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Nomination for Nobel Peace Prize
Name: Paul Henri Benjamin Balluet<|fim_middle|> of Arbitration at The Hague.
University: Vienna
City: Vienna
Country: AUSTRIA (AT)
Comments: Full name: Paul Henri Benjamin Balluet, Baron d'Estournelles de Constant de Rébecque. Lammasch also nominated Fyodor Martens. | d`Estournelles de Constant (Baron de Constant de Rébecque)
Profession: Former diplomat. Member of the French parliament. Member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration at The Hague.
City: Paris
Country: FRANCE (FR)
Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize 1909
Motivation: D'Estournelles represented France at The Hague Peace Conference in 1899. He attempted to get acceptance for the principle of compulsory arbitration, but this was not possible. After the conference he strongly promoted the Permanent Court of Arbitration, and he founded the French Groupe de l'Arbitrage in 1903. D'Estournelles advocated Franco-German conciliation and wanted a European federation. In 1905 he founded Conciliation Internationale, a network of peace workers aimed at influencing public opinion. At the second conference at The Hague in 1907, d'Estournelles continued his work to strengthen international arbitration.
Name: Heinrich Lammasch
Profession: Professor of Law. Member of the Permanent Court | 225 |
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Below you will find several of STM's Musicologists " AKA" Deejay's, MC's, Party Rockers. I think you got the Idea. Our DJ's Rock and are just that darn good. You may ask what makes a great Dj? Why are STM DJ's so good? From the time a prospective DJ walks through the door Mr. ShowTime and his experienced staff hand pics and trains every DJ. Each DJ goes through a rigorous DJ training program that takes several months to complete. To date all of STM DJ's have attended the Omaha DJ Academy "ODA" a 6 week DJ course that teaches, blending, mixing, beat matching, vocal training, equipment knowledge and many other aspects needed to be a successful DJ. After all that training you still have to have 1 main ingredient to be a good DJ. You simply have to love music! Many of our ShowTime Music DJ's work in Clubs and are very sought after DJ's. Feel free to look at each Bio and see who could be a match for your event. Please remember all of ShowTime Music's DJ's are trained the same exact way and are all great DJ's in there own way.
Mista Soull
Mista Soull (a.k.a. the Crowd Rocka<|fim_middle|> named after him, Planet Soull, solidifying his prominence in the city.
Continuing to be the one of the most-sought after DJs in the Midwest, Soull next ventured into radio. For the five years he worked in the medium, consistently ranked #1 in ratings in his time slot.
Soull has always had an entrepreneurial spirit. Since leaving radio, he has developed a management and promotions company. In addition, after membership in several DJ organizations, he decided to form his own DJ coalition, the Crowd Rocka DJs, with members located throughout the country.
His skills have led to him DJing at events around the nation. He keeps his brand expanding by doing mixtapes, promoting events, hosting parties, managing artist and brand marketing.
DJ XL
Over 10 years ago Dj-XL realized he had an undeniable love for music. He took that passion and began polishing up his skills on the turntables. His hard work and dedication led him to appear in various clubs and shows. His popularity first came as being known for spinning all the hot reggae hits but he decided to broaden his music genre and diversify his fan base. As his popularity rose on the Hip-Hop scene he decided to enlist the support of various artists.
Dj-XL is originally from Trinidad & Tobago (the Caribbean) but is now in Nebraska. He has held residences at Showtime Music and Insanity Entertainment. Dj –XL has made many other appearances throughout Nebraska, Iowa, and Kansas area. The digital master loves to create dance worthy mixes and loves to see everyone dancing. In 2010 DJ Xl received the Prestigious Edward English Garcia Dj of thew year memerioal award from ShowTime Music. The highest DJ Honor In The Midwest.
Colby Bradfield
I began to DJ by request in the small towns of Southwest Iowa. I have an affinity to move toward music that makes the whole crowd move. From starting in Iowa I have spent a lot of time playing country music for the crowds, but my main interests in music are Hip Hop, Dance, Rock, Electronic, Punk, House, and Trance. Although I do listen to and play everything, when it comes to writing I spend my time in the realms of Alt Rock and Hip Hop.
Jesse Michael TyeDup
Jesse Tye began his DJ career at the age of fifteen, when he purchased a set of belt drive turn-tables and a small mixer. Inspired by DJs from the UK, he ordered all the records from a recorded set of a particular artist and began reconstructing it to learn how to mix. As time went on his music tastes expanded and he ordered more and more records. Eventually he switched from turntables to CDJs to add more variety. By the time he reached age 18, Jesse was the youngest DJ in Omaha to hold a club residency in Omaha. Now at the age of 23, he has performed at multiple parties, clubs, and raves in the MidWest. Currently he is continuously burning dancefloors locally in Omaha!
DJ Infamous
Hey there, My name is DJ Infamous. I have been rocking weddings with Showtime Music for over 4 years now. I enjoy all types of music, from Motown and hip hop to rock and country. I've attended the Omaha DJ Academy, and I am continuing my education in broadcasting and communications at Iowa Western Community College. Experience: Clubs, karaoke, radio, and much more. I am currently the host/personality of Love Light and Flight on Blazzin95.com. Music inspires me greatly as it is the universal language of life. I would love to rock your event!
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DJ Bishop - Industry Leader
My contribution to the industry: Is to provide Omaha with the newest, hottest and top quality music. That many have come to love. This story began when DJ Bishop started mixing back in '89. Having been born and raised in Chicago, where "House Music" is a dominating force, he picked up an ear for rhythm timing by learning beats per minute, which is one of the key factors to mixing. The first mixing equipment that he used was tape decks followed by turntables and finally C.D players. DJ Bishop later made the move or better yet, the relocation from Chicago to Omaha, Nebraska in 1992. In Omaha, he started performing at house parties, high schools, Boys Town events, etc. During 1994 he worked for KNOS 88.9 FM as a radio disc jockey on Friday nights and Saturday mid-day. But, his time at KNOS would last for a year when he finally realized that in addition to working at the radio station that he needed to broaden his audience by live Dee-Jaying at different clubs around the city.
DJ Bishop would eventually Bishop moved on to KBLR Hot 107.7 & 97.3, where he was professionally known as "Mr. Exclusive" respectively. As well as spinning the hottest jams for XM Radio the City 67. DJ Bishop drops all the hot "exclusives" On Kopw Power 106.9 weekday rush for 3 years straight. Currently you can catch DJ Bishop Rocking out in varies clubs in Omaha and surrounding cities teaming up with national Coredjs and Crowdrockas djs And when you're ready to dance the night away and party, be sure to tweet DJ Bishop at www.twitter.com/DJBishop2g & add him WWW.iamdjbishop@facebook.com or drop him a text at (402) 490-6185 to find out what event he's rocking now!!!!
"We had a wonderful time at our wedding and the DJ was a lot of fun! He was very conscious of making sure our night went without a hitch and we stayed on schedule. He played every s.."
- blakenjennifer20 | ) is the true embodiment of a DJ with a passion for the art. Soull has always brought a show to the DJ set making him one of the most popular DJs in the Midwest.
From the first drops, Soull brings a high level of energy that keeps the crowd rocking from start to close. When he rocks the mic, it is a show. During the climaxes of his sets, he might run to the end of the stage or jump into crowds to hype the audience.
First honing his skills as a turntablist, Soull next mastered the art of mixing. He made a name for himself by rescuing a closing club and turning it into the hottest nightclub in Omaha, which was called The Parthenon. From that club, he worked or managed several other clubs in the area, growing his reputation as the city's hottest DJ. That reputation brought even more fame when the newest hot spot in town opened and was | 189 |
Carol Ann Duffy: A life in poetry
Wednesday 12 December 2018, 7pm–8.30pm GMT
Islington Assembly Hall, London, N1 2UD
Carol Ann Duffy, Scottish poet and playwright, Poet Laureate, appears at a photocall prior to an event at Edinburgh International Book Festival, on August 9, 2014 in Edinburgh, Scotland. (Photo by Jeremy Sutton-Hibbert/Getty Images) Photograph: Jeremy Sutton-Hibbert/Getty Images
Join us for an evening with award-winning poet Carol Ann Duffy<|fim_middle|> who require an assistant may bring a companion free of charge. To book a free companion ticket please email guardianlive.events@theguardian.com | . As she steps down from her decade-long tenure as poet laureate, she will discuss her work and read from her new collection, Sincerity.
Duffy won the 1983 National Poetry Competition when she was in her 20s, and was the Guardian's poetry critic from 1988 to 1989. When she was appointed poet laureate in 2009 she became the first woman to hold the post in its nearly 350 year long history. During her tenure she has written poems responding to public events ranging from the Armistice Day centenary to the General Election and the Royal Wedding. She has also used her role to shine a spotlight on poetry, from setting up new prizes and supporting festivals to championing the work of other poets.
In her new collection, Duffy offers a moving exploration of loss and remembrance. Her previous collections include The World's Wife, Mean Time and the Costa award-winning The Bees. She will be in conversation with Guardian chief books writer, Lisa Allardice.
Tickets are £20 or £30 with a copy of Sincerity (RRP £14.99).
Running time: 90 minutes, no interval.
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The Pittsburgh Steelers visited two places this past Sunday: London and Stark Reality.
Until now, Steelers players and coaches had viewed last season's 8-8 record as a worst case scenario for 2013, something to be improved upon, with Pittsburgh's role as playoff contender as the franchise's role in life. Anything worse was unthinkable, unmentionable.
With veteran guard Ramon Foster injured<|fim_middle|> feel" added fellow defender Chad Greenway. "In our league it's nip and tuck. We just hadn't made the critical plays in critical situations and today we were able to."
Critical plays are how the Vikings are 1-3, Steelers 0-4. After some blow-outs between contenders and also-rans, Wembley enjoyed a fierce, high-scoring battle. That the Vikings won 34-27 may still be a footnote to this NFL season, but the struggle made for spectacle, and for another team – the Jacksonville Jaguars – the support for the Vikings, with many neutrals swinging behind them once the game was underway, may be a sign that Brits are ready to make these long-haul trips feel like home for the designated team.
"It felt like a home game", Greenway confirmed, "The Vikings fans, even if they weren't fans they chose to be fans of us today and that was pretty cool." | during the game, center Maurkice Pouncey already gone for the year and the running game feeble in any case, Big Ben struck when possible in London, but Roethlisberger (36 of 51 or 383 yards, 1 TD) looked cumbersome between occasional big plays, terrorized by Jared Allen, throwing off-target under pressure. He lacked experienced receivers, protection, or any kind of run game, yet with the moxie of earlier years, he willed the Steelers back from 34-17 down in the third quarter to within one scoring play with a minute left, driving Pittsburgh into the Vikings red zone… and then, with cruel inevitability, sacked, fumbling, with the ball recovered by Vikings defensive tackle Kevin Williams with seconds left.
Such is the story for the Steelers this season. There's no longer any way to avoid it. They'd tried putting their fingers to their ears when anyone spoke of being 'in transition', but unless they return from their bye week inspired, renewed, and magically injury-free, the new whisper may be 'rebuilding'.
"We're going to focus on getting better. As long as I see belief and effort and continued improvement in detail – because that's what's going to change the outcome of these games. If I don't, they aren't going to be a part of it, whoever they may be. It's just that simple."
As for identifying their root problem: "It's fundamentals, not anything mystical".
While Ben Roethlisberger's fantasy yardage looked a lot prettier than the execution on the field, the Steelers' running game was in sharp contrast to that of the victorious Vikings. Pittsburgh's leading rusher, Le'Veon Bell had 57 yards on 16 carries. Vikings legend Adrian Peterson had more than that on one play, finishing with 23 carries for 140 yards. A 7-yard reception for Toby Gerhart was only time another back even touched the ball for the Vikings.
The other marked difference was pressure. Getting his first start as a Viking in replacement of Christian Ponder, quarterback Matt Cassel looked calm. composed and ready for the job, 16 of 25 for 248 yards is far from eye-popping, but he had time to survey the field while Roethlisberger stagger-stepped left and right to avoid the rush when he could. In all Beg Ben was felled 5 times, hurried frequently, while Cassel was sacked just once.
Jared Allen (2.5 sacks of Roethlisberger) looked as much relieved as pleased with the first Vikings win of the year, telling me the game was "...everything we wanted, great game, great atmosphere, great experience and a win".
"This is how it's supposed to | 577 |
Dunfermline: Gerry McCabe exits as three players<|fim_middle|> said Jefferies.
"We're not out the woods yet and we'll just have to hope things go our way and we get the money in to help the club survive."
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Last updated on 29 March 201329 March 2013 .From the section Football
Gerry McCabe has left his role as assistant manager of Dunfermline as the Fife club continue to cut costs.
McCabe had worked alongside Pars manager Jim Jefferies, who himself agreed to a reduced salary.
Meanwhile, three of the players made redundant have found other clubs.
Goalkeeper Paul Gallacher has signed for Scottish Premier League side Ross County, while defenders Jordan MacMillan and Andy Dowie have joined Partick Thistle in the First Division.
John Potter and Craig Dargo, who are on player-coach contracts at Dunfermline, will remain at East End Park for the time being.
Interim administrator Bryan Jackson, of accountants PKF, began cuts at Dunfermline on Wednesday, with further savings expected at the First Division club.
On Friday, Jefferies gave BBC Radio Scotland an update on how the club's future looked.
"Bryan Jackson said he's been involved in football clubs before and they've all come out the other end, but he said this one is a very difficult one," | 240 |
In 1957 Gabe and Jackie Milanese started their family's home remodeling business with a great idea. The idea was to take modern materials and apply them to the exterior of homes and businesses to make them maintenance free and energy efficient.
Gabe and Jackie proved that being honest and working hard to offer the best products, installation and service at the lowest possible price is the best way to succeed in business.
The second generation of the Milanese family has the same dedication to offering only the best to their clients.
Gabe Milanese Jr. served as the President of Milanese Remodeling for over 25 years and he treated employees, clients, colleagues and all he dealt with<|fim_middle|> and learned that service after the sale is very important.
From 1957-1985 our business was called Milanese Aluminum.
After nearly 30 years operating under that name, we changed our business name to Milanese Remodeling to better reflect our commitment to using a variety of modern materials and handling a complete assortment of exterior remodeling projects.
On March 28, 2017, we celebrated our 60th birthday. We were thrilled to be recognized by the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for our services to Chester County and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
Jackie Milanese received a citation, presented by PA State Rep. Tim Hennessey and PA State Rep. Harry Lewis. Check out our blog post for more information about the award. | honestly, fairly and respectfully. He sadly passed away, in July 2013, but his memory lives on through the Gabe Milanese Jr. Foundation. Gabe's wife,Trish, is the Milanese Remodeling "Director of First Impressions" and a big reason Milanese Remodeling is still the home of good old-fashioned customer service. Contact Trish to schedule an appointment, installation, or service for any project and you will find a friend who is happy to help.
Michael and Mark Milanese both grew up in the business. They have the benefit of learning from the example of their older brother, their parents and by "hands-on" experience from an early age.
A third generation of the Milanese family is continuing the remodeling tradition.
Jacqueline Milanese loves home remodeling and watching home improvement shows on TV. She graduates Bishop Shanahan High School in 2014.
Cecelia Milanese enjoys supporting clients with friendly service. She is a senior at West Chester Henderson.
Nicholas Milanese has 3 years experience. He worked on more challenging projects this summer before returning to Pitt University to continue his studies.
Mark Anthony Milanese has been installing for 4 years and has learned the skills to install retractable awnings, storm doors and replacement windows. He is pursuing a business degree at DCCC.
Gabriel Milanese III is an eager learner who takes pride in a job well done. We expect great things from Gabe III.
Michael Angelo Milanese Jr. has been helping his dad for many years. This year he often accompanied his dad on service calls | 327 |
This pepper came from Mexico and was locally introduced by a Basque navigator who was part of Christopher Colombus' crew for America. Firstly, it was used as a medecine. In 1650, It started to grow in Espelette and to be eaten as a condiment or as a preservative (for ham and meat). Nowadays this caracter<|fim_middle|> all products need to be stamped « AOC »( specified origin) before distributing. | istical variety is only produced between ten towns and villages : Aïnhoa, Cambo-les-Bains, Espelette, Halsou, Itxassou, Jatxou, Larressore, Saint-Pée-sur-Nivelle, Souraïde and Ustaritz. Thanks to patience and know-how, Espelette pepper producers keep perfecting their art.
Sowing is carried out in the middle of February using compost. Seedlings are then planted out and grown under glass.
Planting out in fields begins in May.
Staking and weeding are carried out by hand and the first flowers blossom in June.
The pepper reaches its final size (around 7 to 14 cm) and is green before repening into magnificient red colour.
Harvesting is carried out by hand and only the red peppers are harvested between August and the first frosts.
Once the powered peppers have received approval, the product is packed (into glass, jars or sachets), stamped with the AOC Piment d'Espelette logo and is ready for marketing.
Peppers can be sold fresh or in powder, nevertheless, | 235 |
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The Care Managers
MCMC's efforts to reach out and assist patients between their provider visits are paying off in many healthy ways. Dawn Weaver was struggling. Several life-altering events had hit her hard the previous few years, starting with her husband's death from cancer. Only two years later, her father died.
She was suffering emotionally, and her health had deteriorated to such an extent that she lost her job. Then she lost her mother.
"It wasn't the best six years," says the Goldendale resident.
Weaver had been seeing her primary care provider, physician assistant Ben Pate, about her diabetes, which she hadn't been managing well.
When he referred her to the clinic's care manager, Pamela Ackerman, R.N., she began to see light at the end of her tunnel. Today she can't even see the darkness in her rearview mirror.
"I have a purpose for getting up in the morning now," she says.
Ackerman is one of several members of MCMC's care manager team, which was developed as part of national health care reform efforts to improve patient care. The care managers work with providers in each of MCMC's clinics, complementing and extending their care by working with patients who have been identified as potentially needing additional attention and services outside their practitioner's office.
"Care managers focus on what happens with patients between their visits to their provider," Ackerman says. "There is only so much a provider can do during a 20-minute office visit, and good health outcomes were often dependent on everything going exactly as the provider planned after each visit."
The problem was all too often patients face obstacles or challenges that prevent them from following their providers' advice or instructions. The goal of care managers is to connect with those patients most likely to face such challenges and help overcome them. Now, when MCMC providers identify patients who could benefit from follow-up communication or assistance, they alert their care manager, who connects with the individual, assesses his or needs and provides any guidance or assistance necessary.
"We learned a lot when we first started calling patients," says care manager Amy Hansen, R.N. "We'd call a patient whose physician had prescribed medications and learn she wasn't taking them because her insurance didn't cover the cost and she couldn't afford to pay herself. Another patient wouldn't be taking his meds because he didn't like the side effects."
In instances such as this, care managers will help the patient access resources for financial assistance or work with their provider to find a medication the patient can better tolerate.
Sometimes, it's a matter of a patient not having the transportation to get to a pharmacy. That's' when community health worker Daniel Price steps in, helping find transportation for the patient or identify other community resources as needed.
Price and care manager Brandi Wahler, R.N., remember one patient whose life changed dramatically simply because they were able to provide highly personalized attention and connect her with resources that empowered her to make her own lifestyle changes.
"She had had frequent hospitalizations due to complications from edema, and after her latest one she was unable to walk," Wahler remembers. "We contacted her and she said, 'I have to change.'"
With the patient's own determination, and the care manager team's help with diet and other health education, she not only got back on her feet, but also lost 100 pounds.
She had lived in a basement apartment with no windows and had struggled with depression, until Price worked with the Center for Living to find alternative housing.
"She now has a window, and the last time we spoke she told me she was drunk on sunshine," Wahler says.
"People tend to make excuses if the road isn't well paved ahead of them," Price says. "Sometimes just clearing some obstacles makes all the difference in the world."
While most of their patients are referred by providers, the team also tries to identify other patients who might benefit from the personal health advocacy the care managers provide.
"When the program started, we identified at-risk patients by looking for people who frequented the emergency room for non-emergent conditions or who were living with multiple chronic diseases," says Mark England, R.N., outpatient quality assurance coordinator. "Insurance companies also have identified patients who use a lot of health resources and may benefit from more attention."
He adds that patients hospitalized with heart failure and lung disease (COPD) are automatically followed by a care manager,working with their physician or provider,weekly for one month.
But that frequency of contact isn't always needed. "Sometimes all a patient needs is a call or two just to get over the hump," says care manager Andi Wimmers, R.N. "Our goal is to give them the assistance they need to be able to just focus on their own health."
Dawn Weaver is happy to attest to the effectiveness of the program. With the help of her physician assistant and Ackerman, she has made dramatic strides in the self-management of her diabetes.
A few months ago, her A1C count (a measure of average blood glucose) was 15.1, an indicator of significantly uncontrolled diabetes. Her most recent score was 6.6, "which," she says proudly, "is good."
Ackerman would call Weaver to check her progress on controlling her blood sugar level, watching her diet and increase her activity level. "I even went through (MCMC's) diabetes education program which helped me be more aware of how to live with diabetes," she says.
The guidance of her physician assistant and the ongoing attention of her care manager have made all the difference in the world to Weaver.
"With their help and persistence, I've continued trying to do what was right to have a better life," she says. "I'm feeling better than I have in a long time."
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The Battle of the Crater—Maybe the Original SNAFU
Black troops attempt to break out of the Crater.
File this one in the "The best-laid schemes o' mice an' men gang aft agley" Department. The plan was brilliant. Its execution nearly perfect down to the last detail. The result exactly as desired, until mere mortal men marched into the breach.
By the summer of 1864 the grim carnage of the American Civil War had ground to a stalemate. Since Gettysburg a year earlier Confederate General Robert E. Lee and his legendary Army of Northern Virginia had been hard pressed by vastly superior Union forces of the Army of the Potomac under the command of Major General George Meade directly and personally supervised by Commanding General Ulysses S Grant.
Once famous for his audacious and aggressive maneuvers, Lee was forced to defend the Confederate capital of Richmond. He erected impressive earthen work fortifications in a wide ring around the city. The old man was proving to be just as adept at what would be the future of war in the Industrial Age—trench warfare.
The key to Richmond was at the rail hub of Petersburg through which the city and the army could remain supplied with food, supplies, and munitions. Grant called it the "backdoor to Richmond" and proceeded to lay siege to the city and its fortifications.
The armies faced each other along a 20 mile front from the old Cold Harbor battlefield near Richmond to areas south of Petersburg. An attempt to take the town by assault ended in failure on June 15. Since then the two armies had pounded each other with artillery, peppered the opposing lines with deadly fire from sharpshooters and snipers, and delicately probed each other's lines with reconnaissance patrols. Both commanding generals were frustrated.
It took a mining engineer to come up with a solution to Grant's problem—Lt. Col. Henry Pleasants, commanding the 48th Pennsylvania Infantry of Maj. Gen. Ambrose E. Burnside's IX Corps. His proposal was simple on paper—dig a long mineshaft from the Union siege trenches then under Confederate outer defenses until under the major fortification at the center of the Rebel lines, Elliott's Salient. Sappers would then plant and set off a huge mine which would blow the fort away and open a breach through which Union forces could pour, smashing the Confederate I Corps and rolling up Petersburg before Lee could muster his forces from elsewhere along the lines.
Burnside was a once promising commander nursing a badly bruised<|fim_middle|> of Deep Bottom or New Market Road the forces were repelled in two sharp days of skirmishing around Fussell's Mill and Bailey's Creek. Although Grant held out some hope that Hancock's infantry could punch a hole in the defenses to allow Sheridan's cavalry to pour into Richmond, or failing that ride around the city severing rail connections, he was not entirely disappointed when the attacks were repulsed. They had succeeded in causing Lee to send troops from Petersburg to re-enforce the line along the James.
Grant turned his personal attention to the well-developed plans for the Petersburg mine attack.
Weeks earlier at an officer's call Burnside had acceded to the plea of former New York City dance master Brigadier General Edward Ferrero to use his division of United States Colored Troops (USCT) as the leading assault unit. Burnside, who originally had other plans, agreed. The division was fresh, well equipped, and most importantly at full strength, 4,200—a rarity when veteran units were often whittled away to half their original size or less through combat loss, disease, and desertion. The division was given a rarity for the Civil War—two full weeks of specialized training and instructions for this mission. After the mine went off, they were to move ahead in the confusion of the enemy and secure the crest of the crater on either side to allow the rest of the Corps to pass along the rim or through the crater itself.
When Meade reviewed the plans he fretted that the unit which Burnside considered fresh was simply green and therefore unreliable in combat, especially in a critical role. He also worried that if the Colored Troops failed, they would discourage commanders from accepting and fighting alongside of others. Although Colored Troops had proved themselves in other theaters, they were new to the elite Army of the Potomac. Grant agreed and ordered Burnside to revise the order of battle less than 24 hours before the attack.
At another officer's call Burnside conducted a lottery among his three white divisions to select a lead. Brigadier General James F. Ledlie of the 1st Division won the draw. The Colored Division would join the two others in the second wave of the attack.
Ledlie returned to his unit but never issued the special instructions for taking the flanking rim first. The men were told only that they would have the honor of leading a full frontal assault.
Meanwhile Col. Pleasants was deep underground personally supervising the final placement of the explosives and making sure the earthen plugs in the tunnel were strong.
The mine was supposed to be detonated at 3:30 in the morning of June 30. But the Army had provided inferior fuses. Two attempts to light it failed. Finally two volunteers crawled into the mine, found where the fuse had burned out and broken, and spliced a fresh fuse on the end. It was after dawn when the mine finally blew up at 4:30, with enough light for Confederate pickets to recognize that there were large Union forces inside their lines.
The explosion itself went off flawlessly. And impressively. The fortifications of Elliott's Salient were blown sky high killing most of the garrison. Despite a little warning, the Confederate line was thrown into the anticipated confusion and panic.
Ledlie's men at first seemed as stunned by the spectacle as the enemy. They paused to take in the scene and had to be prodded forward by their officers and sergeants. Ledlie himself was nowhere to be found. He was well to the rear, completely out of line of sight of the battle in a bombproof bunker with Ferrero of the Colored Division. Passing a bottle between them the two officers were getting quietly drunk.
When the 1st Division reached the crater instead of securing the rim, they charged directly into it. And at the bottom they stopped to gape the destruction. The delays allowed time for Brig. Gen. William Mahone to cobble together a Confederate force to rush to plug the breech. They quickly occupied the vacant rim and commenced a Turkey shoot of the defenseless men in the Crater. Troops madly tried to scramble up the sides, but found the dirt gave way under them. They were trapped.
But they were not to be alone. Burnside, refusing to be charged once again with indecision and lack of aggression, ordered the Colored Division forward to reinforce the trapped 1st. Denied the rim, they followed into the Crater. Their appearance enraged the Confederates who intensified fire, including volley after volley of intense artillery fire.
The Turkey shoot continued for more than two hours. At one point some troops supporting troops did manage to flank the crater and advance inside the Confederate line taking trenches in brutal hand to hand combat. But there were not enough of them and could not be reinforced. After holding out for a short while they were cleaned out of the trenches by a counter attack.
As the battle wound down, Confederate troops summarily executed Black soldiers trying to surrender. Fearing retaliation by the Rebels, some White Union troops bayonetted Blacks as well. The Colored Division was virtually wiped out as an effective unit.
In all Union forces suffered 3,798 casualties including 504 killed, 1,881 wounded, and 1,413 missing or captured. The Confederates lost 1,491—361 killed, 727 wounded, and 403 missing or captured.
Probably the best chance of the year at an early end to the war was thrown away. Grant reported to Army Chief of Staff Henry W. Halleck, "It was the saddest affair I have witnessed in this war…Such an opportunity for carrying fortifications I have never seen and do not expect again to have."
The finger pointing and blaming began immediately. A Court of Inquiry pinned the rap on Burnside, who was relieved of command and never entrusted with another. His reputation was ruined beyond repair. All of his division commanders were censured, especially Ledlie and Ferrero.
One of the few to come out of the affair with an enhanced reputation was Pleasants, whose troops were not engaged in the actual fighting that day. He was rewarded for his plan and execution with a brevet to Brigadier General.
At war's end in 1865 the Congressional Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War opened an inquiry into the debacle. Pleasants testified that if Burnside had been allowed to retain his original order of Battle, that the operation would have been a success. Grant concurred. He wrote to the Commission:
General Burnside wanted to put his colored division in front, and I believe if he had done so it would have been a success. Still I agreed with General Meade as to his objections to that plan. General Meade said that if we put the colored troops in front (we had only one division) and it should prove a failure, it would then be said and very properly, that we were shoving these people ahead to get killed because we did not care anything about them. But that could not be said if we put white troops in front.
In the end, the commission agreed, laying the blame at Meade's feet and exonerating Burnside. Little good did that do for the generals already destroyed reputation.
On the Confederate side Mahone was hailed a hero and became one of Lee's most trusted division commanders in the last year of the war.
The Siege of Petersburg ground on for months more into a new year. Union successes elsewhere, especially William Tecumseh Sherman's operations in the Deep South, were sealing the fate of the Confederacy. After Grant's bloody Wilderness Campaign offensive, Lee was finally forced out of his trenches. Richmond fell. Lee surrendered. The South was defeated.
But had the operation at the Crater gone as planned, maybe a million lives might have been saved.
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Pleasants' own troops, tough coal miners from the fields of western Pennsylvania, were just the men for the job. They were maybe the only men in the Union army who would not consider the task drudgery. In fact for them digging in the soft Virginia soil must have seemed like a cakewalk.
Digging began in June and proceeded quickly. The men had to scrounge lumber to shore up the tunnel and for the ingenious ventilation system which sucked fresh air from the narrow mine entrance all the way to the face of the digging via a wooden duct. Fetid air at the end was heated by a constantly burning pit fire which heated the air and vented it out drawing the fresh air to fill the vacuum. This system avoided the use of multiple air vents which could have been observed.
The miners dug by hand and removed the soil in wooden soap and ammunition boxes drawn by rope along a crude wooden plank rail. On July 17 the shaft reached under Elliott's Salient at a depth of about fifty feet. A perpendicular gallery about 75 feet long extended in both directions.-
All of this had been accomplished un-detected by the enemy. Confederate intelligence reported rumors of the mine to Lee about two weeks after construction began. He didn't believe it. Finally after receiving new report he began desultory anti-mine efforts which failed to find or detect the shaft.
Confederate General John Pegram in charge of the artillery in the sector took the rumors more seriously, however, and on his own authority as a precaution had trenches and gun emplacements built to the rear of the Salient as a secondary line of defense.
Meade and Grant finally decided to go all in on the plan. The gallery underneath the Confederate position was filled with 8,000 pounds of gunpowder in 320 kegs. The main chamber was extended to 20 feet below the fort and was packed shut with 11 feet of earth in the side galleries and 32 feet of packed earth in the main gallery to prevent the explosion blasting out the mouth of the mine.
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Values, Vision, Mission (Part 3)
Vision and mission statements have a unique relationship with three different tiers of values: core values, strategic values, and operational values.
Core values are independent of vision and mission. They are constant over time, even if the company's vision and mission are periodically modified.
Because vision and strategy are so closely<|fim_middle|> programs built around current best practices worldwide.
To execute this mission, additional considerations enter the picture in the form of operational values:
Quality training
Up-to-date expertise
Financial viablity
Sensitivity to local culture
Relevance to local needs
From this example you can see how the various tiers of values relate to our vision and mission statement. Because values, vision, and mission are so interrelated, they should not be defined in separate processes. Instead, they should be developed in a single process that treats them as an interactive whole.
In Part 4, therefore, we look at the framing of vision and mission statements as part of this process.
Please indicate below the emails to which you want to send this article: Values, Vision, Mission (Part 3) | connected, a change in the company's vision may compel a change in its strategic values. Similarly, a change in the mission statement may force a rethinking of operational values.
This is why the development of vision and mission statement should be done in close dialogue with corporate values.
A case study at the end of Part 3 illustrates this interplay of values, vision, and mission.
Author: Mike Armour
Values, Vision, Mission — How to Get Them Right
Part 3 of a Four-Part Tutorial
Values: Navigational Buoys for Your Business
Whenever you enter or leave a harbor, navigational buoys mark the channel — red buoys on one side, green buoys on the other. So long as a vessel stays between the buoys, there is no risk of running aground.
For businesses (or any other human enterprise) our values serve as our navigational buoys. They keep us in the right channel moving forward.
As encore entrepreneurs, we've had enough life experiences that our values are well-established. And when we start a small business, these values flow into its operation.
For businesses our values serve as our navigational buoys. They keep us in the right channel moving forward.
In fact, one defining characteristic of very small businesses is that their culture is a direct extension of the personality, values, and skill sets of the owner. In the arena of values, the company's values are the owner's values, pure and simple.
As a result, small businesses frequently launch, or even operate for years, without taking time to build a concise list of the values that should guide day-to-day decision-making. And this is no less true for encore entrepreneurs than for anyone else starting a business.
But the exercise of reducing your values to writing is highly beneficial for at least three reasons:
First, the exercise itself forces provocative reflection on which of your many values are truly most important to you. This reflection gives you greater clarity on which values you consider primary, which you consider secondary.
Second, as you add employees — beginning with the very first one — it's vital for them to be attuned to your key values. Otherwise their decisions and actions may not always be consistent with your orchestrating values. Their failure to honor your values here and there can eventually nudge the business outside of the marker buoys.
And third, your core values should serve as marker buoys for your vision and mission statements. That is, your vision statement should always be consistent with your core values. And since your mission statement should be an extension of your vision statement, values continue to be marker buoys at every stage of the planning process.
Your core values should serve as marker buoys for your vision and mission statements.
Classifying Business Values By Type
In this tutorial, our model for defining vision and mission statements calls into play three sets of values: core values, strategic values, and operational values. Together these form what I refer to as the "orchestrating values" for your business.
For many years I was not sufficiently clear in my own mind about the distinction between core values, strategic values, and operational values. I just lumped all corporate values into one big bag. As a result, I was not serving my clients well, because I was not giving my clients the tools to distinguish clearly among these different sets of values.
This lack of clarity then made for frustration when I tried to help executive teams define the key values for their company. Here's why.
When identifying the core values for a company, there are two critical objectives. The first is to be certain that the values which emerge from the process are truly part of the DNA in the company's culture. If not, then the statement of values will be little more than window-dressing. It will have no formative influence on employee personal behavior.
The second critical objective is to hold the final list to no more than four or five values. In no case should the list be longer than seven. Otherwise, the list of values is too long to be readily recalled. And if they cannot be readily recalled, they can hardly serve as navigational buoys for decision-making.
My frustration as a facilitator came in helping the executive team pare down a working list of a dozen or more values to the final list of five, six, or seven. Usually we were already working from a list that had been heavily edited. It may have originally had 20 or 30 values on it, particularly if we began (as I often do) by building a comprehensive catalog of values that might be considered for inclusion.
As we would review our working list, now reduced to a dozen or so values, a strong case could be made for including each of the remaining values in the final cut. Each was in some way essential to the success of the business. So which should be kept, which discarded?
It was years before I realized that our problem was failing to realize that values in a company are not all on the same tier. There are actually three tiers of values.
Some are core values. These are values that will not change no matter how much the vision, mission, and competitive environment change. Things like integrity and mutual respect fall into this category.
The second tier is comprised of strategic values. These are values — over and beyond the core values — which must be honored if our vision is to be accomplished.
The third tier builds around the values which are essential for us to fulfill our mission statement. I call these operational values.
Core values will not change no matter how much the vision, mission and competitive environment change.
From hindsight I now recognize that our list of a dozen values was an admixture of core values, strategic values, and operational values. Had we been clearer about which category of values we were identifying, the paring-down process would have been much easier.
As has been noted, core values do not change. Or they do so only rarely. By contrast, strategic and operational values are by nature subject to change. Since strategic values support our vision statement, any change to that statement may lead to a realignment of strategic values. The same is true in the relationship between our mission statement and our operational values. A redefined mission statement may necessitate a revision of our operational values.
A Case Study of Values, Vision, and Mission Statements
To illustrate these principles in concrete terms, let me use an example from one of my companies. In 2010 we launched a subsidiary operation in East Africa to provide leadership training for high-level managers in both the public and private sectors. We call the initiative Leadership Development Africa.
Here are our core values:
High performance standards
Delivering on what we promise
These are values that will guide us no matter what nation we work in or how the structure of our program changes as we respond to new opportunities or unexpected developments.
Our vision statement, while not speaking directly to these values, is completely harmonious with them. That is, we can carry out this vision without violating any of our core values. Here is our vision:
To help Africa achieve her global economic potential through exceptional leadership in the public and private sectors.
Based on this vision, certain strategic values become vital, especially since we are pursuing this vision in a world whose culture and sub-cultures are relatively new to us:
Quality relationships with African leaders
Readiness to learn and adapt
Programming flexibility
Next, within these values we move to our mission statement:
We equip established and emerging African leaders to transform the economic landscape of their continent based on principles of democracy and a free-market economy. We deliver professional, high-value leadership development | 1,553 |
Global crude steel production in September <|fim_middle|>.4% year-on-year.
In September 2018, the global crude steel output of 64countries included in the World Steel Association statistics was 151.7 milliontons, an increase of 4.4% year-on-year.
Global crude steel production in the first ten months of 2018was 1.347 billion tons, up 4.7% year-on-year. Among them, crude steel output inAsia was 946.8 million tons, up 5.5% year-on-year; crude steel production inthe EU region was 128 million tons, up 1.3% year-on-year; crude steelproduction in North America was 89.7 million tons, up 3.4% year-on-year; Theregional crude steel output was 76.2 million tons, an increase of 1.8%year-on-year.
China's crude steel output in September 2018 was 80.8 milliontons, up 7.5% year-on-year. Japan's crude steel output in September was 8.4million tons, down 2.4% year-on-year.
In the EU region, France's crude steel output in September2018 was 1.3 million tons, up 1.4% year-on-year. Italy's crude steel output inSeptember was 2.2 million tons, down 0.8% year-on-year. Spain's crude steeloutput in September was 1.3 million tons, up 5.1% year-on-year.
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Summary: In September 2018, the global crude steel output of 64 countries included in the World Steel Association statistics was 151.7 million tons, an increase of 4 | 47 |
For designers and illustrators, the Behance Network can be<|fim_middle|>at colour palettes come from.
Check out more from Andrew at his portfolio and let me know what you think via twitter or facebook! | an excellent source of inspiration. In this post we'll feature 25 character illustrations from members of Behance. If you see something you like, click on the image to go to the Behance page and check out some more work by the designer.
Andrew is a 23 year old illustrator from Auckland, New Zealand. I wish I knew the right words to describe my feelings for his work. If I had to try I think it's probably his kooky style that I really dig– his off-beat color schemes, low saturation, and cartoon-y figures. Major eye candy. I'm loving it.
I grew up with pens and paint but then the personal computer dominated the world and so I had to try it out, which is reflected in my work. I use a healthy mix of both traditional and digital techniques with no real preference of medium. I didn't take art through my younger years, but I did eat crayons which quite possibly is where my off-be | 197 |
Hole Punch Clouds over West Virginia
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Looking up on a chilly December morning in 2009, residents of rural West Virginia (southwest of Charleston) would have seen a halo of light bursting through the thin bank of clouds that hung overhead. The light was streaming through hole-punch clouds and canals, most likely created by passing airplanes. This image, taken by the Landsat-5 satellite on December 11, 2009, shows the unique conditions in which such holes form.
When airplanes, particularly propeller aircraft, pass through the clouds, they disturb the air. The air expands in the turbulence created by the propellers and wings. As the air expands, it cools, and the supercooled water droplets in the clouds freeze into ice. These ice crystals act as seeds for other water droplets to freeze onto. Over time, the water clouds around the disturbed area disappear and an ice cloud grows.
The clouds created in this manner take two different forms: hole-punch clouds and canals. The hole-punch clouds consist of an ice cloud surrounded by a halo of clear sky where the water in the clouds has frozen into ice and disappeared. Canals resemble contrails. They are long streaks where ice clouds are continuously being formed as the aircraft travels in the altocumulus cloud layer.
The image above was made with both infrared and visible light, in a combination that makes it possible to distinguish between water and ice clouds. The even cloud blanket is pale blue and pink, the warmer tones of water clouds. In the hole-punch clouds, however, we see the iridescent blue signature of ice, surrounded by a halo of clear sky. A similar blue streak from a canal runs across the top left.
The surrounding cloud bank is made up of altocumulus clouds, sitting at an altitude of 2,000 to 7,000 meters (6,600 – 23,000 feet), where temperatures ranged between minus five and minus twenty degrees Celsius, according to radiosonde data taken nearby. Despite the chill, this image reveals that the clouds were made of water, not ice.
NASA image by Rob Simmon using Landsat 5 data from the USGS Global Visualization Viewer. Caption by Holli Riebeek with image interpretation courtesy Andrew Heymsfield.
Cold winter conditions set the stage for these unusual clouds that can form due to airplane traffic.
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Heymsfield, A.J., Kennedy, P.C., Massie, S., Schmitt, S., Schmitt, C., Wang, Z., Haimov, S., and Rangno, A. (2010, June). Aircraft-induced hole punch and canal clouds,<|fim_middle|>ole Punch Clouds in Acadiana
These "hole punch" clouds were just as apparent from above as they were from below. This MODIS image shows a number of round holes in a blanket of cloud cover over Oklahoma, Arkansas, Louisiana, and Texas. A few of the "holes" are elongated, with what appear to be smaller clouds inside them. | inadvertent cloud seeding. Bulletin of the American Meterological Society, 91 (6), 753-766.
NASA Earth Observatory. (2007, January 31). Hole punch clouds in Acadiana. Accessed November 15, 2010.
University of Wyoming Department of Atmospheric Science. (2009, December 11). Radiosonde data 72318 RNK Blacksburg observations at 00Z Dec 2009. Accessed November 15, 2010.
Supercool Clouds
Hole-punch and canal clouds form when aircraft pass through altocumulus clouds that are rich with supercooled water droplets.
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Hole-Punch Clouds over the Southeast
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A house of prayer for all nations and we are here for all people to experience Christian community as God's people, to be filled with God's presence and to live for God's purposes together.
We began in 2008 as a "Minneapolis" service out of Bethel Christian Fellowship in St. Paul. We soon realized that we were called to be a church, not a third-service or campus and that Bethel was called to help plant churches, not campuses. Since making that shift 10 years ago,<|fim_middle|> | our churches have now grown to seven churches with people from over thirty different nations worshipping together each week! Together we are the All Nations Family of Churches here in the Twin Cities and form part of the international family of ministers and ministries called the Fellowship of Christian Assemblies.
Every Sunday at 5 PM we share a free dinner together followed by a time of worship at our location in North East Minneapolis.
We also meet in community groups in neighborhoods throughout the week as we actively seek to love God and our neighbors together.
For All People: We are always looking to create opportunities for everyone to begin with God no matter their background or stage of life.
To Be God's People: We seek to live out what it means to be God's family by developing lasting relationships with others.
With God's Presence: We desire to welcome and host the presence of God as we passionately pursue Him in prayer and worship.
For God's Purposes: We want to join with God in His purposes to Redeem, Reconcile, Renew, and Restore individuals, families, communities, and nations. | 216 |
For<|fim_middle|>, targeted, and consistent approach to solving organization transformation challenges. We deliver a scalable approach that can be applied to projects of any size. | many companies, a new organization strategy means a new drawing–an organization chart with boxes and lines that assign people to positions and responsibilities. But "boxology" by itself rarely yields an organization design that's effective for realizing business strategy. Many companies can sense when an organization strategy isn't working, and knowing how to tackle the problem can be difficult.
