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Manny and his crew were exceptional, professional and thorough in cleaning our systems. They worked many long hard hours here and were always trustworthy, polite and respectful of our home. My morning allergies are now gone.
We recently bought a home that was built in the 50's and the vent system had never been cleaned. Manny and his team did a great job cleaning up what we percieved to be a big health hazard... they were prompt, professional and left our home CLEAN.
I had an emergency due to the venting of the dryer, I called another company who couldn't do the job. Then I called Westchester Air Duct Cleaning and Manny said he would be here at 5pm. He did a terrific job left my cellar sparkling clean. He is a very polite and friendly person. I am very pleased with the job he did.
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We found Westchester Air Duct Cleaning to be Professional and proficient with our duct cleaning. Our house feels like it did the day we moved in six years ago.
Westchester Air Duct Cleaning spent 12 hours at our home and certainly gave us our monies worth. Very professional. We will definitely have them back to keep our hvac in great condition. great job.
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Dear Westchester Air Duct Cleaning Inc I want to thank you for the exellent work you did in my house. I felt the job was well worth the price I paid and the job was professionally and efficiently thorough.
Thank you for such a wonderful job. After 12 hours of needed work, you made a Huge difference with the air quality in our home , making us feel like we are living in a Resort. Your professionalism , Workmanship, and knowledge of Air duct cleaning is no doubt Unmatched in the industry. We have recommended your services to all our friends and family. Thanks again.
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After Interviewing you, We decided to use your company to clean our HVAC systems.
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DEAR MANNY : Our vent / duct system was overdue for a cleaning. Manny visited our three bedroom Home and started with an inspection and afterwards explained in detail necessary work and expected Results and Benefits.
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We highly Recommend Westchester Air Duct cleaning inc., and are planning to use them for Maintaining the cleanliness in our duct system for the Future.
Dear Manny: I am sending you this letter to thank you for the most impressive job on cleaning my air ducts as well as cleaning out the clothes dryer vent.
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I was quite impressed with all the equipment that you utilized and how Gracious and Friendly you conducted yourself. You left each area that you worked spotless and moved everything back from where it came.
I was totally satisfied with the workmanship , skills and professionalism that you possessed. The heating system is working at Maximum Efficiency and the air seems cleaner. As I have stated to you on the phone , I have recommended you to the Board of Directors at Fox Hill condominium. I was promised that as soon as they reconstruct their New website, they will place your business on it for all the Residents to see and Utilize.
It is without any hesitancy that I will always Recommend your business to anyone that is interested in cleaning their air ducts. I will also Refer my Friends and Family to you when the need for your services arises.
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Your crew was pleasant and efficient. The neatness was remarkable. All of you made a horrendous job more pleasant and easier for me.
We are writing to express our sincere gratitude in rescuing our home "twice". The dryer vent and the central air ducts of the house. We must say because of your work ethics and your professionalism our home is a healthy environment.
Manny "Thank You" is not enough; The job you and your staff did was incredible. Your cleaning , paying attention to detail and going above amd beyond what needed to be done.
The home I recently moved in to was built in 1956 and was in dire need of duct and vent cleaning. I called westchester air duct cleaning inc as they had been recommended to me by a local contractor.
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Manny and his team cleaned all of our vents for heating and air conditioning units. He also cleaned the dryer ducts as well as changed some of the dryer ducts. I know that every inch was cleaned out. Very professional.
Over all it could not have gone better. We knew how badly the vents needed to ne cleaned because the last person did a terrible job. When Manny left our air was so much fresher you just wanted to keep filling your lungs with it, like when you are outside in the fresh air. We are so happy we found westchester air duct cleaning inc. Thanks again for a wonderful job. | , especially since I had to rurn on the A/C during the heat wave we are experiencing.
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My initial call to westchester air duct cleaning was returned almost immediately. Manny showed up for the initial diagnoses appointment when promised as well on the day scheduled to work.
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Manny and his team worked so well together that their mutual respect showed through . They worked efficiently and neatly being very careful of my possessions . When all was finished, everything was returned to the original place and then they cleaned up. Manny tested their work and left with the promise to return if I encountered any problems. It's gratifying to know that, in this day and age when people don't do their jobs, there are still some who deliver what they promise and stand by their work.
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He and his team thoroughly cleaned the central A/C unit and sealed an opening that had been losing air in the attic. They cleaned and sanitized the whole attic. All my "stuff" was cleaned and neatly arranged around the perimeter. The team then cleaned the air conditioning Return and all Household ducts very carefully.
Manny didn't stop there . He checked the basement and saw a potential Fire Hazard in the Dryer - which had loose lint. He dismantled the dryer machine for a thorough cleaning and added a new dryer duct to the dryer Machine.
What was amazing about the service I received was that Manny does that for All his customers. I felt very safe because his knowledge and professionalism. I was well educated by the work that was performed.
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Manny and his crew were the epitamy of professionalism. Manny took his time to explain the whole process rationale behind his actions . Looking forward to moving in to my new house and breathing clean air. Thank you.
A first class Professional Job. Every thing that needed doing and more.
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<|fim_middle|> personal support and guidance right now, please contact me here on my website. | We may start the week feeling a little disappointed and 'blah!'. The Angels reminds us to honour our emotions, be sad if we need to, take time to feel and heal but not to get get stuck in victimhood. We don't always choose our experiences but we can choose how we respond to them.
The message in the mid-week says the disappointment we have felt may be short-lived, once we place our focus on the bigger picture and our longer term futures. So we must think big and don't let the immediate circumstances determine what's ahead.
As the week moves on we'll be feeling more and more optimistic! The things that we want right now may require hard work and determination but we are also being acknowledged for the things we have already done, how far we've already come on our journey. We are not only supported but celebrated by the Angels and all of our Divine team!
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New report calls for actions to stop counterfeiting and piracy in Free Trade Zones
News • Dubai, 15/05/2013
A new report from ICC's Business Action to Stop Counterfeiting and Piracy calls for increased regulation and better management of Free Trade Zones to stop the alarming trend of the use of FTZs to facilitate the manufacture, distribution, and sale of counterfeit products.
Free Trade Zones can make it easier for criminals to set up illicit operations
The report, Controlling the Zone: Balancing facilitation and control to combat illicit trade in the world's Free Trade Zones, looks at the increasing vulnerability of FTZs to criminal activities that are facilitating the global trade of counterfeit and pirated products. It summarizes the circumstances that have enabled the exploitation of FTZs, including an examination of weaknesses in international agreements, national legislation and judicial enforcement.
National governments encourage the creation of FTZs to increase trade and attract investment by removing or reducing duties and tariffs, softening customs controls and largely decreasing oversight in FTZs. These incentives have simultaneously made it easier for criminals to set up illicit operations, with increasing evidence showing that FTZs are being exploited to facilitate the international trade in counterfeit and pirated goods.
"FTZs are intended to improve free movement of goods to facilitate legitimate international trade and development, but this does not mean that effective Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) enforcement in FTZs must be compromised to achieve these goals," said Jeffrey Hardy, Director of BASCAP. "Establishing voluntary standards and improving current practices, along with the implementation of specific FTZ legislative and regulatory measures, can help address the global threat of counterfeiting and piracy in FTZs, without impeding their effectiveness."
The new report, presented this week at the 2013 World Customs Organization IT Conference and Exhibition in Dubai, aims to encourage governments to retake control of FTZs and ensure that national laws and customs procedures are effectively applied. It also aims to kick start a wider dialogue on how to address the abuse of and illicit activities within FTZs because of the impact these activities have on all sectors of society.
The report emphasizes the need to strengthen national government adherence to international conventions, empower national customs authorities and strike a balance between economic benefits and controls. It features a set of specific policy and legislative recommendations<|fim_middle|>CAP and INTA
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The International Chamber of Commerce is preparing for the publication of Incoterms® 2020, an update of the renowned regulations that define the responsibilities of buyers and sellers operating in the international trade system.
Sign up to our news alerts today to receive the latest news and information about the Incoterms® rules. | on preserving and expanding the benefits of FTZs for legitimate traders while also protecting the public and legitimate businesses from predatory practices. The recommendations are drawn from international agreements, lessons learned from both effective and ineffective national legislation, the experiences of IP rights holders, and international best practice. The report also suggests key actions for the WCO, WTO, national governments, and free zone operators.
"Free trade zones are increasingly important to global trade and international supply chain networks," said Mr Hardy. "However, the growing list of abuses, from narcotics trafficking, smuggling, fraud, counterfeiting and piracy puts the value of zones at risk. It's no longer acceptable for governments to look the other way or to permit illegal activity because it is of a certain type or because it is conducted within the boundaries of a Free Trade Zone."
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The Economic Impacts of Counterfeiting and Piracy – Report prepared for BAS | 257 |
First, we hole punched various pieces of coloured cards for the front of the binder, onto which we stuck our models. Some pages we filled up model by model, once we finished them, dating them and adding one or two comments along the way. Other pages we "<|fim_middle|> the inside back of the ring binder, by which we store our origami document safely.
With time, a great many other designers have increased and developed the papers model, while using it as a fundamentally useful tool in aircraft design. One of the first known applied (as in compound structures and many other aerodynamic refinements) modern paper plane was in 1909.
In recent times, paper model aircraft have gained great Avion En Papier Simple Pliage sophistication, and very high flight performance far removed from their origami origins, yet even origami aircraft have gained many new and exciting designs over the years, and gained much in conditions of airline flight performance.
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Try moving the paper slowly and gradually through the air. Will the air push up the slowmoving paper as much as before? Exactly what do you think happens when a paper aeroplane stops moving forward through the air? You can show that exactly the same thing will happen if you run with a kite in the air. The air pushes against the tilted underside of the moving kite and lifts it up. What happens to the lift driving up on the kite if you walk slowly and gradually rather than run? | themed" - utilizing a darkish blue piece of cards as a background for our various fish models, and adding some peel off stickers to make it look more interesting. We connected our models to the card with a stuff stick.
Second, we added a Bateau En Papier Sur L'eau number of plastic material sleeves into which we slipped the origami instructions we had printed out there, ready to try.
3 rd, we used sticky-tape to attach a huge envelope to | 96 |
Why are there so few prisoners in the Netherlands?
When Stefan Koning, who has a history of psychosis, was found guilty of threatening a stranger with a knife, a long custodial sentence might have felt like the only answer.
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The ability of animals to make vocal noises began 200 million years ago due to nocturnal animals needing to communicate in the dark, scientists say. The common ancestor of land-based vertebrates, including mammals, birds and frogs, did<|fim_middle|> stun as they take the stage...
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Music Magpie is a website that takes the hassle out of selling unwanted CD's, DVD's, phones and electronic devices online. Music Magpie were looking<|fim_middle|> achieving. | to optimise the user experience and conversion rates on their website working with RedEye to carry out a programme of UX-driven A/B testing.
The main challenge that faced Music Magpie was the importance of making users aware of the variety of items they could sell on the website.Music Magpie utilised RedEye's user experience testing abilities, alongside Optimizely Software.
RedEye conducted user testing for Music Magpie, to investigate the customer experience of the website and generate insights and hypotheses for testing. Workshops were then held with the Music Magpie team to plan a programme of testing aligned with their business priorities. In this test, attention was focused on the valuation page on the website, investigating ways to make users aware of the different types of items they could add.
By displaying a product category toolbar on valuation pages and enhancing the navigation between categories, users awareness of what can be sold will be enhanced, leading to greater numbers of added items across categories and higher basket values.
The test variations introduced a toggle, which would allow the user to switch between categories. On the control (the live site), the user would have to return to the main menu in order to switch to another category. The toggle used icons and text to indicate what category the user was on and reflect the simplicity of being able to switch between categories.
Following the test, it was found variation 3 performed the most strongly overall, with a 4.28% uplift in conversion rate, translating to a 3.72% uplift in revenue with 100% confidence.
The results have indicated that an intuitively labelled toolbar including copy performed more strongly than an icon-only approach, which may have required guesswork and effort on the user's part.
Ensuring our website is optimised for our clients is of the upmost importance to us. With RedEye we have found a way to continually test how successful our website truly is and we are extremely pleased with the results we are | 394 |
RMS, the world's leading catastrophe modeling firm, today announced that the company performed risk assessment analysis for the capital markets instrument used by Aegon to hedge the longevity risk of €1.4 billion (<|fim_middle|> transaction.
"Models make markets," said Peter Nakada, head of RMS LifeRisks. "This feels very much like the early days of the catastrophe bond market except that the potential size of the longevity market is at least five times larger than the market for natural catastrophe risk."
"RMS was pleased to work with Aegon and Societe Generale on this deal. We believe that it is a watershed deal that will pave the way for many more similar transactions in the future." | USD 2.3 billion) of reserves through Societe Generale to capital markets investors and reinsurers. The transaction protects Aegon against the possibility that mortality improvements in the Netherlands exceed expectations and outpace those in the United States.
RMS provided the medically based model of longevity risk that underpins the structure of the transaction. At the 20-year maturity of the transaction, the final payment is based on modeled scenarios that project mortality another 50 years into the future – allowing Aegon to hedge 70 years of longevity risk with a 20-year instrument. RMS also provided scenario-based modeling results to investors to allow them to gain intuition into the risk of the | 139 |
Home / Wellness / General Health / Legendary Basketball Coach, John Thompson Jr., Dies at 78
Legendary Basketball Coach, John Thompson Jr., Dies at 78
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Legendary Georgetown coach John Thompson Jr., known simply as "Big John" throughout college basketball, has died at age 78.
Thompson was long considered an "O.G." of sorts in the area of college basketball. He was tenacious, yet humble. He accepted nothing less than excellence, but still cared. He was one of those sports figures that really embodied the most well-respected coach. Thompson was one of the greatest coaches that college basketball has ever seen and ranks 62nd all-time with 596 wins.
Thompson led Georgetown to the 1984 national championship and built the program into a competitive force, taking the Hoyas to three Final Fours in the 1980s while also winning seven Big East titles. He also lead the 1988 United States national team to a bronze medal in the Olympics.
A spokesperson for the Thompson family released a statement that read, "Our father was an inspiration to many and devoted his life to developing young people not simply on, but most importantly, off the basketball court. He is revered as a historic shepherd of the sport, dedicated to the welfare of his community above all else."
"However, for us, his greatest legacy remains as a father, grandfather, uncle, and friend. More than a coach, he was our foundation. More than a legend, he was the voice in<|fim_middle|> with an Ebstein's anomaly, a rare and often terminal heart disease. She has been on life read more about Supreme Court Sides with Mother to Keep Child on Life Support | our ear everyday. We will miss him but are grounded in the assurance that we carry his faith and determination in us. We will cherish forever his strength, courage, wisdom and boldness, as well as his unfailing love."
Over the years, Thompson had the pleasure of coaching several standout players that went on to be some big names in the NBA. Among them are Allen Iverson, Patrick Ewing, Dikembe Mutombo and Alonzo Mourning, just to name a few. As news of his death quickly spread around the globe, of course there was a huge outpouring of love and respect from the basketball community for Thompson and his family.
One of the standouts we mentioned was Allen Iverson. Iverson took to his twitter account to share his love for Thompson literally changing his life.
Iverson wrote, "Thanks for Saving My Life Coach. I'm going to miss you, but I'm sure that you are looking down on us with a big smile. I would give anything just for one more phone call from you only to hear you say, "Hey FM", then we would talk about everything except basketball…"
I think Coach Doc Rivers said it best,
"Coach John Thompson JR.
He was a true builder of young boys to men. Set the tone for all of us. We will remember him as a coach. But anyone who came in contact realized, he was much more….
A mountain of a man.
My prayers to the Thompson family.
Thank you for sharing him with us all.
Patrick Ewing, Alonzo Morning,
Allen Iverson, Dikemba Mutombo,
Sleepy Floyd, Reggie Williams,…"
During Thompson's time as coach, Georgetown Starter jackets "became symbols of racial pride," according to the National Museum of African American History and Culture, which has one of the
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More than 200 new jobs could be created at Thurleigh Airfield Business Park as part of a major investment by owner St Modwen and SMH Fleet Solutions Ltd.
A planning application has been submitted by St Modwen, the UK's leading regeneration specialist, for a<|fim_middle|>'s long-term future at Thurleigh, creating a significant number of new jobs in the process."
Martin McAuley, Managing Director at SMH Fleet Solutions added:
"This exciting new development will provide SMH with an industry-leading facility and create high value employment opportunities in the local area." | new 40,000 sq ft workshop with offices and new hardstanding for vehicle logistics and storage.
SMH, a specialist vehicle management and logistics firm, has had a base at Thurleigh Airfield Business Park since 2001 but is now looking to invest in a modern facility which will become the central hub for its business in Bedfordshire and the rest of the UK. The new workshop and offices will be used for the inspection, repair and refurbishment of vehicles.
The planning application includes the retention of existing hardstanding and the creation of a further 18 acres for vehicle storage.
SMH currently employs 27 staff on the Business Park and estimates that the proposed development will generate employment opportunities for up to 209 new staff at the site within three years.
Thurleigh Airfield Business Park has become a thriving business park since St Modwen acquired the former airfield from the Ministry of Defence in 1996.
Thurleigh Airfield is home to more than 20 companies, predominantly operating in the vehicle processing and logistics sector of the automotive industry.
Nick Smith, development manager at St. Modwen, said that the new workshop development for SMH was important to secure long-term investment and jobs for the Borough:
"Thurleigh Airfield Business Park is a major source of employment in Bedfordshire, the prominent use on site being vehicle logistics and storage for the automotive industry.
"This new facility will enable SMH to remain in the borough and will secure SMH | 307 |
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We are sad to inform the Jesuit Academy community that Fr. Jim Michalski, SJ, founder of Jesuit Academy, passed away on Saturday, December 6 after a short battle with an aggressive cancer. Below please find information about Fr. Jim's life and his final arrangements.
Let us pray in thanksgiving for the life of our brother Fr. Jim Michalski, S.J., who was called to eternal life on December 6, 2014 following a short battle with an aggressive cancer. He died in hospice care in the presence of Jesuit brothers and friends. He was 72 years old, a Jesuit for 54 years, and a priest for 42 years. Born on April 30, 1942, in Milwaukee, WI, Jim attended St. Veronica's Grade School and Marquette University High School before entering the Society in 1960 at the Jesuit College in St. Bonifacius, MN. Jim went through the normal course of studies—juniorate at St. Bonifacius, philosophy at Saint Louis University and theology studies at Regis College, Toronto—before being ordained on June 8, 1972, at the Church of the Gesu, Milwaukee, WI. He made tertianship in Dindigul, Madurai Province, India, and pronounced final vows on April 22, 1980. As a regent, Jim taught at St. Ignatius High School (Cleveland, OH) and continued in the secondary education apostolate at Creighton Prep (Omaha, NE), after ordination. At both places he taught English; at Prep he chaired the Theology Department and designed the Freshman Retreat program, a model that numerous schools across the country have since adopted. Following tertianship, Jim went to Kampala, Uganda. There he helped establish the new Jesuit residence, served as vocation director, and worked in the National Youth Office. After six years in Africa and a year's sabbatical, Jim returned to Omaha where he began research into establishing a Jesuit presence in north Omaha. Community leaders told Jim that too many young black males were being lost to the streets on account of inadequate education. That led to Jim and three other Jesuits to begin the Mulumba House Jesuit Community in 1995. A year later, Jim became the founding president of the Jesuit Middle School of Omaha, and its chaplain and religion teacher. Jim remained at the middle school for the next 15 years. By the time he moved on in 2011, the Jesuit Middle School of Omaha (now Jesuit<|fim_middle|>uits, least because he was an all-conference tackle his senior year at Marquette High, and mostly because of his exemplifying Jesuit simplicity and availability, being humble in all he did, and having a great love for Christ, his Jesuit communities and those to whom he ministered.
As we remember with gratitude all that God has done through Jim's life of service to the Church and Society, we are reminded of our privilege and obligation to offer Masses and prayers for his eternal repose. All members of the Wisconsin Province and those applied to it are to offer one Mass intention for Jim. Members of the Creighton University Jesuit Community will offer one additional Mass intention. All will wish to remember Jim in their prayers and Masses. | Academy) had become a respected and integral part of the north Omaha African American community. In 2012, Jim took up a new assignment among the Lakota at St. Francis Mission, Rosebud Reservation, South Dakota. Though his work there was primarily in parishes, he left his mark across the Reservation, including on those he visited in prison and at hospitals. Illness returned Jim to Omaha in the late fall of this year. In many ways Jim was a trailblazer. His regency at St. Ignatius, Cleveland, was decades ahead of the merging of the Chicago, Detroit and Wisconsin Provinces. The Freshman Retreat program at Creighton Prep, missionary activity in Eastern Africa, and tireless work establishing a Jesuit presence in north Omaha all forged new paths for the Society. Jim embraced all of these with great generosity, energy and cheerfulness. In recent years, he continued to exemplify Jesuit availability by dedicating himself to the people of the Rosebud Indian Reservation. To all of these apostolates Jim brought much hope: for him, everything was a celebration of possibility. Many will remember Jim as a giant among Jes | 235 |
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The Epicormia Collective comprises six artists working in poetic ways directly or indirectly engaging with the botanical metaphor "epicormic", i.e. new or adventitious growth after trauma.
Epicormia – The Re-authoring Impulse is an artist-run comprising sixteen months professional development, a museum-quality gallery installation, the development of six artist web sites to increase professional development opportunities and shared participation and engagement with social media, public gallery programs and blogging for this dedicated artist-run web site. We truly hope this project may inspire, motivate, embolden and ennoble other artists to create their own artist-runs regardless of loci, regional or urban. We are truly grateful for your time and thoughtfulness while visiting<|fim_middle|> stories, fictions or narratives with added mindfulness, alertness, awareness; including ideas of possibility, strength, opportunity, transformation, agency and growth, rather than a focus on impossibility, self-pity, oppression, entrenchment or disempowerment. | and reading our web site and its diverse content. Please share this web site url link if you like.
Definition: Epicormic – Growing from a dormant or adventitious bud.
Epicormic Etymology: Origin. Early 20th century: from epi- 'upon' + Greek kormos 'tree trunk'.
Adventitious – happening as a result of an external factor or chance rather than design or inherent nature.
Epicormia is a play on the history of pathology, of prescriptive and closed medical wording; a parodic term and one that is nature-inspired, artist-devised not psychotherapeutically-devised. Significantly Epicormia is poetic and open-ended in meaning, referring to nature's inherent botanical impulse to grow despite trauma by assault, accident, disease, fire, tempest, flood, drought, human, animal, insect, technological or cosmological intervention.
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John Volken poses for a photo in Surrey on Saturday, Dec. 31, 2022. (Photo: Anna Burns)
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Surrey philanthropist John Volken knows that while money can't buy many of the most important things in life, it definitely can be put to good use if you have a<|fim_middle|> my family, my relationship with my fellow man, and above all my relationship with God. These relationships are eternal."
His autobiography, he notes, serves a practical purpose. People often ask him about himself.
"Finally I said well, maybe for posterity and for saving having to answer all the questions always, put it all in the book," he told the Now-Leader. "It's all in the book. I believe once you're taking care of yourself or your family, then you should work for the common good of everybody.
"It's not that thick but it tells you all my stories so when the next time I have to give a talk in front of people I say if you want to know more about it, more about me, just buy the book and then you know all about me."
Walk with a Purpose: The John Volken Story can be purchased on Amazon with a list price of $22 Canadian/$16 U.S., with all proceeds from this book going to charity.
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Volken has published an autobiography revealing a rags-to-riches life of adventures, challenges, hard work and faith that has resulted in new beginnings for many people who've sought help from his organization to shed their addictions.
Volken was born in Germany during the Second World War and spent part of his childhood in an orphanage in Soviet-occupied East Germany. At 18, he came to Canada, envisioning a new life as a lumberjack in the great white north. After landing in Halifax, he caught a train to Toronto not knowing anyone in Canada, not knowing English, with no job prospect and only $90 in his pocket.
But Volken was a quick study, with a strong work ethic and possessed of an entrepreneurial spirit that saw him rise from a dishwasher earning 25-cents an hour to building a furniture retail chain empire in North America that featured 150 stores and $200 million in annual sales.
His 184-page book, Walk with a Purpose: The John Volken Story, has an eye-catching subtitle: "From dishwasher to multi-millionaire then gave it all away…"
In 2004, Volken sold his furniture business and with its proceeds established a foundation that supports his John Volken Academy – which provides "effective, long-term, residential addiction treatment for men and women" – as well as supporting other charities.
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The Volken Academy has three locations – a rehab for men in Seattle, one for men and women in Phoenix, Arizona, and a third for men and women here in Surrey, at 6911 King George Blvd., where he also resides.
His philanthropic endeavours have, among other honours, resulted in a visit by the Dalai Lama in 2014, and an audience with Pope Francis in 2021. While some of the many highlights in his career, he writes in his book, "those experiences are just fleeting moments. Far more important is my relationship with | 492 |
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We should start off by pointing out that Search.qamails.com hijack is highly unpredictable. You can never be too certain when and how the virus is going to strike, but after it does, it will take over the browser settings and start implementing various changes<|fim_middle|>, select Search.qamails.com and other questionable plugins. Click Remove to delete these entries.
Now you will see Reset Firefox to its default state message with Reset Firefox button. Click this button for several times and complete Search.qamails.com removal.
If your Mac has been infected with Search.qamails.com, it was mainly operating through your web browser, thus, when eliminating the virus from the computer, you should also spare some time to clean up and reset your Google Chrome engine as well.
Here, select Search.qamails.com and other malicious plugins and select trash icon to delete these entries.
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When you eliminate Search.qamails.com virus from your computer, do not forget to refresh your browser as well. This will make sure that no residue virus files are left on the device to roll the undesirable website back to your browser.
Here, select Extensions and look for Search.qamails.com or other suspicious entries. Click on the Uninstall button to get rid each of them.
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Search.qamails.com is a sneaky PUP . No matter the number of anti-malware programs you have installed on your computer, the largest influence on your computer security depends on your browsing and general computer use habits. This means that while anti-malware programs are busy fighting off malware, you should be on an active lookout for viruses as well. Always try to stay away from unreputable websites that promote questionable software, refrain from clicking random links or ads announcing lottery winnings or displaying some too-good-to-be-true offers. If you are consistent with carefully browsing the web or downloading only the reputable software on your computer, you should be less likely to encounter viruses like Search.qamails.com.
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Q: Positioning an element<|fim_middle|> bottom of the page (while columns without tasks don't).
Here is a CodePen link with an example of this behavior: http://codepen.io/anon/pen/jbOBrj.
(and the css code, since SO insists that links to codepan have to be accompanied by code):
html, body{
height: 100%;
}
#app{
height: 100%;
}
.board{
background: silver;
width: 100%;
height: 100%;
}
.column{
display: inline-block;
margin: 0 0.5em;
background: gray;
width: 20%;
height: 100%;
}
.task{
background: yellow;
width: 90%;
margin: auto;
padding: 0.2em;
text-align: center;
}
Could you please suggest how to correct this? Preferably, without using floats.
(If you could also explain why this is happening, that would make me so happy. I am very much puzzled by this behavior.)
A: Read up on how inline-blocks are aligned and then add vertical-align:top; to your .column class to fix your problem
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Jill with some PWD friends visiting Graceland during<|fim_middle|> PWD! | the 2003 National Specialty.
It all started with a search to find the right breed for our family. I was watching Animal Planet's "Breed All About It" which was featuring the Portuguese Water Dog. Now, here was a breed that sparked my interest. My research of the breed led me to my breeder. She answered all of my questions and asked me a few of her own. The conversation ended with me asking to be added to her puppy waiting list. The next few months were spent reading any information I could get my hands on regarding this breed. Finally, in early 2001 this breeder called to tell me she had a puppy for me. One month later I was on an airplane to pick up this much-anticipated puppy. My breeder picked me up at the airport and took me to her home where I met "Louie," my curly, black, bundle of energy. Oops, I mean joy. I spent a couple of hours with my breeder and her husband. They made me feel comfortable, as if I had known them forever. After a bite to eat, they took me back to the airport where I tucked my new baby boy under my seat and headed back home. I thought that would be the last time I would see them.
Wrong! Four months later I found myself in my car with Louie headed back to my breeder's house to attend their yearly weekend picnic for all of their owners and dogs.This is where my story about the friendships I have made because of the PWD really begins. I met the owner of Louie's littermate, "Lacey." Lacey's owner and my breeder had both been e-mailing me to give me advice on how to handle difficult PWD puppy moments. Louie had also made a good friend named "Kirby." It was because of these wonderful dogs that I became good friends with both of their moms and my breeder. I met so many people that weekend who have become such good friends to me. What a sight it was to behold: 15 to 20 PWDs playing together in a beautiful lake with people throwing dummies in for the dogs to retrieve. I was hooked from that moment on.
My PWD, Louie, who was originally added to our family as a pet for my sons, Desmon and Cole, was now MY hobby. Louie and I traveled to our breeder's one to two times a year to visit and train in water work. Additionally, Louie and I traveled to visit and water trial with some of the other new friends we have made through this awesome breed. My proudest moment with Louie was earning his Apprentice Water Dog title during the 2003 National Specialty in my home town.
In the fall of 2002, we added another PWD to our family, "Livy." Then I learned about the confirmation ring. And yes, I made yet more new friends. This time they came from my neck of the woods. (And I had thought I was the only one with a PWD in my area back in those days!) When Livy finished her confirmation championship in just two weekends with three 5-point majors, I was again bursting with pride. Livy earned her Junior Water Dog certificate and Canine Good Citizen award, and was the proudest mama you have ever met.
These dogs have bound me to some of the most wonderful people I have ever known. I am so thankful to my breeder for entrusting me with two of these wonderful dogs. They have added so much more to my life than just being a pet. They have endeared and bound together friendships and memories I will never forget. You truly do get more than you bargain for when you get a | 772 |
The Magic of Motown
7.30pm Music fans are invited to the biggest party of the year as the unstoppable Magic of Motown show steams into the Victoria Theatre Halifax!...
7.30pm Music fans are invited to the biggest party of the year as the unstoppable Magic of Motown show steams into the Victoria Theatre Halifax! Prepare yourself for 40 back-to-back classic Motown hits, glittering costume changes, dazzling dance moves and outstanding musicianship in this explosive concert experience. With timeless music of Marvin Gaye, Diana Ross, Stevie Wonder, The Temptations, The Supremes, The Four Tops, Jackson 5, Smokey Robinson and more, are sensationally recreated for you by an exceptionally talented cast and band. The Magic of Motown has been re-scheduled to Thursday 15 October 2020 (from Friday 3 April<|fim_middle|> auditorium from 6:45pm for a pre-show Swan Lake talk. Tickets from £38.75
View by Month: January | 2020). We're pleased to confirm that your existing tickets will be valid at the rescheduled date and we hope you can join us. If you have chosen to collect your tickets from the Box Office at the time of booking, your tickets will still be available for collection up to the date of the rescheduled show. Tickets £29.50
Frank Skinner - Showbiz
7.30pm Comedy legend Frank Skinner is adding extra dates to his latest UK tour and bringing his critically acclaimed stand-up show Showbiz to Th...
7.30pm Comedy legend Frank Skinner is adding extra dates to his latest UK tour and bringing his critically acclaimed stand-up show Showbiz to The Victoria Theatre for one night only. UPDATE: Frank Skinner's Showbiz tour has been rescheduled to Mon 1st February (from Wed 28 Oct 2020 and before that from Tues 21 Apr). We're pleased to confirm that your existing tickets will be valid at the rescheduled date & we hope you can join us. Tickets from £26.75
7.30pm Celebrating Over 40 years of ABBA Europe's leading ABBA Tribute, ABBAMANIA, continue to entertain audiences with their outstanding voc...
7.30pm Celebrating Over 40 years of ABBA Europe's leading ABBA Tribute, ABBAMANIA, continue to entertain audiences with their outstanding vocals and musical performance live on stage. ABBAMANIA's widely acclaimed tribute to ABBA is a sensational two hour show featuring record breaking and timeless hits from Waterloo to Dancing Queen which will have you dancing in the aisles. Tickets from £26.75
The Russian State Ballet and Opera House present Swan Lake
7.30pm After sell-out performances last year, the Russian State Ballet and Opera House is back for its annual UK tour with spellbinding, lavish,...
