade which says that trade based on comparative advantage should benefit all countries due to the relative price of the exported good rising (i.e. income for export producers rises, and imported goods become less expensive). Unfortunately, the majority of international trade theories also require those who benefit to actively distribute income to those who lose.
Security: Expecting the Unexpected
One aspect to consider adding to the list of national security concerns could include an environmental focus such as climate change. This may be another necessary to consider among the national security review factors to fill a gap since "GATT/WTO law seems to be inadequate to deal with climate change" [70] and the underlying Most Favoured Nation principle (not discriminating between one's trading partners) cannot deliver opportunity for economic development.[71]
Another factor to consider could be generating diversity of Canadian industry to counteract impacts of fluctuating energy prices. While the threat of the price-system's volatility is uncontrollable in the current economic atmosphere, any aspect added which would increase considerations of domestic risks such as a heavy economic reliance on one export (with volatile prices), or environmental disasters (especially in provinces concentrated on trade-industries), might further aid the security of the Canadian economy. The impact of disasters in concentrated economic zones was recently evidenced "after a strong first-quarter performance, growth slid into negative territory in the second quarter due to the disruptions in oil production following the Alberta wildfires."[72]
First, it is highly recommended that a weighted consideration of sovereignty and economic independence is included in the foreign investment review process by potentially revisiting the "substantial benefit" to Canada standard of review; and/or expanding the list national security considerations to address the current deficits. By raising the standard to require the Minister to determine whether an investment would provide "substantial benefit to Canada", the government would be given greater flexibility to mold investment proposals to Canadians' benefit. So long as the requirements are made clear and investors are helpfully guided through the process, however strict the rules may be, the markets will inevitably settle into a routine.
This is somewhat complicated by the ad-hoc nature of the national security review process; which is why the second recommendation is to formalize national security review behaviour under the ICA, and/or prohibit ad-hoc reviews. This can be achieved with a more efficient and co-operative relationship between Canadian financial regulatory bodies to enable the Ministers and Investment Review Division to routinize the national security review process and gather sufficient data to gain a more detailed perspective on potentially impactful foreign investments. To minimize resource impact on government and investors alike, a proportionality perspective may be taken to tailor the weight of the burden of disclosure to the significance of the investment's impact both financially and socially. However, if proportionality is adopted, a minimum level of investigation should be asserted to ensure that lower-valued investments are not left unnoticed.
This proposal should offer a more beneficial investment atmosphere to Canadians by offering more guidance to government considerations of the dimensions of economic 'national security' and re-defining investors' expectations that Canada is looking for sustainable and beneficial corporate participation in society.
[1] Investment Canada Act, RSC 1985 c28, online: <laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/I-21.8/index.html>.
[2] Robert Sroka, "Friends with Net-Benefits: The Investment Canada Act and State Owned Enterprises" (2017) 17 Asper Rev Int'l Bus & Trade L 181, at 190.
[3] Ibid at 186.
[4] Subrata Bhattacharjee: "National Security with a Canadian Twist: The Investment Canada Act and the New National Security Review Test" (2009) 1:4 Transnat'l Corp Rev 12, at 19.
[5] Sroka supra note 2, at 190.
[7] Bhattacharjee, supra note 4.
[8] Proceeds of Crime (Money Laundering) and Terrorist Financing Act, SC 2000 c17.
[9] IMF, "Anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing measures – Canada" (Assessment delivered at the FATF Plenary meeting, June 2016), online: <fatf-gafi.org/publications/mutualevaluations/documents/mer-canada-2016.html>.
[10] Ibid at 205-209.
[11] Maíra Martini, "Doors Wide Open: Corruption and Real Estate in Four Key Markets", Transparency International (29 March 2017), online: <files.transparency.org/content/download/2121/13496/file/2017_DoorsWideOpen_EN.pdf >.
[12] "National Security Consultations: What We Learned Report", Public Safety Canada (19 May 2017), online: <publicsafety.gc.ca/cnt/rsrcs/pblctns/2017-nsc-wwlr/index-en.aspx>.
[13] Rafael Leal-Arcas, "The Fragmentation of International Trade Law: Is Now the Time for Variable Geometry?", (2011) 12:2 J World Investment & Trade 145, at 152.
[14] Ricardian trade theory.
[15] Specific-Factors theory of international trade.
[16] Heckscher-Ohlin model of international trade – empirical support with trade between unequal partners benefitting owners of abundant factors of export production.
[17] Internal Economies of Scale theory of international trade.
[18] External Economies of Scale theory of international trade.
[19] Daniel Drache, "Harold Innis and Canadian Capitalist Development" (1982) 6:2 Can J Poli & Social Theory 35.
[20] Alex Healy, "Constitutional Colonization and the Capitalist Catastrophe", (9 May 2017), From What I Understand (blog), online: <alex-healy.com/2017/05/09/canada-constitutional-colonialism-the-capitalist-catastrophe>.
[21] Sroka supra note 2, at 183.
[22] Jutinder Cheema, Changing Face of Canadian Foreign Direct Investment Policy (LLM Thesis, University of Ottawa, 1993), online: <ruor.uottawa.ca/bitstream/10393/6676/1/MM15597.pdf>.
[23] Ibid at 16-17.
[25] Foreign Investment Review Act, RSC 1973, c C-46.
[26] Sroka, supra note 13, at 184.
[27] Cheema, supra note 22, at 13-19.
[28] CED (West 4th) vol 35, title 2, at § 188.
[30] Ibid, at § 193
[31] Moshe Hirsch, "Between Fair and Equitable Treatment and Stabilization Clause: Stable Legal Environment and Regulating Change in International Investment Law" (2011) 12:6 J World Investment & Trade 783.
[32] Ibid, at 785.
[33] Conor Bildfell, "Corporate Decision Making in the Human Rights Context: Using Proportionality as a Supplement to the Guiding Principles", (2015) 15 Asp Rev Int'l Bus & Trade L 87, at 120.
[35] Cheema, supra note 22.
[36] Ibid, at 2.
[38] Ibid, at 11.
[39] Angeline Couureur, "New Generation Regional Trade Agreements and the Precautionary Principle: Focus on the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) Between Canada and the European Union", [2015] 15 Asper Rev Int'l Bus & Trade L 265.
[41] Ibid, at 269-270.
[43] James Donnelly, "Open for Business? Lessons Learned from the Land Down Under for Regulating Investments by State-Owned Enterprises in the Oil Sands", [2016] 16 Asper Rev Int'l Bus & Trade L, at 8.
[44] Howard Mann, "Civil Society Perspectives: What Do Key Stakeholders Expect from the International Investment Regime?" (London: Oxford University Press, 2011).
[45] "Royal Commission On National Development In The Arts, Letters And Sciences 1949-1951", online: <collectionscanada.gc.ca/massey/h5-400-e.html>.
[46] Bhattacharjee, supra note 4, at 13.
[47] "Canada's State of Trade: Trade and Investment Update 2017", Global Affairs Canada (19 July 2017), online: <international.gc.ca/economist-economiste/performance/state-point/state_2017_point>.
[48] "Guidelines on the National Security Review of Investments", Investment Canada, online: <ic.gc.ca/eic/site/ica-lic.nsf/eng/lk81190.html>.
[51] Defence Production Act, RSC 1985 c D-1.
[54] Gil Lan, "Foreign Direct Investment in the United States and Canada: Fractured Neoliberalism and the Regulatory Imperative", [2014] 47 Vand J Transnat'l L 1261, at 1290.
[55] "Investment Canada Act amendment potentially focus on foreign state-owned investors" (1 March 2007), Stikeman Elliott (blog), online: <stikeman.com/en-ca/kh/canadian-ma-law/investment-canada-act-amendments-potentially-focus-on-foreign-state-owned-investors>.
[56] "BHP's bid for PotashCorp: how it unfolded", CBC News (19 November 2010), online: <cbc.ca/news/business/bhp-s-bid-for-potashcorp-how-it-unfolded-1.929246>.
[62] Jameson Berkow, "A parade of broken promises: How CNOOC stumbled with its Nexen takeover", BNN (15 September 2017), online: <bnn.ca/a-parade-of-broken-promises-how-cnooc-stumbled-with-its-nexen-takeover-1.857533>.
[63] Steven Chase & Robert Fife, "Chinese bidder back on track to buy Norsat after matching U.S. offer", The Globe and Mail (16 June 2017), online: <theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/chinese-bidder-back-on-track-to-buy-norsat-after-matching-us-offer/article35328096>.
[65] Edward Borovikov, Bogdan Evtimov & Igor Danilov, "Trade Defence Instruments in Regional Trade Agreements: Revisiting the Case of Safeguards", (2010) 16 Int'l Trade L & Regulation 44, at 48-49.
[66] Marc Atkins and Morgan Roesler, "Foreign direct investment in Canada by ultimate investing country", Statistics Canada (2 October 2017), online: <statcan.gc.ca/pub/13-605-x/2017001/article/54868-eng.htm>.
[67] Leal-Arcas, supra note 13, at 150.
[68] Cecilia Jamasmie, "BHP's $14 billion Jansen potash becomes latest victim of commodities rout", Mining.com (10 March 2016), online: <mining.com/bhps-14-billion-jansen-potash-becomes-latest-victim-of-commodities-rout>.
[69] Supra note 44.
[70] Ahmad S.A.S. Al-Tayer & A.F.M. Maniruzzaman, "Addressing the Global Climate Change Problem in GATT/WTO Law: The Vision of a New International Climate Law Based on International Distributive Justice" (2011) 12:5 J World Investment Trade 631.
[72] Supra, note 44.
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From What I Understand... | could expect from any given investment proposal.[26] In 1984, a new government commissioned the 'Macdonald Report' which evaluated Canada as having a high level of foreign control over capital by international standards. The report advocated for a more open and positive attitude towards foreign investment, yet warned that smaller firms are more vulnerable to takeovers resulting in the loss of Canadian jobs. The 'Macdonald report' also featured many suggestions eventually used in the creation of the ICA which were more favourable to foreign investors.[27]
International Economics, Business and Investment
The CED chapter on International Economic Law explains that "economic independence is an essential part of sovereignty" [28] and that any threat to economic independence is tantamount to a threat to sovereignty as such; and in the face of such a threat, a state is entitled to take proactive measures of an economic character by way of legitimate measures in self-defence. [29]
This understanding stems partially from the 1974 General Assembly on the Charter of Economic Rights and Duties of States which intended to give effect to the Declaration on the Establishment of a New International Economic Order – creating some economic security for developing nations. This confirmed: (1) permanent sovereignty over the possession, use, and disposal of a state's wealth, natural resources, and economic activities; (2) the right to regulate foreign investment and multilateral corporations; (3) the right to nationalize industries; (4) disputes to be settled over local law (unless otherwise fairly agreed upon); (5) obligations to promote the development of international trade; (6) a responsibility to co-operate for promotion of economic and social progress throughout the world; (7) preferential treatment to developing countries; and (8) that prosperity as a whole is achieved through the accumulation of individual prosperity.[30]
The agreement appears to subscribe to known internal conflicts within international economic trade theories by identifying the necessity of international trade for economic growth, as well as the potential for corporations to be highly intrusive to a nation's sovereignty. Hirsch explains that "one of the most challenging questions in contemporary international investment law relates to the balance between the competing needs of allowing a reasonable policy space for host states and enabling foreign investors to plan their operations in advance"[31]; and that "calculability" in law breeds capitalism.[32]
Bildfell explains in his chapter Maximizing Shareholder Value that "conventionalist ethics posits that private actors should not have to adhere to any principles unless that principle is binding in law"; [33] and that corporations are self-interested, profit-maximizing entities, even when that exercise negatively and substantially affects the interests of others, unless one has a legal right that limits the exercise of that freedom.[34] (emphasis added)
Canadian Policy Perspectives on Foreign Direct Investment (FDI)
In Changing Face of Canadian Foreign Direct Investment Policy, foreign investors are described as having been perceived as speculators and exploiters of national wealth and resources – an affront to national sovereignty and economic independence. This comes partially due to foreign investors' ignorance of local market conditions, as well as a tendency to repatriate profits or channel them through tax havens.[35]
This was the guiding belief which birthed the Foreign Investment Review Act (FIRA) in the 70's. FIRA was inspired by public concern over the high level of foreign ownership in Canadian industry. It encouraged Canadian persons' control over the economy and ensured foreign owned business would benefit Canada, and most significantly – reserved 'key sectors' and introduced the screening process for individual investments. The standard used under this act was whether an investment was of "substantial-benefit" to Canada. During this era, Canada is described as "not as hostile as developing countries" as the act was simply a legislative / administrative barrier, and there were no decisions of expropriation of property or nationalization of industry.[36]
FIRA's intended purpose was to "guard against future governments becoming so captive to the corporate agenda."[37] Yet in 1985, it was replaced with the ICA and the standard of review lowered to whether an investment was of "net-benefit" to Canada. Shortly following the relaxation of Canadian safeguards against foreign corporate influence, Canada entered into two major trade agreements, the US-Canada Free-Trade Agreement in 1988, and the North American Free-Trade Agreement (NAFTA) in 1992. During this period Canada expectedly took a less interventionist approach[38] in its investment reviews, until the first rejection issued in 2008.
It is important to note that regional trade agreements have one main purpose: tackling non-tariff barriers, while seeking to prohibit purely protectionist measures by imposing requirements to base measures on scientific principles.[39] Interestingly, another trade concept (adopted by the European Union) is the 'Precautionary principle' which states that "action should be taken to prevent harm… even if scientific evidence is inconclusive or incomplete."[40]
Interestingly, "the United States and Canada figure among the main opponents to the precautionary principle status"[41] even though the necessary legal framework for implementation of the principle exists in Canada – a discretion that allows for cautiousness and reflexivity in decision-making.[42] This provides context behind the Canadian government's decision to use their national security review powers over foreign investment on an ad-hoc basis. Dobson is noted for finding that "perceptions about political rather than commercial decision-making underlie national security concerns."[43] This can be inferred in Canada from the conflicting considerations under the guidelines issued by the federal government in 2009, as well as the disclosure regulations added more recently.
The Canadian government's aim of targeting foreign market demand to determine our terms of trade does not make good sense, unless the government's goal is to maintain its position in the global economy as a resource-extraction 'hinterland'. However, this is not a sustainable position for Canada – a growing expectation for stakeholders in international investment.[44] Neither can it be called 'security' since Canadian sovereignty has been constantly called into question by numerous government-commissioned reports.
The 'Massey Report'[45] highlighted the threats from US control over mass-media production and concerns over the degradation of Canadian culture. Several economic-focused reports already mentioned followed, highlighting fears over foreign control over the Canadian economy. The rise of such perceived 'economic nationalism' during the age of FIRA is long gone since its replacement with the ICA; concurrently the share of foreign ownership or control within the Canadian economy has since risen (albeit at a lesser rate) under the ICA, compared to the period before FIRA. Furthermore, Canada has experienced stagnation in its economy due to a reliance on natural resource exports – and their inherent volatility in commodity prices determined by global influences.
Everything in Canada, from where we live to our diverse culture, is attributable to global trade in some form. The way that trade has affected our society has developed through foreign direct investment and ownership to relieve some Canadians of their decision-making capabilities over many things, from their homes, to the corporate symbols that represent their nation globally.[46] Canada's biggest revenue earning industries (oil and gas) are being targeted by foreign investors, which is understandable from their purely economic perspective, however the energy sector is Canada's main reliance for export value and therefore the success of its economic growth.
A 2017 government report states that the clear target for foreign investors is focused in primary and secondary economic sectors: "The [overall] stock of foreign investment in Canada rose… to $825.7 billion; notably, the proportion of that stock originating in the United States remained below 50 percent this year. The manufacturing sector and the mining and oil and gas extraction sector remained the largest targets for foreign investors."[47] This may (unlikely) be the beginning of a new trend; moving away from a majority-US FDI influence may have positive results on Canada's growth – to reflect the diverse and multicultural society Canada has grown into. However, a (less-favourable) correlation exists between society's historic ability to point to an overarching foreign (American) influence while it encroaches on our sovereignty as a single behemoth. A more likely result of a dilution in foreign ownership, with concealed ultimate beneficiaries, will be a reduction in citizens' abilities to recognize a more fractured infringement on Canada's economic independence.
It is, however daunting, a necessary task for the federal government to step-up and use the legislative tools they've been given to at least share prosperity amongst Canadians when approving foreign direct investment. Corporations are duty-bound to honour the bottom line, and therefore to reduce the resulting social deficiencies evident from accepting FDI within the current framework – the government must ensure and secure fair terms for income-distribution within investment agreements. The only way that this seems possible at the moment is in the discretionary review process conceived under the national security review process within the ICA, where necessary disclosure may be obtained to ensure Canadian economic security.
The National Security Review Process
The most recent national security review of investments' guidelines issued in 2016, which serve to inform investors of their expectations under the review procedures, are partially reproduced below.[48] A review is triggered by the security services after they identify a national security concern arising out of Canadian investments by foreign parties.[49] Within the wide scope of a review is: the establishment of a new Canadian business or an entity carrying on operations in Canada; acquisitions of control of a Canadian business of any dollar value; and acquisitions of all or part of an entity carrying on operations in Canada.
An investment that could be injurious to national security must then be referred by the Minister of ISED (in consultation with the Minister of Public Safety) to the federal cabinet, who may order a review. The Investment Review Division of ISED is the interface with investors (and other parties to the investment) before a national security review is ordered, and throughout the entire review process. However, it is claimed that the Prime Minister is the ultimate decision maker in the FDI sphere.[50] The national security review process is supported by investigative bodies determined by the regulations, including: the Departments of Industry; Canadian Heritage; Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness; National Defence; Foreign Affairs and International Trade; Natural Resources; Transport; Public Works and Government Services; Health; Citizenship and Immigration; Finance; Department of Justice; Canadian Security Intelligence Service; Royal Canadian Mounted Police; Canada Border Services Agency; Communications Security Establishment; Canada Revenue Agency; Privy Council Office; Public Health Agency of Canada; and all provincial, regional and municipal police forces. Information obtained in administering the ICA is shared with these bodies throughout this process with commercial information being protected by strict confidentiality provisions, and sensitive information protected under the Canada Evidence Act and other applicable laws. National security considerations may restrict the degree to which the government can share information with the investor and others in this context, which may explain why administrative decisions are able to be given without detail or reasons.
Following the Minister's review, and another consultation with the Minister of Public Safety, the investment report and recommendations will either be referred to the federal cabinet, or if satisfied the investment would not be injurious to national security, the Minister will notify the investor that no further action will be taken. Upon referral, the federal cabinet may take any measures they choose in order to protect national security with respect to the investment.
The assessment should consider the nature of the asset or business activities and the parties, including the potential for third party influence; as well as the following factors:
The potential effects of the investment on Canada's defence capabilities and interests; and on the transfer of sensitive technology or know-how outside of Canada;
Involvement in the research, manufacture or sale of goods/technology identified in Section 35 of the Defence Production Act[51];
The potential impact of the investment on the security of Canada's critical infrastructure, including: processes, systems, facilities, technologies, networks, assets and services essential to the health, safety, security or economic well-being of Canadians and the effective functioning of government;
The potential impact of the investment on the supply of critical goods and services to Canadians, or the supply of goods and services to the Government of Canada;
The potential of the investment to enable foreign surveillance or espionage;
The potential of the investment to hinder current or future intelligence or law enforcement operations; or to involve or facilitate the activities of illicit actors, such as terrorists, terrorist organizations or organized crime; and
The potential impact of the investment on Canada's international interests, including foreign relationships.
Sroka is concerned that Canadian assets are less attractive, partially due to the ad-hoc nature of the decision-making process, and therefore are precluded from attaining maximum valuation – but, notes that the potential for State-Owned Enterprises (SOE) to adversely impact commercial outcomes provides justification for the intensive review processes.[52] To add more concern, there is a new consensus on foreign investment moving away from industrial policy towards neoliberalism.[53] Fostering control over the economy in the hands of fewer, commercially-focused, private decision makers, especially those whose impacts are either tied to governments (as SOE's) or completely removed from Canada, threatens both political and economic independence. "The suspicion that foreigners would be acting in ways that harm Canadians should be dealt with under the national security provisions."[54]
Notable Decisions Under the ICA
It is observed that parliamentarians concerns from 2004 about the investment proposals for Noranda (a large Canadian mining company), by a Chinese SOE were the first, modern signs of unease towards foreign control over Canadian "strategic assets".[55]
Australia's BHP Billiton proposed an acquisition of Potash Corp. which triggered Provincial concern over foreign control over "Canada's national strategic interests"[56] which may have exercised considerable influence over the federal government's decision to reject the multi-billion dollar hostile takeover. This controversy was apparently due to BHP's focus of its lobbying efforts on the federal level rather than sway the provincial government as well.[57]
The SINOPEC (China) acquisition approval of Daylight Energy was applauded by PM Harper outlining that Canada "welcomed investment by China and other countries, so long as the acquisitions were economic in nature and don't have strategic and political connections.".[58]
In 2012 the government rejected a proposed takeover of Progress Energy by Petronas (Malaysia). The Minister outlined that he was "not satisfied that the proposed investment is likely to be of net-benefit to Canada" [59] after Petronas tried to take advantage of the regulatory deadlines during negotiations.
Sroka notes that it is troubling that the "procedural reality means that lobbying efforts can have a measurable impact in the assessment of a supposedly objective test early on."[60] Though lobbying normally attempts to influence a subjective policymaking process, here we see an influence in the standard of review creating an imbalanced perspective on investment.[61]
The 2013 CNOOC's (China) government-approved acquisition of Nexen included several promises in order to secure public support and government approval. A September 2017 article reviews CNOOC's substantial failure to meet the Canadian government's expectations and notes the charges laid against Nexen for a bitumen spill, and an ongoing investigation into the Long Lake explosion in 2016.[62]
The bidding war for Canada's Norsat, between Chinese and US firms, was ultimately won by the Chinese firm, Hytera. The federal government was reported as having come under fire "for greenlighting the sale of Norsat International Inc. to Hytera, a Chinese telecom giant, without conducting a formal, comprehensive, national security review of the deal." [63] While PM Trudeau noted that allied national security agencies had consulted together and advised him, they had not recommended a formal, comprehensive security review. [64]
An analysis of the decisions within the framework somewhat resemble those described as 'Regional / Emergency Safeguard Measures'; which have been noted to be seen as helpful to Regional Trade Agreement parties who are planning on "embarking on a process of a creation of a customs union involving elimination of all trade defence instruments' measures… and may relieve any difficulties that the elimination of [anti-dumping], [countervailing duties/measures], and [safeguard measures] may cause to the more sensitive domestic industries."[65] These decisions are also noted to "rarely have recourse" available due to their politically sensitive nature; and that increased use (as paralleled in Canada) would risk exposing the absence of sufficient economic preparedness for regional liberalization. Within this paradigm of understanding, the Canadian government's behaviour and effects thereof are indicative of the economy being influenced towards deregulation without being primed for such a change.
Are Canadians Ensured Economic Security?
Throughout its development Canada has experienced a long history of economic growth fueled by foreign direct investment; dominated first from the United Kingdom during the period leading up to the Great Depression, followed by the United States of America | 3,518 |
A friend<|fim_middle|>'t expect more fruit to set until the temperatures dip below 85 to 90 degrees for 10 days in a row.