Boxology isn't the only approach that can create false confidence. Incremental improvements like Lean, Six Sigma or process engineering can elevate some aspects of an organization's performance without addressing root causes. A company can also find itself fragmented or misaligned over time because of structural changes or even internal politics. The result is an organization that isn't ready to pursue innovation or to bring all of its attention to bear on customer needs.
That's why it's seldom enough just to reconfigure an organization chart. Other organization elements, including structure, capabilities, talent, roles and responsibilities, competencies, and performance metrics must change in step with one another for the company to translate its organizing principles into business benefits.
Organization assessment: A look-before-you-leap diagnostic that allows organizations to pinpoint where current-state problems may lie.
Organization design, job design, and workforce transition: The collection of geographical, functional, and other matrices people tend to think of when organization strategy is on the table–as well as the decisions on who fills which role. By using job design to refresh the relevance of each job description to the person in that role, the whole organization works more effectively.
Decision rights: A formal organization structure includes formal lines of authority, but companies have informal patterns of authority that matter just as much in day-to-day operations. Who needs to sign off? Who will start a turf battle? Our assessment (who's Responsible? Accountable? Consulted? Informed?) helps determine the answers.
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Locust Grove is a historic house located between Dillwyn and Cumberland, Virginia, constructed before 1794. It is remembered for its connection to the Revolutionary soldier Peter Francisco, and as the Peter Francisco House it was added to the National Register of Historic Places on March 16, 1972.
Description
Locust Grove is a -story single-pile house; it is covered by a gable roof, with two shed dormers on each slope. A box cornice forms a base for the roof. There are two chimneys on the building's exterior, one on either end. The eastern of the two is of Flemish bond, and is original; the western, of American bond, appears to be a replacement dating to the time when a one-story wing was added onto the house. This wing is now gone, but the foundation of its chimney remains; a small garden has been platted on the site. The foundation of the structure is of English bond, and there is a full basement. At the time of the house's National Register nomination, most of the original window frames, complete with their original sills, remained, as did a good deal of beaded siding. The house's woodwork is of heart pine, and it is joined with wooden pegs and nails.
Inside, the house was divided into two principal rooms per floor, with a central hallway for the stairs. Few original fittings survive; the mantels and wainscoting were removed, as were some floorboards from the second floor. Part of the first-level floor had fallen in. Portions of the<|fim_middle|> of Locust Grove. It was evidently constructed sometime before 1794, as Francisco took up residence in the house in that year, living there until the mid-1820s (one source states that he took possession in 1785, while another suggests, on the basis of style, a date between 1790 and 1810). Francisco himself had local ties, having grown up at Hunting Towers, the nearby estate of Patrick Henry's uncle Judge Anthony Winston. It is unknown how he came to own the land upon which Locust Grove sits; family tradition holds that he received it from local planter James Anderson, who had been the father of his first wife, Susannah. In any event, he lived there with his second wife, Catherine Brooke, with whom he raised four children. She died in 1821; two years later he married again, this time to a widowed niece of Governor Edmund Randolph. She persuaded him to leave the countryside for a more comfortable life in Richmond, where he worked as the Serjeant-at-Arms of the Senate of Virginia, and in which city he remained until his death.
Few records have survived from Francisco's time at Locust Grove. The little information that remains suggests that the farm was typical of those found around Virginia at the turn of the nineteenth century. A personal property tax inventory taken in 1815 indicates the presence in the household of seven slaves over twelve years old and one between nine and twelve, as well as six horses and twelve head of cattle. No carriage, watch, clock, or mahogany furniture was found, but the house's occupants were taxed for a mirror with gilded frame, two goblets made of cut glass, three pictures, and an unknown number of small gilt frames. This record indicates that, while Francisco was not among the Virginia gentry, he was most probably among the better-off residents of the county at the time.
Peter Francisco died in 1831; after him, the next recorded tenant of Locust Grove was one Robert Rives, who owned it for a brief time in 1845. From him it passed on to John S. Coleman, who lived there until 1906. Abner Spencer then took ownership, living there until sometime after 1932. The Society of the Descendants of Peter Francisco took charge of the land beginning in the early 1970s, leasing it from its owners at the rate of one dollar a year. The intent was to restore the house and turn it into a museum and shrine dedicated to Francisco's memory; while the restoration was completed, due in part to matching funds granted by the United States government upon conferral of the National Register listing, the museum was never created, and the house reverted to private ownership. Today Locust Grove is owned by a couple from Richmond who use it as a second home.
A collection of papers related to the history of Locust Grove is part of the archive of the Society of the Descendants of Peter Francisco held at the Library of Virginia.
1987 archaeological dig
As part of the restoration work done on Locust Grove in the late 1980s, students from Longwood College visited the home and grounds and conducted an archaeological dig which covered various portions of the property. Excavations were conducted at five points around the site, and a number of discoveries were made. Chief among these was the grave of an infant discovered in the corner of the former kitchen garden near the house. Oral tradition states that Francisco had a daughter who died in infancy sometime in the 1820s, and who was buried in the garden. There are no formal records either of such a burial or of the birth of the child; however, the discovery of the grave lends greater credence to the story. Also found on the grounds of the house were the remains of the foundation of a tobacco barn, known to have burned in 1826, as well as some bits of ash and a large collection of nails and nail fragments. Excavations on and around the property also turned up the foundation and cellar of an old ice house, later used as a midden; the foundation of another small building, whose purpose remains uncertain; and a small spring associated through oral tradition with Peter Francisco. Numerous beams and door and window frames original to the house were found and replaced during the restoration and excavation; the originals were set aside in the basement for further study.
See also
National Register of Historic Places listings in Buckingham County, Virginia
Notes
References
Houses completed in the 18th century
Houses in Buckingham County, Virginia
Central-passage houses
Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Virginia
National Register of Historic Places in Buckingham County, Virginia | stairway survived, as did the north-exterior door. The walls were once plastered, but much of the covering has disintegrated over time.
Locust Grove had deteriorated severely by the time it was surveyed for the National Register of Historic Places, to the point that it was marked as "Deteriorated" on the nomination form. Most of the framing survived, revealing the underlying structure of the house; however, many interior and exterior trappings had disappeared. In recent years, a great deal of restoration work has been performed on the structure, and it is once again in habitable condition.
Location
Locust Grove is located almost a mile off of Virginia Route 626 near Buckingham County's border with Cumberland County. It sits on farm and scrub land at the end of a long dirt road, and is approached from the north. The building itself stands on the edge of a hill facing Payne Creek. It is highly isolated from the surrounding community. When it was built, the house was aligned with the Old Coach Road which once ran between Richmond and Appomattox; archaeological evidence of the roadbed has been uncovered not far from the property.
History
Little is known about the early history | 252 |
Brad Foster raring to go ahead of boxing's return to the UK on July 10
BRAD FOSTER IS looking to pick up where he left off when he makes a return to the ring on July 10 at the BT Sport studios.
The British and Commonwealth super bantamweight champion is now the flag bearer for boxing's return to business following the enforced suspension of activities, having previously acted as the final headliner in domestic televised action back on February 22 on BT Sport.
He comprehensively outfought Lucien Reid in a rematch of their drawn title duel five months earlier at the same York Hall venue.
Frank Warren and Queensberry Promotions have announced a series of fight nights that will play out across a huge Summer of boxing live on BT Sport, with British title battles playing a<|fim_middle|> is the WBO European super welterweight champion Hamzah Sheeraz (10-0), who defends his belt against the (12-1) Scot Paul Kean from Dundee.
Sheeraz, just 21, stepped up the levels in his last fight back in November in Birmingham when he stopped local favourite Ryan Kelly in the sixth round, with his previous three fights lasting a combined 3mins 47secs.
Kean, 27, won the vacant BUI Celtic title in May 2018 and doubled his belt count in March 2019 by overcoming Craig Kelly with a third round stoppage to win the Scottish Area title.
"To be honest I am really chuffed to be on first because if you look at most boxers they are not getting the opportunity to fight at any level," said the Ilford man Sheeraz. "This being a big show as well and the first one back, a Frank Warren show too, so I am looking forward to it and training hard as ever.
"I am ready to go as it has been a long time. There will probably be about ten times more eyes on the fights than there normally is because, at a time like this, everybody needs a bit of entertainment – and what is more entertaining than watching two fellas punch each other in the face on TV?
"Even though it might not seem there are ten times more people watching when we are in there, they will be and it will be a buzz."
Elsewhere on the card, the new big heavyweight hope David Adeleye will be looking to demonstrate that he is a considerable force to be reckoned with when he steps in for his second professional fight on July 10, with his debut in December having ended swiftly via a first round KO. The Notting Hill heavy had just returned from Las Vegas, where he sparred Tyson Fury ahead of The Gypsy King's scrap with Deontay Wilder, before Lockdown kicked in.
No stranger to a quick finish, Mark Chamberlain (5-0, 3KOs), helps round out the top-to-bottom exciting card. 'Da Bomb' has three first round stoppages to his name and he will be looking to continue in spectacular fashion in Stratford.
Finally, Daniel Dubois' sparring partner Dorin Krasmaru enters into his third professional bout after stopping Matt Gordon in November 2019. | lead role in the sport returning to our screens.
In addition to Foster taking on the undefeated James Beech Jr on opening night, we also have the British super featherweight clash between Anthony Cacace and Lyon Woodstock to look forward to, as well as the super middleweight collision between Lerrone Richards and Umar Sadiq on dates to be confirmed shortly.
Foster, 22, who won the vacant title with his defeat of Josh Wale in March 2019, is now on the cusp of claiming his Lord Lonsdale belt for keeps following successful defences against Ashley Lane and Reid.
Beech, 23, is a two-weight Midlands Area titlist, having won the belt at super featherweight in December 2018 against Louis Fielding and last time out a year later at featherweight by defeating Luke Jones.
"It is fantastic for me to go first with me being the last to go on February 22," said Foster (12-0-2), known as Brad the Blade. "It is great and it keeps me busy so it is all good and I am looking forward to it.
"I was buzzing when I heard. I'd been ticking over well during lockdown because there was nothing else to do really, I was training myself, getting the runs and bike rides in. Now I can train properly.
"Winning the belt to keep is my motivation and it has been a goal of mine so I am looking forward to this fight and getting the win. The pressure is on for this one because it is the most important one. I've got to get in there and do the business.
"I know James Beech and he is a good, game fighter and twice Midlands champion at higher weights. So he is going to be strong and I know he is a tough lad. I will have to be on my A-game."
Beech (12-0) views the occasion as simply a life-changing opportunity for which he will be more than ready.
"This is a massive opportunity for me. I'd like to thank Frank Warren and BCB for the opportunity.
"This is a chance to change mine and my family's life. I will be 100% ready come 10th July."
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Tennessee basketball vs. Memphis canceled due to COVID-19 issues within the Memphis program
NASHVILLE — Brandon Huntley-Hatfield was about to walk from the tunnel onto the court at Bridgestone Arena on Saturday.
A Tennessee basketball staff member<|fim_middle|> it read.
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Tennessee vs. Memphis was canceled due to COVID-19 protocols within the Memphis program, bringing an unexpected end to a rivalry with an uncertain future.
"We were all excited about playing," Vols coach Rick Barnes said. "They were disappointed. They were excited. We are right there, the start of college basketball is really right here this time of year."
Memphis executive associate athletic director Adam Walker told The Memphis Commercial Appeal two Memphis players tested positive for COVID-19. Due to contact tracing, the rest of the team was ruled out due to protocols, Walker said.
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UT athletics director Danny White was contacted by Memphis on Saturday morning as he prepared to board a plane in Knoxville to fly to Nashville. White called deputy athletics director Mónica Lebrón, who was sitting near Barnes on the team bus around 9:25 a.m. The Vols had recently boarded the bus to go from the Grand Hyatt to Bridgestone Arena.
At that time, it was a possibility the game would be canceled. Tennessee learned the game was off as they started their pregame routine.
At approximately 9:50, Bridgestone Arena public address announcer Trennie Williams announced the game was off to a sparse crowd of early arriving fans for the 11 a.m. tipoff and a graphic was posted on the scoreboard.
Barnes indicated there is "no way" the game will be made up this season based on Tennessee's schedule, which has no open dates. He said UT will evaluate making the game up in the future. It was the third and final matchup of a three-game series. It was originally scheduled for Dec. 19, 2020, but was pushed back due to the COVID-19 pandemic and a mutual decision to play the game with as many fans as possible.
For Tennessee, it brought memories of March, 12, 2020, when the pandemic halted the sports world as the Vols waited to play Alabama in the SEC Tournament in Nashville.
"A little deja vu back in here," Vols sixth-year forward John Fulkerson said as he stretched next to the scorer's table.
Tennessee packed up that day and returned to Knoxville. UT had other plans Saturday. Barnes announced the Vols were holding a scrimmage and invited fans to stay to watch.
"Our players wanted to do something," Barnes said. "They said, 'Hey, can we stay and play?' And I said, 'Yeah, we'll stay and play.' We appreciate the fans."
Santiago Vescovi's parents and sister sat in the second row watching after flying from Uruguay to Nashville on Saturday morning to spend three weeks visiting.
Guard Josiah-Jordan James looked at fan in a Memphis sweatshirt as he warmed up.
"You've got the wrong jacket on," James said.
"You can't be in here right now," added freshman guard Kennedy Chandler, a Memphis native who likely missed his lone opportunity to play his hometown school.
Tennessee players walked onto the court about 45 minutes before the planned tipoff as the UT band played "Rocky Top." A handful of players had their cellphones out. Fulkerson was talking on the phone as he paced toward midcourt.
A fan in the upper deck screamed "We want Drew Pember!" in reference to the former Tennessee forward who attempted an ambitious dunk against Memphis in 2019.
Tennessee scrimmaged for about 45 minutes for a couple hundred fans before the day wrapped up before noon. UT players took photos with fans for a short stint afterward. Vescovi sat with his family, who eventually joined him on the court.
Bridgestone Arena staff members tore down the baseline and sideline folding chairs, nearly completing the process an hour after the game was scheduled to start.
The players departed down a corner tunnel after soaking in the bizarre, unplanned afternoon. Barnes was one of the final ones to leave, stopping to chat with a father who held his daughter and a handmade sign about a game that didn't happen.
"It's my first birthday and I'll cry if the Vols lose," | 901 |
Two separate deliveries of this programme are offered; full-time on-campus by day and part-time online by night. This page gives details of the part-time online programme.
Ireland's first MSc in Artificial Intelligence with an excellent curriculum. This programme is pure AI, no irrelevant modules, take a look for yourself and see excellent modules in Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Natural Language Processing, etc. Also delivered full-time by day over one academic year.
In the twenty-first century, AI techniques have experienced a resurgence following concurrent advances in computer power, large amounts of data, and theoretical understanding. AI techniques have become an essential part of the technology industry, helping to solve many challenging problems in computer science. Click this link or the image above to download the programme flyer which contains links to the complete list of modules.
This master's degree programme provides a technical deep-dive into the area of Artificial Intelligence (AI). The programme will produce AI graduates with a highly relevant skillset in AI topics. You'll learn how to use and develop intelligent computer systems that can learn from experience, recognise patterns in vast amounts of data and reason strategically in complex decision making situations. The programme places significant emphasis on student learning by doing. It adopts a practical, hands-on, approach to learning, where all modules are fully assessed using continuous assessment methods.
As this is an expert level programme, it is essential for applicants to have a strong proficiency in mathematics, including statistics, and an advanced level of coding competency in Python and C++. To help you prepare for this programme we offer a number of tutorials which we expect you to complete in full before starting this programme in September.
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The programme contains challenging and interesting modules delivered by lecturers who are experts in AI. Students will also be presented with opportunities to work on modern research case studies linked to the domain expertise of staff in the department. The programme places signifcant emphasis on student learning by doing. It adopts a practical, hands-on, approach to learning, where all modules are fully assessed using continuous assessment methods.
There are no formal end of semester written examinations and this ensures that students will learn by doing from the first module to the last. This 60 credit programme is delivered over two 30 credit semesters. Each semester has a number of mandatory modules and a choice of electives (all electives may not be offered). Please click here or the programme schedule button for full module details.
Entry to the MSc in Artificial Intelligence will require a minimum of a Level 8 honours degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Computing or an honours degree in a cognate discipline. As this is an expert level programme, it is essential for applicants to have a strong proficiency in mathematics, including statistics, and an advanced level of coding competency in Python. Applicants who do not meet the above criteria will be considered on a case by case basis. Please see the Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL) page for further details.
The following article was recently published in the Irish Independent, Ireland's highest selling daily newspaper. The article features Praveen Joshi and Padraigh Jarvis who are current students of the full-time programme in CIT.
This master's degree is a technical programme that assumes you have a competency in programming and a strong grasp of a range of mathematical concepts across areas such as statistics, probability and linear algebra. It is critically important that you have this necessary skillset to help you succeed in your study. In order to focus your preparation for this programme we have made available this resources page. This page contains<|fim_middle|> are focused on these topics. These are most important prerequisite topics and you should have a strong competency in these areas before you commence study.
We will also assume that you have an understanding of basic data analysis techniques and linear algebra. The third section of the resources page contains links relevant to these topics. Finally one of the modules, Decision Analytics, requires the use of C++. The final section in the resources page provides a number of relevant resources that will help you to come up to speed in this topic.
The normal closing date for online programmes is September. However, it's likely that this programme will fill very quickly and the closing date will be earlier.
Please click the "Apply Now" button to make an online application for this programme. Please note that you are applying for the online version of this programme. Applicants for the full-time programme should use the link on the full-time page (link at top of this page). The CIT online application system will open in a new window and this will allow you to enter details of your application for this programme. Fields marked with a red asterisk are required fields and need to be completed. You can use the supporting documentation section to add scanned copies of transcripts, your CV, or any other relevant documentation. Please study the entry requirements for this programme and ensure that you've supplied all information that's relevant to your application. | links to online resources that will allow you to bring your knowledge up the necessary standard.
Python is the primary programming language for the programme. We will assume that all incoming students are able to program proficiently and solve problems using Python, NumPy and Pandas. You will notice that the first two sections in the resources page | 64 |
Register now for WSU/OSU Cherry Fruit School, March 12-13
Jonelle Mejica // January 31, 2019
Sweet cherry growers can learn about the latest research and technology at the upcoming Cherry Fruit School, From Bud to Bucket, hosted by Washington State University Tree Fruit Extension and Oregon State University Extension Service.
The Cherry Fruit School is scheduled on March 12 and 13 at four locations: Wenatchee, Washington; Prosser, Washington; The Dalles, Oregon; and British Columbia, Canada.
Live-streamed presentations from nationally and internationally recognized sweet cherry experts will focus on a wide variety of topics, including markets and economics; cultivars and rootstocks; orchard systems; soil, plant and water relations; and harvesting.
Each session will include a dynamic conversation with growers from three different production areas in the Pacific Northwest: North Central Washington, South Central Washington and The Dalles.
Preregistration is required. Go to treefruit.wsu.edu/wsufruitschool for more details and to register. The registration fee is $140 before Feb. 28 and $180 from Feb. 29 to March 5. Registration closes March<|fim_middle|>20th, 2022| 1 Comment
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DAMN THE TORPEDOES : A TOM PETTY TRIBUTE
59 Main Street, East Greenwich, RI 02818
The Odeum is excited to welcome back Damn The Torpedoes!
Rich Kubicz, who plays the role of Tom Petty in the show, has been playing guitar and singing since his early teens. By 2007, so many people had told him that he looked and sounded like Tom Petty that he decided to put together Damn The Torpedoes as a tribute to Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers.
The goal was to play all of the studio hits, some of the live versions and a few deep cuts to create the illusion of a Tom Petty concert performance. This meant that each band member would need to find the same sounds as on the records and play their parts note for note.
Over the years Damn The Torpedoes has evolved with a deeper understanding of the Tom Petty catalog and more committed members. The current lineup has been in place for several years and demonstrates the unspoken chemistry that makes any great band. All of the signature riffs, harmonies<|fim_middle|>ed By: Greenwich Odeum
Dates: March 21, 2020
Location: Greenwich Odeum
Address: 59 Main Street, East Greenwich, RI 02818
Time: 8:00 PM to 10:00 PM
Price: Tickets- $ 33- $39 | and underlying parts of the music are there—and the show has become "second nature" with an artistry and emotion that makes audiences smile. Or as Rich likes to say, we deliver the "awe factor" in every performance.
Tickets to this event include an additional $5 Historic Restoration Fee which assists in restorations and repairs of the Greenwich Odeum. When purchasing tickets online, an additional $2 convenience fee per transaction will be applied. Tickets are non-refundable and non-exchangeable.
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Ability to initiate plans for the improvement of company systems and procedures for cost control and manages approved development work.
Ability to maintain historical drilling and completion cost/expenditure records and data against which trends may be measured and estimates developed.
Ability to supervise the operation of the company's integrated project cost control systems and all other applications relevant to the cost function.
Ability to prepare and make presentations to JV Partners, management and project personnel on current project cost control methods and procedures.
Ability to support the drilling teams in formulating budgets for both corporate and external budget cycles.
Ability to assist the drilling department with the preparation of Authorizations for Expenditure ("AFEs"), particularly as regards developing realistic cost estimates for activity line items within each AFE.
Ability to review and process drilling invoices to ensure compliance with the commercial terms of contracts and correct coding of costs.
Ability to support the Contracts & Procurement team in the contracting and procurement of drilling materials and<|fim_middle|> cost (field estimate) against any specific AFE estimation to efficiently monitor the AFE status and raise the red flag for AFE revision when needed and drive the process for supplementary AFE.
Ability to make contributions in recommending and initiating cost and budget control systems and related procedures.
Minimum of 8yrs experience in drilling and completions, with at least 6yrs as spread evenly as drilling engineer operations, well cost/well planning/well contract engineer.
Excellent understanding of well operations, drilling contractor and rig activities.
Excellent knowledge of Drilling and completion services.
Excellent use of MS Excel and associated applications/macros.
Excellent use of other applicable cost management soft wares. | services, ensuring that C&P activity falls within planned budgets and that drilling requisitions are coded correctly.
Ability to organize and participate in regular inventory/stock checks at all locations where drilling stock is held.
Ability to provide any and all necessary support during routine audits of drilling costs by corporate auditors, partners, and statutory auditors.
Ability to analyze cost expenditure reports; reviews project progress and makes recommendations to drilling engineers and supervisors.
Ability to prepare, evaluate and participate in discussions for cost variation issues related to specific projects and develops ways to address them and keep documentation for tracking purposes.
Ability to establish a routine system for actual drilling | 124 |
11 Harkyn and Guard Captain have met before. They have good reasons to dislike each other. The main path from here leads by the Citadel walls, left from the statue with a brave Knight facing a Snake (symbol of death). After reaching the Shard close to the back entrance to the Citadel (closed now), head on through the gate and the path leading down towards the third, Burned Watchtower. Heading on past the Watchtower and further down to the Cemetery Gates leads to finally meeting Kaslo 12 . Defeating the Worshiper at the Cemetery 13 will open your path to the the Abandoned Temple, a place where you will cross into the demon realm. Return to Kaslo after having killed the boss.
There is a checkpoint to your left. Afterwards, defeat the enemies in the courtyard. and head up each flight of stairs. Two harder enemies await you here and they each guard a lever that will open the gate below. A barrel near the left-side lever hides a small sealed rune.
After opening the gate, you will meet Injured Monk, this NPC has been bitten by a spider and will die if you don't cut of his hand. You can chose to assit him and severe the limb, or not.
Cutting his hand will reward you with experience and trigger the option to give the monk a health potion for a further 500xp. Doing this ensures you meet him later!.
On towards the archer that you left alive at the Main Wall, a small lever on the wall directly behind the Gauntlet opens a shortcut to the North Watchtower. After you have unlocked it, head towards the archer on the South Watchtower and up a set of stairs, towards a checkpoint. As you approach, a cutscene with Yetka will play. You may chose to let her kill or save the monk. After your conversation with her, go back to kill the archer and then down the stairs to find an enemy and the audilog Fancy Looks. Also in this room there is a chest with Lethal Secrets and a Fire Resistance Shard. Note the anvil next to the chest: this will be a blacksmith spot later on, once you have encountered the Crafter. The room behind this holds the Live Elements Chest Armor and a Magic Energy Shard on a chest. On the side of this room, you can drop down to obtain the Tower Key. Down the ramp<|fim_middle|> Empty Bottle, a skill point shard, and the Guard's Greatsword weapon ( confirm name). The path from the chest holds the audionote Grim Graves, and further down, a drop off leading into the graveyard and the Worshipper fight described below. Continue down (or returning after the fight if chasing secrets) towards the Graveyard and note number 32 on the map, the dimension portal (now closed). Next to it, a chest contains Ghost Merge Shard, Steel Dagger and Steel Sword. There's a checkpoint near you and you can find a Human Skull item hidden next to it. Talk to Kaslo and then face the Worshiper boss.
After killing Beast and doing all of the things there are to in the Citadel you will leave through the door at the bottom of the stairs at the end of the main hall (there is statue near it and a couple of NPCs).
Exiting the door, there are two large shield enemies here and a breakable wall on the right (if you didn't earlier on). Continue on and kill the enemies. There will be a sealed rune chest on your right containing Guardman and an Empty Bottle (if you didn't open it earlier on). Head straight past the checkpoint and down towards the Graveyard. The Dimension Portal right outside of it ill now open because Beast is dead. Inside is an Infinite Void that requires you to follow the light around a very dark area. You will die if you don't stay near it. You will be attacked by two Rhogar at one point and then the light will disappear over a chest containing a Poison Resistance Shard. Once done there head into the graveyard, kill the enemies and head into the Catacombs.
the chest only contains head and chest. where are the other 2 parts? you open a rune chest and get 2 parts of light armor, and you open normal chest and get set of heavy. what kind of bs is this? | arts, there is a locked door behind which the audiolog Sixth Night is placed. Further ahead, behind an axe Rhogar, a chest holds the axe Fate. You may jump across the small gap and turn left to kill an enemy, jump a gap, and get to a chest with the Prejudice staff and a Small Sealed Rune. Then backtrack to access to the North Watchtower's lower levels. After defeating several enemies in the room, pick up Yetka's Dagger and open a nearby chest for the Hot Blood Wrist and Legs and the Pain Hammer. The stairs up return you to the locked door you had encountered earlier.
Before this area, in the Southern Watchtower there is a room with a Demon Spider. The room has a chest with a Spike and a Magic Energy Shard. If you are too weak to fight the spider, run past it and up the stairs, then you can head back to Yetka to return her dagger and obtain 800xp and the Catacombs Key from her.
You may now enter the Square of Heroes and defeat the Commander boss. Then make your way through the stairs up to the Memorial. Here, the Guard Captain will refuse you entry into the Citadel. and send you to find Kaslo at the Graveyard.
Progress beyond the Guard encounter and take a left outside the building to go through the dimension portal. After completing it, the Bloody Flint is visible in a path ahead marked as 10 on the map and further ahead a dead end with the audionote Fourth Night. Head back towards the portal and find the other way to go, then pick up the audionote Last Night.near a statue. Killing some more enemies will return the objective "Find Kaslo" and place you near the checkpoint of the area marked as number 31 on the map. Look right to the checkpoint and there's audionote Guard Notes - but be mindful of the enemy ambush!. The door next to this is locked, and requires the Southern Trench Key. If you go left there is the Backside Entrance to the Citadel. There are some tough enemies guarding a sealed rune chest. It contains Guardman and an Empty Bottle. There is also a breakable wall to the left of the entrance to the Citadel that contains Blind (you may not be high enough level to kill these enemies at this stage).Continuing forward will take you to the Outer Walls and face you against heavy shield enemies. It is recommended you run-jump to attack them. After two of them, you will find an infested enemy and to his left the entrance to the Burned Tower. At the top of this tower, marked as number 12, is the Beacon, which you can now light for 1000xp. At the bottom of the burned tower, hides a chest with an Empty Bottle, Heavy Shield and Buckler. Use a nearby lever to unlock a shortcut. After unlocking the shortcut, going back to the base of the stairs leading into the circular room from outside, there is a dropdown to another chest containing an | 624 |
US Charity Awards Scholarships to Students from Remote Micronesian Islands
Released on = July 30, 2007, 10:26 pm
Press Release Author = Habele Outer Island Education Fund
Industry = Non Profit
Press Release Summary = A group of former Peace Corps Volunteers and other donors
are sponsoring students from an impoverished island in the Pacific. By giving the
students a chance to attend a competitive schools the volunteers hope to lay the
framework for sustainable community development in Yap\'s Outer Islands.
Press Release Body = (July 31, 2007, Columbia, South Carolina) The Habele Outer
Island Education Fund announced today that it is awarding over $3,500 in high school
scholarships to students from a remote and underdeveloped Pacific Atoll in
Micronesia.
Habele, a South Carolina based nonprofit, is comprised of former Peace Corps
Volunteers and other education-minded Americans with an interest in Micronesia, a
Federation of islands in the central Pacific formerly administered by the United
States Department of the Interior.
The recipients are two girls aged 17 and 18 from the islands of Falalop and Asor on
<|fim_middle|> group involved in environmental expeditions
and education in Micronesia and around the world. Like Habele, the Oceanic Society
recognizes the unique difficulties faced by students in the Outer Islands.
Neil Mellen, Habele's founder explained,
"These isolated atolls in Micronesia face a gamut of social, political, and economic
challenges. Their remoteness and limited natural resources leave them dependent on
government foreign aid which encourages the expansion of an inefficient
public-sector-based economy. The Secretariat of the Pacific reports that fewer than
a fifth of these islanders have access to acceptable sanitation and that infant
mortality rates are five times higher than those the United States.
"Expanding academic opportunity and promoting educational accomplishment is an
essential first step in promoting individual, island, and national sovereignty.
Through scholarships to private schools and material donations to public schools,
Habele is working with the Outer Island Communities to meet this goal."
Mario Suulbech, a Habele volunteer who lives on the Island of Falalop, echoed
Mellen's optimism.
"These girls are the future of our islands. Sadly, some people here are still
skeptical about the value of education and the role of women in our changing
traditions. These particular girls are working hard to prove them wrong, to build a
brighter future for their families, and our island community."
The scholarship winners will travel to and from the school with money raised by
their families, and have signed a strict performance contract that ties their
scholarships to academic targets.
Habele consists of donors and volunteers from throughout the United States and the
Pacific. The Fund has no paid employees and is still seeking support for its ongoing
public school book drives. Visit www.habele.org to learn more.
Web Site = http://www.habele.org
Contact Details = Habele
701 Gervais Street
Columbia, South Carolina 29201 | Ulithi Atoll in Yap State. They will be attending classes at the all-girls Bethania
High School in the Republic of Palau.
One of the awards, the Oceanic Society Sea Turtle Scholarship, is being granted
through the support of the Oceanic Society in recognition of the community's ongoing
support for a local sea turtle research and conservation program. The Society is a
US based non-profit marine conservation | 86 |
Biotech ETF Rallies on Alzheimer Treatment Report
Ian YoungOct 28, 2019
Shares of Biogen Inc. rocketed higher on Tuesday, headed for their strongest performance in 20 years, after the biotechnology company surprised investors by stating that its Alzheimer's treatment was prepared to start the regulatory approval process, as well as from third-quarter earnings that handily beat expectations.
The biotech company said its decision to move forward with the approval of aducanumab, an treatment for early Alzheimer's diseases was determined after the drug met the primary endpoint of a Phase 3 Emerge study, and after consulting with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
This is a reversal from the company's statement last March when it said it would discontinue the trials after lackluster results. Over $15 billion in market value was<|fim_middle|> where to invest your money, you and many other investors might be wondering... | wiped after the company said it wouldn't be moving forward.
The iShares NASDAQ Biotechnology ETF (IBB B+) rallied more than 3% at its high on Tuesday on the news, which represented its best daily gain since January 7, as Biogen powered the ETF higher.
Wall Street was also shocked by the Biogen's announcement.
"Today's announcement to submit for approval comes as unexpected," Wedbush analyst Laura Chico wrote in a note to clients. Guggenheim's Yatin Suneja said "this is an interesting development, and certainly unexpected." And Alethia Young from Cantor Fitzgerald said she was "very shocked."
Biogen's rally aided other biotech names as well, including Vertex Pharmaceuticals, which gained 4%, as well as Gilead, Celgene, Regeneron, and Endo International, all of which climbed more than 1% on the news.
The news is particularly significant, as the drug would be the first of its kind in the Alzheimer's market, which is worth billions of dollars. Still, given the drug trial's history, the analysts remain somewhat skeptical.
"While the headline sounds positive (and very well could mean the company has an Alzheimer's drug), the news today alone does not guarantee approval and questions remain," Mizuho analyst Salim Syed wrote in a note to clients. He has a neutral rating on the stock, and $235 target.
Morgan Stanley's Matthew Harrison agreed, saying that there are "a range of questions that will need to be addressed for investors to gain confidence in this strategy."
Before the announcement, Biogen reported third-quarter earnings that topped Wall Street's expectations as well, with earnings per share at $9.17 on revenue of $3.60 billion. Analysts had forecast earnings of $8.27 per share on revenue of $3.539 billion.
This article originally appeared on ETFTrends.com.
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Oldest oceanic crust might have been part of the Tethys Ocean 340 million years ago
An ancient oceanic slab buried beneath the Mediterranean sea might revise textbooks.
by Dragos Mitrica
in Geology, News
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It's hard to think we're talking about the same planet when we see snapshots of Earth's geological past. Powered by plate tectonics, the Earth's crust and continents are constantly changing, shifting, losing and adding material through a host of geological processes. It's amazing, though, that scientists are able to piece together the geological past and, in doing so, enrich our history and pinpoint our place in nature — one species that's been alive for only 0.0022 percent of the time this planet has been around.
One of the most groundbreaking geological findings involves an ancient slab of sea floor beneath the East Mediterranean Sea which Roi Granot, a professor at the Ben Gurion University in Israel, says is up to 340 million years old. It's the oldest yet and by far, being 70% older than any other known oceanic crust ever discovered. Around that time, the world's landmasses were coming together to form the super<|fim_middle|> something beneath the thick layers of sediments which could be eight kilometers thick. Obviously, you can't drill or 'fish' for rocks. Instead, modern geophysical methods enable researchers to use magnetic anomalies as proxies to build snapshots as if the oceanic crust was laid bare in front of them.
These magnetic anomalies are the signatures of magnetic minerals in rocks trapped in the oceanic crust, formed undersea by volcanic ridges. As the magma cools, the newly formed minerals in the rocks become magnetized and aligned with the direction of Earth's magnetic field.
"Changes in the magnetic field's orientation over time are recorded in the ocean floors, creating a unique barcode that provides a time stamp for crust formation," Dr. Granot says. "The results shed new light on the tectonic architecture and evolution of this region and have important implications on various geodynamic processes."
Eventually, Granot identified a pattern of magnetic anomalies like magnetic stripes — the hallmark of oceanic crust formed at a mid-ocean ridge. This led him to believe that the ancient crust he and colleagues had just discovered in the Herodotus Basin is 340 million years old. For comparison, all the other oceanic crusts are no older than 200 million because their high density typically pulls them back down in the mantle through subduction zones where they get recycled. What's more, the team speculates that the slab might have once belonged to the long lost Tethys Ocean — an ocean that existed during much of the Mesozoic Era, before the Indian and Atlantic Oceans appeared during the Cretaceous Period.
"The area is covered by thick sedimentary coverage, making it unclear precisely how old the crust is and whether it is even oceanic at all," Dr. Granot says. With the new geophysical data, we could make a big step forward in our geological understanding of the area."
If Granot's assumption about the Herodotus crust and the Tethys Ocean is correct, then Tethys could have formed at least 50 million years earlier than thought.
Ref: Palaeozoic oceanic crust preserved beneath the eastern Mediterranean, Nature Geoscience, nature.com/articles/doi:10.1038/ngeo2784
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Dragos has been working in geology for six years, and loving every minute of it. Now, his more recent focus is on paleoclimate and climatic evolution, though in his spare time, he also dedicates a lot of time to chaos theory and complex systems. | continent Pangea.
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Granot and colleagues towed magnetic sensing equipment on a special vessel which they used to survey the Mediterranean Sea for geophysical anomalies between October 2012 through October 2014. In these two long years, the researchers gathered 7,000 km worth of marine magnetic profiles across the Herodotus and Levant Basins, eastern Mediterranean.
The researchers were specifically on the watch out for oceanic crust since they knew they might find | 104 |
Ottawa-based CareWorx has raised $17 million from California-based Kayne Partners, a growth private equity group of Kayne<|fim_middle|>CareWorx's platform provides a suite of managed services for mid-market and senior care businesses. For organizations in this industry, it provides remote monitoring and management, IT service management, and IT automation. In the senior care market, CareWorx provides point of care software; it said that currently over 4,600 facilities operate over 70,000 CareWorx touchscreens for daily electronic health record (EHR) documentation.
CareWorx plans to use the funding to accelerate growth in the senior care market; expand existing managed services and security offerings; and finance acquisitions within the managed services, senior care and ServiceNow ecosystems. | Anderson Capital Advisors. Kayne Anderson Capital Advisors is an alternative investment firm managing over $26 billion in assets.
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Project Bow Valley College Location Calgary, AB Completion 2013 Size 28,840 m2 Client Bow Valley College Project Type
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What once was old is new again.
Through this large-scale renovation, GEC added 7,500 m2 of space within the tight downtown site of Bow Valley College (BVC)'s original 1972 building. We achieved this by filling in space on an exterior plaza at the +15 level and by replacing an at-grade parking structure with street-oriented student gathering, learning, resource and administrative spaces. We replaced exterior corridors with classrooms and offices to increase floor efficiencies and expose students and workers to natural light. In addition, a new internal 'main street' circulation connects the core of the building to active and quiet student gathering spaces situated adjacent to windows. The result is a light-filled, student-centred, higher education facility that has expanded and increased BVC's space efficiency.
GEC completed this high-profile renovation while BVC continued normal day-to-day operations. A major contributor to the successful execution of the project was planning swing spaces and 'decanting' of users with an emphasis on mitigating construction disruption and ensuring the college remained fully functional.
GEC worked with BVC to complete tenant improvements within the North Campus once construction of the new South Campus was completed. The design team met with various user groups, including the Executive Team, for the renovation and expansion of the existing Library, Learning Commons, a new Tutorial Centre, Intercultural Centre, Student Association, Lecture Theatre, and additional classroom space.
The South Campus expansion at Bow Valley College is an important catalyst for the redevelopment of an entire downtown city block<|fim_middle|>'s Award (Commercial – under $50 million) Alberta Construction Magazine
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Markin Hall | . The new building comprises seven storeys on an 'L' shaped site connecting to a development on the west side of the block (known as Block 40). This expansion doubled the College's seating capacity to 6,300.
The South Campus is a functional space designed across seven storeys, with three levels of underground parkade. In addition to new classrooms, laboratories and specialized learning centres, the facility houses administrative areas, food service facilities, a bookstore, a multi-faith centre, an Indigenous Centre and a roof garden on the fourth level.
The aesthetics of the design incorporate several decorative patterns inspired by cultures from across the globe, including Alberta's First Nations. The motifs repeat throughout the building as wall coverings, ceiling panels and most prominently in the glazed features throughout the building's facades. GEC also incorporated water and energy efficiencies into the design.
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Barack Obama's Election Day 2020 Tweets About Joe Biden Are So Candid
By Lara Walsh
After going viral for draining an impressive three-point shot while on the campaign trail with Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden, former President Barack Obama is turning his focus back to the election. With just hours to go until the polls closed, Obama took to Twitter to share a message of hope and excitement for the future while explaining why<|fim_middle|>Obama's Election Day 2020 messages show he will continue to support his longtime friend, win or lose.
AOC's Video About The Capitol Riot & Her Trauma Is Deeply Emotional
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Barack Obama's Tweet About The Georgia Senate Results Honored This Historic Victory
These Tweets About Mitch McConnell After The Georgia Senate Election Are A Whole Mood | he thought Biden was the best man for the job. Barack Obama's Election Day 2020 tweets were all about why his former vice president made him a better leader, and included a photo of the two friends hanging out together.
On Tuesday, Nov. 3, the 44th POTUS headed to Twitter to celebrate the end of a long campaign with a post about leading the country from 2008 to 2016 with Biden by his side.
Re-sharing a post from the Democratic presidential nominee, Obama wrote, "For eight years, Joe was the last one in the room whenever I faced a big decision. He made me a better president. And today, we have the chance to elect Joe and Kamala to build our country back better. But it's going to take every single one of us."
The former president also shared a photo of him with his former running mate on the campaign trail, urging people to cast their votes as soon as possible if they hadn't done so already.
The former commander-in-chief largely kept quiet about his successor, Donald Trump, in the years since he left office, but that changed when he hit the campaign trail to support his former VP. When Obama spoke at the Democratic National Convention (DNC) on Aug. 20, he told viewers Biden had "made [him] a better president" while skewering President Trump's track record, saying, "Donald Trump hasn't grown into the job because he can't."
"We should expect a president to feel a sense of responsibility for the safety and welfare of all 330 million of us — regardless of what we look like, how we worship, who we love, how much money we have — or who we voted for," he said during the largely virtual event, adding that while he'd he'd hoped "Donald Trump might show some interest in taking the job seriously," his successor had only served to divide the country.
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Just got back from iProperty.Com EXPO that held in Sunway Pyramid Convention Centre. If you did not manage to attend the event, do not worry! You still can attend it tomorrow. I have found few interesting places and also I manage to update myself about the latest prices of the houses. Not too mention that there have a lot company who focus on Cyberjaya area.
Check out the Seminar Proagrame. If you want to increase your knowledge about property, then you should attend the talk.
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Venue: Sunway Pyramid Convention Centre, Malaysia. | host to some of the most outstanding properties by Asian and international developers and key investment organizations from around the world. Over 200 property developments by some of Malaysia's award-winning property developers will be showcased alongside exclusive pre-launch developments and new launches. Property investors looking to invest beyond Malaysian shores will find luxury resorts, residential and commercial developments showcased from all over the world.
If you interested to purchase properties or interested to invest on properties, you should come to this event!
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I've often fantasized about having high-end audio while having dinner at a fancy restaurant. Last weekend, this dream came true!
Cayetano Castellano is a resourceful man. I have come to know him as the representative of Artesania Audio and is currently manager of the brand. Meanwhile, he takes care of international contacts for various other high-end audio brands, is continuously looking for new business opportunities and is also manager of the Audio Club Premier which organizes the Enosound shows.
The purpose of Audio Club Premier is to introduce the world of high-end audio to a wider audience in unique ways. The previous show that I attended was special because it was done in the amazing Sommos building, and the fine Sommos wines only enhanced the experience!
Hotel Convent San Roque is located just below and to the left of Bilbao.
I've missed one issue of the event in 2017, in Barcelona, but I was present at the most recent Enosound show, in Balmaseda, close to Bilbao. The venue of choice this time was the Hotel Convent San Roque owned and enthusiastically run by Bibiana Castellano, who happens to be Cayetano's sister. As it turned out, Bibiana has a real knack for fine food, fine wines and appealing interior decoration.
This year, they are celebrating the building's 350th year in existence and what better way to emphasize this by having the hotel's most beautiful rooms equipped with super high-end audio systems that play while the guests enjoy fine dining? What's more, Cayetano will also take this occasion to present his new wine brand Pekatu. And as if this wasn't enough to convince me to go, he also mentioned that we could see the Guggenheim Museum, get Pinchos (Tapas) at the best places in Bilbao and visit Europe's largest private car museum.