7.30pm After sell-out performances last year, the Russian State Ballet and Opera House is back for its annual UK tour with spellbinding, lavish, full-production touring ballet. One hundred and thirty-five years ago audiences heard Swan Lake by the great Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky for the very first time. From that moment on, the world of ballet would never be the same. Swan Lake is a tale of two young women, Odette and Odile, who resemble each other so strikingly that one can easily be mistaken for the other. It is the compelling legend of a tragic romance in which a princess, Odette, is turned into a swan by an evil curse. Prince Siegfried chances upon a flock of swans while out hunting. When one of the swans turns into a beautiful young woman he is instantly captivated – will his love prove strong enough to break the evil spell that she is under? From the opulent splendour of the palace ballroom to the moonlit lake where majestic swans glide in perfect formation, this compelling tale of tragic romance has it all. Swan Lake captures, like no other ballet, the full range of human emotions – from hope to despair, from terror to tenderness, from melancholy to ecstasy. A wonderful evening out, the memories of which you will cherish long after the final curtain falls. Ticket holders are invited to join us in the | 684 |
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Gemba Keiei by Taiichi Ohno, Chapter 29: Become a Reliable Boss When did Toyota Get to be a Company Like This? | client of ours who has a small fabrication shop near our office. They make prosthetics (artificial limbs) which are each truly "one of a kind", custom fit to the individual. As a small, growing company with limited resources they haven't been able to pull themselves away from the day-to-day and focus on kaizen, process development and people development nearly as much as they would like. The managers have read The Toyota Way by Jeffrey Liker, they invested the time and money to go with us to Japan for a one-week benchmarking trip, and they are fully supportive of Lean manufacturing. They get it. This was driven home on our visit today.
They walked us around their gemba, showing all of the small improvements they had made since our last visit. Parts presentation kaizen here, material waste reduction kaizen there, pokayoke device here, visual controls there, one after another in every corner of their small shop. But the greatest thing for us was their passion when they talked about their problems. They didn't let pride or shame cloud them, they saw their problems and wanted to attack them. One of the bolts on the pokayoke device was missing. They found some minor flaws on two pieces of work in process on jigs. They shared their woes with us about their struggle to develop true Toyota-style team leaders.
This made me particularly happy because they were picking on problems that they may not even have recognized a year or two ago. Now that they know what a Toyota-style team leader looks like, they are not happy with what they have. Now that they understand the importance of error-proofing, they are frustrated when the pokayoke has not been error-proofed. They now hold themselves to a higher standard of quality and they judge their product quality based on whether the customer would be happy and how it reflects on the company, rather than how close they are to due date.
There was a sign on the wall that read "Take pride in the work you do." Take pride, but don't be proud. Instead, be dissatisfied. If you are a true believer in kaizen, hang up a sign reading "Be dissatisfied in the work you do." That is one key to a Lean culture.
Gee, that's interesting. I'm not sure I would post a sign like that. One of my missions is to have place for people to come and work and be satisfied. A sign like that sounds counter productive.
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Laboratory of Computational Mechanics - LAMEC
LAMEC is the Laboratory of Computational Mechanics of the Civil Engineering Program of COPPE/UFRJ where the fulfilled works deal with the development of numerical models to solve problems of Civil Engineering and correlate areas.
Professors Webe João Mansur and José Claudio de Faria Telles initiated LAMEC research activities in 1976 developing models based on the Boundary Element Method (BEM). Up to the beginning of the nineties, the works developed at LAMEC focused on the development of BEM formulations and algorithms for the potential theory (Laplace and Poisson equations), problems for groundwater flows in permanent (saturated media and with free surface) and transient regimes, the theory of elasticity and plasticity and elastic and acoustic wave propagation problems.
Later, new problems were added to the Boundary Element Method developments, and other numerical methods (finite element method and finite difference method) began to be used in the laboratory routine.
Research in this area deals with the development of new formulations and computational techniques for elastic, poroelastic and acoustic wave propagation, fracture mechanics, elasticity, plasticity, cathodic protection, etc.
• Computational efficiency and new formulations
• Fracture Mechanics
• Dynamic Analysis in the Frequency and Time Domain
• Plasticity
General Numerical Methods
Research in this area includes the development and computational implementation of numerical techniques based on the Boundary Element Method, Finite Element Method and Finite Difference Method to solve problems of Engineering and correlate areas.
Numerical Techniques: Parallel Processing in computer clusters, interactive Solvers, implicit and explicit time domain schemes and frequency domain formulations for acoustics, elastodynamics and poroelastodynamics.
• Finite difference and finite element methods for acoustic wave propagation in poroelastic non-homogenous anisotropic media modeling, time schemes, silent boundaries, frequency domain formulations.
• Finite differences procedures for wave propagation modeling in non-homogenous, anisotropic media: standard formulation, inserted mesh, coupling between acoustic elastic and poroelastic media, time and space operators, silent boundaries.
• Finite element method based procedures for elastic, acoustic and poroelastic wave propagation analysis: coupling between different media, finite element performance, and frequency domain formulations.
APPLIED RESEARCHES
GEOACOUSTICS
Seismic and acoustic wave propagation in the ocean
To qualify professionals with solid knowledge in oil industry wave propagation and in other knowledge areas with emphasis in: seismic wave propagation numerical modeling, submarine acoustics and dynamic soil-structure interaction.
This master's and doctor's degree program whose emphasis is the propagation of seismic and acoustic waves and signals is directed to engineers, geophysicists, geologists, mathematicians and professionals acting in correlate areas. Student may choose among a vast number of disciplines at COPPE.
Dynamic Soil–Structure Interaction
Finite elements and boundary elements are used to develop computational programs for static and dynamic analysis of non-homogenous and anisotropic elastic, plastic, poroelastic, poroelasto-plastic media. Linear and non-linear interaction with structure and fluids is considered.
Silent boundaries are considered to avoid artificial reflections in finite element mesh truncating boundaries.
Formulations in time and frequency domains are considered. This subject<|fim_middle|> Oliveira
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Profª. Simone Luise Delarue Cezar Brasil (professora Associada da Escola de Química)
Prof. Carlos Eduardo Parente Ribeiro (PENO Adjunct professor)
Prof. Eduardo Gomes Dutra do Carmo (PEN Tenured professor)
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Lab. of Analysis and Reliab. of Offshore Struct. - LACEO
Lab. of Geotechnics Prof. Jacqes Medina - LABGEO
Lab. for Comp. Meth. in Engineering - LAMCE
Lab. of Comp. Met. and Offshore Systems - LAMCSO
Lab. of Computational Mechanics - LAMEC
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Seismic Modeling and Image
Geological structures capable of retaining oil: post-migration model
Research in this area includes the development of techniques based on BEM, FEM and FDM for oil and civil construction industry applications.
Up to this moment most of worldwide oil industry case studies employ explicit FDM formulations. Developments related to finite difference implicit schemes and to procedures based on BEM and FEM are being considered. Applications seek to model wave propagation in non-homogenous, anisotropic, acoustic, elastic and poroelastic media. Formulations in the frequency domain are also being considered. This research line approximates to the research line in Soil-Structure Interaction and the basic courses are common.
• Acoustic, elastic and poroelastic modeling
• 2D and 3D reverse time migration (RTM)
• Image condition in reverse time migration (RTM)
• Non-conventional seismic survey simulation (ocean bottom cable)
• Seismic survey in irregular topography regions
• Pressure distribution due to air cannon shooting and its interference with marine fauna
• 3D and 4C non-conventional seismic survey simulation
• Tomography applied to civil structures
This subject deals with the development of computer programs based on FE, FD and CE methods for urban and submarine acoustics modeling.
• Urban acoustics: Acoustic barriers including soil absorption, flat panel interaction, case studies in urban environment
• Sound propagation in shallow and deep waters and interference with marine fauna
• Damage and environmental impact numerical modeling
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• To qualify professionals with general knowledge in numerical modeling of practical problems in Engineering. Special emphasis is given to the boundary element method and its use to solve diverse problems of continuum mechanics.
• Problems of the linear and non-linear, geometric and physical elasticity theory as well as applications to the potential theory in general are included in the scope of this line.
Fracture mechanics
Simulation of elliptical crack in a thick-walled cylinder
Applications of the theory of elasticity to Fracture Mechanics generate some of the most difficult problems to be numerically solved with adequate precision. The singular behavior of the stress fields in the vicinity of the tips of a crack, associated to displacement discontinuities through its surface (the so called crack "openings") are strongly responsible for that fact. The Boundary Element Method (BEM) has shown reliable results on this subject, at a reasonable computational cost; but the existence of two different surfaces, dividing the same spatial position, causes a degeneration in the boundary integral equation that may impose the continuity of displacements in the crack, if the limit is not properly taken, or even a singularity of the equation system matrix, if two different nodal points, one in front of the other are in different surfaces. Thus, BEM can not succeed on these specific applications if special artifices are not implemented to avoid these problems.
Currently, three alternative formulations are being used. The first one is a complement of the sub-region idea, where the crack surfaces appear as interface extensions, on which the conditions of compatibility and equilibrium are not imposed. The second introduces in the boundary, the so-called hypersingular equation, or surface force equation, to replace the classical equation, only when the source point is localized in one of the crack opposite surfaces. Both formulations have in common the need to separate, in elements, the faces of the cracks or gaps, thus making the numerical approximation more difficult, mainly on the first, whose artificial interfaces are also approximated. The third alternative, traditionally very precise but up to this moment not as general as the others, uses Green functions, corresponding to the infinite medium already with downloaded cracks similar to the problem to be solved, in the role of the fundamental solution of the classical integral equation. Considering that the crack fundamental surface forces are null and the usual knowledge of them in the problem to solve, (that is, natural conditions in the crack) a formulation is obtained, where only the classical integral equation appears not being necessary to place source points in the cracks. This greatly contributes to increase the precision of the results, considering the inexistency of separation in elements at the critical regions (crack surfaces) of the problem.
Thermal fatigue
Temperature distribution
Thermal stratification in pipes is one of the concerns of a nuclear power station. Temperature differences in a specific place or in different places of the section can lead to stress differences that may cause cracks due to fatigue. Thus, a bi-dimensional transient thermo-elastic analysis of the stratification problem using the Boundary Element Method is important as well as the assessment of the fatigue occurring in pipelines under this phenomenon.
The pipeline for residual heat removal from the primary circuit of Angra 1 Power Station was analyzed because thermal stratification may occur due to temperature differences in the pipe section. The temperature profile in the outer wall of the pipe was supplied by a temperature monitoring system placed on some sections.
Fatigue was assessed at several critical points through stress changes, and the possibility of occurrence of cracks was estimated in order to forecast the need for preventive or corrective maintenance of the components.
Electrochemical potential distribution in Ship Platform P-48
Problems due to corrosion are frequent and occur during several activities where economic and mainly human life losses should be avoided. Economic losses include the cost of substituting components that suffered corrosion or even whole equipment substitution according to the intensity of the damage. Indirect losses include accidental or equipment maintenance stops; equipment efficiency reduction, product leakages or contamination due to corroded pipes, hyper dimensioned projects; etc.
If not fought adequately and in the right time, the damage caused by corrosion may be very serious. One of the several methods used to combat corrosion is cathodic protection, which is employed to protect structures that are buried, immersed or in contact with an electrolyte. In this process protection is achieved through the reduction of the electrode potential to the iron thermodynamic immunity domain, that is, through cathodic polarization, usually by impressed current or sacrificial anodes to a potential where corrosion may be considered insignificant.
The principles of cathodic protection are well described in literature; however its use is still a challenge for project engineers. For example, in a complex geometry structure, such as an offshore platform, the polarization potential is not always the same in the whole metallic surface. Some areas remain under protected, thus subject to corrosion, while overprotected areas may suffer material damages due to hydrogen embrittlement. On the other hand, the interface material / media may suffer modification during the structure service life, such as deposit formation that may modify the protection conditions.
One of the procedures to study cathodic protection is to obtain the material polarization curves in its working environment. Those curves show the relationship between electrode potential and current density for a potential range which varies from absolute absence of protection to overprotection, The combination of experimental results with the use of numerical / computational techniques helps to improve the project methodology allowing a more realistic analysis of the protection system performance, updating the project technique according other ground-breaking engineering areas. This updating is important mainly because of offshore industry going to even deeper waters.
Cathodic protection system modeling of offshore structures needs to consider time variable polarization curves and usually, different for each structure region.
Computational techniques allow the analysis of bi-dimensional, axisimetrical, and three-dimensional problems which are mathematically described by Laplace equation and calculate the electrochemical potential and current density distribution on the interface structure / electrolyte.
Submarine acoustics
The objective of this research project is to develop analytical numerical models in the frequency domain to simulate acoustic wave propagation in shallow waters along irregular surfaces, considering constant speed and the bottom of the sea as a rigid surface. Boundary conditions at the surface and at the bottom are already incorporated in the fundamental solution for constant depths thus avoiding their separation.
Acoustics in Eolic Parks
The energetic crisis that our country is currently suffering, due to lack of investments, encouraged the use of alternative energy sources. Eolic energy is an attractive means for electric energy generation through eolic aero generators.
Factors which may limit possible configurations due to the emission of acoustic noises should be considered in the design of eolic farms. The distance to individual dwellings or to residential áreas is determined based on a prediction of the acoustic noise considering the noises generated by all the aero generators of the eolic park.
The objective of the present project is to develop a numerical model, through the boundary element method, of the noise emission of the aero generators of an eolic park.
The noise emission in crowded streets or highways may be harmful for people living near them.
Studies may be fulfilled through Numerical Simulation using the boundary element method to minimize health hazardous effects in human beings.
Basically, the equipment park of the Laboratory of Computational Mechanics of COPPE Civil Engineering Program (LAMEC) is composed of approximately 30 PCs and their peripheral devices such as printers, stabilizers, scanners, etc. Besides, there is a cluster of 24 computers. All the computers are linked composing an internal network at LAMEC which is connected to the general UFRJ network.
Prof. José Claudio de Faria Telles (professor responsável)
Prof. Webe João Mansur
Prof. José Antônio Fontes Santiago
Prof. José Paulo Soares de Azevedo
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'Inside Out' brings out the inner child in everyone
By By Victor Jorges, West Broward High and Teenlink correspondent
Joy (voice of Amy Poehler) and Sadness (voice of Phyllis Smith) catch a ride on the Train of Thought in "Inside Out." (Pixar, Disney)
Disney and Pixar have done it again. With the release of their latest creation, Inside Out, these iconic partners have managed to entertain people from all ages. Starting<|fim_middle|> film was preceded by a beautiful short animation titled "Lava," about a lonely volcano who finds love in the middle of the ocean. | with a black screen and narration might be over done in the industry, but this movie is anything but overdone.
In this movie, every living thing is controlled by five characters: Joy, Sadness, Anger, Fear and Disgust. Although the names aren't creative, at all, the characters' unique personalities definitely make up for the lack of creativity reflected by the names. Joy is a sweet, charismatic girl with a trendy pixie cut who is mostly in control of everything. Sadness is a short, chubby blue lady with huge eyeglasses. Anger is a short, red little man. Fear is a slim, worrisome guy. Finally, Disgust is a sassy, attitude-filled girl, and by far my favorite out of the quintette.
These dynamic personalities control Riley's emotion. Riley, the main character, is your typical American girl growing up in the suburbs. She has a passion for hockey, which I thought was refreshing. The five have been there for her since the day she was born and have captured literally every single moment. However, when her life takes an unexpected turn for the worst due to a moving, her emotions will drastically change. Sadness and Joy will have to do the impossible in order to get everything back on track after having to leave the remaining three emotions in charge. Joy tends to be the leader of Riley's emotions, but having to let Sadness take control teaches an amazing lesson: sometimes it is okay to feel blue.
Director Pete Docter, who also directed masterpieces Up and Monster's Inc., has done an amazing job in leading his team to another beautifully composed film. This movie is seamlessly clever in the way that it's written. The humor is perfect for everyone throughout the duration of the film. Filled with metaphors such as Anger being short (for a short temper) or having an actual train carrying thought processes (for train of thoughts), this movie is entertaining enough for younger minds and adults who will understand these idioms all throughout the film.
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How should I select interior blinds? Information and comparison
One of the interior blinds that makes it simpler to play with the degree of light in a room is the Venetian blind, which has horizontal slats that can be changed as needed. Without losing sight of the outside, it shields against outside<|fim_middle|>However, it is not advised for child bedrooms, or by making sure that the blind's chains are inaccessible (or, failing that, equipped with a safety guide). This kind of store starts at about thirty euros.
The roller blind is the most affordable option (together with the Venetian blind) for dressing windows, bay windows, and other openings.
The roller blind, like other interior blind models, serves both a functional purpose (protecting from prying eyes, sifting the space, and battling heat) and a decorative purpose.
A wide variety of roller blinds in various colors, patterns, and materials are now available from manufacturers.
Unless you select a very transparent interior blind, all interior blinds may be regarded as blackout blinds.
The process to be used to achieve a blackout side will vary depending on the type of blind chosen (Venetian, Californian, roller, etc.); it may involve pulling the cord to tilt the slats on a Venetian or Californian model, sliding the blind in front of the opening on a dedicated rail for a Japanese blind, rolling up/unrolling the blind for a roller blind, etc.
It is frequently advised to favor quite dark hues and to supply the proper proportions for a blackout side to effectively perform its function.
Which blind should I pick for a roof window of the Velux® style?
The Velux® type roof window exhibits features that frequently set it apart from other house openings.
The roof window's slant (on the roof) prevents the installation of a traditional inside blind like a Venetian blind or Californian blind. However, this does not imply that you must forgo adding a blind to a roof window.
All you need to do is pick an appropriate awning model. Be aware that the selection is sometimes rather restricted for this kind of goods (few colors, few materials).
Blinds for Velux type windows, which are frequently put in bedrooms, should ideally be chosen for their blackout performance as well as their capacity to operate as a thermal insulator for the windows of roof immediately exposed to the sun's rays.
What types of materials are available for interior blinds?
Interior blinds come in a variety of materials. Interior fabric blinds are available alongside hardwood, PVC, and even metal types on the market.
Each of these materials has benefits and downsides, much like other goods.
Aluminum slats for a Venetian blind, for instance, are also more expensive than PVC slats while being more aesthetically pleasing, durable, and simple to maintain.
The fabric Roman blinds, which is less durable and more challenging to maintain, depends on its unique texture to entice and add warmth to the space.
How do you pick the proper sizes?
Choosing an inside blind with proportions (in width) much bigger than the size of the window is frequently advised. This will guarantee that the blind completely encloses the aperture.
However, take care not to spread out too much, especially if internal blinds need to be installed on multiple nearby windows.
In actuality, the choice of proportions is consequently influenced by the opening's size as much as by aesthetic standards.
For instance, some of you might choose a blind width that is less than the width of a window in order to expose the window frame. In terms of height, it is not always necessary to fill the whole aperture, especially when it approaches the ground.
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Venetian blind is quite fashionable and is available in a made-to-measure form in terms of proportions, so it can easily be incorporated into any environment, from the most traditional to the most modern.
In terms of pricing, it is also one of the most economical versions (from 10 euros). These blinds can occasionally be dirty and of poor quality.
Roman blinds, which are aesthetically similar to curtains, have the benefit of being able to be raised and lowered as needed, whereas traditional curtains only move laterally.
When the Roman blind is folded back on itself, it does so because of its form, which results in warm, aesthetically pleasing folds.
Roman blinds can be more delicate than other interior blind kinds while being simple to set up and take down.
Additionally, it is among the most costly models to buy from a Japanese retailer. It costs around 100 euros.
Japanese blinds
Japanese blinds have established themselves as one of the newest trends in home design because they are modern and ultra-design.
Japanese panels, also known as Japanese blinds, have a broad variety of patterns and colors that actively contribute to defining the general ambience of a space like a living room or dining room.
The Japanese blind serves as both a decorative element and a screen, like other interior blind kinds do.
It may also be used to draw a line between two areas of the same room. one drawback: its rather hefty price (often from 200 euros per unit).
Blinds from California
The verticality of the Californian blind's slats sets it apart from its rival, the Venetian blind, which is sometimes mistaken with it (or slats).
By turning the slats until you have the correct aperture, you may adjust the amount of light.
The Californian blind is strong and long-lasting, and it is available in a wide range of colors and custom sizes to fit all kinds of openings. The wide bay windows that face out onto the garden are where it is mostly put.
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The D Zone Football › News › Chipp<|fim_middle|> percentage. The previous record was held by Alex Niznak of Ithaca when he posted 84.6% in 2010.
The duo of Ellis and Schuster helped Chippewa Valley captured their second title in school history.
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Chippewa Valley outlasts Clarkston in division one instant classic
DETROIT, Michigan- With 23 second remaining Matt Miller caught a pass from Jake Jensen to bring Clarkston within a point of Chippewa Valley. Clarkston would attempt a two-point conversion to win, but the Wolves would fail.
"We've been aggressive forever and that's the way we play football," Clarkston head coach Kurt Richardson said. "It didn't work, but I wouldn't change the call."
The play call was similar to the play the Philadelphia Eagles ran in the Super Bowl where the play looks like a reverse, but the running back throws a pass to the quarterback.
"I think it was a great call by coach Richardson," Chippewa Valley head coach Scott Merchant said. "They were the champs and they wanted to be the champs again."
The defense stood tall for Chippewa Valley on the two-point conversion after allowing Clarkston to drive down the field and score the touchdown.
"I saw a man coming from the right side, so I stayed home," David Ellis said. "Our defense made the play of the season."
While the conversion attempt was the deciding factor in the game, Chippewa Valley seized momentum going into halftime.
Following a score 3-yard run by Jacob Honstetter for Clarkston to cut the Big Red lead to seven, David Ellis made the second biggest play of the game.
"I thought to just make something happen," Ellis said. "I saw a hole to the left and I break it and I just ran as fast as I could."
The kick return was a key factor before halftime to flip the momentum for Chippewa Valley as they led 24-10 at halftime.
"We always say that scores in the last minute are huge," Merchant said. "We felt we played pretty well in that first half."
Ellis finished the game with 178 total yards and the return touchdown.
Along with Ellis having a big game, senior quarterback Tommy Schuster was literally perfect as he completed all 13 of his pass attempts for 205 yards and two touchdowns.
"I don't know how he (Schuster) doesn't have any college offers," Merchant said. "Someone is going to get a great quarterback."
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In November of 2005 I kicked off the Tablas Creek blog with a brief post that included a pretty autumn vineyard scene and a plan: that we'd "share thoughts and insights on the state of Paso Robles, Rhone varietals, California, and the wine business in general." I would not have given you very good odds that I'd still have been working on the blog seventeen years later. And probably even longer odds that we'd make it to 1,000 posts or over one million lifetime page views. But when I logged on to the blog earlier this week, this is what greeted me:
In celebration, I thought I'd do a little looking back: at posts that were milestones for one reason or another, and at a few of the lessons I feel like we've learned from doing this one (ulp) thousand times. In chronological order:
First post that I'd be proud to publish today: Corks and Screwcaps: Not an open and shut case (July 2007)
It took me a while to find my footing as a blog writer. Some of that was stylistic (You need to write in first person. You need to be conversational.) but just as much was finding topics worth diving in deep on. Sure, the seasonal pieces about what's going on in the vineyard and winery are the bread and butter for a reader who wants to feel like they're inside our world. But those pieces are also ephemeral, and beyond a "hey good luck with the coming heat wave" or similar wish, don't elicit a lot of comments or have much value to revisit. With this 2007 blog on the cork-screwcap debate, I hit on a formula that would prove to be one I'd come back to again. Take a discussion going on in wine circles, share the results that we'd seen based on our in-house experiments, and try to come to a more nuanced conclusion than what I'd been reading out in the blogosphere. The result was a post that got picked up in an Eric Asimov New York Times column, accumulated 15 comments (more than double the total number of comments the blog had received to date), and still holds up today.
Blog with the most unexpected and helpful feedback: In Search of a Green(er) Wine Bottle (January 2010)
Using a blog to ask your customers what they want seems like a no-brainer. And so it turned out to be early in 2010 when we had come to the conclusion that our short-lived move to heavy wine bottles had been a mistake. Neil and I thought that what we were looking for was a lighter version of the big, impressive bottle that we'd settled on a few years before. But after sharing our thinking in this blog (and on our social media channels) we realized that we'd been thinking about it backwards and not giving our customers enough credit. I was expecting to get a balance of "we love the look and feel of the bigger bottle" and "please be more environmentally conscious". Instead, the overwhelming feedback we got was some variation of "please just give me a light, straightforward bottle that fits in my wine rack and doesn't give me a hernia when I have to lift a full case". We moved our entire production to one of the lightest Burgundy-shaped bottled on the market and have saved more than a million and a half pounds of glass from being made into bottles over the last dozen years. Thank you, Tablas Creek readers.
Blog with the longest useful life: Investigating an Attempted Wine Scam (June 2011)
Like any other product, wine attracts its share of scammers. But unlike most other products, the shipping rules (particularly international shipping rules) around wine are so convoluted that even a normally skeptical business owner can fall for a scam email and end up out thousands in bogus shipping fees. Rather than just deleting one such email, I decided to publish it, explain what it was hoping to accomplish, and break down what gave it away as a scam. It turned out that I was one of hundreds (or thousands) of wine people to get this email, and I heard from many of them in the comments who'd gotten suspicious and discovered my piece through a Google search. And then something fun happened. Each few years, as the scammers updated their names and approach, people would find the blog and share who the scam emails were purportedly from and post updated language. That continued all the way through 2020, a total of 33 comments, and I still see in the blog traffic data that this post gets hit at least a few times a week. So what began as a blog ended up as a sort of community bulletin board where the wine community banded together to create an anti-scammer resource. So cool.
My favorite story I've ever told: A great dinner, an amazing restaurant, and a wine that marks the beginning of Tablas Creek (May 2012)
What are the odds that Cesar Perrin and I, out at dinner together, would discover a bottle of the 1967 wine that marked the first-ever Haas-Perrin collaboration? Well, we did, and I was able to speak with my dad and track it through the years. Just an amazing and lovely coincidence that produced one of my favorite blogs to research, write, share, and re-read.
Best advice to wineries: Nine lessons the Kimpton Hotel Group offers wineries (May 2012)
I think that every writer needs to answer the question, "who am I writing for". It doesn't need to be a single audience; I know for example that we have winery folks, sommeliers, writers, and wine lovers who subscribe to this blog. But I decided pretty early on that writing a series for other winery folks, sharing what we'd learned about everything from grapegrowing to marketing to hospitality and winemaking, was a great way to start conversations and build our relationships in the community. It also offered the wine lovers in our audience a glimpse behind the curtain, so to speak, of winery life, which I found they appreciated. Some of these pieces were narrowly targeted (i.e. Making the most of time in the market or A Winery Blog. Who Needs It?) but I think that the most interesting entries in this series looked outside the world of wine and shared what I had learned from other companies I admired. There's a little nostalgia for me in reading this blog now that Kimpton has been bought by IHG. I stayed at the Hotel Monaco in Seattle earlier this fall, and while they've tried to keep a certain individuality in this and other signature Kimpton properties, it's not the same. Ownership changes matter. And there's a lesson for wineries in that too.
Best advice to consumers: When wine tasting, step away from the carafe (November 2012)
In one of my favorite early entries, on learning how to blog, I suggest that prospective bloggers to use the blog to answer the questions they get every day. I still think that's rock-solid advice, and try to note when I've gotten a particular question from consumers multiple times that it's time to blog about it. Even better is to try to come up with some empirical evidence to support the answer you provide. In this piece, after having consumer after consumer come up to me at a wine tasting after rinsing their glasses out with the chlorinated water pitchers placed around the event space, I decided to try to figure out just how much that residual water was likely to change the experience of the wine. If you haven't read the piece before, I'm guessing you'll be surprised how big the impact can be.
Best use of a 60-year career in wine: When Terroir Was a Dirty Word (May 2013)
I could have picked any one of a dozen pieces that my dad wrote, sharing his decades of experience in the business of wine as a retailer, wholesaler, importer, and vintner. But this one stood out to me because of how much it upends conventional wisdom. I have a vivid memory of him strolling into my office, eyes twinkling, visibly pleased with himself for having unearthed this tidbit. I hope that I have the same delight in the new discoveries I make when I'm in my mid-80s, and the joy, vision, and health to inspire people as long as he did. On a related note, if you haven't read the appreciation of his life that I wrote after he died in 2018, it's here. I still miss him, and am grateful to have the chance to relive my time with him through the 30+ pieces he wrote.
Best tie-in with current events: State of the Union, Wine Shipping Edition (January 2015)
I always enjoy diving into the intersection of wine and law. Because the 21st Amendment (which repealed Prohibition) gives states wide leeway to regulate alcohol within their borders, there's a wider range of regulatory statues in place than for almost any other product type. Many of these statutes were written by (or with the encouragement of) state-licensed liquor wholesalers, whose interests are usually in protecting themselves from competition. This also makes them relatively fertile ground for "sunshine" journalism, where a little public light shined on a backroom pocket-lining arrangement can have an impact. If you can do it with some humor so much the better. Direct shipping of alcohol is the wine/law intersection that has seen the most interest and the most movement in recent decades. In this piece, I dove into the patchwork of laws regulating winery shipping, dividing up states into tiers and putting numbers on the costs. I even had a hook to tie it to: the impending January 2015 State of the Union Address. I was pleased I was able to make it all work, and know at least in one case where the publication of this piece played a role in the changing of a state's statute.
Favorite rant: Customer Disservice: Nine Lessons from a Terrible Hertz Experience (June 2015)
I appreciate a good rant. But the key to making one valuable, I think, comes with tying more generally applicable lessons to the frustration that made the experience rant-worthy. I was able to turn what felt like the longest 45 minutes of my life into nine lessons that a winery could use to evaluate their own operations. I even managed to incorporate a relevant Seinfeld clip, which it seems I'm physically incapable of not watching each time I revisit the blog.
Prettiest collection of photographs: Paso Robles is Absurdly Beautiful Right Now (January 2019)
A blog is a great place to share pictures of what's going on at the vineyard and winery. I try to do that in every piece, and vineyards are beautiful enough places that 306 of the 1000 posts carry the Pretty Pictures tag. But there are also posts where the photographs, rather than illustrating the text, become the main event. Here in Paso Robles, it seems that it's the moments when we actually have moisture in the air that I find the most beautiful. I'd arrived at the vineyard that morning to find fog lifting over the newly-green vineyard, and still don't think I've ever had a better day taking pictures here.
Best pandemic idea: The vineyard in January, from four perspectives (January 2021)
The pandemic gave me the time and space (and the necessity, given how many other marketing avenues had shut down) to refocus on our blog, and I feel that the roughly year between March 2020 and February 2021 produced the best sustained writing in its history. Nearly a dozen of these dealt directly with the challenges of the pandemic and reopening, and I'm proud of the information that we gathered and shared to help the wine community make good choices. But the forced time in town and at home also produced deep dives into grape histories (explorations of the California trajectories of Syrah and of Mourvedre were two of the hardest blogs to leave out of this highlight list) and this family-focused photo essay. Around the 2021 holidays, with travel off the table, we decided as a family that each member would get to choose four activities, two inside and two outside, for us to do as a group. No one got veto power, so the idea was to get everyone out of their comfort zone a little. One of my choices was to have everyone explore the vineyard and take photos from their perspectives. So in this piece, you get not just my view of Tablas Creek, but that of my wife Meghan and our two boys, Eli (15 at the time) and Sebastian (13). Seeing a familiar place through new eyes is always a treat.
Most impactful blog on our own decision-making: A Winery Carbon Footprint Self-Assessment: Why I Can't Give Us an "A" Despite All Our Progress (May 2021)
I've tried to share our pursuit of greater sustainability on the blog, and to be transparent about where we think we're doing well and where we're struggling. I believe that this transparency is a part of why members of our community look to us as leaders in this space. So when I discovered a 2011 California Sustainable Winegrowers Alliance report on the carbon footprint of California wine, I thought that it was important to evaluate how our own operations looked in contrast to that baseline. What stood out to me was how great the impact was of the packaging, with the manufacture and transport of the glass bottle accounting for more than half the carbon footprint of the average California winery: greater than everything a winery does in the vineyard and cellar combined. This realization refocused us on alternative packaging (leading directly to the decision to branch out into wine in box this year) as well as on getting a full greenhouse gas inventory, which is underway now. I look forward to sharing the changes that will come from that.
I've been asked a lot what it is about the blog that keeps me coming back to it. After all, it's work to write and edit, work to go out and take photographs, work to engage with the community and respond to comments, questions, and feedback. I think that in order for a blog to have staying power, you need to want to write. I know that I value the time I get to put words to paper (OK, screen) and feel the lack when I've gone too long without doing so. The opportunity to do so often allows me to work through the questions that I have running through my own head and come to a conclusion I'm happy with. In other words, it's not about promotion -- though I hope that reading these thoughts makes you feel a deeper connection with Tablas Creek -- but instead about processing. But mostly it's the community of writers, winery folks, wine trade and wine lovers who make up the blog's audience who make it feel like it's an endeavor worth investing in. I've met many of the wine people who most inspire me through this effort. Hopefully I've provided a little inspiration in return.
Thank you to Marc Perrin, who suggested I start a blog back in 2005 because it would do great things for our search engine positioning. Neither of us could ever have imagined what this would become. Thank you too to my team, who have written over 150 of those 1000 posts and bring their own fascinating perspectives and experiences to the table each time they do. Finally, though, thank you to the community of readers of this blog, who've given me the space and encouragement to figure out how to do it, and the engagement to make it all feel worthwhile.