The no-pruning rule doesn't apply to roses, because they are so susceptible to disease. "You don't want to leave a ton of dead tissue for diseases and insects," Young said, so remove withered blooms and branches.
Avoid dark-colored containers, which absorb the heat more than lighter colors and can actually fry a plant's roots, Young said. Try putting potted plants inside larger pots to give them some insulation and shade, but make sure both pots have good drainage. Plants drown in standing water, even when it's hot. | went to Portland, Ore., for a getaway and felt pretty smug about missing the recent SoCal heat wave, until he returned and surveyed the wreckage around his Pasadena home.
The blast of heat that ushered in July has scalded tomatoes on the vine, shriveled leaves and crisp-ified roses across Southern California.
At Descanso Gardens, where the temperature jumped from 74 to 114 degrees in a single day earlier this month, most of its fabled camellias were damaged by sunburn, said Rachel Young, director of horticulture and garden operations at the La Cañada Flintridge site.
With proper care, Young thinks the plants will recover and bloom this winter, but damaged flowers, fruits and vegetables are another story.
Yes, temperatures have been awful, but there are ways to salvage and protect your plants from the blistering heat, say Young and Yvonne Savio, retired director of Los Angeles County's master gardener program who now runs gardeninginla.net. Here are their tips for dealing with the heat. Remember to grab a hat, lots of water and sun protection gear of your own before heading into your garden.
Deep watering at the base of the plant for a long time is the best way to revive and protect plants, because it coaxes roots deeper into the ground. "Plants are like people, they get lazy," Young said. "If they get water for 5 minutes every day, they keep their roots near the surface, so by watering deeply you're training the plants to send their roots deep in the soil where the water is." In general, Young recommends deep watering most plants once a week. For how long? It depends on your soil, but long enough to saturate the soil a good foot in depth. Vegetables might need deep watering two or three times a week when it's really hot, she added. How she does it: Savio sinks 5-gallon planting containers (the type with drain holes) between plants in her garden and then fills them three times with water, once a week.
When you know a hot spell is on the way, you can also prepare by watering deeply at ground level, ideally at night, when the air is cooler.
Plants sometimes wilt from the severe sun, even when they have sufficient water. Test the soil before you water, Young said. If a pot feels heavy or the soil feels damp an inch or so under the ground, your plant probably doesn't need more moisture.
As tempting as it sounds, don't hose down your plants in the middle of the day; those water droplets turn into mini magnifying glasses on the leaves and intensify the heat. Savio does recommend spraying plants to cool them down, but only after the sun sets.
A big beach umbrella works, as do airy (30% to 40%) shade cloths. You can also use old bed sheets, rigged-up cheesecloth or propped-up cardboard to give your plants a break from the scorching rays. The key is to make sure your shade props allow air to circulate freely around the plants. If the only cloth you have handy is dark in color, remember that it can absorb heat and can in turn burn any foliage they touch, so keep it several inches above or away from the plants. Here's an easy D.I.Y. garden shade you can make out of PVC piping and a bed sheet, and more shade idea>>>.
Those brown leaves and branches serve as protection against additional damage and could actually be harboring living tissue, so hands off the pruners, at least for now.
Even plants that look OK are going to be stressed in this heat, and pruning just adds to it. Let them grow as they wish and prune when it's cooler.
Root systems suffer in high heat; absorbing fertilizer can do further damage. Straight compost and low-nitrogen (numbers less than 3) organic fertilizers are OK, Young said, if they don't include manure, fish or blood, because those contain salts, which can cause heat stress and burning.
Sad to say, those blistered baby tomatoes, peppers, squash and beans aren't going to miraculously ripen on the vine, Savio said. Remove them so the mama plants can focus on recovering. Don | 878 |
Life can start to pile on stress regardless of the time of year. You<|fim_middle|> snacking in between. Opt for whole grains, fruits, and leafy green vegetables, and limit the amount of sweets you eat.
If you start to get intense cravings for the foods you love, allow yourself a very small amount if you must but remember it's a treat, not a necessity.
Treat Yourself Once In a While!
It's still ok to enjoy yourself sometimes! The trick is to enjoy the foods you love because you love them, not because you feel stressed. It's essential to create a new relationship with your favorite foods so that you associate them with being what they are, simply food, rather than the solution for our feelings.
Avoid keeping your favorite comfort foods in the house so that you'll be less tempted to eat them in a moment of emotion. Instead, try to eat them outside of the home when you treat yourself to a meal in a restaurant or special occasion. | never know what can happen which could bring on stress and emotional anxiety. Whether it's unexpectedly getting into a car accident or taking on a seemingly impossible deadline for work, a lot of people turn to food as a source of comfort.
Known as emotional eating, it's a way of suppressing and soothing negative feelings. Since food we love triggers our pleasure sensors, it can be a temporary fix for feeling better.
However, food isn't the answer. Emotional eating leads to feelings of self-loathing, weight gain, and even conditions like diabetes. Here are some of the best tips for avoiding emotional eating.
If you feel the urge to reach for an entire bag of chips hop on your bike or start dancing around the room. Try to turn towards being physical rather than eating. You will likely feel much less stressed after exerting energy rather than eating.
Try it a few times, and you'll find that you may even start to get hooked. Turning to fitness for comfort when feeling emotionally unstable is a great habit. As with most things, it's all about moderation.
Try to stay busy throughout the day by staying engaged in an activity. When your brain is idle, it can often convince you that you're hungry when you're not.
If you have free time, do something that you love which keeps your brain occupied. You'll find that you are much less tempted to mindlessly snack.
Have your meals at the same time every day. When your body starts to get into a rhythm, you'll be less likely to overeat. Try to eat balanced meals with no | 314 |
There's no doubt that hiking is one of the most pleasurable forms of exercise, and the freedom of being out in the country is exhilarating, especially after a long week of work.
There's one thing both beginners and experienced walkers have to keep in mind, however – the weather. It can affect where you walk and whether you even go walking. Knowing what's coming can even save your life.
Many people catch the weather forecasts on television or radio. The local ones give a reasonable picture of the general weather in the area. For most hikers who are just venturing out for the day, this should be adequate. Pay attention to what's going to happen and when; if rain is expected, for instance, a good forecast will be able to give you a fair idea of when it's likely to begin and how heavy it will be.
The closer to the time you plan on leaving that<|fim_middle|>'t, though, pack rain trousers unless you think there's a good chance you'll run into heavy rain; they make progress awkward. Be ready, stay alert, and always err on the side of caution when it comes to weather. | you check the forecast, the more accurate it will be (and, conversely, looking ahead several days is unlikely to yield information that's very useful to you). If possible, make it one of the last tasks before leaving the house. Depending on what you hear, it could change your plans entirely.
In the British Isles rain is a fact of life. It's not something to discourage some hiking as long as it's not too heavy. But rain that comes on top of several days of rain will mean that there are many places you simply shouldn't go. They'll be dangerously boggy, and if near water, the stream or river might have broken its banks.
Knowing what's coming can help you formulate your plans properly. You'll know what's safe and what's not. Similarly, if snow is forecast the simplest advice is to stay at home. In rural areas even a small amount of snow can make roads treacherous. In higher areas, winds can quickly create snowdrifts and highly dangerous blizzard conditions. It's simply not worth the risk.
When you're out walking, you should definitely keep your eye on the weather, especially if changeable conditions are anticipated. Remember, the weather can alter very, very quickly and leave you stranded. If you know that there could be rain, make sure you have a good rain jacket in your backpack, even if it's gloriously sunny when you set out.
Plan your route on a map so you're always aware of where you are on your route. Keep your eyes on the sky to be alert to possible changes of weather, such as clouds gathering on the horizon. This will give you time to find your way to shelter or even back to the safety of your starting point. Taking these precautions can save you from receiving a drenching.
As with so many things, preparation is the key. Know what the weather is likely to do, but plan for most eventualities. A light rain jacket takes up virtually no room and adds little weight. Even a sturdier rain jacket can be squeezed easily into a day pack. Don | 423 |
Nov. 17 - The reason Johnny can't read, Jeanette Farmer maintains, is that he doesn't write.
The Denver handwriting specialist has been arguing for several years that "old-fashioned penmanship training'' should be more widely embraced by schools and society at large. Her reasoning: the act of writing helps develop kids' brains, improves their self-control and may even combat attention deficit disorder and other learning disabilities.
It doesn't matter what Johnny writes, she hastens to add, as long as he puts pencil to paper.
As she explains to anyone who will listen, the fine motor activity involved in writing by hand "plays a critical role in training the brain'' to tap its innate capacity to communicate through language.
In essence, she asserts, the rhythmic contractions and releases of the thumb and forefinger help build the neural pathways that enable young people to read and write - just as repetitions of leg or arm movements help "repattern'' the brains of grown-up stroke victims.
So far, the academic establishment hasn't paid much attention to Farmer's theories, in part because teachers and psychologists in this country - unlike their counterparts in Europe - tend to put handwriting studies "on the same level as reading bumps on the head,'' as prominent graphologist Marc Seifer of Rhode Island put it recently.
But neuroscientists are bolstering Farmer's arguments with new insights into the linkages between hand and brain, and numerous teachers are applauding a program of handwriting exercises she has developed for classroom use.
"We have fewer interruptions, a calmer atmosphere and improved work habits. But more important, they are "suddenly' reading better. It really seems to work,'' marveled Linda Peters, a special education teacher at Carson Elementary School in Denver.
"I believe it contributes to children's ability to become focused, to do something for five minutes and to get ready to begin their lessons in reading and math. All I know is it settles them down so they can attend to the task at hand,'' agreed Evelyn Hunter, a first-grade teacher at Gilpin School, also in Denver.
Farmer, a folksy woman who markets her "WriteBrain Potential'' workbooks from her home in southeast Denver (and through her Web site at www.retrainthebrain.com), has been exploring the relationship between the hand and brain since the mid-1970s. A certified graphologist, she has written several monographs on the subject and served two terms as editor of the American Handwriting Analysis Foundation Journal.
Her hand-movement exercises, inspired by the old Palmer "push-pulls'' and "running o<|fim_middle|> and '70s by Stanford psychologist Walter Mischel and colleagues.
In it, a number of 4-year-olds were told they could have two marshmallows if they could wait until the researcher returned; if not, they could have one marshmallow right then.
Tracked down when they graduated from high school, those who had been able to endure frustration and delay gratification as preschoolers were found to be more socially competent, effective and productive than the others.
In fact, the ability to control impulses predicted a 210-point advantage in SAT scores 14 years later. | vals,'' invite children to fill the lines on worksheets with rows of tepees, horse shoes, chimneys, loop-de-loops and other patterns.
Generally, the exercises are performed for only a few minutes a day, usually the first thing in the morning but sometimes in the afternoon as well.
"Although the repetitive movement process stimulates the whole brain, it especially impacts the left brain - the "brain that goes to school,' where comprehension of spoken and written language and writing capacities are located,'' Farmer states in the introduction to her workbook for children in kindergarten through second grade.
One teacher who used the materials in a ninth-grade class of learning disabled students last year, Kris Leaver of Gossfield, Wis., reported that at the end of the term, 10 of the 14 involved scored better than the expected half-year gain in reading ability for their age group.
In Denver, Evelyn Hunter said her inner-city first-graders got similarly encouraging results on the reading portion of last year's Iowa tests of basic skills, recording an average score of 74 points - a dramatic increase over the previous year. But she attributed this to "a very intensive phonetic literature program I use called Open Court'' rather than to twice a day handwriting sessions.
At the privately run Parker Montessori Educational Institute in Parker, which began using Farmer's materials on an experimental basis this fall, director Susan Parkinson said it is too early to judge their effectiveness.
Sharon Ford, a proponent of Farmer's theories who teaches educational administration at the University of Colorado at Denver, zeroed in on the potential benefits that expanded handwriting practice might offer in the post-Columbine era.
But the literacy coordinator for the Colorado Department of Education, Stevi Quate, challenged Farmer's conclusions, noting that "I've also seen switches in kids' moods'' when they're asked to sit down and write with music playing in the background without any exercises.
In support of her argument that impulse control is an important side benefit of writing in longhand, Jeanette Farmer cites a study done in the 1960s | 423 |
With a backdrop of the D'aguilar Range and surrounded by an expanse of parkland and reserves, The Gap is a haven surrounded by green, which makes it hard to believe you are only 8km from the bright lights of the city.
Combining the convenience of an urban environment with a social community lifestyle, Greenhills by Mosaic delivers a unique, inspired and integrated residential development.
All the homes in this idyllic haven make clever use of integrated indoor and outdoor living spaces to maximise privacy and space, providing plenty of room for the kids to play or the dog to run. With all the advantages of a traditional family home without the ongoing maintenance, Greenhills presents an appealing housing option for many households, attracting a vibrant and varied mix of residents.
This inviting community is only 8kms from the CBD and the<|fim_middle|>, Bardon and Paddington. With first class schools and numerous outdoor recreation options, as well as easy access to quality retail and entertainment venues, this leafy urban retreat will appeal to residents from all walks of life.
With its stylish design, luxurious interiors and convenient location with numerous lifestyle choices, Greenhills by Mosaic incorporates the finest aspects of comfortable, contemporary urban living. | city-fringe hot spots of Rosalie | 8 |
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Home Page > From Our Blog > CityU offers bachelor of arts in management to those hoping to complete a degree and earn a promotion (Georgia Straight Aug 17, 2017)
CityU offers bachelor of arts in management to those hoping to complete a degree and earn a promotion (Georgia Straight Aug 17, 2017)
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We were thrilled to receive not only one article in the recent Georgia Straight Education feature, but two! This piece, which appeared Aug 17, 2017 in the Georgia Straight, explains our recently launch Bachelor of Arts in Management (BAM) program, with a special emphasis on Socially and Environmentally Responsible Management.
With our prime minister on the cover of the Rolling Stone, British Columbian's having elected a government that is supported by the Green party, renegotiating NAFTA with uncertain outcomes, climate change, and dizzying developments in technology and artificial intelligence, management education needs to keep up with how times are changing – with sustainability and ethics as a core piece.
In the Georgia Straight article, Arden Henley, Principal of Canadian Programs explains how the BAM program is uniquely positioned in the marketplace<|fim_middle|> that if they become a leader or a supervisor, they know what the basics are and they know where to find them," Hanley said.
You can read the entire article as it originally appeared in the Georgia Straight HERE. | , and how enabling people with a two-year college or technical institute education or two years of undergraduate university training are able to leverage credits to FINISH a four-year degree.
Georgia Straight Aug 17 article:
Back in 1964, singer-songwriter Bob Dylan captured the mood of millions when he released his anthem for his generation, "The Times They Are a-Changin' ". And some might feel it's as fresh today as it was back then, given the magnitude of transformations taking place right now.
"We have the prime minister on the cover of Rolling Stone," Arden Hanley, principal of Canadian programs at City University of Seattle in Canada, told the Straight by phone. "British Columbians elected a government that's supported by the Green party. We're about to renegotiate NAFTA, and the outcomes are uncertain.
"We know we've got to reach the two-degree [Celsius] level in terms of climate change," Hanley continued, "and if we let it go over that, the results will be catastrophic."
Then there are dizzying developments in technology, nanotechnology, and quantum computing, not to mention the rising influence of artificial intelligence.
"So from our point of view, this demands a fresh approach and a new sensitivity and awareness in business and management," Hanley said.
An electric car in charging on the street
This is the backdrop for CityU in Canada—as the school is also called—creating a new bachelor of arts in management degree. Known as the BAM, it enables people with a two-year college or technical-institute education or two years of undergraduate university training to leverage those credits to complete a four-year degree.
The school operates on a quarterly system and offers small class sizes—typically 12 to 15 students in the BAM program. "There's going to be lots of opportunity to interact not only with the instructor but also with your fellow students," Hanley said.
As with CityU in Canada's graduate degrees in counselling and education, ethics and environmental sustainability are embedded in the BAM curriculum. Instructors are practitoners in their fields, and the faculty includes a marketing expert and a former chief financial officer.
Accordig to Hanley, program director Tom Culham worked for years in senior management in the lumber industry before obtaining a PhD in education. His thesis formed the basis for his 2013 book, Ethics Education of Business Leaders: Emotional Intelligence, Virtues, and Contemplative Learning.
"Historically, ethics has been thought of as a rational decision-making process," Hanley said. "But what research in neuroscience has shown is that our emotional lives play an important role in decision-making."
That's because during periods of stress, signals from the emotional centre of the brain—the limbic system—can override the prefrontal cortex, which governs rational thought. Hanley emphasized that it's important for managers to understand the importance of "self-regulation" to deal with these episodes.
"Tom has incorporated emotional awareness in his ethical-decision-making model and instruction," he added. "I think that's really cool."
So who is best suited for the BAM program? Hanley cited the example of a person with a two-year diploma who has progressed to a supervisory position or started their own business.
"You need to know the basics of management: how to read a financial statement, market a service, or get to know the key HR issues in hiring. A degree makes sense to you now," he said. "And you want to manage in a fair and ethical way. The BAM is for you."
Then he cited another example: a person with a sociology degree who is supervising a program for at-risk youth for a small nonprofit organization. This person knows that the employer sees him or her as management material.
"You want to learn how it's done by professionals," Hanley said. "You also ride your bike to work and you care deeply about climate change. The BAM is for you."
The program also deals with employment standards and other labour-relations issues.
"We're going to provide people with the basics so | 828 |
Mary Thomas shows off a computer monitor that displays the results of daily readings of vital signs taken by patients in their homes via a monitoring system, which transmits the data to a nurse.
It's been called "the stethoscope of the future," but the future is already here when it comes to telemedicine. This technology, which essentially refers to any kind of remote monitoring of patients, is used in a range of settings, from home health care agencies and visiting-nurse associations that track the vital signs of patients with chronic diseases to hospitals that use telemedicine in their emergency rooms to diagnose stroke victims. Proponents say the technology is helping people live longer, and more independently, while reducing the overall cost of health care.
Last summer Edna Ogulewicz had triple bypass surgery. When the 83-year-old returned home from the<|fim_middle|>gulewicz is one of many people in the U.S. who are becoming more confident about caring for themselves and their chronic conditions as a result of telemedicine.
The technology is used locally in several settings. Many home health care agencies and visiting-nurse associations have deployed home telemonitoring systems to track the vital signs of their patients who have chronic diseases.
In addition, physicians at Baystate Franklin Medical Center and Baystate Mary Lane Hospital are using telemedicine in their emergency rooms with stroke victims.
"Telehealth is the stethoscope of the future that enables people to get information in a quick and efficient way," said Mary Thomas, director of Homecare Operations for Baystate Health System's Visiting Nurse Assoc.
In November 2009, the Journal of the American College of Cardiology published the results of the largest analysis ever conducted to measure the effectiveness of telehealth monitoring in patients with heart failure. They found that using the monitoring systems reduced mortality rates by 28% on average and reduced the rate of rehospitalizations for heart failure by 26% on average. That figure is significant, since people with congestive heart failure typically undergo multiple hospitalizations.
And this year, the government launched a new initiative focused on congestive heart failure through home telemonitoring to keep people with the disease out of the hospital. "Congestive heart failure is one of the biggest reasons for hospitalization and rehospitalization in patients over 65, which adds to the cost of health care," said Sheryle Marceau, manager of clinical practice for Mercy Home Health.
"Patients often don't understand why they ended up in the hospital or what they need to do to to prevent rehospitalization," said Thomas.
But they learn quickly with telemonitoring, as a nurse visits their home several times a week to talk about what their daily readings mean. In addition, they are called by the telehealth nurse whenever their readings fall outside of the parameters their doctor has determined is acceptable for them.
"One of the great things is the feedback the patient gets immediately. It's a real cause-and-effect type of learning and helps them stay out of the hospital. Plus, most patients love it because it gives them a sense of security knowing that someone is keeping an eye on them," Marceau said.
Sue Pickett agrees that the system works to prevent problems and educate patients. "We are trying to catch things before there is a full flareup, and telemonitoring can give us a sign that something may be wrong," said the registered nurse and executive director of Mercy Home Health Care.
Most patients assigned to Mercy's system use it for an average of 60 days. If there is a problem, the nurse calls and asks the person how they are feeling. In some instances, the patient is asked to take their blood pressure or other vital signs again, and at that point the nurse determines whether the situation warrants a home visit, a call to their doctor, or, in extreme cases, a trip to the emergency room. Telemedicine also benefits physicians, as they can access two months of daily monitoring results, Pickett said.
Many patients have more than one diagnosis, which can be overwhelming for them to understand. But monitoring makes a difference.
"If this can help them learn how to manage their conditions, it empowers them to have better control over their lives, which means a better quality of life with more time spent at home and less in the hospital," Pickett said. She added that elderly patients using the system are asking more questions, and the knowledge they gain allows them to become more proactive about their own health.
It also has a ripple effect by reducing the cost of health care. "We know how to get people to live longer, but this results in chronic disease that needs to be managed better in order to not use up our health care resources," Pickett said.
Right now, Baystate is using its system strictly for people with cardiac conditions while Mercy uses its telemonitoring units for patients with congestive heart failure, as well as emphysema or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
Mercy also has a patient using the equipment to monitor her blood pressure. "If it goes up, the doctor can adjust her medicine right away," said Marceau. Additional equipment can be added to monitor low blood sugar or temperature, and even to allow people to do an EKG at home.
Baystate Franklin Medical Center and Baystate Mary Lane Hospital are primary stroke centers. In order to earn that designation, a hospital must have a neurologist on staff around the clock. These community hospitals accomplish that through the use of telehealth technology at Baystate Medical Center.
If a person comes into the emergency room at one of the two community hospitals exhibiting stroke symptoms (which can include a sudden change in vision, garbled or slurred speech, numbness of the face, weak arms or legs, weakness on one side of the body, trouble walking, or dizziness or a headache that comes on without cause), and if the emergency-room physician thinks the person is having a stroke, they will be given a CT scan, and a neurologist can come on the scene if there is not one in house — remotely, through the use of telehealth technology.
This allows people who live far from major medical centers to access the options offered at one.
Thomas concurred. "Technology of the future will enable people to get information in a quick and efficient way," she said — no matter how far away they are. | hospital, she didn't know how to monitor her own recovery.
But thanks to the home-based telemonitoring system used by Mercy Home Care, a member of the Sisters of Providence Health System in Springfield, a nurse was able to see the octogenarian's weight, blood pressure, and oxygen saturation every day via a computer screen without having to visit her home.
Ogulewicz was given a special blood-pressure cuff, a clip to attach to her finger to measure her oxygen, an oversized scale, and a small base unit which was plugged into the wall and into her home phone line.
Every morning between 6:30 and 7 a.m., she took her blood pressure, weighed herself, and used the oxygen monitor. That information was immediately transmitted to a central monitoring station and then to a secure Web site where a Mercy telehealth nurse could see the readings and determine whether there were any signs of trouble.
One day, when the scale showed she had gained a few pounds, the nurse called her and, after discussing what she had eaten the previous day, determined it was the result of consuming too much sodium. "It's nice to have someone watching you," Ogulewicz said, adding she found the system so beneficial that she told her doctor it would be great for all of his patients.