The second floor, from where all the rooms are accessed. In the middle is a view downstairs into the main hall and upstairs is a view outside through the glass ceiling.
This is the wonky wood stairs that I would walk up and down countless times. It's not exactly level and a bit crooked (to be fair: it is 350 years old!) but very sturdy.
Although this should probably be described as a music event with food and wine served, I kind of perceived it the other way around: wining and dining with very nice folks, with great music to go along with it! But that's not to say that the sound was subservient to the rest, as the systems were very, very serious!
In all seriousness, the purpose of this show was twofold: to get exposure for Cayetano's new Pekatu wine brand as well as for the exhibiting audio brands, not least of which is the new Kroma Audio brand of which the new Elektra speakers were demoed with an all CH Precision system, and to introduce non-audiophile people to the wonderful world of high-end audio.
Cayetano was so kind to pick us up from the airport and drive us to the hotel, where the show would also take place. Also in the car was Raphaël Pasche of CH Precision (above left), with whom Jan Willem and I had lots of fun right from the start. Being one of the hardware engineers at CH Precision as well as a very witty person there really was no shortage of subjects to discuss.
Pek<|fim_middle|> no listening should be without it. | atu wines and Clausura Cava on display in the Hotel Convent San Roque central space.
On the first day of arrival, there were no guests yet, only a select group of invitees, so we basically had the whole hotel for ourselves. This was really great: imagine walking from room to room listening to music, going via the bar for some nice food and beers, then returning via the central space where delicious entrees were served as part of a wine tasting event!
Here's a view of the hotel bar with THE BEST Tortilla that I have ever had. A few years ago I got introduced to the dish by a Spanish girlfriend and she was great at making Tortilla. This version, however, was truly in a class of its own! I must have had at least 5 slices during my stay.
Here are Ignacio Salvador (left) and Miguel Castro (right). Miguel is one of the two owners of Kroma Audio, which is the brand of the speakers in room 1. He also designed the new Artesania racks, but I will get to that later. Ignacio is a distributor of Jeff Rowland equipment in Spain and when he heard that JW and I have owned almost every JRDG component out there, we had plenty to talk about.
This was the first dish to go with one of the wines (I forget which one): Tuna with pepper and sesame on the edges. That might seem simple, but it was done just right and tasted heavenly.
Here is another interesting dish: it's something with deceptive looks. They had a Spanish name for this but the wine made me forget… Anyway: it looked like an Oreo but was actually made from black olive with a cream filling.
Hi Christiaan, HiFi always sounds better with some good wine and food 😉 i suggestthat | 370 |
2000 – We covered quite a range of topics last week. This article follows up on some of them.
In Hands on the FireWire iBook and The Truth About the New G3, we looked at Apple's latest computer, which is powered by IBM's newest version of the G3, the PowerPC 750CX. We were initially thrown off by terrible CPU scores under MacBench 5 – a benchmark even Macworld magazine has abandoned.
Still, it let us look at processor design, the new iBook, and benchmarks in a different light. We had placed a fair bit of confidence in MacBench 5; we no longer do.
In addition to the CPU and math scores of 28.2 and 1016, respectively, for the FireWire iBook under Speedometer 4.02, Alex Alexzander downloaded Speedometer 4.02 and ran it on his FireWire iBook SE. He obtained a CPU score of 36.7 and a math score of 1300.
All things are relatively equal between the new iBook and iBook SE, except for the CPU. The SE runs at 466 MHz, approximately 27% faster than the base iBook. Yet Speedometer shows a 30% higher CPU score and a 28% higher math score. Very impressive.
In the end, the PowerPC 750CX is everything IBM promised. We suspect it will be at the heart of future iMacs and possibly even non-G4 PowerBooks.
We were disappointed to see New iBooks Slower? Not So Fast on Wired last Tuesday. "Acting on a hot tip, Wired News ran the widely used MacBench test suite on Apple's latest iBook…." While it's nice to have Wired notice our work, it's disappointing that they never acknowledge that Low End Mac broke the story two days earlier.
Short story: Something Awful runs a moderately popular site and contracted with the Gamefan network for ads. Gamefan, now owned by Express.com, promised $2.50 for each thousand banners displayed. Based on this promise (and a signed contract), Something Awful spent a lot of money hosting their site.
They probably should have read the fine print, as it now seems that the contract worked 100% in Gamefan's favor. As I've heard things, Gamefan/Express.com only has to pay for banner ads that don't promote Gamefan or Express.com.
That doesn't sound fair at all. I response, I not only posted Something Awful & Express.com, but also removed links to Express.com from the sites I operate.
"Low<|fim_middle|> offer of free hardware – but there are lots of other fish in the sea. | tax" of Something Awful is refraining from commenting at present, under the advice of his lawyer.
We sincerely hope all parties involved in this sad situation will find a fair settlement.
This issue generated a lot of interest, including offers from DSL providers. Our hope is that AT&T will see a strong backlash against the idea, discussed in AT&T Proposes Extortion, of levying a surcharge against online merchants for everyone visiting via AT&T Internet Services – and beyond that, paying a small percentage of the sale to AT&T for "facilitating" the service.
I'm looking into DSL. I've about given up on EarthLink after about three months of waiting for their "six to eight week" | 143 |
Reflections on my '27 Times Cinema' experience
september 26<|fim_middle|> out over a sunset and simultaneous thunder above the city center of Venice was nothing short of magical. A flock of people I had met mere hours ago (some mere minutes) rode their bikes behind me as we found our way to the one restaurant the local village had to offer. Hidden behind a deserted town square was the cosiest Italian restaurant, where we met some of the others that had arrived earlier. Bottles of wine and fresh pasta were the fuel for our first encounters, in which the bonding process started while discussing films and directors we love. I feel that these types of experiences kept happening over the course of the two weeks we spent on the island. Lots of pasta and coffee and prosecco and pizza and gelato, all the while running from film to film and discussing every detail of it after. Our daily life on the island seemed to be stringed together by all kinds of treasures that could be found in both the strangest and the most mundane places.
Of course we grew close during this time (while, of course, maintaining physical distance as much as we could). Remembering my interview with artistic director Gaia Furrer, she mentioned that it is so nice to work with the '27 Times Cinema' jury because we tend to take our task really seriously. I feel like this shared focus on the work, the responsibility we all carried with us, made us grow closer amongst the fun we had around it. I really value the way my appreciation of each film deepened as our discussions developed, mostly due to the insightful reflections my fellow jury members brought to the table. We absolutely had our differences, but I am happy to see the growth we went through along the discussions, where we developed the patience to let the films truly sink in on us.
I am thankful for all the opportunities we had. Meeting and learning from film professionals, having space to ask lots and lots of questions, doing interviews or being interviewed ourselves. And after all the responsibilities were done, the winner was chosen (the wonderful' Kitoboy/The Whaler Boy' by Philipp Yuryev) and all articles and vlogs were posted, I went home with my heart full and my watchlist longer than ever. I'm looking forward to starting international film clubs and collaborating with platforms along Europe; those existing [Like 'The Cinemagraph'), and those coming soon (looking at you, Alex and Isa), But most of all, seeing each other again at another film festival or just in each other's home city. Many thanks to all the teams and partners that made this happen, especially under the particular circumstances we were under.
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Volgend bericht Interview with Janis Rafa, director of 'Kala Azar' | , 2020 door LA RIOT
Having had two weeks to settle back into my daily life in Amsterdam, I now feel in the position to properly reflect on my experience as part of the 2020 '27 Times Cinema' jury. For the first two weeks of September, my life was a sunkissed island dream filled with wonderful experiences and, most importantly, a group of incredible people as my company.
On the first evening, a simple bike ride looking | 99 |
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Heleo Leyva at his weekly community cookout
Farley Elliott
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'They're Our Neighbors': How LA Restaurants Help Feed Those in Need With Weekly Street Cookouts
Heleo Leyva's community events are part of a growing movement of restaurants and chefs cooking for locals
by Farley Elliott Nov 13, 2020, 11:59am PST
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Step one for Heleo Leyva's weekly free community cookouts is setting up the grill. Well, step one is really getting donations so that he can then go buy meat (asada and chicken) from the carniceria next door to where he sets up on Santa Monica Boulevard. So step two is setting up the grill, and by then, he's already got volunteers stepping in to help. At the weekly free East Hollywood cookouts, it's apparent from the 125 or so no-cost plates that fly out in 30 minutes that the need is tremendous — and so is the support.
Across more than a dozen events, Ley<|fim_middle|>ifying the need on social media channels, says Pittol. "They've got the audience, and can help. That's what I'm able to do, and what people in my position should do more of. Everyone has a way."
Leyva says that he's been touched by the outpouring of restaurant support. "There's so many it's too much to name all of them," he says, ticking off names like Ponchos Tlayudas, Kernel of Truth Organics, and Elio's Wood-Fired Pizzas, for a start. "They come out and they want to help because they see the need in the community. And now they're thinking of doing their own thing, in their own neighborhoods." So far, independent cooking events have happened in Downey, with East LA and Whittier in discussion for the future as well. Leyva is hosting a second cookout this weekend in MacArthur Park. "We're decentralizing the whole thing," says Leyva.
There are plans for an upcoming event in Fresno, which Leyva says is an even more direct response, a way to give back to the communities of farm workers that provide vital produce to Southern California. "With all the talk of supporting our farmers, very few people go up there and actually say 'thank you for all that you do.'"
In the meantime, Leyva and his volunteer crew will continue to cook for East Hollywood, and they hope to grow their weekly donations so that they can help more people with a warm meal. Unhoused people and the many elderly locals who show up weekly "may not always be able to cook for themselves," Leyva says, meaning drops of unprepared produce or canned goods at a community fridge may not help everyone. One meal from the community cookout helps, and that's all that Leyva wants to do.
"For me to be able to give someone a nice, warm meal, it's a blessing."
Community Cookouts has distributed over $25,000 in free food already, and can be found on Instagram for volunteering or donations. Cooks happen weekly on Tuesdays at 4621 Santa Monica Boulevard.
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Long Beach's New Dive Bar Hangout Embraces Thrift Store Chic | va has guided locals and volunteer chefs in Los Angeles, each giving their time to feed a growing line of unhoused East Hollywood residents, and many elderly neighbors, with a weekly free cookout taking place on the sidewalk. The events have engaged chefs and restaurants to use their resources, from operating grills to providing ingredients, as a way for the industry to give back to the community. Just like Leyva's previous quesadilla giveaways under the banner of Quesadillas Tepexco, and the community fridge he runs on the same Santa Monica Boulevard block, there are no questions asked or needed, only hot grilled dishes offered with a smile. This is direct action and community support, done with a restaurant heart.
Daniel Mattern of Friends & Family
"You can't put a price on some of the chefs who have come out" to support Leyva's plan to feed as many of his neighbors for free as he can, every week, for as long as the pandemic runs. "Their time is worth so much."
Leyva first reached out to Daniel Mattern, co-owner of Friends & Family restaurant in East Hollywood. Mattern had the four-foot grill and the desire to give back himself, even if it meant spending time cooking on his only day off to do so. The two make an easy match, each turning meat and tortillas, guiding the long, snaking line — though Mattern (and everyone else) is quick to note that Leyva deserves all the credit for starting and running the cookouts.
"Heleo has such a reach in the community. It's really cool to see," says Mattern. The chef also says that he's just happy to be able to give back to the area where his restaurant, and his home, both reside. "When COVID happened, the economy dropped away for so many people. A lot of people have lost their jobs, their income, and they live right here. You may not always see them, but they're our neighbors."
Even with the pandemic surging as a third wave, with over one million cases in California, and the future of independent restaurants at stake, Mattern believes that he has an obligation to do more, and he's looking to Leyva to lead the way. "People argue whether or not restaurants have larger duties to their neighborhoods," says Mattern, "but I sure feel like we do. I don't have a lot of money to give away, but I can show up and grill food for people."
"I don't have a lot of money to give away, but I can show up and grill food for people."
Baker and chef Karla Subero Pittol agrees. She linked up with Leyva early on because she wanted to directly support impacted communities, and she saw Leyva leading by example. She now shows up weekly, handing out free food from her small but mighty restaurant Chainsaw, a pop-up turned soon-to-come restaurant in Echo Park.
"I want myself, my business, to be associated with giving a shit about the community," says Pittol, "and the best way to make that apparent is to be involved." And while money is tight for her, her business, and basically everyone else she knows, Pittol agrees that direct action is a new kind of model for how restaurants can and should participate in the neighborhoods that support them. "A lot of owners have the ability to help, if not with hands then with money," or by ampl | 701 |
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Discovery of gold and gold mining
In 1847 in Coloma, California, James Marshall found a site for a sawmill. On January 24, 1848, Marshall went down to the river to inspect progress, and, as he later told the story: "My eye was caught by something shining in the bottom of the ditch. . . . I reached my hand down and picked it up; it made my heart thump, for I was certain it was gold. . . Then I saw another." In May, word of the strike–and a sample of gold dust–were shown in San Francisco. Almost overnight, the port turned into a near ghost town as merchants, sailors, soldiers, and laborers rushed inland to the gold fields. It was not long before gold-seekers from all over the state, Hispanic Californians, Native Americans, Europeans and U.S. citizens joined them. As word spread outside California in the following months, new national and ethnic groups contributed their share to the fascinating mix of the gold fields: Mormons from Utah, farmers and trappers from nearby Oregon, experienced miners from Mexico and Chile, white sailors and merchants and native workers from Hawaii, and Chinese from the province of Kwangtung near Canton. (California gold rush).
The construction of railroads (Union Pacific Railroad Co, Central Pacific Railroad Co)
Beginning in the early 1870s, railroad construction in the United States increased dramatically. Prior to 1871, approximately 45,000 miles of track had been laid. Between 1871 and 1900, another 170,000 miles were added to the nation's growing railroad system. Much of the growth can be attributed to the building of the transcontinental railroads. Union Pacific Railroad co was incorporated on July 1, 1862, under an act of Congress entitled Pacific Railroad Act of 1862. The act was approved by President Abraham Lincoln, and it provided for the construction of railroads from the Missouri River to the Pacific as a war measure for the preservation of the Union. It was constructed westwardly from Council Bluffs, Iowa to meet the Central Pacific line, which was constructed eastwardly from San Francisco Bay. The line was constructed primarily by Irish labor who had learned their craft during the recent Civil War. The two lines were joined together at Promontory Summit, Utah, 53 miles (85 km) west of Ogden on May 10, 1869, hence creating the first transcontinental railroad in North America. The Central Pacific Railroad is the former name of the railroad network built between California and Utah, USA that built eastwards from the West Coast in the 1860s, to complete the western part of the "First Transcontinental Railroad" in North America. It is now part of the Union Pacific Railroad.
Industrialisation (raw materials, effect on development of economy, main industries)
By 1850 the U.S. was firmly established in a strong process of industrialisation and by 1900 it was not only a fully industrialised economy but also one of the world's top three economic powers. Industrialisation in the US had the highest growth in the world. For most of the first half of the period this growth was based on the exploitation of natural resources, agricultural and mineral, but from the early nineteenth century, industrialisation also became increasingly important. After the Civil War in the 1860s steam-powered manufacturing overtook water-powered manufacturing, allowing the industry to fully spread across the nation. Main industries: cotton (textile), iron, flour, sawmills.
Formation of trusts
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, there was a massive wave of industrialization across the United States. One product of this era was the rise of "big business." Within certain industries, large corporations emerged. Some of these corporations were able to decrease or even eliminate competition by organizing themselves into monopolies. A trust was a way of organizing a business by merging together rival companies.
The role of Andrew Carnegie
Andrew Carnegie was a poor Scottish immigrant turned millionaire who came to symbolize the opportunity for social mobility that some call the American Dream. He formed the Carnegie Steel Corporation and his profits from the steel industry made him one of the wealthiest men in the United States. Also a noted philanthropist, Carnegie gave away some $350 million mostly to build public libraries and endow universities.
The role of John D. Rockefeller
He was an American business magnate and philanthropist. He was a co-founder of the Standard Oil Company, which dominated the oil industry and was the first great U.S. business trust. Rockefeller revolutionized the petroleum industry, and along with other key contemporary industrialists such as Andrew Carnegie, defined the structure of modern philanthropy. In 1870, he founded Standard Oil Company and actively ran it until he officially retired in 1897.
The role of Henry Ford
He was an American industrialist, the founder of the Ford Motor Company, and sponsor of the development of the assembly line technique of mass production. Henry Ford was definitely a great inventor and made a huge effect on our world. Just imagine what our world would be like without cars that everyone could drive! Henry Ford also made an effect on our lives by creating the assembly line. His assembly line helped bring down prices which helped people because cars were cheaper. His idea was also used latter in other factories and helped the prices of other items come down too.
The Statue of Liberty was a joint effort between France and the United States, intended to commemorate the lasting friendship between the peoples of the two nations. The French sculptor Frederic-Auguste Bartholdi created the statue. The Statue of Liberty was given to the United States and erected atop an American-designed pedestal on a small island in Upper New York Bay, now known as Liberty Island, and dedicated by President Grover Cleveland in 1886. Over the years, the statue stood tall as millions of immigrants arrived in America via nearby Ellis Island.
Causes of immigration from Europe in the 19th century
A combination of unemployment, famine and religious persecution drove more than 30 million European immigrants to the United States in the 19th and early 20th centuries. The first major wave of immigration to the U.S. occurred between 1820 and 1870, when a famine in Ireland and North Europe and economic troubles in Germany brought more than 7 million immigrants to America. But the height of immigration was between 1880 and 1920, when more than 20 million immigrants from Central, Eastern and Southern Europe, including millions of Russian Jews fleeing religious persecution, came to the U.S..
First Wave 1790 – 1820
Groups of immigrants came for a variety of religious, political, and economic reasons. Northern and Western Europeans (English, Irish, Germans, Dutch, French, Spanish etc). Starvation, disease, and shipwreck killed 1 in 10 of those immigrants who set sail for America before they even set foot on land. (relatively little immigration, significant emigration to Canada)
Second Wave 1820 – 1860
Immigrants came for new opportunities because in Europe, peasants displaced from agriculture and artisans were made jobless from the industrial revolution. Some immigrants received "American Letters" which were encouraging friends and relatives to join them in America. German (escaping economic problems and seeking political freedom), British, Irish 40% (poverty and famine encouraged emigration). The Roman Catholic church was the single largest religious body in the United States by 1850.
Third Wave 1880 – 1914
Immigrants came over to America for more job opportunities and freedom of religion. Chinese, Japanese, and other Asian countries (migrated to the western states). In the 1910 census, foreign-born residents made up 15 percent of the U.S. population and 24 percent of the U.S. labor force.
Fourth Wave 1965 – Present
A new law that altered the selection of immigrants from the country they were from, to giving priority to people who already had family in the United States or had skills that were needed in the labor market. Europeans, Asians, Hispanics (Mexico). In the 1980s and early 1990s, Asians made up about one-third of the immigrants entering America. Hispanics made up about one-half of the number of immigrants in the 1980s and early 1990s.
Sephardic wave
The first group of Sephardic settlers arrived in New Amsterdam in 1654 from Brazil. For several decades afterward, adventurous Sephardic and Ashkenazic merchants established homes in American colonial ports, including Newport, R.I., New Amsterdam (later New York), Philadelphia, Charleston, S.C., and Savannah, Ga. This was a departure from the Old World, where synagogues in places like Amsterdam, London, and Recife, taxed commercial transactions, regulated Jewish publications, and punished members for lapses in individual or commercial morality.
German wave
German Jews began to come to America in significant numbers in the 1840s. Jews left Germany because of persecution, restrictive laws, economic hardship, and the failure of movements — widely supported by German Jews — advocating revolution and reform there. Some 250,000 German-speaking Jews came to America by the outbreak of World War I. This sizable immigrant community expanded American Jewish geography by establishing themselves in smaller cities and towns in the Midwest, West, and the South. If German Jews had one city of their own invention, it was Cincinnati.
Eastern European wave
Eastern European Jews began to immigrate to the United States in large numbers after 1880. Pushed out of Europe by overpopulation, oppressive legislation and poverty, they were pulled toward America by the prospect of financial and social advancement. Between 1880 and the onset of restrictive immigration quotas in 1924, over 2 million Jews from Russia, Austria-Hungary, and Romania came to America. The immigrants found work in factories, especially in the garment industry, but also in cigar manufacturing, food production, and construction. Large-scale Jewish immigration to the United States ended in 1924.
An island that is located in Upper New York Bay in the Port of New York and New Jersey, United States. It was the gateway for millions of immigrants to the United States as the nation's busiest immigrant inspection station from 1892 until 1954. In the 35 years before Ellis Island opened, over eight million immigrants arriving in New York City had been processed by New York State officials at Castle Garden Immigration Depot in Lower Manhattan, just across the bay. The federal government assumed control of immigration on April 18, 1890, and Congress appropriated $75,000 to construct America's first Federal immigration station on Ellis Island. Artesian wells were dug, and landfill was hauled in from incoming ships' ballast and from construction of New York City's subway tunnels, which doubled the size of Ellis Island to over six acres. It has been estimated that close to 40 percent of all current U.S. citizens can trace at least one of their ancestors to Ellis Island.
Reed-Johnson Immigration Act of 1924
United States federal law that limited the annual number of immigrants who could be admitted from any country to 2% of the number of people from that country who were already living in the United States in 1890. It completely excluded immigrants from Asia.
The notion of Melting Pot vs Salad Bowl
The USA is traditionally called a melting pot because with time, generations of immigrants have melted together: they have abandoned their cultures to become totally assimilated into American society. Historically, it is often used to describe the assimilation of immigrants to the United States.
But in the UK, where cultural diversity is considered a positive thing, immigrants have always been encouraged to maintain their traditions and their native language. This model of racial integration can be described as a salad bowl, with people of different cultures living in harmony, like the lettuce, tomatoes and carrots in a salad. New York City can be considered as being a "salad bowl"
The civil rights movement of the 1960s led to the replacement of the ethnic quotas with per-country limits. Since then, the number of first-generation immigrants living in the United States has quadrupled from 9.6 million in 1970 to about 38 million in 2007. Nearly 14 million immigrants entered the United States from 2000 to 201o, and over one million persons were naturalized as U.S. citizens in 2008. there are more than 50 million immigrants living in the United States. Once immigrants begin to enter the United States, they have to learn many new things in order to navigate and adjust to their new homeland. Historically and currently, immigrants experience exploitation in the workforce and different forms of discriminations and challenges in their lives.
Urbanisation (living conditions, labour unions)
The urbanisation of the United States was a very long and gradual process, with the United States only becoming an urban-majority nation between 1910 and 1920. As the 19th century drew to a close, the rapid development of cities served as both a uniting and driving factor in American social, economic, and political life. Cities attracted a rich cross-section of the world's population, creating a diverse, metropolitan atmosphere. At the same time, cities forced people from entirely different backgrounds to live and work together in close proximity for the first time, which served as a uniting factor. The never- ending influx of immigrants from Germany, Ireland, Britain, and Scandinavia created an ethnically diverse population united by their common financial plight, social oppression, and shared American Dream. Many minority groups tended to congregate in certain area of the city giving rise to nicknames like "Chinatown" in San Francisco and "Little Italy" in New York City. As room became more and more scare for New Immigrants, increasingly smaller tenement buildings were constructed in an attempt to save room. Not only were the apartments extremely small, but at times 3 or 4 families were forced to fit into one apartment. Along with small size, the plumbing, ventilation, and lighting was often very poor. As the industrial work force grew, tensions increased between labor and management. They disagreed over issues such as wages, length of the working day, and working conditions. Labor unions emerged to protect the rights of workers and to represent them in negotiations with management. Most employers vigorously opposed trade union activity, and struggles between workers and employers often became violent.
Progressive Movement: Theodore Roosevelt
Progressivism is the term applied to a variety of responses to the economic and social problems rapid industrialization introduced to America. Progressivism began as a social movement and grew into a political movement. they were people who believed that the problems society faced (poverty, violence, greed, racism, class warfare) could best be addressed by providing good education, a safe environment, and an efficient workplace. Progressives lived mainly in the cities, were college educated, and believed that government could be a tool for change. On a national level, progressivism gained a strong voice in the White House when Theodore Roosevelt became president in 1901. TR believed that strong corporations were good for America, but he also believed that corporate behavior must be watched to ensure that corporate greed did not get out of hand.
An American Empire (the Philippines, Cuba)
In the late nineteenth century, foreign territories such as Hawaii and Latin America were sought after by the United States. Amendments were used in unison to grant the United States the right to intervene in those territories if that particular government was deemed unfit to rule itself. The American government now held the power to both criticize and occupy these nations if they were deemed to be unstable. The Spanish– American War was a conflict in 1898 between Spain and the United States, the result of US intervention in the Cuban War of Independence. US attacks on Spain's Pacific possessions led to involvement in the Philippine Revolution and ultimately to the Philippine–American War. Revolts against Spanish rule had occurred for some years in Cuba. In the late 1890s, US public opinion was agitated by anti-Spanish propaganda which used yellow journalism to criticize Spanish administration of Cuba. After the mysterious sinking of the US Navy battleship Maine in Havana harbor, political pressures from the Democratic Party and certain industrialists pushed the administration of Republican President William McKinley into a war he had wished to avoid. Compromise was sought by Spain, but rejected by the United States which sent an ultimatum to Spain demanding it surrender control of Cuba. First Madrid, then Washington, formally declared war. After its defeat in the Spanish-American War of 1898, Spain ceded its longstanding colony of the Philippines to the United States in the Treaty of Paris.
Dollar Diplomacy
Effort of the United States between 1909-1913 to further its aims in Latin America and East Asia through use of its economic power by guaranteeing loans made to foreign countries.
A U.S. foreign policy regarding European countries in 1823. It stated that further efforts by European nations to colonize land or interfere with states in North or South America would be viewed as acts of aggression, requiring U.S. intervention. At the same time, the doctrine noted that the United States would neither interfere with existing European colonies nor meddle in the internal concerns of European countries.
The US in WWI
United States declared war on the German Empire on April 6, 1917. The U.S. was an independent power and did not officially join the Allies. It closely cooperated with them militarily but acted alone in diplomacy. The U.S. made its major contributions in terms of supplies, raw material and money starting in 1917. During the war, the US mobilized over 4,000,000 military personnel and suffered 110,000 deaths.
Versailles Treaty of 1919
The Treaty of Versailles, which ended World War I, was drafted at the Paris Peace Conference in the spring of 1919 and shaped by the Big Four powers—Great Britain, France, Italy, and the United States. After Germany was defeated, President Wilson pushed for his Fourteen Points to be followed by the rest of Europe and the Allies. Wilson wanted all of Europe to be able to recover quickly from the war, including Germany. France and Britain disagreed and placed harsh reparations on Germany in the Treaty of Versailles. The United States did not sign the Treaty of Versailles, but established their own peace treaty with Germany.
League of Nations
The League of Nations was an international organization, headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, created after the First World War to provide a forum for resolving international disputes. Though first proposed by President Woodrow Wilson as part of his Fourteen Points plan for an equitable peace in Europe, the United States never became a member. The congress didn't want to be in the League of Nations. The country, whose president, Woodrow Wilson, had dreamed up the idea of the League – America – refused to join it. As America was the world's most powerful nation, this was a serious blow to the prestige of the League. However, America's refusal to join the League, fitted in with her desire to have an isolationist policy throughout the world.
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I chose a picture of Ellis Island for the visual representation of this film, as it was, at the time, the central hub of the US immigration wave – the main topic of the movie The Immigrant. Ellis Island itself was a building complex comprised of customs offices, medical facilities, canteens and other facilities. At its peak, Ellis Island processed 11 747 immigrants in a single day.
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I did think that I wouldn't have a lot to say in this post having said most of it previously! However, I discover I have more to say than I thought!
It is the end of term here and I have loads of services and other school events to lead and attend. I was invited to two more today, I am afraid enough is enough! We are looking forward to our holiday which is creeping up at the moment. I hope to have more blogs posted before then though.
When I became a Christian, and for many years afterwards, the Eucharist did not feature very highly in my life. My background was such that other aspects of worship were much more important. Even at St Andrew's, the first Anglican Church I went to, the Eucharist was not a central part of church life or mine. At London Bible College, I started to think more seriously about it and, as I have mentioned previously, I came to see it as important.
I was, however, very much on the Protestant end of the spectrum in understanding its significance, not believing that anything particular happened in it. It was a memorial meal, that and nothing more. It was really only when I went to Banchory and was celebrating the Eucharist regularly as well as trying to bring some renewal in our services that I found myself thinking more seriously about what it actually meant.
A major consideration for me was Church history and tradition. The Eucharist has been at the heart of the Church's worship in much the same form since at least the second century. It was sidelined as a consequence of the reformation in many Protestant churches. Protestants often played it off against the Bible and preaching and were highly critical of the Roman Mass. Calvin, one of the leading reformers, while critical of the Roman Mass, believed that the Lord's Supper should be at the heart of the Church's life and worship. An aspect of his teaching that most of his followers ignored!
Indeed, Calvin, in his belief and teaching that Communion should be offered to believers weekly, was ahead of most people at the time, Catholic or Protestant. At the beginning of the sixteenth century, people took communion very infrequently, often no more than annually. Calvin not only believed in frequent Communion, he also had a high view of what was happening in the Eucharist. He certainly did not believe in transubstantiation, the doctrine that the bread and wine actually become the body and blood of Christ, but nor did he see the Lord's Supper as a memorial meal and no more. For Calvin, there was a real partaking of Christ in the Supper, but spiritually and by faith. Calvin's negative comments about the Mass, as it was celebrated and understood in his own day, have perhaps meant that people have missed the emphasis that he actually does put on the importance of the sacrament.
I also think that Protestants today forget that the Roman Catholic Church of the present is not the Church that Calvin criticised. Roman Catholicism has changed and has perhaps come to express its teaching in a less crude way than was the case. I, personally, differ somewhat in my own understanding to the official Catholic teaching, but reading the Catechism of the Catholic Church on the Eucharist again just now, I am struck by how reasonable and balanced it is, and how much I find myself in agreement with it. Now the way it is expressed is somewhat different to how I would put it. And there are things I am not exactly comfortable with such as the veneration of the host outside of the Eucharist and the belief that the Eucharist has benefits for the dead, but in its treatment of the Mass as a sacrifice, which has traditionally been a problem for Protestants, the catechism is very cautious in how it expresses itself.
[Christ], our Lord and God, was once and for all to offer himself to God the Father by his death on the altar of the cross, to accomplish there an everlasting redemption. But because his priesthood was not to end with his death, at the Last Supper 'on the night when he was betrayed,' [he wanted] to leave to his beloved spouse the Church a visible sacrifice (as the nature of man demands) by which the bloody sacrifice which he was to accomplish once for all on the cross would be re-presented, its memory perpetuated until the end of the world, and its salutary power be applied to the forgiveness of the sins we daily commit.
This last paragraph is a quote from the Council of Trent of 1562 in which the Roman Catholic Church first attempted to respond to the Reformation.
The language in these two paragraphs isn't language Protestants would use, but is it really so objectionable? The word 'transubstantiation', so hated by Protestants, is only used once. I am not trying to defend Roman Catholicism just to point out that many are reacting to a Roman Catholicism that no longer exists, if ever it did.
Roman Catholics believe that Jesus is 'truly, really and substantially' present in the Eucharist. Having also read Calvin again on this before writing this blog, I am sure he would agree. The issue between Calvin and the Roman understanding would seem to be not whether, but how? On a personal level, this remains the difference between my own understanding and Roman teaching. For the Roman Catholicism of the catechism teaches that Christ is physically present. For Calvin, he is spiritually present.
My problem with Roman Catholic teaching is that I cannot for the life of me see how physically eating Christ can be of any spiritual benefit. The RC catechism itself says that we are spiritually fed in the Eucharist, but if we are spiritually fed what use is Christ's physical flesh? Chewing on Christ while he was alive on earth, if I can express it crudely, would have had no benefit whatsoever. Why would it make any difference now?
Anyway, this was the understanding I came to at Banchory. Furthermore, I came to believe that the problem of the Anglican Book of Common Prayer wasn't that it was too traditional; the common accusation against the Prayer Book, but that it was not traditional enough. The Book of Common Prayer while expressing a Calvinist approach to the Eucharist was moving liturgically away from the tradition and practice of the Church. It was prevented from moving further by the death of Edward VI and the eventual coming to the throne of Elizabeth I, which rather froze things where they were. This was how basically they stayed in Anglicanism until comparatively recently. The liturgy we use here at Christ Church<|fim_middle|> me, would be appalled at how lightly believers value the Sacred Supper and how casual they have become towards it. | , derived from what is known as Common Worship, I believe expresses a Calvinist understanding of the Eucharist while remaining in liturgical continuity with the great liturgies of the Church of the past. There is, I hope, nothing in it that a Roman Catholic would find offensive.
Would Calvin like it? I suspect not. However, not because he would object to it theologically, but because, I suspect, he was more austere in his approach to worship. Would he 'freely accept' it as expressing the 'true and substantial partaking of the body and blood of the Lord' he also believed in? I hope so and would like to think so. I think he, like | 142 |
by Anna Wilborn
When Joe Foglia rang me up to offer me a spot as the Utility Sound Tech on ABC's Nashville, I fell on the floor laughing. Move to Nashville? I had a new house, a new baby, a three-year-old and a husband who was neck deep besting a new VH1 show. I<|fim_middle|> receivers we use on our actors for their in-ear monitoring.
In the early days of Season One, the performance playback music was fed only to the actors via in-ears, Phonak earwigs, or small stage monitors. Famed music producer T-Bone Burnett noticed during a performance shoot that the audience wasn't getting as excited about the music as they could be. He wanted speakers blasting the crowd with music. Joe then contacted Ray Van Straten at the speaker company QSC in Costa Mesa, CA, about a possible relationship. A love affair was born. We now receive both practical and mock-up KW series speaker arrays to pump music to the crowd for a real concert look and feel.
Normally, being this far away from Los Angeles would spell the usual equipment and expendables headaches. Thankfully, in Nashville we have Trew Audio right in our backyard. When Joe arrived in town, he wheeled the carts right into the middle of the shop like a sound pit stop. Software updates, new cables, batteries, fluids, tires pumped up, and we were off and running. Rob Milner has been a big part of our crew and it goes something like this: "Hey Rob, I need a sevenfoot cable to run from the Zaxcom wireless to a split XLR with a four-pin." An hour later, we send the drivers. Having them here has made the transition to the South seamless. Glen Trew was the Sound Mixer on the pilot and the first three episodes before Joe took over. He still comes in from wherever he is around the world (last time it was Amsterdam) to do our 2nd unit days. He's like a rock star around here. It takes him a half-hour to get from crafty to the cart with all the hugs and handshakes in his way.
Nashville has been the best thing to happen to my little world in quite some time. We're having a blast both on-set and off. Our hours are sane, the people are jaw-droppingly friendly and there's never a lack of fun things to do with festivals and concerts every weekend. I can say the road signs are more confusing than anything I've ever seen (even the locals admit that), but when people actually let you merge with a friendly wave and a smile, all is forgiven. The other day, my husband found himself stranded in the rain with a dead car battery and a flat tire, and yes, two very disgruntled kids in the back seat. Before he could find his AAA card, someone had pulled over, jumped the car, fixed his flat (with a plug!) and bid him a good day. Don't you have a pretty picture of that happening in Los Angeles? Gotta love this sweet Southern country livin'! Viva La Nashville!
Glossary of highlighted words
IFB Interruptible Fold Back: A system for supplying audio as it is being recorded to artists and technicians. The signal path from the microphones is "interrupted" before going to the recorder and "folded back" so it may be heard by the people involved in the process of making or supervising the recording.
Focusrite Rednet 2 The Rednet 2 system is the premium line of audio interfaces for network distribution over Ethernet cable manufactured by the Focusrite company.
Dante A system of hardware, software and network protocols for delivering digital audio through Ethernet cable.
QSC A manufacturer of speakers, amplifiers and signal processing equipment.
Ultimate Ears A manufacturer of speakers and custom-molded, in-ear monitors.
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Ray Dolby | 'd already heard the stories of ungodly hours, the daily multiple locations, the stake beds, the stairs, the tiny costumes, the non-soundstages, the lack of a great Thai restaurant … "I'm fine thanks," I chuckled to Joe, as I tossed my kid a toy. I got in my car and headed to Costco. Forty-five minutes later, I pulled in to the parking lot. It's a mile and a half away. Had to get some diapers at Target. That was another two-hour ordeal complete with honking and expletives (not from me of course!). Six weeks later, my whole house was packed up, boxes shipped, and I was bouncing my baby on my lap as my flight to Music City lifted up out of the smog.
It had been over two years since I'd worked with Joe and, thankfully, nothing had changed. Except the recorder. And the monitors. And the sound reports. And the media. And some of the microphones. And the timecode boxes. And the IFBs. And the follow cart. I soon realized the only thing recognizable was Joe's smile. Even the boom guy, Scott Solan, was different. He hails from an Irish, hockey-playing borough of Syracuse, NY, with a long list of credits, including the new Star Trek features,Transformers: Dark of the Moon and Thor. Scott is a thoughtful perfectionist. He forgets nothing and leaves no stone unturned in his drive for a quiet, locked-up location. Scott has the unique ability to up everyone's game, both within and beyond our department. Our very first scene up on starting the new season was indicative of the next ten months to come: 6 earwigs, music playback, live stage microphones, PA system, 4 wires, 50 extras and 3 RED cameras. I suddenly yearned for a forty-five-minute drive to Costco with a toddler and a teething baby. I pondered the validity of the lease agreement just signed by my new tenants back in Los Angeles. I suppose I could get a lawyer … Joe just smiled and shrugged, "Welcome to Nashville!"
Matt Andrews is at the helm of our music playback. He is the Chief Engineer at Sound Emporium in Nashville and a bona fide Grammy Award winner (I know 'cause I kinda stole it off his mantle one night when we were shooting down the street from his house). Matt's credits include Playback Tech on Walk the Line and 2nd Studio Engineer for the O Brother, Where Art Thou? soundtrack. Joe and Matt are a match made in heaven. Watching them together is like a Martin and Lewis film. There's nothing better than seeing the two of them behind the racks, heads down in a flurry of cables and connectors, troubleshooting and finishing each other's sentences. They are the yin to each other's yang. Given that Joe spent his formative years at Criteria Recording Studios in Miami Beach, it's no surprise.
Each episode offers up four to five musical numbers with anywhere from one to a dozen performers. Matt's playback paraphernalia includes a Pro Tools 10 rig in a small, red, rolling rack, closely followed by Playback Utility Cassidi Spurlock, dragging The Biggest Pelican Case In The World. Seriously. If Nashville ever floods again, we can just ditch the cables and all hop in. He runs the Pro Tools via a Quad-core Mac Mini with a Focusrite Rednet 2 interface. He typically comes armed with twenty-four tracks of music all broken out in stereo pairs from vocals to cowbell. Matt is all about the Dante matrix system. Over the next few months, we plan to fully integrate Dante so both he and Joe can pull any track they choose out of a thin little Ethernet cable. It will also drastically cut down on the cabling which, in turn, will reduce the propensity to pick up hums and ground loops along the way, a typical nuisance of our large-scale music venue locations.
Six years ago, Joe looked at his shiny new eight-channel Sonosax mixer and thought, what am I going to do with all these inputs? Now he knows. Problem is the board is continually maxed out with all the live vocal microphones, booms, wires and music. An upgrade looms in the near future. For now, the new addition to the family is a Dante-compatible Soundcraft Si Expression digital mixer. It has fourteen faders with four layers for up to fifty-six tracks. "It's great," Matt says, "we just hit a button and the board instantly switches to a whole different mix." To it we input the Shure handheld wireless stage microphones and Matt's music and timecode tracks. It allows instant accessibility to all audio on Matt's playback rig as well as all live stage microphones. From there we feed customizable mixes to the QSC PA and the actors' Ultimate Ears custom molded in-ear monitors. Our actors sing aloud to their pre-records, and are then recorded by Joe. (Y'all following this? There will be a quiz at the end.) This gives our Music Editor, a more precise way to sync, rather than relying solely on timecode.
Joe's primary recorder is the Sound Devices Pix 260i. It is capable of up to thirty-two channels and is also Dante compatible. It carries a 250 gigabyte solid-state hard drive and a compact flash card which gets turned in for dailies. He backs up to a Sound Devices 788T which simultaneously mirrors to a one TB hard drive. We mostly use Sanken COS-11 wires with Lectrosonics SMV and SMQV transmitters, matched to a six-channel Lectrosonics Venue receiver. Schoeps CMIT shotguns are used with Cinela mounts, K-Tek boom poles and Lectrosonic HM plug-on transmitters. Scott and I use Shure P9RA receivers to listen to Joe's mix. The clarity is remarkable and the channels are mixable so we can have boom in one ear and wires in the other if we choose. These are the same | 1,252 |
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Dual-credit programs allow students to earn high school and college credit simultaneously. Students can earn dual credit by completing college courses (e.g., Running Start, College in the High School, and Tech Prep) or by completing standardized exams (e.g., Advanced Placement, International Baccalaureate, and Cambridge International Program). Students who earn college credit are more likely to graduate high school, enroll in college, and complete college degrees.
Running Start allows 11th and 12th grade students to take college courses at Washington's community and technical colleges and Central Washington University, Eastern Washington University, Washington State University, and Northwest Indian College. Running Start courses are regular college courses offered on the college campus. Students pay no tuition; however, they do pay for textbooks, fees, and transportation.
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A tax credit is available for cash contributions to qualified school tuition organizations. These organizations provide scholarships or grants to qualified schools from elementary through high school. Your cash contribution cannot be designated for the direct benefit of your dependent, but can be made to benefit any other student if they are not your dependent.
Taxpayers that are married filing jointly may claim a credit of up to $1,110 for a cash contribution to a school tuition organization. All other taxpayers may claim a credit of up to $555 for a cash contribution to this type of organization.
The Private Learning Uplifting Students (PLUS) tax credit allows donors to receive credit for a cash contribution over and above the School Tuition Organization credit explained above. The taxpayer must first donate the maximum to the School Tuition Organization credit. The maximum PLUS credit for 2018 is $1,103 if married filing jointly and $552 for all other taxpayers.
Combining these two credits, a taxpayer who is married filing jointly may claim a total credit in the amount of $2,213. All other taxpayers may claim a total credit of $1,107. Contributions made during calendar year 2018 must be claimed on your 2018 tax return. Contributions made between Jan. 1, 2019 and April 15, 2019 may be claimed on either your 2018 or 2019 tax return.
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A credit of up to $800 for married filing jointly and up to $400 for all other filers is available for cash contributions to a qualifying charitable organization. These organizations include entities that provide services to needy families and children who have chronic illness or physical disability. The Arizona Department of Revenue has added a new reporting requirement for this credit for 2018 tax returns. A unique five-digit code has been assigned to each qualifying charitable organization. This code must be included on your tax return for the credit to be accepted.
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A credit of up to $1,000 for those filing as married filing jointly and up to $500 for all other filers is available for cash contributions to qualifying foster care organizations. These organizations provide immediate basic needs to at least 200 qualifying individuals in the foster care system. Similar to the Qualifying Charitable Organization credit, a unique five-digit code has been assigned to each QFCO and must be included on your tax return.