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Why Calcareous Soils Matter for Vineyards and Wine Grapes
What do regions like Champagne, Burgundy, Chablis, Tuscany, Alsace, the Loire, Saint-Emilion in Bordeaux, and Chateauneuf-du-Pape all have in common? They've all got soils that are variously described as chalky, decomposed limestone, and calcareous. In chemical terms, all are high in calcium carbonate, the basic building block of marine life.
So too does much of the Paso Robles AVA, particularly the sub-AVAs of the Adelaida District, Willow Creek District, Templeton Gap, El Pomar, and Santa Margarita Ranch. In all these regions, if you find a road cut, the rocks will be chalky and white, and if you dig into them you'll find marine fossils, from fish scales to oyster shells to whale bones. Yes, ten million years ago, our part of Paso Robles was under the Pacific Ocean. This makes our land, in geologic terms, relatively young. When they make their way to the surface, the rocks are creamy white and surprisingly lightweight:
What Are Calcareous Soils?
Calcareous soils are formed from the crushed up and decayed shells and bones of sea creatures. These layers settle down to the bottom of shallow oceans and, depending on how much heat and pressure they're subjected to, can be as soft as talc or chalk, or as hard as limestone or even marble. Of course, in order for plants to be able to access the calcium carbonate, it needs to be friable: soft enough for roots to penetrate. This means that even when you hear about a region having "limestone soils" the value to the plants isn't in the limestone itself, but in areas where the limestone has decayed into smaller particles.
From a grapevine's perspective, it doesn't really matter if the calcareous soils come from the erosion of limestone (as in Burgundy) or whether they never quite got heated and compressed enough to become rock (as in Paso Robles). The net impact is the same. There are four principal reasons why these soils are so often good for wine quality.
In winter, the calcareous clay absorbs moisture,
turning dark. Note the roots that have pene-
trated between the layers of clay.
Benefit 1: Water Retention & Drainage
Calcium-rich clay soils like those that we have here have water-retention properties that are ideal for growing grapevines. Some water is essential for cation exchange -- the process by which plants take up nutrients through their roots. But grapevines do poorly in waterlogged soils, which increase the likelihood of root disease. Calcium-rich clay soils have a chemical structure composed of sheets of molecules held together in layers by ionic attractions. This structure permits the soil to retain moisture in periods of dry weather but allows for good drainage during heavy rains.
The porosity of our soils mean that they act like a sponge, absorbing the rainfall that comes in the winter and spring months and holding it for the vines to access during the growing season. We've done backhoe cuts in late summer, after it hasn't rained for several months, and while the top few feet of soil are dry, there's moisture in the layers six feet down and more.
At the same time, we never see water pooling around the vines. Part of that is that our whole property is hilly. But hillside vineyards in other regions still end up with standing water at the bottoms of the hills. We never do. That balance of water retention and drainage is ideal, and it allows us to dry-farm in the summer months of what is essentially a desert climate.
Benefit 2: Higher Acids at Harvest
We've had anecdotal evidence of calcium-rich soils producing wines with more freshness for years. At the symposium on Roussanne that we conducted last decade, producers from non-calcareous regions (from Napa to the Sierra Foothills to vineyards in eastern Paso Robles with alluvial soils) consistently reported harvesting Roussanne roughly half a pH point higher than those of us from calcareous regions like west Paso Robles and the Santa Ynez Valley. But the chemistry of why this was the case has only become clear in recent years.
It appears that the key nutrient here is potassium, which is central to the processes by which grapevines lower acidity in berries as fruit ripens. High calcium levels displace potassium in the soils, inhibiting this chemical process and leaving more acidity at any given sugar level. Of course, this can be a challenge. I have friends in other parts of Paso Robles whose pH readings are so low at the sugar levels that we like to pick at (say, 22-24° Brix) that they have no choice but to wait for higher sugars. This can produce wines that carry massive levels of alcohol. But in moderation, it's a wonderful thing. I'm grateful that (unlike in many California regions) we can let malolactic fermentation proceed naturally, producing a creamy mouthfeel without unpleasantly high alcohol levels. In much of California, the higher harvest pH readings mean that they have no choice but to stop the malolactic bacteria from working to preserve the sharper malic acids in the finished wines, for balance.
The calcium-rich layers of the mountain behind
the winery shine bright white in mid-summer
Benefit 3: Root System and Vine Development
Unlike cereals and other annual crops that have shallow root systems, grape vines have deep root systems. This means that the composition of the deeper soil layers is more important for vine health and wine character than that of the topsoil. It also means that amending the soil (by, for example, liming to add calcium) is less effective than is natural replenishment of essential nutrients from deeper layers.
Grapevine roots are remarkable. They can penetrate dozens of feet into soil in their search for water and nutrients, and they continue to grow throughout the vines' lives. This means that the physical properties of the soil are important: a hardpan layer through which roots cannot penetrate can have a serious negative impact on a vine's output. Calcareous clay's tendency toward flocculation (soil particle aggregation) creates spaces in which water can be stored. In addition, the softness of these soils means that as they dry out, they shrink, creating fissures through which roots penetrate to where more residual moisture can be found. As they get wet, they expand again, opening up yet more terrain for the vines' roots to access. This process repeats itself annually. In our vineyard we've routinely found grapevine roots ten feet deep and deeper in experimental excavations.
Benefit 4: Disease Resistance
Finally, there is evidence that calcium is essential for the formation of disease-resistant berries. Calcium is found in berries in its greatest concentration in the skins, and essential for the creation of strong cell walls and maintaining skin cohesion. However, if calcium is scarce, plants prioritize intracellular calcium over berry skin calcium and berries are more susceptible to enzyme attack and fungal diseases.
Where Are California's Calcareous Soils?
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As regular readers of the blog have probably gathered, we're spending much of this year looking back as we celebrate our 30th anniversary. As a part of this celebration, in advance of the 30th Anniversary Party we hosted here a few weeks back, we decided to open every vintage of our flagship red wines, from our very first Tablas Creek Rouge in 1997 to the 2017 Esprit de Tablas that is still sitting in foudre waiting to be bottled later this summer. While we're opening older vintages of Esprit fairly regularly, we only go through a systematic tasting every couple of years1. So, it would have been a special occasion for us anyway. But because we had Jean-Pierre Perrin in town, we thought it would be great to invite some other local regional Rhone Rangers winemakers to join us. In the end, about 18 of us, evenly split between Tablas folks and those we'd invited to join, sat down on a Friday afternoon to taste 21 different wines. The tasting mat tells the story:
I thought it would be fun to share my notes on each wine. I was spending a lot of time coordinating the discussion, so some of my notes are a bit telegraphic, but I hope that you will still get a sense of the differences. I have also linked each vintage to that wine's page on our Web site, if you'd like to see production details or what the tasting notes were at bottling.
1997 Rouge: A nose that is minty and spicy, still quite fresh. On the palate, bright acids, earth, and still some solid tannins. I'd never have guessed that this wine was 20 years old, or made from grapevines that were just three to five years old.
1998 Rouge: Older and quieter on the nose than the 1997. The mouth has a cool elegance and nice leathery earth. A little simple perhaps, but still totally viable. From one of our coolest-ever vintages, where we didn't start harvesting until October.
1999 Reserve Cuvee: Dramatic on the nose, dark mocha and meat drippings. On the palate, still quite intense, with coffee, red berry fruit, and big tannins. A long finish. Still vibrant and youthful. I remember selling this wine when it was young, and it was a bit of a tannic monster. Those tannins have served it well in the intervening two decades.
2000 Esprit de Beaucastel: A lovely meaty nose with eucalyptus, licorice, red currant and chocolate. Similar flavors on the palate, with a velvety texture and a long finish. Right at its peak, we thought. We've consistently underestimated this wine's aging potential, and each time we open a bottle we like it more.
2001 Founders Reserve: From lots we'd set aside for Esprit and Panoplie that we blended for the wine club after deciding not to make either wine in the frost-depleted 2001 vintage. On the nose, more savory than fruity, dark eucalyptus and black pepper. A touch of alcohol showed. The mouth is vibrant, with great acids, mid-weight texture, and a long finish. A little rustic compared to the wines around it, but intense and fun to taste.
2002 Esprit de Beaucastel: Dark and chocolaty on the nose, with black fruit and balsamic notes. The mouth is similar, with cocoa powder, black cherry, luscious texture, and a long finish. My favorite of the older vintages.
2003 Esprit de Beaucastel: Round on the nose and lightly meaty, with a sweet cola character that I've always loved in this wine. On the palate, lively, with milk chocolate and tangy currant fruit. Really nice but I thought a touch less outstanding than we thought in our last tasting in 2017. Drink up.
2004 Esprit de Beaucastel: A spicy balsamic nose nicely balanced between fruity and savory elements. On the palate too I found it right on point, with no element sticking out, but less dramatic than the vintages before and after. Still fresh.
2005 Esprit de Beaucastel: Leaps out of the glass with a meaty, smoky nose, deep and inviting. On the palate, spruce forest and meat drippings, black licorice and dark red fruit. Dramatic and long on the finish. A consensus favorite, and right in the middle of what looks likely to be a long peak.
2006 Esprit de Beaucastel: A lovely wine that paled a little after the 2005, with a nose that is lightly meaty, with both black and red currant notes. On the palate, it feels fully mature and resolved, with a nice sweet clove/cumin spice notes, and nice freshness on the finish.
2007 Esprit de Beaucastel: A dense, inky animal nose, with iodine and cherry skin coming out with time. On the palate, luscious and densely tannic, with a creamy texture and a dark cherry cola note vying with the tannins on the finish. Still young and on its way up, and definitely helped by time in the glass. Decant if you're drinking now, or hold.
2008 Esprit de Beaucastel: Very different from the previous vintage, much more marked by Grenache's openness and red fruit. A high toned red berry nose, with a palate that is open and lifted and medium-bodied. This had a lovely translucency and freshness that made it a favorite for many of us of the 10-15 year old range.
2009 Esprit de Beaucastel: Sort of split the difference between the two previous vintages, with a dense eucalyptus and cola nose, with pepper spice notes. Plush but still tannic on the palate, with red raspberry fruit and some dusty tannins that are a reminder of its youth. Lots there, and still fleshing out.
2010 Esprit de Beaucastel: A pretty nose, with leather and spicy boysenberry. On the palate, nicely mid-weight on entry, but good tangy purple fruit and these nice tannins with the texture of powdered sugar. In a good place, and reminiscent of the 1998, from a similarly cool vintage.
2011 Esprit de Tablas: Like the 2010, with the volume turned up slightly. A creamy cherry candy nose, with Syrah's dark foresty character a bit toward the forefront. Savory and textured on the palate, with black cherry coming out on the finish. More open than my last tasting of this wine, which suggests it's on its way out of its closed phase.
2012 Esprit de Tablas: A high toned nose, almost all red fruit at this stage. Candied strawberry on the nose, then red plum on the palate, with a tangy marinade note that I've always found in the 2012. Medium weight. Still fleshing out and deepening; I'm very interested to see where this goes during and after its closed phase.
2013 Esprit de Tablas: A darker nose than 2012, with a spicy Mexican chocolate character. The mouth is savory with black raspberry and black cherry fruit, new leather, soy marinade, and some youthful tannins. Seems more on a black fruit 2010/2011 trajectory than a red fruit 2008/2009/2012 one.
2014 Esprit de Tablas: I wrote pure multiple times on this one: a nose like "pure wild strawberry" and the "mouth too, with crystalline purity". Nice texture, generously red fruited. We've been thinking of the 2014 vintage as something like 2007, but tasting this wine it was instead more like 2009.
2015 Esprit de Tablas: A nose of spiced red fruit, like pomegranate molasses. The mouth is pure and deep, purple fruit and spicy herbs, a little leathery soy note provides savory counterpoint. Long and expressive. My favorite of our recent vintages.
2016 Esprit de Tablas: A dense, savory nose, bigger and denser than the 2015, yet still expressive. Blackberry or black plum, pepper spice, chewy tannins, and a long finish. A hint of meatiness like a rosemary-rubbed leg of lamb. Should be incredible to watch evolve. A consensus favorite of our younger wines.
2017 Esprit de Tablas: A nose like black cherry and smoke, with a concentrated juiciness that despite its power doesn't come across as sweet. Elderberry and new leather. Long. I am excited to show off this wine, which seems to me too be the closest thing we've blended to the 2005 in the years since.
I asked people around the table to offer a few of their favorites, and 14 of the 21 wines got at least one vote. Those with four or more included the 2000, 2005, 2008, 2009, 2011, 2014, and 2016, with the 2005 and the 2016 sharing the top total.
A few concluding thoughts:
What a pleasure to taste with the combined hundreds of vintages of experience in that room. A few (including Jean-Pierre Perrin, and Jordan Fiorentini of Epoch Estate Wines) had to leave before we thought of taking the photograph, but what a room of winemaking talent to share the experience with:
From left: John Alban, Alban Vineyards; John Munch, Le Cuvier Winery; Jason Haas; Kirk Gafill, Nepenthe; Aengus Wagner, Nepenthe; Steve Edmunds, Edmunds St. John; Steve Beckmen, Beckmen Vineyards; Neil Collins
I was really pleased that the favorite wines stretched from the beginning of the sequence to the end, and included warm years and cool, low-production years and plentiful ones, and blends that included unusually high percentages of Mourvedre (2005, 2015), of Grenache (2008, 2014), and of Syrah (2009, 2016). I thought that the older wines showed great staying power, while the younger wines were open and felt already well mannered. John Munch from Le Cuvier commented, in his typically pithy style, "the older wines didn't taste old, and the younger wines didn't taste young".
The longevity of the wines from even our very early vintages gives me a ton of optimism about how our current wines will age. Look at a wine like the 2000: for a decade, we've been commenting at every tasting that it's the best showing we've seen yet. Our oldest vines then were 8 years old, with the majority of the vineyard between 3 and 5. This long aging curve wouldn't be a surprise for Mourvedre-heavy Chateauneuf, but I think we've consistently underestimated how well our own wines age. Hopefully, events like this help recast our expectations.
It is always fascinating the extent to which the wines are alive, and do move around over time. Last time we held a tasting like this, in 2017, our favorites included 2000, 2003, 2006, 2010, and 2015. All of those showed well at this tasting, but only the 2000 was among our top-5 vote-getters this time.
At the same time, the tasting supported by contention that the run we're on now is the best we've ever seen. If you tally the votes in 3-year increments, the top range was 2014-2016 (15 votes), followed closely by 2008-2010 (13 votes) and 2003-2005 (11 votes). If I had to make a gross generalization, in our early years (say, up until 2007), we were making wines that had robust power but were a little rustic and needed age to come into balance. And they mostly have. In our middle years (say, 2008-2013) we were working to build elegance into the wines, trusting that they would deepen with time in bottle. And they mostly have. What we're getting now, with its combination of power and purity, is what we've been aiming at all along, and I think that watching them age will be fascinating.
We update a vintage chart at least quarterly with the results of these tastings.
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What I would have said if I'd given a speech at our 30th Anniversary Party
On Friday night, we hosted an industry party to celebrate our 30th anniversary. It was a wonderful evening, with about 350 friends and colleagues, beautiful weather (we got lucky), great food by Chef Jeff Scott, music by the Mark Adams Band, and masterful coordination by Faith Wells. I'll share a few photos, all taken by the talented Heather Daenitz (see more of her work at www.craftandcluster.com). We brought in some chairs and couches, and converted our parking lot to space to sit, mingle, and browse the memorabilia we'd pulled together.
Expanding to the parking lot spread the event out, making sure that no area felt cramped, and gave the event two focuses: the food, near our dry-laid limestone wall, and the wine tables, on our patio.
We decided to open every wine we're currently making, as well as several selections out of our library. We figured if not then, when?
Chef Jeff's menu focused on things that were raised or harvested here at Tablas Creek, including lamb, pork, honey, olive oil, eggs, pea tendrils, and herbs. The egg strata, made from 16 dozen of our eggs and flavored with our olive oil, was one of my favorites:
One of my favorite things that Faith suggested we do was to put together photo walls, each representing a decade of our history. This gave us an excuse to go through our massive photo archives and try to pull out pictures that showed how things had changed.
In the end, though, the event was, as most events are, really about the people who came. We had winemakers from around California, almost the whole current Tablas Creek team and many of the former employees who helped bring us where we are, local restaurateurs and hoteliers, members of the community organizations and charities we support, and even local government officials. Jean-Pierre Perrin (below, left) made the trip from France, and I know it was fun for people who had only heard his name to get to meet the man so responsible for the creation of this enterprise.
The Paso Robles wine community is remarkable for the extent to which it really is a community, made up of people who live here and are involved in the broader local community, from schools to restaurants to youth sports and charities. Getting a large group like this together isn't so much an industry party as it is a gathering of friends. And I couldn't shake the feeling all day that this was like a wedding, with old and new friends arriving from far away, and people stopping me again and again to say, warmly, "congratulations".
It was this aspect of Paso Robles that I'd been intending to highlight in the brief remarks I had planned to give to the group. But I decided in the middle of the event that doing so would have interrupted the event's momentum and turned something that felt like an organic gathering into something more staged and self-centered. And that was the last thing I wanted to do, so I just let the evening take its course.
That said, looking at the photos makes me feel that much more confident in what I had planned to say. The event wasn't the right moment. But I thought I'd share them now. I didn't write it out, but these are, more or less, the remarks I'd planned to share:
Thank you all for being here. It's hard for me to wrap my head around the fact that it's been 30 years since my dad, as well as Francois and Jean-Pierre Perrin (who is with us here tonight) celebrated the purchase of the property with a lunch from KFC on the section of the vineyard that we know call Scruffy Hill. And not just because all the great restaurant folks here this evening are a case in point that the Paso Robles culinary scene has come a long way from those days.
I wrote a blog a couple of weeks ago about 10 things that we got right (and wrong) at the beginning of our project. [Note: that blog can be found here.] Things we got wrong, like that we were only going to make one red and one white wine each year, or that we didn't need a tasting room. And things we got right, like that the climate and soils in this place was going to be great for these varieties, and that if we planted the right grapes, whites could thrive here. But the biggest piece of our success isn't something that we got right or wrong; it's really neither of those things. It wasn't on our radar at all. In my opinion, the biggest thing that has allowed this crazy project to succeed is the wine community that we joined here in Paso Robles. It is this community that has become a destination for wine lovers and for some of the most talented winemakers in the country. It is this community that has embraced Rhone varieties, and blends, both of which were major leaps into the unknown for an American winery 30 years ago. And it's this community which has welcomed us, interlopers from France and Vermont, to be a part of its vibrantly experimental mix.
I often think, when I reflect on the anniversary, that 30 years old is the age at which, in France, they finally start taking a vineyard seriously. I am proud of what we've accomplished, but even more excited about what we're working on now. Thank you for your support over the first generation of Tablas Creek. I look forward to celebrating many future milestones with you.
The idea that for all we've done, we're just getting started, was the inspiration for the party favor we sent people home with: a baby grapevine from our nursery. We may have been here for a generation. But it's really still just the beginning.
So, if you came, thank you for helping us celebrate. If you couldn't come, thank you for helping us make it 30 years. We couldn't have done it without you.
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30 Years of Tablas Creek: 10 Things We Got Right (and Wrong)
I find it hard to wrap my head around this fact, but this year marks 30 years since my dad, along with Jean-Pierre and Francois Perrin, bought this property and began the process of launching what would become Tablas Creek Vineyard. To celebrate, they stopped at Kentucky Fried Chicken (this was before it became KFC) and took their purchases as a picnic lunch onto the section of the vineyard we now call Scruffy Hill to talk about what would come next. Amazingly, last year we turned up a photo of that lunch:
1989 was a different time, and not just because not-yet-called-KFC was the best option in town for lunch. Paso Robles itself had just 16 bonded wineries. None of them were producing Rhone varieties. The entire California Rhone movement had only about a dozen members. And yet the founding partners had enough confidence in their decision to embark on the long, slow, expensive process of importing grapevines, launching a grapevine nursery, planting an estate vineyard from scratch, building a winery, and creating a business plan to turn this into something self-sustaining.
I was thinking recently about how much of a leap into the unknown this was, and decided to look back on which of those early assumptions turned out to be right, and which we had to change or scrap. I'll take them in turn.
Wrong #1: Paso Robles is hot and dry, and therefore red wine country
This is a misconception that persists to this day among plenty of consumers, and (if it's not sacrilegious to say) an even higher percentage of sommeliers and the wine trade. But it's hard to be too critical of them when we made the same mistake. Our original plan was to focus on a model like Beaucastel's. There, the Perrins make about 90% red wines, and many Chateauneuf du Pape estates don't make any white at all. And yes, Paso Robles is hot and dry, during the day, in the summer. But it's cold at night, with an exceptionally high diurnal shift, and winters are cold and quite wet. The net result is that our average temperature is lower than Beaucastel's, and the first major change to our vineyard plans was to plant 20 more acres of white grapes. Now, our mix is about 50% red, 35% white, and 15% rosé.
Right #1: Obscure grapes can be great here
In our initial planting decisions, we decided to bring in the grapes you would have expected (think Mourvedre, Grenache, Syrah, or Viognier) but also some that had never before been used in America, like Grenache Blanc and Counoise. We thought that they would provide nice complexity, and our goal was to begin with the Beaucastel model (in which both of these grapes appear) and then adjust as our experiences dictated. It turns out that we liked them enough that not only are they important players in the blends that we make, but we even bottle them solo many years. This meant a relatively quick decision to bring in Picpoul Blanc in 2000, and to eventually import the full collection of Chateauneuf du Pape grapes in 2003. If you've been enjoying new grapes like Picardan, or Terret Noir, or Clairette Blanche, you have this early decision to thank.
Wrong #2: We're going to make just one red wine and one white wine
This is a decision we realized we needed to revisit pretty quickly. As early as 1999, we decided that in order to make the best wine we could from a vintage, we needed to be able to declassify lots into a second wine (which at that point we called "Petite Cuvee"). Having this declassified wine also gave us some cool opportunities in restaurants, which could pour this "second" wine by the glass, exposing us to new customers. And the wine, which we soon rechristened "Cotes de Tablas", proved to be more than just a place to put our second-best lots. Many of the characteristics that caused us to declassify a particular lot (pretty but not as intense, less structured and perhaps less ageworthy, good fruit but maybe less tannin) make a wine that's perfect to enjoy in its relative youth. Although we've been surprised by the ability of these wines to age, having something that people could open and appreciate while our more tannic flagship wines were aging in the cellar proved invaluable.
And we didn't stop there. We realized within another few years that there were lots that were either too dominant to be great in a blend, or so varietally characteristic that it was a shame to blend them away. Opening a tasting room and starting a wine club in 2002 (more on this below) meant that we had recurring educational opportunities where having, say, a varietal Mourvedre, was really valuable. At the time, many fans of Rhone grapes had never tasted even the main ones (outside of Syrah) on their own. Having a rotating collection of varietal bottlings beginning in 2002 not only gave us great options for our wine club shipments, but I think helped an entire generation of Rhone lovers wrap their heads around this diverse and heterogeneous category.
Right #2: Importing new vine material would be worth the costs
Nearly the first decision we had to make was whether we would work with the existing Rhone varieties that were already in California or whether we would bring in our own. And it's not as though this decision was without consequence. Importing grapevines through the USDA's mandated 3-year quarantine set us back (after propagation) five years, and cost hundreds of thousands of dollars. But it also came with some potentially huge benefits: the opportunity to select our clones for high quality, the chance to work with the full complement of Rhone grapes, and eventually the privilege of supplying other wineries with high quality clones. I remain convinced that for all the different impacts Tablas Creek has had, it is this proliferation of clonal material that will go down as our most important.
Wrong #3: Vineyard and winery experience is enough to run a nursery
With fifteen years' distance blunting the anxiety, it's easy to forget just how steep the learning curve was for us in the nursery business. But I know that when I moved out here in 2002, it was the perennially money-losing nursery that was the source of most of our headaches. The nursery business is difficult for three reasons, particularly for a startup. First, it's technically tricky. Expertise in grapegrowing is only tangentially relevant to things like grafting and rooting, or dealing with nursery pests. This is made more challenging by the fact that the same things that make this place good for quality wine grapes (that it forces vines to struggle) made all the nursery challenges worse. Second, it's subject to supply shocks that are largely outside of your control. If you get a spring frost, or a summer drought, you'll produce smaller vine material, get a lower percentage of successful grafts, and produce fewer vines. I know that in our first few years we often had to go back to our customers and cut back their orders because of production challenges. And third, on the demand side, it's incredibly cyclical and prone to boom and bust. Because it takes three to four years for a new vine to get into into production, you tend to have cycles of sky-high demand for scarce grapes followed by periods where everyone has the same new varieties in production, which causes demand for new vines to collapse. We lost quite a lot of money overall on our nursery operations before realizing the right response was to outsource. Our partnership since 2004 with NovaVine has been such an improvement, in so many ways.
Right #3: Organic viticulture works
The Perrins have been innovators in organic viticulture since Jacques Perrin implemented it in the 1960s. By the time we were starting Tablas Creek, it was taken as a given that we'd farm the same way, partly out of a desire to avoid exposing ourselves, our colleagues, and our neighbors to toxins, but more because we felt that this was a fundamental precondition for producing wines that expressed their place. At the time, there wasn't a single vineyard in Paso Robles being farmed organically, and the studied opinion of the major California viticulture universities was that doing so was pointless and difficult. It has been wonderful to see a higher and higher percentage of our local grapegrowers come around to our perspective, and to see the excitement locally and around California as we push past organics into the more holistic approach of Biodynamics. But that idea -- that organic farming is key to producing wines with a sense of place -- is as fundamental to our process today as it was in the beginning.
Wrong #4: Tasting Room? Wine Club? Who needs 'em!
At the beginning, our idea was that we would be in the production business, not the marketing and sales business. Our contact with the market would be once a year, when we would call up Vineyard Brands and let them know that the new vintage was ready. They would buy it all, take care of the nitty gritty of selling it, and our next contact with the market would be a year later, when we would call them up again and let them know they could pick up the next vintage. This proved to be a lot more difficult than we'd initially imagined. We were making wines without an established category, from grapes that most customers didn't know and couldn't pronounce, in a place they hadn't heard of, and blending them into wines with French names that didn't mean anything to them. By 2002, inventory had started to build up and we had to radically rethink our marketing program. The two new key pieces were starting a wine club (first shipment: August 2002, to about 75 members) and opening our tasting room on Labor Day weekend that same fall.
The opportunities provided by both these outlets have fundamentally transformed the business of Tablas Creek, giving us direct contact with our customers, an audience for small-production experimental lots, a higher-margin sales channel through which we can offer our members good discounts and still do better than we would selling wholesale, and (most importantly, in my opinion) a growing army of advocates out in the marketplace who have visited here, gotten to see, smell, and touch the place, and take home a memory of our story and our wines. I don't think it's a coincidence that our wholesale sales grew dramatically over the first five years that our tasting room was open, or that each time a new state opens to direct shipping our wholesale sales improve there. Still, we would never have predicted at the outset that nearly 60% of the bottles that we'd sell in our 30th year would go directly from us to the customer who would ultimately cellar and (or) drink it.
Right #4: Building (and keeping) the right team is key
Long tenure was a feature of his hires throughout my dad's career. I still see people at Vineyard Brands sales meetings who remember me coming home from little league games in uniform, 35 years ago. And I'm really proud of how long the key members of the Tablas Creek team have been here. That includes David Maduena, our Vineyard Manager, who is on year 28 here at Tablas Creek. Denise Chouinard, our Controller, worked for my dad at Vineyard Brands and moved out here to take over our back office 23 years ago. Neil Collins will oversee his 22nd vintage as Winemaker here this year. Nicole Getty has overseen our wine club, hospitality, and events for 15 years, while and Eileen Harms has run our accounting desk for the same duration. This will be 14 years at Tablas Creek for Senior Assistant Winemaker Chelsea Franchi and 13 for Tasting Room Manager John Morris.
I say all this not because longevity on its own is the point, but because of what it means to keep talented and ambitious people on your team. It means that they feel they're a part of something meaningful. That they're given the opportunity and resources to innovate and keep growing. And that you don't have to reinvent the wheel every few years.
Wrong #5: People will buy it because Beaucastel
Much of our challenge in the early years was self-inflicted: we hadn't done the work to create a consumer base for Tablas Creek, so when the wines got onto shelves or wine lists, they tended to gather dust. We assumed that if we made great wines, somehow the news would get out to the people who always clamored for Beaucastel (coming off a Wine Spectator #1 Wine of the Year honor in 1991), and the sales would take care of themselves. That turned out to be wildly optimistic. While our association with Beaucastel helped get the wines onto the shelves and lists, the boost it provided in sales wasn't enough to overcome the wines' unfamiliar names and lack of category, and the winery's own nonexistent track record. In the end we had to do the hard work of brand building: telling the story to one person at a time in our tasting room, to ambassadors in the trade, and to the masses (such as it was) through press coverage.
One caveat: a key piece of this turnaround was our decision in 2000 to bestow the name "Esprit de Beaucastel" on our top white and red blend. Unlike the names "Rouge", "Blanc", "Reserve Cuvee", and "Clos Blanc", having Beaucastel on the front label instead of in the back story was one of the early keys in reminding consumers who might have some vague awareness that the Perrins were involved in a California project that this, Tablas Creek, was that project. So, the Beaucastel name did matter... but people needed a more explicit reminder.
Right #5: Fundamentally, this place is great for these grapes
Ultimately, we got right the most important question, and Paso Robles has turned out to be a terrific place in which to have founded a Rhone project. The evidence for this is everywhere you look in Paso. It has become the epicenter of California's Rhone movement, with more than 80% of wineries here producing at least one Rhone wine. It became the home to Hospice du Rhone, the world's premier Rhone-focused wine festival, for which high profile Rhone producers from France, Australia, Spain, South Africa, Washington, and all over California convene every other spring for three days of seminars, tastings, dinners, and revelry. And the range of Rhone grapes that do well here is exceptionally broad. You can taste some of the state's greatest examples of Syrah, of Grenache, of Mourvedre, of Roussanne, of Viognier, and of Grenache Blanc all here in Paso. In this, it even surpasses the Rhone. You aren't generally going to taste world class Syrah or Viognier from the southern Rhone; it's too warm there. And Grenache, Mourvedre, and Roussanne all struggle to ripen in the northern Rhone. But the cold nights and the calcareous soils found in Paso Robles provide freshness and minerality to balance the lush fruit from our long growing season and 320 days of sun. Rhone producers here have enormous flexibility in how long they leave the grapes on the vines, which allows them to be successful in a wide range of styles.
And I haven't even mentioned yet the happy accident (which I'm pretty sure my dad and the Perrins didn't consider in 1989) that Paso Robles has proven to be an incredibly supportive, collegial community, which has embraced its identity as a Rhone hub and turned enthusiastically to the business of improving its practices, marketing its wares, and becoming a leader in sustainability.
Conclusion: The next 30 Years
Ultimately, what makes me so excited about where we are is that we've had the opportunity to work through our startup issues, and to make the adjustments we thought Paso Robles dictated, without having to compromise on our fundamental ideas. We're still making (mostly) Rhone blends from our organic (and now Biodynamic) estate vineyard, wines that have one foot stylistically in the Old World and one in the New World. And we're doing it all with grapevines that are only now getting to the age where the French would start to really consider them at their peak.
Buckle up, kids. The next 30 years is going to be amazing.
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Giving Robert Haas the Send-off He Deserved
This Sunday, we hosted a celebration of my dad's life here at the vineyard. We tried to make it an event my dad would have enjoyed: good food and wine, not too formal, a chance for people to tell stories in different ways, either to speak to the whole audience, to reminisce in smaller groups, or to record a video with Nathan, our Shepherd/Videographer. About 350 people came, from as far away as France and Vermont, wine folks from all over California, and a great representation of the local wine community. The mood was one of appreciation, not sadness, which I thought was great. Yes, we are all sad to lose him, but at almost 91 he had a great and long life, achieved so many goals that he had, and laid the foundation for many others to succeed after him.
I will forever be grateful to everyone who helped put this event together. There were many, but a few principal ones were Neil Collins, who did a masterful job organizing leading the storytelling; Chef Jeff Scott, who put together a great array of foods for the gathering including my dad's favorite East Coast oysters and Tablas Creek lamb; my brother-in-law Tom Hutten, who assembled a selection of music from my dad's favorite artists and eras, Nathan Stuart, who spent his day filming reminiscences and the breaks taking photos; the many volunteers from the Paso Robles wine community, who manned the food and wine stations so that the team here could participate fully in the event; and finally Kyle Wommack, Wonder Woman and master event coordinator, who pulled together all the pieces of this complicated event -- of a sort we'd never hosted before -- and allowed the family to focus on the guests who came and on what we wanted to say.