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Robert and Eleanor Romadka are committed, first of all, to one another – they have been married for 65 years. And they are deeply committed to Catholic education and their community. They have been leading donors to The Catholic High School of<|fim_middle|> President of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel School, cites the many ways in which the Romadkas have helped. "They have done everything," he said, "from financing fundraising events to contributing to the purchase of smart boards for our classrooms." Perhaps more importantly, the Romadkas have done a great deal to support tuition assistance grants for families who wish to send their children to the school. | Baltimore, Mrs. Romadka's alma mater – in 2001, for instance, funding the renovation of the school library – and for five decades, have done their part to support Our Lady of Mt. Carmel School. In the 1960's, Robert became a member of the school's advisory board, a role he still maintains today, and in the early 1970's, he and Mrs. Romadka donated funds to establish a media center and library at the school.
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He's the quiet type. I covered him for five of his seasons with the Pacers, and never really got to<|fim_middle|> the perfect behind-the-scenes type who did the dirty work. Remember, he was the guy who inbounded the ball to Rik Smits for his famous game-winning shot against Orlando in the playoffs, as well as to Reggie Miller for his famous game-winning shot against Chicago in the playoffs. Coaches always seemed to make a point of having him on the court at the end of a close game, whether he had started or not.
More than likely, this will be the longest conversation you've ever heard from him. It will be worth your time. He's always interesting with whom to talk basketball. He's a good guy, too. When Rob Hummel was sitting out a season at Purdue with a knee injury, McKey followed me up to Mackey Arena one day to watch practice and talk with him awhile. | know him. He became much more talkative after he retired, and always made for interesting conversation. Part of his motivation for this studio conversation was to promote his upcoming basketball camp, but he was willing to discuss everything else, too.
Most fans don't realize how good McKey was when he entered the NBA. Check out the YouTube highlights that aired when he was drafted — ahead of Reggie Miller, by the way — in 1987. He wasn't really healthy when he came to the Pacers in a trade for Detlef Schrempf, and it only got worse from there. One could make a good argument that the Pacers would have won the NBA championship in 1998 if he had been healthier. He played, but was limited. Perhaps he could have held Michael Jordan to a few less points in Game 7 had he been healthier.
McKey never scored enough to suit fans – or coach Larry Brown – but he's the second-best defender the Pacers have ever had, behind Ron Artest. And Artest gets the nod simply because he was so much stronger and healthier when he played for the Pacers. McKey also was | 234 |
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"Screening for Breast Cancer with Mammography" (2013), by Peter Gøtzsche and Karsten Jørgensen
Screening for Breast Cancer with Mammography is a Cochrane systematic review originally published by Peter Gøtzsche and Karsten Jørgensen in 2001 and updated multiple times by 2013. In the 2013 article, the authors discuss the reliability of the results from different clinical trials involving mammography and provide their conclusions about whether mammography screening is useful in preventing deaths from breast cancer.
Subject: Publications
Hydrocephalus During Infancy
Hydrocephalus is a congenital or acquired disorder characterized by the abnormal accumulation of cerebrospinal fluid within the cavities of the brain, called ventricles. The accumulation of cerebrospinal fluid, the clear fluid surrounding the brain and spinal cord, causes an abnormal widening of the ventricles. The widening creates potentially harmful pressure on the tissues of the brain that can result in brain damage or death.
Subject: Disorders
John Chassar Moir (1900–1977)
John Chassar Moir lived in Scotland during the twentieth century and helped develop techniques to improve the health of pregnant women. Moir helped to discover compounds that doctors could administer to women after childbirth to prevent life-threatening blood loss. Those compounds included the ergot alkaloid called ergometrine, also called ergonovine, and d-lysergic acid beta-propanolamide. Moir tested ergometrine in postpartum patients and documented that it helped prevent or manage postpartum hemorrhage in women.
Subject: People, Reproduction, Disorders
Robert Guthrie (1916–1995)
Robert Guthrie developed a method to test infants for phenylketonuria (PKU) in the United States during the twentieth century. PKU is an inherited condition that causes an amino acid called phenylalanine to build to toxic levels in the blood. Untreated, PKU causes mental disabilities. Before Guthrie's test, physicians rarely tested infants for PKU and struggled to diagnosis it. Guthrie's test enabled newborns to be quickly and cheaply screened at birth and then treated for PKU if necessary, preventing irreversible neurological damage.
Katharina Dorothea Dalton (1916–2004)
Katharina Dorothea Dalton was a physician in England in the twentieth century who defined premenstrual syndrome (PMS) as a cluster of symptoms suspected to begin one to two weeks before menstruation and disappear upon the onset of a new menstrual cycle. Prior to Dalton, there was little research on pre-menstrual issues and those that existed linked the problem to excessive water retention or estrogen. Dalton hypothesized that PMS resulted from a deficiency in the hormone progesterone and advocated for hormone replacement therapy to lessen the symptoms of the syndrome.
"Pelvic Organ Prolapse Quantification System (POP-Q) - A New Era in Pelvic Prolapse Staging" (<|fim_middle|>, first begins. The node determines and patterns the anterior-posterior axis of the embryo by directing the development of the chordamesoderm. The chordamesoderm is a specific type of mesoderm that will differentiate into the notochord, somites, and neural tube. Those structures will later form the vertebral column.
"The Multi-Dimensional Human Embryo"
The Multi-Dimensional Human Embryo website (http://embryo.soad.umich.edu/) is a publicly accessible online database of the first three-dimensional images and animations of human embryos during different stages of development. Both the images and animations were created using magnetic resonance microscopy and compiled for easy access.
Subject: Outreach, Organizations
Chemical Induction
Research in chemical induction seeks to identify the compound or compounds responsible for differentiation in a developing embryo. Soren Lovtrup compared the search for these compounds to the search for the philosopher's stone. It was based on the assumption that the differentiating agents have to be chemical substances either within cells or in the extracellular matrix.
"Experiments on the Development of Chick and Duck Embryos, Cultivated in vitro" (1932), by Conrad Hal Waddington
Conrad Hal Waddington's "Experiments on the Development of Chick and Duck Embryos, Cultivated in vitro," published in 1932 in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series B, compares the differences in the development of birds and amphibians. Previous experiments focused on the self differentiation of individual tissues in birds, but Waddington wanted to study induction in greater detail. The limit to these studies had been the amount of time an embryo could be successfully cultivated ex vivo.
Wilhelm His, Sr. (1831-1904)
Wilhelm His, Sr. was born on 9 July 1831 in Basel, Switzerland, to Katharina La Roche and Eduard His. He began his medical studies at Basel in 1849 and later transferred to the University of Bern during the winter semester of 1849-1850. A year later, His arrived at the University of Berlin, where he studied under Johannes Müller and Robert Remak. For his clinical training, His attended the University of Würzburg from 1852-1853.
Edward B. Lewis (1918-2004)
Edward B. Lewis studied embryonic development in Drosophila, including the discovery of the cis-trans test for recessive genes, and the identification of the bithorax complex and its role in development in Drosophila. He shared the 1995 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard and Eric F. Wieschaus for work on genetic control of early embryonic development. | 2011), by Cristian Persu, Christopher Chapple, Victor Cauni, Stefan Gutue, and Petrisor Geavlete
In 2011, Cristian Persu, Christopher Chapple, Victor Cauni, Stefan Gutue, and Petrisor Geavlete published "Pelvic Organ Prolapse Quantification System (POP-Q) – A New Era in Pelvic Prolapse Staging," in the Journal of Medicine and Life. In their article, the authors explain the need for a reliable diagnostic method for describing the state of a pelvic organ prolapse, or a condition that can result from weakness or damage to the muscles that support the pelvic organs, sometimes leading to bladder, bowel, and sexual dysfunction.
Subject: Publications, Processes, Reproduction
Walter Schiller (1887–1960)
Walter Schiller studied the causes of diseases in the US and Austria in the early twentieth century and in 1928, invented the Schiller test, or a way to diagnose early cervical cancer in women. Cervical cancer is the uncontrollable division of cells in the cervix, or lower part of the uterus. While living in Austria until his emigration to escape the Nazis in 1937, Schiller concluded that there was a form of cervical cancer, later named carcinoma in situ, that physicians could detect earlier than when tumors start to appear.
Jane Maienschein (1950- )
Jane Maienschein is the daughter of Joyce Kylander and Fred Maienschein, and was born in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, on 23 September 1950. She attended MIT as a freshman and then transferred to Yale University in 1969 when Yale decided to admit women undergraduates. In 1972 she graduated with an honors degree in History, the Arts, and Letters having written a thesis on the history of science. She then attended Indiana University and studied with historian of embryology Frederick B.
Enovid: The First Hormonal Birth Control Pill
Enovid was the first hormonal birth control pill. G. D. Searle and Company began marketing Enovid as a contraceptive in 1960. The technology was created by the joint efforts of many individuals and organizations, including Margaret Sanger, Katharine McCormick, Gregory Pincus, John Rock, Syntex, S.A. Laboratories, and G.D. Searle and Company Laboratories.
Subject: Technologies, Reproduction
Twin-to-Twin Transfusion Syndrome
Twin-to-Twin Transfusion Syndrome (TTTS) is a rare placental disease that can occur at any time during pregnancy involving identical twins. TTTS occurs when there is an unequal distribution of placental blood vessels between fetuses, which leads to a disproportionate supply of blood delivered. This unequal allocation of blood leads to developmental problems in both fetuses that can range in severity depending on the type, direction, and number of interconnected blood vessels.
Subject: Disorders, Reproduction
Quickening, the point at which a pregnant woman can first feel the movements of the growing embryo or fetus, has long been considered a pivotal moment in pregnancy. Over time, this experience has been used in a variety of contexts, ranging from representing the point of ensoulment to determining whether an abortion was legal to indicating the gender of the unborn baby; philosophy, theology, and law all address the idea of quickening in detail. Beginning with Aristotle, quickening divided the developmental stages of embryo and fetus.
Subject: Processes, Ethics, Reproduction
Father Frank Pavone (1959- )
Father Frank Pavone, a key proponent of the Roman Catholic Church's pro-life movement, has devoted his life's work to ending abortion, euthanasia, embryonic stem cell research, and other techniques and procedures that he believes threaten human life from conception to death. His contributions to the pro-life movement include founding a new religious order called the Missionaries of the Gospel of Life and participating in high-profile protests and television interviews for the pro-life cause.
Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519)
Leonardo da Vinci was born on 15 April 1452, the illegitimate son of a young peasant girl by the name of Caterina and Ser Piero da Vinci, a well-renowned Florentine notary. Leonardo lived in Italy in the town of Vinci until his late teens and received a simple education in reading and writing as well as some training in mathematics and engineering. Although he was socially excluded by birthright from almost every profession and prohibited from attending any formal university, Leonardo went on to become a celebrated scientist, artist, and engineer.
Otto Mangold (1891-1962)
Otto Mangold was an early twentieth century embryologist who specialized in the development of amphibian embryos. A major emphasis of his research was refining the concept of the organizer, now referred to as embryonic induction. He was born on 4 November 1891 in Auenstein, Germany, and came from what Viktor Hamburger, a colleague and personal acquaintance, described as "peasant stock." Mangold attended several universities including Tübingen, Freiburg, and Rostock.
The term morphogenesis generally refers to the processes by which order is created in the developing organism. This order is achieved as differentiated cells carefully organize into tissues, organs, organ systems, and ultimately the organism as a whole. Questions centered on morphogenesis have aimed to uncover the mechanisms responsible for this organization, and developmental biology textbooks have identified morphogenesis as one of the main challenges in the field. The concept of morphogenesis is intertwined with those of differentiation, growth, and reproduction.
Subject: Processes
August Antonius Rauber (1841-1917)
August Antonius Rauber was an embryologist and anatomist who examined gastrulation in avian embryos. He examined the formation of the blastopore, epiblast, and primitive streak during chick development. Subsequent researchers have further studied Rauber's findings, which has led to new discoveries in embryology and developmental biology.
Hensen's Node
A node, or primitive knot, is an enlarged group of cells located in the anterior portion of the primitive streak in a developing gastrula. The node is the site where gastrulation, the formation of the three germ layers | 1,314 |
On Friday's podcast, I closed out the show with "Pic's Picks" (1:41:00) for NFL Week 4. Plus, the debut of our new "Daily Fantasy Sports" segment (16:30) with Millionaire Winner Rob Gomes. Also, the one and only Slaine joined me in-studio<|fim_middle|> linebacker and Super Bowl champion Matt Chatham joined the show (46 minutes in). I also reacted to Brad Marchand's contract extension with the Boston Bruins, and discussed the MLB Postseason race and the Red Sox' 11-game win streak.
On Friday's podcast, I reacted to the New England Patriots' 27-0 win over the Houston Texans on Thursday Night Football. Plus, I gave "Pic's Picks" for Week 3, discussed the current MLB playoff race, and shared some thoughts on Kevin Garnett's retirement.
On Monday's podcast, I reacted to all of Sunday's NFL action, including the Patriots' win over Miami. I discussed the loss of Jimmy Garoppolo to injury, and flipped out about some of the quarterback names that people are throwing out. Plus, thoughts on the Red Sox' sweep of the Yankees, and a look at the MLB playoff race.
On Friday's podcast, I gave my picks for Week 2 in the NFL. Plus, some thoughts on the MLB playoff race, including the Red Sox' weekend series with the New York Yankees. That and more.
On Friday, the podcast returned with a new schedule and an update on the future. Plus, an NFL Week 1 preview, thoughts on the MLB Postseason race, and "Pic's Picks" returns for the football season. All that and more. | (41:00) to discuss his new EP and talk Boston sports. And my reaction to the Bengals' win over the Dolphins on Thursday Night Football, the Yankees' ceremony for David Ortiz, and more.
On Monday's podcast, I reacted to all of Week 3 in the NFL and gave the results of "Pic's Picks." Plus, former New England Patriots | 76 |
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Commercial vehicles play a key role in our economy. And in the coming years, electrification of these vehicles will rapidly accelerate as auto manufacturers are required to meet stringent emission regulation legislation.
For operators facing the decision of which commercial e-vehicle to purchase, it's crucial to choose a fleet that<|fim_middle|> maintenance and treatments carried out during a vehicle's pre-scheduled downtime or during an overnight stop.
5.Reducing fleet size & space consumption – Thanks to REE's technology, operators can reduce their fleet size and space consumption. REEBoard provides 67% more space for batteries and cargo compared to a conventional ICE van, so not only do REE-powered EV vehicles provide longer range and carry more goods per journey, they also have a smaller footprint, allowing operators to reduce warehouse and parking space and the attendant accrued expenses.
REEBoard's flat platform is also easily accessible from all sides, making it that much easier and faster to load and unload cargo, reducing the time and effort required to prep a vehicle for delivery.
REE is disrupting age-old concepts relating to vehicle servicing, maintenance and repairs, enabling fleet managers and operators to dramatically reduce TCO, and ensuring that vehicles will continue to serve as the backbone of modern-day societies.
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Building upon REE's next gen EV platform allows fleet operators globally to realize major benefits and cost savings.
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2.Extending an e-van's lifecycle – REEcorner's innovative technology guarantees that all REEcorner components can be serviced without the need to overhaul the entire vehicle, while over-the-air (OTA) updates facilitate instantaneous software upgrades, boosting a vehicle's functionality. By delivering these inherent advantages, REE-powered e-vans have an average lifecycle of 9-10 years vs. the typical 8-year average for a typical van.
3.Decreasing Mean Repair Time (MRT) – REE's smart EV platform enables fleet managers to dramatically reduce MRT and realize major cost savings.
Having just one van off the road can cost a company as much as $1000 a day. And with fleets averaging up to six days of unplanned Vehicle Off Road (VOR) incidents a year – in addition to three days of planned vehicle service and maintenance – downtime carries a heavy price tag when extrapolated across millions of vehicles. When there's vehicle downtime, a company incurs heavy repair and/or replacement fees and loss of earnings.
Each REEcorner can be serviced and replaced individually, and a new module can be installed in less than 20 minutes. In a traditional ICE or a typical electric vehicle, this would necessitate a tow truck and a visit to the repair shop bearing heavy mechanical costs and loss of driver time.
4.Preventive maintenance for reduced costs – REE's corner technology not only reduces vehicle downtime, but also significantly reduces maintenance times and costs. Secure, over-the-air updates are a key part of the REE offering, facilitating offline | 553 |
The Olympic motto ("Faster, Higher, Stronger") was practiced Saturday by Sharon Day-Monroe (high jumping above) and seven other athletes during the Thoreson 30-Minute Decathlon. The event memorialized Dave Thoreson, who was an All-American high jumper in 1962-63 at Westmont College. Day-Monroe, the first woman to try the accelerated decathlon, finished third behind Curtis Beach and Tom FitzSimons.
When the sun broke through the clouds over Montecito, Jim Sobieszczyk said, "I can feel his presence." He was talking about Dave Thoreson, the namesake of the Thoreson 30-Minute Decathlon, which had eight athletes rushing through 10 events (100 meters, long jump, shot put, high jump, 400 meters, 110 hurdles, discus throw, pole vault, javelin throw, 1500 meters) at the Westmont College track last Saturday morning.
They had 30 minutes to go from the first event to the last, as ordained by Thoreson when he invented the competition in 1971. The former Westmont All-American was a legendary innovator throughout his career in athletics and as a PE teacher at La Colina Junior High. He died last October in Lynchburg, Virginia.
"His death really affected me," said Sobieszczyk, who traveled from Bend, Oregon, to join five generations of multi-eventers who spent their young adult lives in Santa Barbara, grinding away at one of the most difficult and least remunerative sporting endeavors.
Unable to make the trip was Bill Toomey, the only Santa Barbara–based decathlete to make the Olympic podium. He was the gold medal winner at the 1968 Mexico City Games. He lives in North Lake Tahoe and celebrated his 80th birthday last Thursday.
Toomey, Thoreson, and several others shared an Isla Vista apartment while they trained at UCSB, where the late Sam Adams, a decathlete himself, was track-and-field coach.
To run faster, he tied himself to the back bumper of a<|fim_middle|> He set up an obstacle course that helped Tami and many others develop as athletes.
Saturday's revival of the 30-minute decathlon brought several hundred spectators to Westmont. Curtis Beach, a former NCAA champion from Duke, posted a winning score of 6,242 points. He had a close miss at 4.40 meters (14'5¼") in the pole vault that would have brought him 209 points closer to the U.S. record of 6,526 set by John Warkentin at UCSB in 1977.
Especially challenging was the transition from the 400 meters to the hurdles. In a usual two-day decathlon, those events are separated by a night's sleep. "My hamstrings are burning," said Travis Smelley, a recent Westmont grad, after running the hurdles.
Then it was off to the discus throw.
COURT OF CHAMPS AND HALL OF FORESTER FAME: Saturday, January 26, will be a banner day for devotees of Westmont College basketball and Santa Barbara Foresters baseball. Before Westmont's 3 p.m. men's game against visiting Arizona Christian, there will be a short ceremony welcoming the late Tom Byron into the Santa Barbara Court of Champions. The Foresters will fete two of their former players (major leaguer Jeff McNeil and Aaron Gordnier), as well as front-office whiz Pat Burns, during their annual Hall of Fame celebration beginning at 5 p.m. at the Carriage Museum.
Byron was a beloved Westmont coach and athletic director whose life was cut short by cancer. He died on February 3, 1972, and the very next day, the emotionally charged Warriors scored a historic 90-89 victory over Hawai'i, the nation's 14th-ranked NCAA Division 1 team. Byron's widow, Dorothy Byron, will be on hand to receive the accolade of the Court of Champions, which has honored more than 60 prominent individuals in regional basketball since 2014.
The latest additions also include former players Ron Anderson (SBCC 1980-82), Mort Hill (UCSB 1939-43), and Doug Rex (UCSB 1968-72); and Shirley Zion Otto, major supporter of the Santa Barbara Islanders, a record-breaking Continental Basketball Association team in 1989-90.
McNeil, a member of the Foresters' 2011 National Baseball Congress championship team, earned a starting spot in the New York Mets infield while hitting .329 last season. Gordnier was a standout for the club in 1996-97, and Burns helped head coach Bill Pintard lay the groundwork for what has become the winningest team in NBC World Series history.
Tickets for the Hall of Fame gathering, including food and drink, cost $50 for adults and $15 for ages 7-13 (6 and younger free). See sbforesters.org. | car driven by Paul Herman, another Westmont athlete who placed fourth in the 1964 Olympics decathlon. Thoreson's strides lengthened as he got up to full speed, but the car slowed when Herman shifted gears, and Thoreson slammed into the trunk.
His daughter, Tami Thoreson Orozco, came down from Fresno, where she is a teacher and coach. When she attended La Colina, she said her father drove through the hallways and let her off at her classroom door. | 107 |
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It was calm enough to do some ringing at the obs this morning, but yet again the forecast of the previous evening was for it to be a good deal windier than it was! At first light I had complete cloud cover with a light SSW wind.
I did my usual walk around the patch and it was fairly quiet. There were very few grounded migrants around, or at least they weren't obvious (quite a few Dunnocks, Robins and Wrens; but were they migrants?), other than three Song Thrushes that spiralled out of the sky and a single calling Goldcrest in the dunes.
Visible migration was similarly lack lustre with just four Alba Wags, 26 Meadow Pipits, four Chaffinches, twelve Starlings and a Reed Bunting. 'Other' birds included just 14 Pink-footed Geese dropping into the farm fields to feed, a single Kestrel flying the only raptor flag and a flock of 26 Greenfinches in the Japanese Rose patch.
Pied Wagtail
Out on the sea the best bird was a male Velvet Scoter drifting out on the falling tide. In fact the only other bird I had on the sea other than two Cormorants was a single Guillemot and a 'none bird' in the form of an Atlantic Grey Seal.
I'm not sure yet what to do in the morning as the weather is a bit iffy and being a bit of a 'petrol head' I want to watch the Japanese Moto GP and Indian F1 GP. I'll have to give it some thought and consult the weather Gods!
Tree Sparrow Numbers Increasing
It was pouring down again when I visited my feeding station this morning but just in case there was another goodie lurking I kept my bins with me and didn't leave them in the car. However I can report that I didn't see or should I say hear anything scarce!
It was pleasing to note though, that the Tree Sparrows had increased to 90 and there was also 10 Chaffinches and a single Great Spotted Woodpecker. Other single bird sightings were of a Buzzard and a Snipe.
I should manage a stagger around the obs tomorrow as the forecast rain isn't coming in until the afternoon, but it less clear what's happening to the weather on Sunday or Monday, other than a spot of seawatching might be in order!
An Hour On The Estuary
I gave myself an hour or so off this morning and headed down to the estuary just after it got light. It was a glorious morning with clear skies and a fairly light southeasterly wind. The wind was lighter than forecast and I could have been out ringing this morning, but hey ho that's how it goes some times.
Walking along the Hawthorn path a number of Chaffinches and Robins were calling and as I looked over the field to my left a Barn Owl was hunting over the rank grassland and reeds. Just as I lifted my bins in dropped to the ground and presumably on to some prey item.