Contributions to a qualifying charitable organization or a qualifying foster care charitable organization made in calendar 2018 must be claimed on your 2018 income tax return. Contributions made between Jan. 1, 2019 and April 15, 2019 may be claimed on either your 2018 or 2019 tax returns.
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On Aug. 23, 2018, the Internal Revenue Service issued a proposed regulation that will eliminate the deduction of these contributions on your federal income tax return. The proposed regulations state that contributions resulting in a state or local tax credit in return for the contribution will not be deductible for federal tax purposes to the extent of the credit. This proposed regulation applies to contributions made after Aug. 27, 2018. In spite of this change, the Arizona tax credits still reduce your Arizona state income tax, dollar for dollar, so that you can support these organizations without any direct costs to you.
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The White Coat Ceremony is the culmination of an intensive orientation program, welcoming incoming MD students to both Washington University and the medical profession. First-year students arrive on campus two weeks prior to the ceremony for orientation and the Medical Plunge – four days of site visits, visiting speakers and community engagements that lay a foundation for understanding health disparities and social determinants of health.
The entire incoming class contributes to the process of writing their White Coat Ceremony oath. Above, hear what the oath-writing process meant to students in the entering class of 2018.
At the White Coat Ceremony, incoming students receive their white coats from School of Medicine faculty members, then take an oath — one they have written as a class — pledging honesty and integrity in their practice of medicine. Family and friends are invited to witness as students take their first symbolic step into the medical profession.
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Select a year below to see photos, videos and more stories from past White Coat Ceremonies. | Ceremony at Washington University is supported in part by the Arnold P. Gold Foundation, which works with students and professionals to instill a culture of humanism in medicine. Humanism in medicine is characterized by respect, dignity and compassion for patients, with sensitivity to the diverse values | 54 |
JOHNSTON: Canucks' Hughes racks up points but bonuses may cause cap crunch
Patrick Johnston
Updated: December 18, 2019 6:33 PM EST
The Canucks' star rookie is going to start piling up bonuses, which will bring some cap issues with them
Quinn Hughes is piling up the points and is about to start piling up bonuses, a terrific thing for him and the Canucks' offence — but, ironically, a problem for Vancouver's salary cap.
The Canucks' star rookie began Tuesday night's game against the visiting Montreal Canadiens with two goals and 24 assists. One more assist and he'll trigger the first of what's likely to be a full slate of bonuses in his standard entry-level NHL contract.
Hughes has posted points at every level he's played, but rarely do the points keep coming in bunches for NHL rookies. Only special talents manage that production.
Canucks' fans witnessed this with Elias Pettersson last year. And they're seeing it with Hughes this season.
"That's what I try to do — bring us offence, create chances," Hughes said Tuesday morning before facing the Habs. "But obviously I can't take it for granted. It's a hard league and you have to drive real fast here."
There are fluctuations in his offensive output, but that never fazes him for long.
"When you're not getting points, you kind of go back to the basics, see what you can do better. I've been there, I've gone like six, seven games without a point.
" … It's a hard league, you've got to grow up. If you go a couple games without a point, it's a business and you've got to grow up and can't feel down on yourself."
His teammates aren't surprised he's producing like he has, given his ability.
"When you can skate like that, you create space not just for yourself, but for other guys to get open," forward Brock Boeser said.
"His edge work and then the way he protects the puck. Probably two, three times every game where I'm yelling from the bench to look out or heads up and then he somehow escapes out of it with speed and then he's attacking offensively," defenceman Troy Stecher added.
CANUCKS' CAP CRUNCH
NHL salary cap: $81.5 million total spending
Canucks projected end-of-season cap space: $30,474
Possible bonuses for Pettersson/Hughes: $3.7 million-plus
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Hughes' high-octane production is great for the player. It's great for the Canucks and fans craving excitement. But it's also troublesome for the team's cap dynamic.
Because of cap hurdles like Loui Eriksson's contract being unmovable, a double-whammy since he couldn't find a productive role on the team, Sven Baertschi's deal being buried in the minors, the Ryan Spooner buyout and the Roberto Luongo cap-recapture penalty, the Canucks find themselves right up against the salary cap.
And with numerous pending free agents this summer, including goaltender Jacob Markstrom, defencemen Chris Tanev<|fim_middle|> the price tag for this improvement is going to be something to watch.
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Quinn Hughes and Mario Ferraro of the San Jose Sharks go for the puck at SAP Center on December 14, 2019 in San Jose, California. Ezra Shaw / Getty Images
Because the Canucks are right up against the cap this season, most of the bonus money that Hughes and Pettersson could and will likely earn will be applied to next year's salary cap. So, even though the salary cap is slated to increase next season, that may be a moot point, given the Hughes/Pettersson bonuses will eat up most, possibly all, of that boost.
Under the terms of the Collective Bargaining Agreement between the NHL and players' association, players on entry-level contracts, like Hughes and Pettersson, can earn bonuses for achieving a standard in a number of categories — called schedule A bonuses — like more than 20 goals for forwards, or 10 goals for defencemen.
Players can also earn bonuses for minimum totals of assists, points, plus/minus, points-per-game, making the all-rookie team or being picked to the all-star game.
Each of these bonuses, categorized as "schedule A," is worth $212,500; players can earn up to a maximum of $850,000 even if they qualify in more than four categories.
Last season, Pettersson earned $850,000 in those schedule A bonuses.
After his impressive Swedish Hockey League season with Vaxjo before he signed his first NHL deal, Pettersson negotiated into his contract that if he achieves any one of the categories that are classed as schedule B in a season — top 10 in the league in goals, assists, points or points per game, finishes top five in voting for one of the league's major awards or is named as a first- or second-team all-star at the end of the season — he'll collect a further $2 million in bonuses from the Canucks.
The schedule B bonuses are also doled out by the league, at various rates, so both Pettersson and Hughes could rack those up on top of whatever other bonuses they've already earned; Hughes more likely than Pettersson. (And, yes, Pettersson would earn individual schedule B bonuses on top of the $2 million from the team.)
Hughes' production and the rapid growth of his overall game are some of the best things to happen to the Canucks in a long time. But | 573 |
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By Adrian Hirsch
From left, Sydney Mushing, Alexandria Kober, and Laine Riley-Gilmore explain their Rube Goldberg Machine
More than 100 educators, business people and students from across the region are expected to participate in NovaNow, a two-day conference that spotlights innovations in teaching and learning, from new ways to battle bullying to teaching math skills through computer coding.
The conference, being held at Kent Innovation High on Feb. 5 and 6, includes presentations from students at the school and seminars from area educators.
"I absolutely love it because these kids are applying their learning for a purpose," said Michigan Teacher of the Year Richard Joseph as he toured the student-led presentations during the first day of the conference. Joseph added that the project-based learning found at KIH is often more connected to real-world issues than lessons out of a textbook.
Sophomore Alec Betancourt's project focused on using a mix of renewable energies to power the world of the future. "I'm looking at places where electricity isn't at your fingertips, but where it may be needed," said Alec, explaining that the current consumption of fossil fuels isn't sustainable. "It's either going to kill our planet,<|fim_middle|> community radio station WYCE for years, served as Non-Profit Coordinator for GRTV, and currently works as the Web Producer for SNN.
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Spotted perusing the exhibitions was Lupe Ramos-Montigny, a delegate from the State Board of Education. "They're awesome, very creative. The critical thinking is very evident," she said of the student presentations.
Ramos-Montigny said she was especially impressed with how the students applied their learning to some of the more abstract concepts within the projects, adding, "What student wouldn't want to come and learn in this environment?"
Other student presentation examples include a Rube Goldberg Machine, which combines a series of chain reactions to accomplish an otherwise simple process, and a "Carbon Dating" dating game, where contestants react with each other as elements of the periodic table.
Now in its third year, NovaNow helps educators work through new curriculum standards in the most engaging ways possible. Local business professionals from tech companies Springthrough and Trivalent Group, Metro Health, Lacks Wheel Trim Systems and online regional promoter Hello West Michigan participated in a panel to talk about what types of skills they look for in entry-level employees.
"What's different about this event is we're having conversations about what's important in education beyond the standards," said Andrew Steinman, Kent ISD educational technology consultant. "So it's not just about the what, but the why and the how."
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by Michelle Felber • October 25, 2015 • Comments Off on University Committee Chair's Message to Faculty on UW System Tenure Task Force
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Dear UW-Madison faculty,
I know many of you have seen the letter that UW System President Ray Cross sent to the faculty representatives earlier this week. You may have also heard about some of the conversations that were held at the System tenure task force yesterday afternoon. I want to assure you that none of this changes our approach to developing tenure policies for this campus. Before Act 55, the state had a single statute that allowed campuses to develop and implement their own faculty policies and procedures. It has always been our assumption that the policy that will be developed by the Regents in response to Act 55 would similarly allow variations from campus to campus.
The documents that will be submitted to the Senate in November reflect input from the faculty listening sessions, as well as the written revisions submitted after the October Senate reading. We believe that our proposed policies are very strong. We have always been clear that we would draft UW-Madison policies that reflect the language in Act 55 and that are congruent with AAUP standards and our policies of shared governance and strong tenure protections.
I want to make it completely clear that nothing has changed in our approach and we look forward to discussing our proposals with you on November 2nd at the Faculty Senate.
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PROFS Statement on Concealed Carry on Campus
by Michelle Felber • October 15, 2015 • Comments Off on PROFS Statement on Concealed Carry on Campus
The University of Wisconsin-Madison Police Department and University of Wisconsin System issued statements on concealed carry Tuesday:
UW-Madison Police Department Statement
Recent school shootings have elevated discussions across the country about gun safety, protecting the rights of citizens, and protecting the safety of our schools. This is a serious issue and there are many questions to consider.
The UW-Madison Police Department and the University of Wisconsin-Madison support existing state law, which appropriately balances individual rights with community safety. We oppose any legislation that would allow citizens to legally carry concealed weapons inside university buildings. Current policies at UW-Madison allow concealed carry on university lands – but not in buildings.
To us, as law enforcement professionals at UWPD, the evidence does not support the idea that our campus would be safer if concealed firearms are allowed in our buildings. In states that allow concealed carry, these mass shooting tragedies have still occurred. According to 2014 FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) numbers, you are less likely to become a victim of a violent crime at UW-Madison – which currently does not allow concealed weapons in buildings – than you are in the state of Wisconsin as a whole.
Allowing concealed weapons inside a building like Camp Randall Stadium, filled with 80,000 people, creates a major security issue. The training required to obtain a concealed carry permit is minimal.
We urge our legislators not to change the existing law. Doing so would put the safety of our students, faculty, staff, and guests at risk.
UW System Statement
We take the safety of our campus communities very seriously and know that our legislative partners do as well. We have significant concerns and questions with this proposal and cannot currently support it. We are, however, actively engaged in a dialogue with the legislative authors, Regents, and campus police professionals to ensure our concerns are addressed.
October Board of Regents Meeting
by Michelle Felber • October 7, 2015 • Comments Off on October Board of Regents Meeting
The University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents will meet in Madison Thursday and Friday, October 8 and 9. Meetings will take place in Gordon Dining and Event Center at UW-Madison, 770 West Dayton Street. Livestream coverage of the full board meetings is here.
Regents meet in committee Thursday morning:
The Capital Planning and Budget Committee will hear a report on State Building Commission action and discuss a resolution to fund maintenance and repair projects.
The Research, Economic Development, and Innovation Committee will hear a report on UW-Madison business outreach and an update from the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation (WEDC).
The Business and Finance Committee will discuss several contractual agreements, receive the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health Wisconsin Partnership Program Annual Report, and hear a report on faculty turnover in UW System.
The report on faculty turnover shows that UW-Madison had a turnover rate of 3.89 percent among tenured faculty and 3.58% among probationary faculty in fiscal year 2015. Half of tenured faculty who left UW-Madison cited salary as the primary reason for leaving.
The Education Committee will discuss a plan to waive non-resident enrollment limits at UW-Madison and hear reports on campus accreditations, high school to college success, and preliminary enrollment figures.
The full board meets Thursday afternoon and Friday morning. The regents will discuss the 2014-15 Program Revenue Fund Balance Report and credit transfers Thursday and work of the Tenure Policy Task Force and remedial education Friday. According to the fund balance report, UW-Madison held $52.25 million in unrestricted reserve funds — 13.8 percent of the total | 1,061 |
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As a chronic worry wort, how much of your life have you spent worried? Is the grey space on this clock how much you spend each hour with anxious thoughts? It has been mine – or more.
If you spend hours each day, you've likely wasted years of your life frozen in fear. Don't feel bad, you're not alone. All of us who worry, are very good at burning through hour after torturous<|fim_middle|> pride and realize that you don't need to worry. Yes, it's a well beaten path, and this new one is narrow and hard to track, but the more you do it, the easier you will see it, follow it and spend more and more time there. | , non-productive, hour. But now, in this moment in time, is when we stop to reflect on that, and make it part of our past behavior. A habit we are committed to dumping.
Make this a new goal: To be aware of how much time you allow yourself to spend brooding and worried. You own your life. You control your mind. You deserve freedom from mental pain. It's a simple goal, but far from easy. It takes practice, effort and repeated concentration on doing something unfamiliar – letting go, and moving the hell on with your real life. The life where you live in the present.
For a few minutes, instead of worrying about anything, think about something fun or productive. What else could you be doing if you weren't drowning in worry? Whatever you are worried about can wait, because if it's a real issue, it will be there when you are done with your current productive task. Put it on a shelf and grab another item. If it's a projected/potential problem, it can wait because you are able to handle anything that comes your way – when/if that happens. And trust me, it won't. It will be ok – which means this potential problem can wait forever.
Find something seriously engaging, and go to it. It will be hard at first, to focus, but mentally slap your thoughts back on track. Take each minute one at a time. You are a good person, you deserve to feel accomplished. What ever you are doing, do your best at it, and enjoy every moment. Indulge in this, and it will force you to feel better.
After you have completed your project, and realized that you can, to some extent, control your thoughts and feelings, and actually produce something great, you can puff up with | 367 |
Suikoden III
Konami's best game since Metal Gear, the tale of the Flame Champion is one of the greatest RPGs of the modern era.
By Jeremy Dunham
Updated: 30 Apr 2019 9:52 pm
Posted: 22 Oct 2002 7:00 am
Like many aspiring youngsters out there, I first began<|fim_middle|>Platforms:PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3
Developers:Konami
Publishers:ACE (2), Konami
Features:Number Of Players, Memory Card, Vibration, DualShock
Have you played Suikoden III? | my effort to make videogames a career by working on a fansite. A little piece of the web that nobody ever heard of that has since gone away, I penned my first piece for "PlayStation Interactive" covering a certain RPG by the name of Suikoden. Involving, massive, and the only Role-Playing game worth mentioning for the PS one at the time, Konami's two-dimensional foray was an epic tale that hooked me in a way that only Final Fantasy had done before it.
Based heavily on the Chinese tale of the 108 heroes from the Outlaws of the Marsh, known as "Shui Hu Zhuan" or The Water Margin, the premise for Suikoden is taken from one of the four great Chinese novels (joining Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Dream of the Red Chamber, and The Monkey King). Chronicling the 36 heavenly spirits and 72 earthly fiends, the series has inspired many forms of entertainment since its original inception in the 14th century. Stage plays, movies, anime, television shows, and copycat books are but a few of the various products spawned from the classic tale, but none of them I think, has ever come close to matching the majesty and grandeur of the Suikoden videogame.
A coming of age tale following the young Tir McDohl and his eventual conquering of the Scarlet Moon Empire, Suikoden accomplished a rare feat. Capturing not only the epic presentation of a super expensive Hollywood period film, it also managed to reveal itself as one of the most personal RPG experiences I had ever seen. Despite the high number of playable characters, subplots, and sidequests, the relationships between an apprehensive leader and his followers were unparalleled. When characters died, you cared about them. When they turned out to be okay, you cheered. And when enemies attacked your people, you felt the repercussions. Suikoden was more than just a videogame, it was an experience.
A few years later when Konami followed up with its sequel, everything I had loved about the original had been improved upon. Characters were more deeply explored, the visuals improved, and the expanding fortress system used in the first game had been greatly revamped. Bigger than the biggest town, your castle wasn't just a tower resurrected to honor your recruiting accomplishments? it was a metropolis.
When finally announced last September, the news of a third Suikoden couldn't have come soon enough. Despite the approaching release of Squaresoft's Final Fantasy X, the PS2 up to that point had been a barren wasteland of RPG disappointment. With games like Evergrace and Eternal Ring offering themselves as not-so pleasant alternatives to the fine products we spoiled ourselves with on the PlayStation One, the revelation of a tried and true franchise making a long awaited appearance was nothing short of an answered prayer.
After months of anticipation, a myriad of discussion, and enough questions to choke a Dragon Knight's mighty steed, Suikoden III is finally upon us. And while I could hype the final build for even more paragraphs than I've already dedicated to it, one sentence is truly all I need -- Suikoden III is one of the greatest RPGs ever made.
Trinity Sight
Part of what makes Suikoden III so unique is how the storyline is addressed. Told from multiple points of view, the progression of the plot is pretty revolutionary. While another of the great RPG's (Final Fantasy VI) scratched the surface long ago when it allowed the player to choose which of three sidequests they'd like to tackle first, Suikoden III expands upon that idea with the Trinity Sight System. A method that allows players to live the same story through multiple pairs of eyes, the Trinity Sight System is so simple and brilliant, that I'm surprised it wasn't instituted in a videogame previously.
As your adventure begins, you have the choice of three main characters: Hugo, Geddoe, and Chris Lightfellow. As radically different as you could imagine, the opportunity to watch a Barbarian Prince, Captain of the Zexen Knights, and Harmonian undercover officer prance around the same events feels almost as though you're playing though three separate games. Considering that each character's three-chapter adventure is in upwards of 15-20 hours apiece, it practically is!
While everyone will obviously have their favorites in terms of which character they'd prefer to play as, you're forced to play through three quests before moving on to the fourth and fifth chapters of the game. Playing as every character is beneficial on two fronts: One, you familiarize yourself with towns and areas you may not have visited in other quests for future reference and two: it accentuates the existing plot thread and fills in any holes you may have left over from another experience. In Hugo's adventure for instance, you'll end up battling Leo and Percival at the gates of Vinay del Zexay for an unknown reason. They're obviously upset with our dear Hugo, but nthe reason they give to explain themselves is pretty hard to believe. Play the same area as Chris Lightfellow however, and you'll discover their motives more clearly.
One of the most intense RPG games returns as SUIKODEN 3. Fifteen years after SUIKODEN 2, follow the intertwining stories of Hugo, the son of a village chief; Chris, the virtuous Knight of Zexen; and Geddoe, the rebellious unit commander, as they meet again to gather the 108 Stars of Destiny. SUIKODEN 3 with its 3 different battle systems, 3 main characters, 3 styles of combat and a fully detailed 3D world is deservedly one of the best RPGs today.
Mild Violence, Suggestive Themes, Suggestive Themes
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There were usually 5 tournaments set in mill on Tiger Woods' report when he arrived in The Bahamas for December's Hero World Challenge.
Tasked with personification adequate to stay pointy and rise during a right times while not overdoing it, Woods still was perplexing to navigate his new compress sequence of events, in that he competence play as few as 15 or 16 events. He played 18 central events final year.
Four majors were a given. The usually other certain thing during that time?
This week's Genesis Open during Riviera Country Club, where in 1992 Woods finished his initial PGA Tour start as a 16-year-old amateur.
Fourteen vital victories and 80 Tour titles later, Woods is a contest horde and returned to Riviera final year for his initial entrance given 2006. No one could have likely a missed cut in 2018 would emanate a domino outcome that helped set a theatre for his epic quip deteriorate culminating with a win during East Lake in a Tour Championship.
<|fim_middle|> a playoff during Valspar, it sent a transparent message.
We all know that now, so a expectations from Woods and fans comparison are totally opposite this week in southern California.
Telling comments entrance off a T-20 finish during a Farmers Insurance Open in Jan during Torrey Pines, where Woods wasn't as pointy as he hoped though still put together a plain outcome though most assistance from a putter.
The fact Woods knows what his diversion is now all about means he's spent a past few weeks heightening and honing his swing. It's not a large soul-searching routine it was during times final year.
That bodes good for his chances this week during one of a few long-standing Tour events Woods has never won. A runner-up finish in 1999 is as tighten as he's come, though final year also noted a initial time he missed a cut during Riviera as a professional.
Woods was ranked No. 544 in a Official World Golf Ranking during this time final year. He given has risen to No. 13 with no vital signs of health issues. He's also holding on some-more of an envoy role, operative clinics and participating on-site as he will in Monday's Celebrity Cup – a 9-hole group eventuality featuring celebs like Nick Jonas, Jerry Rice and Mark Wahlberg. Woods will captain Team Eldrick, and Fred Couples will lead Team Frederick.
He now seems gentle in those spots, and he's gentle with a plea ahead. The Players Championship is reduction than one month divided due to a new schedule, a Masters only a month after that.
Woods has been means to palliate into a 2018-19 deteriorate with only a handful of appearances given a Ryder Cup in Paris. But things are about to collect adult in a precipitate with a precipitated schedule, and it's all about building toward Augusta National.
Everything is partial of a bigger devise that will be set in suit this week during Riviera. | Woods wasn't confident after only dual rounds in L.A., and he wanted to see if his newly fused spine could hoop dual full tournaments in back-to-back weeks. So he combined a Valspar Championship a week before a Arnold Palmer Invitational.
Keep in mind there were still tons of doubt then. When Woods finished T-2 and only one shot bashful of | 75 |
25.06.16ReleasesCharles BarkleyAir Force 180
Nike Air Force 180 Olympic (Charles Bark<|fim_middle|> date just yet but it's looking like an early July drop. Keep an eye on Nike.com for info.
Originally published June 9, 2016
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UPDATE: The wait is almost over – we have a release date. Fans of the the Nike Air Force 180 will be happy to know that Olympic colourway will drop via Nike.com on July 7. In the meantime peep the gallery above and marvel at how good the Air Force 180 looks on foot. Hot fire.
The shoe Charles Barkley played in at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics, as part of the USA 'Dream Team', will be returning in the lead up to the 2016 Olympics. The patriotic red, white and blue of the Nike Air Force 180 is set off with a hint of gold highlighting the 180 air unit and forefoot strap. The last release of this coveted colourway was in 2012, so we're sure this drop will be in demand.
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The Oxycocus Elementary School is home to our youngest population, 3 and 4 year old preschool students. The district has 7 pre-school disabled classes that service our students' special needs. In addition,<|fim_middle|> and writing behaviors are encouraged and fostered by their teachers. Math, science, social studies, world language and life skills are integrated into all aspects of the daily routines through individual and small-group choice activities. In addition, the teachers provide an environment for the children that is safe, secure and consistent, allowing for the social and emotional growth of the students. Students also have opportunity for fine and gross motor activities and children are offered speech therapy, occupational and physical therapy. A Master Teacher, school psychologist, learning consultant, and social worker support our school efforts to ensure success for all children.
At the Oxycocus Elementary School, our faculty and support staff is proud of the many programs offered to enhance the educational opportunities provided to our students. We are even prouder of the achievements demonstrated by our pupils each day. We welcome and invite parent participation in our Parent/Guardian Advisory Committee meetings, Back to School Night, American Education Week visits,and parent/teacher conferences. We look forward to working collaboratively with our families to provide our children with a stimulating and well-rounded educational experience. | there are 9 general education classes. The students' daily routine includes many language enriched experiences throughout the day. Students are provided the opportunity to explore all parts of literacy: listening, speaking, reading and writing. Children's emergent reading | 47 |
For sometime now God has placed it on my heart to have a series on To All You Princesses about honor so for the month of March we will be having a new series called iHonor.
This series is special because it will be the first time the authors will not be women. We have some amazing men of God ready to write to you princesses about what God has taught them about honor and I am very excited about it.
Each week will focus on a different category regarding honor. The first will be called iHonor God. This focuses on all on God, putting Him first above everything, and what it looks like to<|fim_middle|> to honor others.
Lastly, we have iHonor Myself. This will focus on honoring God, through valuing the body, mind and spirit God gave us. It will take a look at honoring ourselves through health, our speech/behavior, what we allow to influence us, as well as, aligning our beliefs about ourselves with His truth.
I hope you all enjoy the series and I will see you in April! | honor Him in the everyday life.
The second will be called iHonor Others. After God, we are meant to honor those in authority, our co-workers, our family/friends, and even those we do not like. It is not always natural, but through the Holy Spirit, we are fully able and capable | 64 |
The demand for high-performance RF signal generators is growing among developers, scientists, educators, students, and service and installation technicians. In pursuit of this, Saelig has introduced the PicoSource AS108 Agile Synthesizer – a PC-based signal generator with a 300kHz to 8GHz frequency output range. The<|fim_middle|>. | company says it is designed with fast settling time and extensive programmable phase, frequency, and amplitude capabilities.
The AS108, the announcement states, offers professional performance qualities in static as well as parameter-varying applications. Its speed, external clock referencing, trigger capabilities, and user-programmable power-up mode make it suitable for system integration in automated test, unmanned installations and multi-signal stimulus applications.
The AS108 is a full-function USB-controlled vector modulating (IQ) signal synthesizer. It is supplied with a comprehensive PC-based user interface for controlling amplitude, frequency and phase, including modulations, sweeps, hopping, and list modes. Multiple synthesizers can be controlled from a single controller. Remote operation is also possible using the API provided | 154 |
Today was the day that we started our adventure to Dukes Barn!
The bus journey was full of songs, telling knock-knock jokes and making each other laugh. Even though we travelled in snowy conditions, we arrived safely at Dukes Barn and were greeted by our instructors. We all couldn't wait to have a tour of the Dukes Barn Centre and of course get started on the activities!
Due to the lake and streams being frozen, canoeing and stream walking was changed to a snowy adventure! We all hiked through the fields, hills and forest. Snow was all around us which is why we made snow holes<|fim_middle|> splash in! We did start to get tired but we used our Growth Mindset to help each other complete our 2hour and 15minute walk!
As we speak, the children are currently making their beds (all by themselves!) and getting settled with their bunk buddies. We all cannot wait for the fun to continue! | , rolled down the banks and of course had a snow playfight! When we reached the top, we were lucky to have hot chocolate and biscuits before we walked back to the centre.
When travelling back, we noticed the snow was melting quickly which created humongous puddles for us to jump and | 60 |
Communities (neighborhoods, villages or municipalities) play a vital role during and after a disastrous event. The capability of local communities to prepare for, act during, and recover after a crisis is commonly referred to as community resilience. The generic problem dealt with in WP4 is<|fim_middle|> tested in cooperation with experts from the consortium and observers who have uploaded the data. | : How can community resilience be increased by understanding its nature, and improving stakeholder awareness, communication and participation?
Surveys will be carried out to explore the role of community resilience in the phases of prevention and preparedness (monitoring, risk perception, training/exercises, and early warning), and disaster response and recovery (evacuation and coping capacity). WP4 will focus on social capital and community competence as well as communication of risk information before, during and after disasters, as community resilience depends on effective interaction between scientists, other experts, the general public, media, emergency managers and policy makers.
Team: NTNU: Haakon Lein (WP leader) , Gunhild Setten, UI: Guðrún Gísladóttir, Guðný Eydal, NCIP: Guðrún Jóhannesdóttir.
The problem: A number of international studies have set out to unpack the concept and drivers of community resilience, as well as to identify relevant indicators. However, the concept of community resilience in relation to natural hazard has not been much explored in a Nordic context and the relevance of indicators identified for Nordic communities remains to be investigated.
of issues will be explored to allow comparison a) according to hazard type, b) between communities with and without previous disaster experience c) between the Nordic countries.
The problem: Understanding, awareness and effective communication about natural hazards and risks are vital for appropriate preparedness both among the general public and policymakers. Authorities need to utilize public as well as scientific knowledge to gain understanding of potential hazards and learn how best to warn the public. Experience has shown that different groups respond differently to warning messages. The source of the information and the method of delivery are of key importance.
The study: A comparative Nordic study of how risk perception to natural hazards is affected by demographic, technical and societal factors. Through which channels and from which sources do people get their information and which sources of information do they trust best? To what extent do types of channels and sources and type of information affect the inclination to pro-act or react? How do policymakers and emergency managers utilize current knowledge and how is it best communicated?
The problem: Early warning and monitoring systems are sparse or lacking in many hazardous areas, making it difficult to issue timely public warnings or follow the process of hazardous events as they unfold. For flooding hazards, water level data can make real time hydrological modelling of flooding more accurate and enable improved forecasts of damage on critical infrastructure hours or days before the hazard occurs. The public can provide in-situ photographs of water levels, snow banks, forest fires, or other phenomena. Critical infrastructure stakeholders can also upload local time series of e.g. water levels and flow measurements to a real time modelling system. Improved participation can encourage the public to respond to warnings and be better prepared for flooding hazards, and allow critical infrastructure stakeholders to better navigate in hazard situations by improved understanding of interdependencies and the whole system (e.g. transport, water supply/waste water, energy supply).
The study: The study will investigate novel ways of expanding various monitoring techniques with network-based public participation. The goal is to incorporate public observations into existing monitoring networks and real time modelling and forecasting systems so that: (i) more timely and accurate warnings can be issued; (ii) more comprehensive compilations of damage effects targeting various critical infrastructure are received; and (iii) public risk perception and hazard awareness are improved.
(allowing uploading of local observations). In the next phase we will develop a method for compiling,processing and quality assuring the uploaded data in datasets to facilitate statistical analyses, develop flooding indicators and data assimilation techniques to protect critical infrastructures. A prototyped web interface will be | 752 |
Embassy Suites Hotels is the nation's largest brand of upscale, all-suite hotels and is part of the Hilton Hotel group. The group includes luxurious full-service hotels, resorts and extended-stay suites. Started by Conrad Hilton some 90 years ago, and<|fim_middle|>. | founded on Hilton's belief that "Achievement seems to be connected with action. Successful men and women keep moving" Hilton "kept moving" and soon built a worldwide luxury hotel brand.
In the process of "keeping moving" and continuous improvement, when Hilton and the Embassy Suites needed stone cladding, they turned to StonePly. At the Embassy Suites Hotel Secaucus - Meadowlands, the StonePly cladding is found both inside and out. StonePly was used at the hotel for column covers, cladding and interior panels.
Hotels, resorts and other hospitality providers find StonePly offers significant advantages over other cladding options. These advantages include StonePly's light weight, fast installation, super strength and natural beauty. Other Luxury Hotels that have turned to Stoneply for quality thin stone cladding include Kerzner International (Atlantis Resort), One and Only Resorts, Ritz Carlton Hotels, Marriott, and others | 189 |
A College Campus Becomes a Flood Relief Camp
Home United Board News A College Campus Becomes a Flood Relief Camp
A helicopter brings supplies for the relief camp at UCC.
Thara K. Simon began her tenure as principal of Union Christian College (UCC) on March 31, 2018, the first female to lead this 100-year-old institution located in the southwestern Indian state of Kerala. Five months later, as heavy rains and severe flooding struck Kerala<|fim_middle|> of feeding children and mothers. A special section was set apart for very old people (including a 100-year-old and a 103-year-old) and for people who had undergone many kinds of surgery. The college cafeteria was converted into a mini hospital, and we thank God that we could cater to all who needed service without any causalities."
UCC staff and students, who served as volunteers at the relief camp.
After two weeks, the water levels receded and UCC was able to close the relief camp, clean up the campus, and reopen the college. Union Christian College received appreciation from the local government for the successful completion of REBUILD KERALA – Damage Assessment Survey, which was conducted to assess the structural damage of 9,534 houses in 21 wards. Two hundred sixty-one students of the college, including National Cadet Corps (NCC) members and National Service Scheme (NSS) and pain and palliative care volunteers, registered for the survey and uploaded the damage details through the "Rebuild Kerala" app using geo-tagging technology within a short span of three days.
Dr. Thara has had some time to reflect upon the experience. "With profound gratitude, I recall how the United Board provided leadership training to me as a United Board Fellow," she wrote. Dr. Thara was a member of our first cohort of United Board Fellows (2002-2004), yet many years later she continues to draw on the leadership skills she acquired over the course of the program.
The United Board applauds the UCC community for its generous response to those in need during the period of flooding and dislocation. "Kindly keep us in your prayers," Dr. Thara wrote, a request that we humbly accept.
IndiaUnion Christian CollegeUnited Board Fellows Program | , Dr. Thara put aside her typical administrative responsibilities in order to respond to emergency conditions. UCC, located on a hilltop, had been spared the worst effects of the devastation, so Principal Thara and her colleagues welcomed those displaced by the flooding to the UCC campus. For two weeks, the campus served as a flood relief camp, giving shelter to about 13,000 people.
A campus building is transformed into a relief camp.
"A team of committed faculty, staff, and 30 student volunteers worked day and night," Dr. Thara wrote soon after the camp closed and the college prepared to resume normal operations. Conditions were extremely difficult during the relief efforts. "There was no power supply or landline telephone connection or mobile signal. The airport was closed. Food, medicine, water, clothing, and other amenities were available through helicopters that landed in the UCC football ground. The military as well as the rapid action force had their separate base camps in UCC itself, and went to rescue people in and around the area."
Despite the challenges, Dr. Thara, Lt. Dr. G Geethika, and their colleagues and students responded with hospitality and efficiency. "We had special sections for 12 pregnant women, 16 mothers with infants up to six months, and a room full | 270 |
Sibylla of Anhalt (28 September 1564 – 26 October 1614) was a German princess from the House of Ascania who became Duchess of Württemberg as the wife of Duke Frederick I.
Life
Sibylla of Anhalt was born in Bernburgon 28 September 1564, as the fourth child of Joachim Ernest, Prince of Anhalt (1536–1586) and his first wife, Agnes of Barby-Mühlingen (1540–1569), daughter of Wolfgang I, Count of Barby-Mühlingen. She had three older sisters and two younger brothers. Sybilla lost her mother when she was five years old, and her father remarried two years later. By her stepmother, Eleonore of Württemberg (1552–1618), she had ten half-siblings.
In 1577, Sybilla's older sister Anna Maria was relieved from her post as Imperial abbess of Gernrode and Frose in order to marry Joachim Frederick of Brieg; under pressure from their father, the chapter elected the 13-year-old Sibylla as her successor. Sibylla was confirmed in<|fim_middle|> (1591–1631)
Agnes (1592–1629), who married Francis Julius of Saxe-Lauenburg (1584–1634)
Barbara (1593–1627), who married Margrave Frederick V of Baden-Durlach
Magnus (1594–1622), who fell in the Battle of Wimpfen
August (born and died in 1596)
Anna (1597–1650)
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1564 births
1614 deaths
People from Bernburg
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Burials at Stiftskirche, Stuttgart
Daughters of monarchs | her office by the emperor Rudolph II. During her reign as abbess, the only record of her activities comes from an abbey document in which she invested the widow of Stefan Molitor (the first Evangelical superintendent of the abbey) with a piece of land.
In 1581, Sibylla was relieved from her post in order to marry Frederick, Count of Mömpelgard and heir apparent of the Duchy of Württemberg. The marriage was arranged by her stepmother, Eleonore of Württemberg, and the wedding took place in Stuttgart on 22 May of that year. Her successor as abbess was her younger half-sister Agnes Hedwig. Sibylla bore her husband 15 children during the first 15 years of their marriage. Frederick succeeded his father's cousin Ludwig as Duke of Württemberg in 1593.
Only 16 years old at the time of her wedding, Sibylla was described as a beauty with a vivid charm, unpretentious and simple and with a disposition to be generous and kind, and her natural warm friendliness was said to have contrasted to the somewhat cold nature of Frederick. Through her strict Catholic upbringing, Sibylla was raised to endure any hardship of pregnancy and marriage without complaint, a role she fulfilled during her marriage. The relationship between Sibylla and Frederick has been described as happy, with Sibylla as a supporting and loyal wife. However, she did not play a prominent role in court life or have any political influence over her husband. Marital fidelity was not compatible with Frederick's view of the prerogatives of an absolutist monarch, and Sibylla accepted his infidelities without complaint. Sibylla's constant pregnancies drained her strength to such an extent that she was repeatedly confined to bed. After the birth of their last child, Sibylla and Frederick agreed to stop having sex so that she would not become pregnant again. After this, the couple virtually lived apart, and Frederick did not take Sybilla with him on his frequent travels to France, Italy, and England.
Sibylla was anxious to expand her knowledge of botany and chemistry. To veil her interest in the dubious discipline of alchemy, she explained her activity as gathering an herbal collection for the production of medicine for the poor. As scientific adviser, she appointed Helena Magenbuch, a daughter of Johann Magenbuch, the personal physician of Martin Luther and Emperor Charles V. Helena Magenbuch was awarded the title of Pharmacist of the Württemberg Court. From 1606 to 1607, Maria Andreae took over this post.
After the death of her husband in 1608, Sibylla withdrew to Leonberg, where she commissioned the architect Heinrich Schickhardt to develop Schloss Leonberg and create the famous Pomeranzengarten (Orange Garden) in Renaissance style. In 1609, Schickhardt built a lakeside house not far from Leonberg (Seehaus Leonberg) that was used as a hunting lodge. Sibylla died in Leonberg in 1614.
Issue
Johann Frederick (1582–1628)
George Frederick (1583–1591)
Sibylla Elisabeth (1584–1606), who married John George I, Elector of Saxony
Elisabeth (born and died in 1585)
Louis Frederick (1586–1631), founder of the branch of Württemberg-Mömpelgard
Joachim Frederick (born and died in 1587)
Julius Frederick (1588–1635), founder of the branch of Württemberg-Weiltingen, also known as the Julian Line
Philip Frederick (born and died in 1589)
Eva Christina (1590–1657), who married married John George of Brandenburg (1577–1624), Duke of Jägerndorf, son of Joachim Frederick, Elector of Brandenburg
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I don't think I've come across anything strange yet, but never say never!
Jenny Badger April 24, 2016 at 12:58 pm
When cleaning our new house after first moving in we found all sorts of things lost by the last owner. A bright pink soft toy elephant behind the radiator was the weirdest.
Tracy Nixon March 31, 2016 at 9:19 am
A wrinkled tiddly wink sausage under a cupboard in the kitchen – Heaven knows how long it had been there! I thought it was a severed finger!
Sabina @MummyMatters March 31, 2016 at 10:08 am
I hadn't thought about using toys like that for cookies, great idea my little would love! I have used Ecover in the past too, its great stuff.
Mary Louise March 31, 2016 at 10:18 am
I purchased the ecover washing up liquid and i really like it – also it has lasted me ages! I love the look of the other products and like the fact we are doing our bit for the environment.
Lovely biscuits! x
Phoebe @ Lou Messugo March 31, 2016 at 10:34 am
I love the footprints, such a cute idea! I also always use environmentally friendly cleaning products but Ecover needs to bring its prices down if they want more people to use their stuff, I find they are outrageously expensive. Luckily in France every supermarket chain does their own home brand green stuff which is half the price and just as good!
Katie h March 31, 2016 at 10:59 am
Money, very unusual to find that in my house lol
Natalie March 31, 2016 at 11:16 am
We were cleaning out the shed in our new house and cam across a ceramic nazi bulldog it was the creepiest thing ever
iain maciver March 31, 2016 at 11:26 am
plenty dust and dirt
aj March 31, 2016 at 11:37 am
false teeth
Harline Parkin March 31, 2016 at 12:07 pm
I once found a pickled onion down the side of the sofa I'm blaming my husband for this one he's very clumsy when eating!
kim neville March 31, 2016 at 2:37 pm
A bit of party cake squashed right under the sofa
Megan Hanley March 31, 2016 at 3:15 pm
A kitten under the stairs! She must have come in through the cat flap in the kitchen and then got scared by our beastly Tom cats! Thankfully her owner came lookin for her later and they were reunited!
Euros (paper money too!) That we'd left in a suitcase for next time and they must have fell out into our storage area. Found them when having a good clear/car boot out hoping to raise some much needed funds!
Heather Haigh March 31, 2016 at 3:24 pm
Your dinosaur shortbread looks great. I'm a big fan of Ecover.
leanne weir March 31, 2016 at 3:30 pm
I found my old wedding ring that i though was lost forever!
Sam McKean March 31, 2016 at 3:44 pm
Not strange odd…but I did find Christmas presents I'd hidden behind a bath panel 2 years previously during one particularly vigorous spring clean!
Leanne R March 31, 2016 at 3:45 pm
Love Ecover! Strangest things I find are normally things that the cat has hidden. Toys, sometimes treats.
Tracey Belcher March 31, 2016 at 3:47 pm
I found Dragonfly in a little case in a second hand sofa I was cleaning before using! Thought that was strange!
Something very shrivelled. I expect it was once an orange
Paula Readings March 31, 2016 at 4:20 pm
I once found a gooseberry, which was strange as i cant ever remember having gooseberry's in the house only to discover it was a hairy green grape.
Amy Lee March 31, 2016 at 4:25 pm
Such a fantastic idea using toys for cookies like that! Ecover is the best! I have only just discovered it and will never go back! 🙂
Jo March 31, 2016 at 4:41 pm
These look lovely, what a great idea.
Dee Dmonte March 31, 2016 at 4:55 pm
Ecover products are fab and safe to use in homes with children
When cleaning recently I found my daughters tiny bracelet that hospitals put around your new borns arm with name etc on. It made me so happy, I thought that I had lost it forever.
Kara March 31, 2016 at 5:00 pm
Isaac is INTO DINOSAURS AT THE MOMENT and I know he would love to make theses
Terri Collins March 31, 2016 at 5:04 pm
I love cover products! Fab comp!
Jo Jones March 31, 2016 at 5:25 pm
I found a small Easter card made by my daughter years ago down the settee, & she's now an adult.
Emily Knight March 31, 2016 at 6:10 pm
A hoard of toys that the cat had hidden – well, toys and other stuff of ours that she'd claimed as toys!
Laura Jeffs March 31, 2016 at 6:18 pm
Sorry, but I cannot think of anything odd I've come across..just dust bunnies! Lol 😀
Lorraine March 31, 2016 at 6:19 pm
I once found an old clay pipe in the attic
Julie Henderson March 31, 2016 at 7:07 pm
my shopping list from the xmas before
ashleigh allan March 31, 2016 at 7:38 pm
Mainly bits of lego!
Olga carpenter March 31, 2016 at 7:51 pm
awesome prize
Emma nixon March 31, 2016 at 8:21 pm
A squashed hardened currant under the sofa! Bit worried we had mice until i realised what it was!
Nayna Kanabar March 31, 2016 at 8:47 pm
It's really nice to see your kids hand on baking. I love baking with my niece it's do much fun.
Marycarol March 31, 2016 at 8:54 pm
Quite often find things my cats bring it – strangest was rabbit's foot x
S Bufton March 31, 2016 at 9:07 pm
A dead bird
helen tovell March 31, 2016 at 9:12 pm
An earing back, had searched for ages when it got lost to no avail, taking daughters carpet up we found it, couldn't believe it.
Clare B March 31, 2016 at 10:06 pm
A frog! Well several actually. We think one of the cats went through a phase of bringing them in. All alive (if a little fluffy with cat hair) and safely returned to the pond.
Julie Booth March 31, 2016 at 10:54 pm
My sons girlfriend must have spilt coke under the sofa bed on the laminate flooring and then her long black hair had become all stuck in it so it looked like the Ring girl had melted! Gross! It was 9 months ago since she last stayed here!