It has also been a pleasure to see the tributes that appeared in the national and international press since he passed away. If you haven't read these, and you have a half hour to spare, there are some wonderful stories in each of these pieces. My sincere thanks go out to all these writers, who gave him the tributes his long career deserved. In the order in which the stories were published:
Los Angeles Times, March 20th: Robert Haas, influential American vintner and wine importer, dies at 90 (Patrick Comiskey)
Wine Spectator, March 20th: Tablas Creek Cofounder and Paso Robles Pioneer Robert Haas Dies at 90 (Aaron Romano)
San Luis Obispo Tribune, March 20th: Robert Haas, forefather of the Paso Robles wine region, dies at 90 (Andrew Sheeler)
Wine Enthusiast, March 21st: Robert Haas, Tablas Creek Vineyard Founder and Partner, Dies at 90 (Matt Kettmann)
Decanter, March 21st: Robert Haas, Tablas Creek co-founder and wine pioneer, dies in California (Chris Mercer)
San Francisco Chronicle, March 21st: Remembering Robert Haas, one of the most influential figures in American wine (Esther Mobley)
Wall Street Journal, March 30th: Robert Haas Imported Fine French Wines, Then Made His Own in California (James Hagerty)
New York Times, April 5th: Robert Haas, Wine Importer and California Vintner, Dies at 90 (Sam Roberts)
A theme that came out again and again both in the articles that were written and in the tributes that people gave on Sunday was that my dad was a builder: someone who didn't just come up with ideas (though he did that, for sure) but oversaw the creation of structures that were set up to succeed long-term. The impacts of that foundation-building were in full evidence at the party, with people there to remember his work not just at Tablas Creek, but as an importer, as an advocate for the Paso Robles wine community, and as a patron of the arts. I thought it might be interesting for me to share the speech I wrote for the occasion. I didn't end up giving it verbatim, but this was, more or less, what I said to the group.
Welcome, everyone. I had an anxiety dream a few days ago where there were only about 40 people here and I had to slink up to the podium and announce that we were going to start, I guessed, since it didn't look like anyone else was coming. I am so honored to see all of you here, and to have heard from so many of you – and so many people who couldn't be here today – about how my dad had touched your lives. It's been one of the really nice things in what has been a difficult month.
I remember, when Meghan and I were thinking about moving out here almost 20 years ago, that getting the chance to work with my dad while he was still actively involved in Tablas Creek was my main motivation in making the move when we did. If I'd waited a few years, and something had happened to him, I would have regretted that forever. But I wasn't sure exactly what it was that he did that had made him successful. After having the pleasure of working with him for 15 years, I think it boiled down to three things:
First, he generated more ideas per amount of time spent at work than anyone else I've ever worked with. This wasn't always easy – there were times when it drove us all nuts, because he would have a new good idea while we were still trying to implement the last one – but what a great foundation for any business.
Second, he was willing to lead by example. Whether this was going out well into his 80s and carrying a wine bag up and down the New York subway stairs showing Tablas Creek, or being the first to stand up and put in money to get the 11 new Paso Robles AVAs off the ground, or in creating the winery partners program to support the Foundation for the Performing Arts Center, on whose board he served into his 90s, if the cause was something he believed in, he was willing to put his own time, effort, and money into making sure that cause succeeded.
Third, he believed in people. One of the hallmarks of all the companies he founded was that people stayed and made a career there. He did this by giving the people he hired the authority to make the right decisions in their area of expertise, by allocating them the resources they needed, and by providing them vision without micro-managing the details. There are people here today from Vineyard Brands who remember me coming home from little league games and walking through the sales meeting dinners that he and my mom were hosting, in uniform. A dozen of them made the trip out here, many of whom are still there 30 years later, running the company that he founded.
My dad also had a pretty clear sense of what mattered, and what didn't. I remember once, getting a semi-critical review in a class I took in high school, that said (with the implication that my judgments were perhaps less nuanced than they should be) that I had "little use for fools". He read it and said, "well, I'm not sure there is much use for fools. I wouldn't worry about it."
But in the end, what I'm going to hold on to most about my dad was his essential optimism. He started this vineyard when he was already in his early 60s. He did it in a way that guaranteed that we wouldn't see any wine for a decade. And for him, none of that mattered. It was an interesting and worthwhile thing to do. He was confident that he could figure out the pieces he didn't yet know. The fact that we would be making wine from grapes that most Americans didn't know and couldn't pronounce, and that we would be blending these grapes into wines that didn't really have a category in the marketplace, were just details that could be overcome by perseverance and force of will. That perseverance and force of will hadn't ever let him down. And they wouldn't here either.
All kids, I think, grow up thinking that what they grow up with is normal. Your dad is "Dad". He does the things he does because that's the way the world works. I will forever be grateful that I got the chance to work with my dad as an adult, and see him through the eyes of the people he worked with and inspired. And I believe that the reason he was successful in business was the same as why he was a great dad and a great friend. You always knew where you stood. You always knew that if you needed his support, you'd have it. And you knew that when he said something, he meant it.
I have one story I'd like to end with. I remember, not long after we moved out here, walking out into the middle of the vineyard here with my dad. Most of the vines here were still young. He was in his mid-70s. He stopped for a moment and waved generally toward the vineyard and said, "you know, I didn't build this for me. I'm not going to be around when it's at maturity. I didn't even really build it for you. But it should be amazing for your kids."
Thank you all for coming today. I am really looking forward to hearing your stories. It's been an honor to spend as much time inside my dad's life as I have these last two decades. Thank you all for being a part of it.
Finally, one observation that really drove home to me what a lasting impact my dad had on not just the communities in which he lived, but on the people who he brought into the businesses he started. At the event, there were some 65 people who had worked for him either at Vineyard Brands or at Tablas Creek. By my rough calculations, those 65 people had combined for about 1000 years of tenure in his businesses. And that, I think, is the legacy of which he would have been proudest.
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It is with sadness that I write to report that my dad, Tablas Creek's co-founder Robert Haas, passed away last weekend, one month before his 91st birthday. Followers of Tablas Creek likely know him from his time here at the winery, either at events like our blending seminars, or from his articles on this blog. He was a regular presence at Tablas Creek well into his tenth decade.
What many of you may not know is the impact he had on the American wine market before Tablas Creek ever got off the ground, or what he was like as a person. I hope to share some of each of these in this piece, as well as some of my favorite photos of him. And we may as well start here, from his 89th birthday party two Aprils ago:
My dad was born in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn on April 18th, 1927. His father Sidney ran a gourmet butcher shop named M. Lehmann that he had inherited from his uncle Morris Lehmann. My dad would talk about going to visit his grandparents and walking over to Ebbets Field, and would remain a Dodgers fan for life. One of my favorite gifts I ever got for him was a ball signed by Sandy Koufax. Small but strong and quick, he also played baseball and was a good enough shortstop to get an invitation to an open Dodgers tryout from a scout while he was in high school, and a good enough athlete to win summer camp tennis tournaments despite never really playing the sport.
After the repeal of prohibition Sidney was on the ball enough to get New York's first retail liquor license, and turned M. Lehmann into a liquor store and eventually New York's top fine wine shop. Meanwhile my grandparents had moved to Scarsdale, NY, in the suburbs, and my dad had gained a sister, my aunt Adrienne. After high school, he followed in his grandfather's footsteps and went to Yale, but interrupted his studies and enlisted in the Navy in December of 1944. After two years in the Navy, he returned to Yale, graduated class of 1950, and joined his father's business.
While there, he convinced his father -- who thought no one would ever pay for wine before they could take possession of it -- to put out the first-ever futures offer on Bordeaux, commissioning hand-colored lithographs describing the qualities of the 1952 vintage and selling out the 1500 cases he had reserved in just a few weeks. When the store was looking for a new buyer for their French wine after the death of Raymond Baudouin in 1953, my dad and his two years of college French jumped at the opportunity. His goal on this first French trip in 1954 was ostensibly to find a new wine buyer. But I've always gotten the sense from him that he decided quickly that there was no way anyone but him was going to do that job. I asked him just a few weeks ago if that was true, and he responded "Yes, I pretty much knew at the end of my first day that this was what I wanted to do". So, at age 27, he became M. Lehmann's wine buyer, and soon after started cultivating relationships with distributors in other states, so he could be a better customer for the suppliers whose wines he was buying. Meanwhile, he had married, and had his first two children, my sister Janet and brother Danny.
It was in this period that he cemented his relationships with many of the Burgundy suppliers who are still crown jewels of the Vineyard Brands import book: iconic estates like Domaine Gouges, Mongeard-Mugneret, Domaine Ponsot, and Dauvissat. He also agreed to buy the lion's share of the production of Chateau Lafite and Chateau Petrus after their British agents balked at a price increase for the iconic 1961 vintage, and represented them exclusively over the next decade.
His relationship with my grandfather was not always smooth. I know there was tension where my grandfather wanted him to spend more time minding the store, and less time traveling around France buying wine and around America selling it. Sidney was at heart a merchant, not a wine lover. I believe he thought my dad would settle down at some point, and was surprised that when he announced that he was ready to retire, my dad suggested he sell M. Lehmann and my dad would take the contacts he'd made and turn them into an importing business. But neither backed down, and that's what happened. After an initial ill-fated sale to one of its employees, the rival Sherry Wine & Spirits bought M. Lehmann and merged the two to become Sherry-Lehmann Wine & Spirits, which remains one of New York's iconic wine shops to this day.
The late 1960s was a difficult period for my dad in a few ways. He was a one-man show, often advocating for wine in a market that didn't yet value it. He worked for a few years to build a wine division within Barton Brands, who had bought the inventory from my grandfather's import company, before he realized that they were so much more interested in liquor that getting them to focus on wine was hopeless. And his first marriage had ended, although he did meet my mom not long after, on a flight back to New York from Florida. When my mom Barbara first visited his apartment, she remembers the entire contents of his fridge being a few condiments and a bottle of vodka. A photo from their wedding, in January 1968:
It was in this period that he first met Jacques Perrin and convinced him to sell him some wine from the Beaucastel cellar. [The remarkable story where I found one of these bottles on the legendary wine list at Bern's Steak House is told in full in one of my favorite-ever blog posts, from 2012]. He built upon this relationship with Jacques' son Jean-Pierre, with whom he developed the La Vieille Ferme brand. From a beginning of a few hundred cases, sold as an exclusive to Sherry-Lehmann in 1970, it is now the largest French wine brand in the world. In the end he decided to set up shop on his own, first in New York and then, when they got tired of city living, from the converted barn of the 1806 Vermont farmhouse to which they moved in 1970. He incorporated Vineyard Brands in 1973, the same year that I was born. This photo of Jacques (left) and my dad is from that very same year, which I know because there's also a photo of me, age 5 months, sitting on Jacques' lap from the same visit.
Through the 1970s and 1980s, he balanced additions to the estate side of Vineyard Brands with new brands, championing Rioja (Marques de Caceres), Chile (Santa Rita), and New Zealand (Villa Maria). He also had his second daughter and fourth child, my sister Rebecca, and was active in the Chester, Vermont community, serving on the school board and as a little league coach. Long-time employees of Vineyard Brands still remember us coming back to the house in uniform as they were getting ready for dinner.
He was not infallible in his business judgments; he had an ongoing tendency to be ahead of the market, championing regions that are now critical darlings like Beaujolais, Languedoc, and Oregon a decade or longer before the market was ready to accept them. But he had a terrific nose for regions or wines that were punching above their cost, and was willing to put in the work to establish regions and producers at the same time.
This instinct was on full view in California, where he represented some of the greats of the first generation in Napa and Sonoma, like Kistler, Joseph Phelps, Chappellet, Spring Mountain, and Clos du Val in the 1970s, and he helped launch Sonoma-Cutrer in the 1980s as the California Chardonnay wave was gathering. When he was in California with Jean-Pierre Perrin or his brother Francois, he would bring them to visit California wineries to see what they thought, and they together came away both convinced that California was capable of making world-class wines and confused as to why no one was trying Rhone varieties in the clearly Mediterranean climate. Abstract discussions in the mid-1970s gradually became more serious, and they decided to start looking for property together in 1985, even as each was fully engaged in growing their own businesses. This photo of my dad with Jean-Pierre and Francois at Beaucastel is from around that time:
I first became aware that my dad was a big deal in certain circles when I read an article ("Have Palate, Will Travel") in a 1988 edition of the Wine Spectator. The photo below, which is one of my favorites of him, must have been from the same photo session, since he's wearing the same outfit. He's leaning against the gate of one of the gardens at our Vermont house. He hadn't yet started to step back from the day-to-day operations at Vineyard Brands, but he would soon, to focus on Tablas Creek:
By the early 1990's, my dad had turned over the running of Vineyard Brands to his second-in-command there, and the relationships with the French suppliers to my brother Danny. How he did so says a lot about him. He saw an ad in the Boston Globe about a seminar promoting a new federal program called an employee stock ownership plan (ESOP) which could be used to turn a business over to its employees. And that's what he did: in essence, Vineyard Brands bought itself from him, and is now owned by its employees. This has allowed the company to remain independent, to continue to grow and thrive after my dad's retirement, and to enjoy a continuity and longevity from its team that is almost unheard of in this age. There are still significant portions of the senior leadership of Vineyard Brands that were hired by my dad, more than 25 years ago. And my dad was able to take the money and invest it in Tablas Creek.
The search to find Tablas Creek and the development of the property here is likely better known to readers of this blog, but I think the same willingness to be ahead of the curve was in evidence in the decision to settle on Paso Robles at a time when few people were talking about it, and the focus on blends when the marketplace was firmly oriented toward varietals. But in both cases, he was convinced that what mattered was the right raw materials (soils, climate, rainfall) and the right winemaking decisions. The rest was simply a question of perseverance. The photo of the ceremonial planting of the first vines released from quarantine in 1992 shows (from left) Jean-Pierre Perrin, my cousin Jim O'Sullivan, my mom and dad, Charlie Falk (who worked for my dad at Vineyard Brands and then helped with the search for Tablas Creek), Charlie's wife Gretchen Buntschuh, and Jean-Pierre's wife Bernadette Perrin.
As Tablas Creek grew from an idea into a business, it encountered many of the challenges faced by any startup. We overestimated the readiness of the market for the blends we were making, and underestimated the importance of taking an active role in our own marketing. But the fundamental idea that my dad and the Perrins had was a good one, and this spot has turned out to be an extraordinary one in which to grow Rhone grape varieties. And because of my dad's business philosophy -- that you make your best guess at what you need to do, put the resources behind it, and then be willing to adjust your strategy based on what you learn -- we were able to make the changes that eventually allowed Tablas Creek to thrive.
Perhaps most important to Tablas Creek's legacy will end up being the partners' decision to bring in grapevine cuttings rather than live with what was already in California, and to make the clones we'd imported available to the community. More than 600 vineyards and wineries around the United States use Tablas Creek cuttings, and my dad was always convinced that our decision to bring in vines spurred the reversal of a long-standing policy by ENTAV (the French national nursery service) against partnering with out-of-country nurseries. This policy change has led to the import of hundreds of new varieties and clones, and a new flowering of diversity in American grapegrowing, Rhone and otherwise.
My dad maintained an active role at Tablas Creek up until the very end. I often heard from his friends that they thought that his passion for this project kept him young, and I believe that. In the period in the mid-2000's when we were pushing to establish Tablas Creek in the market, he was out there (in his 70's and 80's, mind you), riding around with our distributors, making presentations to restaurants and retailers, up and down subway steps during the day and hosting dinners and tastings in the evening. A quiet retirement this was not. But he was always willing to put his own effort behind the things he believed in, and if this was what needed to be done, he was going to do it. And the example of the Perrins, who are now on their fifth generation running their estate, is an inspiring one for all of us. The photo below, from 2009, shows my dad at lower left, and then (continuing counter-clockwise) me, Francois Perrin, Francois' son Cesar, and our winemaker Neil Collins, who has been here so long he might as well be family. It's not only in Vineyard Brands that the longevity of the employees my dad hired is in evidence; it's a hallmark of every business he's been a part of.
By the early 2010s, my dad had cut back a little but was still coming into the vineyard 3-4 days per week, and had stopped going out and working the market but was still hosting 4-6 wine dinners a year around the country. He led the 2015 Tablas Creek Rhone River Cruise with my mom. And he was starting to be recognized as the living icon that he was. One of the nicest windows I got into how others saw him was in the production and ceremony for the lifetime achievement award he received from the Rhone Rangers in 2014. The video incorporated his story with interviews with many of the wine industry titans whose lives and careers he impacted. I've been re-watching it a lot this week.
In the last few years, my dad's health issues escalated; he endured a stroke 18 months ago, and wasn't able to be at the vineyard as much. But he and my mom still maintained an active role in the community, and he continued his work with the Foundation for the Performing Arts Center, in San Luis Obispo. In 2009, he he created a new "winery partners" program for the Foundation that has raised hundreds of thousands of dollars to support arts in our local community. He continued to lead this program until last year, and asked at the end that in lieu of flowers, donations be made to the foundation.
As he did with the rest of his life, he knew what he did and didn't want for his death. He wanted to be at home, he wanted to have family around, and he didn't want a fuss made. So last week, as it became clear that the end was near, my siblings flew out and joined my mom and me here in Paso Robles. He was lucid until Friday evening, and peaceful at the end. And I will forever be grateful for the time I got to spend with him, not just at the end, not just growing up, but in working with him for the last fifteen years. It's not every son who gets to know his dad as an adult, and gets to see him through the eyes of others who know him professionally. Hearing, over the last few days, from all the people whose lives he impacted over his long life and career, has been an unexpected treat in this difficult time. Thank you to everyone who has reached out. We will all miss him.
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Checking in on our first ever Tablas Creek red: the 1997 Rouge
In the early days of Tablas Creek, we followed a very simple model: one red wine (which we called "Rouge") and one white wine (which we called "Blanc"). In 1999, we got really crazy and added a pink wine, which we called (of course) "Rosé".
Things have changed since then, as we've come to know both our vineyard and the market better, and this year we'll bottle, by my count, 29 different wines: 13 reds, 13 whites, 2 rosés, and one sweet wine. These include our three tiers of blends, a pretty wide range of varietal wines, particularly on the white side (thank you, rainy 2016-17 winter), some small-production wine club-only blends, and one special project we're doing in conjunction with the team at Bern's Steakhouse. I'm grateful to have the flexibility and opportunity to make these different wines, which I feel show off the uniqueness of our grapes and the talent of our vineyard and winemaking team.
That said, when we get to the blending, Neil and I always look at each other and remark that it used to all be so easy: as long as we liked the lots, they all went to the same place.
So, it was with a mix of nostalgia and anticipation that I opened a bottle of our 1997 Rouge while I was back in Vermont for the holidays. This was where it all began, and it was not just the reflection, or the essence, of the vineyard that year, but the entirety of our red production. Even so, we only made about 2000 cases. It was the first harvest off the Beaucastel cuttings we had brought into the country, as they were kept in quarantine between 1989 and 1992, and then required two years of propagation before we could plant our first block in 1994. To this, we added small amounts of fruit from our American-sourced one-acre blocks of Grenache, Syrah, and Mourvedre, most of which we have since grafted over to French clones. And even these older blocks were only planted in 1992, so the oldest vines in the vineyard were five years old in 1997.
Given the youth of the vineyard, it was very much to our surprise that the 1997 Rouge ended up in Wine & Spirits Magazine's "100 Best Wines of 2000", receiving 94 points and the following notes:
"The scent of this wine draws you in, then the texture holds you effortlessly. What's great about this Rhône blend, however, is not just the deep, dark scent of dried cherries and wet stones, not just the succulent red fruit flavor and voluptuous feel. When it's gone it leaves a memory of earthiness and a clean, refreshing taste. The wine isn't about complexity. It focuses on perfect ripeness, and the delicious savory flavors and textures that come with such impeccably balanced grapes. A joy to drink. This is the first release from Tablas Creek, a joint venture between Château de Beaucastel's Perrin family and their longtime importer Robert Haas."
Because it was so long ago, because we no longer make a "Rouge", and because there wasn't much of the wine to begin with, I don't get to open the 1997 Rouge all that often. So, it was a treat to see that, even as it approaches its 21st birthday, it's still going strong.
My notes from the dinner:
"A deep, rich nose of hoisin, pine forest, currant, green peppercorn, nutmeg, and a coolness that's surprising from such a warm vintage. The mouth is full of sweet fruit: red raspberry and cocoa powder, and a rich texture with tannins that feel like powdered sugar. A little mushroomy earthiness is the wine's best hint of its age. Shows nice tanginess on the finish and some still-substantial tannins that linger. Fully mature, but nowhere close to over the hill."
What a relief that it's finally old enough to drink.
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A Wonderful Article on Robert Haas's Remarkable Career and Legacy
My dad generally avoids the spotlight. So it was particularly nice to read a wonderful article on his career that was published this week by Warren Johnston in the Valley News, a daily newspaper serving the portion of the Connecticut River Valley where he and my mom spend their summers.
Most readers of the Tablas Creek blog likely know him from his impact on the world of Rhone grape varieties, both from his long history representing Beaucastel and the other wines made by the Perrin Family, and from his work with the Perrins in bringing Tablas Creek Vineyard into existence. That work -- and particularly the decision to make available the high quality Rhone clones that we imported into the United States -- was influential enough to earn him a Lifetime Achievement Award in 2014 from the Rhone Rangers.
This article focused equally on other aspects of his career, particularly his time with Vineyard Brands when he ran one of America's most influential wine import companies out of a converted barn in a Vermont town of 2700 residents. We still have this poster hanging in our tasting room:
His career in wine has spanned nearly seven decades, and has included stints in nearly every aspect of the industry. A few highlights:
As a retailer, he worked with his father at M. Lehmann in Manhattan to offer the first-ever futures offering on Bordeaux.
As a broker, he represented some of the top estates in Burgundy and Bordeaux, like Domaine Gouges, Mongeard-Mugneret, Domaine Ponsot, Chateau Lafite and Chateau Petrus.
As an importer, he built a company in Vineyard Brands that added dynamic brands like La Vieille Ferme and Marques de Caceres to his venerable list of estate producers. This balance of estate wines and larger brands (unique at its time) gave the company the diversified range of products that allowed it to thrive across different economic cycles.
When he was ready to retire and invest in Tablas Creek, rather than sell the company, he was one of the first American small businessmen to use an employee stock ownership plan to turn the company over to its employees. Today the company continues to thrive, with much of the senior leadership hired two and even three decades ago by him.
An early advocate of California, he represented wineries like Kistler, Joseph Phelps, Chappellet, Spring Mountain, and Clos du Val in the 1970s, and helped launch Sonoma-Cutrer in the 1980s.
He co-founded Winebow with Leonardo Locascio and Peter Matt in 1980, to provide Vineyard Brands with a high quality wholesaler in New York. Winebow has grown to be an influential importer as well as a distribution powerhouse.
His work in founding the Tablas Creek nursery -- and his decision not to keep the clones we'd imported proprietary -- has allowed California's Rhone movement to blossom in a way otherwise impossible. More than 600 vineyards and wineries around the United States use Tablas Creek cuttings.
He's even growing grapevines at his house in Templeton to make our Full Circle Pinot Noir.
In writing that list, I was struck by the extent to which the things he creates (or helps create) outlive his involvement with them. That's a testament to his determination in putting companies on a firm foundation, as well as his judgment in choosing people to work with and, when necessary, to succeed him.
One of my great pleasures in working here at Tablas Creek has been to get to see my dad through the eyes of the many people he has influenced. Yesterday's article was a good reminder for me that as he gets ready to enter his tenth decade, his influence is as enduring as ever.
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The Early Years of Tablas Creek
We recently received a treasure trove of photos from our original Nursery Manager, Dick Hoenisch. He oversaw the initial phases of Tablas Creek, from developing and building our nursery to planting our first vineyard blocks to our initial harvests and ultimately the building of our winery in 1997. He's remained a regular visitor and correspondent ever since, but even I had never seen most of the photos that he sent us. As by the time I moved out here in 2002 the property had assumed more or less the shape it has now, these photos feel to me like a time capsule, and most definitely worth sharing.
So, without further ado, and with thanks to Dick, I'm sharing some of my favorites of the photos. Dick gets pride of place in the first photo, posing next to two other firsts: our first vineyard truck, which we also think was the first thing ever to bear a Tablas Creek logo, in 1993:
In 1993, nearly all the activity was confined to the grapevine nursery. You can see our first two greenhouses, in which we kept and propagated the "mother vines" (those vines that came through quarantine, and whose progeny populate our vineyard and all the others who have planted our clones) and the small section of rootstock in the foreground:
Inside the greenhouses were the mother vines that we'd recently gotten out of quarantine from the U.S.D.A. These are many of the same vines that you can see in pots today on the patio outside our tasting room:
In 1992, we planted the top of our tallest hill to roughly two-acre blocks of the best quality California-sourced Rhone varieties we could find. This photo, also from 1993, shows them at the time. We have since grafted over the Syrah, Mourvedre, and Marsanne to French clones, though the Grenache (at the right) and Viognier (on the far side of the hilltop) remain. I can't imagine how we farmed this, given that the road up to the top looks completely unimproved. It must have been impassable all winter and most of the spring:
By 1995, we had come a long way in laying out the central part of the vineyard for planting, with vineyard on the hillsides and rootstock fields in the valley bottoms:
We may not have had a winery yet, but by 1995 enough was going on in the vineyard and nursery that the Perrins and my dad were here for long stretches of the year. I'm happy to see that, even if they had to do it at a plastic picnic table, they took the time to enjoy appropriate vineyard lunches. That's my dad at left, with Dick in the middle and Jean-Pierre Perrin at right:
Lest you think that the planting was easy, take a look at how much rock we uncovered just in digging the irrigation trench. David Maduena, now our Vineyard Manager, is manning the backhoe:
One of the cool early projects that I remember, since it took place in part when I was out here for a visit, was the 1997 construction of a beehive-shaped brick water cistern at the top of the property, which we still use as a fire suppression reservoir. We dug into the hilltop, built the cistern, and then filled the earth back in:
The construction of the winery was, as you would expect, a major milestone for us when it was happening in 1997. You can see its first framing stages in a photo from the spring of that year, from a vantage point more or less where our grafting and nursery education area is now:
We'd made quite a bit of progress on the winery building (back right) by the early summer, when we were planting the Chardonnay block that would produce our Antithesis each year between 2000 and 2011 (it was then grafted over to Mourvedre and Counoise):
The winery did get finished -- and, as seems axiomatic in winery construction, just a few days before the 1997 harvest began -- but the rest of the building was still being worked on as the grapes began to come in:
I'll leave you with one last photo, of the construction of the dry-laid limestone wall surrounding the original parking lot. You can see clearly how little topsoil there is above the calcareous clay, as well as the work involved in the wall's construction:
Thank you, Dick Hoenisch!
Posted at 01:16 PM in Pretty Pictures, Tablas Creek 101 | Permalink | Comments (2) | and the Perrin brothers were looking for a place to found the winery that would become Tablas Creek, calcareous soils were one of three main criteria they were looking to satisfy (the others were sun/heat/cooling and rainfall). But they quickly realized that soils like these are rare in California, except in a crescent of land in the Central Coast between the Santa Cruz Mountains to the north and Lompoc to the south. The portion of this this area that is on the western slope of the coastal mountain ranges is too cold to ripen most Rhone varieties. The western and southern pieces of the Paso Robles AVA, on the eastern slopes of the Santa Lucia Mountains, are home to the state's largest exposed calcareous layers, and it's largely because of this that in 1989 we bought property here.
There's a great story about how they went about finding soils. As they tell it, they decided that it was a lot cheaper and faster to look at road cuts than to hire backhoes and dig their own. They looked for the better part of four years around California without finding soils that excited them. Until they were driving along Peachy Canyon Road one afternoon in 1989, saw one of the many switchbacks where CalTrans had dug into the hillside to make the roadbed, and pulled over to see if the white rocks that they noticed were really what they'd been searching for. The composition looked right, the fossils looked right, and they then brought over a French geologist to confirm their impressions. They put in an offer on the property where we are now later that year.
We've thought since the beginning that finding calcareous soils would be a key to making great wines. Learning the science behind why only underscores the importance that the vineyard's founders put on this search.
Thanks to Dr. Thomas J. Rice, Professor Emeritus of Soil Science at Cal Poly, for pointing me in the right direction on some of the trickier geology questions. See also:
"Calcium in Viticulture: Unraveling the Mystique of French Terroir, Part I and Part II" by Valerie Sexton, Wine Business Monthly. Originally published September/October 2002.
"Effects of juice pH and potassium on juice and wine quality, and regulation of potassium in grapevines through rootstocks (Vitis): a short review," by S. Kodur, Department of Agricultural Sciences, La Trobe University, Bundoora, Victoria, Australia, 2011.
"Effect of rootstock on must and wine composition and the sensory properties of Cabernet Sauvignon grown at Langhorne Creek, South Australia," by R. Gawel, A. Ewart and R. Cirami. Wine & Viticulture Journal, January 2000.
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When John Eric Schmidt was charged with second-degree murder, no one could have known that within a year, not only would the charge be dropped but Schmidt would be celebrating his salvation in Christ.
Schmidt, 53, of North Little Rock, Ark., was charged after shooting 32-year-old Chad Johnson during what Pulaski County sheriff's deputies said was a property dispute, according to the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette.
The incident took place in Graves Memorial Baptist Church's parking lot in North Little Rock around 6:25 a.m. on July 7, 2015. Schmidt, who<|fim_middle|> it did not involve the church. Matthews also confirmed that Schmidt and his wife Amber had been attending Graves Memorial, though they were not members at the time – a fact that changed over the course of several months.
The tragedy turned into a ministry opportunity for Graves Memorial. Matthews recounted that Schmidt's daughter Felicity had been baptized and was involved in the student ministry and praise team at the time of the shooting, so Schmidt and his wife had visited the church several times to support her. Because of this, the groundwork had been laid for ministry to the family following the shooting.
Matthews said he met regularly with Schmidt, who had become very depressed in the weeks after the incident.
Eventually, both Schmidt and his wife accepted Christ as Lord and Savior and were baptized at the church in September and are now active in ministry.
The church "has learned to love in a different way and have a compassionate spirit," the pastor added. | has emergency medical training, tried to administer first aid to Johnson, but Johnson died en route to the hospital. Schmidt required medical attention for his injuries in the incident.
John Eric Schmidt, left, was baptized by Graves Memorial Baptist Church pastor Travis Matthews two months after being involved in a shooting on church property in North Little Rock, Ark.
Authorities dropped the murder charge Jan. 8, according to the Democrat-Gazette.
Schmidt's lawyer, David Cannon, said the charge was dropped after it was determined that Schmidt acted in self-defense, the Democrat-Gazette reported. Cannon said Johnson had choked Schmidt, which had forced Schmidt to act.
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I don't usually share many pictures. Springtime, however, is the time for pictures. Desert blooms only last for a short time, and so every day that they bloom is precious. At the Desert Botanical Garden, during this time of year, the paths are filled with amateur and advanced photographers alike trying to capture these blooms while they can. So I wanted to share some of my pictures (most are from a couple of weeks or so ago).
A yellow flower to start with.
These blossoming pink flowers remind me of bunched up roses.
The boojum tree, which spends so much time bare, like a statuesque piece of modern<|fim_middle|>Springtime in the desert is a magical time. | art, here stands with all of its little green leaves.
A bright pink flower on a beavertail cactus.
Luminous gold and deep red on cholla.
The yellow-green of these gives them a papery look.
Palos verdes are beautiful green trees most of the year; in springtime, they are green trunks with branches filled with yellow flowers. When the flowers fall, they leave behind yellow carpets, like this one surrounding these little barrels.
Not the best view, but you can just make out the red flower tips on the ocotillo. If you look closely, you can see that the green leaves were already starting to die when I took this picture.
The saguaro blossoms aren't out yet, but now is a good time to share my favorite saguaro at the Desert Botanical Garden. He has his arms reaching upward in praise.
These also remind me of roses.
Flowers on the tree and fruits on the cholla cactus.
Again, no blooms here, but I just love the way these pointy cactus plants grow up and around the trees. It's like a dance or an embrace.
And here is a quail in a tree, not running on the ground like you usually see them.
A purple wildflower grows right next to a purple prickly pear, whose own flowers aren't quite out yet.
Pink blooms in the tree, green fruit on the cactus.
Here the pink blooms stand above the cactus's yellow and orange blooms.
Such a bright orange red.
While the full flowers are beautiful, I also love the still-shut buds.
These, once again, remind me of roses, or like a flower crown.