I bumped in to Ian who was ringing in a sheltered spot in the scrub but was surprisingly catching very little which made feel a little better about missing a ringing opportunity this morning. There were a few birds moving over and I thought that on the coast the 'vis' would probably be quite good. Over the estuary heading south and in the short time I was there I had 35 Meadow Pipits, three Goldfinches, a Chaffinch, 28 Skylarks, and two Alba Wags.
I walked across the saltmarsh to get a good view of the estuary and had 40 Redshanks, 162 Lapwings, 31 Curlews, 128 Pink-footed Geese, 194 Teal, 176 Wigeon and two Rock Pipits. I headed over to look on the pool and had a female Sparrowhawk being mobbed by two Carrion Crows, and on the pool the most numerous species was Little Grebe and I had a count of thirteen.
Lapwings
Pink-footed Geese leaving their estuarine roost
It was now time to head back home and do some work, which was a shame because I could have lingered on the estuary for hours as they are such magical places especially on a day like today.
Couldn't you just linger here?
Feeding Station Surprise
I had no birding planned today as I had to go to the seed merchants, where I purchase my bird seed for the winter for my feeding station, and then at teatime I'm off to Manchester to see prog rock legends Camel in concert! On my way back from the seed merchants I called in at my feeding station to drop off a few of the sacks of seed and to do a feed.
It was pouring with rain as I headed off with my bucket of seed and I was pleased when I found 51 Tree Sparrows, six Chaffinches and a Fieldfare at the feeding station. As I was putting the seed out a mixed party of Blue, Great and Long-tailed Tits moved along the hedge and then immediately behind me calling away from the hedge was a very vocal Yellow-browed Warbler (how different to the almost silent bird at the obs a couple of weeks ago). I caught a fleeting glimpse of it as it reached the end of the hedge and crossed over to another hedge perpendicular to this one and it headed south along the hedge with the Tits.
Not surprisingly this was a first record for the site and an unexpected bonus on a wet and dreary morning. The only down side was that I made the school boy error and left my bins in the car thinking I wouldn't need them!
The weekend weather Gods..........
..........seemed to conspire against me this weekend leading to no birding yesterday and very little this morning. I attempted to bird my patch twice yesterday but each time I aborted because of heavy rain.
This morning when I got up it was dry but I could see cloud cover developing. By the time I was at the southern bit of the obs it was raining slightly. However, I set off on my walk and tried to make the most of it, but an hour in to my walk the heavens opened and I had to make a hasty retreat. 'Sod's law' dictated that back home the cloud cover would break and the sun would come out and it did!
Back to my wet relatively birdless walk then. At first light a few Fieldfare and Redwings were going over heading south and this was all I had on 'vis' other than four Meadow Pipits, 15 Alba Wagtails, a Reed Bunting, two Greenfinches, a Linnet, two Chaffinches, a Grey Wagtail and some Starlings.
The Starlings were perhaps the most interesting facet of the morning and I had 2,750, made up of five squadrons, come in off the sea and head in an easterly/southeasterly direction. The Pink-footed Geese I had this morning were all heading north and I had 480 in total.
Pink-footed Geese heading north
By the time I got to my seawatching position, that isn't sheltered at all, the rain was really coming down and I headed back to the car and home.
It's looking a bit mixed weatherwise for the coming week although the wind is forecast to remain generally from the southeast and it will remain warm. I have got a bit of time this week so I will try and get out on a few mornings. I'll let you know how I get on.
A Brief Word
I've been busy writing reports all this week, aren't I always!, and all I've had time to do is top up my feeding station. I called yesterday and it was my intention to treat myself to an hour off and have a walk round but heavy rain came in just after I had put some seed down. What was encouraging was the fact that 23 Tree Sparrows were at the feeding station. So hopefully their numbers will quickly build up.
I'm hoping to get out for a couple of hours tomorrow morning, so more then!
Lull After The Thrush Storm
I didn't think that Thrush lightning could strike three times, never mind twice, but in the pre-dawn darkness there seemed to be good numbers of Redwings on the move based on the number of calls I could hear. As dawn broke at the Obs I could see that there were a few Redwings grounded/exiting temporary roosts, but certainly not on the move. In total all I had were 27 Redwings, a fraction of the birds that have been moving through over the past couple of days.
I had full cloud cover this morning with a 20 mph NE wind that had a touch more easterly in it, but perhaps not as much as an ENE. I think I could be splitting hairs there! It was fairly clear to the north with good views across the bay to the Lakes and out to the east I could make out Bowland but it was murky.
There was some 'vis' this morning but it was incredibly light and was restricted to seven Alba Wags, seven Meadow Pipits, a Reed Bunting, a Rock Pipit, three Carrion Crows, 15 Linnets and nine Greenfinches.Grounded migrants were even thinner on the ground with just two Wheatears and nothing else. Raptors were limited to a single Kestrel and only 60 Pink-footed Geese dropped into the fields to feed.
One of the two Wheatears this morning
I have a latish night tonight as I'm off to see Deep Purple, but I will make the effort and get out in the morning even though the forecast is giving more of the grey stuff with a moderate northeasterly wind. Mind you it is October and you just never know!
I missed the spectacular arrival of Redwings yesterday, not because I was working, but because I was out scouring the north of England for birthday presents for Gail's birthday next week! Interestingly I was outdoors in places like Orton, Sedbergh and Kirkby Lonsdale in Cumbria but didn't hear a single Thrush. There were some impressive movements yesterday and I know Ian had about 7,000 go through over the Obs.
This morning I decided to allow myself an hour and a half or so before hitting my desk and spending the rest of the day report writing. As the wind was quite strong and from the northeast I decided to have a look at the estuary and the areas of scrub around the old railway line as I knew it would be sheltered there and there would be the chance of some feeding Thrushes left over from yesterday.
As I walked along the path through the Hawthorns I could hear Redwings calling and as I got the near reservoir where it was more open I could see birds heading NNE in to wind. Not huge numbers but I did have 110 Redwings and two Song Thrushes.
I walked across the saltmarsh to have a look on the estuary and count any wildfowl. The tide was fairly high as it was only a couple of hours past high tide and it was just starting to drop. On the estuary were 1,297 Pink-footed Geese, 112 Wigeons, twelve Whooper Swans and 58 Teal. Walking back across the salt marsh I put three Rock Pipits up and single figure groups of Meadow Pipits and Chaffinches headed south.
Pink-footed Geese
Whooper Swans
I had a look on the reservoir and there was a decent number of Little Grebes totalling 15 with twelve Coots and seven Tufted Ducks. Heading back towards the railway line I had a Chiffchaff calling and giving some bursts of sub-song and I also heard a Brambling, my first of the Autumn.
I bumped in to Ian who was trying to catch and ring some of the Redwings and he had just caught one so I ringed that. It was then time to head home and glue myself to my desk.
Back at home (I live just over a km from the coast as the Fieldfare flies) I was taking my boots off at the back of my car when I heard some Redwing and Fieldfare calls and a number were heading north. Instead of going straight to my desk I spent about half an hour in my garden counting Thrushes and I had 215 Redwings and 70 Fieldfares head mainly north, although some did head west. A quick text from Ian late morning said that Thrushes were still 'pouring' N-NE. It's unusual to have two 'big days' of Thrush movement, but looking at the forecast with the winds from the northeast we could have a few more days of arrivals. I'll be sure to be out in the morning looking!
September Ringing Totals
The ringing totals for Fylde Ringing Group for September were pretty poor with just 85 birds of 16 species ringed all month. The problem has been the wind; strong westerlies early on and then strong easterlies later on. For what it's worth I have updated the totals over on the right.
We only ringed three species in double figures so all I have done below is a top three ringed for the month!
1. Robin - 11
I have as usual produced a top ten 'movers and shakers' but there has been little change as you will see beneath.
1. Swallow - 761 (same position)
2. Goldfinch - 134 (same position)
3. Willow Warbler - 132 (same position)
4. Chaffinch - 127 (same position)
5. Reed Warbler - 108 (same position)
6. Great Tit - 105 (up from 7th)
7. Sedge Warbler - 100 (down from 6th)
Blue Tit - 100 (up from 8th)
9. Whitethroat - 88 (same position)
10. Lesser Redpoll - 79 (same position)
Normally at this time of the year I would expect to see Meadow Pipit well into the top ten. They've been moving but unfortunately it hasn't been calm enough for mist nets that often.
October hasn't started too well either, but more of that at the end of the month.
Reed Bunts On The Move
I was back at the Obs this morning and it was calm enough for ringing, but based on last night's forecast I hadn't bothered getting any gear ready! I had virtually clear skies this morning with a light southwesterly wind. The visibility was nowhere near as good as yesterday and the views this morning weren't of Lakeland and Welsh mountains, but of murk and grey clouds!
Small Tortoiseshell
I couldn't detect any grounded<|fim_middle|> recording area was panoramic to say the least. Standing on my seawatching/vis observation spot and looking east I could see the Bowland Fells, Ingleborough in the Yorkshire Dales and then moving north the Lakeland Fells,out west the Isle of Man and then to the southwest Anglesey and Snowdonia; stunning! Perfect for visible migration you might think, but no the vis this morning wasn't what the conditions would perhaps dictate and was a touch light.
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At first light I had two oktas cloud cover with a 10-15 mph westerly wind. I couldn't detect any grounded migrants this morning other than perhaps the eleven Robins I counted on my walk round. There was some vis but as I have already stated it was confusingly light. I counted six Alba Wagtails, 17 Linnets, 52 Meadow Pipits, 21 Skylarks, a Grey Wagtail, a Snipe and a Chaffinch. Interestingly all the Skylarks were heading in to the wind and ultimately out to sea and then turning round and heading back to dry land!
I had a brief look on the sea and recorded 25 Cormorants, 16 Common Scoters, 16 Pintails, a Gannet, twelve Auk sp., four Eiders, a Sandwich Tern, three Great Crested Grebes, a Razorbill and a Shelduck.
Back home I checked the moth trap and I had two Silver Ys and a Blair's Shoulder-knot. The forecast is looking very similar for tomorrow with cloudy skies and a stiff southwesterly breeze/wind. More birding for me and I'll be sure to let you know how I get on.
Silver Y
Back On The Moss
I paid my first visit to the Moss this morning since checking my Tree Sparrow boxes in May to set up the feeding station in preparation for the winter. A drop of seed was made on the track and I put up my two large peanut feeders as supplementary food in case the seed runs out before my next visit. I will check again in a weeks time to see if anything has found the seed and adjust the frequency of my visits based on the demand for the food.
The first seed drop.
Over to the west of where I park at the end of the track a number of Pink-footed Geese were feeding in a stubble field. Birds were constantly coming and going and were difficult to count due to the hedge between me and them. My notebook records 1,477, but I suspect there could easily have been twice as many as this.
'Pinkies' coming and going.
Even though it was just before lunchtime and I was inland, a few birds were going over on vis. I only paid a brief visit to the Moss so all I had going over were 25 Meadow Pipits, two Snipe, two Alba Wags and a Chaffinch.
At the end of the track I trubed left and walked north along the '97 hedge' alongside the 'big field'. In the distance I could see that something had spooked the Lapwings from the 'top fields' as at least 700 birds lifted in to the air. A number of Skylarks got up from the field totalling 39 and I also put up a couple of Snipe. As I walked along the hedge a party of thirteen Long-tailed Tits moved through and then I came across a flock of at least 26 Tree Sparows. I wonder how long it will take them to find the food at the feeding station; not long I suspect!
Lapwings - honest!
Skylark habitat, aka 'The Big Field'.
Long-tailed Tit
A flock of seven Linnets over the stubbles was added and then it was time to turn back, pick up my seed bucket and head home. The forecast for tomorrow is for 10-15 mph westerly winds with decreasing cloud cover as a ridge of high pressures nudges in. It will be a shade too breezy for ringing at the obs tomorrow as my net rides are right on the coast, but it does look good for some vis. I'll let you know how I get on.
At Last - Sort Of!
At last I had a Yellow-browed Warbler today, sort of, but more of that later. I want to rewind back to yesterday to catch up as I didn't have time to post due to some reports that needed completing for work. In fact I won't be able to get out birding for the next couple of days until I have finished these reports, so it will probably be Saturday before I post again.
Before I went 'bush bashing' yesterday I had a look on the sea for an hour and a half at the Point and counted any vis going over. The sea was quiet with just 62 Cormorants, 21 Common Scoters, four Wigeons, a Pintail, thirteen Eiders, an Auk sp., eight Shelducks and a Guillemot. There were also three Atlantic Grey Seals off the Point including a mother with her pup.
Atlantic Grey Seals
After I'd had a brief look on the sea I had a look in the Cemetery and I have lumped the vis totals for the Point and the Cemetery together as follows; 142 Meadow Pipits, three Alba Wags, 45 Linnets, two Snipes and seven Greenfinches. I bumped in to Ian in the Cemetery who said he had just been in the coastal park and it was very quiet so I called it a day and headed home to work.
This morning before the alarm went off I could hear it raining hard and my thoughts turned to grounded migrants and I hoped that the rain would reap some rewards. As I entered the cemetery it had stopped raining and it 'felt' like there might be something around. About half a dozen Robins and Dunnocks were jumping around and there seemed to be a few more Blackbirds about. I then got a phone call from Ian saying that a Yellow-browed Warbler had dropped in to the Sycamores near the large lighthouse but he had lost it. However, he did say that it looked as though it would probably make its way towards the coastal park.
I carried on birding the cemetery and added a couple of Chiffies and headed to the park. I hadn't been there too long when Ian arrived and we both heard a Yellow-browed call being carried on the wind from an area of mature Poplars, Sycamores and scrub. It was one of those that if you had been on your own you would probably have dismissed it, but as we both heard it we were certain it was a Yellow-browed. A good search revealed just the briefest of glimpses for Ian, but not for me!
Ian located it again at lunchtime, so I had another quick look but it didn't show itself. So at last after Yellow-broweds have been everywhere I got one, sort of!
There were good numbers of Red Admirals nectaring on Ivy in the park
at lunchtime | migrants this morning, or nothing obvious at least, except perhaps for a few more Dunnocks. Robin, Wren and Blackbird numbers seemed similar to yesterday. There was some vis this morning but that virtually stopped by 9:15 am when the cloud cover to the north thickened. However one noticeable feature of the vis this morning compared to yesterday was a few more Reed Buntings on the move. My vis totals were six Chaffinches, 41 Jackdaws, 103 Meadow Pipits, thirteen Alba Wags, a Grey Wagtail, nine Reed Buntings, a Carrion Crow, four Goldfinches, nine Greenfinches, eight Linnets, 640 Pink-footed Geese, five Skylarks and a Rock Pipit.
Walking through the dunes near the Japanese Rose patch I had a nice mixed flock of three Reed Bunts, eight Mipits, a Chaffinch and seven Greenfinches all perched on the fence. Shortly after they dropped in they lifted up in to the sky and headed off south. Migration in action!
On the sea I had six Auk sp., five Cormorants, a Red-throated Diver, eight Sandwich Terns, 16 Common Scoters and a Guillemot. I usually have a few Kestrels around the Obs, but not this morning, a male Sparrowhawk was flying the raptor flag instead.
Woodpigeon
Back home a check of my moth trap produced two Angle Shades, a Silver Y and a Red-line Quaker. Unfortunately I won't be out birding tomorrow as I have some work to catch up on but I will be running my moth trap so I will blog briefly if I catch anything in that.
Angle Shades
Confusing Vis
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When Wayne Gretzky played his last game in the NHL, he was interviewed by Ron McLean during the second intermission and asked, "Why, when you could have played for any team in the NHL when you started out, did you play for a 'B' team in Edmonton?"
Wayne answered, "I knew the players, the coach and it was in Canada, my home. I knew that if I played for the love of the game, the money would come."
Now is the time to sign up to participate in a feature garden or the Marketplace at Canada Blooms. Play for the love of the game and we all win.
Mark Cullen may be reached at www.markcullen.com.
Festival reflects well on industry
Canada Blooms is a not-for-profit organization that has donated more than $600,000 to community horticultural projects. All plants at the end of the festival are distributed to the elderly in the Toronto area.
$7,700,000 total value of public relations of Canada Blooms over 14 years.
$4,900,000 total cash value of all advertising associated with the festival over 14 years.
156 million total media impressions from all public relations since the inception of Canada Blooms.
One-million actual attendance at Canada Blooms in 14 years.
Value to L.O. members who do not plan on participating in this year's event? Not much.
Value to those who do? Lots, depending on how you lever the value of the Canada Blooms brand and connect it to your own.
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Canada Blooms – the value of our brand
By Mark Cullen
Chair of marketing, Canada Blooms
Canada Blooms will be 15 years old this coming year. Over this period of time, the members of LO have invested heavily in it and grown it to be one of the greatest horticultural events on the continent — and by extension, the world.
As a recent member of the board and current chair of marketing, I have some observations that may interest both LO members, who have personally contributed to this investment and others who hold an interest in it through LO membership.
LO owns 50 per cent of Canada Blooms with the Garden Club of Toronto (GCT) holding the other half. While both groups are equal partners, the fact is that the value of the Canada Blooms brand accrues to us, for the most part. We are the people who benefit from the strength of the public perception that Canada Blooms stands for the best in its class, as we do business with the public, or as vendors we support businesses that do.
Our investment is not like a bond or an annuity. We cannot take it to the bank and demand a return on it, or borrow against it. I suggest that Canada Blooms is more valuable than that.
Return on our investment
When do we receive a return on our investment? Only when LO members support the activities of Canada Blooms and associate their company name directly with it, do the members and their businesses benefit.
The return that you receive on your investment is no accident.
I am not suggesting that you bet the family farm on Canada Blooms, but it is a wise member who carves some time from his schedule and puts aside resources to invest in it each winter and spring. Ask Tim Kearney, or Beth Edney (see stories in March and April, 2010 editions of Horticulture Review).
While the cost of entry was prohibitive to many landscapers, designers, retailers, vendors in the past, a new concept is evolving that offers an exceptional opportunity to willing participants of any size or means.
Recent developments have created a great opportunity for anyone and any firm that is a member of LO to make a valuable contribution.
Arguably the grandest of all feature gardens at the 2010 edition of the festival was the LO Green for Life garden. With more than $300,000 worth of plants, professional design, materials and labour invested by over 40 LO member firms and 200 individual volunteers, a great deal was accomplished. And, contributors received a return on their investment.
The brand, Canada Blooms, is growing in value with every additional edition of the event. In fact, the value grows every time Canada Blooms is discussed in public and in the media.
Think about this: when OEB, our public relations firm set out to gain media exposure at this year's event, we could not have predicted that our media hits would more than double from the previous year. As a result, we experienced more than 23 million impressions (an impression equals one person exposed to our message). Sitting in their favourite chair in the comfort of their own home, they heard the good things about our industry by way of the Canada Blooms story.
To draw direct benefits from the Canada Blooms brand, all LO members need to invest in Canada Blooms and then associate yourself and your company with it.
Recommended steps
If I was a landscaper, retailer or supplier to the trade I would:
Purchase bar-coded discounted tickets to the festival. I would give a pair to my 50 best customers this Christmas with a hand-written note, "Come to Canada Blooms and see how the best in the business do it! I appreciate your business." The value is $18, but as an LO member, you will only pay $12. You will be charged only for tickets used. Contact Lisa Pascoe at 1-800-730-1020, or info@canadablooms.com for more information.
Print 'Proud supporter of Canada Blooms' on all of my business cards, business letterhead, truck lettering, etc., and then I would be sure that my company DID support Canada Blooms.
Call my three closest friends in the business and challenge them to join me at Blooms for a co-operative garden installation.
Contact my three best vendors and invite them to make a contribution of products, or cash, or labour toward a feature garden.
Ask my accountant to come early on Saturday morning to help out and to bring a pair of steel toed boots.
Seriously consider reserving space in the expanded Marketplace to sell both products and services. It is important to note that our pre-sales of the marketplace are already 30 per cent sold out. Last year at this time, we were at zero per cent.
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At 100%, broadband coverage in the 72714 ZIP code is comparable to the rest of Arkansas - 91%, and comparable to broadband coverage across the U.S. - 95%.
The vast majority of those living in the 72714 ZIP will have access to DSL, which covers 99% of households. Cable internet is also an option for many, offering service to 99% of the area. No fiber-optic providers are currently available in Bella Vista, but satellite or fixed-wireless providers may offer broadband options in your area.
There are four internet providers serving the 72714 area, and 97.68% of households will have internet options from more than one provider. Among four internet providers in 72714, prices start at $29.99 and available download speeds reach up to 300 Mbps.
The largest internet providers serving the 72714 ZIP code are AT&T, Cox, and HughesNet bringing DSL, cable, and satellite options to the area.
DSL internet from AT&T is available to nearly all in the 72714 ZIP code, covering 94% of households. Many will also have the option of cable from Cox, which covers 99% of the area. Bella Vista's third most-available internet provider, HughesNet, offers satellite to around 100% of residents in the 72714 ZIP code.
Internet prices for AT&T start at $30/mo.*, which is significantly lower than the average starting price for internet in Bella Vista, $42.49.
AT&T customers who choose the lowest-priced plan can expect speeds up to 100 Mbps, which<|fim_middle|> area, and are about the same as the average max speeds from all Bella Vista's providers, 103 Mbps.
Cox cable internet
Cable from Cox offers broadband to all households in the 72714 ZIP code, covering 99% of the area.
Cox's cable network is likely to offer faster speeds than DSL or satellite service, but 72714 residents in densely populated areas may experience slowed speeds during peak usage times.
Internet prices for Cox start at $29.99/mo.*, which is significantly lower than the average starting price for internet in Bella Vista, $42.49.
Cox customers who choose the lowest-priced plan can expect speeds up to 10 Mbps, which comes to an estimated $3.00 per Mbps, higher than the average cost per Mbps for the lowest priced plans in Bella Vista, $1.15.
For those who value internet speed as much as cost, Cox offers download speeds up to 300 Mbps and upload speeds up to 30 Mbps in 72714 ZIP code. These download speeds are available to 99% of the area, and are much faster than the average max speeds from all Bella Vista's providers, 103 Mbps.
Internet prices for HughesNet start at $59.99/mo.*, which is significantly higher than the average starting price for internet in Bella Vista, $42.49.
HughesNet customers who choose the lowest-priced plan can expect speeds up to 25 Mbps, which comes to an estimated $2.40 per Mbps, higher than the average cost per Mbps for the lowest priced plans in Bella Vista, $1.15.
For those who value internet speed as much as cost, HughesNet offers download speeds up to 25 Mbps and upload speeds up to 3 Mbps in 72714 ZIP code. These download speeds are available to 100% of the area, and are slightly slower than the average max speeds from all Bella Vista's providers, 103 Mbps.
Cox is the fastest internet provider in the 72714 ZIP code with download speeds up to 300 Mbps. These speeds are available to 99% of households in 72714. The next fastest internet provider in the 72714 ZIP code is AT&T, offering download speeds up to 75 Mbps to 94% of the area.
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I certainly did not predict the S&P 500 Index (SPX) to be up over 30%. Hardly a slow climb! So raise a glass to 2013; it was indeed a year to remember in the market.