Becky Duffy March 31, 2016 at 11:05 pm
2 Christmas presents meant for my daughter found 5 months later in the summer! 🙂
Rich Tyler April 1, 2016 at 12:19 am
A very moldy biscuit lol
Caroline H April 1, 2016 at 12:25 am
A Viagra tablet just under the sofa! I can guarantee it belonged to no one in the house but was rather grubby so must have been brought in caught in the tread of a shoe as because we have wooden easy to clean floors, we are quite bad for tramping around the house in muddy boots.
Tissues under the Bed – a clump of them!!
Nadia Stanbridge April 1, 2016 at 9:03 am
A model of my teeth found under the sofa …. from a visit to the dentist for a crown and long forgotten about! (How did they get there???)
Ray Dodds April 1, 2016 at 9:45 am
Love the footprints great idea
JuggleMum, Nadine Hill April 1, 2016 at 9:50 am
What a treat to have a full on spring clean! Great cookies too!
Janet Ashenden April 1, 2016 at 11:03 am
I found a bracelet and some earrings that didn't belong to anyone in the house! We had lived in the house for about two years. We never found out who they belonged to.
Iris W April 1, 2016 at 12:12 pm
I never found anything particularly unusual while cleaning my house, but once many years ago I was working in a hotel in Switzerland and helped one of the chambermaids cleaning a room to get ready for new arrivals there I found 1000 swiss francs in drawer
claire griffiths April 1, 2016 at 1:51 pm
never found anything unusual wile cleaning
Jo Carroll April 1, 2016 at 1:56 pm
Some of the things I've found whilst cleaning are too shocking for a nice blog like this 😉 I did find two chocolate Easter eggs whilst doing a spring clean a few days ago…nothing strange in that you might think – leftovers from the 'egg hunt' maybe?…but no-one was at home during Easter as we were at my parent's house?? weird!
Donna April 1, 2016 at 2:54 pm
That shortbread looks so easy to make! I'll be trying this with the kids x
Sarah Lambert April 1, 2016 at 3:58 pm
I found a pile of old buttons under the bath of our new house unsure why they was there :{
Kim M April 1, 2016 at 7:05 pm
A dried up frog! my cat must have brought it in and patted it under the bureau x
Laura Pritchard April 1, 2016 at 8:00 pm
A dead crow…that my cat brought in (behind the TV)
Barbara Knight April 1, 2016 at 8:12 pm
I found my son's favourite soft toy down the back of the radiator five years after he had lost it!
Cassandra Mayers April 1, 2016 at 10:57 pm
a half eaten apple when i first moved into my home…. more gross than weird i guess!
Nat thomason April 2, 2016 at 2:28 am
Doing the laundry a gold ring where it came from I don't know but I got £200 for it
Simon C April 2, 2016 at 8:19 am
Can't think of anything too unusual that I've found while cleaning. But maybe that just means I need to clean a bit more thoroughly!
Amanda leeds April 2, 2016 at 9:40 am
When I moved into my flat I was cleaning out the utility room and found a single wooden shoe stretcher
Maxine G April 2, 2016 at 10:44 am
An ashtray full of *herbal* cigarettes on top of the kitchen cupboard, left by the previous owners of the house!
Melissa Crowe April 2, 2016 at 6:31 pm
everything in teens room 🙁
Hannah | Hannah Spannah April 2, 2016 at 6:43 pm
I've never actually used the Evover products in my home but would love to see how well they do. I usually find dog hair and Lego in the most random of places!
Steven Appleton April 2, 2016 at 9:48 pm
A sausage down the sofa!
Susan B April 3, 2016 at 7:05 am
The shortbread looks delicious! Love the dinosaur footprints.
I have found all sorts of things under sofas and beds and occasionally under the fridge. Odd socks, bits of Lego, various cat-related things such as toys and, er, something that should have been in the litter tray and one of the children's books that we had turned the house upside down looking for.
Lorraine Tinsley April 3, 2016 at 11:20 am
I found a pair of boy's shoes after my daughter's birthday party. I have two daughters! Turns out one of the little boys went home with no shoes on!
Richard O April 3, 2016 at 6:22 pm
Tracy Newton April 3, 2016 at 8:31 pm
I once found a large cat on the top floor of my house. I had run upstairs in the dark and it jumped on me. I screamed the house down. It has even pooped on our new carpet.
I had never thought of using dinosaurs to make footprints in cookies. My little boy is going to love making them.
Patricia Avery April 3, 2016 at 9:47 pm
Last year I found a nappy pin behind a bookcase. My 'baby' is 41 this year ! 🙂
Richard R April 3, 2016 at 10:24 pm
An old style 5p coin
Solange April 3, 2016 at 11:58 pm
A dead mouse
Laura Harrison April 4, 2016 at 1:26 am
Nothing strange, just the usual crumbs, underwear, socks. Nothing strange as it's just my boyfriend and myself, wait until I have children then I might find strange things x
Rebecca Austerberry April 4, 2016 at 8:37 am
When my kids were little I used to find pieces of toast in the video player all the time.
JODIE BEAUMONT April 4, 2016 at 5:06 pm
some sweets!
Heather Shaw April 4, 2016 at 6:38 pm
conkers under the sofa. On the plus side conkers are meant to keep spiders away! Lol
tracey ryder April 4, 2016 at 6:44 pm
I always find money the kids seem to leave it all over the place
Fiona K April 4, 2016 at 6:55 pm
A feather, despite no bird or pet ever being inside my flat
Kirsty Devine April 4, 2016 at 7:06 pm
False nails blocking the bathroom sick – bleugh! They were not mine but belonged to the previous owner!
Lisa Parker April 4, 2016 at 7:06 pm
A large clump of my daughter's hair. she was only 5 when she decided to give herself a haircut and she hid the cut hair behide the settee as she thought that I wouldn't notice x
Anne Thompson April 4, 2016 at 7:39 pm
Usually just find a few nuts down the back of the sofa but my favourite is money!
Carole April 4, 2016 at 7:47 pm
A very old newspaper when cleaning out the loft
Helen Atkins April 4, 2016 at 7:48 pm
Dried up yogurt pot under the kids bunk beds
Denice April 4, 2016 at 8:21 pm
I thought we had mice last year when I move the washing machine … turns out my grandson was not as keen on eating raisins as we had thought and had been hiding them!
Tammy Westrup April 4, 2016 at 8:36 pm
Nothing really strange! With 2 young children though I am sure there will be!
Annette Oliver April 4, 2016 at 8:40 pm
Lots of bottle tops my cat had stolen off the kitchen work surfaces to play with and been lost under the sofa
Nathan April 4, 2016 at 8:43 pm
Great idea, I could do with a good spring clean myself, might even find the time to bake with my daughter too!
I found all of my credit cards hidden in my daughter's room after she 'borrowed' them. She is three!
Paul Martin April 4, 2016 at 8:47 pm
was shocked when found a live frog in my 5 yr olds sock draw
Laura Harris April 4, 2016 at 8:47 pm
Cleaned out our loft when we moved in and found a very bizarre portrait of the previous owners. They obviously hated it as much as we did, seeing as it was in the loft…!
Danielle Rutter April 4, 2016 at 8:54 pm
Fun for the kids
Stephanie Tsang April 4, 2016 at 9:41 pm
I'm always finding what I think are strange things when I'm cleaning. My husband is an engineer and I'm always finding small parts he's dropped around the house. I have no idea what most of them are.
Catherine Whetton April 4, 2016 at 9:59 pm
A ladybird in a matchbox 🙂 my daughter had taken in a pet!
Heidi Brown April 4, 2016 at 10:00 pm
I once found a very very very old antique food colouring bottle in the back of my MIL cupboard with a use by date in 1980 – she told me its fine and to put it back haha
Freya Knudsen April 4, 2016 at 11:11 pm
Probably money, that is rare 😉 but joking aside a ring I lost ages ago and thought was gone for good.
Brett April 4, 2016 at 11:33 pm
Whilst cleaning I found an old coin from the 1900's. I had no idea how it got under the fridge. New home new fridge etc
Lorraine Bell April 4, 2016 at 11:47 pm
Nothing too unusual just dust and grime
Kristy Brown April 4, 2016 at 11:56 pm
A tin of golden syrup half eaten with a pork pie in it!!
lyn Burgess April 5, 2016 at 12:37 am
A mouse behind the fridge. We think the cat had brought it in. We managed, eventually, to catch it, and let it go but we had to keep the cat in for the next few hours, or she would have just gone a-hunting again.
Marianne Daniels April 5, 2016 at 1:01 am
A box of foreign coins and british pennies (at least 500 of them) from the previous tenant up in a rafter!
Carol M April 5, 2016 at 8:39 am
Buttons and backs of earrings.
Julie Feathers April 5, 2016 at 11:27 am
Nothing really
Lucy I April 5, 2016 at 1:05 pm
I cant think if anything strange
abigail edkins April 5, 2016 at 1:37 pm
a tooth
C Kennedy April 5, 2016 at 2:39 pm
I often find stones and rocks in the laundry basket. Our pug likes to burrow around in big piles of clean washing and he'll usually drop a stone that he's picked up out of the garden to chew
sharon gray April 5, 2016 at 2:48 pm
What a great idea, the footprints look great, and then clean up afterwards with the cleaning solutions, that a friendly on kids!
Lindsey Stuart April 5, 2016 at 4:16 pm
During my big spring clean last week I found a big sea shell under my sofa! the scary thing is I wonder how long it was there because it has been a long time since we last visited a beach lol
Gillian McClelland April 5, 2016 at 9:21 pm
I have found Christmas presents in a cupboard after Christmas. I know box them.
Joanne Tinkler April 6, 2016 at 7:52 am
Michelle April 6, 2016 at 8:46 am
First off, awesome cookies from the boys! Perfect for a Dino party! Secondly, not so much weird, but my god, when we had to move the sofa to replace it with a new one, I'm ashamed to say we found many little bits and bobs that went missing over the years (for shame! our sofa was too heavy to move!!) things like cat toys, game pieces, christmas decorations… and lots of dust 😮
Ani Costa April 6, 2016 at 10:13 am
A crumby, hairy grape!!
Lynne OConnor April 6, 2016 at 4:22 pm
A huge stash of chicken nuggets and chewy vitamins. My son had been hiding food instead of eating it
Nicola Matthews April 6, 2016 at 9:09 pm
The best I found was a tub of heads…
Lego heads!
Hayley Elvin April 6, 2016 at 9:42 pm
Cleaning my daughters coat I always find strange things in her pockets, from rocks she has picked up to lolly sticks, hair grips and coins. Its gross!
Ali Duke April 7, 2016 at 9:55 pm
I find spoons all over my 17 year old son's bedroom, I guess he is too lazy to bring them to the kitchen!
helen warrener April 8, 2016 at 1:53 pm
a mouldie satsuma that my young son had hidden behind his books from his lunchbox that he decided he didn't want to eat
Azlin Bloor April 8, 2016 at 10:13 pm
Awesome! I just love how your boy used his dinosaur to make the actual footprints! Fantastic #BakeoftheWeek idea!
DEBBIE HAY April 10, 2016 at 8:01 pm
A False tooth!
Carolynne @ Mummy Endeavours April 10, 2016 at 10:12 pm
Those biscuits look delicious. The Ecover range is great i've tried it too, the washingup liquid smells divine x
Helen at Casa Costello April 11, 2016 at 9:45 am
Your dinosaur model did make me chuckle! Great idea for livening up shortbread cookies. We love Ecover in this house – The washing liquid seems to last for ages and is definitely kinder to hands that do a lot of baking! Thanks again for joining in with #BakeoftheWeek x
Sheila Sloan April 11, 2016 at 8:00 pm
I found my Pandora bracelet again after more that a year, but I had felt so guilty about losing it, that I bought a new bracelet and all my favourite charms again … and now I have two!
Chris Hall April 11, 2016 at 8:03 pm
While cleaning out my dads kitchen cupboard for him I found his war models in a tin, what a wonderful find.
Angie Hoggett April 12, 2016 at 9:33 am
Grapes and sweetcorn, my parrots eat these all the time so they get everywhere!
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Kim Roberts April 12, 2016 at 11:06 pm
I find socks – that I don't remember ever seeing before!
Sarah, Maison Cupcake April 13, 2016 at 2:33 pm
Such a simple idea but so effective and easy for kids to do themselves. We always use Ecover laundry liquid and fabric conditioners, they're my favourites. Thanks for joining in with #BAKEoftheWEEK – round up and new week's linky is now live on my site.
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I found the previous resident's false teeth.
Vicky Blyde April 26, 2016 at 12:15 pm
I moved into a new house a while ago, and found a monkey posing pouch hiding in one of the cupboards… definitely the strangest thing I've ever found!
Elspeth MacMillan April 26, 2016 at 12:47 pm
I found a Brussel sprout under the sofa!!
Diana April 26, 2016 at 1:10 pm
£2 coin in the cup for toothbrushes 🙂
susan thornton April 26, 2016 at 1:20 pm
Usually my glasses that i constantly lose lol x
Fiona jk42 April 26, 2016 at 2:33 pm
When cleaning out an old desk that has been in the garage for years, I found lots of cherry stones in one of the drawers. Each stone had a little hole nibbled in it to get at the seed inside. A mouse must have been using the desk as a place to cache its winter food supply.
Judy Beba-Brown April 26, 2016 at 2:50 pm
A finger, complete with red-painted fingernail. I nearly had hysterics! Then I remembered the Hallowe'en party we had over two years ago….. Blush.
Maddie Jasinska April 26, 2016 at 3:39 pm
A dried slug
rebecca courtney April 26, 2016 at 4:29 pm
our lost tortoise!
Tina Glover April 26, 2016 at 6:19 pm
I once found our hamster under the sofa…he had escaped from his cage the night before and we hadnt noticed. I had pulled the sofa out to mop underneath it!
Gill Holmes April 26, 2016 at 7:01 pm
The numerous hair ties my cat had hoarded under the bed
Andrea A April 26, 2016 at 7:14 pm
I've never found anything unusual whilst cleaning, just the odd coin.
Kat Allinson April 26, 2016 at 7:15 pm
A dead snake
Erica Price April 26, 2016 at 7:26 pm
A DVD player when we were cleaning behind cupboards.
Ellen Stafford April 26, 2016 at 7:52 pm
Nothing unusual – just dust x
Ali Thorpe April 26, 2016 at 8:10 pm
A dead thing that my cat had brought me :/
claire little April 26, 2016 at 8:14 pm
A stick that my son had brought home and hidden.
Jill McPhee April 26, 2016 at 8:22 pm
A teachers belt! The previous owner was a head teacher x
Maddy April 26, 2016 at 8:35 pm
I once found hubby's birthday card from 2 years previously that I'd bought in plenty of time, but "Put somewhere safe!" :/
Jessica Powell April 26, 2016 at 8:48 pm
My mum hid 3 bags of mini eggs around the house for Easter once but didn't count them. 2 months later we found a few more in the fruit bowel while having a clean up. Shows how much fruit we eat!
Pete April 26, 2016 at 9:02 pm
Our son's collection of debris from his nocturnal toenail picking sessions :O !
Kirsten Barthy April 26, 2016 at 9:05 pm
Nothing strange but a lot of "lost" toys and missing puzzle pieces
Diane Duggan April 26, 2016 at 9:08 pm
I didn't realise shortbread was so easy to make. It looks much healthier than the shop – bought versions with all those additives and preservatives.
ADEINNE TONNER April 26, 2016 at 9:10 pm
A miniature toy frog which was pretty small and it made me scream!!!
claire fawkner April 26, 2016 at 9:26 pm
Nothing strange just a lot of dried hoops and rains
Lesley April 26, 2016 at 9:44 pm
A tooth belonging to my daughter. It was wrapped up in the wardrobe but somehow had fallen under the bed.
Jamie Edwards April 26, 2016 at 10:08 pm
When we moved into our new house we found conkers hidden everywhere! No idea why! xD
Dawn M April 26, 2016 at 10:13 pm
Rather fittingly – dinosaurs! Everywhere! Down the sides of cushions, under my pillow, in the bath, in the washing machine…it just goes on and on….
Robyn Clarke April 26, 2016 at 11:37 pm
I would tell you but I'm not sure I know what it is for sure! I think it was once perhaps a lime. I found it behind the fridge.
ellie spider April 26, 2016 at 11:39 pm
My bengal cat is a thief and a hoarder – when I move the sofa and chairs I find his stash – this has included my boots advantage card, sweets, cotton reels, batteries and wotsits
Sarah Parker April 27, 2016 at 6:56 am
half a sandwich 🙂
Karin Wistow April 27, 2016 at 7:46 am
A mouldy grape
Jenny Prest April 27, 2016 at 9:22 am
An Advocado stone under the fridge! Eek!
MARY ELLEN HOCKENHULL April 27, 2016 at 9:53 am
when I was cleaning up my dads under the sink cupboard I found 6 unopened bottles of sherry – I was too polite to ask why!
Melanie Burton April 27, 2016 at 10:25 am
I went to clean the oven and found it was already clean as my fiancé had done it! Now that is VERY WEIRD! Lol!
Jamie Millard April 27, 2016 at 11:51 am
A dead mouse – under the seat pad on the armchair in my old student flat. Not pretty.
Most common – hair grips. Sarah gets them EVERYWHERE. Hoovered up so many.
Andrew Hindley April 27, 2016 at 11:56 am
Chips and Peas behind the cooker!
Dale Dow April 27, 2016 at 12:00 pm
A dummy, which was strange as we got rid of them all years before!
Meena Hindmarch April 27, 2016 at 1:04 pm
I found a whole stash of old newspapers in our loft, they were really interesting!
tracey baker April 27, 2016 at 2:34 pm
A Crab, it had escaped from our fish tank 3 months previous I was gobsmacked xx
Tracy Ashwin April 27, 2016 at 2:44 pm
Nothing really unusual although much appreciated such as lost car keys, glasses and money
ELZBIETA ZNYK April 27, 2016 at 2:59 pm
Old sweets/food, which my kids hide everywhere
Claire Nelson April 27, 2016 at 3:00 pm
A previous owners diaries that they wrote as a child (in a box that they had kept with them as an adult). I returned them to her!
anne lotter April 27, 2016 at 3:42 pm
pasta under the bed x
Nicki Simpson April 27, 2016 at 6:21 pm
My husbands collection of empty Vimto bottles under the bed…. Could have been worse I suppose
Julie Edwards April 27, 2016 at 6:35 pm
Mostly new lifeforms are found by me when cleaning lol xxx
tammi nutting April 27, 2016 at 6:42 pm
the lens from glasses , but i was not mine and was down the sofa !?
CLAIRE DAVEY April 27, 2016 at 7:12 pm
a baby dummy under my washing machine that my son had shove under there
Jenna Parrington April 27, 2016 at 7:32 pm
I've found some strange things ever since having my son and the latest one has to be an apple core under his pillow!
Melanie Southey-Hill April 27, 2016 at 7:47 pm
Nothing out of the ordinary…just the usual spare change, pens and crumbs 🙂
Catherine Gregory April 27, 2016 at 8:27 pm
My cat had left a hairball behind th sofa for me lol
Lisa Mcalley April 27, 2016 at 8:31 pm
While cleaning a new house i had rented i found a pile of porn dvds stashed in the boiler cupboard
Katie April 27, 2016 at 8:31 pm
Nothing unusual really, mostly lost cat toys, coppers…etc
Hayley Lynch April 27, 2016 at 8:48 pm
a live mouse the cat had brought in !
Beryl drake April 27, 2016 at 8:57 pm
When clearing a reletives house many years ago £1,000 under a record on the stacker of a record player
Karl Borowy April 27, 2016 at 9:01 pm
my lost ring
Pauline Black April 27, 2016 at 9:16 pm
An apple core in a brass teapot!
claire haskins April 27, 2016 at 9:22 pm
prob dried up food
Ruth Wollerton April 27, 2016 at 9:42 pm
A dead grass snack under my sons bed. I must admit I screamed xxx
Anneka Hulse April 27, 2016 at 9:47 pm
spider legs the cat has left me as a gift ewww
leanne perrett April 27, 2016 at 9:56 pm
i once found my daughters braces in the back of the fridge when i was cleaning it out it was well hidden shed misplaced then 2 weeks before turns out her brother thought it was funny but forgot to tell her
jessica cook April 27, 2016 at 10:10 pm
a pile of toys my son had taken from nursery
Brenda Wilkes April 27, 2016 at 10:24 pm
My driving licence – I had 'lost' it 3 or 4 years ago. I had cleaned the shoe cupboard out at least twice a year each year so don't know where it had been hiding!
Cal at Family Makes April 27, 2016 at 10:24 pm
Well, I try not to clean too much (!), in fact I've just asked my hubby and he said to answer "What's cleaning?"! I usually find weapons from superheroes, boots from Action Man, or dragon flames and spears. The latter two have also been extracted from the internal workings of my washing machine too!
emma gough April 27, 2016 at 10:55 pm
I found a lolly pop stick stuck to one of my daughters clothes in her draws…after I asked here to tidy her room, hmm I'm guessing she just threw everything that was on the floor into the draw! kids gotta love em! lol
nicola james April 27, 2016 at 11:13 pm
i clean for a living and do a lot of deep cleans,and clearing before cleaning,you would be totally horrified at some of the things i find in the worst places,one particular house the toilet was blocked and they had a container next to the toilet,which was also full,that was bad enough,we then went on to find carrier bags full of toilet waste in all rooms of the house,that was not a pleasant job at all!!certainly went through mound of cleaning products on that job!!bah!!
Tishist April 27, 2016 at 11:20 pm
A dried pea
Kate Davies April 27, 2016 at 11:42 pm
The most unusual thing I found was the torso of what I think was once an action man in the cupboard under the stairs when we first moved in.
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Lillian Fisher April 13, 2016 at 9:28 pm
I thought I had found a huge black plastic spider once – until I touched it and it scurried away!
I am still traumatised.
sharon martin April 14, 2016 at 11:26 am
can honestly say i don't think i've come across anything that would be classed as unusual or strange
Sharon Dinnie April 14, 2016 at 7:47 pm
A dead frog that, I guess, one of my cats brought in!
Robertgeneralmail April 14, 2016 at 8:01 pm
Best cleaning trick is to make it part of your normal weekly routine, in a simple way so it doesnt seem a chore!
Most interesting thing I've found is money down the back of a sofa…. it's what you spend it on that makes it interesting
Danielle Cresswell April 16, 2016 at 12:13 am
Cat fleas when we moved in our new home. A lovely gift left by the previous owners
Bob Clark April 16, 2016 at 12:51 pm
A full sized street sign in the loft – left by previous occupants
Katie Harmer April 16, 2016 at 10:24 pm
I used to be a professional cleaner of executive homes and the most unusual thing I have ever found was glass bottles full of human urine – in the kitchen!! Needless to say, 'executive' homes was rather a 'loose' description. In reality I cleaned all sorts of houses, the rich to the poor. Some people were clean, others were not.
charlotte wilde April 17, 2016 at 12:15 pm
A pile of cat biscuits under the sideboard carefully carried from the cats bowl and store for 'hard times' by the resident mouse (very very old cat!)
Elizabeth Gurney April 17, 2016 at 8:57 pm
An individual key – still never found what or where it is for though!
Zac Farley April 18, 2016 at 8:30 pm
A mushroom growing out of my brothers carpet under his laundry basket in his student digs
A M April 18, 2016 at 9:14 pm
I find money in drawers quite often, but that's because I hide it there on purpose and try to forget about it so it's a nice surprise!
Jemma Dwyer April 19, 2016 at 1:40 pm
plasters :S lol
sarah fielding April 19, 2016 at 11:22 pm
A left over pizza slice!
Jodi hill April 20, 2016 at 11:29 am
Probably dusty lego underneath the washing machine!
Kelly cooper April 20, 2016 at 1:50 pm
Found a bag of old coins
Helen W April 20, 2016 at 6:41 pm
I once found a packet of chicken noodles that had fallen down the back of the kitchen drawer. They must have been there from a previous tenant in the flat. They were still intact and in date, so my boyfriend ate them!
Maureen M April 20, 2016 at 7:22 pm
A very cute (but very flat & dead) frog – under a bookshelf.No idea how it got there!!
gaynor davies April 20, 2016 at 9:27 pm
a pair of nail clippers for a dog!!!
Danielle Spencer April 21, 2016 at 4:23 pm
A forgotten bag of what was once radishes, apparently – vile liquid, which had fallen down behind a cupboard, never to be seen again, the mysterious smell coming from the kitchen. Blurgh!
I love the dinosaur shortbread, what a great idea.
Claire blake April 22, 2016 at 9:33 am
An old newspaper dated 20 years old
linda thorn April 22, 2016 at 10:17 am
he put sweets in video recorder
Ruby Spiteri April 22, 2016 at 9:49 pm
Christmas presents I forgot to wrap for the children, oooopsss x
Steven K April 23, 2016 at 9:36 am
A lego spider-man head
Angela Weir April 23, 2016 at 3:26 pm
I came across my dad's false teeth under the seats on the couch he must have lost them whilst lying on the couch. Probably snoozing haha
Katie Skeoch April 23, 2016 at 7:11 pm
Just Lego, it gets everywhere! I have a little jar in the kitchen where I collect all the odd pieces!
Emma Farrell April 23, 2016 at 7:35 pm
Plastic milkshake lids behind the sofa that my cats seem to prefer to all the toys I've bought them
Vicky Kenny April 23, 2016 at 8:09 pm
Found nothing unusual but I'm forever finding Lego where it shouldn't be
Tania Atfield April 23, 2016 at 9:45 pm
Dead slug in the house we moved into, disgusting!
Emily Hutchinson April 24, 2016 at 1:50 pm
The pickle out of a Big Mac – Grrrr I was not happy!
angela sandhu April 24, 2016 at 3:53 pm
I found a wooden spoon behind the sofa – my son was trying to reach something and that was the only thing he could think if using!
Susan Smith April 24, 2016 at 4:06 pm
Most unusual thing has to be an old penny in the back of the sofa, to this day we do not know where it came from
Mary Baldwin April 24, 2016 at 4:50 pm
Packs of Christmas cards and stamps all in one package – obviously I'd been uber-organised one year and then forgotten completely about them as I hadn't even realised they were missing they were bought so far in advance.
Danika Lloyd April 24, 2016 at 6:39 pm
a fairy toy under the sink I never knew existed
Vickie Jackson April 24, 2016 at 7:05 pm
An earwig in a straw :/
Michelle Sykes April 24, 2016 at 8:55 pm
I found a 'ball' of woodlice behind a cupboard when I moved into my first house – it was horrid
Lisa Wilkinson April 24, 2016 at 9:16 pm
A toothbrush I'd lost in my shoe rack (I blame the 2 year old!)
Melanie April 24, 2016 at 9:33 pm
A bottle of special brew under the sofa
Hazel Rea April 24, 2016 at 9:41 pm
Half a biscuit behind a book on the shelf. When my son was a toddler he used to hide half his biscuit behind a book for later.
Sheri Darby April 24, 2016 at 9:54 pm
An unwrapped Kit Kat – what a waste
stacey bell April 24, 2016 at 10:51 pm
my house keys…….2 years after they went missing ! They were sitting on my bed. we still; cant figure it out
Karis April 25, 2016 at 11:51 am
A dr who mask
Silvia April 25, 2016 at 12:19 pm
An old bag of Space Dust!
Kate Mitchell April 25, 2016 at 12:41 pm
I once found a toy motorbike tied to the end of my string of bunting. On questioning my children I was told the motorbike had been naughty!
Karolina Rozwarska April 25, 2016 at 12:59 pm
Birthday cake left behind armchair for a week….yuck!
stephen holman April 25, 2016 at 1:04 pm
money is always a bonus find when cleaning – if that happened every time i cleaned my house would be sparkling!! 😀
I found an 2nd World War Army jacket when clearing/cleaning my parents home
LP April 25, 2016 at 2:09 pm
not come across anything strange as yet
kate CARRINGTON April 25, 2016 at 2:19 pm
never really found anything unusual really thanks for the chance
Sarah Wilson April 25, 2016 at 3:11 pm
My dog's antler toy – it was a shock!
Karen Barrett April 25, 2016 at 3:34 pm
Nothing really unusual but I did find a watch right inside the sofa lining, it had been there about five years.
carys thorp April 25, 2016 at 3:35 pm
In my old house i found a childs toy behind the radiator, at the time i had no children! Must have been there ages!
Dawn F April 25, 2016 at 3:52 pm
Little plastic shotgun pellets from my husband's days as a rambunctious bachelor 🙂
christine shelley April 25, 2016 at 4:38 pm
Dust I didn't know I had!
esme mccrubb April 25, 2016 at 5:09 pm
I am always finding stray socks in very strange places when I'm cleaning
Jenny Barker April 25, 2016 at 5:10 pm
A plate with a sausage on it down the side of the sofa :0)
Jayne Kelsall April 25, 2016 at 5:56 pm
I once found an Easter Egg in August that I'd hid for the children in an easter egg hunt and never found it !
Gemma Jordan April 25, 2016 at 5:57 pm
Fab idea, gonna have to try it with my little man x
Sharon Lou Johnson April 25, 2016 at 6:03 pm
4 £20.oo pounds notes, dont find them much in my house!
Jayne April 25, 2016 at 6:46 pm
Lots of bogies on the wall when I cleaned behind my daughters bed!
Pauline Dring April 25, 2016 at 7:19 pm
I once found a dead mouse whilst cleaning
Alison April 25, 2016 at 7:26 pm
Love the footprints, could be dragon prints! I found a blue glass pendant behind a cupboard with an eye on it
Penelope Hewitt April 25, 2016 at 7:56 pm
When we were preparing to move into our home we gave it a good clean first and I found a barbie head under the kitchen sink
Donna M Caldwell April 25, 2016 at 8:17 pm
I found little cards and notes that my twenty year old daughter had made from nursery
Victoria Prince April 25, 2016 at 8:58 pm
The most unusual thing I've found that I can think of was a puppy tooth!
louise Evans April 25, 2016 at 9:20 pm
I once found a gold and amestyt ring
Caroline S April 25, 2016 at 10:08 pm
We'd lived in this house for about five years before I discovered some heart medication left by the previous owner, right at the back of the top shelf of one of the kitchen cupboards! Hopefully they weren't vital…
Maria P April 25, 2016 at 10:29 pm
Christmas tree ornament behind the kitchen cupboard… how?
Adrian Bold April 25, 2016 at 10:33 pm
I found about 10 ear plugs behind / under my bed when I got a new one. They were always falling out in the night and rolling behind it.
Reddanbydan April 25, 2016 at 10:35 pm
I found a pair of my husband's best mate's underpants behind the sofa after he'd stayed the night! God knows how they got there!
Love the dinosaur biccies – they look yum.
Alica April 25, 2016 at 10:51 pm
A dead mouse lovingly left by one of my cats! Nice….not!
Hannah April 25, 2016 at 11:24 pm
The strangest thing I find is very large dust bunnies under furniture that has not been moved for a while! And the usual kiddie things – lego and dolls shoes in random places. Plus often coins of foreign currency for some reason.
Lucy beckett April 25, 2016 at 11:27 pm
Nothing too strange ^_^
I've had things move around alot though in general. Spooky!
Janet Rumley April 25, 2016 at 11:27 pm
My daughters tooth xxx
Jane Middleton April 26, 2016 at 12:02 am
pound coins under the sofa cushions
Lyndsey Beckford April 26, 2016 at 12:39 am
Money down the back of the sofa 🙂
Kerry Webber April 26, 2016 at 12:51 am
I found a dead mouse skeleton while cleaning out a store cupboard. It had been a very long time since I cleaned that cupboard!!
Thomas Perry April 26, 2016 at 7:49 am
I found my tongue stud, I lost years ago, I took some washing out of the machine and it dropped out, how it got there after all them years I have no idea
Laura Bryant April 26, 2016 at 8:01 am
whoop whoop ??? such a lovely prize! I know someone is going to be over the moon ??? to win fingers crossed its me ??????
Jodie W April 26, 2016 at 9:01 am
Shortly after moving in with my then fiance, i was cleaning out the cleaning cupboard as it was a mess…and found 32 dusters. He was then known as Gavin 32 dusters for a long while after that. This was a strange find because (even now 10 years later) ive never seen him dust once.
Deborah Bird April 26, 2016 at 10:01 am
a book full of cigarette cards!
Sarah Mills April 26, 2016 at 10:03 am
nothing I have ever found is unsual with children!
Sheila Reeves April 26, 2016 at 10:42 am
Nothing that unusual, but did find shrivelled satsuma behind sons bed when I pulled it out to clean, must have been from his Christmas stocking!
claire sen April 26, 2016 at 11:33 am
I think the most exciting or interesting thing I've ever found it a pound coin down the side of the chair..I like to think it's my payment for doing the cleaning!
Alison Macdonald April 26, 2016 at 11:38 am
My mum's false teeth 😉
Stewart Biddle April 26, 2016 at 11:49 am
Not really strange but always finding cutlery and pens all over the place!
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"I'm Slowly Starving to Death — And I Can't Stop It"
June 17, 2016 Theo 0 Comments
Lisa Brown is well aware of what she looks like, thank you.
"It always amazes me what people say to me," says the 5-foot-10-inch former model. "For years, people will come up and give me advice on being anorexic, or are really rude and say things like, 'skinny bitch.'" But Lisa, whose weight has plummeted from a healthy 140 pounds to less than 90 pounds in the last five years, doesn't have anorexia or bulimia.
"I have a very serious gastrovascular disorder and I literally can't eat — that's the CliffsNotes version," she says, admitting she's stopped trying to defend herself to strangers. Lisa, 32, was diagnosed with superior mesenteric artery syndrome (SMAS), a digestive condition that occurs when part of the small intestine is pinched between two arteries, completely blocking digestion<|fim_middle|> a TTM.
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A HEALTHY, HAPPY LIFE
Raised in the Milwaukee suburb of Brookfield where she still lives, Lisa says she never worried about her weight. She briefly modeled in Italy in high school and eventually graduated from Waukesha County Technical College with honors. While working as a substance abuse counselor, she got her car oil changed on a lunch break in February 2006 — and met her now-husband Patrick, who was a mechanic at the time.
"His sense of humor and mine are very similar, which is the first thing that attracted me to him," she recalls. "And he's a very honest and forthright person, which was very important to me as someone in counseling." Lisa asked him to lunch on Saint Patrick's Day. They married in May 2010 and honeymooned in Playa del Carmen, Mexico: "We haven't been apart ever since."
In early 2012, Lisa started noticing changes: At first, she felt full quickly when eating, then once-tight clothes became loose. Soon, her custom pink sapphire wedding ring started to slip off. "I was always on the thinner side," she says, "but I ate quite a bit, so it didn't make sense."
Though she didn't own a scale, she knew her health was getting worse as the months passed. She couldn't keep food down and vomited after every meal. "It was like my ability to eat quantities had shrunk and shrunk, until eventually I couldn't eat anything." Abdominal pain and debilitating nausea became so intense that she would curl up on the floor in the fetal position: "I would be in tears from the pain and so angry because it didn't make any sense."
Though she continued working as a counselor, her social life with Patrick, 31, became nonexistent. "Going out to eat was dicey because in public, I would spit up just like a baby. It's not like I had time to run to the bathroom. Our life completely did a 180." And her medical issues quickly became the focus of their relationship — and have stayed that way for two years. "We don't really get to do anything anymore," says Patrick. "Everything that we do is based around her being sick."
Her doctor put her on acid reflux medication Prevacid. "I thought it seemed a little unusual that acid reflux would be to this degree," Lisa admits. But that December, she got on the scale at her mother's house: "I just couldn't believe that I was 112 pounds," she says. "I hadn't weighed that little since I was a teenager. I knew this wasn't normal."
For much of the following year, she was "passed back and forth" by specialists for various gastrointestinal tests: gastric imaging, endoscopy, and colonoscopy. Many GI conditions' symptoms are similar, explains Lisa, so she wasted months also testing her thyroid or checking whether dropping dairy or gluten would make a difference. Nothing did. "Time kept passing and passing," she recalls. "It was just insane — and I ended up with no answers."
A BRIEF RESPITE
Finally, Lisa went to nearby Froedtert Hospital & Medical College in December 2013. The gastroenterologist took one look at her prior CT scans and angiograms to give her a diagnosis. (There have only been 400 documented cases of SMAS to date.) "She could see the pinched area of my intestine very clearly in the scan and the actual doctors reports. There were also notations by other doctors' about the pinch, suggesting further investigation for superior mesenteric artery syndrome, says Lisa. "But nobody ever told me, which is frustrating. Now, I tell people to be their own advocate and check your own medical records."
But for the first time, Lisa had good news: A corrective surgery could relieve symptoms by rerouting food through a new passageway and bypassing the blocked intestine. But first, she had to gain weight — and strength. "I was in such bad shape that the doctor didn't think I would make it through surgery." She went on a nasal feeding tube for three weeks and had the procedure in February 2012.
For a few months, Lisa was able to keep down the foods she gradually reintroduced into her diet, even though she still had pain. "It was my little honeymoon period. I still couldn't eat large portions, but I didn't have any food restrictions." She was able to go on their annual trip to Playa del Carmen. "My doctor said it seemed to be a total fix."
But in May, the vomiting returned. "It was pretty devastating and progressively became worse," she says. A barrage of tests showed no additional explanations. To keep her malnutrition at bay, a nasal feeding tube was put in, followed by one surgically inserted into her stomach, and then finally a vascular feeding system. But still, she kept wasting away.
For 20 hours a day, Lisa is hooked up to the vascular feeding system through a port in her chest. After a restless night's sleep, her nutrient infusion ends at 8 a.m. and she has "four hours of freedom" before hooking up again at noon. "No matter how sick I'm feeling or how much pain I'm in, I get out of the house because I'm trapped here the rest of the time." Lisa will run errands or go to the craft store. When Patrick, an engineer who travels frequently for work, is home, the couple go to their favorite coffee shop.
A home, she's back on the pump — and on the phone for hours. "I have to deal with the insurance company and doctors offices: disputing bills and claims, making appointments, and getting things approved," she says. "It's exhausting." She finds solace in creating crafts and art projects, especially jewelry and intricate cards to send to people she knows through an SMAS Facebook support group.
Her mother, Patricia Neuhauser, lives nearby, so when Patrick is on the road, she comes over to help her only child. "She helps with all the things I can't do anymore and will spend hours on the computer researching and looking for physicians," says Lisa. "She puts everything she has into it. I'm blessed to have her and I'll never ever take her for granted."
"I was being shrugged off by the doctors at this point," Lisa recalls of this winter. "I just kept on the TPN [total parenteral nutrition, her vascular feeding tube] and losing weight and losing weight." Inspired by her friends on a Facebook support group, Lisa made an 11-minute video of her story and posted it on YouTube in January 2015. "The world needs to see and understand," she says. "I thought, What does it matter if people see me in this light? They already see me and make a judgment. I might as well put it to good use."
Lisa heard about the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio, a center for experts on SMAS, through her support group. In March, she booked the first available appointment for July 15. "I thought, I'm not going to live until then." Desperate, her mother, Patricia Neuhauser, sent the video and a local news story on her to specialists at the clinic, which got their attention. They got her an earlier appointment, and a local business flew Lisa, who was too weak to take a commercial flight or drive, on their company jet for free.
At the hospital, Lisa met with Dr. Matthew Kroh, director of surgical endoscopy. Their goal was to combat her malnutrition and find out what else was wrong besides her SMAS. "I was so ill when I arrived that it took two and a half weeks to stabilize me before they even felt comfortable doing any testing," she explains. After she gained 6 pounds (bringing her weight to 94 pounds), doctors performed a test with a SmartPill, which was placed endoscopically in her stomach and traveled her intestinal tract, communicating hormone and vitamin levels, acidity, and digestion time. In early July, she got her second diagnosis: gastroparesis.
While research on the causes of gastroparesis is limited, Lisa says it can be triggered by abdominal surgery. "The nerve endings that allow your stomach to pump to process the food and push it down your intestines are somehow damaged," she explains. "They're paralyzed so your stomach can't drain."
PUTTING THEIR RELATIONSHIP TO THE TEST
The couple admits that the last several years haven't been easy on their marriage. "It's not an equal partnership anymore," Lisa says. "I used to be the caretaker: I cleaned, made all the meals, did the planning and shopping. Now, I need everything done for me."
But Patrick, who's a problem-solver by nature, struggles with the inability to fix this. "It's unbelievably frustrating, disheartening for him to accept that we don't have a solution right now — as he watches his wife die," says Lisa. "He's so emotionally supportive of me, but it's torn him apart. I feel extremely guilty that more than half of our marriage has been illness."
While that's challenging, Patrick's concern is naturally for his wife. "What is it like to watch this? It's the hardest thing I've ever had to go through," Patrick says. Being gone so often doesn't help: "It's constantly on your mind that your wife is dying but you need to pay the bills. I worry daily, leaving and not knowing what could happen."
He admires Lisa's strength and willpower — and tells her she's beautiful all the time. "She absolutely is beautiful, on the outside and inside," says Patrick. "I probably would have given up a long time ago. She just wants to survive and spread awareness of this horrible illness so that maybe somebody else doesn't have to go through it."
Though the pair has good insurance through Patrick's job, the bills keep adding up — especially because much of Lisa's care is specialized and often not covered. Her family has created a GoFundMe page to help with the costs. "After insurance, I think our expenses came out to $11,000 for her last three-week stay in Cleveland," Patrick says. "Who knows how long she will be there this time … But money's not worth anything if you don't have anyone to share it with."
On July 15, she had a surgery at the Cleveland Clinic to put in a rejejunostomy feeding tube, which will give her more freedom to move around. Patrick says the surgery was successful. Because he was on a job site in Denver, her mother went with her. "Hopefully, Lisa can get some of her life back and have more freedom so she's not hooked up 24 hours a day to the pump. Then they will do some more testing."
Adds Lisa, "It's not a permanent fix, but this will hopefully get my stomach and my digestive tract working again — and finally keep me strong and stable."
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On September 14 and 15, the Supreme Court of Canada will hear two appeals and you are invited to participate. Thanks to the Superior Court of Quebec, the two hearings will be heard in the biggest room at the courthouse.
Hearing at the Palais de justice de Québec
His Majesty the King v. Pascal Breault
Hearing of September 14, 2022 (Webcast of hearing) | On Appeal from the Court of Appeal of Quebec (Appeal Reserved)
Case Pre-Brief
The Supreme Court of Canada will decide whether police must have an approved testing device with them when they order someone to provide a breath sample.
Early in the afternoon of April 2, 2017, police were looking for someone reported to be driving an all-terrain vehicle (ATV) while drunk. They stopped Pascal Breault, who was walking away from a parked ATV at a campsite near Quebec City. The officers wanted to take a breath sample from Mr. Breault, but they did not have an approved screening device (ASD) to do so. They radioed nearby officers to obtain a device.
While still waiting for the device, police ordered Mr. Breault to provide a breath sample. Mr. Breault repeatedly refused, so the officers placed him under arrest. The testing device had not yet arrived. It never did because the officers eventually cancelled their request and charged Mr. Breault with failing to comply with a demand by police to take a breath test.
The Criminal Code says police can demand someone provide a breath sample immediately if that person is suspected of drinking and driving within the last three hours. The test must be done using an ASD. When a person blows into the device, the ASD provides officers with a reading that determines if there is sufficient alcohol in someone's body to warrant a full breathalyzer test. Anyone who refuses to take the test with the ASD without a reasonable excuse commits an offence.