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The prehistoric art of Bhimbetka
Archaeologists and scholars of Prehistory are finding rock art thousands of years old all over the planet. Initially prehistoric art was mainly linked to that found in European caves, such as Altamira in Spain or Lascaux in France. But today many others are taken into account all over the globe from South America where the famous Cueva de las Manos is<|fim_middle|>. A life that, on the other hand, consisted of adapting as best as possible to the natural environment, and taking advantage of all the opportunities it offered. Something that can also be seen in the rest of the cave paintings found all over the planet. And it is not the trait that unites this heritage related to the origins of the human race. They also have in common their simple forms, almost always figurative for hunting scenes or when they represent other daily tasks. While the more abstract forms are represented for everything that could have to do with beliefs or religion.
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Bhimbetka Rock Shelter
And there are also examples of humanity's most primitive art in Asia. Specifically in India is the set of Bhimbetka rock shelters, which make up the oldest example of the presence of man in that great country, since it is about some paintings that have been dated with an antiquity of approximately 9,000 years.
Its value is undoubtedly incalculable, among other things because in many of the shelters, you can see that the paintings are superimposed on each other, thus providing a wonderful sequence of life forms since Paleolithic times.
And it's because the Bhimbetka cave paintings are found in a natural space very similar to what might have existed millennia ago.A wooded area with rugged relief, where prehistoric man had everything he needed for his hunting and gathering tasks. And that's what the paintings on these coats show us.
Local fauna is represented. There are painted bison, tigers, turkeys, deer and also elephants or rhinos. In addition, the fruits they collected and the plants they fed on also appear. But not only that, certain scenes are also identified that tell us about their different rituals. Some related to births and others to death, but there are also more festive ones where music would not be lacking and others for which one can speculate about their religious beliefs.
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NHS staff are being pushed to breaking point – with stress showing up as the number one health and safety issue facing UNISON members working in the NHS.
That was the clear message of a 'body mapping' exercise that was carried out at the union's health conference last week.
Body mapping uses a chart of the human body on which work<|fim_middle|> Workers Memorial Day on Monday 28 April. | -related injuries and health and safety concerns can be marked, and is ideal for highlighting physical symptoms of stress such as pains to head, shoulders and neck.
"As service cuts bite, staff are working harder, longer and for less pay in order to correct the mess the government has created through its so called reforms," commented assistant national officer Robert Baughan, who carried out the body mapping exercise.
UNISON head of health and safety Tracey Harding added: "This reinforces the message we have received from all areas of our membership.
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Note the psychological shift from being reactive and negative to proactive and positive. For those of you who lived through these decades in business, you will realize that these theories don't quite fit into nice, neat windows as this list implies. Nothing academic ever does. Some companies are still back in the 60s and surviving somehow, others are trying to practice a Learning and Agile Strategy (as I call it) and are failing for various reasons. But rather than cover these strategies atomically, I am defining here the large sweeping eras of basic modern management thought.
First, let's take a quick peek at where we are. We are now in the Learning and Agile Strategy phase. In this era, businesses must change their structure fluidly in response to ever changing customer needs and market pressures. Jack Welch says in Straight from the Gut, "Change before you have to". The need to precede market demands with organizational adaptability, which can anticipate those demands and meet them at the beginning of a cycle, is the difference between enterprise success or business failure.
The market turbulence of the last 5 years has clearly shown the influence of globalization and volatility. This will remain constant for the foreseeable future. Even with a rebuilding economy, the underlying fluctuations in commodities, currency rates, energy and the emergence of a vast array of new and non-traditional competitors will constantly challenge traditional business and operating models making them obsolete. This is what has driven the change to the era of agile management.
Now let's take a step back in time for a moment and see how this all developed. Management 1.0 began in the very late 1800s and early 1900s with Frederick Winslow Taylor, the father of scientific management. Taylor was one of the intellectual leaders of the "Efficiency Movement" and his ideas were highly influential in the Progressive Era. Taylor was the first man in recorded history, who deemed work deserving of systematic observation and study. The basis of this theory is that the ideal process could be devised upfront through much thought and analysis and then people had to be taught the process and managed tightly to enforce the process. Price control was an important focus.
Some people call it scientific management, whereas others call it command-and-control. But the basic idea is the same: An organization is designed and managed in a top-down fashion, and power is in the hands of the few. Those at the top of the hierarchy have the highest salaries, the biggest egos, and the most expensive chairs. Those at the bottom have little money, few responsibilities, and no motivation to do a good job.
To compensate for the danger of their high positions, the top executives are allowed to play with the bonuses that, in many cases, have far more effect on personal wealth than organizational performance. As a side effect, dangerous bonus schemes also contributed to a worldwide financial implosion. Oops.
We can safely conclude that Management 1.0, even though it is still the most widespread version of management in the world, has a number of serious flaws. It is old, outdated, and in need of an upgrade.
It is difficult to argue with the fact this technique is 50 years out of date. Some CEOs are still heavily entrenched in this concept, however, as is most middle management. I call this era, the process centric one because of all the work done by the pioneers Taylor, Gantt, Fayol, Shewhart and Walker. This was a necessary era, but one that lasted too long, due to a poor understanding of early adopters and the perennial stragglers who had to be dragged kicking and screaming along.
Some people realized that Management 1.0 doesn't work well out-of-the-box, so they created numerous add-on models and services with a semi-scientific status, like the Balanced Scorecard, Six Sigma, Theory of Constraints, and Total Quality Management. Being Add-ons to Management 1.0, these models assume that the organizations are managed from the top, and they help those at the top to better "design" their organizations. Sometimes it works; sometimes it doesn't.
In the meantime other models and services focus on the craft and the art of management. Many books, such as the One Minute Manager, the 21 Laws of Leadership, and the Good to Great, have presented basic principles and guidelines for managers, and tell them to practice and build experience. Again, they are sometimes right, and sometimes not. And they replace each other faster than the diapers on a toddler.
Management 2.0 is just Management 1.0 with a great number of add-ons to ease the problems of an old system. But the architecture of Management 2.0 is still the same outdated hierarchy.
We agree on the title, but I don't see these techniques as really Add-ons to Management 1.0. During this era it was recognized that processes were becoming more complex and the environment was changing. The focus of management shifted to people rather than process. Treating people as idiots and drones, as in the Management 1.0 philosophy, produced mindless results. Those with initiative quit and became the competition. Quality became more important replacing process as a focus.
From my perspective, Management 3.0 is the knowledge centric era. It began, strange enough, with the agile software revolution symbolized by the Agile Manifesto in 2001. While it was software related, this manifesto combined with the low requirement for capitalization to start a new business made possible by the internet revolution spurred on a new era of market environment and demand as predicted by Alvin Toffler as The Third Wave.
One important insight is that all organizations are networks. People may draw their organizations as hierarchies, but that doesn't change that they are actually networks. Second, social complexity shows us that management is primarily about people and their relationships, not about departments and profits.
Many of us already knew that "leadership" is just a trendy name for managers doing the right thing and doing things right. But complexity thinking adds a new dimension to our existing vocabulary. It makes us realize that we should see our organizations as living systems, not as machines.
It is nice to have a new name. Names can be powerful. The "3.0" version means that management needs changing. It usually takes Microsoft three major releases of a product to get things right. I believe that management has, in the third incarnation, finally found a solid scientific foundation. The earlier add-ons are still valuable. But we have to replace assumptions of hierarchies with networks because the 2st century is the Age of Complexity.
I agree with his assessment that this is a time of complex systems. In this era, we recognize that processes, products and services are always changing because technology is always changing. People are still the most important part of the equation. But the only time people can operate at their highest efficiency is when you empower them and have the right person, in the right place, at the right time, doing the right thing and they are acting like a virtual corporation. Since the environment changes so frequently, the only way to enable this is through ubiquitous knowledge and decentralized authority.
Today we realize that business agility is based on a responsive lattice organization structure that networks itself to an ever changing business environment and market demands. People are not managed in hierarchies; they are empowered to take responsibility in self-forming teams. Products and services are not defined and built by ridged process, they are evolved.
So the question we must ask ourselves from a Management 3.0 perspective is, "does this mean that since we are now in Toffler's third wave and the environment we live in is complex and constantly changing and that our organization structures must change with this; that we cannot successfully plan?" The answer is no! You need to use strategic planning techniques as a starting point and then make them both ubiquitous and dynamically fed and matured from ALL elements in the organization. That is the golden opportunity and the nirvana for which everyone has been searching in this Management 3.0 era.
Some CEOs and CIOs will simply dismiss this concept as a fad. That is a shame because in addition to hurting themselves; they are hurting their employees, the company in general, the stockholders, the customers and business in general. Unfortunately for them Management 3.0 is not a passing fad, but the evolution and maturing of thinking from process to people to knowledge without dropping any of the valuable lessons learned along the wayside. The progression through the Management 3.0 era will be marked by a closer and more intelligent symbiosis of person and information system with a markedly greater influx of business intelligence. That is a goal whose bar will continually move higher. To meet this challenge you must, of course, remember to keep agile!
John Davison Rockefeller was born July 8, 1839 and died May 23, 1937. He was one of the great iconic American industrialists and philanthropists. In 1870, he founded the Standard Oil Company and aggressively ran it until he officially retired in 1897. Standard Oil began as an Ohio partnership formed by John D. Rockefeller amongst others. Standard Oil dominated the oil industry and was the first of the notorious U.S. business trusts. Rockefeller revolutionized the petroleum industry using business tactics, technology and pioneered the use of byproducts. As kerosene and gasoline grew in importance, Rockefeller's wealth was astronomical, and he became the world's richest man; the first American worth more than a billion dollars. Adjusting for inflation, he is justly considered the richest person in history. Rockefeller spent the last 40 years of his life in retirement. He also defined the structure of modern philanthropy. His fortune was mainly used to create the modern systematic approach of targeted philanthropy. He did this through the creation of foundations that had a major effect on medicine, education, and scientific research. His foundations pioneered the development of medical research, and were instrumental in the eradication of hookworm and yellow fever. He was the founder of both the University of Chicago and Rockefeller University.
Anne M. Mulcahy was born October 21, 1952. She is former chairperson and CEO of Xerox Corporation. Mulcahy joined Xerox as a field sales representative in 1976. From 1992-1995, she was vice president for human resources. She served as vice president and staff officer for Customer Operations, covering South America and Central America, Europe, Asia, Africa, and China. She became chief staff officer in 1997. In 1998 she was named corporate senior vice president. Named CEO of Xerox on August 1, 2001, she became chairwoman on January 1, 2002. She was selected as "CEO of the Year" in 2008 by Chief Executive Magazine. Late in her tenure, she cut the workforce by 30% and eliminated the desktop portion of Xerox. Mulcahy claims she never intended to run Xerox. She announced her retirement as CEO on May 21, 2009.
ONLY is really a key word here. It means being lean and not having middle management and senior management bloat. Far too many organizations<|fim_middle|> his work in Japan. American business men and manufacturers originally derided Deming's work while the Japanese embraced it. From 1950 onward, he taught top management how to improve design, service, product quality, testing, and sales in a global markets through various methods, including the application of statistical methods. Deming was at the forefront of Japan's later reputation for innovative high-quality products and its economic power. He is regarded as having had more impact upon Japanese manufacturing and business than any other individual. Despite being considered something of a hero in Japan, he was only just beginning to win widespread recognition in the U.S. at the time of his death. President Reagan awarded him the National Medal of Technology in 1987. He received the Distinguished Career in Science award from the National Academy of Sciences in 1988.
Organizations have used systems consisting of a mix of financial and non-financial measures to track progress for quite some time. One example of such a system was created by Art Schneiderman in 1987 at Analog Devices, a mid-sized semi-conductor company; the Analog Devices Balanced Scorecard was similar to what is now recognized as a "First Generation" Balanced Scorecard design. Subsequently Schneiderman participated in an unrelated research study in 1990 led by Dr. Robert S. Kaplan in conjunction with US management consultancy Nolan-Norton, and during this study described his work on performance measurement. Subsequently, Kaplan and David Norton included anonymous details of this use of Balanced Scorecard in their 1992 article on Balanced Scorecard. Kaplan and Norton's article wasn't the only paper on the topic published in early 1992, but the 1992 Kaplan and Norton paper was a popular success, and was quickly followed by a second in 1993. In 1996, they published the book The Balanced Scorecard. These articles and the first book spread knowledge of the concept of Balanced Scorecard widely, and has led to Kaplan and Norton being seen as the creators of the Balanced Scorecard concept.
The giant Adam Smith, in 1776, defined four types of fixed capital. The fourth type was Human Capital. He defined Human Capital Management as "managing the acquired and useful abilities of all the inhabitants or members of the society". So far we have concentrated on maximizing the capabilities and efficiencies and exploiting the first three while ignoring the possibilities of the fourth. The use of the term "Human Capital Management" in modern literature dates back to Jacob Mincer's article "Investment in Human Capital and Personal Income Distribution" in 1958. A great book on the application of the idea is "Human Capital", by Gary Becker.
At the beginning of the last decade, Human Capital Management finally gained recognition with Watson Wyatt's Human Capital Index study in 1999 which stated that, "Superior Human Capital Management is a leading – rather than a lagging – indicator of improved financial success." A 2002 study showed that when businesses concentrated on processes and treat people as a secondary concern, their investment in process improvement has disappointing returns. We were learning that keeping the human element informed and having its input into the operational processes is vital to business process management success. Numerous subsequent studies have confirmed that human capital management investiture is a prerequisite for the successful implementation of business process management improvements.
Kaoru Ishikawa was a university professor and influential quality management innovator best known for his cause and effect diagram (AKA fishbone diagram) created in the late 1950's. These were used in the analysis of industrial processes based on the work of W. Edwards Deming. This later became the basis for concept – Total Quality Management.
I could have easily called it the agile centric era, but I was asked to not use agile in this way by some individuals who were confusing the term with agile software development. Quel dommage!
See my article the Imperative of having an Agile Organization Structure.
I have always maintained that business in general is improved by healthy competition. When companies are deliberately backward or not innovative they dumb down the market. Too few companies are driven by the constant premise that being number one in sales or just better than your competition is not enough, that each enterprise should strive to be the best they possibly can be.
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I believe as it appears you do as well that understanding history is rather important, if we are to understand ourselves and not repeat previous mistakes. I also believe that it is more important to understand where we are going and how we want to get there than it is to document where we are. That a somewhat round about way of asking you to write more on the subject of Management 3.0 as you call it and what defines a business that embraces that concept in more detail. You have painted the eras of modern management with a sweeping brush and remarkably accurately for the amount of succinctness you have practiced. You pose a bit of a cliffhanger to us all in that you don't paint a more detailed picture of an agile organization or how an enterprise can get to that state. Such a article from a blogger of your stature would prove most illuminating.
I would be interested in that as well!
Good post on modern management theory! My fellow managers take heed we are in the 3.0 era! Thanks for sharing Brian! Keep up the great work!
Still waiting for it to arrive at my jerkwater company! It's nice to know though it is arriving somewhere. I would love to see a list of agile management companies. Guess why!
Finally someone has taken all the bull out of this management era claims and clearly explained and defined the eras in a way that makes sense. There is so many nonsensical claims and descriptions that I have heard at conferences and seminars by windbags trying to promote themselves or their products that I was ready to give up finding some clarity here. The way Brian describes Management 3.0 makes sense and is understandable. I wish I had found this earlier!
Mr. Lucas as a business professor with 31 years of teaching experience, I must complement you on your analysis of management eras. It is brilliant in its simplicity. Your effort to condense the myriad of management theories and the unfortunate plethora of hype into three broad categories has brought considerable clarity to management education. You state in this article at the end, "You need to use strategic planning techniques as a starting point and then make them both ubiquitous and dynamically fed and matured from ALL elements in the organization." I find this to be an amazingly deep thought with highly significant implications which you do not explore in this article. I did follow your footnote's link to you article The Imperative of having an Agile Organization Structure and was intrigued by your approach to agile organizations via a hybrid structure. You do not explain how the flow of strategic planning information is created. Nor do you describe how it is fed and matured from ALL elements in the organization, to use your own words. Also if you would care to expound on how specifically this era will be, "marked by a closer and more intelligent symbiosis of person and information system with a markedly greater influx of business intelligence," I would be most appreciative. With your permission, I intend to use your article in a class lecture and would like to develop this theme more fully with greater specifics.
This is an excellent presentation on the eras of management. Having lived through much of this, I find Mr. Lucas's perspective, both valid and clear. Though it is somewhat simplified, I believe he captures the true thrust of each era. More importantly, the era of agile management as he describes it, is absolutely the direction management needs to take in this century.
I finally checked out your blog. Sorry it took so long. We met at the AI seminar in NY last fall. I've thought a great deal about your view of AI and agile changing the face of management. I am a little surprised you haven't included any of those thoughts here in your blog. It seems as if you re not posting anymore and that's shame. The combination of quality opinion, useful information and colorful writing is rare.
I retired last year from an executive management position and have thought about running some free management workshops at our local community college. It is past time outdated practices of the past are abandoned. I suspect most of the successful businesses have moved to some form of this management. You seem to see it most in the startups that grow rapidly into dominant market forces. I completely agree with this post and would like to know if I could use some of this content. Please let me know if you approve. | could cut their middle management and senior management teams by as much as 90% and improve products and services as well as reducing costs drastically by empowering teams.
I always let my work (such as it is) speak for itself.
Reactive from the standpoint that you were meant to sell a product after the fact of manufacturing and negative in that you sold it any way you could; generating demand often psychologically. Proactive in the sense that you are focused on finding out what the customer really needs or could use to their life advantage and positive in that you are delivering it with a solid value proposition.
Strategic Management theory grew out of project management theory. Project management, in fact, has been practiced since early civilization. The building of the great pyramids, the Great Wall of China and Hadrian's Wall in Great Britain all required the successful application of project management. Until the 1900s, civil engineering projects were generally managed by creative architects and engineers. It was in the 1950s, organizations started to systematically apply project management tools and techniques to complex engineering projects.
Frederick Winslow Taylor was an American mechanical engineer known for industrial efficiency who became the father of scientific management. Taylor was one of the intellectual leaders of the "Efficiency Movement" and his ideas were highly influential in the Progressive Era. Taylor was the first man in recorded history who deemed work deserving of systematic observation and study.
Henry Laurence Gantt was an American mechanical engineer and management consultant who developed the Gantt chart in the 1910s. Gantt charts were employed on major infrastructure projects including the Hoover Dam and the Interstate highway system.
Walter Andrew Shewhart was an American physicist, engineer and statistician, known as the father of statistical quality control. He created the basis for the control chart and the concept of a state of statistical control by carefully designed experiments.
Morgan R. Walker developed the Critical Path Method (CPM) as a project modeling technique in the late 1950s while at DuPont. It was used to contribute to the success of the Manhattan Project.
The actual roots of performance management have seen a great deal of play in management literature and practice. Management historians, like the great Alfred Chandler, suggest the origins of performance management can be seen in the emergence of the complex organization. This predominately occurred in the 19th Century in the USA. Recently this has been influenced by the pioneering work of General Electric on performance measurement in the 1950s. Practical work in this period using performance management dashboards is based on the ideas of the 'resource based view of the firm' first proposed by Edith Penrose.
Kenneth Hartley Blanchard was born May 6, 1939. He is an American author and management expert. His book The One Minute Manager, which he co-authored with Spencer Johnson, has sold over 13 million copies. He has coauthored over 30 other best-selling books.
Eliyahu Moshe Goldratt was born March 31, 1947 and died June 11, 2011. He was an Israeli physicist who became a business management guru. He originated the Optimized Production Technique, the Theory of Constraints (TOC), the Thinking Processes, Drum-Buffer-Rope, Critical Chain Project Management (CCPM) and other TOC derived tools.
William Edwards Deming was born October 14, 1900 and died December 20, 1993. He was a pioneering American statistician, professor, author, lecturer and consultant. He is perhaps best known for | 739 |
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Former Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Chairman Prof. Attahiru Jega has urged the Federal Government to proffer stiffer laws against declaration of fake election results.
Jega spoke on Wednesday in Abuja at an international conference, tagged: "Democracy and disinformation: How fake news threatens our freedom and democracy in Nigeria".
The conference was organised by CDD with support from Friedrich Ebert Stiftung (FES) and MacArthur Foundation, ahead of 2019 elections.
He said the issue of fake news had become a threat to Nigeria's democracy and should be immediately curbed.
Jega said: "The declaration of results and fake news on the social media is being done with impunity in our country.
INEC Chairman Prof. Mahmood Yakubu said the commission was battling with the issue of fake news.
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On the attitude of some political parties towards the commission, he said: "It is funny how political parties fluctuate in praising INEC; most times, it depends of how they win.
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My interest to work as a missionary happened when I went on a mission trip with CCO to World Youth Day (WYD) in Brazil in 2014. It wasn't the first time I felt a pull towards evangelization – that had already come from being connected with CCO on campus and during a previous summer mission. WYD, however, was my first experience as a missionary in action. As a mission team leader, the pressure was on me to teach other participants how to share the gospel with other pilgrims in a foreign country.
That experience of growing in leadership, helping others grow in leadership – and most importantly sharing the gospel – brought a sense of purpose and fulfillment to my life.
Before I went to World Youth Day, I wasn't even planning on continuing as a student that fall. My initial plan was to take a year off university and go to a lay apostolate school, St. Therese School of Faith and Mission. I was hoping to take some time to "figure my life out," since I did not know God's plans for my future. Should I finish my undergrad? Should I think about joining a religious order? But after WYD, I could not picture myself doing anything else other than being a missionary. All I wanted was to teach others about the gospel and equip them to do the same. I decided to complete my degree, so I could eventually apply to be a CCO missionary.
For me, being a CCO missionary came with three big perks.
CCO's materials for sharing the gospel message. It's so easy to share Jesus using resources like the faith studies and Ultimate Relationship booklets.
Other missionaries. I could have the chance to work alongside people who shared my zeal to change the world through Christ.
Most importantly, going outside my comfort zone to proclaim Christ to people my age. I knew, firmly, this is where I can make a difference in the world.
Deciding to work for CCO seemed like a natural answer. However, actually taking the leap<|fim_middle|> me fulfillment and a joyful life. I still cannot picture myself doing anything else.
Erica Stevens currently finishing up her first year as a CCO intern at Memorial University. She is originally from Eskasoni, NS. In the fall, she will be working as a campus missionary at Dalhousie University & St. Mary's University. | to saying "yes"—as in, applying to be a missionary—was very difficult for me. During the two years after WYD it seemed like every other day I wanted to try a different career path. Know the feeling? I was filled with doubt and fear that wanting to be missionary was just a temporary feeling. In my last year of university several CCO staff members encouraged me to apply.
Even though I was hesitant, I decided to go through the application process. I wanted to be open to the possibilities God wanted for me, and applying felt like a necessary step in the discernment* process. When CCO offered me the job, I decided to take a leap of faith and said "yes," trusting this is what God wanted for me. While there weren't any fireworks or balloon bunches that descended from heaven when I said "yes," there was stillness, peacefulness and excitement for this journey. And that, it turns out, was even better.
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Click click! Here I am, the Coral Chough: I have shiny feathers, black as coal, and a curvy orange beak. You'll find me in the Apuan Alps, where I nest among the rocks. Can you see them, the Apuan Alps? Pointed peaks that rise up in the bluest of skies, cloaked in a dense coating of chestnut trees. And that striking mountain that you see? That's Corchia, whose bowels conceal a treasure: the Antro, the largest karstic system in Italy. Seventy kilometres of tunnels and wells, a maze of conduits that delve down 1,200 metres, extraordinarily shaped by water into incredible and bizarre forms.
Here I am again, it's still me, the Chough. As it's a beautiful day, come with me to see a mountain I love: Monte Croce. In May its meadows that slip down steeply towards the valley floor are covered in a white, scented blanket: there are hundreds and thousands of daffodils, that wave in the wind. Let's have a day in the countryside! We'll take a blanket and lie on it, breathing in the flowers and letting our gaze: before us stretch peaks and the majestic Pania della Croce, the jewel in the crown.
I've been flying since dawn. Now I'm tired!
I'll pause here on the branches of those plane trees, in front of the church of Sant'Anna. In<|fim_middle|>mary, or ciacci filled with ricotta, and ballotti, sweet chestnuts boiled with fennel seeds. | the meadow there are little wooden crosses! We mark the spot where the children of Sant'Anna played Ring-a-Ring-Of-Roses on the last day of school before that terrible August 12, 1944, when the Nazis murdered 560 innocent people. Meet Enio, Cesira and Mario: they were there that day and now bear witness to what happened. In the Museum of the Resistance you can hear what happened at that terrible time, and you can also talk about Peace, something that is not difficult in this quiet village.
It's so quiet in these ancient oak forests! While I enjoy the fresh air, my friend the wolf sneaks into the undergrowth.
"I'm looking for some moltkia for my darling," he tells me.
"I saw some close to the badger's den," he replied, whistling. It's known as rock pearl herb and has the prettiest, dangling flowers. You can find it in just two places all over the world and one of those is the Apuan Alps. The wolf prowls and I watch him. He isn't strikingly muscular, but he's nimble and that silvery fur makes him irresistible. Don't tell anyone, but the wolf is back in these woods!
You should see the Apuans in the autumn: the trails are covered in golden leaves that have fallen from the impressive chestnut trees. Every so often, walking beside the centuries-old trunks, you come across the remains of a metato: a small building used to dry chestnuts. There are the Apuane villages: gripping on to the rock or spread out in the sunshine. Here it's a maze of alleyways, arches and steps and... delicious recipes: castagnaccio, a chestnut cake scented with orange and rose | 373 |
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The Karachi Shipyard & Engineering Works Limited (KS&EW), is a major defence contractor and military corporation situated in West Wharf in Karachi, Pakistan. It is the oldest and the only shipyard in Pakistan, catering for shipbuilding, ship repair and general heavy engineering. It has built numerous cargo ships, oil tankers, tugboats and support vessels, landing crafts, naval vessels and submarines for Pakistani Navy.
The current Managing Director KS&EW is Rear Admiral Ather Saleem.
It was established in mid fifties as a project of Pakistan Industrial Development Corporation (PIDC) and was later incorporated as a public limited company in 1957 which is managed by a Board of Directors and a Managing Director. The shipyard is spread across 71 acres and located at west wharf in Karachi. It is equipped with a large shipbuilding hall, three block fabrication areas, three shipbuilding berths, two dry docks, a machine shop, a grit blasting and painting facility, a 7881 tons capacity ship lift and transfer system, 13 parking stations.
A contract was signed on 22 January 2013 between the Ministry of Defence Production, Pakistan and STM , Turkey to construct a 17000 ton fleet tanker for the Pakistani Navy. The Kit of Material was provided by STM and the construction, outfitting took place at KS&EW. The construction of the vessel started on 27 November 2013 and it was launched on 19 August 2016. This is the largest ship built in Pakistan till date.
In the 1990s KS&EW constructed two Agosta 90B submarines for the Pakistani Navy. These were built under a transfer of technology from DCNS, France. The technology was mostly related to construction of the pressure hull and out-fitting of the submarine. The third submarine, PNS Hamza, was constructed with MESMA AIP unit, while the first two (PNS Khalid and PNS Saad) will be retro-fitted during their next overhauls with a "plug" containing a MESMA AIP unit. The submarine's hull will be cut and the plug inserted. The second MESMA unit was shipped in June 2011.
The next submarine project will see KS&EW jointly involved with Chinese company CSOC (China Shipbuilding & Offshore International Co. Ltd.) in the design and construction of six submarines equipped with air-independent propulsion (AIP). These will be designed to Pakistani<|fim_middle|> submarine, which had been mentioned by Admiral Noman Bashir, Chief of Naval Staff, several times since 2009.
Al-Abbas - first one was built in 1967 for Muhammadi Steamship Company Limited.
MV Lalazar - A 13,300 DWT Cargo Vessel was built for National Shipping Corporation, Pakistan. Delivered on 20th Nov 1974.
MV Hetian - A 13,160 DWT Cargo Vessel was built for China National Machinery Import & Export Corporation, China, in 1978.
MV Islamabad - MV Islamabad is the largest general cargo and container ship built at KS&EW. The ship is in service with Pakistan National Shipping Corporation.
You Ti 20 - A 17,000 TDW Bulk Carrier You Yi 20 was built in 1992 for China National Machinery Import & Export Corporation.
^ a b "Karachi shipyard".
^ "Karachi Shipyard & Engineering Works Limited". www.karachishipyard.com.pk.
^ "Second Mesma AIP Ready for Shipment to Pakistan". Defence Talk (www.defencetalk.com. June 23, 2011. Retrieved 23 July 2011.
^ a b Ansari, Usman (14 March 2011). "Pakistan in Deal To Buy Chinese Subs: Report". Defense News (www.defensenews.com). Retrieved 23 July 2011. ISLAMABAD - The Pakistan Navy has reportedly negotiated a preliminary deal with China Shipbuilding & Offshore International Co. Ltd. (CSOC) to jointly design and build six air-independent propulsion (AIP) submarines, surprising analysts who had expected a deal based on existing Chinese designs.
^ "Pakistan's Tailor-Made Transfer of Technology" (PDF). DCNS. Retrieved 23 July 2011.
This page was last edited on 28 December 2018, at 06:43 (UTC). | specifications and four will be built at a CSOC shipyard in China, while two will be constructed by KS&EW. It is believed that little upgrading of facilities is required because much of the current infrastructure meets the requirements. The preliminary negotiations were reported to be completed in March 2011. It was earlier believed that the project would involve China's Type-041 Yuan class | 79 |
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How coronavirus arrived and the curve flattened in Livingston County
Mary Jo Callan, Director of the Ginsberg Center for Community Service and Learning at the University of Michigan wears protective gear as she helps collect donations for the UM Hospitals at the North Campus Research Complex on Saturday, March 21, 2020. UM Hospitals are asking for donations of medical supplies amid the coronavirus outbreak. Supplies needed include disposable face masks,<|fim_middle|> to pick up," Radke said.
That means testing will also have to increase, she said.
As of Thursday, May 14, the Livingston County Health Department has sent 2,376 COVID-19 tests to the statewide lab in Lansing, Radke said. Testing numbers in the county actually are much higher, though, as she said this number is from Michigan's electronic database, which can lag behind county data.
Currently, the rate of positive cases per test is 7.3%, Radke said, about a percentage point more than Michigan. This is why the Livingston County "isn't out of the clear yet," Radke said.
"But I think our residents have done really well," she said. "And it's important to let our residents know that."
PREVENTION TIPS | hand sanitizer, disposable gloves, among others.Jenna Kieser
By Samuel Dodge | sdodge@mlive.com
LIVINGSTON COUNTY, MI - On March 17, Livingston County saw its first confirmed case of COVID-19, the disease linked to the novel coronavirus.
A little more than a month later on April 21, the positive test total climbed past 300. The death toll was at 11. From March 26 to April 21, about two-thirds of the days featured double-digit case increases.
In about the same span of time since that April day, there have been just 81 additional coronavirus cases, according to the Livingston County Health Department database. While deaths have more than doubled to 25, that could be due to the nearly two-week lag in the virus' incubation period, health officials have said.
Now, daily case increases in the county rarely surpass more than one or two. The worst of COVID-19 in the county appears to be over -- at least its first wave, said county health department spokeswoman Natasha Radke.
"On the one hand, it definitely is promising," she said. "It's nice to see that obviously...that sheltering in place is having an effect...but we're not in the clear yet. We need to continue to take precaution."
With the initial outbreak subsiding, answers are starting to form in Livingston County on how the disease arrived, how it flattened and what steps are required to prepare for any future hazards.
How the virus possibly transported into Brighton and Howell
The two most affected cities in Livingston County are Howell and Brighton, with a combined 227 of the county's 381 cases, according to the county health department's interactive map.
While Howell and Brighton are the two biggest cities in the county, the virus may have centralized there due to what many of their residents due for work: Health care.
More than 3,200 health care workers at the Ann Arbor campus of the University of Michigan Health System reside in Livingston County, according to data provided by Michigan Medicine.
Michigan Medicine announced 110 employees tested positive for COVID-19 on April 7. Health department officials believe that infected workers, including ones at medical facilities in Washtenaw and Ingham counties, commuted the virus into Livingston County, Radke said.
110 Michigan Medicine employees test positive for COVID-19, officials say
"While we don't have a clear cut picture of where it originated in the county, our original belief is that people commuting to work went to higher risk areas," she said. "It didn't start here originally."
Washtenaw County has seen 1,236 confirmed coronavirus cases and 87 deaths, while Ingham County has 629 cases with 20 fatalities as of Friday, May 15, per the statewide database.
The majority of Livingston County's positive cases are in working-age people. Residents between age 50 and 59 account for 118 cases, while there have been 136 infected people between age 30 and 49, according to the county database.
Radke did eliminate one possible explanation for the initial spread in the county, saying that nursing homes and long-term care facilities haven't been as affected there as in other counties, such as Hillsdale.
51 coronavirus cases attributed to same Hillsdale nursing facility, more than half of county total
However, all the county's COVID-19 deaths are in people age 60 and above, and all had underlying health conditions, Radke said.
"The elderly population in general is high risk and more likely to come down with a severe form of the disease," she said.