My own philosophy of protecting capital means<|fim_middle|> to monitor the market itself – primarily relying on the analysis done by Jim Stack and his team at Investech Research – for warning signs. And I'll repeat my prognosis from last year and look for the markets to continue to climb in 2014, albeit in a slower, more erratic way than 2013.
The focus of the PWP Growth and Income fund will continue to be dividend paying stocks with a mix of growth stocks added to boost returns. I expect my selections and market weightings will become more conservative as the year goes on.
However, I will always have an eye out for special situations. I will also stay the course with the Global Growth Brands model by focusing on brands with secular growth prospects.
In the middle of last year I added IAC/Interactive, Liberty Interactive, Inter Parfums (IPAR), and Volkswagen. With the exception of IPAR, they have all outpaced the market and I believe that they still have room to run. I will continue to look for good global brands and invest where the risk/reward is favorable.
The post Keeping a cool analytical head in a volatile market appeared first on Smarter InvestingCovestor Ltd. is a registered investment advisor. Covestor licenses investment strategies from its Model Managers to establish investment models. The commentary here is provided as general and impersonal information and should not be construed as recommendations or advice. Information from Model Managers and third-party sources deemed to be reliable but not guaranteed. Past performance is no guarantee of future results. Transaction histories for Covestor models available upon request. Additional important disclosures available at http://site.covestor.com/help/disclosures. | I almost always have some cash and/or some form of hedge in my accounts. In my opinion, a significant cash position contributed to my Covestor portfolios beating the market and to doing so on a risk adjusted basis.
In 2013, both the PWP Growth and Income portfolio and Global Growth Brands portfolios posted solid returns, considering they held cash positions of roughly 10-20% and 20-30%, respectively.
It's important to keep one's head and stay alert, both in bull or bear markets. So now is not the time to become exuberant and jump into the market with both feet. Nor is it time to rush for the exits.
I expect the market will continue to climb as more people sitting on the sidelines join the parade. However, the level of market risk has gone up along with the market itself and I remain cautious. I will continue to monitor the macroeconomic environment for warning signs including changes in global social, political, and economic conditions.
I will also continue | 208 |
My father spoke of being a law clerk, traveling from the law firm on south LaSalle St in the heart of downtown Chicago to the various court houses in order to file pleadings, pay fees, and check the status of files. Every morning he would go to the infamous "court call". There he would meet judge Englestein, a large and somewhat daunting character, to see which cases were ready to go to court.
Amongst the buzz and bustle of everyday life as a law clerk my father found refuge between the hours of 11:30 and noon. In those thirty minutes he would scour the confines of downtown acquainting himself with the likes of Pablo Picasso Alexander Calder, Marc Chagall, Joan Miro, and Yaacov Agam. These influencers would tweak and twist his mind allowing him to broaden the reaches of his mind beyond the blocks of a midwestern city that seemingly had it all.
He was fond of a statue by Picasso found at 50 West Washington St, it was under the shadow of the Richard J. Daley Center in the heart of the windy city. The untitled sculpture weighed in at 162 short tons and was a staggering 50 feet tall. The flat black steel behemoth was fabricated by the American Bridge Company division of the United States Steel Corporation in Gary Indiana. Although the sculpture was notorious for its social controversy my father frequented the sculpture, wondering why Picasso created such a monstrous "baboon".
Day in and day out he would frequent the steel monster exploring its every angle, crack, and crevasse. Although he didn't know it at the time, between the hours of 11:30 and 12:00 the young law clerk who would be my father was challenging every value, every ideal, every idea, and every insight he had until that point in his life.
It wasn't until decades later that the ambitious law clerks story came full circle. My father and I walked up and down the streets of what once was a playground for the young man that was my wise and now pepper haired father. We explored the vast downtown pointing out the difference in architecture, noticing when and where the times changed, and Listening over and over to him say, "see that,<|fim_middle|> their interest in what he had done with his life. He only replied with humble mutterings of the many things he had accomplished. After thoroughly exploring the depths of downtown the hour of 12:00pm made us wonder what the city could offer us in terms of food rather than architecture. We naturally grabbed a chicago style hot dog, pickle spear and all. We rounded the corner for what my dad said would be the highlight of our adventure. There in the shadow of the Daley Center stood the large baboon staring down at me with its one eye. It seemed to see all of my imperfections, my ever flaw, its presence belittled and bewildered me. As my father began his story of the beautiful black baboon, explaining its history, its controversy, and its immensity I realized that this would be a lesson I was sure to remember. We slowly circled the sculpture and my father asked me to make sense of the seemingly senseless sculpture. I peered, I wondered, I thought, and I re-thought why on earth would such a sculpture have such a profound effect on my father. In my confusion my father slowly ushered me over to a corner that had the perspective of any other corner, at least at first glance. As my father sat me down the astonishment of a young law clerk engulfed my very being. My father carefully outlined the profile of a beautiful woman only viewable from a distinct corner of the plaza. The lesson was so very clear to me, so clear in fact that my father needn't mutter a word. The presence of such a beautiful profile that is so undoubtably hard to find illustrated the point that what is seen on the outside is but a fraction of the beauty within. | that's art-deco, beautiful". We ran into several old souls that once knew the witty young man, expressing | 23 |
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University of California accounts for nearly 10% of all published research in the United States. It's also a significant partner of Elsevier, which publishes about 18% of all UC output and collects more than 25% of the university's $40-million overall subscription budget.
December 9, 2018 by 2012pharmaceutical
Reporter: Aviva Lev-Ari, PhD, RN
Open access journals get a boost from librarians—much to Elsevier's dismay
Move to cut fees adds pressure to funding model already under strain.
ALEX BARKER AND PATRICIA NILSSON, FT.COM – 2/14/2020, 5:55 AM
Elsevier's previous foot-dragging may be no surprise given the blessed commercial model of academic publishing. Typically scholars have submitted their research for free to publishers, who use volunteers to vet it, before selling the edited journals back, at a premium price, to the universities that footed the bill for the original scholarship.
While prominent funders such as the Wellcome Trust and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation have backed moves to open access publishing, some academics have worried it could prevent their work appearing in the most prestigious journals, an important factor in career assessment.
One of the old system's weak points was the university libraries. Elsevier executives note that their content budgets simply failed to keep up with the 3 to 4 percent increases in research funding, or the even bigger increases in Elsevier's workload and output: it received 1.8 million submissions last year for 470,000 articles. "Tensions resulting from these issues have eroded trust between scholarly publishers and the research community that we serve," said Ms. Bayazit last month. She even offered an extraordinary apology to librarians still angry over double-digit price rises in the 1980s and 1990s.
Ivy Anderson, co-chair of the University of California's publishing negotiations team, which cancelled its $11 million contract with Elsevier in March, said at the time that academics were "getting fed up with high prices and paywall journals, they're standing up and saying we are willing to bear the inconvenience [of not having journal access]".
https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/02/how-librarians-keep-for-profit-scientific-journals-from-squeezing-their-budgets/
High profile scientists from University of California are stepping down from the editorial boards of some of the most prominent scientific journals like Cell. A major blow to publisher Elsevier.
More than two dozen researchers at various University of California campuses have stepped back from their positions on the editorial boards of Elsevier journals, ScienceInsider reports.
The University of California and Elsevier have been at odds over subscriptions and open-access costs during their contract renewal negotiations. UC wanted a "read-and-publish" contract in which journal subscription and open-access publishing fees are combined, while Elsevier preferred to keep the current model. This led UC in March to announce it was not going to renew its contract with Elsevier. ScienceInsider notes that UC's access to Elsevier journals was cut off in July.
According to ScienceInsider, about 30 UC researchers, including CRISPR researcher Jennifer Doudna and Nobel Laureate Elizabeth Blackburn, are taking hiatuses from the editorial boards of a range of Elsevier journal, such as Cell, Molecular Cell, and Current Biology. "We … wish to express our concern at the current lack of a contract between UC and Elsevier, and the decision to deny our UC colleagues access to research published in Cell Press and other Elsevier journals," the researchers write in a letter.
Berkeley's Matthew Welch says in a statement that this move will not affect the journals much, but that it "sends a message."
The costs of academic publishing are absurd. The University of California is fighting back.
The UC system just dropped its $10 million-a-year subscription to the world's largest publisher of academic journals.
By Brian Resnick@B_resnickbrian@vox.com Mar 1, 2019, 11:10am EST
https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2019/3/1/18245235/university-of-california-elsevier-subscription-open-access
University of California and Elsevier Locked in Negotiations
The UC system is pushing to change the subscription model and accelerate open access, but if there's no contract agreement by December 31, faculty and students lose access altogether.
CAROLYN WILKE
The University of California, Los Angeles, has asked its faculty to help apply the pressure, The Chronicle of Higher Education reports. In a letter, a university provost asked faculty to consider holding off on reviewing articles for Elsevier until the negotiations become more favorable and to look for options to publish their research elsewhere, including in open-access journals.
See "Dutch Universities, Journal Publishers Agree on Open-Access Deals"
See "Sweden Cancels Agreement With Elsevier Over Open Access"
https://www.the-scientist.com/news-opinion/university-of-california-and-elsevier-locked-in-negotiations–65209
Heavyweight Showdown Over Research Access
University of California System is playing hardball with Elsevier in negotiations that could transform the way it pays to read and publish research. But does the UC system have the clout to pull it off?
Lindsay McKenzie
To facilitate this, the UC system is pursuing a new kind of arrangement with Elsevier and several other publishers, Anderson said. Rather than paying separately to access subscription journals and make articles immediately available in OA, the UC system wants to roll both costs into one annual fee, which could potentially be higher than what the UC system currently pays for subscriptions only.
This arrangement, called a "read-and-publish" deal, would mean that the public would have immediate, free access to final versions of UC research papers, with no additional article-processing fees to the UC system.
In pursuing such an arrangement with Elsevier, the UC system is "trying to fundamentally change the ecosystem of scholarly communication," said Rick Anderson, associate dean for colleges and scholarly communications in the Marriott Library at the University of Utah.
Tananbaum said that what the UC system is trying to do is unusual. "Historically, libraries have been vocal in their dissatisfaction with the lock-in and spend associated with many forms of the big deal," he said.
"In this instance, UC is not simply bemoaning the status quo; they are working proactively to change it," said Tananbaum. "This effort is not limited to simply trying to hold the line on pricing. It also seeks to reset the university's relationship with publishers, promoting a partnership approach to create a glide path to OA."
Lisa Hinchliffe, professor and coordinator of information literacy services at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, said that many institutions would be interested in read-and-publish deals if the terms were favorable to them.
"The concern is that any read-and-publish deal is likely to have a higher price than an institution's current read deal," said Hinchliffe. "Given that [article-processing charges] are usually not paid from a central fund, adding this expense to the library's budget could be a challenge even if the overall cost to the institution declined as expenses were bundled."
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2018/12/13/university-california-challenges-elsevier-over-access-scholarly-research
UC policy has been explicitly committed to open access since 2013, when the university's Academic Senate adopted the policy. UC authors are required to deposit versions of their papers or links in the university's eScholarship online repository, which currently holds more than 200,000 items available to the public for free. (Compliance by researchers is thought to be spotty as yet, however, in part because there's no enforcement system.)
No one knows yet how the showdown between UC and Elsevier will play out. Some observers expect that the deadline will be extended so the two sides can continue negotiating, though Elsevier would have the right to shut off access to new journal issues as of Jan. 1. (Access to prior publications already paid for wouldn't be affected.)
As for the longer time frame, the research community expects the big publishers to stay in business, but perhaps with narrower profit margins and an evolved model more reliant on preparation fees than subscriptions.
Researchers have begun to sense that they may have more leverage against the publishers than they assumed. "As authors, we do have a choice of where we send our articles and invest our time as peer reviewers," Bales says. "If enough of the publishers' customers end their subscriptions… they'll have to change."
In UC's battle with the world's largest scientific publisher, the future of information is at stake
by Michael Hiltzik
https://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-uc-elsevier-20181207-story.html
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Hodler's Digest, May 13–19: Top Stories, Price Movements, Quotes and FUD of the Week
Top Stories This Week
Coming every Sunday, the Hodler's Digest will help you track every single important news story that happened this week. The best (and worst) quotes, adoption and regulation highlights, leading coins, predictions, and much more — a week on Cointelegraph in one link.
Bitstamp Starts Investigation After Large BTC Sell Leads to $<|fim_middle|> Криптовалюты и империя Цукерберга: чем грозит миру микс биткоина и Facebook | 250 Million Liquidated on BitMEX
Major crypto exchange Bitstamp launched an investigation this week after a large bitcoin (BTC) sell order heavily impacted its order book. Bitstamp reported on the execution of the large bitcoin sell order from BTC to United States dollars, without specifying themselves the details of the transaction. Other crypto media noted that it involved a sell order that led to a liquidation of $250 million long positions on the BitMEX exchange with 5,000 BTC sold at $6,200, which further resulted in price declines on other crypto exchanges. Some crypto commentators suggested that the sell order could be made by mistake, with the order's owner having meant to sell his/her bitcoin at $8,200 instead of $6,200.
Flexa Launches App Where Shoppers Can Spend Crypto at 15 Major U.S. Retailers
Payments startup Flexa unveiled an app this week that allows consumers to spend cryptocurrencies at major American retailers. The app, called Spedn, is currently set up to work with retailers including Barnes & Noble, Bed Bath & Beyond, GameStop, Lowe's, Nordstrom, Office Depot and Whole Foods Market, with more stores to be added in the coming months. Stores that aren't able to accept cryptocurrency will require the crypto to be instantly converted to fiat when an item is purchased. As of now, purchase on Spedn can be made with bitcoin, ether (ETH), bitcoin cash (BCH) as well as the gemini dollar (GUSD) stablecoin.
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has again delayed its decision to approve or disapprove cryptocurrency index fund provider Bitwise Asset Management's bitcoin (BTC) exchange-traded fund (ETF) application. In this week's filing, the SEC also noted that it requested public comment from interested parties, asking for "written submissions of their views, data, and arguments with respect to the issues identified above, as well as any other concerns they may have with the proposal." Bitwise had initially filed for an ETF in February, under the condition that the SEC would reach a decision in 45 days, with its application differing from others in that it draws prices from a variety of cryptocurrency exchanges, with the aim of better representing the market.
Bakkt to Roll Out First Bitcoin Futures Testing in July 2019
Institutional crypto exchange Bakkt plans to roll out testing for bitcoin futures trading in early July 2019, according to its CEO, Kelly Loeffler. Loeffler noted in a Medium post this week that Bakkt is working with both the Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) Futures U.S. exchange and ICE Clear U.S. clearing house to prepare the first testing of bitcoin futures trading and custody. In the announcement, Bakkt noted that it has been working with the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission in order to be compliant with federal regulations, as well as to meet major requirements in terms of investors protection. Bakkt was first introduced in August 2018, with the stated goal of offering physically backed bitcoin futures.
EBay Denies Rumors It Will Start Accepting Crypto, Despite Advertising at Crypto Event
EBay has denied rumors after Blockchain Week that it is going to start accepting cryptocurrency as a payment method. Rumors have mounted that the online retail giant would be offering crypto as a payment option since ads were shown at crypto conference Consensus stating: "Virtual currency. It's happening on eBay." However, it does currently have a section marked Virtual Currency, where people can use traditional monetary forms to purchase crypto from sellers. In response to the rumors, an eBay spokesperson said that "cryptocurrency is not accepted as a form of payment on the eBay platform, nor is it part of our payments strategy."
The top three altcoin gainers of the week are ultra coin, icechain and pwr coin. The top three altcoin losers of the week are segwit2x, blockport and sharpe platform token.
For more info on crypto prices, make sure to read Cointelegraph's market analysis.
Most Memorable Quotations
"The more interaction, and willingness that people want to engage with us, the happier we are because we want this to work. We want there to be innovation in these markets. We want there to be change."
Amy Starr, chief of the office of capital markets trends at the U.S. SEC
"It is a useless currency, that's what I believe. Look, I realize that people have different opinions, but to me, it's garbage."
Shark Tank's Kevin O'Leary
"In a small number of months, we should have a fully operational testnet and possibly, by the end of this year we'll have a fully operational phase 0 Ethereum 2.0."
Joseph Lubin, Ethereum co-founder
"I believe that there are use cases that makes sense today, we have yet to find them at scale in financial services. We're experimenting heavily, we have more patents than any other financial institution in the blockchain space, but have yet to find something that makes a difference for our clients or our customer."
Catherine Bessant, chief technology officer at Bank of America
"There is a broad discussion in Washington around 5G being dominated by foreign firms and the U.S. being reliant on foreign technology and foreign expertise. […] With blockchain and crypto, I think there's a recognition now that these will be part of our future infrastructure. […] It's important both for national security and from an economic perspective, that the U.S. is a leader in that."
Ryan Zagone, Ripple's Director of Regulatory Relations
Prediction of the Week
Joseph Lubin on Ethereum 2.0: ETH to Become 1,000 Times More Scalable Within 24 Months
Joseph Lubin, Ethereum co-founder, said in an interview with Cointelegraph this week that the Ethereum blockchain will become about 1,000 times more scalable in 18 to 24 months. In the interview, Lubin noted that Ethereum 2.0, also called Serenity, will be responsible for bringing the drastic scalability increase to the ecosystem. The development, which Lubin noted is divided into four phases, already has eight groups developing clients for the new chain. He explained that there are several ways in which the new chain could be connected with the old one, noting "there may be bidirectional mechanisms" in moving ether (ETH) tokens from the old chain to the new chain.
FUD of the Week
Floyd Mayweather and DJ Khaled Escape Lawsuit Brought by Defrauded ICO Investors
High-profile boxer Floyd Mayweather and music producer DJ Khaled were dismissed this week from a lawsuit brought by investors in a fraudulent initial coin offering (ICO). The two celebrities had been involved in promoting Centra Tech's ICO, and had originally been charged last November with unlawfully advertising the aforementioned ICO. This week, a judge ruled that the investors who had brought the legal action against the ICO had not proven that they had bought tokens as a direct result of the pair's actions. In the settlement where neither of the parties admitted to nor denied the charges against them, Mayweather was fined more than $600,000, while Khaled was fined more than $150,000.
Tron Co-Founder and CTO Leaves Project, Alleging Excessive Centralization
Lucien Chen — the former chief technical officer and co-founder of blockchain protocol Tron — announced that he is leaving the project, citing an excessive centralization. In his announcement, Chen noted that in spite of the project's success, irreconcilable contradictions between himself and co-founder Justin Sun have led him to choose to leave Tron. In the post, Chen noted that Tron is no longer staying true to its founding principle of decentralizing the web, critiquing Tron's delegated proof-of-stake (DPoS) consensus mechanism and Super Representative governance and block production nodes.
Hacked New Zealand Exchange Cryptopia Appoints Liquidators, Trading Suspended
Hacked New Zealand-based cryptocurrency exchange Cryptopia said this week that trading was suspended and it was appointing liquidators. The exchange specifically said that it has appointed David Ruscoe and Russell Moore from consultancy and audit firm network Grant Thornton New Zealand as the aforementioned liquidators. In mid-January of this year, Cryptopia had said that it was the target of a security breach resulting in significant losses. According to the liquidators, the exchange decided to go into liquidation, as it has been unable to return the business to profitability, notwithstanding management's reported efforts to reduce costs. The liquidators plan to conduct an investigation with the aim of securing assets for the benefit of the stakeholders.
Best Cointelegraph Features
Major Crypto Exchange in Korea Shut Down in April: 2018 Was a Nightmare for Most
Joseph Young explains what's been happening with South Korean cryptocurrency exchanges, as they suffered through a freeze on accepting new registrations as well as the overall bear market.
What Crypto Exchanges Do to Comply With KYC, AML and CFT Regulations
Since most altcoins require crypto enthusiasts to purchase them via cryptocurrency exchanges, Cointelegraph takes a look at how these exchanges work with Anti-Money Laundering (AML), Know Your Customer (KYC) and Combating the Financing of Terrorism (CFT) regulations to ensure both safety and regulatory compliance.
Blockchain as Key to Vienna's Digital Future — Interview with Ulrike Huemer, CIO of Vienna, Austria
Cointelegraph's German division spoke with the chief information officer of Vienna's digital future initiative about the ways the city can evolve to integrate more emerging technologies, including, of course, blockchain.
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Hayman Microfinance launch client mobile banking app on Musoni APIs
Hayman Microfinance have launched a client mobile banking app to support their 160,000 customers with a full range of financial services straight from their mobile phone. The app is integrated with the Musoni Platform using our APIs.
Hayman have been using Musoni since 2015, and since then have grown to over 160,000 end customers. Hayman Capital needed a robust platform that could be set up quickly and easily. As a cloud-based system built on microfinance best practice workflows, Musoni was the perfect fit. Adopting a<|fim_middle|> providers to enable payments to be made straight from the app itself.
NextGojo & Company selects Musoni for MIFIDA
PreviousZega Finance joins hands with Musoni and ThitsaWorks | cloud-based system made it easier for Hayman to focus on growing their operations, avoid upfront infrastructure costs, and avoid worrying about storage, server maintenance or backups. Read more here.
In 2021, Hayman launched their client app to ensure they could continue providing core services to their customers against the backdrop of COVID-19 and major political unrest that made it hard to meet customers face to face. The team chose to build the app in house to ensure they had the full control over the app functionality and the client experience.
Aside from giving customers access to core account information, the app enables anyone to apply for new loans, savings, or fixed term deposit accounts. Clients can track the status of the applications through the app, giving them full transparency over the process. Clients can view repayments on their account immediately, while the app also provides users with product & branch information, an online shop, push notifications and a 'make a complaint' mechanism.
Launching the app was made easier due to the Hayman teams existing knowledge of the Musoni APIs. The team had been using Musoni since 2015 and already had experience using Musoni's APIs to push/pull data into custom forms and even to carry out bulk rescheduling during the first waves of COVID-19. The Musoni team provided technical support both in the initial integrations and then in optimising the API calls being made after the app went live. As a result the app was developed in only three months.
The app has recently been soft launched and already receives 1,000 separate logins each day, with customers focussing on uploading their KYC information. Speaking about the launch, Nanda Htoon, Hayman's Head of IT, said: "the Hayman app has enabled us to offer more transparency and services to our customers, supporting our mission of further extending financial inclusion into rural areas while also providing a nice way to differentiate Hayman in a competitive market. Musoni's APIs made it simple for us to integrate the app into our core banking platform. The extensive API documentation enabled us to pick up most of the work ourselves, but it was appreciated to have Musoni's support team on hand whenever there were more technical questions."
Over the coming months Hayman will add more functionality directly to the app, including an online marketplace and integrations with digital payment | 479 |
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The latest results in from our Summer League. Harpreet VS Justin – 61 64 Harpreet VS Richard F – 62 62 Harpreet VS Advait – 76 61 Harpreet VS Dan – 62 61 Justin VS Lello – 61 63 For pictures and additional information visit our Facebook page here.
We are now taking bookings for our Easter Holiday Camp. Throughout the day our main focus will be Tennis. However through the day we will allocate some time for other activities such as Table Tennis, Football & Basketball. Our main focus throughout the week would<|fim_middle|> you soon! | be teaching all the key basic skills to each player? …read more.