The lower courts
A municipal court in Quebec found Mr. Breault guilty, and Quebec's Superior Court dismissed his appeal. He then turned to the Quebec Court of Appeal, which allowed his appeal and acquitted him of the charge. The Court of Appeal said police must have an ASD with them when they order someone to take a breath test, so the person can immediately comply with the order. The Crown appealed to the Supreme Court of Canada.
Questions for the Supreme Court
This case raises important issues, such as whether police officers must have an ASD with them when they order someone to provide a breath sample, or whether police can keep someone waiting while they get the device.
Impact<|fim_middle|> during the hearings and the meetings with the judges. | and Interveners
The Court's decision could affect policing decisions across Canada. For this reason, various organizations have applied to be "interveners" in this case. Interveners are people or groups who get permission from the Court to provide context on legal questions, although the case does not affect them directly. They submit their arguments in writing. Some are also allowed to make their arguments at the hearing. Interveners offer judges different perspectives to consider when making their decisions.
More information (case #39680): Case information | Factums (written arguments from both sides)
Lower court rulings: Trial (Quebec City Municipal Court) (in French only) | Appeal (Quebec Superior Court) (in French only) | Appeal (Quebec Court of Appeal)
This Case Pre-Brief was prepared by communications staff of the Supreme Court of Canada to help the public better understand Court's work. It does not form part of the Court's reasons for judgment and is not for use in legal proceedings.
Janick Murray-Hall v. Attorney General of Quebec
The Supreme Court of Canada will decide whether Quebec's ban on growing cannabis plants for personal use is constitutional.
In 2019, Janick Murray-Hall challenged Quebec's ban on owning and growing cannabis plants for personal use. Mr. Murray-Hall claims the Quebec law is unconstitutional and contradicts the federal cannabis law. He is arguing the case on behalf of everyone in that province who might be fined for owning and growing cannabis plants.
In 2018, the federal government enacted a law about cannabis. It says people cannot own or grow more than four cannabis plants at home. Provinces and territories then enacted their own laws to regulate practical issues such as how cannabis can be sold and stored. In Quebec, the government enacted a law banning people from owning and growing cannabis plants for personal use. If caught, people could be fined between $250 and $750.
Mr. Murray-Hall brought his case to Quebec's Superior Court. He argued that the Quebec government did not have the authority to ban cannabis plants. He said that only the federal government has that power as a matter of criminal law, which is federal jurisdiction under section 91(27) of Canada's Constitution. Alternatively, Mr. Murray-Hall argued the Quebec ban should be declared of no force or effect because the federal law should prevail over the provincial law.
The judge agreed and declared the Quebec ban unconstitutional. The Attorney General of Quebec appealed that decision on behalf of the province.
The Court of Appeal of Quebec disagreed and ruled the ban was constitutional, because it pertains to matters of provincial jurisdiction under two other sections of the Constitution: section 92(13), which allows provinces to make laws related to property and civil rights; and section 92(16), which permits them to make laws of a local or private nature within a province. That outcome meant Quebeckers could not own or grow cannabis plants.
The Supreme Court will decide whether Quebec's ban on growing cannabis plants for personal use is constitutional. The case also raises important legal questions for the entire country, such as whether these federal and provincial laws are compatible with one another, or whether one prevails.
This decision could affect cannabis laws in other provinces. For this reason, the provincial attorneys general can intervene in this case. However, any other interested people or groups must apply to the Court to become interveners. Interveners provide context on the legal questions, although the case does not affect them directly. They submit their arguments in writing. Some are also allowed to make their arguments at the hearing. Interveners offer judges different perspectives to consider when making their decisions.
Lower court rulings: Trial (Quebec Superior Court) | Appeal (Quebec Court of Appeal) (in French only)
How hearings are conducted at the Supreme Court of Canada
When the judges enter the courtroom, everyone should stand. Judges sit at the bench, facing the courtroom in order of seniority based on the date they were appointed to the Supreme Court. If you are facing the bench, appellants sit on the left hand side of the court, while respondents sit on the right. Interveners sit on either side, behind the appellants and respondents.
A section of the public gallery is reserved for journalists.
The hearing officially starts when Chief Justice Richard Wagner introduces all lawyers by name. Usually, the Court will then hear from:
the lawyer for the appellant
intervenors who each have five minutes to express their concerns about the legal issue
counsel for the respondent
more intervenors
a final, short reply from the appellant
The judges will have already read everyone's written arguments, and may interrupt to ask questions.
When the hearing is suspended or adjourned, everyone should stand again as the judges leave the courtroom. Everyone must leave the courtroom once the hearing is over.
Judges or lawyers may speak in either English or French during the hearing. There will be interpretation devices available in the courtroom and overflow room so you can follow in the language of your choice.
At the end of the hearing, members of the court may decide from the Bench where they make an immediate oral decision. However it is more common for the Court to reserve its decision and provide it at a later date in writing.
Appellant: the individual, company, government or organization that requested the appeal of a lower court decision
Intervener: parties such as public interest groups and government representatives who present different points of view on the legal questions and issues before the Court
Respondent: the party opposing the appellant
Reserve: appeals that haven't been decided yet
Instructions for entering the Palais de justice de Québec
The Supreme Court of Canada will hear two cases in Courtroom 4.01 on the fourth floor of the Quebec City courthouse.
His Majesty the King v. Pascal Breault will be heard September 14, 2022 at 9:30 a.m.
Janick Murray-Hall v. Attorney General of Quebec is scheduled for September 15, 2022 at 9:30 a.m.
The courthouse opens at 7:30 a.m., Monday to Friday. You may access the building at the main entrance on Jean-Lesage Boulevard (east side of the building).
Please note that there is a parking lot (for a fee) adjacent to the courthouse. It connects to the building.
Palais de justice de Québec, Marc-André-Bédard Building, 300 Jean-Lesage Blvd, Quebec, Quebec, G1K 8K6
Security Screening Measures
Get there early to give yourself plenty of time to get through security screening (like airport security). Follow the signs in this regard. The security screening will start at 8:00 a.m. Your personal belongings contained in bags (limited to clutch or wallet purse style bags) will be submitted to a visual inspection. Please bring only what is necessary. Any other bags will not be authorized and no storage will be available.
Seating in the Public Gallery of the Courtroom
Seats will be available to the public on a first-come, first-served basis with a ticket. Tickets will be available at your arrival to the Palais de justice, after getting through security screening.
We expect the courtroom will be busy. To accommodate as many people as possible, there will be an overflow room available where people can watch the hearings on a video screen.
To make sure as many people can see the hearings in person as possible, there may be a rotation system.
Members of the public can leave the courtroom at any time they wish. To avoid causing a disturbance, it may be best to wait until there is a seating rotation or a court break.
Official photography and video
Official photographers will take photos during the hearings. Please note that you may be photographed. Photos may be used on the Court's social media and publications. They may also be shared with media for publication.
The hearings will be filmed, webcast, and archived on the Supreme Court website.
Use of electronic devices and photography by members of the public in the Courtroom
Members of the public attending a hearing must turn off all electronic devices, while they are in the Courtroom unless it is necessary for accessibility purposes. No one may take photographs or make any audio or video recording of a hearing, and no one may disseminate such photographs or recordings, in whole or in part.
The Senior Associate Chief Justice of the Superior Court of Québec has given permission to take pictures inside the courtroom (and post them online) before and after the hearing. Absolutely no photos can be taken once the judges are in the room or during the hearing.
Three of the nine judges of the Court have to be from the province of Québec. Traditionally, there are also three judges from Ontario, two from the West, and one from Atlantic Canada.
The three judges from the province of Québec currently sitting at the Supreme Court of Canada are:
The Right honourable Richard Wagner, Chief Justice
The Honourable Suzanne Côté
The Honourable Nicholas Kasirer
The SCC's current Registrar, Ms. Chantal Carbonneau is from the province of Québec.
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It was 28 February and we arrived late in the morning at Kennacraig. It was very quiet and we were in fact the first ones in line. Although it was overcast the weather was unusually mild with almost ten degrees, a lot warmer than the weeks before which<|fim_middle|> we meet up with Paul and Norma. We are always surprised how many people you get to know on Islay after visiting the island more often, it must be the friendly nature of the Ilich!
The last full day on Islay. We decided to take it easy although we have a lot of plans, let's see what happened! Donald and Rosemary were leaving for Glasgow today so we said goodbye to them first before we went to Bowmore where we found out that the cash machine on The Square is broken down (for the second day in a row), and as a result the other one on Shore Street is empty and needs a refill. Next stop Glenegedale where we met Rachel and Alasdair Whyte and had a look at their new and newly to be built self catering accommodations which are the two beautiful houses next to Glenegedale. Very impressive and styled to perfection. These two excellent accommodations will come available in the next weeks so stay tuned!
We head for Port Ellen for petrol and to find a cash machine and guess what? The bank is closed! It's not easy if you want to spend your money on the island!! We stop at Ardbeg and wandered around the distillery grounds in search of some really nice images. Specially the views from the pier back to Warehouse nr 1 can be great, as you can see for yourself.
Off to Claggain Bay where we basically relax, walk, relax some more and finally fell asleep in the car. It's so relaxing to park your car there and listen to the sound of the waves, or is it an age thing? Who knows! While we were sleeping it started to rain and the visibility has dropped to less than a mile. Excellent weather for a distillery tour and we go to Laphroaig. It's the first time that I visited the distillery since the new visitor centre a.k.a. the Friends of Laphroaig Lounge opened and it's beautiful. Nice seats and sofa's to relax, meet other friends and enjoy their fabulous whisky. I never said holidaying on Islay was easy?. Vicky offers us a dram, a 15yr old Laphroaig and we sit down in one of the sofa's. The tour is supposed to start at 15.30 so we have another twenty minutes for ourselves. More people arrive and we wait for the tour to start for a family who come all the way from the mainland with the afternoon ferry to visit Laphroaig, stay on Islay for one night, and go back with the morning ferry. Incredible isn't it?
Vicky is doing the tour and I'm very impressed with her. I have done quite a lot of distillery tours on Islay and the mainland but today is one of the best so far. Thanks a lot Vicky for a fantastic tour. After the tour it's time to receive our certificates and dram, and we head for home, satisfied and glad we did the Laphroaig tour. Back home we find a nice surprise waiting for us. Christine Logan gave us Scallops which we like very much and prepared for our evening meal. We decided to share the large portion with our neighbour, whisky guy Rob, who will remain on Islay for another two months. Is he lucky or what? Another day has passed and we feel a bit sad with the prospect of leaving Islay tomorrow. We will have to make the best of our last day and we are lucky to have booked the afternoon ferry!
There is nothing you can do about the sad feeling you have on your last day, specially when you know it will take a wee bit longer before we come back again, but we do have a very good and joyful reason. Since it's raining we decide to spend time indoor and do what we wanted to do from the day we arrived, and that is to visit Susan Campbell near Kilchoman. It's always a pleasure to spend time with Susan, she knows so much about the island and she is a very pleasant person to be with. Time flies while we chat, drink coffee and enjoy our conversation and we had to say goodbye sooner than we wanted to. On our way back we parked the car at Loch Indaal to admire the views and birds, mainly oystercatchers and geese, while we ate our sandwich. It's after one o'clock, we still had to pack and decided to call it a day. With sadness in our heart we drive back to Persabus, pack our stuff and drive to Port Askaig not knowing when we will be back, but back we will and if all goes well with our wee webmaster to be!
It was a great week, too bad it was just one week. I have said it before and with the risk of repeating myself, one week isn't enough. So many things we didn't do, so many people we didn't see but still a fantastic week. Now we know that Islay is great anytime, also in the winter! | brought the 'big freeze and snow' to Britain. When the ferry left we found ourselves almost alone on the panoramic deck and I think no more than 20 people in total were present on the ferry. What a difference from our previous trips. The sea was calm and smooth and so was the crossing. When we arrived at three it took us only a couple of minutes to get to our accommodation at Persabus where we were welcomed by Rosemary. After unpacking the car and getting settled, which took us only thirty minutes, we immediately left and had a lovely walk at Loch Indaal. Time to breath in the fresh Islay air and get reacquainted with the island.
And what a cracking day it was... Around eight in the morning when we woke up there were clouds although the sun tried hard to show itself, and later after breakfast when we left around ten the sun was shining and the skies were blue with the typical shower clouds here and there, but mostly it was sunny. What a joy! On our way to Sanaigmore we stopped several times to admire the stunning views and cloudscapes and even managed to capture a full double rainbow. I mentioned the geese already yesterday and also today we noticed many groups of geese all over the island. This was the start of a very promising day.
When we arrived at Sanaigmore we visited Petra's Outback Gallery first and had a chat with her and admired the beautiful art which is very nicely displayed in a beautiful gallery. What a great new addition for Islay! We decided to have a walk first at Sanaigmore Bay while the sun was still shining and again we were extremely lucky with the weather. The skies were dark blue and I (finally) managed to take enough pictures of Sanaigmore Bay in the sunshine, something I hadn't been able doing before. After our almost two hour walk we went back to the gallery for an excellent double espresso and tea. Petra Pearce has managed to create a truly beautiful gallery in a stunning location which is well worth a visit!
After our Sanaigmore trip we decided to head back to Saligo and photograph the Ballinaby standing stone. When you enter the gate at Saligo keep on walking on the track heading right. The standing stone is signposted, is located on a hill and takes around twenty minutes to reach. The views from the hill towards Islay and the Atlantic Ocean are fabulous. The stone itself is very tall and is about the same height as the one near Port Ellen, I'm not sure which one is taller though, I have a feeling it's the one at Port Ellen. We headed back for the beach over the dunes and enjoyed a storm arriving at Saligo while the waves crashed on the rocks. Magnificent!
After shopping at Jimmy's we had coffee at home, Persabus that is, and later on I made a trip to Bunnahabhain to enjoy the brilliant clear skies and beautiful light conditions. I have learned to never miss an opportunity to take pictures when the sun is out or the light is good. Things can change faster than you think and in fact, while I write this report, another shower arrived. This time however it's dark, we are comfortable and warm in our cottage and look back on a fantastic day on Islay.
Monday afternoon and it became a bit dryer so we decided to head to Port Ellen, basically to walk about a bit, check on the progress of the hotel and to have a look at Port Ellen Maltings. As soon as we parked the car the sun came out and pretty much stayed as long as we were in Port Ellen. Sometimes you just get lucky! There wasn't much to see at PE Maltings, the two silo's that went down haven't been replaced yet. Work on the hotel is still in progress although I have a feeling they are running behind because there is so much work yet to be done on the outside, and it was very noisy as well. I think the people in the area will be immensely happy when the new hotel opens its doors. Some time later when we arrived back in the car a storm arrived over the Oa and we sat in our car watching the rain and waves picking up at Kilnaughton Bay. On our way home we stopped at the Islay Airport for a coffee and scone and later we picked up brian and his wife Mairy to visit Jeremy Hastings and his wife Tink and kids. Dave T was there as well. Outside it was cold but inside it was warm, cosy and comfortable. We had a magnificent evening with excellent food and great friends, what more can you wish for?
A whole different story today. It started off with a lot of rain, it was very cold and there was a wee cover of snow on the Paps, at least the parts that were free from the clouds. Since the rain persisted we decided to pay Margaret Rozga from Kilmeny Country House a surprise visit and spent most of the morning there. Kilmeny is a beautiful house with a great host, five rooms and just as many VisitScotland stars. Our main topic was the new ferry not being able to dock in Port Ellen. Carl did a great job printing this in the Ileach. When we left Kilmeny we drove to Bridgend for some shopping and noticed Christine Logan's Silver Bullet before Bridgend Hotel. We couldn't resist and went in the hotel to see her, which was great. Although she had a client she still found the time for a wee chat and promised to meet again later in the week.
Time for lunch now and we parked the car on the north side of Loch Indaal where we enjoyed our home-made sandwiches before we 'set sail' to the wild-west (Kilchiaran Bay, the Rhinns and Portnahaven). The swell was quite good and we enjoyed the show the Atlantic was presenting us. There was also lot's of wildlife on and near the road to Portnahaven; Curlews, Lapwings, Oystercatchers, Buzzards, Kestrel and seals at Portnahaven. After a good walk, in somewhat drier weather, around Port Wemyss and Portnahaven we went to An Tigh Seinsse for coffee and tea and enjoyed the warmth of this lovely little pub and the open fire. More walking and off to Port Charlotte but not before we met Lucy Dawson who runs two beautiful accommodations at Easter Ellister. We also checked out her new accommodation An Linean which is fantastic!
A cold northerly wind lifts the curtains from our bedroom windows early in the morning and reveals snow on the Paps of Jura. Not much, but it's snow and the sky looks grey with blue patches here and there. Looks like the start of a promising day. Happy as a kid I take a shower and walk outside before breakfast to take pictures. The clouds are disappearing and after breakfast the sky is blue, there is almost no wind and the sun feels warm. What a start of the day. We decided to drive to Port Askaig to get some nice pictures of the Paps and, much to our surprise, notice a new ferry for Jura. When we walk around the harbour we suddenly see Mags from Manchester and her friend. They are going to Jura and we decided to join them, something we didn't regret.
On the new ferry we found out that the regular Jura ferry had lost a propeller, hence the relief ferry. This is a different sort of ro-ro ferry. Drive on backwards and roll off forward at the destination. When we arrived at Feolin we saw a huge snow shower hanging above Islay and the sound. The light was dramatic while the sun still reflected on the water, what a magnificent show. After seeing many deer we arrived in Craighouse and decided to travel on, leaving the snow storm behind us and follow the bright spells in stead. We made the right decision and arrive at the Paps with beautiful sunshine and one huge shower behind us while another one is in front of us. The cloud formations are stunning while the showers move slowly over the Sound of Jura. The mountains in Knapdale and Arran are also covered in snow, what a splendid views. Close to Inverlussa it starts to snow and it's great, we enjoy the lovely soft snowflakes.
It's noon and we head for Craighouse after stopping several times to admire the stunning views. We went for a walk in Craighouse, took some more pictures and returned to the ferry. It's busy, ten vehicles waiting, we are number two. After taking pictures of the snow on Jura it's now time to take some Islay snow pictures and we succeed. The weather is still beautiful and we have learned to never trust the weather forecast again. So many times they have been wrong and usually predict worse weather than it turned out to be. Again, no complaints here!!
Later in the afternoon we noticed a huge snow shower over the Rhinns and decided to 'go for it'. The light was spectacular. Time for coffee at Debbies and we met her mother there. After a wee chat and a great coffee it's back home for some rest, a change of clothes and back again to Bruichladdich for our first dinner at an-Taigh Osda. When we arrive Paul and Joan Grahame, the owners, welcome us and offer us a drink. We feel home instantly and make a selection in the menu. We both had a wonderful soup for starters, Manuela had a trio of salmon, I had a steak as main course followed by sticky treacle toffee pudding and an espresso. The food was incredible, one of our best dinners ever and we must compliment Paul and Joan with their superb restaurant. After dinner we get the full tour of the hotel and we admire the rooms which are styled to perfection. What a great addition for Islay, just perfect!
Since the weather is still great we head for Loch Gruinart and stopped at Lagstoban where I walked up a wee hill and took a beautiful panorama image. On our way to Loch Gruinart we see many geese and are welcomed by beautiful bright blue and clear skies. We made a lovely but cold, actually freezing, walk towards Killinallan point and enjoyed the stunning views and the brilliant light. New showers arrive and the clouds and light are constantly changing, you can't really get enough of this. When the sky is getting really dark we decide to go back and visit the quilters at Islay House Square. And for the 7th time in a row Rae isn't working today, we somehow always miss here but there comes a time, at least we have our raffle tickets! Time now for a visit at Islay Ales where | 2,210 |
Brownlie Design Leverages Fusion 360 for Iterative Design
Written By Tim Walker
Product development firm Brownlie Design has a client roster that includes household names like Bosch Tools, Caterpillar, Fisher-Price, Toyota, and Under Armour. A typical day for the 12-person shop, located in the Finger Lakes region of upstate New York, sees the Brownlie team developing design concepts across a vast range of product types.
Recently I had a chance to talk with Brownlie industrial designer Mike Kowalski about the firm's approach to rapid iterative design—and how Fusion 360 helps accelerate that approach.
From 2D to 3D in the Early Stages of Design
At the beginning of a design process, Kowalski and his colleagues must work through many potential options to zero in on the concepts that will work best to solve the challenges posed by a particular project. Often this begins as sketches on paper and in Photoshop, and, depending on the project, may lead to initial models sculpted in the shop. The goal is to see how the initial concepts laid down on a page will begin to take shape in three dimensions. Using Fusion 360 from the outset of a project has enabled Brownlie Design to simplify the process, and allowed them to uncover many opportunities to improve designs even before they reach the stage of physical prototyping.
Fusion 360 also allows the team to share these 3D designs with clients early in the process. Through a simple URL, the client can view and rotate the design to see it from all angles—a much different experience from looking at flat images in a PowerPoint deck.
Rendering Alternative Approaches to Improve Design Decisions
3D concept development becomes even more powerful when extended across multiple design options. Kowalski says that Brownlie's designers regularly use Fusion 360 to choose points where they can branch designs to pursue different solutions. They can experiment with the branches, collaborate with other members of the team (who thereby don't need to start new designs from scratch), continue to develop the good ones, and roll back to previous versions whenever they need to.
"Sometimes you realize you were at a better spot a few iterations ago," Kowalski notes. If you don't have a history-based application like Fusion 360, it's hard to save parts or iterations to return to later. He compares it to making prototypes by hand: "It's like you're working out in the shop and you crack something because you hit it too hard with a hammer. It's not easy going back." By contrast, he calls Fusion 360 "painless and easy." Rather than have to rebuild things entirely, if you need to change direction or simply want to modify a design, you can roll back to an earlier version easily.
Fusion 360's rendering power is also a big plus. Previously, Kowalski explains, designers had to render<|fim_middle|> to continue working with a model as renderings run in the background. Because "it's so easy to render" in Fusion 360, the team was able to create 15 different variations of color and material—in 10–15 minutes each, not the 90–120 minutes it would have taken with other software.
Most importantly, the client was impressed that Brownlie could deliver so many high-quality designs with a one-day turnaround. "Without the cloud rendering," Kowalski says, "that just physically wouldn't be possible."
3D Printing Prototypes for Rapid User Feedback
"Printed-out renderings are great to evaluate from an aesthetic point of view," Kowalski says, "but it's not always the same thing as being able to see how something really works." Having prototypes early on in the design process, he adds, helps you answer "How does it feel and work in your hand?"
Recently, when the team was developing designs for a handheld medical device, they used Fusion 360 to create 3D prints for eight different concepts early in the process. They got feedback on the prototypes from a user group of clinicians who could draw on their professional experience to tell the designers exactly how the device would be operated in the real world. Kowalski says that the direct feedback from end users allowed the Brownlie team to "very quickly home in" on the most fruitful design directions.
While other software packages can enable 3D printing, none of them was as easy to use as Fusion 360—or anywhere near as affordable. "Having the ability to add multiple seats of the software at such a low cost has allowed us to easily integrate it into our early concept development," Kowalski says. "Combined with the in-person and online support we've received for learning the software from the basics on up through advanced techniques, it's been an excellent addition to our process."
Today, Fusion 360 is helping Brownlie connect its designs with real-world needs even with products that are still in embryo.
As Kowalski says, "Sometimes you need to see and hold the idea in real life." | multiple concepts across multiple views to fully understand the form of an object from all angles. "You're rendering all of those in Photoshop," he says. "And there may be up to four different views to coordinate." When you make a change by hand across multiple views, he adds, "It may not be immediately clear how a change in one view will affect the others." That used to mean more time spent ensuring that everything matched up correctly. The addition of Fusion 360 allows them to streamline that process by switching views with essentially no extra work, and by giving them a true three-dimensional object to evaluate from any angle necessary.
Kowalski shares the example of a client project that was on a very tight timetable: just three weeks from initial concept sketches to modeled parts. The cloud rendering feature in Fusion 360 allows for designs to be rendered using remote computing power, allowing designers | 181 |
Wednesday, 4th December 2019
Circular Quay Precinct (AFR)
· The $3.7 billion transformation of Sydney's Circular Quay precinct will include a new public square near George Street's northern end.
· A 20-metre-high steel canopy will stretch out from a new community building and shield the 800m² open space on the site of the St George Bank tower, next to Mirvac and EY's 200 George Street tower.
· A 200m² community building with viewing deck will sit at the rear of the square, connecting connect via a widened Rugby Place through to Pitt Street.
· Lendlease's 53-level Salesforce Tower, will rise behind the square and be connected to it via<|fim_middle|>,000 ($114/m²).
St Marys Logistics Lease (AFR)
· Australian Tyre Traders has secured a three-year lease with options over a logistics facility at 192-220 Forrester Road, St Marys NSW 2760 in Sydney's west.
· The 1727.8m² site was leased at a gross annual rent of $128/m² ($221,158.40).
Wetherill Park Leases (AFR)
· Pet supplement manufacturer Vetalogica has leased an 873m² office/warehouse property at 13 Centre Place, Wetherill Park NSW 2164. The lease was made on a net annual rent of $130/m² ($113,490).
· Import and Export Logistics also leased a 2,145m² warehouse in Wetherill Park at 5 Verrell Street on a three-year term. The warehouse with two levels of office accommodation was leased on a net annual rent of $114/m² ($244,530).
Collingwood Office Tower Sold (AFR)
· Pace Development Group have sold a 3,083m² NLA office block in the fringe of Melbourne's in Collingwood for $31.6 million ($10,249.76/m²).
· The unfinished and half-leased 11 level building sits on a 510m² site at 51 Langridge Street, Collingwood VIC 3066 and sold to a private investor on a 5.08% yield.
· The building is due for completion early 2020 and is 52% leased to tenants including Inspire Group and Campaign Agent, with rental guarantees topping up the shortfall in tenants taking up physical space in the building. | a wide bridge.
· Lendlease will build the new city plaza – with a $19 million construction cost – and then hand it over to the City of Sydney, as part of community facilities it promised in 2016 in exchange for securing more height on the Salesforce Tower.
Condell Park Warehouse Lease (AFR)
· Appliance manufacturer Midea Australia have signed up to lease a 914m² office/warehouse at 114 Eldridge Road, Condell Park NSW 2200 in Sydney's west.
· The company agreed a four-year term at a gross annual rent of $152,000 ($166/m²).
Smithfield Warehouse Lease (AFR)
· IAC Acoustics Australia have signed a three-year lease at 130-148 Woodpark Road, Smithfield NSW 2164 for a 1583m² office/warehouse at a net annual rent of $180 | 206 |
6 Ridiculous 'Batman Forever' Moments, Because It's The Campiest Of The Batman Movies
By Mallory Carra
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During my childhood, I remember the Batman movies being the most exciting movies to come out of the '90s. Seems like not too much has change since then, eh? Well, Batman Forever remains one of my favorites, mostly because it's has the most ridiculous moments of all the Batman movies. Released in 1995 and celebrating its 20th anniversary this year, I know not a lot of people love Batman Forever. But it's campy, it's fun, it's got corny jokes, and it's kind of romantic, especially as compared to the super serious, Oscar-nominated The Dark Knight trilogy by Christopher Nolan.
Back in 1995, Batman Forever director Joel Schumacher took on the reigns of the caped crusader movies from Tim Burton. "Because of [Burton's] Batman Returns, families had objected that it was too adult, which is no criticism of Tim Burton's," he told Variety last year. Even though Batman Forever is really sexy, it was a movie the<|fim_middle|>In what is clearly left over moves from his hit movie The Mask, Carrey's Riddler throws out toy bombs and makes all kinds of '90s era Carrey body moves that are accompanied by sound effects, bad puns, and explosions. The only thing he doesn't do is talk out of his butt.
6. Batman's Origin Story
In Batman Begins, Nolan and Bale show Bruce Wayne's parents' murder and how it affects our superhero. In Batman Forever, Bruce falls down a hole (literally) at his parents wake and sees a bat. He tells that story so he can make out with Chase, basically. | whole family could see." Wow, I wonder how the '90s would feel about Christian Bale and Nolan's Batman movies. In Batman Forever, Val Kilmer's Bruce Wayne/Batman is joined by love interest Dr. Chase Meridian (Nicole Kidman), and villains the Riddler (Jim Carrey) and Two-Face (Tommy Lee Jones).
"Batman Forever was total passion," he told Variety. "My bosses let me change Batman. It has a great cast and everyone did a great job. It was fun to create a Batman movie."
Here are some of the most ridiculous and fun moments from Schumacher's creation.
1. The Bat Bulge Close-Up
Because nothing should be left to the imagination in that bat suit. This is also the movie that introduced the bat "nipples."
2. "Chicks Dig The Car"
At least he was being honest.
3. Jim Carrey Is In A Batman Movie
This isn't one moment, but so many. I still can't believe Ace Ventura-era Carrey is in a Batman movie. Imagine him going toe-to-toe with Bale's Batman. That would be no contest, right?
4. Dick Grayson's Karate Laundry Washing
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Only tough guys beat the stains out of their clothes. I'm guessing that this scene was supposed to show that Dick was always meant to be sidekick Robin.
5. The Riddler Destroys The Bat Cave Using Toys & a The Mask Impression
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May we forever be safe under thy blest patronage. | good St. Joseph. It was a small foretaste of the glories to come - flowers on the altar, white vestments, the statue of St. Joseph unveiled, and the Gloria ringing out like the welcome voice of a long-absent friend, but in the midst of the festivity the shadow of the Passion was still present in the violet and veiled images. Today was a particularly full day of doing God's holy will with sisters going to the sacristy to prepare for Palm Sunday, moderating the young ladies' Sodality, presenting to the Little Flowers girls, practicing for choir, and giving retreat talks, all flowing from our precious time with Our Lord. It was a pleasure to go from duty to duty with St. Joseph, asking that we may perform each one with the sentiments of love with which he would have performed them for the love of the Divine Child.
Good St. Joseph, be our model. Obtain for us the grace to rise each morning eager to | 200 |
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BEDFORD — When it comes to motorcycles, it doesn't get bigger than the name Harley Davidson. And now when it comes to Harley Davidson dealerships, there's no bigger place in Texas than the new hog heaven located in<|fim_middle|>-largest-harley-davidson-dealership-in-texas/ | Bedford.
"It took probably two years to design, develop, tweak and then about 14 months to build," owner Adam Smith told NewsFix during Friday's grand opening.
With the building spanning 72,000 square feet, it's one of the largest Harley Davidson dealerships in the nation. But even though this place is a sight to see, it also appeals to your sense of smell. Yep, this place has its own unique scent.
"Combination of grease, electrical, fire, leather and rubber," said Smith. "We came up with a fragrance called 'Grit.' It's a one of a kind fragrance."
Keeping with the theme, the dealership chose to forgo the traditional ribbon cutting for a "chain-cutting."
If you want to get a whiff of this new biker paradise for yourself, you can cruise on over this weekend.
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Date: Saturday, April 7, 2018
Location: Daniels Park, Cedar Rapids, Iowa
Luther's six-game win streak came to and end this afternoon at Bill Quinby Field in Cedar Rapids, Iowa as Coe swept today's twin bill 9-5 and 4-1.
After jumping out to a 5-0 lead in the top of the first, the Norse were held scoreless the rest of the way. The Kohawks scored two in the second and fifth frames and tied the<|fim_middle|>internet.com/coe/
Calendar of Events maintained by Megan Pitz. Page last updated on 7 April 2018. | game in the bottom of the sixth. Coe scored what proved to be the game winner in the seventh and added three insurance runs in the eighth.
The Norse tallied 10 hits and committed just one error. Bryce Hingst and Mitch Bruggers both were 2-for-4. Jared Swanson drove in two runs, while Derek McCready, Trent Athmann and Hingst all drove in one.
In the nightcap the Norse were held to three hits and scored their lone run in the sixth on an error on failed pick-off attempt at first base.
Two of Coe's four runs were unearned and the Norse pitching staff held them to six hits. The Kohawks scored one run in the third and fourth innings and added two more in the eighth.
The two losses drops Luther's Iowa Conference record to 6-4, 16-6 overall. Coe improved to 6-1 in league play, 11-7 overall.
These two teams will wrap up the three-game series tomorrow morning. Start time is slated for 10:30 a.m.
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My faith in the FL state park system has been restored. Anastasia State Park is gorgeous and wooded with squirrels and spanish moss hanging from the trees. And that's just the campground. There's a beach…a glorious, sugary, amazing stretch of semi-private wonderfulness with shells and sand dunes.
This is, hands down, the best beach we've been to so far.
Regardless of us leaving Wauchula yesterday at 8am, we still didn't get to our site until 7:30pm. This is beginning to look like a pattern. But we made an important, impromptu stop off at<|fim_middle|>′. Its shady and peaceful and a few minute bike ride to the beach. Mr. S has plenty of room to fly his new quadcopter that he bought with his Christmas money. The children's playground has only a few swings, but honestly, the beach is a much better playground.
Today was mostly a free day from formal school lessons, however each of the boys had an assignment from yesterday to finish before they were truly released. We did sneak in an art project at the beach using found objects.
We limited our playtime to 2 hours so we wouldn't be fried to a crisp by the golden southern sun. We are still deciding if we want to bike into St. Augustine or not. They have a Ripley's Believe it or Not museum. Of course, our kids have no idea what we're talking about. There are so many things to do around here but right now a nap seems like the best option right now. | my parents' house to pick up mail and packages and fix a minor leak under the kitchen sink. That put us behind schedule and since we were already behind schedule we stopped at a Subway to eat dinner.
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David Clay is a geologist for Ames Energy in San Antonio, which is about 200 miles from Houston. And he's an AAPG Young Professional member.
For the moment, that's not important.
He has a boat.
For the moment, that is.
"Tim McGovern (another San Antonio-based geologist and AAPG Member) and I had a quick conversation," Clay said, after they both saw horrendous images of people in need in and around Houston after Hurricane Harvey, "about how we both have boats but felt helpless in San Antonio without much direction on how to help."
Clay also had a young baby at home, so he couldn't very well bring his wife along while he went off to Houston to help strangers.
Or could he?
"About thirty minutes after discussing with Tim and realizing that it would be tough to figure out a way to get into Houston, Tim's wife, Chelsea, calls me," Clay recounted. "So you're taking the boat to Houston? Let's do this!"
That was settled in a hurry.
Clay's wife, who would stay home with their baby and also encouraged him to go, posted on Facebook she needed vests, water and care packages, and that's what they got. At 4 a.m. the next morning, Clay kissed his wife and his baby and left for Harris County, along with a group of fellow San Antonio geologists, including the McGoverns, Tanner Bowersox and others (some non-geologists).
"Upon getting the boat ready," Clay said, "I realized that since last duck season I had not replaced the worn trailer tires, and had not attended to my trailered boat quite enough. The engine started up just fine, but the steering cable had rusted shut. The boat was useless if I couldn't steer it."
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"I decided to unhook the steering wheel and cable from the motor. I then bolted on a three-foot piece of wood that would serve as the tiller. The boat was officially even more redneck approved than before! In fact, while out in the middle of Buffalo Bayou, a member of the Cajun Navy commended me on wooden tiller rig. It was the greatest compliment," he related.
Clay, along with friends Nils Granger and Justin Brim, soldiered on.
OK, they limped on.
At the Home Depot in Seguin, Texas, Clay met up with the McGoverns, Bowersox and the rest.
"In Schulenburg, Texas (about 90 minutes from Houston), I realized," said Clay, "the trailer tire was low and then upon filling it up, discovered that the tire tread had completely ripped off. So the boat was riding on two (worn) tires and one spare that only had half of the tread remaining on it too."
"We prayed! We prayed and then kept on going," said Clay.
And their prayers were answered.
Well, for about 15 minutes they were answered. Then the right tire blew.
It was 6.30 a.m. at this point and nothing was open.
Of course nothing was open.
Wait — something was.
"Finally found a tire shop<|fim_middle|>itivity of Human Nature
After meeting up again with the McGoverns, the trip continued.
"Driving in on I-10 the city (Houston), was quiet, but you really didn't see much of the flooding since you are up on the interstate."
Clay noticed about five other boats scrambling to find out how to help. FEMA officials, he said, weren't of much help, but then Justin, one of this "shipmates," got a lead from his Facebook newsfeed that said boats were immediately needed off of Memorial drive and Kirkwood.
Upon racing to the location, Clay said he and his crew "came to the intersection to a wall of water going down Kirkwood towards the bayou and a Cajun Navy member locked eyes with me, saw my boat and signaled for me to back in right there in the intersection."
"We launched the boat, surveyed the area and tried to get a grasp of underwater obstacles: trees, stop signs, fire hydrants. My buddy Nils and I grew up in Houston and fortunately spent lots of time driving on Kirkwood. He knew every turn and median to cut through," Clay added.
He continued, "We were instructed to go to the second bridge and pick up individuals and transport them back to higher ground. My depth finder was reading six to eight feet in the middle of Kirkwood. We got out into the bayou and at one point the depth was reading over 38 feet!"
"The section between the launch point and the second bridge had already been evacuated. It was (on) the other side of the second bridge where people were either wading to the bridge or being rescued and brought to the bridge. It was a rallying point for them to get picked up by us and transported down Kirkwood to higher ground. There were National Guard helicopters landing on the bridge 50 yards in front of us," Clay explained.
He said the helicopter responders prioritized people with health risks "and then people would run underneath them across the bridge, then another would land."
"That went on for hours it seemed like. By the time the early afternoon rolled around, there were about 40-plus boats on the water," he added.
There were so many boats, in fact, the National Guard asked Clay and his crew to get out of the water. They did so and headed to NRG stadium to drop off the supplies they had gathered, but the facility was at capacity and could not take any more donations.
The stadium can hold and park up to 80,000 people. And it was full.
"You cannot grasp something of this magnitude happening," he said.
Clay saw schools with no roofs, barns gone, power out, water shortages and other hallmarks of a natural disaster.
But he also saw something else.
"Every corner going through town had a barbecue pit, a grill or a mobile food truck helping feed people! It was something that brought tears to your eyes because there were people of all races and religions out there just to help others out. Grandparents passing out food or behind the grill. Their kids putting together barbecue plates and serving the sides and their kids passing out water. Generation to generation to generation showing their kids and grandkids what it means to serve others. It was incredible to see such giving people."
And some of those giving people include people who never left San Antonio, but someone for whom he works, namely Gene Ames, III.
"I did not ask him to leave work, I simply told him I had to go and he was OK with that. In fact, without my knowing he sent out an email to a group of industry friends requesting donations to fund our efforts in Houston. There was such a willingness to donate to our expenses that I was able to donate the remaining funds to the RebuildTX Fund and the J.J. Watt Fund. We can call it the Geologist Houston Recovery Fund."
Clay calls what he experienced, what he saw, "The positivity of human nature."
"There is no judgment of your race, religion, age, sex or anything else. It was simply people helping people."
Some you don't know, some you do.
"My brother's neighbors were in such an emotional state that they had no idea where to start the clean-up phase. Having three outsiders show up and throw out all of the ruined items that they couldn't separate themselves must have been heartbreaking. All they could do was cry for a few minutes, get past it and start the cleanup process. They had no other option," he said.
Clay went back to Houston the following week.
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It was time for another weekend getaway. This time not to Florida or Tennessee….but to Mississippi. A new place I get to put on the list of places I've been. We stayed right on the water, my favorite place to be.
It was a perfect, relaxing weekend. Just me and Hubs and sharing this time together.
Friday morning I left Virginia and headed to my first layover, Atlanta. Had a nice two hour layover, so no rushing, had plenty of time to walk around to stretch my legs, and grab some lunch and another coffee. I was totally fine with a longer layover because I did not have to worry about making it to my connecting flight and all the way to another terminal. I was able to take my time and just relax. On both flights I even managed to get window seats which is my favorite spot to be.
My outfit was very casual and comfy. For sitting so long and being in tight spaces I didn't want to wear anything to bulky or heavy, or too tight and fitting. So we ended up with a sweater and shoes that were easy enough to slip on and off for security.
When I arrived in Mississippi it was sunny and 70 degrees. Which Hubs said it has been very foggy the whole time he has been there. So I like to think I brought the sunshine with me, hahah. We checked into our hotel, changed into warmer clothes and headed down to the beach. We were down by the water until the sunset when it stared getting a little cooler. We headed to Sal & Mookies a pizza and ice cream restaurant. They only served 14″ or 18″ pies so Hubs and I shared a half pineapple, half bbq & sausage pizza. There was a lot of haters eyeing my pineapple pizza. But they are all just wrong so bring on the hate. While waiting on our pizza Hubs ordered a Not Your Father's Rootbeer Rootbeer float to enjoy. Stuffed bellies and tired from traveling we headed back to the hotel.
Saturday we woke up to yet another gorgeous day. We let ourselves have a slow morning lounging around in bed before finally getting up for the day. We grabbed a coffee at Jacked Up Coffee. A cute little shop that was half cafe, half bookstore. Two of my favorite things! We were also informed decaf was not served there. I guess to them decaf is a crime, sorry Hubs.
With coffee in hand we headed back down to the beach to walk the boardwalk. The water was calm. Although the water was too chilly for me to jump in for a swim there was plenty of kids splashing around. We then met another couple that Hubs knew to play some mini golf. The first 9 holes was just a warm up<|fim_middle|> to add Mississippi to the list! | , the last 9 I started to catch up and beat the Mr. Then we let our inner child come out and headed to the movies to watch How To Train Your Dragon III. What a cute movie and had us laughing. We were not the only adults in there either, so that was refreshing.
Later that evening we went to enjoy ice cream at Sal & Mookies since we were too full to get any the night before. I wanted to share the banana split, but they ran out of bananas. It must be a town favorite. So I ordered the chocolate overload, which was chocolate ice cream on top of a chocolate brownie, topped with chocolate chips and whipped cream. And because I think an ice cream is never complete until you add sprinkles, I requested some on top. Hubs said he wasn't hungry for ice cream. Well, who do you think ended up eating half of my dessert when it came out??? I love him so I allowed it.
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Home Latest Stories O.C. Celebrates Martin Luther King Jr. Day
O.C. Celebrates Martin Luther King Jr. Day
Rev. Gregory Johnson, of Shiloh Baptist Church, delivers his message to a captivated crowd at the Martin Luther King Jr. ceremony at the Ocean City High School.
A deep, resounding voice came from the back of the room at the Bill and Nancy Hughes Performing Arts Center at Ocean City High School, where crowds gathered to honor Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and his legacy.
Then, keynote speaker Rev. Gregory Johnson, of Shiloh Baptist Church, made his way to the stage. He captured the attention of the hundreds of people who were all there to listen to the message of Dr. King during Ocean City's 28th annual celebration.
"How long? Not long," Johnson assured the crowd.
He spoke about his grandmother and her teachings that one must respect others. The struggles people may face will be difficult, but there will be rewards,<|fim_middle|>umb to the divisions and fear in the world around us, but stand, as Dr. King did, against forces ruled by hatred."
Cape May County Freeholder E. Marie Hayes reminded the crowd of an important part of King's message: "A person should be judged by their character, not their color," she said to applause.
The Freedom Singers from Stockton University lift up the crowd.
In addition to King, important people in the community were recognized for the good that they do each and every day.
Ocean City resident Sally Onesty, who lost her son, Tyler, to drugs in 2017, received the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Award for her support of individuals and families battling the effects of addiction.
Melissa Wilson, Onesty's longtime friend, was one of the people who nominated her for the award.