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Following protocols, taking precautions helped slow spread at nursing homes, beyond
There have been 45 positive tests within Livingston County nursing homes, per the statewide database. The Caretel Inn, 1014 E. Grand River Ave., has 41 patients who tested positive, while Wellbridge, 2200 Dorr Road, accounts for the other four.
The fact only two facilities were affected was by design, said Natalie Bauer Luce, spokeswoman for Caretel.
"The facility's leadership made a proactive decision to set up (this) facility for dedicated care of COVID-positive patients," she said. "(The goal was) to prevent further spread rather than wait for it to infiltrate throughout the network (of facilities). So, before the virus was detected at (Caretel Inn), we transferred out negative patients to other facilities and prepared this particular unit for positive COVID-19 patients."
The preparation involved training staff on screening for symptoms, distributing protective gear and setting up an isolation wing, Luce said.
While the current number of positive cases at Caretel is 41, there have been as many as 55 confirmed cases, Luce said. Seventeen of those patients have been discharged and recovered, she said.
There have also been five deaths, including four that were admitted specifically for hospice care, she said.
Contact tracing, more testing are foundation of future response
There have been 325 recoveries in Livingston County, according to health department statistics.
And, the reason the coronavirus curve has now flattened is people following stay-at-home orders and taking other precautions, Radke said.
"It's a sign that these measures do have an effect," she said. "People aren't out and about as much. There's not as much contact in general, and it seems people are following the guidelines."
The next phase of Livingston County's coronavirus response is to bolster its contact tracing -- the ability to find out where spread occurs, Radke said.
The county didn't emphasize this before, as people primarily were staying home and health officials wanted to wait until the state's stay-at-home orders were lifted, she said. With people beginning to interact with each other again, the health department "expects contact tracing | 1,237 |
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If you are a complete rookie to the world of anatomy and medicine, you may not have heard of the textbook 'Gray's Anatomy'. Instead, you've probably heard of the American medical TV drama 'Grey's Anatomy', whose name was inspired by this legendary textbook.
'Gray's Anatomy for Students', now in its 3rd edition, adapts much of the core information found in the original Gray's, but presents it in a more concise and reader-friendly way!
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In a review from The Royal College of Surgeons of England, Roger Stevens perfectly described this book as follows:
Gray's Anatomy for Students (description)
Just by looking at the title, you can tell that 'Gray's Anatomy for Students' has one major aim - to make anatomy manageable for students. In essence, this textbook is the smaller and friendlier sibling of 'Gray's Anatomy', distilling the details into a more manageable and airy version that fits the needs of not only anatomy experts, but beginners as well. This article will shed some light onto this popular learning resource and expose both its strengths and weakness, helping you decide if the investment is worthy or not.
Gray's Anatomy for Students (cover)
The latest edition of this textbook available on the market is 'Gray's Anatomy for Students 3rd Edition', published by Elsevier Churchill Livingstone. Its birth was in 2014 and has continued the legacy of its predecessors of simplifying anatomy ever since the first edition, which hit the shelves in 2004.
Before dissecting and stripping this anatomy textbook all the way down to its bare bones (pun intended), something needs to be clarified. 'Gray's Anatomy for Students' is the umbrella term encompassing both the third and the international editions. The former is mainly sold in the USA, but not only, while the latter, 'Gray's Anatomy for Students International Edition' targets countries outside the USA, but it's not limited to them. Apart from the front cover and some minor visual aspects, both versions are identical regarding the information provided. The difference lies mainly in the price, so only your wallet will be affected.
The first section of this textbook begins with a light introduction to basic anatomical terms and different medical imaging techniques, which are used throughout the book. This is a great first stepping stone if you are new to anatomy and it's a good idea to read this section before jumping into more complex anatomy topics. Terms like anterior, posterior, lateral and medial are an anatomist's bread and butter, getting these straight in your head first will help immensely when reading more descriptive text later on.
Gray's Anatomy for Students (contents)
The textbook is regionally organised, with detailed units on the:
Each unit is further divided into:
Conceptual Overview - These are beginner-friendly and will introduce you to the key features and functions of that region.
Regional Anatomy - This section however, dives into more detailed anatomy. The text is very informative and concise, avoids waffle and describes complex anatomical relationships in good detail - without over complicating topics! The illustrations are very clear and give you multiple views of each area, which complement the text nicely.
Surface Anatomy - This describes anatomy that can be studied without dissection. This branch of anatomy is not included in huge detail in most anatomy textbooks, so it's inclusion in 'Gray's Anatomy for Students' could be particularly useful if you are a medical or physiotherapy student.
Dotted throughout the textbook, are small 'In the Clinic' information boxes which explain some of the pathologies associated with the anatomical structures being discussed. This feature may not be useful if you are studying pure anatomy, but it is definitely a bonus<|fim_middle|> and surface anatomy
'Student Consult' containing extra knowledge and information
Cheaper, international edition
Weaknesses of 'Gray's Anatomy for Students':
Lack of neuroanatomy material
Lack of details
Access to extra resources requires you to buy the textbook
Big, thick, and heavy
Reviewed edition - 3rd
Review date - 28/09/2017
Richard Drake, Ph.D., A. Wayne Vogl, Ph.D. and Adam W. M. Mitchell, MB, BS: Gray's Anatomy for Students, 3rd Edition, Elsevier, 2015.
Susan Standring, Ph.D. et al: Gray's Anatomy: The Anatomical Basis of Clinical Practice, 41st Edition, Elsevier, 2015.
Gray's Anatomy for Students - Description - Stevens R. Gray's Anatomy for Students. Annals of The Royal College of Surgeons of England. 2006;88(5):513-514. doi:10.1308/003588406X116873b
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Like the majority of textbooks on the market, 'Gray's Anatomy for Students Latest Edition' comes in many styles. The most popular choice, the paperback version, sells anywhere from $58 USD all the way to approximately $94 USD, depending on the state of the book and discounts on offer. In addition, an eBook version can also be found online, ranging from $41 USD all the way to $85 USD. However, 'Gray's Anatomy for Students International Edition' has a little surprise up its sleeve - a price of approximately $40 USD.
With this textbook, you also get an additional treat. 'Gray's Anatomy for Students' is accompanied by a 'Student's Consult', which can quench your appetite for extra knowledge through 77 modules about embryology and anatomy, as well as medical cases. The clinical aspect of this subject is not neglected either, clinical cases are also included, together with various types of images, such as radiological ones. Review questions are also available to test your knowledge and really drill all the information into your head, helping long-term retention.
Illustrations and format - 'Gray's Anatomy for Students 3rd edition' has a very clear and colourful format. Just look at the images - some of them span up to an entire page! This, along with the book's clever use of illustrations and diagnostic images, makes this textbook very visually appealing, and would be really useful for you, especially if you are inclined towards visual learning.
Gray's Anatomy for Students (sample page)
Beginner friendly - The organization and language used is beginner friendly, but the information and detail provided is by no means basic. There is a nice balance between providing enough detail without over complicating things.
Clinical material and surface anatomy - They are included with each chapter, and these are features that aren't found in a lot of anatomy textbooks. They explain every single line, bump and groove that is visible on your skin, and add an extra layer of clinical knowledge to the information that you are learning. 'Gray's Anatomy for Students 3rd edition' would tick the box for anyone really, from anatomy beginners to medical professionals who want to brush up on their anatomy.
Student consult - Even more anatomy and embryology knowledge, additional clinical cases and review questions. Show me someone who doesn't want this kind of extra information without the need of spending extra money.
International edition - An identical book, but at a fraction of the price. What's not to like about the 'Gray's Anatomy for Students International edition'?
No neuroanatomy - Sadly, this textbook does not cover neuroanatomy, so you will have to dig out a different textbook for this topic. This is a shame, because neuroanatomy can be quite a daunting branch of anatomy for students to study, and the clear illustrations and detailed text in this book would have lent well to the teaching of this tricky subject.
Lack of details - Another downside to this book is that while the images and illustrations in 'Gray's Anatomy for Students' are clear and colourful, they don't always provide the same level of detail as the accompanying text, or images found in other textbooks for that matter. They will help you survive, but you will definitely need an atlas to complete your understanding and add some flesh to the bones presented in this textbook.
Price - While used versions, discounts, and the international edition make this book more financially accessible, it still comes with a hefty price tag. The eBook version doesn't really improve the matter because it is very close to the price of the paperback, so all the portability and online access come at a price.
Access to resources - Do you know all those extra embryological knowledge, clinical cases, and review questions offered online? Everything is a fairytale if you don't purchase the textbook itself, so you're back to square one.
Big, thick, and heavy - You certainly don't want to hear these three words when you want to carry with you a reference book for your anatomy lectures and practicals. At 1192 pages and 2.6 kgs, 'Gray's Anatomy for Students Latest Edition' can definitely make you feel like the day is dragging.
Textbook - As you can tell, this is a textbook (duh!), so you need to read all the words in order to understand it. While the book is filled with large illustrations and it strikes the perfect balance between basics and details, reading can become annoying after you have done it for the past several hours. Take a look at the section about the duodenum:
Gray's Anatomy for Students (duodenum)
At a glance it looks completely doable, especially since 'Gray's Anatomy for Students' uses large illustrations and easy-to-understand explanations, but how easy do you think it really is after reading such pages for a few hours? It doesn't sound like fun anymore, right? The alternative would be to simply sit back, relax and watch a video tutorial about the duodenum.
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As you can see, 'Gray's Anatomy for Students 3rd Edition' is not as excellent as you might believe. On one side, it definitely succeeds in simplifying the explanations of its older brother, 'Gray's Anatomy', and presenting the information in a friendly way. After all, it is one of the most, if not actually the most popular anatomy textbook used for a reason. However, it definitely has its drawbacks.
Diversifying your study methods is always a good strategy to prevent boredom and increase efficiency, and Kenhub can definitely help us in this area. Here's how it compares to 'Gray's Anatomy for Students' and how it can help you achieve your goals:
Gray's Anatomy for Students vs. Kenhub
Using Kenhub provides you with more than one way to reach your goals. Through the integration of several teaching methods, you receive all the explanations and descriptions about your favourite anatomical structures. Are you tired of reading line, after line, after line? Simply select your desired video, hit 'Play' and absorb the information without ploughing through walls of text! Do you want to see a specific anatomical structure from multiple perspectives? Go and check out the atlas! Kenhub also has over 900 articles that you can use for further clarifications, and quizzes to really cement your knowledge. By the way, you receive everything in one go, automatically adapted to work on all portable devices - so what are you waiting for?! Go and try it out now!
Overall, 'Gray's Anatomy for Students' has definitely evolved since its first edition to try and keep up with the fast-paced life of the modern student. Although the written content in this textbook is excellent, you may want to use more detailed images along with this text or different ways of learning to prevent the process from becoming stale. In the end, the choice is completely yours and you need to take a step back and analyse which resource fits your style, funds and goals because there isn't a perfect one to rule them all.
Strengths of 'Gray's Anatomy for Students':
Clear illustrations and format
Clinical material | 1,470 |
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Freshly signed to Lion Music in early 2009, Finnish melodic progressive metallers Status Minor deliver their debut album "Dialog" on September 11th 2009. Home to seven catchy progressive metal masterpieces, this is a debut that is both modern in sound and outlook with a fresh melodic edge mixed with the heavier side of progressive metal, and one that sees guitar and keyboards form a tight yet open partnership backed up by the tight rhythm section over strong rhythms and arrangements.
Vocalist Markku Kuikka has a tonality which serves up a darker flavour than the more traditional progressive metal voice, further aiding the bands distinct sound and holds more crossover appeal potential.
With their debut album<|fim_middle|> and Mind's Eye along with those of Evergrey and Vanden Plas.
• Top quality progressive metal from Finland.
• "Dialog" is a incredibly strong debut album from Status Minor.
• Reviews in all leading rock/metal press.
• Status Minor are available for interview in English or Swedish via phone or email, to arrange your publication/webzines interview please contact promo@lionmusic.com. | Status Minor have delivered an album that is a strong marriage between song craft and musicianship all enwrapped with a dark edge and overtone.
Lyrically the album touches on subjects of human emotions, problems and acts between people. The pinnacle of the album is the title song "Dialog", an emotionally charged track with a running length over 15 minutes. For the title track the band used voice actors to strengthen the mood which, when blended with the band musical prowess makes for a very satisfying metal experience from this original and highly captivating track.
Comprised of five highly competent musicians, Status Minor's foundations were laid by guitarist Sami Saarinen in 2002, and little by little the line-up evolved to what it is today: Markku Kuikka - vocals, Jukka Karinen - keyboards, Eero Pakkanen – bass and Rolf Pilve - drums. The bands musical roots and influences are wide-spread which helps with the bands creativity, yet the band are able to define their own take on progressive metal with a great deal of adaptability.
Having released two promotional international press praised EPs prior to signing with Lion Music, along with a good deal of live performances allowed Status Minor the time to forge their own sound and write songs that have ultimately led to the quality heard on their full length debut album.
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The City<|fim_middle|>ers | Mesquite, TX." Mesquite Texas Real. Texas. Flavor, www.cityofmesquite.com/1281/Historic-Markers. | of Mesquite acquired ownership of the Brickyard Cemetery and the surrounding acreage in 2001. An archaeological steward from the State of Texas studied the property and found approximately 80 graves, along with a broken headstone and pieces of pink granite, wood, metal, and concrete used for headstones. This area was set aside for burials of African American laborers of the Ferris Brick Company and their family members which used to be located in this vicinity. The brick company opened in 1904 and closed in the 1950s.
In May 1873, Texas & Pacific Railroad engineer, A.R. Alcott platted a new depot town named Mesquite. the post office opened the following year. The community developed along the rail line, with businesses initially facing Front Street. As the town grew, business owners turned their front doors to Main Street in an effort to create a Town Square. Voters incorporated Mesquite in 1887. In 1903, following a legal challenge, the City re-incorporated with new boundaries. Mesquite, which began with an agrarian economy, grew rapidly in the second half of the 20th century as a Dallas suburb. The school district, established in 1901, is a draw for new residents, and the City continues to grow.
Sam Bass - with Sean Barnes, Hank Underwood, "Arkansas" Johnson, and Frank Jackson - held up a Texas & Pacific train here, April 10, 1878. They took $152, but missed hidden shipment of $30,000. In planning a bank robbery 3 months later, Bass was fatally shot by Rangers.
In 1857, prior to the incorporation of the town of Mesquite, a group of area residents began gathering occasionally for Methodist worship services led by circuit riding Preacher W.K. Masten. Services were held a nearby building known variously as the Frost Schoolhouse or the Bennett Schoolhouse. By 1863, the group had organized formally as the First Methodist Episcopal Church, south. Services continued in the schoolhouse until 1880, when charter members John L. and Lucy Futrell deeded this land to the congregation for the construction of a church building. Soon a small wood-frame structure was erected. Later damaged by a storm, it was rebuilt in 1900. In 1887 when the town of Mesquite was incorporated, charter member J. E. Russell became the town's first mayor, and the downtown area began to develop near the church site. As the population of Mesquite increased, so did the congregation, and several progressively larger sanctuaries were built after 1916 to accommodate its growth. Because of denominational mergers, the congregation changed its name to the First Methodist Church of Mesquite in 1939, and to the First United Methodist Church of Mesquite in 1968.
Confederate veteran Benjamin Franklin Galloway (1833-1912) And his wife Eliza (Fletcher) (1852-1883) came to Texas from Tennessee in 1872. Their son Bedford Forest is said to have been born in a covered wagon at Duck Creek (Garland) in 1873. They purchased 101 acres in 1874 and Benjamin Galloway erected a cabin where they lived while a two-room house was built. A farmer, he also raised horses, mules and cattle. A second son, Nathan Lemmon, was born in 1876. Twin sons were born in 1883, but they lived only a day, and Eliza Galloway died soon after. Her niece, Clara Gentry, came to live with the family that year. At that time Benjamin had a Blackland Prairie hay company. Dallas clients included Tennessee Dairy, Caruth Farm and Ringling Brothers Circus. Benjamin Galloway married Amanda Jane Miller (1848-1938) of Tennessee in 1887 and built a 1½ story addition onto the home place. The structure eventually featured an entrance hall, bedroom, parlor, and a kitchen on the first level, with children's rooms upstairs.
A son was born in 1888, but died at birth. Bedford returned home after attending college in Waco and New Orleans and made his living farming, baling hay and ginning cotton. He and his first wife, Nannie Lawrence, had four children. After her death in 1915, he married Bertha Dakan in 1917 and they had two daughters. Bedford was a city alderman, a member of the school board, and served as mayor of Mesquite from 1927 to 1940. A Galloway descendant restored the house between 1949 and 1950 and built another addition in 1955. Designated a Recorded Texas Historic Landmark in 1973, the Galloway Home Place was moved from this site to a more rural location in Sunnyvale in an effort to protect it from encroaching urban development.
This burial ground was in use well before the Texas and Pacific Railroad established the City of Mesquite in 1873. The earliest marked grave is that of Britanna Santifee Chapman (1856-1859) who shares a plot with pioneer residents Davis G. Chapman (1824-1881) and wife Nancy C. (1828-1912). In 1890, local builder and civic leader Louis C. Ebrite (1852-1943) plotted a tract of several acres in a grid pattern with driveways that define the layout of the cemetery to this day. The site was formally deeded for cemetery use in 1892 and continues to honor area veterans and to chronicle the generations that belong to Mesquites proud heritage.
Zachariah Motley migrated to Texas (1856) from Kentucky with his family and slaves. He and his wife Mary, five sons and three daughters helped settle this area and built their home some 200' Northeast of this site, a one-half acre portion of the original homestead bought from the Crittenden Survey. Earliest known burial (1863) was Penelope Motley McLain, a daughter, and the wife of Capt. J.B. McLain. The plot is still in use and is owned and cared for by Motley descendants. Twenty-five known graves included family members and their slaves.
John P. (1827-1899) and Martha (Oden) (1835-1872) Potter, pioneer citizens of the Republic of Texas, bought a farm near the Haught's Store community in 1860. When their son William L. Potter died in July 1861 he was the first to be buried on this site; John Potter enlisted in the Confederate Army in the same month. After the war he served as Justice of the Peace; his landholdings included almost 1,000 acres. Most of the Potters' nine children are interred here. The last recorded burial was in 1947. A 1997 count revealed 16 possible graves. The Potter Cemetery remains a record of the settlers who shaped Eastern Dallas County.
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The mission of Associazione Banco Alimentare della Lombardia "Danilo Fossati" is to recover surplus food from the agro-food industry and distribute it free of charge to charities that support the poor.
"It's very good to see a big corporation like Whirlpool doing something concrete to help the less fortunate," said Marco Magnelli, head of Banco Alimentare Lombardia.
Fondazione Mission Bambini was set up in 2000 to help poor, sick and unschooled children in Italy and elsewhere in the world.
"Corporate voluntary work is a great thing: it brings business and communities closer, it promotes the value of solidarity among employees and is visible proof to young people in need that there are people out there who care for them," said Goffredo Modena, chairman of Mission Bambini.
Fondazione AVSI is a UN and EU accredited non-governmental organization set up in 1972 and engaged in some 130 development co-operation projects in 30 countries across Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, Eastern Europe, the Middle East and Asia.
"An initiative like this shows us once again that the only way to resist the massive provocations we're being faced with these days, including the "migration" issue, is that of collaboration between the various entities: NGOs, the private sector, voluntary organizations like Farsi Prossimo, and the public sector. But all this is only possible if individuals, in the first place, put themselves on the line. Like Whirlpool's volunteers," explained Giampaolo Silvestri, General Secretary, Fondazione AVSI.
ATLHA APS supports families of people with disabilities, offering them the chance to participate in a variety of activities, including: exchanges with other countries, integrated summer camps, 1-day workshops, and adapted sports activities. The organization also promotes on-the-job training and apprenticeships based on an inclusive staff model.
"For ATLHA, Community Day is a privileged opportunity to promote knowledge," said ATLHA APS president Fabiola Beretta.
Bee.4 Altre Menti is a social co-operative set up to provide work for underprivileged categories, including prisoners and people suffering from hardship, to enable them to learn trades and become active players in society. It also organizes activities focusing on sustainability, solidarity and energy conservation.
"We're really proud to be able to show society the work that goes on in prisons thanks to the commitment of a big corporation like Whirlpool," comments Giuseppe Cantatore, head of Attività Produttive Bee.4 Altre Menti.
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More than 150 employees at the headquarters of Whirlpool EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) left suit and tie at home for one day to volunteer in their local communities as part of the company's first-ever Community Day. This event allowed employees the opportunity to spend working hours volunteering for one of five, local non-profit organizations.
Banco Alimentare Lombardia, Fondazione Mission Bambini (in partnership with L'Amico Charly), Fondazione AVSI (in partnership con Farsi Prossimo), ATLHA and social co-operative Bee.4 (operating at the Bollate Reclusion Centre) were the five organizations involved in this year's Community Day, which was extended to all the countries in the EMEA region in which the groups operate.
As a reflection of Whirlpool Corporation's own social responsibility policy, employees' voluntary work supported the unique missions of these five organizations to:
Raise awareness of the need for responsible food consumption and the avoidance of food waste;
Help families in need to find safe and sustainable housing;
Promote employment for young people.
Whirlpool volunteers contributed by assisting with manual labor, e.g. decorating and gardening, as well as interacting with staff members and project beneficiaries.
"We've always been actively engaged in promoting a model of social commitment and sustainable development, wherever we operate," said Karim Bruneo, Corporate Responsibility and Government Relations Manager, Whirlpool EMEA. "It's a source of pride for us that Community Day has been launched here in Milan, where we have the headquarters of the entire EMEA region."
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Learn how to make your own home made gluten free baking powder. Firstly, not all baking powders are gluten free and as a result, this is a fast track way to contamination. As a result, many people make the BIG mistake of confusing baking powder with baking soda. But they are very different and many brands of powders contain gluten.
So…what is<|fim_middle|> own will work just as well, but you need to use immediately. | the difference between baking soda and baking powder?
Both baking soda and baking powder are leavening agents. This means they are added to baked goods before cooking to produce carbon dioxide and cause them to 'rise'. Baking powder contains baking soda, but the two substances are used under different conditions.
Baking soda is pure sodium bicarbonate which is naturally gluten free. When baking soda is combined with moisture and an acidic ingredient (e.g., yogurt, chocolate, buttermilk, honey), the resulting chemical reaction produces bubbles of carbon dioxide that expand under oven temperatures, causing baked goods to rise. The reaction begins immediately upon mixing the ingredients. As a result, you need to bake recipes which call for baking soda immediately, or else they will fall flat.
Baking powder also contains sodium bicarbonate, but it includes an acidifying agent like cream of tartar, a drying agent in the form of a starch. In some instances, the starch may come in the form as wheat flour or other starches which contain gluten. Brands that use cornstarch are gluten free. Always read the manufacturer's label, however, due to processing practices.
Many recipes call for baking soda, while others call for baking powder. It depends on the other ingredients within the recipe that determines which is used. The ultimate goal is to produce a tasty product with a pleasing texture. Baking soda is basic and will yield a bitter taste unless countered by the acidity of another ingredient, such as buttermilk or another source of acid like citrus.
You can easily buy a gluten free brand of baking powder, or you can make your own. But if in a pinch and don't have gluten free baking powder on hand or cannot find a version in your local grocery store, here is a quick, easy recipe!
Mix the ingredients together until well combined. Multiply the recipe for larger quantities and store in an air-tight container.
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Located at the extreme north of the Vaucluse, on the boundary with the Provencale Drome, Lapalud is a commune which spreads out from the heart of its historic village.
Only one street runs through the village aptly named "la grand rue", and two fortified gateways form the entries to the village at either end..
In the center of the village the Roman church Saint Pierre-es-Lien (XIII°)is crowned by a clock tower which has been classified a historic monument.
Visit the village on foot and essentially you'll see some beautiful ancient houses, the village shops tend to be clustered outside the village walls.
Lapalud is known for the lock factory created by Andre Blondel and which was the first hydraulic powered factory in France. The village is also famous for its brushes which have been produced to traditional methods in the village for many decades.
Until the nineteen fifties there were more than 10 factories producing brushes in the village and supporting its economy, all with their stalls on the side of the adjacent main road the nationale 7. Today only one factory remains open.
A few kilometers from the village you can fish at the private lakes, but you need to purchase a day fishing permit in advance.
N.B.: Don't confuse Lapalud and La Palud : there is another village in Provence called La Palud sur Verdon which is located in the Alpes de Haute Provence departement.
What to see:
Hydraulic Dam.
Ancient houses.
St Pierre es Liens Roamn church (XIII°).
Leisure activities:
Hiking/Walking. Mountain Biking.
Tennis. Fishing. Lakes.
Hotel.
Bed and breakfast.
Campsite.
Neighbouring towns and villages:
Lamotte du Rhône (5 km), Mondragon (8 km), Boll | 380 |
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I WAS weaned on Sri Lankan food.
My mother, since the 1970s, was possibly one of the few non-Singhalese women in Australia who roasted and ground her own spices and made her own curry blends. What made this unique was that in 1970s Australia (and especially in suburban Adelaide), white women just didn't cook like that – they were experts in traditional 'Aussie" tucker like roast lamb and vegetables – not 'curry and rice'. To sample exotic cuisine in 1970s Australia, one had to drive to a suburban pizza joint or Chinese restaurant to get some sweet and sour pork.
My upbringing involving the delights of fiery Sri Lankan cuisine was furthered by almost weekly visits to Mr and Mrs Nelson Joseph's Ceylon Hut in Bank Street (now gone) near South Australia's Parliament House. This high temple to curry, later taken over by their daughter Naylene and her husband John Ruppert, was the meeting place of 1970s Labor party Parliamentarians and powerbrokers. My father, an advisor to the progressive Labor Premier Don Dunstan (you remember him, he is the guy who wore a safari suit and pink shorts in South Australia's Parliament and was also responsible for decrimalising marijuana), didn't muck around here in his advice or when it came to ordering, and gradually my brother Paul (now a chef) and I went from the bland chicken Maryland to a full Burgher reistaffel with all the trimmings (minus the alcoholic cider always at the table).
My early years of growing up and eating in the Baker household made for some interesting experiences when I invited schoolmates over for dinner.
My love for Sri-Lankan cuisine was further enhanced by two visits to the island nation – once for work and again when I dragged mates over for the full-blown tour of the country. What I found was mum was pretty spot on with her curries after all.
On a recent trip to Melbourne I was almost uncontrollable with excitement when I found the Sri Lankan Ceylon Curry House at 191 Clarendon Street, South Melbourne.
This non-descript and basic eatery has room for about 20 but from seeing the queues at lunchtime it seems that its main trade is with takeaways. Dining in is not discouraged, and eating on either the long wooden communal table or at one of the small inside or street tables, is pleasant.
You order from a bain-marie buffet – there also is a fridge at a side of the counter which is stocked with soft drinks and also with, most importantly, Sri Lanka's two famous brews – Elephant Ginger Beer and Sinha Beer (both the Lion Larger and the stout).
I decided to have a plate of two meat curries and two vegetable curries with rice ($11.90). There was a choice of freshly made curries so I opted for the cooked potatoes, fried green beans, a rich meatball curry (which I was assured was traditional right down to the minced chilies in the meatballs), and a chicken curry. I couldn't resist having a Lion Larger ($3.50 on Fridays, $5 on other days) for old time's sake.
The serving was generous. The diced potatoes had been cooked in a blend of coconut milk with flaked dried chili, curry leaves and mustard seeds with the addition of saffron to give its mild yellow colour. The devilled beans had been lightly stir-fried, making them slightly tender yet still crisp and fresh. Both these vegetable dishes were savory and full of spice and a marvelous accompaniment to the meat curries.
The meatball curry brought back memories of my youth. They were tender beef meatballs seasoned with roasted curry powder with hints of garlic, chilli and ginger and cooked in a rich, sweet and flavoursome coconut gravy. The meatballs (known as frikadel) packed the required zing of chili that I remembered (and got me addicted to capsaicin). The tender chicken curry was full of that roasted curry flavor which makes Sri Lankan curries not only robust but unique. The dish came with rice on the plate and a popodum.
The restaurant also offers an array of takeaway curry packs from $11.90 to $13.9 as well as traditional Sri Lankan condiments such as sambal, chutney and pickles, as well as a large selection of tea.
<|fim_middle|>) a few years ago. Everything from the pots in the bain marie to the decor and decorations on the wall were very homely (i.e. old, mismatched and a little kitsch), and the owner's kids played in and out of the dining room. Much like the food, it was all part of sharing in an experience of home dining. The chef wandered around generously dosing out the hoppers – personally, I don't see the appeal for the hopper, but I love the Sri Lankan buffet. Will definitely visit the Ceylon Curry House when next in Melbourne.
Ron, possibly. Wonderful place, wonderful childhood memories – will ask and get back to you. | There isn't an al-la-carte menu as such – you choose what is cooked on the day (or on the hour when choices in the buffet need replenishing). It's pot luck what you might get on any given day but that is one of the highlights of this simple yet value for money eatery – it's the endless variety. My bean dish came straight out of the wok and onto my plate and once that was gone it was gone (but its spot at the buffet was replenished with another vegetable dish).
The Sri Lankan Ceylon Curry House also has a Hopper Night on the last Saturday of each month with a choice of white and red String hoppers or Hoppers and egg hoppers with a choice of different curries for $17.50.
The verdict: Traditional Sri Lankan home-style food cooked without fear or compromise. Great value. With a high turnover of dishes its offers regulars diners a huge choice and scope to explore marvelous Sri Lankan-inspired dishes.
What: Sri Lankan Ceylon Curry House, 191 Clarendon Street, South Melbourne. Open: Monday to Friday 11.20am to 8pm and on Saturday from 5pm to 8pm. Phone (03) 9690-9919.
Ate there: 19 March 2010.
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The Sri Lankan dining experience seems to be, by tradition, a very communal or family-centric event. I had an interesting Sri Lankan buffet experience at Aahara (Hutt St, Adelaide | 367 |
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Teaching with technology program a blast at Ontario's Peel district schools
David Carey
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Published: July 21st, 2008
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Let us pause for a moment of fond reflection on the schoolroom of our youth, where the teacher's best tools were a pointer, a blackboard and a voice that could make the fuzz on the back of your neck stand straight to attention.
Alas, that quaint old classroom is taking its place in academic history alongside inkwells, writing slates and good old Mr. Chips. In an age when kids start mousing around with computers before they're out of diapers, Canadian school boards are recognizing the need to engage kids on their own terms.
One of the leaders in this regard is Ontario's Peel District School Board, which encompasses Mississauga, Brampton and Caledon and is the second largest board in Canada. In 2007, it was given a CIO 100 Award by CIO magazine in the U.S. for demonstrating excellence and achievement in IT. And the Board is not resting on its laurels. CIO Laura Williams and the tech team continue to plan and launch new projects that will help keep Peel's teachers and students in the forefront of the technology curve."
"Traditionally we talk about two primary uses of technology in schools: the administrative use and the students' use," said Williams. "But there's another area that we've started to focus on: the teachers' use of computers — the use of technology as a learning tool."
At Peel District School Board, this focus comes in the form of an initiative called 'Teaching with Technology', which enables teachers to enhance the classroom experience by reaching out and bringing things like animation and visuals into the classroom from the Internet, where they are displayed on large ceiling-mounted LCD screens.
The goal of the initiative is to have every class in every school equipped with a media-capable computer, an LCD projector, Internet access and Video on Demand. As well, each school would have one computer lab for every 400 students.
"The initiative isn't so much about technology per se, but about where technology can take you," said Williams. "We call today's kids the MuchMusic generation. They're used to a media-rich environment and when they come into the classroom you need to be engaging. Some of these kids are visual learners — they don't get it until they see it. And particularly for those learners, this initiative has made a huge difference."
As a result of the initiative, teachers throughout the district can access a wide variety of Web sites which can be of valuable assistance in teaching everything from mathematics to gym.
A site called Tumblebooks, for example, provides access to an online collection of talking picture books, created by adding animation, sound, music and narration to existing picture books from several leading publishers. Authors like Robert Munsch sometimes do their own narration. The site provides a variety of interesting additional material to students who are reading on their own, and it also gives support to students who require skill building with a variety of exercises that can be matched with other areas of the curriculum.
"Teachers have access to all sorts of visuals for the students in pretty much every area," said Melodie McGurrin, a teacher at Rowntree Public School in Brampton. "The 'Teaching with Technology' initiative brings the learning to life because kids can see what you're talking about and they can share their answers with the class. When they've written something in their books you can stick it under the document camera, put it up on the screen and show the whole class what their answer was. That helps the kids feel more part of the class."
Although the Board hasn't developed a set of metrics to confirm that students are deriving significant benefits, there's plenty of anecdotal evidence to support the belief.