New Year – New Term. All groups have now started. We are running Mini Red, Mini Orange, Mini green and adult classes on Saturday and Sunday.
Launch of our new website.
Welcome to our fresh new website. We hope you enjoy the experience a lot more and find it easier to find your way around. Our website is now fully loaded with Instagram so do follow us on by clicking here. We are now offering Tennis Birthday Parties Yoga (baby yoga, children yoga and adult yoga) –? …read more.
So there you have it. The end of a 5 week Summer Camp course. Which was a great success having a total of 81 children attend the course over the 5 weeks. Big thank you to each and everyone of you. See you all in october half term.
All the dates you need for your spring and summer tennis calender are up. Whether it be for Adults or Children's weekly coaching sessions or our children's holiday camps. Get yourself booked on to reserve your place to avoid any disappointment. Adults Click Here Juniors Click Here Holiday Camps Click Here See | 237 |
Ever had one of those weekend mornings in which you wake up from something approaching nine hours of sleep and think "Holy cow ... I feel like I could re-tile the entire bathroom using only my fing<|fim_middle|> makes me stop riding. And yes, I think I showed notable restraint in cutting myself off at 25 miles.
Still went to the gym and did my stretches and weight-lifting, because today was the day for that.
The night was filled with good friends and the amazing view from the deck and their new home and soaking up the clear evening air and the end of May with grilled portabella mushrooms because, for whatever reason, most of my friends think I'm a vegetarian (I'm not, but I don't complain when the result of this misconception is grilled portabella mushrooms). All in all, a pretty good day.
Your knee will get better. It took me almost 9 months for my left knee to heal properly. Now, it feels great (my right shoulder now hurts from too much swimming).
I just wanted to say thanks for your blog. I read it every day. I am a 60 year old guy from Provo Utah, and when I was a young buck I lived in Juneau and traveled around on a road bike and in those day's they didn't have Mt. bikes. Like you I love Utah and Alaska which I consider my homes. I had just finished the White Rim just before you got down there. Great Trip. I got married to a hippy lady and moved her to Juneau and we lived on Lemon Creek in a trailer and had our kids born there, and then moved up on Star Hill.
Days like those are good days.
Jill, really good to read about you having good days on the bike again. The strength will come back quickly.
Sounds like a great ride, Jill. Did you ever get a knee brace? I'm with everyone else It's great to hear the smile in your typing when you're posting about riding again. | ernails and modeling clay, then go for a 100-mile bike ride, and then reupholster my hideous couch, and then have breakfast"?
Today was one of those mornings ... except for, instead of doing all that, I went for a simple 90-minute cruise on my touring bike. I wasn't supposed to ride at all today, so I think it was a fair compromise. Still, 25 miles passed like I was the one standing still. Even in low-impact spin mode, I still managed to average nearly 19 mph in the first nine miles. Slowed down finally when I rounded the island and turned to face the wind. But I never even broke a sweat. Just propped myself up on my Ergon grips (which I love, by the way) and tilted my head toward the sky, soaking up the salt breeze and the twisting tips of spruce trees as they whipped effortlessly by.
It's funny because I'm so out of shape - at least, out of biking shape. I have atrophied quad muscles and a knee that hates to turn circles. But on days like today, everything else dials in so nicely that my body can overlook such simple deficiencies as a near inability to ride a bicycle. And when that happens, I just ride. I ride until something | 272 |
The emerging world of swimpacking
Written by Annie Voigt
Published on 16th December 202<|fim_middle|>'s shadow
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Searching for a water-based journey to complete her long-distance triathlon, but unwilling to hoist a kayak past her neighbour's balcony every morning, Annie Voigt stumbled across the emerging world of swimpacking.
"Swimpacking is the logical next step, no?" I ask a wide-eyed woman who had made the mistake of asking me what I do in my spare time. "First I went bikepacking to the Nordkapp, then fastpacking across Germany. And now - swimpacking."
She blinks. "I just keep wondering where the word 'logical' will come in," she says.
"When you see it as a multi-year, trans-European triathlon, it makes total sense," I chirp.
"... But why would I? Why would anyone?!"
Annie enjoying the water - Annie Voigt
She was right, of course. At the beginning of the year I would have responded exactly the same way. I didn't have a clue what fastpacking was. All I had was an idea.
I wanted to find a way to finish what I called my Trans-European Triathlon. This had begun, very spontaneously, with a bike ride from Berlin to Nordkapp. The attempt to cycle almost 3,000 km on my own as my first solo, long-distance adventure did not come without tribulations. But somehow I managed to drag myself and my bike Red up into the Arctic, where I wildcamped in lonely birch forests and on the moss of the Scandinavian tundra. I fell in love with long-distance adventures. And I swore I'd do it again.
But then Covid struck. Borders once unimaginable closed became seemingly impenetrable barriers.
So I adjusted my long-distance adventure plans and, like most people in the early stages of the pandemic, went for runs. Lots of them. I ran so much that one day, the idea to run instead of cycle across Germany no longer seemed like a bad idea, but a great one. This eventually led to my first ultramarathon: 1,000 km, self-supported and solo, from the lowest to the highest point of Germany - all in the midst of the pandemic.
Annie in the water - Annie Voigt
This left the water leg of my Trans-European-which-kinda-got-stuck-in-Germany-because-of-Covid triathlon. I knew a desire for another expedition would accompany the end of the pandemic, so I began scheming.
I began looking into kayaks, before realising I lived on the fourth floor of a tiny apartment building. There was no way I was constructing a pulley system to slowly raise a kayak past my neighbours' balconies every second morning.
Left with what seemed like no other option, I started researching long-distance swimming. But this turned out to be harder than anticipated. Running, and ultrarunning especially, are booming, with a new book being published on the topic every week (seemingly every new runner has been inspired by Chris McDougall's Born to Run). But swimming is a smaller pool to dive into.
I began my research as I always do: by heading into my favourite local bookstore. Here I discovered Lynn Cox's Swimming to Antarctica. Her journey to becoming one of the world's most accomplished channel swimmers began with a 32.2 km open-water swim from Catalina Island to Seal Beach in Los Angeles. From there she levelled up, swimming the Cook Strait (Te Moana-o-Raukawa, in Māori) between New Zealand's North Island (Te Ika-a-Māui) and South Island (Te Waipounamu); the Strait of Magellan, separating southern Chile and Tierra del Fuego; and eventually the Bering Strait, between Alaska and Russia, swimming 4.3 km in 5.5°C water, dressed in nothing more than a bathing suit, swim cap and goggles.
Mind-bogglingly impressive, but not quite what I had in mind. While Lynn Cox has mastered the art of swimming from one beach to another in one freezing, choppy, shark-infested heave, I prefer my distances in chunks I can nibble on and digest over multiple days.
I needed a "staged swim." But since staged swims require a night outside of the water, I would need to bring camping gear. And how do you swim while lugging your sleeping bag, food, tent and water? I would have to convince a friend to accompany me with my gear in a kayak and let go of the idea of doing this stage solo and self-supported.
'While Lynn Cox has mastered the art of swimming from one beach to another in one freezing, choppy, shark-infested heave, I prefer my distances in chunks I can nibble on and digest over multiple days.'
"Why don't you ask Jonas Deichmann for help?" suggested Vedangi Kulkarni, the youngest woman to have cycled the world, at a talk on adventure logistics I had joined to see if anybody knew how to pull off a swimming expedition. "He's currently attempting a triathlon around the world, and swam around 450 km during it!"
I investigated this mysterious long-distance-swimming master, and there it was: the solution to my problem. Swimpacking.
Swimpacking - or swimcamping, as it's known according to the school of thought inspired by another pioneer of the sport, Sean Conway - fits snugly next to its "packing" siblings. All involve packing your camping gear into a bike bag or backpack, strapping it on and setting forth. In this case, into the water.
Before Jonas Deichmann came along, Sean Conway held the record for the world's longest triathlon after cycling, running and swimming the length of Britain in 2015. The swimming leg saw him swim 200 km over two weeks. Pictures show him tugging a small, red raft to carry his gear: one of the first swimpacking rafts.
In an attempt to figure out swimpackers' specific gear needs, I stumbled across a small, vibrant community of swimpackers through Colin Macleod's Instagram. Macleod started swimcamping in 2019, and has created several helpful videos to guide beginners through the essential process of strapping their gear onto a watertight raft.
It took me several tests to get everything I needed for camping into a single bag, but eventually I found a system that worked. And off I went.
Annie's swimpacking kit - Annie Voigt
I started by swimming a simple 300m in open water, building up to 1 km along the shoreline. Eventually, I braved the deepest segment of my training lake, swimming 2 km in total. Then I accumulated 5 km in the Baltic Sea – without my wetsuit.
I began my excursions terrified of the plants I could never see but too often feel, thinking they would grab my wrists and pull me down. While I was pretty sure the giant catfish roaming the bottom of Berlin's lakes didn't really care much about me treading water above them, I never knew for sure. This is the challenge with water: the lack of visibility creates uncertainty. Gradually I have learned to stay calm. Now it isn't cormorants popping up from the depths scaring the living daylights out of me; it is me, suddenly popping right up next to their nest, startling the birds that had previously seemed to chuckle at my antics.
As the sunsets got earlier, but my working hours stayed the same, I saw a picture on Instagram: someone had put a light into their small buddy buoy, illuminating it like a magma bubble. I went home from work that day, covered the windows and dropped a headlamp into my RuckRaft bag. It lit up like a magma bubble. Perfect.
Since it was too late for a pre-dusk swim, I figured there was no better moment to test my theory that night swimpacking is a great idea.
Annie getting to grips with her raft - Annie Voigt
Standing by the shoreline in the dark, looking in the direction of my target island, hidden in the blackness, I started to doubt that verdict. The water looked choppy - but it was hard to tell in the moonlight. I strapped my gear onto my RuckRaft, feeling like a Navy Seal preparing for a mission, and waded into the water, my headlamp illuminating a square meter of black water ahead of me.
I tried to calm my nerves by focusing not just on current conditions, but also my experience: I knew the section and the quickest exits from the water. And I would be wearing a headlamp to light the way. But in the dark, it felt like I'd jumped into the waters of another planet.
The RuckRaft tied to my waist sat unnervingly low in the water, its rear almost entirely submersed. Inching my way towards the island, I realised that the waves were much, much higher than they had seemed from the shore - high enough to repeatedly slap me in the face.
Halfway between island and beach, I took a moment to consider my situation. A few boats were moored to the island's shoreline ahead, their parking lights bobbing up and down in the waves. No matter which direction I went, it would be the same distance. "No way to go but forward."
'But in the dark, it felt like I'd jumped into the waters of another planet.'
I tried to kick my legs harder, while simultaneously trying hard to keep them relaxed. A cramp would have been the absolute worst-case scenario. Eventually, finally, my hands plunged into the inky black and stroked at sand. The wind nipped at my skin as I clawed my way from the water, out of my wetsuit and back into dry clothes.
"That was one of the most terrifying things I've ever done," I remember thinking, looking out at the moonshine reflecting on the obsidian surface of the wind-whipped water.
It is one of many moments through which swimpacking has taught me more about mental strength and staying calm under pressure than even ultramarathons or long-distance cycling.
The Elbe - Annie Voigt
I have since started swimming in bigger lakes, then streams and rivers. I have tested my gear in currents and in windy conditions. I have camped on islands inhabited only by swans and ducks. Once I found myself on an island with nothing to wear but a sweater, as all my other clothes had gotten absolutely drenched. Here I learned the first rule of swimpacking: always pack your important gear into an extra drybag. After a cold night in my wet clothes, I waved good morning to people living on houseboats anchored by the beach. "Where's your boat?" one of them asked. "I don't have one!" I replied as I waded off into the water, my raft floating behind me.
Few things compare to the beauty of an open-water swim in the setting sun, the intensity of the changing colours of the sky reflecting on its surface, blue to pink to orange, painting it like liquid cotton candy. But even as you take in the beauty, never underestimate the distance back to the shore.
Annie enjoying the shoreline - Annie Voigt
The world is a giant place. And we have travelled much of it, sending explorers out to chart mountains, prairies, deserts, forests, jungles and more. But swimpacking gives exploration a new twist: a swimmer is completely immersed in the route she swims.
"It's probably the slowest form of transportation anyone could choose," wrote a swimpacker in a Facebook community I found early in my research, "so we don't do it out of practical necessity. It's all about the way you are exposed to, immersed in and a part of nature. In the water, you have the whole wide world to yourself. Alone with your thoughts, the bubbles and a few seals for hours on end... It's the best."
There's no need for diesel to power your boat in order to explore water. There's no need to purchase or borrow a new kayak or canoe, or use your car to transport these large vehicles to the next lake. If you want, you can run or cycle there. Swimpacking is especially carbon-neutral, even compared with other human-powered adventures. "I like the way people approach it in different ways and often use re-purposed or homemade stuff," another community member wrote. "Really you just need a good drybag!"
I've completed nearly a year of these small adventures as I prepare for my big swimpacking expedition – the end to my Trans-European Triathlon. My plan is to swim a 550 km section of the river I was born along. The Elbe snakes its way through Germany from the mountains of the Czech Republic, and has always had a special place in my heart. My swim won't break any records*, but it doesn't have to.
I want to explore the river I was born and have cycled and lived along in a more intimate way than I ever could on dry land. And I know swimpacking is going to get me there. Where could swimpacking take you?
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Annie's adventure career began with climbing, when she ticked off nearly every single "Mistakes to Avoid While Trad Climbing" box on her first outdoor trad climb. She survived, and went on to see what other Great Bad Ideas would not kill her. Her solo expeditions began with a kayaking trip, followed by a 3000km bike ride to the Nordkapp (Norway). Her latest Great Bad Idea featured running a solo 1000km ultramarathon from the lowest to highest points in Germany. Why was this a Great Bad Idea? She had started running only four months prior. Speaking of experiments: Annie is a trained biochemist currently working on her PhD in neuroscience, and the comic artist behind BotsAndBrainz.
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Q: How to Get Jump Boost Boots In Minecraft I've made a parkour/adventure map based on popular video games, and I've included a Sonic the Hedgehog episode. For this map to be realistic, I wanted to be able to have a big jump boost. I've seen jump boost BOOTS, but all YouTube has on it are super complicated commands, and I was wondering if maybe someone would be kind enough to give me a relatively simple command or recipe that I could use (I could use potions but that wouldn't look to great).
A: As Antoine and MBraedley stated in the comments, you will need these more or less complicated commands to make jump boost boots work without<|fim_middle|>generic.attackDamage",Name:"generic.attackDamage",Amount:5,Operation:0,UUIDMost:21041,UUIDLeast:883059}],ench:[{id:0,lvl:5},{id:2,lvl:6},{id:5,lvl:5},{id:6,lvl:1},{id:7,lvl:4},{id:8,lvl:3},{id:16,lvl:10},{id:19,lvl:10},{id:32,lvl:1000},{id:34,lvl:100}],HideFlags:5,Unbreakable:1}
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First of all, we'll need to determine if the player is wearing some special boots and store this in a scoreboard objective. To create the objective, run
/scoreboard objectives add jumpBoots dummy
once. Now, create a 20Hz. clock (fill clock or use repeat/chain command blocks in 1.9) and put the following two commands
/scoreboard players set @a[score_jumpBoots_min=1] jumpBoots 0
/scoreboard players set @a jumpBoots 1 {Inventory:[{id:minecraft:diamond_boots,Slot:100b,tag:{display:{Name:"Jump Boots"}}}]}
This will set the score to 1 for every player wearing Diamond Boots (i.e. they are in slot #100) named "Jump Boots", and 0 for everyone else. You can modify the data tag of the boots to suit your needs, e.g. change it to leather boots or change the name.
On the same clock, you can then put
/effect @a[score_jumpBoots_min=1] minecraft:jump_boost 1 <amplifier> true
Which will give the wearer of the boots 1 second of Jump Boost every tick. Replace <amplifier> with the level of jump boost you want to give minus 1, e.g. 2 for Jump Boost III. The true at the end hides the swirly particle effects, you can remove it if you want.
A: If you would like to get a jump boost in vanilla (normal/without mods) minecraft, I suggest you make a beacon (if you are in creative) and turn it on then right click and select jump boost, and then go into survival and walk through it, tada!
For the parkour, you could start with the players walking through a beacon, and then beginning the parkour, also make sure that you have a lot of gems surrounding it so the effect lasts longer.
(my apologies if this doesn't help)
A: I have had to make jump boots before too, but the only way to do so that I have found is to put this super long command into a command block and add a button. It should give you them instantly. You can just copy and paste it into the command block.
give @p golden_boots 1 0 {display:{Name:"Jumping Boots",Lore:["gives you flying and jump boost and speed"]},AttributeModifiers:[{AttributeName:"generic.maxHealth",Name:"generic.maxHealth",Amount:5,Operation:0,UUIDMost:80901,UUIDLeast:98444},{AttributeName:"generic.followRange",Name:"generic.followRange",Amount:32,Operation:0,UUIDMost:13009,UUIDLeast:153291},{AttributeName:"generic.knockbackResistance",Name:"generic.knockbackResistance",Amount:20,Operation:0,UUIDMost:83502,UUIDLeast:718503},{AttributeName:"generic.movementSpeed",Name:"generic.movementSpeed",Amount:10,Operation:0,UUIDMost:19242,UUIDLeast:97406},{AttributeName:" | 683 |
Albania ( ( listen) a(w)l-BAY-nee-?; Albanian: Shqipëri/Shqipëria; Gheg Albanian: Shqipni/Shqipnia or Shqypni/Shqypnia), officially the Republic of Albania (Alban<|fim_middle|> region was annexed by the Roman Empire and became an integral part of the Roman provinces of Dalmatia, Macedonia and Illyricum. The unified Principality of Arbër emerged in 1190, established by archon Progon in the Krujë, within the Byzantine Empire. In the late thirteenth century, Charles of Anjou conquered the Albanian territories from the Byzantines and established the medieval Kingdom of Albania, extending from Durrës along the coast to Butrint in the south. In the mid-fifteenth century, it was conquered by the Ottomans.
The modern nation state of Albania emerged in 1912 following the defeat of the Ottomans in the Balkan Wars. The modern Kingdom of Albania was invaded by Italy in 1939, which formed Greater Albania, before becoming a Nazi German protectorate in 1943. After the defeat of Nazi Germany, a Communist state titled the People's Socialist Republic of Albania was founded under the leadership of Enver Hoxha and the Party of Labour. The country experienced widespread social and political transformations in the communist era, as well as isolation from much of the international community. In the aftermath of the Revolutions of 1991, the Socialist Republic was dissolved and the fourth Republic of Albania was established.
Albania is a democratic and developing country with an upper-middle income economy. The tertiary sector dominates the country's economy followed by the secondary and primary sector. Following the end of communism in 1990, the country went through a process of transition from a centralized economy to a market-based economy. It also provides universal health care and free primary and secondary education to its citizens.
Albania has a high Human Development Index and is ranked 13th in the Happy Planet Index, 38th in the Global Gender Index, 52nd in the Social Progress Index and 37th for Life Expectancy. The country is a member of the United Nations, World Bank, UNESCO, NATO, WTO, COE, OSCE and OIC. It is also an official candidate for membership in the European Union. In addition it is one of the founding members of the Energy Community, including the Organization of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation and Union for the Mediterranean. | ian: Republika e Shqipërisë, pronounced [??pu?blika ? ?cip???i?s?]), is a country in Southeastern Europe. The country spans 28,748 square kilometres (11,100 square miles) and had a total population of 3 million people as of 2016. It is a unitary parliamentary constitutional republic with the capital in Tirana, the country's most populous city and main economic and commercial centre. The country's other major cities include Durrës, Vlorë, Sarandë, Shkodër, Berat, Korçë, Gjirokastër and Fier.
Albania lies in the southwestern portion of the Balkan Peninsula bordered by Montenegro to the northwest, Kosovo to the northeast, the Republic of Macedonia to the east, and Greece to the south and southeast. Most of the country is mountainous, including the Albanian Alps in the north, the Korab Mountains in the east, the Ceraunian Mountains in the south and the Skanderbeg Mountains in the center. The country's coast touches the Adriatic Sea to the west and the Ionian Sea to the southwest that forms the Albanian Riviera. It is less than 72 km (45 mi) from Italy across the Strait of Otranto, which connects the Adriatic to the Ionian.
Previously in classical antiquity, Albania has been populated by various Illyrian, Thracian and Greek tribes, as well as several Greek colonies established in the Illyrian coast. In the third century BC, the | 338 |
We've got an eggs-tra special contest!
This article was posted by sbrien@getcrack... on November 30th, 2018.
Egg Farmers of Ontario (EFO) is once again teaming up with Rocks & Rings for another eggs-citing contest in honour of #RocksAndRingsTurns10.
From Monday, December 3rd to Sunday December 16th, fans are encouraged to "Like" EFO on Facebook and share the contest image to be entered to win a Rock-ing holiday gift package.
One winner will be chosen to receive an eggs-quisite EFO<|fim_middle|> be selected on December 19, 2018.
For more information on Rocks & Rings and their tenth anniversary, visit their website, http://www.rocksandrings.com or follow them on social media (@rocksandrings)!
*This contest is open to Ontario residents only; tournament must be held in a location serviced by Rocks & Rings.
*The photo must be shared or retweeted publicly to be eligible to win the prize. | gift basket as well as a Rocks & Rings tournament to be held in your community! This special tournament also includes certificates for everyone signed by 2017 World Women's Curling Champions and 2018 Olympic Curlers, Team Homan!
The winner will | 55 |
1st Mark Kenas went 3-1 +272, easily beating out the meager spreads of the other three-and-oners to come in first place. His night got off to a great start as he opened with the Collins-only-but-totally-definable UNALIVE* against Aaron. He later added ETESIAN and TARDIES, and won big, 523-396. He beat Aaron again in the second round, 426-401. Aaron bingoed with OUTPLOT (not to be confused with OUTPLOD) and ARAISED*, while Mark played NEUTERED and CALORIC. CALORIC seems like a hard word to fit on a board, given that it starts and ends with a C, but the Collins dictionary has CH*, so maybe that explains it. His only loss of the night came at the hands of his old nemesis, the clock, as he went over by several minutes and ended up losing by 4, 387-391. He did bingo out with BRANSLE*, but it was not quite enough. To add insult to injury, his "high S" play of INSWATHE for 101 was snatched from his grasp by Aaron's ZYDECOS (n. ZYDECO, a music style of southern Louisiana) for 113. In the final game, he faced a new opponent, Thomas, and beat him 533-409. Thomas opened with two bingoes, TANKERS and ADORNED, after which Mark smiled and thought to himself "I've got him right where I want him". Mark bingoed four times after that, with METEORIC, PALEWISE (adj. vertical, also PALEWAYS), VEINLESS, and IODISER* to win.