Wilson stood at the podium and pointed out so many reasons why Onesty deserved the honor. She said Onesty has truly helped bring to light the drug addiction problems young people face throughout the country, the county and in Ocean City.
When Onesty's son overdosed, she did not hide, Wilson explained.
She took her grief and began a mission to help other families whose loved ones face addiction and also to give guidance to the young people who are struggling with the disease of addiction.
"She is a brave woman," Wilson noted.
Sally Onesty receives the Martin Luther King Jr. Award from Director of Community Services Michael Allegretto on behalf of Ocean City. Special Events Coordinator Michael Hartman looks on.
Wiping away a tear, Onesty urged the community to help someone who appears to be in trouble.
"Everybody can be great because everybody can serve," she said. "Next time you see someone who looks hopeless, lost, they probably are."
She said the best thing to do is call someone for help.
Other dignitaries, including Cape May County Freeholder Jeffrey Pierson, also showed their appreciation for Onesty and her work.
"Sally, I personally know loss. In 2015, my grandson committed suicide. You are committed to this community," Pierson said.
During the ceremony, honors were also given to two students from the Ocean City Intermediate School for their winning essays about what King means to them.
Ocean City Intermediate School Principal Geoffrey Haines looks on as James Burke reads his winning essay. Ethan Meron, waits to read how Martin Luther King Jr. influences his life.
James Burke, a seventh grade student, read his essay about how he tries to live by the ways of King, to be kind to everyone.
"Dr. King had a fire in his eye, a fire in his soul," James said. "I am trying to find that fire in me."
He added that he hopes to one day change the world for the better, as King did.
Ethan Meron, an eighth grade student, told the crowd that he strives to do what is right, just as King did in his lifetime.
King was about justice and equality. King's views are enough to remind everyone to do what is right, Ethan said.
Ocean City Council members, Ocean City Schools Superintendent Kathleen Taylor and School Board President Joseph Clark, Cape May County Freeholders, civic leaders and other dignitaries filled the stage and the audience.
Among other officials in attendance were Cape May County Sheriff Bob Nolan, former U.S. Ambassador and Congressman Bill Hughes and Cape May County Prosecutor Jeffrey Sutherland.
Volunteers serve up soul food after the Martin Luther King Jr. ceremony.
After the ceremony, a soul food luncheon was served. People lined up for generous portions of chicken, greens, macaroni and cheese and desserts.
Tammy Ackley, of Vineland, and her children, James Penn, 16, Tamia Gerald, 5, and David Gerald, 7, come to the celebration every year.
Tamia said she liked the singing the best. David liked the music the most.
"My mother-in-law lives in Ocean City," Ackley said. "We come every year because it is just beautiful. It is so moving and every year it gets better and better."
The Ackley family enjoys soul food after the Martin Luther King Jr. celebration at the Ocean City High School.
Freedom Singers under the direction of Beverly Vaughn, playing piano, perform for the crowd.
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"Sometimes, we feel like we are hurting on the inside," he said. "Faith unlocks the door. Hold on a little while longer."
The theme of racial equality and peace flowed throughout the ceremony. The words of King, his message of hope, resonated with those who spoke on his day.
Johnson noted that King made it a point to include everyone. King wanted to help everyone. Those are the keys to a fulfilling life.
He then recited King's epic "I Have a Dream" speech from 1963.
The Freedom Singers from Stockton University, under the direction of Beverly Vaughn, brought the audience members to their feet as strangers, family and friends held hands, swayed and sang in unison to "We Shall Overcome," which served as the anthem of America's civil rights movement.
Mayor Jay Gillian could not attend the ceremony, so Director of Community Services Michael Allegretto spoke on his behalf. He thanked the community for being there and remembering King.
"Many different people make up our town. But we all share a love of Ocean City," Allegretto said. "I know the mayor has a favorite quote of Dr. King's, 'We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now.'"
He continued, "My hope, and the mayor's hope for 2019, is for all members of our community to continue to work together to make Ocean City a better place for all. And my hope is that we will not succ | 316 |
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Unless asterisked, all books are available from good booksellers and internet sites.
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In recent years there has been a marked uptick in the number of books published about or featuring the British Transport Police, mainly by retired officers and – I'm pleased to report – by BTPHG members.
To that extent, and in order to keep track, a webpage seemed to be called for to chronicle this new phenomenon. Not to forget the older volumes either, of course!
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Tracking the Hooligans – by Mike Layton and Alan Pacey (2016) – The history of football violence on the rail network.
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Pedestrians walked through Kenmore Square as sunlight fell on the Citgo sign on<|fim_middle|> who attended Monday's meeting. | Monday.
Like so many real estate disputes, this one involves a longtime tenant and a new landlord who wants to jack up the rent.
But in this case, the tenant is the iconic Citgo sign — or, more precisely, the Venezuelan-owned oil company that leases the rooftop at 660 Beacon St., where the neon landmark sits. And the landlord is Related Beal, the New York developer that bought the building in October.
The two are locked in a stalemate over how much Citgo Petroleum Corp. should pay to rent the perch for a sign that serves as a backdrop to Fenway Park and as a beacon as runners near the Boston Marathon's finish line. Citgo's lease is set to expire just days before the Red Sox home opener.
The standoff is the latest chapter in a yearlong saga over the electronic billboard's future. And it highlights the challenge of conducting private negotiations about a very public monument. Each side believes it is in the right, but neither wants to be responsible for taking down a beloved piece of the Boston skyline.
Neither Citgo nor Related would comment on specific prices, citing their ongoing talks. But people familiar with the matter said Citgo pays about $250,000 a year, a below-market rate it reached years ago with Boston University, which sold 660 Beacon and eight nearby buildings to Related for $134 million. Related, these people said, initially proposed a figure as much as 10 times that, noting the site's potential value on the open market.
The bigger number doesn't seem outrageous to Donna Desmond, a California appraiser who specializes in outdoor advertising. She noted the site's potential value to a big-name sports company advertiser that might value its proximity to Fenway Park and broad views from points across Boston and Cambridge.
But the sign is also one-of-a-kind. And for Citgo it's a legacy of a different age, long before it became a subsidiary of Petróleos de Venezuela SA, the national oil company of Venezuela. The company has relatively few gas stations in Greater Boston and took down its other large outdoor signs decades ago. The sharp drop in the price of oil in 2014 and Venezuela's subsequent economic and political crises have weakened Petróleos de Venezuela.
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Citgo is stepping up its bid for public support to keep the sign as is.
In February, the company signed on as a sponsor of the Marathon, after a lengthy absence, and will host a cheering party beneath the sign next month. On Monday, Citgo officials hosted a meeting at the Commonwealth Hotel in Kenmore Square to gauge support from preservationists, neighborhood leaders, and other fans of the sign.
That support will prove strong, predicted Daniel Bluestone, an architecture professor at Boston University | 847 |
\section{Introduction}
The recent discovery of interaction-driven topological phases\cite{turner2013beyond,PhysRevB.87.155114,PhysRevB.87.235104,PhysRevLett.114.185701}, such as, fractional quantum-Hall states, spin-liquids, Kondo-insulators and bosonic topological phases
has created a huge interest in, otherwise considered to be mundane, band insulators. Some questions of fundamental interest in band insulators are: how do correlations drive a band insulator into a metal and a Mott insulator(MI) and are correlated band insulators fundamentally different from simple band insulators which have identical charge and spin excitation gaps? Theoretically these issues have been addressed in
all dimensions, from one to infinity, by various studies of model Hamiltonians such as the ionic Hubbard model\cite{0953-8984-15-34-319,PhysRevB.70.155115,PhysRevLett.92.246405,PhysRevLett.97.046403,
PhysRevLett.98.016402,PhysRevB.78.075121,PhysRevLett.98.046403,
PhysRevB.79.121103,PhysRevB.89.165117,hoang2010metal}, a two-sublattice model with inter-orbital hybridization\cite{PhysRevB.80.155116,PhysRevB.87.125141}, a two-band Hubbard model with crystal field splitting\cite{PhysRevLett.99.126405} and a bilayer model with two identical Hubbard planes\cite{PhysRevB.59.6846,PhysRevB.73.245118,PhysRevB.75.193103,PhysRevB.76.165110,0295-5075-85-3-37006}.
The ionic Hubbard model, which comprises a two-sublattice system having orbital energies,
$V$ and $-V$ with a local Coulomb repulsion, drew a lot of attention after the pioneering work by Arti Garg et. al.,\cite{PhysRevLett.97.046403}, which showed that correlations can turn a band insulator into a metal
and for higher interaction strengths, $U$, into a Mott insulator. The $U-V$ phase diagram, found
through a iterated perturbation theory (IPT) solution of the self-consistent impurity problem within
dynamical mean field theory (DMFT), exhibited a finite metallic region, which transformed into a line
at large $U$ and $V$, as should be the case in the exactly known atomic limit. Later studies using
a modified form of IPT, and numerical renormalization group at zero temperature ($T=0$), and a
continuous time quantum Monte-Carlo (CTQMC) study, while confirming the existence of an
intervening metallic phase,
were not in agreement about the extent of the metallic region. Furthermore, one could ask if there exist
parameters other then interaction strength, that could
induce metallicity in band insulators, and what would be the interplay of interactions with such an athermal parameter.
In this work, we have reconciled the results from the IPT and CTQMC studies, while also
answering the latter question within a two orbital Hubbard model with on-site repulsion, $U$, between electrons of opposite spin. The novelty of our model
is embodied by a parameter ``$x \in [0,1]$" which may be interpreted as the degree of ionicity, while $1-x$ is concomitantly interpreted as the degree of covalency.
Such a parametrization permits us to explore the interplay of ionicity and covalency in interacting band insulators. So for $x=1$, we obtain purely ionic band insulators\cite{PhysRevLett.97.046403} while for $x=0$, the model reduces to purely covalent band insulators\cite{PhysRevB.80.155116}. An investigation of correlations in polar-covalent insulators is important in its own right. The characteristic signature of the charge gap in these insulators is an order of few meV and given by inter-orbital hybridization between partially filled bands\cite{PhysRevB.80.155116, PhysRevB.78.033109}. The canonical example of covalent band insulators are FeSi and FeSb$_2$\cite{PhysRevLett.71.1748,PhysRevB.72.045103}. The temperature evolution of charge gap in these systems closes at low temperature relative to gap size and the spectral weight in the optical conductivity transfer to high-frequencies ($\approx$ 1 eV) above the gap edge. These two features strongly determine the role of electronic correlations in the covalent band insulators.
The interaction driven metallic region found in Ref\cite{PhysRevLett.97.046403} for the purely ionic Hubbard model is shown analytically to be just a line of measure zero in the $U-V$ plane. One of the main findings is that, while the two extremes of $x=0$ and $x=1$
are indeed band insulators, albeit of different kinds, the $x=0.5$ turns out to be a metal even in the non-interacting case. Further, the metal at $U=0$ turns into a correlated band insulator even for infinitesimal interactions, and a re-entrant
metallic phase is found at higher interactions, beyond which a Mott insulator is obtained. We find a rich phase diagram in the $U-T$ plane that is strongly dependent on the degree of covalency (or ionicity).
This chapter is organized as follows: In Sec.~\ref{Model5.1}, we define the model and methods chosen to study correlation effects in different kinds of band insulators. In Sec.~\ref{Model5.2}, first we discuss the analytical results at zero and finite temperatures and then we present and discuss our numerical results. Finally, in Sec.~\ref{Model5.3}, we present our conclusions.
\section{Models and Methods}
\label{Model5.1}
We have considered a two orbital Hubbard model with a local Coulomb interaction between two electrons of opposite spin on same orbital. In the second quantized notation, the Hamiltonian reads,
\begin{align}
{\cal{H}} &= -\mu \sum_{i\alpha\sigma} \hat{n}_{i\alpha\sigma}+
\sum_{ij\alpha\beta\sigma} t^{\alpha\beta}_{ij}(c^{\dagger}_{i\alpha\sigma}c^{\phantom \dagger}_{j\beta\sigma}
+h.c) {\nonumber} \\
&+\sum_{i\alpha\sigma} \frac{U}{2} \hat{n}_{i\alpha\sigma} \hat{n}_{i\alpha\bar{\sigma}} \\
&= \sum_{k\sigma} \begin{pmatrix}
c^\dagger_{kA\sigma} & c^\dagger_{kB\sigma}
\end{pmatrix}
\mathbf{{H}_{\sigma}(k)}
\begin{pmatrix}
c^{\phantom\dagger}_{kA\sigma} \\ c^{\phantom\dagger}_{kB\sigma}
\end{pmatrix} \nonumber \\
& + \sum_{i\alpha\sigma} \frac{U}{2} \hat{n}_{i\alpha\sigma} \hat{n}_{i\alpha\bar{\sigma}}
\label{eq:Ham}
\end{align}
where $c^{\dagger}_{i\alpha\sigma} (c_{i\alpha\sigma})$ creates (annihilates) an electron at lattice site
$i$, in orbital $\alpha=A/B$ with $S_z$ eigenvalue $\sigma$. We set the chemical potential $\mu$ = $\frac{U}{2}$ so that each
unit cell has a total average occupancy of 2 (i.e.\ half filling). The unit cell thus consists of two orbitals A and B. An equivalent
interpretation is the consideration of sublattices A, B. The latter is usually chosen for the ionic Hubbard model. In the equation~\eqref{eq:Ham}, $\mathbf{{H}_{\sigma}(k)}$ comprises orbital energies,
intra-unit-cell hybridization and nearest neighbour inter-unit-cell hopping, namely
\begin{align}
\mathbf{{H}_{\sigma}(k)} & = {\mathbf{{H}^{\sigma}(k)}}_{intra} +
{\mathbf{{H}}^{\sigma}(\mathbf{k})}_{inter}{\nonumber} \,.
\end{align}
We are mainly interested in local single particle
electron dynamics, which is given by the momentum sum of the lattice Green's function,
\begin{equation}
\mathbf{G}_{\sigma}(\omega^+) =
\sum_{{\mathbf{k}}} \left[(\omega^+ + \mu)\mathbb{I} -
\mathbf{{H}_{\sigma}(k)} - \mathbf{{\Sigma}_{\sigma}}(\mathbf{k},\omega^+)\right]^{-1}\,,
\label{eq:gloc}
\end{equation}
where $\omega^+ = \omega+i\eta$ and $\eta\rightarrow
0^+$, and $\mathbb{I}$ is the identity matrix.
We have calculated the local single particle propagators within the DMFT framework, wherein the single particle
irreducible self-energy $\mathbf{\Sigma}_{\sigma}(\omega^+)$ is local, and will be determined by solving the auxiliary Anderson impurity model. The local, interacting Green's function (equation~\eqref{eq:gloc}) may be related to the non-interacting Green's function ${\bf{G}}_{0\sigma}(\omega^+)$ through the Dyson equation:
\begin{equation}
{\bf{G}}^{-1}_{0,\sigma}(\omega^+) = {\bf{G}}^{-1}_{\sigma}(\omega^+)+{\bf{\Sigma}}_{\sigma}(\omega^+) \,.
\end{equation}
We construct a non-interacting Hamiltonian
$\mathbf{{H}_{\sigma}(k)}$ as an interpolation between an ionic band insulator (IBI) and a covalent
insulator (CI) as follows:
\begin{align}
&{\mathbf{{H}}}_{\sigma}({\mathbf{k}},x) = {\mathbf{{H}}}_{IBI}
+{\mathbf{{H}}}_{CI} \nonumber \\
& = x\begin{pmatrix}
\Delta & \epsilon_{k\sigma} \\
\epsilon_{k\sigma} & -\Delta
\end{pmatrix}
+
(1-x)\begin{pmatrix}
\tilde{\epsilon}_{k\sigma} & V\\
V & -\tilde{\epsilon}_{k\sigma}
\end{pmatrix}\,,
\label{eq:matrix}
\end{align}
where the IBI corresponds to $x=1$, while the CI is obtained at $x=0$, hence $x$ represents the fraction of ionicity,
while $1-x$ represents covalency.
In the IBI, a two sublattice system has staggered ionic potentials $\Delta$ and -$\Delta$ and and a $k$-dependent hybridization ($\epsilon_{k\sigma}$) between sites on sublattice 1 and 2. The CI is characterized by two semicircular bands having opposite sign of the hopping parameter and a $k$-independent hybridization $V$. The diagonal dispersion in the CI corresponds to intra-band electron hopping, while the off-diagonal dispersion in the IBI corresponds to inter-band electron hopping. By varying the parameter $x$ from 1 to 0, we can interpolate smoothly between a purely ionic limit (for $x=1$) and a purely covalent limit($x=0$). In other words, the
percentage of covalency in the ionic band insulator increases as we decrease $x$ from 1 to 0.
The motivation to build and study the above Hamiltonian is twofold: (a) There are three primary chemical bonds namely ionic, covalent and metallic bonds. But in practice, a perfect ionic bond does not exist, i.e., any
bond has a partial covalency. Quantifying the covalency or the ionicity of a given bond is not without ambiguities\cite{Kittel,Ashcroft}. Depending upon the percentage of covalency in the ionic bond, properties of the system changes drastically\cite{Kittel,Ashcroft}. Equation~\eqref{eq:matrix} is one the simplest and of course, non-unique, ways of
parametrizing a system wherein the bonding has
an ionic as well as covalent character.
(b) Another perspective from the view point of real materials is that the non-interacting Hamiltonian $\mathbf{{H}_{\sigma}(k)}$ could have both inter-unit cell and intra-unit cell hybridizations, where inter-unit cell hopping is often neglected in model calculations\cite{PhysRevB.58.R4199}.
Throughout the paper, we have considered the case where V = $\Delta$ and $\epsilon_k$ = $\tilde{\epsilon}_k$.
Although these are specific parameter choices, the results we obtain are quite general and applicable
to more general choices. The structure of $\mathbf{{H}_{\sigma}(k,\mathnormal{x})}$ determines the form
of the impurity Greens functions, which for orbital (or sublattice) 1 is given by,
\begin{equation}
G_{1\sigma}(\omega^{+}) = \int d\epsilon \frac{ \zeta_{2\sigma}(\omega^{+},\epsilon) \rho_0(\epsilon)}{\zeta_{1\sigma}(\omega^{+},\epsilon) \zeta_{2\sigma}(\omega^{+},\epsilon) - [V(1-x)+\epsilon x]^2}\,,
\label{eq:green}
\end{equation}
where
\begin{align*}
&\zeta_{1\sigma}(\omega^{+},\epsilon) = \omega+ i\eta + \mu -[Vx+\epsilon(1-x)]-\Sigma_{1\sigma}(\omega^{+})\nonumber\,, \\&
\zeta_{2\sigma}(\omega^{+},\epsilon) = \omega+ i\eta + \mu +[Vx+\epsilon(1-x)]-\Sigma_{2\sigma}(\omega^{+})\nonumber\,,
\end{align*}
and $\rho_0(\epsilon)$ = $\frac{2}{\pi D}$ $\sqrt{1-(\epsilon/D)^2}$. $D=1$ is our energy unit and $\eta\rightarrow
0^+$ is the convergence factor. In the half-filling case, the Hamiltonian has mirror type symmetry between orbitals, which reflects in the impurity Green's function and self-energy in the following way,
\begin{align}
G_{1\sigma}(\omega^{+}) & = - \left[G_{2\sigma}(-\omega^{+})\right]^{*}\,, \\
\Sigma_{1\sigma}(\omega^{+}) & = U - \left[\Sigma_{2\sigma}(-\omega^{+})\right]^{*}\,.
\end{align}
By using above self-energy symmetry relation, we can readily show that,
\begin{equation}
\zeta_{1\sigma}(\omega^{+},\epsilon) = -[\zeta_{2\sigma}(-\omega^{+},\epsilon)]^{*}\,,
\end{equation}
then equation~\eqref{eq:green} can be written as,
\begin{equation}
G_{1\sigma}(\omega^{+})=\int d\epsilon \frac{\zeta^*_{1\sigma}(-\omega^{+},\epsilon) \rho_0(\epsilon)}{\zeta_{1\sigma}(\omega^{+},\epsilon) \zeta^*_{1\sigma}(-\omega^{+},\epsilon) - [V(1-x)+\epsilon x]^2}\,.
\label{eq:general}
\end{equation}
Now we are going to present a few analytical results for the
density of states (DOS) at the Fermi level ($\omega=0$) and subsequently, we will discuss our numerical results.
\section{Results and Discussion}
\label{Model5.2}
One of the most interesting findings in the case of the ionic Hubbard model was that correlations can turn
a band insulator into a metal. In general, the distinction between a metal and insulator for clean systems, can be made based on the low energy single-particle density of states. So, in the following sub-section, we will analyse the conditions for which the $\omega\rightarrow 0$ DOS is finite.
\subsection{Analytical results: $T=0$}
In Ref.\cite{PhysRevLett.97.046403}, it was assumed that adiabatic continuity to a corresponding non-interacting limit
is maintained in the correlated band insulator, as well as in the metallic phase, until of course, a quantum phase transition to the Mott insulator occurs. Following the same, we have found the conditions for metallicity or insulating behaviour, provided a Fermi-liquid expansion of self-energy holds, namely that $\Sigma(\omega)
\stackrel{\omega\rightarrow 0}{\rightarrow} \Sigma(0)
+ \omega (1-1/Z) + {\cal{O}}(\omega^2)$. Then, the value of imaginary part of self-energy at zero frequency is $
{\rm Im}\Sigma_{1\sigma}(0)=0$, and
the corresponding density of states (DOS) $D_{1\sigma}(0)=-\frac{1}{\pi} \mathrm{Im} G_{1\sigma}(0)$ is given by,
\begin{align}
&D_{1\sigma}(0)=\int \frac{d\epsilon \,\rho_0(\epsilon)\,\frac{\eta}{\pi}}{\eta^2+[\mathrm{Re}(\zeta_{1\sigma}(0,\epsilon))]^2+[V(1-x)+\epsilon x]^2}\,,
\label{eq:dos}
\end{align}
where $\eta\rightarrow 0^+$ and $\mathrm{Re}(\zeta_{1\sigma}(0,\epsilon))$=$[\mu-(Vx+\epsilon(1-x))-\mathrm{Re}\Sigma_{1\sigma}(0)]$.
For a metallic system there should be a finite DOS at the Fermi level, while in the case of insulators, it should be zero. In the following sub-sections for different values of $x$, we are going to find the conditions for existence of metallicity.
\subsubsection{Ionic band insulator ($x=1$)}
\label{sec:ihm}
By substituting $x=1$ in equation~\eqref{eq:matrix}, the non-interacting $\mathbf{{H}_{\sigma}(k,\mathnormal{x}))}$ reduces to:
\begin{align}
\mathbf{{H}_{\sigma}(K)} =
\begin{pmatrix}
V & \epsilon_k \\
\epsilon_k & -V
\end{pmatrix}\,.
\end{align}
In literature this is often called an ``ionic Hubbard model (IHM)", where there are two broad electronic bands with staggered ionic potentials $V$ and $-V$ and $\epsilon_{k\sigma}$ is the dispersion of the bands. The name ionic band insulator suggests that the non-interacting excitation spectrum ($E_k = \sqrt{\epsilon_k^2+V^2}$) has a gap due to ionic potential ($V$). The DOS at the Fermi level is given by,
\begin{align}
D_{1\sigma}(0)=\int \frac{d\epsilon \rho_0(\epsilon)\frac{\eta}{\pi}}{[\eta^2+\epsilon^2+(\mu-\mathrm{Re}{\Sigma}_{1\sigma}(0)-V)^2]}\,.
\label{eq:dos1}
\end{align}
By taking the limit $\eta \rightarrow 0^+$, we get
\begin{equation}
D_{1\sigma}(0)= \int d\epsilon \rho_0(\epsilon) \delta\left(\sqrt{\epsilon^2+(\mu-\mathrm{Re}\Sigma_{1\sigma}(0)-V)^2}\right)\,.
\end{equation}
This expression states that if $\mu-\mathrm{Re}\Sigma_{1\sigma}(0)-V$ = 0 then $D_{1\sigma}(0) = \rho_0(0)$, else $D_{1\sigma}(0) = 0$. For a fixed $\mu=U/2$ and $V$, such a condition is never satisfied in the non-interacting case ($U=0$),
while in the interacting case, since the real part of the self-energy may be expected to be a monotonically
varying function of $U$, the condition can only be satisfied for a specific $U$ corresponding to a given $V$.
Thus, the metallic phase (where $D_{1\sigma}(0)\neq 0$)
for the purely ionic band insulator ($x=1$) exists only on a single line,
rather than a finite region in the $V-U$ phase diagram. Our numerical
results validate this inference, as shown later.
\subsubsection{Covalent band insulator ($x=0$)}
In this limit, $\mathbf{{H}_{\sigma}(k,\mathnormal{x})}$ can be written as,
\begin{align}
\mathbf{{H}_{\sigma}(k)} =
\begin{pmatrix}
\epsilon_k & V\\
V & -\epsilon_k
\end{pmatrix}\,.
\end{align}
Systems defined by the above type of Hamiltonian have been termed ``Covalent band insulators" (CBI), where two electronic bands with dispersion $\epsilon_{k\sigma}$, -$\epsilon_{k\sigma}$ hybridize through
a ${\mathbf{k}}$-independent hybridization($V$). The non-interacting excitation spectrum ($E_k$ = $\sqrt{\epsilon_k^2+V^2}$) is gapped due to the inter-orbital hybridization $V$ (which represents covalency). The opposite sign of the dispersion of the two bands ensures a finite gap in non-interacting excitation spectrum, $E_k$, for any value of $V$. The DOS at the Fermi level, for $x=0$, reduces to the following form
(following arguments similar to those for the ionic band insulator),
\begin{align}
D_{1\sigma}(0)=\int \frac{d\epsilon \rho_0(\epsilon)\frac{\eta}{\pi}}{[\eta^2+V^2+(\mu-\mathrm{Re}{\Sigma}_{1\sigma}(0)-\epsilon)^2]}\,.
\label{eq:dos1}
\end{align}
By taking the limit $\eta \rightarrow 0^+$, we get
\begin{align}
D_{1\sigma}(0) & = \int d\epsilon \rho_0(\epsilon) \delta\left(\sqrt{V^2+(\mu-\mathrm{Re}\Sigma_{1\sigma}(0)-\epsilon)^2}\right)\nonumber \\ &
= 0 \;\;\;{\rm for\; any}\;\; V\neq 0,
\end{align}
since the argument of the Dirac delta function is positive definite.
Thus for covalent band insulators, interactions can not close the gap
at $T=0$, no matter how strong they are, implying a complete absence of metallicity.
\subsubsection{$x=0.5$}
The mixing parameter $x=0.5$ corresponds to the case where the
ionicity and covalency are present in an equal proportion and the structure of $\mathbf{{H}_{\sigma}(k,\mathnormal{x})}$ is given by,
\begin{align}
\mathbf{{H}_{\sigma}(k)} = \frac{1}{2}\begin{pmatrix}
V+\epsilon_{k\sigma} & V+\epsilon_{k\sigma}\\
V+\epsilon_{k\sigma} & -(V+\epsilon_{k\sigma})
\end{pmatrix}\,.
\label{eq:matrix1}
\end{align}
The DOS at the Fermi level is given by,
\begin{align}
D_{1\sigma}(0)=\int \frac{d\epsilon \rho_0(\epsilon)\frac{\eta}{\pi}}{\eta^2+\frac{(\epsilon+V)^2}{4}+[\mu-\mathrm{Re}{\Sigma}_{1\sigma}(0)-(\frac{\epsilon+V}{2})]^2}\,.
\label{eq:dos2}
\end{align}
In the non-interacting case i.e., $U=0$ ($\Rightarrow \mu=0$ and $\mathrm{Re} {\Sigma}_{1\sigma}(0)$=0),
\begin{align}
D_{1\sigma}(0)=\int \frac{d\epsilon \rho_0(\epsilon)\frac{\eta}{\pi}}{\eta^2+\frac{(\epsilon+V)^2}{2}}\,,
\end{align}
\begin{align}
D_{1\sigma}(0) = &\int d\epsilon \rho_0(\epsilon)\delta\left(\frac{\epsilon+V}{\sqrt{2}}\right) = \rho_0(-V)\sqrt{2}\,,\nonumber \\&
= \frac{2\sqrt{2}}{\pi D} \sqrt{1-\left(\frac{-V}{D}\right)^2}\,.
\end{align}
Thus, the DOS at the Fermi-level is finite even in the non-interacting case, i.e., the ground state is a metal. This can also be proven from the non-interacting excitation spectrum ($E_k$ = $\sqrt{2}(\epsilon_k+V)$), which is gapless. In order to understand if the
non-interacting metallic state survives at a finite $U$, we go back to
equation~\eqref{eq:dos2}. The DOS at Fermi-level is given by,
\begin{align}
& D_{1\sigma}(0)=\int\, d\epsilon\, \rho_0(\epsilon)\times
{\nonumber} \\
&\delta\left(\sqrt{\frac{(\epsilon+V)^2}{4}+\left(\mu-\mathrm{Re}{\Sigma}_{1\sigma}(0)-\frac{(\epsilon+V)}{2}\right)^2}\right)\,,
\end{align}
which is finite only if $|V| < D$ and
$\frac{U}{2}-\mathrm{Re}{\Sigma}_{1\sigma}(0) = 0$. Consider
a weakly interacting system, where $U \rightarrow$ 0$^{+}$. Then,
$\frac{U}{2}-\mathrm{Re}{\Sigma}_{1\sigma}(0) \neq$ 0 since $\mathrm{Re}\Sigma_{1,\sigma}(0) \approx U n_{1\sigma} \neq \frac{U}{2}$. Thus, the metallic phase exists only at $U = 0$, and the system instantly becomes gapped for even an infinitesimal $U$. Thus
apart from the non-interacting case, we again get a band insulator,
albeit correlated, for a range of $U$ values. With increasing $U$, $\frac{U}{2}-\mathrm{Re}{\Sigma}_{1\sigma}(0)$ decreases, since $n_{1,\sigma} \rightarrow 0.5$. Thus, a second metallic phase, which
is correlated, must arise at a finite $U$ value when
$\mu-\mathrm{Re}{\Sigma}_{1\sigma}(0) = 0$. Thus, an interaction induced band insulator sandwiched between two metallic phases
emerges due to local electronic correlations.
\subsubsection{General case: $0.5 < x < 1.0$ and $0< x < 0.5$}
In the general case, the DOS at Fermi level is given by,
\begin{align}
D_{1\sigma}(0) = \int d\epsilon \rho_0(\epsilon)\delta\left(g(\epsilon)\right)\,,
\end{align}
where
\begin{equation}
g(\epsilon) = \sqrt{(V(1-x)+\epsilon x)^2+(\mathrm{Re}(\zeta_{1\sigma}(0,\epsilon)))^2}
\label{eq:ge}
\end{equation}
and $\mathrm{Re}(\zeta_{1\sigma}(0,\epsilon)) = \mu-\mathrm{Re}\Sigma_{1\sigma}(0)-(Vx+\epsilon(1-x))$.
The DOS at the Fermi level is finite only if $g(\epsilon)=0$,
which in turn requires
\begin{align}
& \epsilon = -V \frac{1-x}{x} \label{eq:gen1} \\
{\rm and\;\;\;} & \mu-\mathrm{Re}\Sigma_{1\sigma}(0)-
2V\left(1 -\frac{1}{2x}\right)= 0.\label{eq:gen2}
\end{align}
If equation~\eqref{eq:gen2} can be satisfied for some $U$,
then the DOS will be given by
\begin{equation}
D_{1\sigma}(0)= \frac{1}{\sqrt{x^2+(1-x)^2}} \frac{2}{\pi D} \sqrt{1-\left(\frac{V(1-x)}{Dx}\right)^2}
\end{equation}
For a given $x$, whether equation~\eqref{eq:gen2} is satisfied or not is completely decided by $n_{1\sigma}$. For $x > 0.5$, if $n_{1\sigma}<0.5$, then $\mathrm{Re}\Sigma(0)\approx Un_{1\sigma} < U/2$, and hence, $U/2-\mathrm{Re}\Sigma_{1\sigma}(0)>0$ i.e.\
a specific $U$ might exist which satisfies the condition. If however, $n_{1\sigma}>0.5$ then for any $U$ value the condition is never met.
For $x <1/2 $, the condition $\mu-\mathrm{Re}\Sigma(0) = -(1-2x)/x$ is never satisfied unless $n_{1\sigma} > 0.5$.
\subsection{Analytical results: $T>0$}
At low enough temperatures, the expression for Fermi-liquid form of self energy is, ${\rm Im} \Sigma_{1\sigma}(\omega)\propto -{\rm max}(\omega^2+T^2)$. Thus, equation~\eqref{eq:general} becomes
\begin{align}
& G_{1\sigma}(0) = \int d\epsilon \rho_0(\epsilon)\,\times {\nonumber} \\
& \frac{ [i\mathrm{Im}\Sigma_{1\sigma}(0)+ \mathrm{Re}(\zeta^*_{1\sigma}(0,\epsilon))]}{[\mathrm{Im}\Sigma_{1\sigma}(0)]^2+[V(1-x)+\epsilon x]^2+ [\mathrm{Re}(\zeta^*_{1\sigma}(0,\epsilon))]^2}\,,
\end{align}
and the corresponding DOS is
\begin{align}
&D_{1\sigma}(0) = \int \, d\epsilon\, \rho_0(\epsilon)\times {\nonumber} \\
& \frac{ -\mathrm{Im}\Sigma_{1\sigma}(0)/\pi}{[\mathrm{Im}\Sigma_{1\sigma}(0)]^2+[V(1-x)+\epsilon x]^2+ [\mathrm{Re}(\zeta^*_{1\sigma}(0,\epsilon)]^2}\,.
\label{eq:dos}
\end{align}
Thus, the Dirac delta functions at $T=0$ acquire a finite width due
to thermal broadening. However, these resonances are sharply peaked
if $T\rightarrow 0$.
Although the above integral is always finite, a significant density
of states is obtained only when $[V(1-x)+\epsilon x]^2+ [\mathrm{Re}(\zeta^*_{1\sigma}(0,\epsilon)]^2 \le [\mathrm{Im}\Sigma_{1\sigma}(0)]^2$ which would, in general, be satisfied for a range of $U$
values. The integral has a maximum value only when $[V(1-x)+\epsilon x]^2+ [\mathrm{Re}(\zeta^*_{1\sigma}(0,\epsilon)]^2$=0. Thus, at finite temperatures, the single metallic line of $T=0$ broadens into a
metallic region. This is also corroborated by recent CTQMC calculations \cite{PhysRevB.89.165117} for the ionic Hubbard model ($x=1$), and as shown in the next section, by our results as well.
\subsection{Numerical results}
Now we are going to describe results obtained by the numerical solution
of the auxiliary Anderson impurity model of equation~\eqref{eq:Ham} within DMFT. As an impurity solver, we have used iterated perturbation theory (IPT)\cite{mo-ipt} and hybridization expansion continuous-time quantum Monte-Carlo (HY-CTQMC)\cite{CTQMC1,Bauer} methods at zero temperature and finite temperature respectively. In the numerical calculations, we have fixed $V=0.5$.
\subsubsection{ $x$=1 (ionic band insulator)}
\begin{figure}[h!]
\centering
\includegraphics[scale=0.6]{Fig_1.png}
\caption{ (color online) Top panel: $-\delta n=n_{2\sigma}-n_{1\sigma}$ (black circles) and $-\mathrm{Re}\zeta_{1\sigma}(0)$ (red squares) as a function of $U$ ($V=0.5$) obtained within the self-consistent Hartree approximation.
The result shows that the system does not metallize for any interaction strength. Lower panel: Zero
temperature IPT results for
$\mathrm{Re}\zeta_{1\sigma}(0)$ as a function of $U$ ($V=0.5$)
for a fixed $\delta n = 0.0025$. In the inset, the zero crossing has been zoomed to show that only a single
zero crossing is obtained as a function of $U$ (with $\eta=10^{-9}$ and energy unit $D = \frac{W}{2} = 2$), thus showing that the system turns metallic only
for a single value of the interaction strength, and not over a range of $U$ values.}
\label{fig:fig5.1}
\end{figure}
At the Hartree level, the self-energy is given by $\Sigma_{1\sigma}=Un_{1\bar{\sigma}}$, and hence
the excitation spectrum $\left[E_k = \sqrt{\epsilon_k^2+(V-U\frac{\delta n}{2})^2}\right]$ has a gap of $2{\bar{V}}=
2(V-U\frac{\delta n}{2})$ where $\delta n = n_{1\sigma}$-n$_{2\sigma}$. So for a given $\delta n$, the value of $\mathrm{Re}\zeta_{1\sigma}$(0) (i.e., $\mu-\mathrm{Re}\Sigma_{1\sigma}(0)-V$) is constant with respect to $U$ and it goes to zero only when $\delta n$=0. Thus, the metallic phase exists in HF-theory only when V = 0 ($\Rightarrow $ $\delta n$ = 0) and indeed we observed the same as shown in figure~\ref{fig:fig5.1}(a).
Incorporating dynamics beyond the static (HF) theory leads to a completely different picture. The lower panel of figure~\ref{fig:fig5.1} shows IPT results for $\mathrm{Re}\zeta_{1\sigma}(0)$ as a function of $U$ for $\delta n = 0.0025$. With increasing $U$, $\mathrm{Re}\zeta_{1\sigma}(0) $ starts decreasing and vanishes at a critical value, $U_{c}$. Above this critical interaction strength, $\mathrm{Re}\zeta_{1\sigma}(0) $ changes its sign.
As argued in section~\ref{sec:ihm}, the vanishing of $\mathrm{Re}\zeta_{1\sigma}(0) $ signals metallicity,
and the result in the lower panel of figure~\ref{fig:fig5.1} (zoomed in the inset) shows that the metal arises at precisely one value of the interaction strength for a given $V$ and a fixed $\delta n$. The only effect of
interactions at the chemical potential ($\omega=0$) is to induce a static real shift in the orbital energy, which
is solely responsible for turning the ionic band insulator into a metal. However, it is important to note that
a pure Hartree shift is not sufficient, and dynamics beyond the Hartree level is necessary to obtain
the metal. The same
qualitative picture holds for other values of the ionic potential ($V$) , and hence in the
$ U-V$ phase diagram of IHM, the metallic phase exists only on a single line, rather than a finite range of $U$
values for any $V\neq 0$. It is of course well known that for $V=0$, the usual Hubbard model
exhibits a metallic phase for all $U\leq U_{c2}$.
\begin{figure}[h!]
\centering
\includegraphics[scale=0.55]{Fig_2.png}
\caption{ (color online) Fermi-level spectral weight $\tilde{A}_{1\sigma}$ as a function of U for different $\beta$ values obtained from HY-CTQMC for $x$=1.( Down-arrow corresponds to increase in U, Up-arrow corresponds to decrease in U, Energy unit D = $\frac{W}{2}$ = 1)}
\label{fig:fig5.2}
\end{figure}
In order to consolidate our conclusions from the analytical arguments of section~\ref{sec:ihm} and
the numerical results from IPT, we have carried out finite temperature CTQMC calculations using the
hybridization expansion algorithm.
The Fermi-level spectral weight $\tilde{A}_{1\sigma}$ = $-G_{1\sigma}(\tau=\frac{\beta}{2})/T\pi$ as a function of
$U/W$ for various temperatures ($\beta=1/T$) are shown in figure~\ref{fig:fig5.2}. We will first focus on the results obtained for the lowest temperature ($\frac{1}{T}=\beta$ = 128) that we have reached through our calculations. At low U value, the Fermi-level spectral weight $\tilde{A}_{1\sigma}$ is zero up to $\frac{U}{W}$ = 0.75. Beyond that, it starts increasing with U and it reaches a maximum value($\sim$ 0.6) around $\frac{U}{W}$ = 1.25. Then it becomes constant for a range of U value. As we increase the U-value further, there is a discrete jump (first order transition) in $\tilde{A}_{1\sigma}$, where the DOS at the Fermi-level is zero. This means, for small U-values we have a band insulator (BI) and for intermediate U-values BI crosses-over (U$_{co}$) to a metal (M) then finally it becomes Mott-insulator (MI) for large U-values ($>$ U$_{c1}$). At the same temperature ($\beta$ = 128), starting with MI state, we reduce the U-value, system went to a metallic state at U$_{c2}$ which is smaller than U$_{c1}$. The region between critical values(U$_{c2}$, U$_{c1}$) corresponds to the coexistence region, where M and MI solutions simultaneously exist. As we increase the temperature, beyond $\beta$=32 the transition from M to MI turns into a crossover. At finite temperature, we observed a metallic region in the ionic Hubbard model rather than a metallic point.
\begin{figure}[h!]
\centering
\includegraphics[scale=0.5]{Fig_3.png}
\caption{ (color online) Finite temperature phase diagram of Ionic band Insulator ($x$=1.0) obtained from HY-CTQMC (BI: Band Insulator, M: Metal and MI: Mott Insulator), Inset: Linear fit to $\tilde{A}_{1\sigma}$ in the metallic region at $\beta$=128.}
\label{fig:fig5.3}
\end{figure}
We find the crossover value (U$_{co}$) from BI to M by a linear fit of $\tilde{A}_{1\sigma}$ to the region where it grows linearly with U, which has shown in the inset of figure~\ref{fig:fig5.3}. We identified the critical values (U$_{c2}$,U$_{c1}$) based on low frequency behaviour of imaginary part of self energy (MI state: -Im $\Sigma_{1\sigma}(i\omega_n) \propto \frac{1}{\omega_n}$ and M state: -Im $\Sigma_{1\sigma}(i\omega_n) \propto{\omega_n}$). We have used the same procedure throughout the chapter to find critical values at each temperature and $x$. We have determined the critical values at each temperature, for $x$ = 0 as shown in figure~\ref{fig:fig5.3}. As we increase the temperature, the metallic region which is bounded by two insulators increases (i.e., BI region decreases) and the coexistence region between M and MI decreases and finally disappears at $\beta$=32. By extrapolating the critical values in figure~\ref{fig:fig5.3} to zero temperature, we cannot conclude the existence of metallic phase. However, as we increase the U value, CTQMC yields the impurity occupancy which is always less than 0.5 (i.e., n$_{1\sigma}<0.5$). That means there will be a single U value, where the metallic condition $\mu-\mathrm{Re}\Sigma_{1\sigma}(0)=V$ satisfies, since $\mathrm{Re}\Sigma_{1\sigma}(0)<\frac{U}{2}$. The existence of metallic region at finite temperature in IHM for a broad range of U values<|fim_middle|>
\includegraphics[scale=0.5]{Fig_4.png}
\caption{ (color online) (a) Quasi particle weight(Z) as a function of $\frac{U}{W}$ obtained from IPT. (b) Charge gap as a function of $\frac{U}{W}$ obtained from IPT.(We have used $\eta$= 10$^{-2}$ and energy unit is D=$\frac{W}{2}$=2)}
\label{fig:fig5.4}
\end{figure}
\begin{figure}[h!]