Kyra Kristensen-Irvine, known to her students as Mrs. K.I., is the principal of Rowntree Public School, which was an early implementer of the approach. "The kids love it," she said. "I was talking about it with Laura [Williams] one day when a grade five student walked by. I asked him what he thought of the LCD mounts and he said, "No insult Mrs. K.I., but when that's on I pay attention."
ROLLING OUT THE INITIATIVE
Like any good IT shop introducing a major project, the IT team at Peel District School Board started small, initially providing teachers at one school with laptops. But the feedback from those teachers indicated that they didn't need the mobility of a laptop. Instead, they preferred to have a desktop computer, using a data key for mobility. With this approach they could have an<|fim_middle|> important dates, resource lists, ideas for improving math skills, and links to helpful and relevant resources, teachers make the road to student success very transparent."
A side benefit of MyClass has been increased resource sharing among teachers. For example, one teacher did an excellent introduction to the Brampton library and published it on her MyClass site, and another teacher saw it and asked her if she could reuse it.
Said Williams, "What we're finding is that there's a great kind of spontaneous collaboration going on. There's a community beginning to form of teachers who are borrowing resources from each other for their own MyClass site. So internally we have to figure out how to make that sharing easier for them."
SharePoint has been a big help in this regard. Even though there's been huge take-up of the technology, no classroom training has been done to get users up to speed — only online training has been provided.
"That tells you how easy it was for them to pick up and use," said Williams. "It was compelling enough for them to learn on their own, and that was important for us because we're pretty geographically dispersed and training is always a big consideration in any IT initiative."
PASSWORD DEBATE
When developing MyClass, there was a lively internal debate over whether or not to make the class sites password-protected, which would enable them to present a wider range of information. But with 145,000 students and 300,000 parents to deal with, managing passwords would be an enormous task. What's more, passwords would be hard for younger children to remember, and perhaps pose a barrier to new Canadians. So in the end, it was decided to make the sites open. That means no student photos, no information about class trips, and no publishing of marks. The sites are essentially used for the one-way dissemination of homework assignments and resources.
Another issue around MyClass is student access to a computer at home.
"I get asked about that a lot," said Williams. "The Canadian statistics for home computers are pretty high — around 90 to 95 percent of households have a computer. What we find is the differentiator is the type of Internet access they have. Some households might have really high-end Internet access while others may have little or no Internet access."
Because MyClass is document-driven, it's fairly accessible with low-speed access. The Board also publishes software-based Microsoft viewers, which are free, so that households that don't have Microsoft software suites can still look at the documents.
The IT team at Peel District School Board has its sights set on delivering even more technology tools in the near future. "Our next focus will be what we call teacher-to-teacher," said Williams. "We want to increase the level of spontaneous sharing among teachers, and to do that we'll be creating an internal SharePoint application that will improve teachers' ability to share resources. With some help from our library people, we're now figuring out how to tag resources so that people will know where to find them."
A prototype for the teacher-to-teacher application has already been developed and several teachers are already fairly actively using it. The IT department will take the feedback from this and figure out how to improve the application. The department has already been told that the tagging needs to be done differently, so this will be remedied before the application is released more broadly this fall.
Another major project on the books for the IT team is the delivery of a Video-on-Demand server. "We're moving off of physical media so that we can deliver video into the classroom online. It'll be like Rogers on Demand but within our walls and for education," said Williams. The Board will buy the digital rights to educational videos and make them available electronically to classrooms throughout the district. This will eliminate the inconvenience of having only one physical copy of a video and will enable simultaneous broadcast to many classes at the same time. As well, videos can be bookmarked so that shorter clips can be shown. With Video on Demand, perhaps the Board will even screen some old movies, showing kids what schools were like when their parents' and grandparents were young — back in the Dark Ages, before technology came to the classroom.
The CIO and the Business
At just about any IT management conference these days you'll hear talk about the changing role of the CIO. And there's one question that's often raised: Does the CIO need to be part of the business? We asked Peel District School Board CIO Laura Williams to weigh in on this question, and her answer was unequivocal.
"I believe the answer is yes," she said. "In my role, I need to absolutely understand how schools work. I need to understand the teaching and learning process, which means the teacher teaching and the student, hopefully, learning.
"We hear a lot about how the CIO role is changing — that it's not about being the senior-most technical person. And my personal challenge is letting go of some of that, because I love technology, I think it's fascinating. But you only have so much time and you need to spend that time really understanding what's important to the business and what's going to make a difference."
Williams believes that projects don't have to be technically difficult or sophisticated to be of high value. The challenge for the CIO is to knowing which projects are going to have the highest impact, regardless of their complexity.
"Around here we're always saying: How is life going to be different for a student? How is life going to be different for a teacher? These are key considerations affecting our technology decisions," she said. "Take, for example, vendor-driven upgrades. We've taken the stance that we're not going to do them unless it's going to make a difference to the school administrators, teachers or students. We've pushed back on a number of such upgrades because we don't see the value to our organization."
Williams said she's probably an example of how the CIO role is changing. "I spend a lot of time going to different schools and to board meetings, education conferences, workshops and things like that to really understand this business I'm in. The education sector has a language of its own. It's a people business, so it's more subtle than understanding something like manufacturing. A lot more subtle."
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Now the Board has about 24 schools with a desktop computer and LCD projector in every classroom, along with Internet access and substantial supporting resources. More schools will be brought into the initiative next year, and several others are so keen on the approach that they're starting down this road themselves. Still, with over 230 schools in the district, progress is frustratingly slow.
"One of our challenges is how to get it out there fast enough," said Williams. "We talk about a six-year plan but there's a sense of immediacy — that we need to do it now — because we're convinced it really makes a difference and we've got students in our system now who don't have access to this."
Unfortunately, rolling the initiative out isn't simply a matter of buying and delivering the equipment. That can be done quickly enough. The biggest challenge is changing how teachers teach. That's what takes the time.
"You can't just drop technology off at the door. It's really a change management issue," said Williams. "With any initiative there will always be those that are really keen to figure out how to use it. But how do you move the entire system forward as a whole?"
To address this issue, the Board is using a variety of methods. The most important is direct one-on-one coaching. Coaches, who are teachers themselves, go into the schools and work with the teachers, moving them forward from whatever level they may be at. If they're not accustomed to technology, the training can be as basic as showing them how to operate the equipment, but if they're already tech savvy, the coaches will show them things like the latest Web sites.
"One of the impediments is how long it takes for people to be able to absorb new methods and change how they do things. And with the number of schools we have, it just takes a while for that to percolate through," said Williams.
It would be natural to assume that it's the older teachers who are having the most problems, but according to Williams that's not the case. There are those who are comfortable with technology regardless of their age, and those who are not. It's the job of the coaches to help everyone adopt the new approach, regardless of age.
And because it's the coaching that takes the time, the Board is taking a multi-pronged approach to training.
"We have a media team at the Board and they're doing videos. We're video-recording teachers, showing how they teach a particular subject using Web sites and Web resources. And then we'll post those online so that other teachers can see them," said Williams.
"We also can communicate with all the schools in the system by means of a broadcast. If we want to show them a new resource we've got, for example, we might choose to do it that way."
CREATING A CLASS WEB SITE
'Teaching with Technology' is only the most recent in a series of IT initiatives intended to help the Board meet its key strategic objective: student success. Another that's already in place is called MyClass, the project which won the Board its 2007 CIO 100 Award.
MyClass was an initiative enabled by the prior adoption of an integrated Microsoft Email and SharePoint environment. This was implemented with the support of Concept Interactive, a local Canadian company that specializes in SharePoint.
"We wanted to create tools that extend the classroom. That's why we introduced MyClass, which provides a set of easy-to-use integrated tools that enable teachers to create Web sites for their class," said Williams. "Not every teacher will find that such sites are helpful for their particular students or subjects, but for those who choose to have one, we wanted to move the technology out of the way. A teacher shouldn't have to be a Web guru to publish basic information on the Internet."
The MyClass application was developed by teachers and IT staff working in concert. The two groups talked conceptually about what the initiative was trying to achieve, and then the IT department created wireframes, or mock-ups of what screens would look like. The teachers then provided feedback on what was being built.
"It was a very collaborative model for development," said Williams. "Teachers were very much involved throughout the process. We were always surprised at how they wanted things to look and feel."
Sometimes the teachers working on the application used it live in their classrooms, which sparked interest from other teachers and at times created hotspots of interest from those in particular subject areas.
"It's a much more formative way to do development compared to the traditional user specs," said Williams. "For something of this nature, I don't think you can use that traditional methodology as easily."
MYCLASS ROLLOUT
MyClass was piloted at a number of elementary and secondary schools in 2006, and the uptake was extraordinary.
"We were overwhelmed by the level of participation. We had over 1,000 teachers use it, and clearly it was helpful to them," noted Neal Larsen, manager of classroom technology at the Board. "Much of the success of the project can be attributed to the close partnership of the IT department with our curriculum department and participation of teachers in the initial design."
MyClass was quickly adopted by over 200 schools when it became available in the 2006-07 school year, and in 2008 the Board had 4,500 class Web sites in operation.
The effectiveness of the program has been confirmed by the huge response from parents, who affirmed that they are now better able to help coach their children and prepare them for tests. Instead of finding a two-week old spelling list crumpled in the bottom of a knapsack, for example, parents can now find such lists, and many other educational materials, on the class site.
"The parents like to be able to go in and see the assignments there on the class site, together with their kids. About 80 to 90 percent of our teachers are using MyClass," said Linda Galen, principal at Harold M. Brathwaite Secondary School. "By posting homework, | 1,259 |
The Lidder Valley or Liddar Valley is a Himalayan sub-valley that forms the southeastern corner of Anantnag district in Indian-administered Kashmir. The Lidder River flows down the valley. The entrance to the valley lies 7 km northeast from Anantnag town and 62 km southeast from Srinagar, the summer capital of Jammu and Kashmir. It is a 40-km-long gorge valley with an average width of 3 km.
Geography
The Lidder Valley is situated within the jurisdiction of Pahalgam tehsil, of Anantnag district. It is bordered by Kashmir Valley to the west, and Sind Valley to the north, and covers a length of 40 km. It has a maximum width of 5 km. The Lidder basin is surrounded on the south and southeast by the Pir Panjal Range, on the north by the Sind Valley and on the northeast by the Zaskar Range. The Lidder drainage basin has an area of 1134 km2. It is formed by the flow of the Lidder River which flows within a Y-shaped valley, upstream of Pahagam the river diverges into the East Lidder and the West Lidder. The East Lidder of which reaches eastwards from Pahalgam up past Chandanwari and flows from east to west starting in the area of Sheshnag Lake and the Shisram Glacier. The West Lidder originates from the Kolhoi Glacier and runs through green coniferous forests through many alpine meadows. The Lidder Valley provides fresh water supply to other districts and irrigation for agriculture. The Lidder River flows through the entire valley passing several natural landmarks and tourist spots, including Aru, Pahalgam, Betab Valley, and Akad. The main towns in the Lidder Valley are Mandlan, Laripora, Phraslun, Ashmuqam and Seer Hamdan.
Geology
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Anantnag district | the Himalayan Mountains. Today, the river continues to deposit sheets of sand in the lower areas of Anantnag. Gradual erosive processes have washed away bordering forests and created deep gorges at many places.
Ecology
The Lidder Valley has many glacier-fed streams, and the tributaries of the Lidder River are home to different types of trout. The valley is the natural habitat of the Himalayan black bear. The Himalayan brown bear, musk deer, snow leopard and hangul have also been spotted in the Aru and Lidderwat areas, which are close to Dachigam National Park.
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Between facing a job loss, becoming self-employed, and learning a lot more about myself than I could have ever imagined, let's just say last year was one for the books. I searched high and low for ways to calm my anxieties and stay focused on the positive, but nothing seemed to work. I tried every standard remedy, and yet what ultimately brought me some peace of mind wasn't meditation or CBD, but essential oils.
I was about two months into working as a full-time freelancer — and having a hard time adjusting to life without a 9-to-5 — when a friend mentioned how much she loved her essential oil diffuser. I had tried and tested essential oils during my days as a beauty editor, and while I was curious about their healing properties, I never really knew what to do with them. That didn't stop me from being intrigued by a diffuser, especially since my friend told<|fim_middle|> my usual sense of worry as frequently as I had before. This isn't to say that the essential oils have removed those feelings entirely — that's just not how anxiety works — but they have helped me cope better than other methods I've tried, like cutting caffeine or going for a walk. I'm hopeful that it'll be even more relaxing soon, as I plan to add some deep-breathing exercises to my routine. If you're ready to give an essential oil diffuser a try, keep reading for some options that caught my eye, including my personal favorite.
Next article12 Low-Carb Treats That Are Keto-Friendly, Because Who Wants to Give Up Dessert? | me that the scents and steam helped her feel calmer. I figured, if nothing else had worked to help me find my Zen, it couldn't hurt to try it.
I did some research on essential oil diffusers, which helped me create a wish list: anything I purchased would need to mist for several hours, and it couldn't be noisy or distribute heat throughout the room. I ultimately settled on a diffuser from Saje Natural Wellness because it checked all the boxes and the brand also offered plenty of essential oils, including lavender, eucalyptus, and lemongrass.
For those of you who are unfamiliar with how these diffusers work, here's a bit of a breakdown. You fill a small compartment of the diffuser with water, then add your essential oils. It's advised that you add around 10 to 15 drops of oil into the water, depending on how intense you'd like the aroma. You then turn on the diffuser to activate the steam, and within a few minutes, you'll notice the scent and steam begin to fill the room. Essential oil diffusers typically don't use heat, so you're getting the oils in a very pure form.
The first time I tried the diffuser, I opted for lavender, since it's known to help reduce stress. I'd be lying if I said my anxieties melted away the moment I let some oils stream into the air, but I did find that I was able to get my work done at a better pace. It felt good to make self-care more of a priority, and although the scent wasn't my favorite, I knew I wanted to try the diffuser again.
This isn't to say that the essential oils have removed those feelings entirely — that's just not how anxiety works — but they have helped me cope better than other methods I've tried.
I set it out for about two hours the next night, this time using eucalyptus oil, which is also supposed to help promote a sense of calmness. It was a game changer. The eucalyptus made me feel more relaxed than the lavender but also more productive, and it eased a lot of the tension I had been feeling, which is exactly what I needed to stay on track with my work. This time, with my mind quieter, I also found the sound of the steam to be very soothing.
I used the diffuser three times a week throughout the next month and noticed that I didn't feel | 506 |
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Sodom or the Quintessence of Debauchery
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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Sodom is an obscene Restoration closet drama, published in 1684. The work is thought to be that of John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester. Determining the date of composition and attribution are complicated owing mostly to misattribution of evidence<|fim_middle|>80 R$
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Publisher's overview | for and against Rochester's authorship in Restoration and later texts. The play consists of five acts in rhyming couplets. There are two prologues, two epilogues and a short final speech. General Buggeranthos reports that this policy is welcomed by the soldiers, who spend less on prostitutes as a consequence, but has deleterious effects on women of the kingdom who have recourse to "dildoes and dogs".
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Online Community: 3 Types of User Communication
By Mike King
As User Generated Content (UGC) becomes more prevalent, it is useful to explore the different types of user communications in online communities. Users can communicate in one of three online settings: public area, group, and private chat. Each form of communication can enhance user experience but can also present unique challenges for the community moderator. We'll look at each of these types of communication, identify some benefits and challenges of each and suggest strategies for effective community moderation.
Many online communities have a public area where all members can interact. This environment is much like the lobby in a building where people can congregate to share news, meet up for an activity, ask questions and develop a sense of community with other members. In a game environment, players might meet in the lobby to trade goods or discuss game strategies and tactics, or plan to enter the game together.
Since the lobby is the community segment where the most participants congregate at any one time, it is the perfect place for those with nefarious intent to target and approach other community members. Spammers can blast the public area with offers and promotions. Online Predators can identify potential victims and groom them with small talk then invite them into private chat to continue their overtures unobserved. Trolls can badger other players.
Community moderators must observe the public area and take action against bad actors to preserve the mood of the community. Fortunately, filtering and moderation software like CleanSpeak can help minimize the workload and alert moderators to questionable content. The community moderator uses this tool to view alerts and make decisions based on current and historical user information.
The use of groups in the community enables people with shared interests or friendships to communicate amongst themselves in a smaller landscape. Some conduct may be more tolerated within a group than it would be in the public area since members have to be invited and must opt in. Spammers and trolls are typically prevented from joining in or are quickly removed by group owners. One of the mechanisms available is community moderation, which gives users the ability to report someone violating the rules or use the 'ignore' feature to block all content from the other user. Members may have more latitude within a group setting than in the public area – if they don't like the conduct of group members they can leave the group and join another.
Sometimes groups are predisposed toward nefarious activities like bullying and hate speech, so the community moderator must use moderation tools to identify the participants and their group affiliations. The moderator can use severity settings that trigger different responses depending on the severity assigned to words or phrases. The response might be an auto-pop-up that informs or warns a participant when their conduct is flagged. They can also set up the system to auto-ban users for high severity violations. Using these tools, the moderators can monitor activity of group members and work within the group to cultivate more appropriate behavior by use of warnings, bans or even shutting down the group.
Community members can sometimes use private chat to speak freely with one other person. This allows people to form closer relationships and creates a higher level of intimacy within the community as a whole as each member forms and cultivates more one-to-one friendships. This is good.
The challenge with private chat is that groomers, trolls and online predators may be able to entice members they targeted in the public or group areas into the private channel where oversight of their behaviors is greatly minimized. It is in this channel that intelligent profanity filters like CleanSpeak from Inversoft are invaluable to the community moderator. Carter Pham is the Online Community Manager for Animal Jam, a virtual world for children that is heavily moderated. He says his team uses a different protocol for each chat paradigm. He points out "while we monitor all the paradigms closely, we consider content in the private dens more carefully because the chat that occurs there has the potential to escalate due to the player's perception that no one is watching what they do in their private den."
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Online Communities: Approval Processes | all other words or phrases deemed inappropriate by the community moderator. There are many levers within the filter and moderation tool set that enable the moderator to actively monitor and control behavior within the community. Pham says, "Sometimes when the filter flags questionable content, in a certain category we can use the opportunity as a teachable moment to help players understand the rules and proper etiquette for our online community."
Just as in the real world, the setting affects the nature of activity. People are more inclined to refrain from the worst activities in a public setting while they speak and act more freely the smaller the group. Community moderators must strike a delicate balance between giving members freedom to communicate openly and controlling content to ensure the mood of the community is positive and healthy.
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Alright, so, the event itself sounds rad. But what's the deal with Wheelbase Magazine traveling 2,188.7 miles across the continental U.S. to attend<|fim_middle|> conditions for beginner to advanced riders & serves as a Trojan Horse for skateboard legalization downtown Grand Rapids. – Organizer Mike D.
Michigan is a gem, stoked to share America's High Five with the epicenter of the skate industry on the solstice. I'm pretty sure it's impossible to get a later sunrise than on the west side of Michigan, and when you combine it with the solstice it's going to be a beautiful night. Be sure to stop into Detroit while you're here too and hit me up!
Will do homie. Not sure we got the digits. Holla at marcus@wheelbasemag.com Also, we wanna get some mags in ABS. | a downhill event that you've probably never even heard of until this moment? This community-centric event has come to life thanks to the perseverance and hard work of race organizer, Bustin Boards dude, and #WheelbaseFam brobro Mike Dallas and is focused on gathering and supporting the thriving local Michigan area scene. It's not about points, trophies, or big-wig sponsorship deals. This event is about fostering the local downhill skateboarding community by getting-rad-with-what-you-have and we think that's—well—rad! The #GRDH Race shows potential and we want to do our part in building its presence within the community. On a slightly more selfish note, we also want to see what Grand Rapids has to offer. We've been informed that there'll be camping and tomfoolery all weekend long, and even a canoe trip on Sunday! We are down with all those things!
Grand Rapids Urban Downhill invites skateboarders to participate in a fully sanctioned/insured downhill skateboard competition on June 21, 2014. The City of Grand Rapids, Michigan approved a 4-hour city permit for event organizers to close three of the best hillside roads in downtown Grand Rapids, within a no-skateboarding zone. GRDH is the 2nd Downhill skateboard event to be hosted in Michigan, among 4 known in the Midwest. The 6% grade course drops 3 city blocks boasting off-camber left & right corners to negotiate – 40mph intermediate level course. GRDH provides fun, safe riding | 315 |
2019 marks the 8th year of a music collaboration and cultural exchange project between the SA College of Music at the University of Cape Town and the Arcevia Jazz Feast, Comune di Arcevia, Italy. The project is administered by SAJE.
18 March to 1 April 2019: Two Italian jazz students will spend just over two weeks studying at UCT and performing in Cape Town. They are Anna Laura Alvear Calderon (vocals) and Zeno Le Moglie (drums).
July/August 2019: The two jazz students from the South African College of Music, University of Cape Town who received SAJE/AJF bursaries to study in Italy for 2 weeks at the Arcevia Jazz Feast are Lauren Fredericks (vocals) and Jarod Fortes (guitar). They will be ccompanied by Professor Mike Rossi.
November at the Masque Theatre as part of the 2018 Muizenberg Jazz Festival.
Workshops are free and open to all - from beginners to professionals.
SAJE was nominated for a BASA Award in the Long Term Partnership category along with SAMRO for the 21st BASA awards. The awards function was held at the iconic #VictoriaYards in Johannesburg on Sunday <|fim_middle|> Rossi and SAJE President Mageshen Naidoo attended the function.
The SAJE Jazz Conference is a biennial event focusing on jazz research, education, performance, improvisation, composition, discussion, skills and audience development. It is the only conference of its kind in Africa and offers a unique forum for musicians, academics, educators, students, journalists and those in the arts, to engage with the latest sounds and ideas in jazz. Along with paper presentations, workshops, performances and jam sessions, there are opportunities for discussion, networking, information exchange, and professional development.
2018 marks the 7th year of a music collaboration and cultural exchange project between the SA College of Music at the University of Cape Town and the Arcevia Jazz Feast, Comune di Arcevia, Italy. The project is administered by SAJE. The Arcevia Jazz Feast celebrates its 20th anniversary this year!
15 April to 1 May 2018: Two Italian jazz students spent just over two weeks studying and performing in Cape Town: Enrica la Penna (vocals) & Luca Chiari (guitar).
27 July to 8 August 2018: Two jazz students from the South African College of Music, University of Cape Town have won SAJE/AJF bursaries to study in Italy for 2 weeks at the Arcevia Jazz Feast - congratulations to saxophonist Ofentse Moshwetsi and pianist Brathew van Schalkwyk. They will be accompanied by Professor Mike Rossi (woodwinds) and Amanda Tiffin (vocals) from UCT.
SAJE presented 3 jazz workshops on Saturday 14 October at the Masque Theatre as part of the Muizenberg Jazz Festival.
Workshops were free and open to all - from beginners to professionals.
2017 marks the 6th year of a music collaboration and cultural exchange project between the SA College of Music at the University of Cape Town and the Arcevia Jazz Feast, Comune di Arcevia, Italy. The project is administered by SAJE.
29 July to 9 August 2017: Two jazz students from the South African College of Music, University of Cape Town have won SAJE/AJF bursaries to study in Italy for 2 weeks at the Arcevia Jazz Feast - congratulations to trumpeter Marco Maritz and bassist Sean Sanby. They will be accompanied by Professor Mike Rossi from UCT.
The 5th SAJE Jazz Festival took place from 28 to 30 April 2017 in Cape Town. (Visit the Festival website for more info).
April is Jazz Appreciation Month (fondly known as JAM) so it only seemed fitting that we should celebrate South African jazz and jazz education during April. Sunday 30 April is International Jazz Day.
The Festival is a biennial event focusing on jazz education, workshops, performance, discussion, skills development and audience development. It offers a unique forum for musicians, academics, educators, jazz fans, students and learners, to engage with the latest sounds and ideas in jazz. Along with workshops and performances there are opportunities for discussion, information exchange, and networking. | 16 September. SAJE Treasurer Diane | 8 |
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Ben Affleck Opened Up About the Surprising Way Jennifer Lopez Impressed Him
The two friends dated in 2002.
By Christopher Luu Apr 05, 2021 @ 7:56 am
Bennifer only lasted about two years, but for both Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez, being one of the first mashup celebrity relationship names will always be part of their Hollywood history. Reflecting on his time with Lopez for InStyle's May cover story, Affleck said that he got a peek at something few people get to experience: her work ethic. Now, Lopez is known<|fim_middle|>." | for her hustle just as much as her body of work, but back in the '00s, nobody expected her to become the powerhouse — except Affleck.
He opened up about being impressed by Lopez's "extraordinary work ethic." Coupled with her "humility," it seemed to create a perfect storm for success. He went on to say that she knew that she had to work hard to succeed, but also knew that she'd have to push herself further to get what she wanted.
"I don't know whether people know it or not, but the most impressive thing about her (and that is a long list) was her extraordinary work ethic," he said. "She had this humility coupled with the basic assumption that not only did you have to work incredibly hard to succeed, you had to then push yourself even further."
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In a past interview, Affleck also opened up about how cruel the media coverage of their relationship became. During an appearance on The Hollywood Reporter's Awards Chatter podcast, he said that things got "sexist" and "racist."
"People were so fucking mean about her — sexist, racist. Ugly, vicious shit was written about her in ways that if you wrote it now you would literally be fired for saying those things you said," he said. "Now it's like, she's lionized and respected for the work she did, where she came from, what she accomplished — as well she fucking should be!"
And Lopez reflected on her time as half of Bennifer, as well, saying that tabloids and news coverage weren't even true most of the time.
"It was actually worse then. It was just crazy," Lopez told InStyle back in December 2019. "Now at least I can show you who I am a little bit. Back then you just believed anything you read on the cover of a tabloid. Many times it wasn't true, or it was like a third of the truth | 488 |
Welcome! This page will provide you with the fundamental knowledge of what Data Science is<|fim_middle|> than the guideline 24 months, incorporating both the key fundamentals of the apprenticeship standard as well as optional advanced topics in machine learning, natural language processing, neural networks and deep learning.
The taught curriculum is supplemented by employer-relevant projects to embed the learning and create a tailored educational experience. Students are supported through online communication channels and personalised, immediate feedback on assignments via K.A.T.E. — Cambridge Spark's proprietary Knowledge Assessment Teaching Engine.
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The Bradfield Centre, 184 Cambridge Science Park, Cambridgeshire, CB4 0GF. | , what Data Scientists are, as well as how to become a Data Scientist.
Becoming a Data Scientist is usually a personal responsibility. You invest time and money in a bootcamp, online course or masters and do the hard work of learning new skills on the side without compromising the day job.
Now there's another route to becoming a Data Scientist — via a funded apprenticeship. Best of all, it's the employers who organise the training with funding from their own apprenticeship levy funds, and give you some time off to train.
Don't be misled by the word 'apprentice': the programme is open to current as well as new employees, people of any age, and even those with previous qualifications. The main criterion is that you're learning a new skill.
This UK government scheme comes at a time when employers from all sectors are waking up to the need for more data analytics talent, and they can't hire fast enough. The only solution is grow your own.
Currently there's just one data apprenticeship standard available — the Data Analyst Apprenticeship (Level 4) (https://www.instituteforapprenticeships.org/apprenticeship-standards/data-analyst/) — which covers the collecting, managing and analysing data for business insight. It encompasses analytical techniques such as data mining, time series forecasting and modelling; understanding data structures and system design; and communicating data analysis via dashboards, visualisations and reports. It's also a good base for more advanced data science topics.
Get in touch with us via the form at the bottom of this article if you'd like to set-up an internal Data Academy using apprenticeship levy funding.
If you're an organisation paying the apprenticeship levy, and you need to bring new data skills into the organisation — particularly machine learning and AI techniques — then the levy funding represents an opportunity to create an internal data training academy to upskill cohorts of relevant staff.
Data Science training experts Cambridge Spark — now also registered apprenticeship training providers — can develop a tailored curriculum that delivers the core curriculum of the apprenticeship standard, while building in additional training in Python and advanced Data Science topics such as machine learning, natural language processing, neural networks and deep learning.
The shape of the programme is tailored to the organisation so that topics and assignments are relevant to the employer. The timing is also flexible — the standard indicates a 24-month apprenticeship, although Cambridge Spark offers an accelerated course, from 13 to 18 months long, depending on needs and skills.
With organisations aiming to become more data-driven, the hiring gap is getting bigger. The problem isn't just a supply and demand issue, but also an assessment challenge: do candidates have the data skills that their CVs indicate, and how relevant are these skills to the business? The apprenticeship levy gives control back to the employer — to upskill new or current staff through a training programme that teaches the data skills but within the context of the employer's business.
This approach ensures the most relevant training outcomes. Whether your business wants to use data analytics for better understanding of customers, for process improvement and automation, for market insights or product development, bringing the training in-house makes sense. It enables your Data Science staff learn their craft within your work environment so the new tools of machine learning and AI can work for your business.
What do Employers Have to Do to Create an Internal Data Academy Apprenticeship Levy Framework?
The UK government's Apprenticeship Levy scheme came into effect in April 2017 as a way to drive investment in strengthening the country's skills base. All organisations with staff costs of over £3m have to pay 0.5% of their salary bill into a ring-fenced apprenticeship levy pot. The money is collected monthly via PAYE, but can be clawed back within 24 months and used for training on approved apprenticeship schemes.
Companies are in a scramble to use this money — their own — before it expires and flows into the government's coffers. The process has been off to a slow start, as organisations plan their apprenticeship strategy, understand how the process works, and find apprenticeship providers. The good news is that there are now a large number of apprenticeships standards on offer — over 300 to date — and the definition of an apprentice has broadened to include more experienced staff learning new skills.
What job roles are appropriate for the Data Analyst apprenticeship?
Data Analysts, Data Scientists and Data Engineers.
Who can be a Data Analyst apprentice?
Any new or current employees who meets the criteria of apprenticeship standard. They can be of any age or background, and can already have other qualifications, including undergraduate or postgraduate degrees. They must not already have had training in Data Science and analytics.
Apprentices must be employed by their sponsoring organisation.
Cambridge Spark's Data Analyst apprenticeship is best suited to people with strong quantitative backgrounds and some coding experience or aptitude.
Yes, geography is one constraint. Although the apprenticeship levy is a UK government initiative, the levy funding is managed by each of the devolved nations. If your organisation is based in England, then only employees based in England will quality for levy funding; any employees based in Scotland would not be eligible, for example.
Does this lead to a qualification?
Apprentices gain the EMC Data Science Associate qualification.
Candidates are assessed at the end of the programme by an external end-point-assessment (EPA) organisation to validate their learning. They are assessed through an exam, a summative project, an ongoing project portfolio, and an interview.
Are there any costs to the organisation?
The training is all funded through the apprenticeship levy, which includes the training, access to materials and end-point assessment.
How can I find and compare Data Analyst Apprenticeship training providers?
Registered apprenticeship training providers appear on the Register of Approved Training Providers (RoATP). Check the scope of their offering, and the background of the trainers to assess quality.
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The annual Walk for<|fim_middle|> story, Schettler hopes to inspire Manitobans with similar experiences to come together as a community. But the walk is also a fundraiser — the goal this year is to raise $360,000 to support awareness and programs such as Minds in Motion, a support group for those with early-stage dementia.
"We are primarily funded by the community, and this is our biggest fundraiser of the year," Schettler said.
The walk will start at the Festival Stage at The Forks at 6 p.m., with on-site registration starting at 5 p.m. Schettler recommends pre-registration, which can be found here. | Alzheimer's aims to raise awareness and $360,000 to fund programs for people living with the illness.
An annual fundraising walk for the Alzheimer Society of Manitoba is taking a personal tone for one of the organizers this year.
Society CEO Wendy Schettler said it's a bittersweet occasion, as this time around she's walking in honour of her father, who lives with a form of the disease. The walk falls on his birthday this year.
Her father, now 74, has what's known as Lewy Body dementia. It's a combination of the physical deterioration associated with Parkinson's and the cognitive symptoms of Alzheimer's. Hallucinations are a common symptom that Schettler's father experiences.
The symptoms started after her father retired, and he now lives in an assisted care home, she said.
"He's at the end of his life and in palliative care, so the goal really is comfort; it's really about keeping him comfortable," she said.
Schettler is also reflecting on the ups and downs experienced by many people who have loved ones with Alzheimer's.
"You can't always choose how you're going to experience things and how you're going to feel one day from the next," she said.
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Murray throws for 2 TDs, runs for 2 as Cardinals beat Bears
CHICAGO -- — Kyler Murray was in prime position following an interception on the game's opening possession. He fumbled his first snap.
Good thing for him, he made the recovery. Three plays later, he celebrated a touchdown pass to DeAndre Hopkins. And just like that, the Arizona Cardinals were on the way to another easy road win.
Murray threw for two touchdowns and ran for two more in his return from an ankle injury, and the Cardinals beat the struggling Chicago Bears 33-22 on Sunday.