2nd Bryan Benwitz came in second with a 3-1 +70 record. He got his loss out of the way quickly, setting him up for maximum enjoyment of the rest of the evening, falling 322-461 to Charles. Even his sole bingo was out<|fim_middle|>406. Things were looking good for a 4-0 night as he opened with two bingoes against Mark, but things turned south and he lost 409-533. That'll teach him to dip his toes in the Collins ocean! | of a not-so-good rack, as he played AUREOLA. Charles had EVINCES, EARSHOTS, and GAMEPLAY (n. the way a video game is played) as his bingoes. Bryan's fortunes took a pendular swing in the other direction in the next match, where he won 529-344 against Dennis. He bingoed with THORITE, DECIARE, and TOERAGS (n. TOERAG, a contemptible person, and here I was thinking of calling socks "toerags" from now on), while Dennis played EVASION. In the third round, he barely eked out a win against Betty, 394-377. Betty played DEFINES, and Bryan got down GIRDLING, a word that has too many G's and I's and not enough of the good vowels for my liking. He saw a familiar face in the fourth round, facing Charles again and coming out on top this time, 387-380. Charles' vowel-less final rack doomed him, while Bryan had flexibility, playing a late NIQABS while hooking IOTA to make BIOTA.
3rd Thomas Reinke had a negative spread but came in third anyway, going 3-1 -13 (palindrome alert!!!!!!). In the opener, he beat Dennis 434-425, with bingoes of DESPOIL and WEIRDED. Dennis made it close with CLEANEST and STAINED, but late power-tile plays sealed Thomas' win. After that, he had a low-scoring game with Helen, with him coming out ahead 340-318. His big play that game was ESPIEGLE (adj. playful, apparently lifted straight from French), not to be confused with SPIEGEL (n. a type of cast iron). Against Charles in the third round, he opened with AWAITED, and later added DROPHEAD and EPEEIST and won 486- | 424 |
For comic book fans, the first Saturday in May is a date some mark days in advance. What's so special about the day? Well, it's Free Comic Book Day. Yes, you read that right, free!
Started in 2002, FCBD is a promotional effort by the comic book industry to bring in new readers into independent comic book stores, celebrated May 2. For this promotional event, retailers give away specially printed copies of comic books. Depending on the store, FCBD<|fim_middle|> just comics. There are toys, games, novels and all of those "nerdy" novelties.
Fantastic Planet is a great local business, and I'm glad it exists. Events like FCBD are great for these types of businesses because it helps attract customers lured in by the word "free." You might not like superheroes, which is fine, but not all comics are superhero comics. It's kind of like saying you don't like movies or TV shows.
Comics are the medium. The content and genres vary just like any other art form. You have nothing to lose on FCBD. Maybe something in the free selection will appeal to you, and who knows? Maybe you'll be hooked for life. | can also extend to special sales and merchandise giveaways.
While the comic books are free for patrons, this is not the case for the retailers, who pay between $12-15 for the copies they give away.
Plattsburgh is home to two comic book stores, Medusa Comics & Cards, which opened its doors November of last year, and Fantastic Planet, which has served as the community's premier comic book store since 1987.
Fantastic Planet shares a special place in my Plattsburgh memories as graduation looms. When going off to college, I wanted to go to a college that was located near a comic book store, since at the time this was a hobby I was really into. I still am now, but not to the same degree. Though, of course, Plattsburgh having a comic book store wasn't my sole reasoning for coming here. It was just a nice bonus.
It was my second or third day in Plattsburgh and I knew no one, and I was going crazy from being cooped up in my dorm room. I knew there was a comic book store here but had no idea how to get there, so I called them up and was on my way.
On my way there, I thought I was lost, which in hindsight, was pretty silly — the directions were pretty simple. I got to soak in my new environment, and it made me realize how different Plattsburgh was from home.
I get there, am greeted and asked if I need help with anything. This experience was quite new and welcoming. I had gone to comic book stores before, but that experience wasn't quite as friendly. Plus, everything was alphabetized, which was a perk. I picked up "Flashpoint No. 5" and was on my way. This issue of the "Flashpoint" mini-series signaled the "end" of the universe and all the DC Comics. They'd still feature Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman and many others, but they wouldn't be the same ones. They'd all have new histories starting from scratch. Much like me, here I was starting college. I was still me, but at the same time, I was inevitably going to change and develop a new history.
Other events during my stay in Plattsburgh are closely connected with Fantastic Planet. I've gone there with new friends, gone on a first date there and got to meet and interview comic book artist Andy MacDonald, who attended Plattsburgh State, frequented Fantastic Planet and has drawn for Marvel and DC. While I'm not an artist, I have daydreamed many times, like most comic fans, about getting to work for one of the "Big Two," whether it be drawing or writing.
Each time I visit the store, it's kind of like a mini-event for me. I invite as many friends as I can, and we spend a while looking around. We all usually end up leaving with something, whether we planned on getting it or not. The staff is a friendly husband-and-wife team who are happy to help you find comics to read. However, it's not | 632 |
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Jello Biafra and the Guantanamo School of Medicine played Lee's Palace to a full house. It was a mix of new songs and quite a few Dead Kennedys' songs. Jello definitely had a great time, pantomiming along to the songs just like the old days.
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Representing Barrie hardcore, Demolitioncame into CIUT 89.5 FM's Studio 3 to record a heavy live session. They definitely wear their NYC hardcore influences tatooed on their arms.
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PERFECT YOUTH Book Launch
The Horseshoe Tavern was the perfect venue for the Toronto launch of Perfect Youth, The Birth Of Canadian Punk, written by Sam Sutherland. The Horseshoe played an important role in the early days of the Toronto punk scene. The venue was well attended by young and older punk rockers. Sam […]
EL MOCAMBO Original Sign Back Up!
Anyone walking last week along Spadina Street, south of College, would've had the chance of seeing a bit of Toronto rock'n'roll history being literally restored. The sight was the original neon palm tree sign being turn back on at the El Mocambo. The El Mocambo is an important part of Toronto's rock'n'roll […]
WRONG GENERATION CIUT Live Session
The most recent Equalizing X Distort session featured Wrong Generation, four high school kids playing some Germs inspired hardcore but mixed with a few more melodic elements. The Punks And Rockers cameras were there to record their set.
TORONTO 1980′s Punk Time Line
1979-80 Punk in transition, from old school to quirky New Wave to rockabilly. Only the Viletones, Teenage Head and Forgotten Rebels played continuously in one form or the other into the 1980′s, 1990′s and 2000′s. In the early to mid-1980′s, first wave bands splintered into new groups such as the Jitters (ex-Mods), Wayouts (ex-Tyranna), Australia […]
TORONTO PUNK HISTORY 1
Pre-1976: BEFORE PUNK Toronto has always had a vibrant music scene. The 2011 documentary directed by Bruce McDonald, Yonge Street: Toronto Rock'n'roll Stories described Toronto's early rock'n'roll scene of the 1950′s and 1960′s as being centred on the Yonge Street downtown strip. In 1957 Elvis Presley played two shows at […]
1976-79: THE START OF IT ALL Seeing the Sex Pistols in the U.K. for the first time inspired people to form punk bands. In Toronto it was seeing the Ramones in September 1976 at the New Yorker Theatre at Yonge and Charles streets that lit the spark and ignited the Toronto […]
PICK YOUR SIDE Live CIUT Session
Hamilton's Pick Your Side visited CIUT 89.5 FM after releasing an album and a couple of singles. The band, made up ex-Haymaker, Chokehold and Fuck The Facts members, will be leaving on a European tour in October. This is a taste of what's to come. The songs in the video […]
RIOT FEST Toronto 2012
Riot Fest came to Toronto's Old Fort York and featured the Descendents, NOFX, Fucked Up, Hot Water Music, Less Than Jake, Andrew WK, among others. All the bands played well, | 1,190 |
Aaron Paul, Kellan Lutz, And<|fim_middle|> Golden Globe Inspired Voluminous Updo | Shailene Woodley Catch NFL Playoff Action At Paige Hospitality Group's Third Annual Sundance Game Watch At Village At The Lift
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New York City took over snowy Park City for the 2014 Sundance Film Festival and a Sunday funday during Paige Hospitality Group's Third Annual Game Watch at Village at The Lift. The Ainsworth invaded Utah for an afternoon of pop-up NFL playoff screenings with a star studded guest list which included Aaron Paul, Kellan Lutz, Lil Jon, Chanel Iman, Geoff Stults, Shailene Woodley, Shiloh Fernandez, Alex Ebert, and Ryan Rottman.
Fresh off his Golden Globe win, lead singer of Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros, Alex Ebert, was thrilled to watch the first game of the afternoon where the Denver Broncos defeated the New England Patriots. "Breaking Bad" star Aaron Paul also took a break from the busy award season to enjoy the Seattle Seahawks vs. San Francisco 49ers game on jumbo Element Electronics HD televisions. After hitting the slopes, "The Legend of Hercules" Kellan Lutz stopped by to hang with "The Lying Game" actor, Ryan Rottman, and root for the 49ers.
It wasn't all about the NFL though. "Divergent" Shailene Woodley joined model, Chanel Iman, on the dance floor while Lil' Jon continued his birthday celebrations to end the Sundance festivities.
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We here in AsIAm have been reading, with much interest, the announcement from Susan Boyle, in an interview with "The Observer", that last year she was diagnosed with Aspergers Syndrome, a condition on the high-functioning end of the Autism Spectrum.
The interview itself has been covered widely covered in the media so we thought that we would break down key points in Susan's interview and give some commentary on the<|fim_middle|> for those living with Autism!
The song "I dreamed a dream" was a major hit for her and maybe it should also be a slogan for our community! | issues which she raises.
We feel so inspired by her bravery and also her determination to not hide her diagnosis or allow it to define her – a key message for our organisation and something we see as important for the whole Autism community.
In her interview, Susan Boyle reflected on how as a child she was labelled "brain damaged" by doctors, a label she always felt was incorrect and unfair. Most interestingly, an IQ test, which was conducted as part of her diagnosis, found that she has an IQ "above average", as many with Aspergers Syndrome do.
The issue which Boyle raises here is of major concern to the Autism community. So many adults live their lives un-diagnosed, and while this is certainly a changing trend, there are so many middle-aged adults who simply never received the help or support they needed because they did not receive the appropriate diagnosis. What this surely means is that we must all do more to be more inclusive as we never really know what people are living with or what challenges they face.
It also highlights the issue of focusing on challenges instead of strengths. Susan Boyle's IQ test clearly demonstrates that she is an intelligent woman and yet because she might face certain challenges or do things a little different she was labelled as "Simple Susie" in her hometown growing up – we must value diversity and admire how people think and behave differently!
A question that so many parents of children on the Autism Spectrum ask is "Should I tell my child they have Autism?". There is no real right or wrong answer to this question and really different times are, perhaps, appropriate for different people.
However, Susan's quote here follows a long line of others affected by Autism who speak of the relief of finding out about their condition. Living for so long not understanding why you feel or behave the way you do or not being able to define your challenges can be very difficult, especially in an age where all too often people are stereotyped and expected to behave in a certain way.
Finding out you have Autism is not always a bad thing – rather it is a secret code which gives you a greater understanding into your behaviour and access to the supports you need.
People with Aspergers are often isolated and yet here Susan highlights the importance, in the life of a person with the condition, of building up strong trusting relationships.
It is interesting that in the same interview she speaks of the pivotal role of her mother in her life as well as the team she now has supporting her. People with Aspergers need support and when they can develop trusting relationships this really helps them in achieving their potential and in having a greater ability to cope. Additionally, people with conditions on the Autism Spectrum are often great, loyal friends too!
This is a tough line. While Susan Boyle is so positive and upbeat throughout the interview she does acknowledge the anger and frustrations she has as a result of the challenges Aspergers Syndrome has brought to her life.
This is a very important line to keep in mind for those who know people with Autism – consider the frustration living with condition must bring at times and try to understand how moods, emotion and behaviour can be influenced overtime as a result.
"It will not make any difference to my life. It is just a condition which I have to live with and work through".
This is by far our favourite line in the interview! We firmly believe that Autism owns nobody and sums nobody up. It is simply a part of some people, which brings some great challenges but also in many ways contributes to the personality of a person.
Nobody with the condition should ever feel that the condition has control over them – instead overtime it is about pushing your limits and reaching your potential, not to mention being proud of who YOU are!
Finally, we think this is an important line for the public – when you see someone with Autism don't see an "Autistic person" see a person first, who happens to have Autism and so may need a little help!
We will be following this story and also sending a letter to Susan to thank her for her bravery in telling her story and to express our admiration for her achievements. What an inspiration that she is | 833 |
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The Jackery Explorer 500 is a handy portable power bank that can provide ample power and port options. It is lightweight, yet it has plenty of power and output. It has nearly as many input and output ports as its larger cousins. It is durable and small, just like its big brother, Explorer 1000. The Explorer 300 is a great choice if you are looking for a portable battery. It is the perfect size for a backpack, hiking bag, or any other portable storage device.
The Jackery Explorer 1000 comes with a two-year warranty and a responsive customer support team. It also features a pure sine-wave inverter, so you can use it safely with sensitive electronic devices. The Jackery is easy to store and can simultaneously charge two smartphones. The charger also has a USB port for charging other mobile devices. This is a great option if you frequently travel. The device has many positive features, including a two-year limited warranty and an excellent customer support team.
The Jackery's design is both innovative and stylish. Its large, clear LCD display makes it easy to read, and it displays both the type of input and output as well as the temperature. This means that you can power various gadgets at the same time, no matter where you are. The jackery also includes a handy wall adapter. The USB port is ideal for charging other devices that need electricity. It can store up to 900 mAh.
The Jackery Explorer 1000 is backed by a two-year warranty, and it is compatible with most smartphones. The company offers excellent customer service and a great warranty policy. The solar panels are portable and fold up when not in use, so they are not a permanent obstruction when the battery is not charging. The 100W solar panel can charge the unit in just five hours and can last for hours. If you're looking for a portable power source, consider the Jackery.
The Jackery Explorer 1000 comes with a 2-year warranty and responsive customer service. The 100W solar panel can be used outdoors and is very portable. Its foldable design protects the panels' surfaces. The Jackery's 100W solar panels can charge the device in just five hours. The unit can run for days without interruption. And if you're in an emergency, a few hours of sunlight can provide you with the power you need.
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The Jackery Explorer 1000's solar panel is designed for outdoor use. To protect its surfaces, it folds down when not in use. Using a 100W solar panel will charge a Jackery unit in about five hours, and will keep it running continuously for up to a month. The Jackery Explorer 1000 is an intelligent, portable power station with a rechargeable battery. The power it provides will be enough to meet your needs and the energy demands of your family and friends.
A Jackery battery charger has a sleek and stylish design that looks great outdoors. Its LCD screen is easy to read and has clear indicators for the input and output. The device will charge quickly and continuously with a 100W solar panel. The Jackery unit's charging time will vary depending on the battery type, but it won't take long before it runs low. If you want to use the device on the road, you can charge it for five hours or even longer.
The Jackery Explorer 1000 has a large and easy-to-read display. Its battery life exceeds expectations, and its adjustable solar panel is compatible with many types of devices. It can charge an iPad or a laptop, for example. Another key feature of the Jackery charger is its ability to charge an iPhone. It can also charge a smartphone. It is lightweight and easy to | 367 |
Is there an educator's discount?
The majority of our customers are non-profit or educational institutions, so the printer is already at an appropriate price.
Our printer driver and slicing software are free and can be downloaded here.
We do not make a 3D modeling software, but we do recommend Tinkercad for beginners. Any AutoDesk product should be good, we use and recommend Fusion 360 for designing and engineering. Solidworks is another great tool, but has a steep learning curve.
What makes a PolyPrinter different than a (insert other printer)?
It isn't one thing that sets PolyPrinter apart. Our philosophy of continuous improvement, to us means that when we see a way for our printer to be better we update it. Many of our printer parts are 3D printed. Firstly that allows us to rapidly update parts as we see potential improvements. Secondly, printing printer parts means we use our printers as manufacturing tools, and we expect our tools to work. It is a mutually beneficial situation for our customers and us.
Another differentiator is we view customer improvement suggestions. Many of<|fim_middle|> a wand and 3D modeling the design takes time, but still this ability to create has never existed before, at least not economically.
Most if not all physical products in our economy are partially prototyped on 3D printers, we already live in a 3D printed world, it's only now that the technology has become affordable. Products are simply physical solutions to a problem, so find a problem (or create one) and let students develop their creative problem solving skills. | our most functional improvements have come from customer comments.
What maintenance will I need to perform?
You will occasionally need to retape the print bed: when the tape is torn or after 1-6 months of printing (depends on how much finger oil gets on the tape).
Changing the nozzle when it gets clogged, or after ~1 solid month of printing.
Adjusting Z-Height, aka calibrating the distance between the nozzle and print bed. This must be checked when the nozzle is changed, printer is physically transported or after a couple months of printing.
Place a drop of oil on each rod (smooth and threaded) every 1-2 months.
Replace the air filter after ~1 year of printing.
Yes, we highly recommend purchasing our initial training, which is a 2-3 hour session that covers the printer hardware and software . We schedule it for the same day and time that you will receive your printer. That way you can confidently start printing from day one. Initial training is $90 and lasts 2-3 hours on average.
Does the PolyPrinter only take PolyPrinter filament?
No, we do not have proprietary filament. Make sure the filament is 1.75mm in diameter. ABS and PLA should print well, you can try printing other materials but we recommend contacting us to see if we have already tried printing that material. Most of the time the answer will be that we have.
Note there is a lot of bad filament on the market so be careful. We are constantly testing new brands and only stock the brands that print the best (for the price). We also guarantee our filament meaning if it prints poorly we will replace the roll.
What materials can the PolyPrinter print in?
PLA, ABS, Nylon, and NinjaFlex.
NinjaFlex requires a separate extruder due to its physical properties. The NinjaFlex extruder costs $250.
PolyPrinters are optimized to print ABS.
What happens if the nozzle gets clogged?
Clogs occur when the filament is poor quality or when there is dust and dirt on the filament.
To fix a clog you simply unscrew the clogged nozzle and screw in an unclogged one. Be sure to heat the extruder to 230 celsius otherwise the aluminum threading may be stripped. You will also need to stabilize the hot block with a 10mm wrench.
How do I use a 3D printer in the classroom?
Our first advice is don't make a 3D printer the lesson. Instead, use a 3D printer as a tool to enhance other lessons.
3D printers are the closest thing we have to a magic wand which when waved makes an item appear. Of course 3D printers are much slower than | 558 |
It's all about being leaner, meaner for UL's Ragas in 2018
When the new UL coaching staff got its first good look at Ragin' Cajuns running back Trey Ragas, the decision was made.
Ragas needed to trim down — by about 10 pounds or so.
As it's turned out, UL's top rusher from a season ago shed more than that.
"I lost 15 pounds. I went from 230 to 215. Body fat went from 22 percent to 16 percent," Ragas said. "So, really, it's just trying to get me more lean for the season."
That season starts Sept. 1 against Grambling for UL, which has tailored its new offense around a running back group that's led by Ragas and also includes Elijah Mitchell, Raymond Calais Jr. and Jordan Wright.
MORE:Check out these new features coming to Cajun Field this fall
Ragas was UL's starter for nine of the 11 games he played as a redshirt freshman last year, a season that ended with third team All-Sun Belt Conference honors for the Archbishop Shaw High product from New Orleans after he ran 142 times for 813 yards — 5.7 yards per carry — and nine touchdowns.
Now Ragas is the No. 2 returning rusher in the Sun Belt, second only to last season's leader, Jalin Moore of Appalchian State.
After the transition from Mark Hudspeth to first-year Cajuns coach Billy Napier, it soon became evident that Ragas again would emerge as as a go-to guy.
"Trey Ragas' buy-in in terms of his effort, his detail, has been really good," Napier said shortly after preseason camp opened earlier this month.
"Ragas is practicing like a grown man right now. I mean, he's really taken his game to another level and bought into maximizing the repetitions that he's getting — when you do go, go full speed; 'train for the fight,' as we would say, 'get yourself game-ready.' "
RELATED:Sun Belt recognizes Cajuns' Kevin Dotson, Trey Ragas on preseason team
MORE:Not rushed to return, UL's Mitchell is running well now
The requested weight loss materialized in time for Ragas to open camp fit as a bull – the beast to which his running has been most-often compared.
"There is no question Trey Ragas is committed to the offseason," Napier said. "We try to keep him in the 2-teens; we want him to be in that 217 range.
"He was probably 226 when we got here. He's done a good job. He got his body fat percentage down. He's added some good, lean mass.
"He's in great condition," Napier added, "and he's been able to practice at a high level."
MORE:Whatever you call him, UL running back Ragas on a roll
'A SMALLER PLATE'
The drop didn't come easy for Ragas, who didn't play as a true freshman in part because of a foot injury sustained during an in-season practice.
Fellow running back Raymond Calais Jr. — who himself was asked to put on 10 pounds by Cajun staff including running backs coach Jabbar Juluke — can attest.
MORE:Cajuns running back Calais just wants everything 'better'
"Actually," Calais said, "me and Trey, we are roommates.
"So, Trey usually gets the lighter plate and I just pile up. I get all the rest of the food. That's just how it is.
"And Coach Juluke is always telling me, 'Hey, watch Trey. Whenever you go home, make sure he gets a smaller plate,'" Calais added. "I'm like, 'I gotcha, I gotcha.'"
MORE:Deck of Ragin' Cajun running backs comes with a 'joker'
Last season, Ragas — who rushed for 1,928 yards at Archbishop Shaw, and left as its all-time rushing leader — did not feel his workload was too much to handle.
"The most carries I ever had in a game was 20," he said. "In high school, I used to have 30, 40 carries."
Earlier this year, however, Ragas wound up missing UL's spring game because of a knee injury sustained in a scrimmage one week earlier.
He didn't need surgery, but the injury hit home hard.
"I was kind of disappointed," Ragas said, "because I (didn't) get to show off for my mom (Debbie).
"But, other than that, I was more worried about getting healthy for the summer time and getting ready for fall camp and getting ready for the season."
The knee, Ragas said early in camp, "feels 100 percent."
"It feels great," he added, "and I really can't wait for the season to start."
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It's not just the knee that was a beneficiary of Ragas' dogged offseason work, though.
Rather, it was a total-body experience.
"Last year, during fall camp, I was tired throughout the whole practice," Ragas said. "Now, without all that weight on my back, it feels better."
Improved endurance could help Ragas handle an even bigger load this season, when the Cajuns are expected to pound the ball behind an offensive line that features behemoths Kevin Dotson and Robert Hunt on the right side and second-season starter Cole Prudhomme at center.
RELATED:Dotson squarely focused on season opener
MORE:UL's Prudhomme takes show from film room to the field
For Ragas and other Cajun running backs, however, it's not necessarily about who gets how many touches or even who gets the start.
What's most-important, he suggested, is that everyone simply understand their responsibilities.
"I really don't look at it as a 'starting position,'" Ragas said.
"Because just<|fim_middle|>Either way, it's all about being more durable without losing speed or — especially in Ragas' case — power.
"Really," Ragas said, "we just need everybody to … just go throughout the season healthy, and we'll be fine as a group."
COLUMN:Ohio State, Maryland remind UL's Napier of many duties | about every team in the country rotates their backs. So it really is just based on who the coach can count on, who's better at protection, who just overall knows the game plan."
The more capable of doing all that, the merrier — because Cajun backs really are likely to be counted on for a lot this year in an offense based largely on establishing the run.