\centering
\includegraphics[scale=0.5]{Fig_5.png}
\caption{ (color online) Fermi-level spectral weight as a function of $\frac{U}{W}$ for different $\beta$ values obtained from HY-CTQMC for $x$=0.0 (Energy unit D=W/2=1.0)}
\label{fig:fig5.5}
\end{figure}
In figure~\ref{fig:fig5.5} we have plotted $\tilde{A}_{1\sigma}$ as a function $\frac{U}{W}$ for different temperatures. The behavior of $\tilde{A}_{1\sigma}$ for $x$ = 0(CBI) is completely different from $x$ = 1(IHM) case. For example, $\tilde{A}_{1\sigma}$ is zero up to the large value of $\frac{U}{W}$(=2.0) even though both insulators have same bandwidths, i.e., BI phase in CBI persists up to large U values. The increment of $\tilde{A}_{1\sigma}$ with respect to U increases rather sharp, and it is finite for a narrow range of U values in compare with IHM. As we increase U, the system first evolves from BI to M (U$_{co}$) then finally went to MI state at critical U$_{c1}$. The transition from M to MI is the first-order type, and it persists even for higher temperatures. For fixed $\beta$, we have also calculated the $\tilde{A}_{1\sigma}$ value by decreasing U value from MI then system evolves into a BI state at critical U$_{c2}$. The region between critical U$_{c2}$ and U$_{c1}$ corresponds to the coexistence region, where BI and MI solutions coexist.
\begin{figure}[h!]
\centering
\includegraphics[scale=0.5]{Fig_6.png}
\caption{ (color online) Finite temperature phase diagram of Covalent band Insulator ($x$=0.0) on $T$ Vs $U$ plane (Energy unit D=W/2=1.0).}
\label{fig:fig5.6}
\end{figure}
We extracted the critical values at each temperature from the procedure mentioned it earlier and plotted in figure~\ref{fig:fig5.6}. We observed BI phase for a broad range of U values. At low-temperature metallic region exists for a narrow range of U values and it broadens as we increase the temperature. The coexistence region(U$_{c2}$, U$_{c1}$) between BI, M, and MI decreases as we increase temperature. The critical values obtained from HY-CTQMC at low temperature confirms that there is no metallic point in CBI at zero temperature, and it is consistent with the analytical arguments and IPT results.
\subsubsection{(c) $x$=0.5 (Equal ratio of ionicity and covalency)}
\begin{figure}[h!]
\centering
\includegraphics[scale=0.5]{Fig_7.png
\caption{ (color online) Non-interacting spectral function for $x$=0.5 (We have used $\eta$=10$^{-2}$ and energy unit = D = $\frac{W}{2}$ = 1)}
\label{fig:fig5.7}
\end{figure}
The non-interacting spectral function A($\omega$)=$\rho_{1\sigma}(\omega)+\rho_{2\sigma}(\omega)$ plotted in figure~\ref{fig:fig5.7} for $x$ = 0.5 has finite DOS at Fermi level and the value is 0.7797, which is good agreement with the analytical expression of $\sqrt{2}\rho(-V)$ i.e., non-interacting ground state is a metal.
\begin{figure}[h!]
\centering
\includegraphics[scale=0.5]{Fig_8.png}
\caption{ (color online) Fermi-level spectral weight as a function of $\frac{U}{W}$ obtained from HY-CTQMC for different $\beta$ values and $x$=0.5 (Energy unit D = $\frac{W}{2}$ = 1).}
\label{fig:fig5.8}
\end{figure}
Fermi-level spectral weight $\tilde{A}_{1\sigma}$ as a function of U for different temperatures plotted in figure~\ref{fig:fig5.8}. At low temperature ($\beta$=128) as we increase U, there is a minimum in $\tilde{A}_{1\sigma}$ before the system went to a MI state and the highest value of 0.6 in $\tilde{A}_{1\sigma}$ reached at $\frac{U}{W}$=1.1. The extrapolation of $\tilde{A}_{1\sigma}$ to U = 0 axis confirms there is a finite weight at Fermi-level. There are two metallic regions one is at small $\frac{U}{W}$($<$0.5) another one is at large $\frac{U}{W}$(=1.1). An interaction induced band insulator has emerged in between these two metallic regions, and MI state is at large U values. As a function of temperature, the minimum of $\tilde{A}_{1\sigma}$ which has observed at low-temperature starts filling up.
\begin{figure}[h!]
\centering
\includegraphics[scale=0.5]{Fig_9.png}
\caption{ (color online)(a) Fermi-level spectral weight as a function of $\frac{U}{W}$ obtained from (a) HY-CTQMC (b) IPT for $x$=0.5 and $\beta$ = 300. (We have used $\eta$=10$^{-2}$ and energy unit D=$\frac{W}{2}$ = 1)}
\label{fig:fig5.9}
\end{figure}
Next, we need to address whether the metallic behavior observed at low U-values, is it due to thermal broadening or not? To know this we did low temperature ($\beta$=300) calculations using HY-CTQMC then we plotted $\tilde{A}_{1\sigma}$ in figure~\ref{fig:fig5.9}(a). The extrapolation of $\tilde{A}_{1\sigma}$ to $\frac{U}{W}$=0 axis confirms that there is metal at U=0, i.e., the emergence of metal is not due to thermal broadening. Once we turn on U, then the non-interacting metal turn into a band insulator that means correlations created a band insulator. It is well known that correlations in the metal create MI (charge gap is an order of U). The local electronic correlations turn band insulator into a metal seems counter-intuitive, but the creation of band insulator due to electronic correlations seems even more counter-intuitive. Unless low U-value calculations carried, we do not know the behavior of $\tilde{A}_{1\sigma}$. Since HY-CTQMC is a strong coupling method so we have done IPT calculations at $\beta$=300 and we plotted $\tilde{A}_{1\sigma}$ as a function of $\frac{U}{W}$ in the figure~\ref{fig:fig5.9}(b). We can clearly see at U=0; there is a metal $\tilde{A}_{1\sigma}$ = 0.76, which is in close agreement with the exact value derived from the analytical expression. IPT also predicted two metallic regions, a BI region in between them and MI region at large U. The critical U-values predicted from IPT are somewhat different from HY-CTQMC, due to the lack of correct strong coupling behavior in the interpolative methods.
\begin{figure}[h!]
\centering
\includegraphics[scale=0.5]{Fig_10.png}
\caption{ (color online) Finite temperature phase diagram ($T$ Vs $U$) for $x$=0.5 covalency (Energy unit D=W/2=1).}
\label{fig:fig5.10}
\end{figure}
In figure~\ref{fig:fig5.10}, we have plotted the critical values as a function of $\frac{U}{W}$ obtained from HY-CTQMC at different temperatures. According to analytical predictions, metallic behavior which exists at U=0 turns into a BI with an increase of U and there is a possibility of an existence of second metallic phase at larger U-value if the condition $\mu-Re\Sigma_{1\sigma}(0)$=0 satisfied, before the BI turns into MI. The extrapolation of critical lines to zero temperature axis gives a metallic point at zero U-value, and it turns into a BI with an increase of U at critical U$_{mb}$. Finally, the BI went to MI state without second metallic phase. The reason for the absence of second metallic phase is because of the metallic condition ($\mu-Re\Sigma_{1\sigma}(0)$=0) never satisfied, since n$_{1\sigma}<$0.5 for any value of U. At finite temperature, we observed two metallic phases followed by BI and MI insulators up to $\beta$ of 100 and beyond this, the BI region disappears, and only M and MI regions survives. The metallic behavior observed at finite temperature for large U values is due to the thermal broadening and the region between critical values (U$_{c2}$,U$_{c1}$) corresponds to the coexistence of M and MI solutions.
\subsubsection{(d) 0$>$x$<$0.5 and 0.5$>$x$<$1.0}
\begin{figure}[h!]
\centering
\includegraphics[scale=0.5]{Fig_11.png}
\caption{ (color online) Non-interacting occupancy (a) for orbital 1 (b) for orbital 2 and (c) gap in the spectral function as function of $x$ (V = 0.5 and Energy unit=D=$\frac{W}{2}$=1)}
\label{fig:fig5.11}
\end{figure}
Before going to analyze the interacting case results for general $x$ value, let's focus on the results from the non-interacting case. In figure~\ref{fig:fig5.11}, we have plotted the occupancy of each orbital i.e., n$_{1\sigma}$, n$_{2\sigma}$ and the gap in the spectral function as a function of $x$, at V=0.5. When $x$ = 1, due to staggered ionic potential, the occupancy of orbital 2 is almost filled while the orbital 1 is almost empty and the gap in the spectral function is in order of V=0.5. As we decrease $x$ from 1 up to $x$=0.5, there is no much change in the orbital occupancies. On the other hand, the gap in the non-interacting spectrum smoothly decreases, and reaches zero at $x$=0.5. As we decrease $x$, below 0.5, then the occupancy of the orbital 2 decreases while it increases for orbital 1 and the gap in the spectral function increases. For $x$=0, the gap reaches a value of 0.5, and the corresponding occupancy of each orbital is 0.5.
\begin{figure}[h!]
\centering
\includegraphics[scale=0.5]{Fig_12.png}
\caption{ (color online) $T$ Vs $U$ phase diagram for 0.5$>x<$1.0 (Energy unit = D = $\frac{W}{2}$=1).}
\label{fig:fig5.12}
\end{figure}
We have calculated the critical values as a function of $\frac{U}{W}$ for 0.5$>x<$1.0 at different temperatures and plotted in figure~\ref{fig:fig5.12}. As we decrease $x$ from 1, then the metallic region that exists between BI and MI increases (i.e., a small amount of covalency favors metallicity) and the coexistence region between metal and MI decreases. From analytical results we know the condition that needs to be satisfied to get a metallic phase at zero temperature is $\mu-\mathrm{Re}\Sigma(0) = -\frac{1-2x}{x}$. It will be satisfied with a single U-value for 0.5$>x<$1 and only when n$_{1\sigma}<$0.5. From finite temperature data, we find n$_{1\sigma}<$0.5, that means there is a possibility for the existence of metallic point at single U-value at T=0. The metallic region observed at finite temperature is not only due to thermal broadening but also from the existence of metallic point at T=0. As we decrease $x$ from 1, the critical value U$_{co}$ decreases. From this, at least we can speculate, the existence of metallic point at T=0 shifts towards low U-values and it reaches U=0 for some value of $x$. Indeed, we determined it for x=0.5, where the non-interacting ground state itself is a metal.
\begin{figure}[h!]
\centering
\includegraphics[scale=0.5]{Fig_13.png}
\caption{ (color online) $T$ Vs $U$ phase diagram for 0.0$>x<$0.5 (Energy unit = D = $\frac{W}{2}$=1)}
\label{fig:fig5.13}
\end{figure}
In figure~\ref{fig:fig5.13}, we have plotted the critical values for 0.0$>x<$0.5 at different temperatures. As we decrease $x$ from 0.5, the metallic region sandwiched between BI and MI decreases (i.e., the critical value of crossover from BI to M increases) while the coexistence region between BI and MI increases. At zero temperature, for 0.0$>x<$0.5, the metallic condition $\mu-\mathrm{Re}\Sigma(0)=-\frac{1-2x}{x}$, will be satisfied at a single U-value only when n$_{1\sigma}>$ 0.5. From finite temperature data, we find n$_{1\sigma} < $0.5 which implies that there is no chance of satisfying the metallic condition. The absence of metallic point at zero temperature is also evident from the behavior of critical values in figure~\ref{fig:fig5.13} at low enough temperature. The metallic region observed at finite temperature for 0.0$>x<$0.5 is only due to the thermal broadening.
\begin{figure}[h!]
\centering
\includegraphics[scale=0.5]{Fig_14.png}
\caption{ (color online) Critical $U$ values Vs $x$ Phase diagram for V = 0.5 and $\beta$=128 ( Energy unit D=W/2=1)}
\label{fig:fig5.14}
\end{figure}
\section{Conclusions}
\label{Model5.3}
We have studied the role of local electronic correlations in different kind of band insulators. Our analytical results predict that presence of metallic point in the IHM model while it is absent in the case of CBI. When ionicity and covalency are in equal ratio, then the non-interacting ground state becomes a metal, but the correlations turn non-interacting metal into a correlated band insulator. We also derived the conditions for the existence of metallic phase for the general case.
The summary of numerical results is plotted in figure~\ref{fig:fig5.14}. Our numerical results confirmed the analytical predictions of the existence of a metallic point in IHM while the absence of it in CBI at zero temperature. For $x$=0.5, non-interacting ground state (GS) is a metal, but with correlations GS changes from metal to a Band Insulator. We observed an interaction induced BI when ionicity and covalency are in equal ratio and this phase was counter-intuitive in the sense of our fundamental understanding of correlation effects. The value of n$_{1\sigma}$ obtained from HY-CTQMC confirms the existence of metallic point at zero temperature for 0.5$>x<$1.0 and there is no such point for 0.0$>x<$0.5. The metallic region observed at finite temperature for 0.5$>x<$1.0 is much broader than the 0.0$>x<$0.5, since there is no metallic point at zero temperature in the latter case. The electronic correlations favor the metallicity when the covalency is smaller than ionicity, and it has opposite effect when covalency greater than ionicity. Our results will open new directions in the study of electronic correlations in band insulators. The possible experimental systems of relevance for our findings are Titanium-doped perovskite ruthenates SrRu$_{1-x}$Ti$_x$O$_3$ and some of the 3d transition metal oxides with crystal field splitting \cite{PhysRevB.76.165128}.
\subsection*{Acknowledgments}
We thank CSIR and DST (India) for research funding. Additional support (MJ) was provided by
NSF Materials Theory grant DMR1728457. Our simulations
used an open source implementation\cite{Hafer} of the hybridization expansion continuous-time
quantum Monte Carlo algorithm\cite{Comanac} and the ALPS\cite{Bauer} libraries.
The CTQMC simulations were conducted on the computational resouces provided by Louisiana
Optical Network Initiative (LONI) and HPC@LSU.
\bibliographystyle{apsrev4-1}
| is mainly due to the proximity of existence of metallic point at zero temperature which is confirmed by analytics, IPT, and HY-CTQMC.
\subsubsection{(b) $x$=0 (covalent band insulator)}
We have calculated the low energy quasi-particle weight (Z) and the gap in the spectral function (charge gap: $\Delta_c$) which are obtained from MO-IPT and plotted in figure~\ref{fig:fig5.4} as a function of U. As we increase the U-value, Z smoothly decreases, because of correlations. On the other hand, charge gap is also going to zero with U. However, we did not observe the closing of the gap in the spectral function for any U-value before the system goes to MI state (Z $\sim$ 0). Local electronic correlations in the CBI renormalizes the charge gap, but they cannot close the gap. The critical U where the system goes from BI to MI is almost at twice the bandwidth because of strong bonding nature of a covalent character.
\begin{figure}[h!]
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Home of the Expanding Universe
September 29, 2012 dava
This September marks the one-hundredth anniversary of a discovery that opened the door to our enormous, expanding universe. Astronomer Vesto Melvin Slipher ("V.M.," as he was always called) made the pivotal observation at the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona. Using the same telescope through which his boss, Percival Lowell, had perceived canals on Mars, V.M. took a long look at the great spiral nebula in Andromeda.
To gather a sufficient quantity of the nebula's faint light, Slipher tracked the object for six hours, spread over three nights' observing. The picture he extracted from these efforts was a spectrum -- not a likeness of the nebula but a continuous rainbow strip of starlight punctuated by dark lines identifying specific elements. The positions of the lines indicated the nebula was rushing Sunward at the incredible pace of two hundred miles per second. The bright stars of familiar constellations, in comparison, moved at much slower rates, on the order of one to ten miles per second. With Lowell's encouragement, Slipher went on to clock other nebulae, all of which seemed to go at a gallop. Their great velocities suggested the dimensions of the universe might be far grander than anyone had suspected.
A century ago, the spiral nebulae were thought to be new solar systems in the making: Each blurred whorl represented a single star inside a cloud of fragments coalescing into planets. Within two decades of Slipher's discovery, however, astronomers came to recognize the spiral nebulae as separate galaxies, all lying far beyond our own Milky Way, each containing many billion stars, and most receding from us at speed.
Sixty-some astronomers and historians gathered in Flagstaff mid-month to hail Slipher's achievement in a two-day celebratory symposium, "Origins of the Expanding Universe: 1912-1932." Several speakers lamented the fact that Slipher's name has been all but forgotten, even dropped from textbooks, with most credit for the universe's expansion allotted to the famous Edwin Hubble.
I was happy to develop a proper respect for V.M. while paying my first visit to the Lowell Observatory.
Signs posted along the winding drive up Mars Hill proclaim the site as "Home of the Expanding Universe" and also "Home of Pluto." True, Clyde Tombaugh discovered the erstwhile ninth planet here in 1930, after Lowell died and Slipher had taken over as observatory director.<|fim_middle|> my eye to his original 24-inch telescope, which brought a globular cluster of stars on the galaxy's fringe into gorgeous focus. Even to the naked eye, the clear night at high altitude afforded a view of the Milky Way far superior to what I normally see near my sea-level home.
In the Moonless dark, a guide led me to another unique feature of Lowell Observatory -- the blue-glass-domed mausoleum that houses the founder's remains.
In Uncategorized Tags Andromeda, Clyde Tombaugh, Edwin Hubble, expanding universe, Percival Lowell, Pluto, V- M- Slipher | Parts of Slipher's and Tombaugh's discovery instruments are on display in the Visitor Center.
I got to see Lowell's Mars globes, and put | 32 |
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Lisa Pannella, RN, Saint Raphael Campus ED, uses a handheld scanner to scan a patient's wristband before collecting a specimen. After verbally verifying the patient's ID with her, Pannella will print labels for each specimen from the printer on the WOW, scan the barcode on each specimen and scan the patient's ID band a second time.
When it comes to patient identification errors, a few feet can make a big difference.
That's why the emergency departments are using Soft ID, technology that allows staff to print labels and label specimens right at a patient's bedside, instead of at the nurses' station.
The devices were piloted in the Saint Raphael Campus ED and have been successfully implemented in the York Street adult and pediatric EDs and at Shoreline Medical Center. They will soon be rolled out to other units as part of hospital-wide efforts to improve patient identification and reduce<|fim_middle|> Identity Team and an updated Patient Identification Policy.
Staff are also involving patients more in the identification process, educating them on what to expect and using high reliability organization (HRO) safety behaviors such as read backs and repeat backs. HRO patient safety coaches will work with staff to reinforce the use of this and other CHAMP safety behaviors to prevent patient identification errors. Other behaviors that can be particularly effective include STAR (stop, think, act, review), and mentoring each other and using 200% accountability.
"Our main goal is to change the culture around patient identification," said Diane Collins, RN, Heart and Vascular Center performance manager and charter team co-chair. "Patient identification is so critical to patient safety, we want to make ID errors 'never events' — the kind of error that should never happen to a patient."
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Reducing ID errors is a significant effort, led by a patient identification charter team comprising physicians and staff from throughout YNHH. To zero in on particular areas of concern, the team uses the adverse event reports staff and physicians submit, including those made through the "Report a Safety Event" tool available on the intranet. The team has also conducted detailed analyses to determine how certain types of errors are occurring.
Based on these reports and analyses, the charter team is currently focusing its efforts on reducing by at least 50 percent identification errors related to specimen labeling, diagnostic testing, patient registration/arrival and electrocardiogram (EKG) procedures.
"We're not looking at individuals, but at the systems, processes and practices that might be leading to errors," said Allison Clark, RN, patient service manager, General Cardiac unit (Verdi 3 East), and charter team co-chair. "Once we find the causes, we can work with physicians and staff in particular areas to develop solutions to help prevent future errors."
Before implementation of Soft ID in the SRC ED, physicians ordered blood specimens and the labels were printed at a communal printer at the nurses' station. Staff then brought the labels to the bedside and used them for patient identification when obtaining specimens. Although staff diligently followed this strict process for specimen labeling, Soft ID is an improvement because it has increased awareness of the importance of keeping the procedure close to the bedside, said Martha Smith, RN, service line educator.
"With Soft ID, we're collecting and labeling specimens as close to the patient as possible," said Lisa Pannella, RN. "It's the safest practice, and we know we have the right patient, the right specimens and the right labels."
While some identification errors like specimen labeling are particular to specific processes, the patient identification charter team has pinpointed common causes of ID errors that can occur at any time and in any area. These include scanning incorrect patient information into Epic; handing off patients without ID bands; printing ID bands and leaving them on WOWs; and leaving multiple patient charts open in Epic. The charter team is working to raise awareness about these concerns to help people change their behaviors.
The team's work is ongoing but has already yielded positive changes, including the bedside labeling technology, greater staff awareness, increased reporting and tracking of errors, a process for correcting ID errors with the Health Information Management Patient | 486 |
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Annotation: Each of the Travelers returns home to learn the truth about their origins before being reunited for a final, ineveitable confrontation with Saint Dane, whose efforts to control<|fim_middle|>. | Halla are destroying its very foundations.
In this series' final volume, each of the previous Travelers returns to life in time to learn that Bobby is the predestined hero of all the universes. The text's persistent focus on destiny confusingly undercuts its message of self-empowerment. However, this old-friend-filled conclusion will satisfy readers who have made it this far in the series.
Nine bestselling books. Nine treacherous territories. They have all been leading to this. Every victory. Every loss. The thrills and disappointments; the hope and despair. Every moment of Bobby Pendragon's heart-pounding journey through time and space has brought him to this epic showdown. He and his fellow Travelers must join forces for one last desperate battle against Saint Dane. Every question is answered. Every truth is revealed. And at stake is not only the tenth and final territory, but all that ever was or will be. Everywhere. This is the war for Halla, and the final battle has begun | 207 |
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Hard Rock Opens Costa Rica Next Week!
Once again American franchises continue to capture Costa Rica's growing market, with th famed restaurant chain Hard Rock Cafe will open its first outlet next week.
After months of delays, the Hard Rock, located in front of the Hotel<|fim_middle|> hotel district of San José, where within 10 minutes drive of the future Cafe, there are more than 1800 hotel-rooms, 3 commercial plazas, and a number of restaurants and bars.
The popularity of the Hard Rock brand in Costa Rica is seen on Facebook where more than 30.000 "hardrockers" are following the brand. | Herradura, will open its doors to the public. The Herradura is now known as the Wyndham San José Herradura, previously known as the Ramada Plaza Herradura, but to Costa Ricans and foreigners living here for more than a decade, it will always be just the "Herradura".
And, oh yeah, for those who don't know the Herradura, it is across from Plaza Real Cariari.
The Hard Rock, with a US$3.2 million investment will have a seating capacity of 310, a concert area for 700-800 (standing) music fans and an outdoor patio.
In 2007, the Hard Rock chain was bought out by the Seminole Indian tribe in Florida and now has 175 restaurants, hotels and casinos in 55 countries, including Medellin, Colombia and now San José, Costa Rica.
Gustavo Araya, a partner in the Costa Rican franchise, said not to expect Hard Rock outlets to sprout in every district of San Jose. "There aren't two Hard Rock Cafe (restaurants) in Paris, France, in Madrid or Barcelona in Spain. There is just one per city and this is what makes it unique," he said.
On the Hard Rock website, the Costa Rica location is described as it will be the heart of entertainment in Costa Rica most important | 291 |
Mallen<|fim_middle|> race for the championship. He continued by winning consecutive events in '98 and '99, he then took a few years off to build his experience in pro racing Adam was brought on as a driver's coach and setup consultant for the Eagle Racing Trans-Am effort, simultaneously building two Toyota Paseo GT-3 cars that he co-drove and helped earn a 3rd place finish at the Runoffs in 2000. His work in Trans-Am brought a rookie team quick progress, their finishes went from 27th to 15th by the fourth race. His professional endeavors then took him to the American Lemans Series where he was crew chief for the 2 car effort of American Viper Racing, he was able to step in and again bring up this team's finishes.
Adam had taken the time off from driving to develop his own car during 2002, he managed to raise his performance in his Civic even after the substantial penalties imposed by the SCCA after his 3 championships. He returned to the driver's seat and showed the results of his work, he won the 2003 Valvoline Runoffs and was again the H-Production national champion. His widely noticed comeback and convincing win was so complete that his competitors in H-Production saw that he was removed from the class. If you can't beat him, move him out of your class, seems to be the only hope for his "competition".
Adam has always taken pride in the performance of the cars he races, he builds his own cars, he builds the engines, he does it all and is fanatical in his devotion to winning, it's this attitude that keeps him on top and any challenge he takes on he attacks single mindedly. His Business that he started in 1994, Pro Import Services, has grown from a dark corner of a tire store and now he has thousands of customers who look to his shop to maintain their cars. His background in Hondas and Acuras is well known and his customers can attest to his attention to detail and desire for perfection.
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His attention turned to cars and the SCCA's solo program which led to his first national championship, a win at the Solo2 Nationals in Topeka Kansas in 1993. This was the first of 5 national championships he has earned in his now very familiar Honda Civic. The other 4 have come in the SCCA's club racing national program. He started in 1997 by winning the Valvoline Runoffs, Sports Car Club of America's National championship race which is held annually at the Mid-Ohio race course. His competitors and a national television audience have grown very used to seeing Adam win at this prestigious event called the Olympics of amateur motorsports, where the best from around North America come to battle it out in a winner take all | 238 |
Kerem Tunnel (Hebrew: מנהרת כרם, Minheret Kerem) is a tunnel in southwest Jerusalem, Israel. It is currently the only cycling tunnel in Israel.
The tunnel was originally built in the 1990s by Hagihon (Jerusalem's water company) to run a sewage pipe from the city's southwestern neighborhoods to the Sorek stream sewage treatment plant. The tunnel is 2.1 kilometers long and 3 meter wide.
In 2018, surrounding several large cyclosportive events, the tunnel was officially made a part of the Jerusalem Ring Path, a 42-kilometer cycling route, connecting the path between the valley of Rephaim and the<|fim_middle|>els in Israel
Cycling tunnels | valley of Motza. The Tunnel's southern entrance is in the Rephaim Park, below Ein Lavan, and its northern entrance is in the valley of Ein Kerem, about half a kilometer from the Kerem junction. The tunnel was opened for cyclists in September 2022.
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The Courtyard Montessori Preschool was set up in 1980 by a group of parents and educationalists determined to bring the choice of a Montessori education to Christchurch families. The Courtyard Montessori Preschool is an incorporated society, governed by a board of trustees made up of parents or caregivers of current pupils, and the principal. The not-for-profit status means that all surpluses are re-invested back into the preschool, whether in improved classroom resources or in other areas identified by the principal, teaching team or board of trustees.
Our Montessori approach provides a unique cycle of learning designed to take advantage of the child's sensitive years between two and six years when a child can absorb information from our enriched environment. There are periods of intense fascination that children go through for learning a particular skill and it is easier for a child to learn a particular skill during the corresponding sensitive period than at any other time.
Our prepared environment and daily programme takes advantage of this fact by allowing the child the freedom to select individual activities<|fim_middle|> the child at ease by giving them freedom within an environment prepared with attractive materials within curriculum areas of Practical Life, Sensorial, Maths, Language, Environmental and Art. Within any of these areas there are activities that vary from simple to complex so that each child can choose and work with activities in any area that fulfill their current interest and curiosity.
We have indoor outdoor flow to covered decks and sheltered play areas for wet weather. Our beautifully landscaped setting has been professionally designed with children in mind. It includes a garden with edible fruit and vegetables.
Families are welcome to make an appointment with the principal to view the preschool and have any questions answered. Families, whānau and caregivers are encouraged to enrol their children at least twelve months prior to a child being of age to start.
Attendance: Minimum of 4 mornings, up to 5 mornings and a full/extended day programme is offered Monday-Thursday for children who attend the morning sessions.
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AAU 2015 Graduation Collection: Gaia Giladi
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Gaia Giladi, B.F.A. Fashion Design, was born in Los Angeles, California, and grew up in Irvine, California. In 2014 Giladi interned with Sausalito-based brand Gr. Dano, where she worked directly with the designer Jill Giordano, 2004 B.F.A. Fashion Design alumna.
Giladi also assisted Academy of Art University M.F.A. alumni Arijana Kajdic and Jaci Hodges in pattern making, garment construction, and beading for their Fall 2014 New York Fashion Week collections.
The shapes and dimensions of skate park ramps and half pipes were a source of inspiration for Giladi's graduation collection. Giladi plays with viewer's perceptions of depth and movement by using unique fabrics, including 3D lenticular printed materials and a textile created by seaming together a variety of black and white striped fabrics.
The annual Academy of Art University Graduation Fashion Show was held San Francisco on May 14, 2015.
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Takeaway: Every garden is unique, so a one-size-fits-all nutrient scheme isn't always the best for hydroponic setups. In this article, Eric Hopper lays out the basics of how to design a feeding regimen that's perfect for your plants.
Hydroponic horticulture is one of the most efficient and productive ways to grow plants. A hydroponic garden's accelerated growth rates are fueled by the combination of the maximization of available nutrients and the delivery of oxygen to the roots. In other words, hydroponic gardening supplies a plant with everything it needs when it needs it, and the plant is therefore able to achieve optimal growth.
The nutrients delivered to the plants via the hydroponic system are the main catalysts for faster growth. Hydroponic nutrients differ from organic compounds in the soil in that they are already broken down into a form that can be easily and quickly absorbed by plants. Providing the plants with essential elements and maintaining the proper nutrient concentration are both crucial when trying to maximize the overall performance of a hydroponic garden.
There is a plethora of hydroponic nutrients and nutrient additives available to hydroponic horticulturists. In fact, it can be downright overwhelming for a newbie to wade through all the information about each individual fertilizer. The good news is a gardener does not need a degree in chemistry to build an effective hydroponic feeding regimen. A general knowledge of how the nutrients are labeled, the various types of nutrients available, and when to use what type of nutrient is all a grower needs to build a successful fertilizer regimen.
One of the first things a grower will notice when he or she goes to purchase a hydroponic nutrient/fertilizer is the various numbers and ingredients listed on the label. There are federal regulations in place that dictate how and what must be included on a fertilizer label. Aside from the brand name and the name of the registrant or licensee, each hydroponic nutrient label will contain the grade, the guaranteed analysis, and the product derivatives.
The grade is essentially the abbreviated representation of the guarantees for total nitrogen (N), phosphorus (P), and soluble potassium (K). These numbers are always separated by a hyphen. For example, if a fertilizer's N-P-K is 20-20-20, the 20-20-20 is considered the grade on the fertilizer label. The grade gives growers the ratio between the three key nutrients found in the fertilizer.
The guaranteed analysis is the listed breakdown of percentages of elements contained in a fertilizer. The guaranteed analysis includes the<|fim_middle|> additives as the fruiting/flowering stage progresses. Flower initiator additives help the plants quickly transition from vegetative to flowering growth. Mid-flowering additives are designed to be used during the mid-stages of flowering. Finally, ripening additives are designed for use in the later stages of flowering to, as the name suggests, help accelerate the ripening process and boost yields.
Other additives that hydroponic growers commonly incorporate into their feeding regimens to help maximize performance include carbohydrates, enzyme formulas, amino acids, humic/fulvic acids, beneficial microbes, and vitamins.
The best way a grower can determine which additives to use along with his or her base fertilizer is through experimentation. This can be a time-consuming venture, but at the end of their grow cycles, horticulturists will be able to determine which additives helped them meet their goals and which did not. A good parts per million (ppm) or electrical conductivity (EC) meter are must-have tools for hydroponic gardeners experimenting with building a feeding regimen and can help the grower keep the nutrient solution within a desired range of nutrient concentration.
Although most pH buffers are not actually nutrients and will not contribute to the nutrient content of the solution, they are still necessary when building a successful feeding regimen. For plants to be able to uptake nutrients from the solution, the pH needs to be kept in a particular range. For most hydroponic systems, a pH of 5.5-6.2 is ideal for nutrient uptake. As the pH fluctuates farther away from the desired range, specific nutrients will become unavailable to the plant. Over time, this can cause a series of problems, including nutrition lockout and/or nutrient deficiencies.
Building a customized hydroponic nutrient regimen is like making your own unique recipe for gardening. A base nutrient will provide the plants will everything they need to survive, while nutrient additives are designed to help the plants thrive during particular stages of growth. As with other aspects of gardening, building an optimal fertilizer regimen requires experimentation. However, one of the exciting aspect of becoming a hydroponic grower is this honing-in on the specific nutritional needs of your plants. Every garden is different. Sure, every garden shares the same basic needs, but the growing space, the grower, and the plants themselves make each situation unique. Over time, these slight adjustments to a feeding regimen will equate to faster growth rates, increased quality, and more consistent yields. | available percentage of nitrogen, phosphate, soluble potash, calcium, magnesium, sulfur, boron, chlorine, cobalt, copper, iron, manganese, molybdenum, sodium, and zinc. Nitrogen is usually broken down further into the total percentages of ammoniacal nitrogen, nitrate nitrogen, and other determinable forms of nitrogen.
Most hydroponic nutrient manufacturers will include a derivative statement on the fertilizer label. The fertilizer's product derivatives are usually listed right below the guaranteed analysis. The product's derivatives can appear as a name of a chemical compound (e.g. ammonium nitrate) and/or as an organic ingredient (e.g. bat guano).
The first thing a hydroponic gardener needs in his or her feeding regimen is a base fertilizer. The base fertilizer is exactly what its name implies: a foundation for the entire feeding regimen. Base formulas contain all the essential elements, which means they have all of the elements needed for basic survival and general health. Most base fertilizers are split into "grow" and "bloom" formulations, with their nutrient ratios specific to that particular stage of growth. Put another way, the grower will need "grow" base fertilizers for the vegetative stage of growth and "bloom" base fertilizers for the flowering stage of growth. There are a wide variety of base nutrients available in one-, two-, or three-part formulas, all of which contain the essential building blocks for plant nutrition. Although base fertilizers are generally labeled as such, a grower could examine the label to figure out the grade of the fertilizer and, from that, determine what type of fertilizer it is. Quality base fertilizers will contain a substantial amount of N-P-K along with a variety of micronutrients.
Calcium is a vital nutrient for plant health and a tricky aspect of the base formula. Most base fertilizers contain only a small amount of calcium because it is assumed that the gardener's water supply will contain calcium. A grower who has little calcium in his or her water supply or who is using reverse osmosis water may need to add a specific calcium supplement. Although calcium supplements are generally sold separately from the actual base fertilizers, it is so important to basic plant functions that a grower should considered it as part of the base formula for a feeding regimen.
In general, the feeding regimen's nutrient additives should be considered icing on the cake. Although nutrient additives can make a big difference in the performance of a garden, they are not as important as establishing a good base fertilizer. It is only after a solid base fertilizer is established that a grower can truly reap the rewards of nutrient additives.
Additives are designed for more specific functions. For example, during the vegetative stage, many hydroponic gardeners like to supplement root enhancers. These root enhancers will not only increase the structural integrity of the plant (which better prepares it for large fruits or flowers), but will also aid in keeping the roots healthy in the hydroponic system. Most root enhancers are enzyme formulas or microorganism-based supplements designed for use in the vegetative and early flowering stage. Some, however, some can be used throughout the entire life cycle of the plant. Additives that contain natural growth hormones, such as kelp, are another popular choice for the vegetative stage of growth.
A hydroponic gardener can't walk into a hydroponic retail shop without seeing a few different flowering or blooming nutrient additives. In fact, there are so many specific additives for the fruiting/flowering stage that they can be categorized into three groups: flower initiators, mid-flowering additives, and ripening additives. Many hydroponic growers will use a combination of blooming | 758 |
The Selective has a reputation for taking care of many things – strategy, design, marketing, PR, social media, copywriting – the list goes on. And sometimes clients just want us to work our magic on a specific campaign, product launch or business area.
Clinicians – who sell nutritional supplements and other natural health products – were one of these clients. They already had a successful business<|fim_middle|> contact, which results in lower costs and a more integrated approach to their marketing. | strategy, but they were using multiple agencies for their marketing and advertising, which was time consuming and sometimes expensive.
Clinicians were looking for a one-stop-shop so they approached The Selective for their product launches and management of ongoing campaigns. They wanted to make sure their campaigns were cohesive and effective – from concept, to media planning, design, copywriting, PR and social media. Like many of our clients, they were keen to reduce their costs and improve engagement. Of course, we were happy to help.
The Selective is not responsible for Clinician's overall strategy, but we do take care of the details for some new product launches. We have worked on campaigns for a number of Clinicians products including Prospan (a bronchial syrup), Sleep Science (a natural insomnia solution) and AllerStop (a natural remedy for allergies).
For each campaign, Clinicians came to us with clear business objectives and we developed a campaign plan that was aligned to these objectives. This included advertising concepts, media planning and buying, writing headlines and copy, designing print ads, implementing digital marketing strategies (AdWords and SEO), and managing PR and social media activity.
Because The Selective is made up of specialists in almost every marketing and creative discipline, we are able to act as both creative agency and marketing project manager for Clinicians.
For each campaign, The Selective team executes the work from start to finish. We take care of all the details - chasing up jobs, tracking and measuring results, tweaking the campaign mechanics if and when required, and making sure that what we are delivering fits the marketing strategy.
Because Clinicians are now working with us, rather than multiple agencies, they have a single point of | 342 |
A short walk to the Mt Pilot Lookout<|fim_middle|> toward Chiltern, and turn right onto Old Coach Road.
Beautiful pictures, thanks for the share! | , which provides sweeping views over the Chiltern-Mt Pilot National Park and surrounding area from the 545m summit.
It hardly qualifies as a "hike"… but having stopped in Beechworth on the way to Melbourne (and then across Bass Strait to Tasmania), it seems a good idea to fit in a short walk. The 545m Mt Pilot summit seems as a good a choice as any, although it's only a 300m trek from the carpark!
It's an easy stroll up the well-made path, with a rocky platform providing views on the way up to the summit.
The summit is reached in less than 15min: it's not a bad spot to watch the sun rising over the low ranges of the Chiltern-Mt Pilot National Park.
To the north and north-west is a view over agricultural land toward Chiltern and Rutherglen.
After watching the sun rise, it's a quick walk back down to the car, with the morning light making for nice photos of the Chiltern-Mt Pilot National Park.
The Chiltern-Mt Pilot National Park was only created in October 2002 to "conserve and enhance what remains of Victoria's Box-Ironbark forests and woodlands". There are a number of longer walks including the Whitebox Walking Track (8.5km) and you can also reach the Mt Pilot summit via a more challenging and partly off-track circuit (track notes on Trail Hiking Australia). The centre of one of the richest goldfield's in Australia in the 1850s, there's also remnants of the alluvial gold workings and some historic buildings like the Powder Magazine (built in 1860 to store the gunpowder used in gold mining).
On the way back from Mt Pilot to our motel at Beechworth (about a 20min drive) we make a brief stop at Woolshed Falls. The top of the falls is only a few minutes walk from the carpark. Ironically, while some of the roads are closed due to flooding a few months ago, today there's not much water flowing down Reedy Creek.
A few hundred metres further is another viewing platform, which provides a better view of the falls and the pool beneath them.
After a quick look and a few photos – we're the only people here at around 7:30am – we're back at our motel in about 10min.
Location 275km north east of Melbourne & 34km north of Wangaratta. From Beechworth take the Beechworth-Chiltern Rd (C377) | 548 |
June 8 is World Oceans Day – an event officially recognized by the United Nations, dedicated to a variety of activities in relation to our oceans. "Take Action for the Ocean!" is the slogan for this initiative. Given that the<|fim_middle|> between the mountains and the sea could been seen by looking at this garbage. However, we realized that there must be some positive to find. TEDxHimi devotes itself to a variety of activities which contribute to society, which includes protecting our seas – an indispensable asset to Himi's thriving fishing industry. Thinking about the sea means thinking about the local area. Thinking about the local area means loving the local area. TEDxHimi will continue to consider and tackle many hard issues, while sharing its values through many activities and projects. | world's oceans are all interconnected, this event is a day for people from all over the world to come together and think about our oceans. June 8 was officially declared as World Oceans Day by the United Nations in 2008. Home to the 400 year old world-famous Ecchu Fixed Net Fishing methods, Himi has also been able to flourish and prosper thanks to the wealth of resources afforded to the area by the sea. In gratitude to the sea, members of the TEDxHimi team set off to clean up the beach accompanied by many people from the local area. Though driftwood comprised some of the collected matter, other everyday items were also accumulated as trash, including plastic bottles, cans, and glass jars. This garbage appeared to have been carelessly thrown-away as litter or carried down by rivers from areas found upstream. The close relationship | 177 |
Oh my little Preston. He is such a character....he has the greatest personality--<|fim_middle|> the conductor hats we got the boys!??!
I couldn't believe how BIG the train wheels are!
Preston would LOVE to have these paintings in his room!
The old phones. I would love to have one in my house.
They had a little train that the kids could play in and ring the whistle. They loved it!
I LOVE Josiah's smile here!
I showed Ash this Morse-code machine.
They have an awesome electric model train system going thru different time periods and scenes. It was the coolest thing. I think the boys could have stayed in there and watched the trains for hours if we had let them!
Then we saw the Classic Car museum. I was in heaven!!! I Love love love old-time cars!
I wish I could drive this car.....I can't even imagine having a steam powered car!
And we got to push these buttons and hear all sorts of sounds--the conductor, the brakes, the steam, the engine roaring, the different types of whistles, etc. It was pretty cool!
Preston had a little meltdown so we decided to go home instead of seeing anything else. | so happy and energetic. He's such a spit-fire...so much sass and sarcasm. He can be extremely love able and cuddly one minute and the next minute he's talking back and having a tantrum. He brings excitement and joy to my life as well as anger and frustration! I am so in love with my little man and wouldn't trade him for anything!
Preston has been doing better at eating his fruits and vegetables. Juli gave us some zucchini from her garden and Preston decided to try some. He and Ashleigh together ate the entire zucchini that night! I was so proud!
Today he made me some silly faces and wanted me to take his picture. These pictures are the epitome of his personality.
Quinn came in to town for the weekend to see Betsie and the kids and we all decided to go to Incredible Pizza in Draper. This place is pretty cool....it's similar to Chuck-E-Cheese, but they have 3 food buffets to eat from rather than only being able to get pizza like at Chuck-E-Cheese. Its pretty expensive so we were really glad that Preston ate free, and we had a coupon for Ashleigh to eat free too, thanks to Juli.
Preston fell asleep on the way TO Incredible pizza.
Then we went to the go-carts.
Nick and Preston raced together first. Preston was SO excited!!!!
The best driver ever with his two passengers!
I LOVE this picture!!! I love these guys so much!
Quinn came in to town for a couple of days.
It was so nice to see her again and spend time together.
Then we got ready for family pictures. Mama-Call got some really really good shots! I can't wait to get copies to put up on my wall along with my Ballard Family pictures.
I took more videos of Nick playing his cello. I've said this before, but MAN, I LOVE HEARING HIM PLAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
We took another day trip to Salt Lake City. This time Juli, Nick, Lindsey, and Keely came along too. The day started a little scattered trying to figure out where to go and what to do first. We had lunch on the temple square grounds first. Then Betsie went to get family pictures taken in front of the Christ Statue. Then we went to the LDS business office--26th floor observation deck. Nick and Juli had never been there before! :-) It's always pretty cool seeing the city from that high up.
We were soooo worn out from the prior days activities, plus a bad night sleep that we decided to cut the trip short. We rode Trax with the rest of the gang down to the Planetarium then we got on a different Trax and went back to our car. Preston could have stayed on Trax all day, but we were ready to go home.
We did make a quick stop at Taffy Town and we each got some candy. Then headed home. We wish we could have stayed with the group, but we just couldn't keep our eyes open any longer!!!
I forgot to post this... I looked out my back window and saw a fire on the hill about 5 miles away. I watched it for a while. I saw lots of smoke, flames and helicopters dropping water on it. That's about it....by night time it was finally out.
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