"I feel like it will be more power, more pounding the ball, getting everybody inside the box so we can throw the long, deep balls so it opens up the routes for the receivers," Ragas said.
All that works, though, only if Cajun running backs are fit enough to answer the bell.
In some cases, that's meant losing weight. In others, it's meant packing on pounds.
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WKS Group invests in the world's first KODAK MAGNUS Q4800 Platesetter for imaging XLF plates
Kodak has just received an order from German WKS Group to supply the world's first KODAK MAGNUS Q4800 Platesetter. This new jumbo CTP system from Kodak offers market-leading speed and productivity for extra-large format (XLF) plates and is capable of imaging plate sizes up to 1600 x 2900 mm for 96-page web offset presses. The MAGNUS Q4800 uses KODAK SQUARESPOT Imaging Technology, providing unmatched stability, accuracy, and reliability for efficient plate making and superior print quality.
The WKS Group has ordered the MAGNUS Q4800 Platesetter for its site in Essen (Westend Druckereibetriebe), where production takes place on heatset web offset presses in the class up to 80 pages. "One<|fim_middle|> the global printing industry. We look forward to continuing our collaboration with the WKS Group on this and other projects."
The WKS Group is one of the leading print and media service providers in Europe's German-speaking countries. The Group currently employs 815 people in nine companies at six sites across Germany.
Comprehensive facilities enable printing projects to be executed ranging from print runs of one to enormous quantities in the high-volume segment. In the printing sector, the WKS Group provides web and sheet-fed offset as well as digital printing and finishing. Fulfillment and cross-media expertise round off the portfolio, making WKS Group a print and service provider with a strategic focus. | key argument for us is that the MAGNUS Q4800 will let us switch from UV to thermal technology. The higher imaging capacity is another advantage," said Dr. Ralph Dittmann, Managing Director of the WKS Group, commenting on this pioneering investment. "In our opinion, the level of technical expertise at Kodak is very high. That made it an easy decision to collaborate with them again in the large-format platesetter segment."
The MAGNUS Q4800 for the WKS Group will be equipped with an XPL Pallet Loading System for four plate formats as well as an in-line punch. Commissioning of the Kodak XLF CTP system in Essen is scheduled for the fourth quarter of 2021.
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Posted on<|fim_middle|> Bob did postdoctoral work at Johns Hopkins University before joining the Navy as an officer, where he continued his research in Pensacola, FL. He was hired as a professor at SUNY-Buffalo two years later, beginning an illustrious career in academic medicine. At SUNY he played a pivotal role in establishing a vibrant basic science research program in the visual neurosciences, one that continues to this day. From there Bob moved to Washington University in St. Louis, MO, where he continued to conduct groundbreaking research. In 1988 he was recruited as 3M Bert Cross Chair and Department Head of Physiology at the University of MN, later becoming a professor in the newly established Neuroscience Department. He would remain in that position until his retirement in 2018. Early on Bob developed into an avid teacher and mentor, and he remained proud that his laboratory helped launch numerous successful scientific careers. After a career spent lecturing on his research everywhere from local classrooms to international symposia, Bob's teaching and research efforts were both recognized with high honors: in 2008 he received the Association for Research In Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO's) Proctor Medal, which recognizes significant lifelong contributions to vision research. Throughout his life Bob remained a dedicated father and husband. His bond with his sons remained strong, and they continued to spend time together playing golf (alongside lifelong friend Steve Hall), snowshoeing and vacationing together. He and Rosemary traveled the world and saw friends even as Bob found intensive new pursuits later in life, becoming a prizewinning orchid grower and starting his own politically oriented blog. After caring for him through a difficult illness, progressive supranuclear palsy, his immediate family was happy to be by his side when he passed. Bob's spirit, his intense engagement with his interests, his infectious sense of humor and much more are already missed. He will be remembered by friends, family and colleagues alike. An in-person memorial service will be held at a later date. Donations in Bob's honor may be sent to the ARVO Foundation or to the Dowling Society within ARVO. Donations may also be made to the UMN Foundation.
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Robert Francis "Bob" Robert Francis Miller (Bob), Professor Emeritus of Neuroscience and Physiology at the University of Minnesota, passed away March 1, 2021. Preceded in death by his parents, Irvine Miller and Ettie Paxman (nee Miller) and stepfather Rulon Paxman, he is survived by Rosemary, his loving wife of 52 years; his sons Derek and Drew (Stefanie); sisters Cynthia, Cathy and their families; brother-in-law Rit (Brenda), their son Eric (Tiffany); sister-in-law Stephanie and her daughter Nicki (Randall), and their sons Sam and Jack; along with countless other friends and colleagues. Born in Eugene, Oregon, in 1939, Bob grew up in Salt Lake City, Utah, from an early age demonstrating the same curiosity and enthusiasm that would define his personal and professional life. As a child he trained carrier pigeons (released by his father from as far away as Idaho), started a business selling aquarium fish and (secretly) stabled his own horse, all before he was old enough to shave. After becoming the youngest Eagle Scout in Utah history, Bob worked his way up to become head chef at Finn's, then one of Utah's best restaurants. He developed into an expert skier of Utah's famed deep powder mountains as well as an accomplished golfer, both passions he would continue to pursue joyfully for the rest of his life. But it was in medical school at the University of Utah that Bob discovered his lifelong passion – scientific research. He spent the next half century dedicated to science, focusing his efforts on the vertebrate eye, his work resulting in significant contributions to our understanding of the retina. After receiving his MD | 396 |
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Turned on the mixer and let it go. And that's what I did yesterday.
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Scholey and Dixon – the family butchers of Bishopthorpe
Mr. Geoffrey Scholey Dixon outside the butcher's shop in Main Street, Bishopthorpe. Photographed in 2000 by Roger Poyser.
The small butcher's shop, with its pleasant blue and white painted frontage situated in the centre of Main Street, is a familiar Bishopthorpe landmark. The butcher's business, R. H. Dixon &<|fim_middle|>5, he polled the highest number of votes.
Among the local farmers who would have called upon George to slaughter their beasts for market, was Alfred Dixon. Alfred tenanted Moor Farm in Moor Lane, Bishopthorpe. He and his wife, Eliza, and two young children, arrived in Bishopthorpe from Barkston Ash during the 1870s. No doubt the Scholey and Dixon families knew each other well and their children grew up together. Almost inevitably, the eldest son of the Dixon family, Robert Henry, married Edith Annie, the eldest of the Scholey sisters.
The young couple married at St. Andrew's Church in 1907. Sadly, Annie's father, George, had died only the previous year leaving Robert Henry to run his father-in-law's butcher's shop. Robert lost his own father, Alfred, in 1892 and, with his younger brother, Percy, helped their mother, Eliza, to run Moor Farm. Percy, who was born in Bishopthorpe in 1881, continued to run the farm well into the twentieth-century.
Geoff's father, Robert Henry Dixon, pictured outside the family home, Walnut House. Robert Henry married George Scholey's daughter, Edith Annie, and took over the butcher's business when George died in 1906.
Robert Henry and Edith Annie Dixon settled into George Scholey's large house, known as Walnut House, situated in the grounds next to the butcher's shop. The couple had two sons, Arthur and Geoffrey; both boys having been given the middle name of Scholey. The two brothers followed in their relatives' footsteps and became butchers. Geoffrey did not marry, but Arthur married Hilda Agnes Sandberg in 1942 and it is their son, Robert, who to this day, continues to provide the village with excellent fare.
Bishopthorpe Local History Group is grateful to Mr. Robert Dixon for giving his permission to scan and display family photographs.
Robert Dixon the younger.
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Apple Pressing Day
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On Sunday, 9th October, villagers from Bishopthorpe joined the nation in celebrating the great British apple! Throughout the land, apples were gathered from gardens and orchards for a mass apple pressing experience.
Link editor, Carole Green, seen left, organised the Bishopthorpe event which started with her team helping to pick apples of all varieties. By Sunday afternoon, the Village Hall forecourt was a sea of green and red fruit. Volunteers washed and chopped apples and piled them into the press. Strong men turned the wheel and we all watched as the amber-coloured liquid trickled out to be collected in jugs.
Villagers arrived throughout the afternoon with yet more apples and all were rewarded with pints of delicious fresh apple juice.
Thanks are due to Carole and all volunteers who made the occasion a very pleasant community event.
The 5:15's at Bishopthorpe Social Club
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On Saturday 22nd October the 5:15's are playing live in the Club. Top York covers band playing Mod, 60's, Two-Tone, and Reggae. Get to the Club and get dancing. Doors open at 19.30. FREE ENTRY, ALL WELCOME.
The 5:15's faithfully play Modernist anthems from the 60's through each revival. Top musicians with a desire to make each gig special promise you a cracking night. Think Weller meets Entwistle and Moon accompanied by Rod the Mod who brought his mate Woody and you've just about got the picture. | Sons, has served the local community (including a number of Archbishops) for more than a century. Many people still remember Mr. Geoff Dixon who had worked in the shop all his life and died in 2009 aged 95 years.
It is not well known, however, that the business was started by a young butcher, George Scholey who arrived in Bishopthorpe about 1869. George was born in 1849 at Kelfield, the son of Robert Scholey, a farmer. In 1873 he married his cousin, Annie, and brought her to his home, in Bishopthorpe. The couple had eight children: six girls and two sons. Unfortunately, the two sons and one of the girls died in infancy.
Butcher, George Scholey, became a prominent parishioner taking an active role in local affairs. At the first Parish Council election in 189 | 196 |
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Drawn to "cactuses" as the plural: Yup, that's me. (Although I dispute that there's any confusion involved.) Drawn to cactuses: Yup, that too.
In our early days wintering in the Southwest, I took many photi of saguaros; lately, not so many. Familiarity might not breed contempt exactly, but indifference does seem to be a common offspring. It took a recent visit from a friend who was relatively unfamiliar with the region to turn my attention back to these behemoths. To start seeing and appreciating all their diversity again, for the first time.
Oh, Wow! No wonder our firstborn (and his wife) called his firstborn Cactus after visiting this part of the US. I suggested the middle name Willow in case classmates made too much of an unusual name. Then, they homeschooled their small forest of boys (+ Oakley + Cedar) so 'Tus<|fim_middle|>. No amount too large, and every bit appreciated.
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Oh, look, there's another face! Damn, now you've got me doing it….
Me too (Sorry!) You have started something here Isabel.
John – Well, it's only fair. I got started by seeing a wonderful collection of these photos through a link on Facebook (haha), and now I see them (almost) everywhere. Great fun.
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The Greek God Apollo has been variously recognized as a god of music, truth and prophecy, healing, the sun and light, plague, poetry, and more. It may be up to 1-year-old Apollo to be the "god" of humour.
Barbara – And if they don't grow into them, they can always change them, or go with a less-exceptional middle name, as Laurna suggested. Options are good. 🙂 My hunch is that others will accept the name if the person does, more or less without embarrassment, but it's hard at the time of naming to know which kid will have the gift of unselfconsciousness.
I guess their other name choice could have been worse: Zeus.
Barbara – At least Zeus starts out as the strong one-syllable that so many men's names contract to,and people know how to pronounce it. (Don't they?) I have a Persephone in my clan and expect she will get "purse-a-phone" from a good percentage on first contact. I'm waiting to see if it gets contracted to Percy.
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Oil Prices Flat- U.S. Production Data
Oil prices were flat on Tuesday, bouncing back from an early slide as the dollar fell to a one-week low, which encouraged buying of dollar-denominated crude at session lows.
Global benchmark Brent futures hit a<|fim_middle|> futures were down 9 cents at $59.20 a barrel.
The U.S. dollar hit a one-week low, which can attract investors to oil by making crude cheaper for buyers using other currencies.
"We have chipped away at crude losses today, and you could easily say it's a function of a weak dollar," said Bob Yawger, director of energy futures at Mizuho.
Since the stock market began falling sharply early this month, oil prices have wiped away the year's gains amid a volatile stock market.
"There are a lot of people who are praying that last week's collapse in crude…was some anomaly, and that as soon as the stock market recovered, the crude market would recover with it," said Walter Zimmerman, chief technical analyst at United-ICAP.
"So far its looking a little ominous but WTI has not broken down," Zimmerman said, adding the contract would have to decline more to enter a bear market. | two-month low early, but by 2:02 p.m. EST (1902 GMT), Brent rose 11 cents to $62.70 a barrel. U.S. West Texas Intermediate crude | 46 |
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Thanks for letting me know, Tyler. I'd love to see it revive too. We could do an initial meeting at my place if anyone is interested.
Hi Amy, the group hasn't been meeting for a while. I just added myself as member with the thought of reviving it. We'll have to talk about how that might happen. Hope all is well with you!
Sure wish you met on Wednesdays so I could attend. Miss you guys!
Our meeting in January was small but some good contacts were made that will help us to increase attendance next time. We enjoyed our time at Steeltown Coffee & Tea in Pittsburg. It's a very comfortable - good sized space. Drinks are yummy! Check out live music and other events at steeltowncoffee.com.
Our October mixer was a success. I think there were fifteen of us including 10 of the "usual suspects" as well as several new people. Sundong Kwong of Green Remodel Forum gave a great presentation on practical things we can all do to become more sustainable. We're looking for an appropriate venue in East County for our next mixer in January. I have a few ideas but I'm open to suggestions.
Our next event will be an evening mixer on Tuesday, October 18, 2011 from 5pm<|fim_middle|> hour till 6:30). They also have a roving venue. And there's The Fig Tree (where Nibbler's was). See you soon!
The Green Business Network of Contra Costa will resume regular meetings in the Fall with a somewhat different format. We'll have a quarterly evening "mixer" at a different venue in different areas of the county. Our first mixer will be on Tuesday, October 18 from 5 - 7 pm. Place TBD. Stay tuned...more info will follow. | to 7pm at The Fig Tree (formerly Nibblers) restaurant in Pleasant Hill. Please see the events page for more info.
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Just off Woodall Rodgers Freeway in Dallas is the Dallas Arts District, a zone in the northeast corner of downtown that is home to a variety of art museums, historic churches and an urban park. In the heart of the Dallas Arts District stands a jewel: the Nasher Sculpture Center.
The Nasher's collection includes more than 300 sculptures by artists such as Picasso, Matisse and Rodin. The building, with its indoor and outdoor exhibition spaces, was designed by Renzo Piano, who is considered one of the greatest modern architects. Piano is known for projects like The New York Times Building in Manhattan and The Shard in London, the tallest skyscraper in Europe. He's also known for reinventing the roof. For the Nasher, Piano built a roof composed of glass and a sunscreen of cast aluminum that protects the sculptures from overheating. The Nasher building is a work of art in itself and was treasured by its founders, Raymond and Patsy Nasher.
Before opening the sculpture center, Raymond and P<|fim_middle|> city's urban fabric.
Food trucks visit the deck park from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. every day, and throughout the week the park is home to various yoga and Pilates classes and boot camps as well as live music and entertainment in a children's amphitheater. The park is open from 6 a.m. to 11 p.m. daily. A complete schedule of events is available at KlydeWarrenPark.org.
From world-renowned museums to an urban park, the Dallas Arts District offers more than enough activities to educate and entertain the family. To plan a day of adventures, visit TheDallasArtsDistrict.org. | atsy Nasher dreamed of owning a gallery. They began their art collection in 1950 with the purchase of a piece in Mexico, a trip which spurred their interest in pre-Columbian art. By the 1960s, the Nashers were acquiring works of modern sculpture, and Raymond Nasher began to display pieces in his commercial real estate buildings in Dallas. The Nashers' collection grew quickly in the 1980s, with the couple becoming interested in work by living artists, and the breadth of the collection expanded as well. Their collection has been featured in displays in New York, Washington, Spain, Italy and Israel. The collection's permanent home in Dallas opened in 2003. It has become the epicenter of the Dallas Arts District and one of the world's foremost museums of modern and contemporary sculpture.
Outside the Nasher, standing among the Dallas skyscrapers, is the Nasher Garden. Landscape architect Peter Walker worked with Piano to create a 1.4-acre garden that would flow smoothly from inside to outside. Today, the sculpture garden serves as a serene oasis, a quiet escape from the urban surroundings.
While the weather is warm (or smoldering in the summer), the Nasher offers a free late-night event once a month — "'til Midnight" in the Nasher Garden, which is held the third Friday of each month through October. Each night kicks off with an acoustic singer-songwriter showcase at 6 p.m. and is followed by a concert at 7. The music ranges from folk, rock and pop, and the series features mostly local talent. June's featured band is Quiet Company. Valise will play in July, and TEAM performs in August. The events conclude with a movie at 9 p.m. In June the John Cleese and Jamie Lee Curtis comedy, "A Fish Called Wanda," will be screened, though it will be "edited for a wider audience," the Nasher website says. Each "'til Midnight" will also offer social media scavenger hunts. Inside the Nasher, guests can lose themselves viewing the touring and permanent exhibits in the luminous gallery of modern and contemporary art.
The Nasher Sculpture Center is open from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Sunday. Admission is $10, with discounts available for seniors, students and members of the military. Children younger than 12 are admitted for free. Admission is free for everyone on the first Saturday of each month from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. The center is located at 2001 Flora Street. More information can be found at NasherSculptureCenter.org.
Just across North Harwood Street from the Nasher is the Dallas Museum of Art (DMA), a staple of the Dallas Arts District. The DMA offers its own late-night fun every third Friday, when it's open until midnight. The museum also offers concerts, films and tours during its Friday series.
The collection of the DMA is massive, containing more than 23,000 pieces spanning more than 5,000 years. It contains works from diverse artists such as Louis Comfort Tiffany, Frank Lloyd Wright, Salvador Dalí and Josiah Wedgwood of the Wedgwood tableware factory.
The Dallas Museum of Art opens at 11 a.m. Tuesday through Sunday. It's open until 5 p.m. every day except Thursday, when it closes at 9 p.m. The museum is closed on Monday. General admission is now free. The Dallas Museum of Art is located at 1717 North Harwood Street. Learn more at DMA.org.
Another popular destination is Klyde Warren Park, the "front lawn" of the Dallas Arts District. This 5.2-acre deck park is located above the recessed Woodall Rodgers Freeway between Pearl and St. Paul streets. The foreign idea of building a deck park over the highway may have begun in the 1960s, when Dallas Mayor J. Erik Jonsson decided to recess the freeway. In 2002 the idea resurfaced, and in 2012 the project was finished and quickly became a part of the | 870 |
Sunday Night Musings: So You Want to Be a Lawyer
Did you know that I was a lawyer once? I<|fim_middle|> for him the firm represented things like pharmaceutical manufacturers, and oil companies, and government agencies. There were a lot of unhappy lawyers at that firm, an entire firm of associates who really wanted to be somewhere else. One guy wanted to be a musician. Another wanted to be a teacher. It began to feel like the thing holding us all together. That and our abject misery. We used to go to lunch together and talk about everyone's dream method of crashing their car so that they could get time off work. We were a group of misfit toys.
The named partner, though, was cut from a different cloth. He loved the visceral theater of lawyering, the blood sport of it. He told me he had considered pursuing a PhD in English, which was the subject of his undergraduate major at Georgetown, but that his involvement with the student disciplinary system ultimately changed his mind. That, and the mind-numbing prospect of studying ten years in Charles Dickens' life for the rest of his life. His college hobby involved advocating for other students in front of Georgetown's internal judiciary. Apparently he argued a lot of pot cases. "I got a lot of people off," he told me. I believe him. I hear that one time after he made an opening voir dire statement, the jury pool applauded. I believe that too. He ended up going to jail for awhile (long story) but I hear he ultimately bounced back and now shows up in the news representing celebrity divorces. I bet his worst fear, when all the shit was hitting the fan, was not the jail time, but that they would take his bar card. That guy loved being a lawyer that much.
So what am I saying here? I don't think you need to love the law so much that you would happily go to jail if it meant keeping your bar card. But I think it's good to consider that, at the other end of the profession's spectrum, are twenty-somethings thinking about how they can run their cars into the center divide. It's that kind of career. I hear that smaller markets are more forgiving, maybe more enjoyable. This is probably so. The profession I saw demands 14-16 hour days, and all-nighters, and weekends, and angry letters, and aggressive phone calls, and stressed clients, and inappropriate colleagues. Best know before you leap where you're leaping to, lest you end up on the other side, ten years older with student loans and an ulcer and limited career prospects outside the law.
I'm just saying, it's a thing that happens.
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Essay, Law, Law School, Profession | was. I went to UCLA School of Law, because it was a state school, and relatively cheap, and because I wanted to live in Los Angeles where the movies are. I considered Northwestern because Northwestern has a theater arts program and, in the alternative to being near the movies, I wanted to be near someplace with one of those. Then I learned that the Northwestern law school is nowhere near the rest of Northwestern the university. Also, Chicago is cold. So…go Bruins!
I was a middling law student, I guess partly because I went to law school to be near the movies, and partly because I went to law school because I was a history major and what do you do with a history major? Which isn't a very good reason to go to law school, as it turns out. Although now that I've been out in the world for awhile, I would posit that the world would be a better place if it valued things like history majors, but that's a post for another day.
While in law school, I sang with the undergraduate chorale. This was a great experience, and I highly recommend it. 9-11 had just happened. I remember sitting in the law school common room on that day, watching planes fly into the twin towers on loop. In commemoration, the chorale was singing Mozart's Requiem, and Beethoven's Ode to Joy. We had rehearsals twice a week. One time, while waiting for the conductor to show up, I overheard one of the undergrads in front of me chatting about how she was the president of the pre-law organization on campus (who even knew that was a thing?), and that she had signed up this speaker, and attended that lecture, and law this, law that, law and law the other thing. So I asked her why she wanted to go to law school. She told me she loved the law. What about it, I asked her. Everything, she said.
I can tell you right now, ladies and gentlemen, that this answer is a crock of shit. It's not that no one loves the law. Some people do. But when I hear someone announce, broadly, "I love the law," especially when that someone is a college junior whose idea of "growing up around the law" (her words) means she's been watching a lot of Law and Order, I know they don't know enough to have an opinion, which is where most people are at when they go to law school. Also, how many accountants have you heard say, "I just live for the tax code?" I bet there are some. You just don't run into them at choir practice.
Later that same week I was eating at an Olive Garden in Westwood Boulevard near campus. If my 9-11 reference didn't sufficiently date me, this Olive Garden reference should do it, because that thing has been closed for years. My waitress was around twenty. She was a transfer, and working her way through school. She saw my law books, and told me she wanted to be a lawyer too. I asked her why. She told me her brother was in jail – attempted bank robbery, if memory serves, but it was a long time ago – and she had been spending a lot of time with his public defender helping on his case. She liked this public defender, and she liked the work she did, and wanted to make a difference.
This is a good reason to go to law school. I've often wished I could remember her name, so I could look her up and see if she made good. She told me the other kids at the pre-law society weren't very nice to her. She was worried she didn't write well enough. I told her writing was something you could learn, and to tell those other kids to pound sand. I hope she took it to heart, if for no other reason than that telling people who doubt you to pound sand is a good life skill.
I've met a few lawyers over the years who loved their jobs. I've met a lot more who didn't. My first job out of law school was with a prominent litigator in Los Angeles. He made his name taking on the accounting practices of Hollywood studios, but by the time I worked | 873 |
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