The Cardinals (10-2) got back Murray and three-time All-Pro receiver Hopkins after both players missed three games because of injuries, then rolled to an easy victory over Chicago (4-8). The NFC West leaders, who have the NFL's best record, intercepted Andy Dalton four times.
"A couple of months before the season, if you'd say 'if you had this opportunity' yeah, we'd definitely take it," Murray said. "This is all the hard work we've put in. We understand what kind of guys we have in the locker room. We understood what we had before the season started. It was just about going and doing it and executing."
The Cardinals, who were coming off a bye, improved to 7-0 on the road, with each win by 10 points or more.
Jalen Thompson and Budda Baker picked off passes that deflected off the intended target on Chicago's first two possessions. The Cardinals took advantage, with Murray connecting with Hopkins for a 20-yarder and scrambling 9 yards to the end zone. He also threw a 21-yard TD to James Conner in the second quarter to make it 21-7, sending Chicago to its sixth loss in seven games.
"They understand that it's OK to be upset, it's OK to be frustrated after a game, there's a lot of emotions," Bears coach Matt Nagy said. "We all want to play better and coach better, they know that. But it is, in these times, you wanna make sure that these guys are understanding that it's our job, our obligation, to make sure we give it everything we got."
Murray completed 11 of 15 passes for 123 yards, giving him 10,092 in three seasons, on a cool and soggy afternoon. At 24 years, 120 days, he became the fourth-youngest player with 10,000 career yards passing, according to NFL research. Drew Bledsoe (23 years, 299 days), Jameis Winston (23 years, 303 days) and Dan Marino (24 years, 63 days) are the only younger players to reach it.
Murray also joined Cam Newton as the only players in NFL history with at least 10,000 yards passing and 1,500 rushing in his first three seasons.
Hopkins, back from a hamstring injury, caught two passes for 32 yards. Conner added 75 yards rushing and 36 receiving. Byron Murphy Jr. and Zach Allen had interceptions.
"We knew it'd be grindy, wet, windy, cold," coach Kliff Kingsbury said. "But I thought our defense played tremendous, creating those takeaways, giving us short fields on offense. We were able to capitalize a few times. Disjointed offensively, we didn't play as well we probably could have. Couldn't throw it as well as we would have liked. But I'm proud of the effort, proud that we got the win."
The Bears were hoping to build on a last-second Thanksgiving win at Detroit. Instead, it was an all-too-familiar result for them.
Dalton, making his second straight start with Justin Fields sidelined because of broken ribs, matched a career high for interceptions. He injured his left hand trying to make a tackle after getting picked off a second time.
Dalton said he didn't think it affected his throwing, though he will have it checked out this week. He was 26 of 41 for 229 yards and two touchdowns.
"You can't do that," Dalton said. "You can't turn the ball over four times and expect to win the game. That hurt us. There's a lot of factors that go into it, but you can't do that and expect to win, especially against a really good team."
The early interceptions by Thompson and Baker helped put Arizona in control.
Murray and Hopkins connected for a 20-yard touchdown on fourth down after Thompson picked off a short pass in Chicago territory that deflected off receiver Jakeem Grant's hands.
The Bears were threatening on their next possession, only to have Baker intercept a pass that hit off Cole Kmet's chest and return it 77 yards to the 15. That led to the 9-yard touchdown scramble by Murray to make it 14-0.
Chicago orchestrated a 77-yard drive that lasted nearly eight minutes, with David Montgomery scoring from the 1. But the Cardinals answered. Conner, aided by Xavier Crawford's missed tackle, turned a short pass by Murray into a 23-yard touchdown to make it 21-7.
The teams did not report any injuries.
Cardinals: host the Los Angeles Rams on Dec. 13.
Bears: visit Green Bay next Sunday.
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5 Must Read Horror Articles 26 September 2016
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Look Out For …<|fim_middle|>. Yet it is not devoid of hints of the odd and the supernatural. It's an English comedy of manners, set in a haunted house. Unusually for Aickman, it touches upon issues such as prejudice, class and same sex relationships. What's not unusual for this singular author is how gorgeously the story is told.
As well as The Late Breakfasters itself, the volume also features six of Aickman's celebrated short stories, including the classic ghostly tales 'Larger Than Oneself', 'A Roman Question' and 'The Visiting Star'.
Aickman was one of the greatest British writers of horror fiction, but be warned: once you're drawn into his unsettling world it's impossible to leave.
The Late Breakfasters is out on 4 October 2016 from Valancourt Books.
Permanent link to this article: https://www.thisishorror.co.uk/look-out-for-the-parts-we-play-by-stephen-volk-and-the-late-breakfasters-by-robert-aickman/ | The Parts We Play by Stephen Volk and The Late Breakfasters by Robert Aickman
Look Out For … The Parts We Play by Stephen Volk
"The Parts We Play showcases stories written in different styles, settings and voices."
An illusionist preparing his latest, most audacious trick … A movie fan hiding from a totalitarian regime … A pop singer created with the perfect ingredients for stardom … A folklorist determined to catch a supernatural entity on tape … A dead child appearing to her mother in the middle of a supermarket aisle … A man who breaks the ultimate taboo–but does that make him a monster?
In this rich and varied collection of Stephen Volk's best fiction to date, characters seek to be the people they need to be, jostled by hope, fears, responsibility, fate, and their own inner demons–and desires. These tales of the lies and lives we live and the pasts we can't forget include the British Fantasy Award-winning novella, 'Newspaper Heart'.
Why We're Excited About This Book:
Stephen Volk's award-winning short stories have shown him to be one of the best authors currently working in the genre. So The Parts We Play is a real treat, a collection of some of Volk's previously published work.
The author has stated that, rather than being a themed collection, he wanted The Parts We Play to showcase stories written in different styles, settings and voices. A White Album of horror fiction. And he's certainly succeeded: within these pages sits the classic horror of 'Newspaper Heart', a Professor Challenger homage ('The Shrug Monkey') and a stinging satire of modern celebrity with the superb 'Celebrity Frankenstein'.
And then there's 'The Arse-licker', which is one of the most, uh, 'memorable' stories we at This Is Horror have ever read.
Quite simply, The Parts We Play is one of the must-have collections of the year.
The Parts We Play is out now from PS Publishing.
Look Out For … The Late Breakfasters by Robert Aickman
"The Late Breakfasters is an English comedy of manners, set in a haunted house."
An omnibus collection featuring some of the finest works of a master of weird fiction
One of the preeminent writers of weird fiction, Robert Aickman is celebrated for his unsettling and often ambiguous "strange stories," but he once wrote that "those, if any, who wish to know more about me, should plunge beneath the frivolous surface of The Late Breakfasters", his only novel, originally published in 1964.
In The Late Breakfasters, young Griselda de Reptonville is invited by Mrs. Hatch to a house party at her country estate, Beams (which, incidentally, is haunted). There, amidst an array of eccentric characters and bizarre happenings, she will meet the love of her life, Louise. But when their short-lived relationship is cruelly cut short, Griselda must embark on a quest to recapture the happiness she has lost.
Robert Aickman's work has been becoming slowly more visible in the last few years, with praise for his short stories from Neil Gaiman, Peter Straub and most of The League of Gentlemen. But his only novel, The Late Breakfasters, has remained comparatively hard to come by. This handsome release from Valancourt Books, with an introduction by Phillip Challinor, aims to put that right.
The Late Breakfasters is an odd novel, striking a more whimsical tone than the concentrated strangeness of Aickman's short stories | 728 |
GA4<|fim_middle|>." | GH, formed in 2013, is an international, nonprofit alliance of more than 500 organizations representing patient advocacy, life sciences, IT and others. With the goal of boosting the potential of precision medicine, members of the alliance work together to build frameworks and develop standards to enable the "responsible, voluntary, and secure sharing of genomic and health-related data."
"Together, the new projects significantly expand GA4GH's global representation, strengthening our collaborations across Africa and Europe, as well as in Japan, and adding connections in 31 countries for a total global reach across more than 100 countries worldwide," said GA4GH CEO Peter Goodhand in a statement.
"Several of the new projects are diverse international collaborations to share data and knowledge across national borders," added GA4GH Vice Chair Heidi Rehm, of Harvard and MIT's Broad Institute. "Collectively, these global Driver Projects bring together resources from 94 countries around the world."
"Initially a community of like-minded individuals and organizations committed to federated genomic data sharing, GA4GH is now an indispensable, globally representative standards organization," explained David Altshuler, chief scientific officer at Vertex Pharmaceuticals and founding chair of GA4GH, in a statement. "The new Driver Projects join a community that is building the standards and frameworks that will guide the field for years to come | 277 |
A few guys worth keeping an eye on at Iowa's open practice at Valley Stadium on Saturday, April 11.
With Iowa's 2015 football team days away from its first public unveiling, it's time to make sure the binoculars are handy and your printed-out Hawkeye<|fim_middle|>) before. He burst onto the scene with Iowa's first 100-yard rushing game of 2014 — all coming in relief action during a 48-7 win over Northwestern. But he lost playing time after ball-security issues.
He surprisingly got Iowa's first carry of the TaxSlayer Bowl, but the sophomore-to-be from Newark, N.J., isn't on the spring depth chart.
"He's got some real assets, some things that he does well," Ferentz said. "But there's also a growth process he's got to go through, both physically and then just in terms of responsibility, taking better care of the football."
IOWA FOOTBALL OPEN PRACTICE IN W.D.M.
When, where: Saturday (April 11), 12:30 p.m., at Valley Stadium, 4440 Mills Civic Parkway, West Des Moines.
Parking: Valley Church, adjacent to Valley Stadium, will have limited public parking until 4:30 p.m. Additional parking is available at Valley Southwoods Freshman High School, Jordan Creek Elementary, the West Des Moines city hall and library. Fans are encouraged to car pool. Access to most parking is available off of Fuller Drive and/or 39th street. There are paved walking paths on the surrounding campus that fans can take to Valley Stadium. | roster is in hand.
And while the obvious players to catch at Saturday's open practice at Valley Stadium in West Des Moines include quarterback C.J. Beathard, wide receiver Tevaun Smith and defensive end Drew Ott, this is an opportunity to zero in on some under-the-radar guys.
These are some non-starters-for-now that you might be able to brag to your Kinnick Stadium neighbors this fall and say, "When I saw him in April, I knew he was going to be good."
New tight ends coach LeVar Woods discovered that beneath Kittle's unpolished blocking and last year's unceremonious stat line — one catch for 25 yards — was the potential to be a key weapon in Iowa's passing game.
The 6-foot-4, 235-pound son of former Hawkeye captain Bruce Kittle is a converted wide receiver who is getting extended spring reps, with Henry Krieger-Coble (shoulder) being kept from contact. Jake Duzey is the starter.
"George has tremendous athletic ability," Woods said, "and it's just a matter of him focusing, harnessing that in and becoming the player that he wants to be."
Mends (6-0, 212) sneaked into the late-March depth chart, a notable addition to a group of linebackers that experienced mixed results a season ago. Mends, who will be a redshirt freshman, is the co-backup (alongside senior Cole Fisher) to Bo Bower at weakside linebacker.
The Kansas City, Mo., native's impact was apparent with one hit during a recent Saturday practice.
"It was like, 'Oh God, is everybody going to be all right here?' " linebackers coach Jim Reid said. "I mean, he really can hit with really good leverage, fast. This guy is very, very, very quick. He's playing linebacker for us, and he could be a defensive back."
Iowa practices are generally closed to the public, but journalists were given a 30-minute peek last week. One of the 100 or so guys in pads that stood out was No. 96 – worn by Nelson, whose 6-8 frame packs in 270 muscular pounds.
Nelson, who starred at Cedar Rapids Xavier, is listed behind senior Nate Meier at left end. Although he's an untested freshman, he plays a position of great need. Iowa's edge-containment last year was a problem.
Snyder (6-1, 210) is listed as the backup to strong safety starter Miles Taylor, but that's one of the position battles worth watching this week. Head coach Kirk Ferentz made a point to identify Snyder, a freshman, as being in the mix in Iowa's defensive backfield.
The Larchwood native brings athleticism and is a proven winner. As a senior, he was a quarterback and defensive back on West Lyon's state championship football team, then won a state basketball title as a point guard.
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BROWN hair and blue eyes are the sort of things you might expect to run in a family...but, for the Lee clan, it's a passion for bright smiles that has been passed down the generations.
East Renfrewshire woman Fiona Lee has become the third generation of her family to run a dental surgery.
Their link with dentistry dates back to the 1940s, when Stuart Lee opened his first practice in Church Street, Johnstone.
Little did he know then that his interest in all things pearly white would later be embraced by his son James, who kept up the family tradition by opening the Bridge Street Dental Surgery, in Linwood, 40 years later.
Now it is James' daughter Fiona who has taken over the surgery, which she has rebranded as Smile Dental Care Linwood.
"I was always really close to my dad and I remember wanting to be like him," she told the Barrhead News. "We ended up working together in the Bridge Street practice, which was great.
"I've met siblings who have both gone into dentistry but never three generations of the same family."
Fiona, who started working with her dad in 2006, has now been handed the keys to the Linwood surgery a decade after he died.
The 37-year-old Newton Mearns woman has wasted little time in leaving her own mark by giving the business a new name but she insists patients can expect to get the same high level of care they have become accustomed to.
Some patients at the surgery have been treated there for nearly four decades.
Fiona said: "There is so much work to do at a busy surgery and, at one point, we did consider giving up but there's too much family history there for us to abandon it.
"There are people who have been going to the practice for years. Just the other week I was with a patient who first started coming here in the 1980s.
"There was too much to walk away from."
Despite the love of dentistry that adorns so many branches of her family tree, mum-of-two Fiona isn't convinced it will be the career of choice for the clan's next generation.
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Palermo is a vibrant city in the heart of Sicily which retains much of its traditional, historic charm, whilst also being a hive of stylish shopping and outstanding culture. This guide rounds up some of the best ways to enjoy this exciting city, including where to stop for a life-changing lunch between shopping and sightseeing.
You might recognise the third largest opera house in Europe from its cameo in the final scenes of The Godfather, but it looks much better in person than it did on the silver screen. Tours run every day between 9.30am and 6pm, but if you want to see the opera house in its true glory, then be sure to get tickets for one of its outstanding shows. Both operas and ballets run regularly, and some can also be combined with a tour for a full experience of this beautiful landmark.
The Norman Palace is a UNESCO World Heritage Site, dating back to the Norman Kingdom of Sicily in the 12th Century. It is a stunning example of how the combined influence of Western, Islamic and Byzantine cultures came together to change concepts of structure and decoration. It is now home to the regional parliament of Sicily, and is spectacularly beautiful, both inside and out. Be sure to visit the Palatine Chapel on the ground floor, the artwork adorning the walls is spectacular.
Escape the hustle and bustle of the city for an hour or two and head over to Foro Italico, the grassy garden that stretches along the Palermo Seafront. It was created in 1582, by the Vice-King Marco Antonio Colonna, and has remained a favourite destination for exercising, socialising and relaxing ever since. Make like the locals and pack yourself a picnic to eat as you enjoy the cool breeze blowing off the sea. Get there early enough and you might even be able to snag yourself a palm tree to keep you shaded from the hot sun.
Al Fondaco del Conte aims to showcase traditional Palermo cuisine, whilst maintaining the creativity and innovation of modern cookery. The menu changes daily according to what produce is available at the local Ballarò street market, giving you an authentic taste of the region, no matter which season you visit. Due to Palermo's proximity to the sea, the fish dishes change each day depending on what has been caught, and the resulting cuisine showcases the region's stunning produce wonderfully. The restaurant has the additional advantage of a children's menu, so if you've got little ones with you it is well worth a visit.
Located in the historic city centre, this family-run business is famous across Palermo and beyond. Master pastry chef Salvatore and his son Giovanni create chocolate and pastry that is nothing short of artistry.<|fim_middle|> speak the language, all of the town's hottest gossip. Get there early if you want to beat the tourist crowds and see the stalls while they're still laden with vibrant heaps of fresh produce. Many of the city's markets, including this one, are over by 2pm, so it is best to start your day here, preferably with a handful of fresh fruit from the stalls.
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Sicily is dotted throughout with friggitorie shops, selling some of the most famous food in the region. Palermo is home to one of the best, Cuochini, which is located in the old kitchen of Baron De Stefano Palace hotel and produces local specialities. These include turnovers, doughnuts, pastries filled with meat from the friggitorie's specialist rotisserie, and some of the best arancini you are likely to eat. There is no point recommending anything, everything is delicious and when you see what is on offer, nothing will sway you from choosing what you think looks best.
Palermo is a paradise for shoppers, with everything from colourful markets selling the fresh bounty of the season, to boutique retailers selling the fashion of seasons yet to come. North of the city's medieval centre you will find 19th-century town houses, and among them some of the best shopping opportunities in the city. Via Ruggero Settimo and Via della Libertà are the most famous shopping streets, and offer a wonderful mix of chic boutiques, fine jewellery, high fashion, department stores and homeware. Be sure to venture into the network of alleys and cross streets, because this is where you'll find craft shops offering one-off pieces that can't be found anywhere else.
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Pelvic inflammatory disease; Polycystic ovary syndrome
Risk factors for female infertility include:
Age. Fertility begins to decline when a woman reaches her mid-30s, and rapidly declines after her late 30s.
Weight. Extreme weight levels, either high or low, can contribute to infertility.
Smoking. Cigarette smoking can impair a woman's fertility.
Alcohol. More than 2 drinks a day may impair a woman's fertility.
Female infertility may be caused by an underlying medical condition that damages the fallopian tubes, interferes with ovulation, or causes hormonal complications. These medical conditions include:
Premature ovarian failure
Thyroid or other hormonal problems
Infertility may also be due to an infertile male partner.
For women under the age of 35, if you have been unable to conceive after 1 year of unprotected sex, talk with your health care provider about having your fertility evaluated. If you are age 35 or older, you should talk to a fertility specialist if you do not conceive within six months of unprotected sex. Fertility testing should especially be performed if a woman is over 35 years old or if either partner has known risk factors for infertility. An analysis of the man's semen should be performed before the female partner undergoes any invasive testing.
Treatment for infertility should first address any underlying medical condition that may be contributing to fertility problems. If this step does not restore fertility, there are several treatment approaches:
Lifestyle measures (such as maintaining a healthy weight, quitting smoking, limiting alcohol consumption, timing sexual activity with regard to the ovulation cycle)
Drugs to induce ovulation, such as clomiphene or gonadotrophins
Surgery to correct blocked fallopian tubes or other structural problems
Assisted reproductive technologies (ART), such as in vitro fertilization (IVF)
Lifestyle Tips for Optimizing Natural Fertility
The American Society for Reproductive Medicine (ASRM) has guidelines for how couples can increase the likelihood of achieving pregnancy (these recommendations apply to couples who have no evidence of infertility):
For women who have regular menstrual cycles, having sexual intercourse every other day during the "fertile window" can increase the chances for conception. The fertile window is the 6 days leading up to and including ovulation.
Couples should avoid using water-based sexual lubricants because they can damage the sperm's ability to swim. Instead, try mineral oil, canola oil, or commercial "fertility friendly" labeled products.
There is no evidence that certain sexual positions, or resting after sex, boost fertility or increase the odds for getting pregnant.
Infertility is the failure of a couple to become pregnant after 1 year of regular, unprotected sexual intercourse. In most cases, infertility is actually decreased fertility due to a number of treatable conditions and not genuine sterility, which is a rare.
About a third of infertility problems are due to female infertility, and another third are due to male infertility. In the remaining cases, infertility affects both partners or the cause is unclear.
Female infertility may occur when:
The ovaries have problems producing eggs
An egg cannot move from the ovary to the womb through the fallopian tube
The fertilized egg does not attach to the lining of the uterus
A fertilized egg or embryo does not survive once it attaches to the lining of the uterus
The Female Reproductive System
In order to understand infertility, it is important to know the organs and structures of the female reproductive system:
The uterus (womb) is a pear-shaped organ located between the bladder and rectum. It consists of two parts, the body and the cervix. The main function of the uterus is to support the developing fetus.
The cervix is the lower part of the uterus. The cervix contains the cervical canal, which connects the uterus to the vagina. The opening of the cervix, called the os, is at the top of the vagina.
The ovaries are two almond-shaped organs located on either side of the uterus. Ovaries produce hormones and eggs (ova). Ovaries contain thousands of fluid-filled sacs called follicles. Each ovarian follicle houses an immature egg. A dominant follicle produces a mature egg, which is released at the time of ovulation.
Each ovary is attached to a fallopian tube, which connects to the upper part of the uterus. When an egg is released by an ovary, it travels to the fallopian tube to await fertilization.
If fertilization occurs, the egg moves to the uterus and implants in the lining. If no fertilization occurs, the egg moves to the uterus and disintegrates.
The uterus is a hollow muscular organ located in the female pelvis between the bladder and rectum. The ovaries produce the eggs that travel through the fallopian tubes. Once the egg has left the ovary it can be fertilized and implant itself in the lining of the uterus.
The Reproductive Cycle
During a woman's monthly menstrual cycle, her body prepares for conception and pregnancy. The average menstrual cycle is about 28 days but a normal cycle can range from 21 to 35 days. The menstrual cycle is divided into three phases: follicular, ovulatory, and luteal.
Follicular Phase (Days 1 to 13)
The follicular phase begins with the first day of menstrual bleeding:
Estrogen and progesterone hormones are at their lowest levels. This causes the uterine lining (endometrium) to break down and shed.
The hypothalamus in the brain produces gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH), which stimulates the production of follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH) and luteinizing hormone (LH). FSH and LH trigger the production of estrogen.
As FSH levels increase, they stimulate the growth and maturation of eggs in the ovarian follicles. About 15 to 20 follicles are stimulated, but only 1 follicle continues to mature.
The dominant follicle produces estrogen. The other follicles stop growing and disintegrate.
Ovulatory Phase (Day 14)
The ovulatory phase occurs halfway through the menstrual cycle. During the ovulatory phase:
The increase in estrogen from the dominant follicle triggers a surge in LH. As estrogen levels rise, they prompt the cervix to secrete more mucus to help nourish and propel sperm to the egg.
The LH surge signals the dominant follicle to burst and release the developed egg into the fallopian tube. The release of the egg is called ovulation. Once in the fallopian tube, the egg is in place for fertilization.
The egg can live for 12 to 24 hours after being released. Sperm can live for up to 7 days in a women's body.
A woman's fertile window, when she is most likely to get pregnant, is about 6 days long. It starts 5 days before ovulation and ends the day of ovulation.
Luteal Phase (Days 15 to 28)
The luteal phase begins immediately after ovulation and ends when the next menstrual period starts. The luteal phase lasts about 12 to 16 days. During the luteal phase:
After releasing the egg, the ruptured follicle closes and forms corpus luteum, a yellow mass of cells that provide a source of estrogen and progesterone during pregnancy. These hormones help the uterine lining to thicken and prepare for the egg's implantation.
If the egg is fertilized by a sperm cell, it implants in the lining of the uterus and pregnancy begins.
If fertilization does not occur, the egg breaks apart. The corpus luteum degenerates, and estrogen and progesterone levels drop. The thickened uterine lining sloughs off and is shed along with the unfertilized egg during menstruation. The menstrual cycle begins again.
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Fertilization and Pregnancy
Conception occurs when an egg is fertilized by a sperm. When fertilization occurs:
The fertilized egg (zygote) immediately begins to divide until it becomes a ball of cells known as a blastocyst.
The blastocyst moves from the fallopian tube into the uterus where it is implanted in the uterine lining. Implantation takes place about 6 to 10 days after fertilization. Implantation is when pregnancy begins.
The inner cells of the blastocyst become the embryo, which develops into the fetus. The outer cells of the blastocyst become the placenta. The placenta is a thick blanket of blood vessels that nourishes the fetus as it develops.
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The placenta produces and secretes the hormone human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG), which helps signal the corpus luteum (the yellow tissue formed from the ruptured follicle) to continue to produce estrogen and progesterone. After about 10 weeks, the placenta takes over production of progesterone and estrogen, and the corpus luteum degenerates.
Most cases of female infertility are due to medical conditions that cause:
Ovulation problems
Structural problems in the reproductive system
Problems with quality of cervical mucus or eggs
Ovulation is the release of the egg that occurs during the monthly menstrual cycle. Problems that affect ovulation, and the hormones involved with ovulation, are the most common cause of female infertility. These conditions include:
Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome (PCOS). In PCOS, the ovaries produce excessive amounts of androgens (male hormones), particularly testosterone. Increased androgen production results in high levels of LH and low levels of FSH, so that follicles are prevented from producing a mature egg. The development of follicles is stopped short of releasing of the egg. This arrested development of the follicles leads to ovaries that have many small, immature follicles that have never released an egg. On ultrasound exam, these multiple follicles are easily seen as small cysts or fluid collections. Women with PCOS do not ovulate regularly and they experience infrequent or absent menstrual cycles.
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Premature Ovarian Failure. Premature ovarian failure, also called primary ovarian insufficiency, is when ovaries stop functioning normally before age 40. It is often caused by hormonal or genetic issues, which deplete the follicles. This condition is not the same as premature menopause (cessation of menstrual periods). Women with primary ovarian failure may still have occasional periods.
Elevated Prolactin Levels. Prolactin is a hormone produced in the pituitary gland that stimulates breast development and milk production in association with pregnancy. High levels of prolactin (hyperprolactinemia) reduce gonadotropin hormones and inhibit ovulation. Hyperprolactinemia in women who are not pregnant or nursing can be caused by an underactive thyroid gland, pituitary gland problems, or certain types of medications.
A blocked fallopian tube can prevent sperm from reaching and fertilizing the egg. Blockage in the fallopian tubes can also prevent a fertilized egg from traveling to the uterus for implantation. Conditions that can block or damage fallopian tubes include:
Pelvic Inflammatory Disease (PID). PID refers to infection in the pelvic area and reproductive tract, including the fallopian tubes. PID is a complication of bacterial infection. The most common causes are sexually transmitted infections, such as chlamydia and gonorrhea. In addition to infertility, history of PID can increase the risk for ectopic pregnancy, where the embryo implants in the fallopian tube or another location outside of the uterus.
Endometriosis. Endometriosis is a condition in which cells that line the uterus grow in areas outside of the uterus. Endometrial implants in the fallopian tubes may block the egg's passage, while implants that occur in the ovaries can prevent the release of the egg. Severe endometriosis can form bands of scar tissue (adhesions) between the uterus, ovaries, and fallopian tubes that prevent egg transfer. Endometriosis frequently causes chronic inflammation of the pelvic organs, this inflammation may reduce the chance of becoming pregnant.
Endometriosis is a noncancerous condition in which cells that normally line the uterus (endometrium) also grow on other areas of the body, causing pain and abnormal bleeding.
Scarring. Adhesions (scar tissue) can be caused by conditions besides endometriosis. Adhesions that form after abdominal or pelvic surgery or infection can block ovaries and fallopian tubes and cause infertility.
Structural Problems
Structural problems in a women's reproductive system may be caused by:
Congenital Conditions. Sometimes women are born with reproductive tract abnormalities that may cause infertility. These malformations typically affect the uterus or vagina. For example, daughters born to women who took the drug diethylstilbestrol (DES) during pregnancy are at increased risk of having uterine structural abnormalities associated with infertility.
Uterine Fibroids. Uterine fibroids are non-cancerous growths that originate in the walls of the uterus. They may contribute to infertility by distorting the shape of the uterine cavity. Fibroids may also impair blood flow to the uterine lining.
Adenomyosis. Adenomyosis is a thickening of the uterus. It occurs when endometrial tissue, which normally lines the uterus, moves into the outer walls of the uterus. During IVF, adenomyosis may reduce the chance of implantation or may lead to early pregnancy loss.
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Cervical Mucus and Egg Quality
Cervical Mucus
Low amounts of cervical mucus or poor quality cervical mucus can contribute to infertility by interfering with the sperm's ability to reach and fertilize the egg.
Ovarian Reserve
Ovarian reserve refers to the quality and quantity of a woman's eggs. As a woman ages, the number and quality of her eggs diminish. Younger women can also have problems with ovarian reserve, usually because of medical conditions or treatments that affect the ovaries.
Other Causes of Infertility
Hypothyroidism (underactive thyroid gland) and type 1 diabetes are some of the medical conditions that can contribute to infertility. Other autoimmune diseases such as multiple sclerosis and rheumatoid arthritis can affect fertility.
Fertility declines as a woman ages. Fertility begins to decrease when a woman reaches age 32, and rapidly declines after age 37. As a woman ages, her ovaries produce fewer eggs. In addition, the quality of the eggs is poorer than those of younger women. Older women also have a higher risk of miscarriage. Older women are also more likely to have health problems that may interfere with fertility.
Although most of a woman's estrogen is manufactured in her ovaries, smaller amounts are produced by fat cells, which transform male hormones produced by the adrenal glands into estrogen. Because a normal hormonal balance is essential for the process of conception, extreme weight levels (either high or low) can contribute to infertility.
Being overweight or obese can contribute to infertility in various ways. Obesity is also associated with PCOS, an endocrine disorder that can cause infertility.
Being Underweight
Being extremely underweight is a risk factor for infertility. Body fat levels that are significantly below normal can completely shut down the ovulation process.
Cigarette smoking can harm a woman's ovaries and contribute to a decrease in eggs. The cells that line the fallopian tubes may also slow down their ability to move the fertilized egg into the uterine cavity for implantation, resulting in abnormal pregnancies. Smoking may also interfere with the success of fertility treatments.
Alcohol and Caffeine Use
Alcohol and caffeine use may contribute to infertility. If you are trying to become pregnant, it is best to avoid alcohol. Alcohol use in early pregnancy can contribute to birth defects. Moderate coffee intake does not increase the risk for infertility and does not decrease the success rate of IVF. However, try to limit consumption to no more than 2 cups of coffee a day. Drinking more than 5 cups of coffee a day may reduce fertility.
Exposure to environmental hazards (such as herbicides, pesticides, and industrial solvents) may affect fertility. Estrogen-like chemicals that interfere with normal hormones are of particular concern for infertility in men and for effects on offspring of women. Phthalates, chemicals used to soften plastics, are under particular scrutiny because they may disrupt hormones.
Neurotransmitters (chemical messengers in the brain) act in the hypothalamus gland, which controls both reproductive and stress hormones. There is no conclusive evidence that stress has any significant effect on fertility or fertility treatments.
Both male and female partners should get tested for infertility if pregnancy fails to occur after 1 year of regular unprotected sexual intercourse. If a woman is over age 35, fertility testing is recommended if she fails to conceive after 6 months of unprotected sex
Most couples who do not have fertility problems conceive within the first 6 months of attempting pregnancy, and typically within the first 3 months.
An analysis of the man's semen should be performed before the female partner undergoes any invasive testing.
Ovulation Home Tests
Before beginning an expensive fertility work-up, you can try the following steps at home. They are free or low-cost and may be helpful:
Monitor basal body temperature. Basal body temperature (BBT) is the body's lowest natural temperature at rest. Because BBT increases slightly during ovulation, tracking and charting your BBT may help you determine when ovulation takes place. You can monitor your BBT by taking your temperature at the same time every morning using a regular thermometer or a special digital BBT thermometer that stores and displays the data.
Test the consistency of your cervical mucus. Collect some mucus between two fingers and stretch it apart. If you are near the time of ovulation, the mucus will stretch more than 1 inch before it breaks.
Use an over-the-counter urine test to detect luteinizing hormone (LH) surges. This helps determine the day of ovulation. Tests are also available to measure levels of FSH. However, these at-home tests may not be as accurate as those performed in a medical office.
Medical History and Physical Examination
The first step in any infertility work-up is a complete medical history and physical examination. Your provider will ask about:
Health conditions that may contribute to infertility (endometriosis, sexually transmitted infections, thyroid disorders, PCOS)
Menstrual history (when you first began menstruating, the frequency and regularity of your periods)
Reproductive history (prior pregnancies or miscarriages)
Sexual history (how often you have sex, how long you have been trying to get pregnant)
Lifestyle issues (smoking, drug and alcohol use)
The provider may feel your thyroid gland to check for signs of nodules or enlargement. A pelvic exam will evaluate any signs of masses or structural abnormalities.
Hormone Levels
Various tests are used to evaluate hormone function and ovarian reserve (the number of follicles and quality of the eggs). These include blood tests for FSH, antimullerian hormone (AMH), progesterone, and estradiol, and urine tests for LH. You may also receive tests to check your thyroid hormone and prolactin levels. Blood tests for previous infections with chlamydia may also be considered and can help women avoid more invasive procedures like laparoscopy.
Clomiphene Challenge Test
Clomiphene citrate (Clomid, Serophene, generic), a standard fertility drug, may be used to test for ovarian reserve. With this test, blood is drawn to measure FSH on day 3 of the menstrual cycle. The woman takes clomiphene on days 5 to 9 of the cycle. FSH is tested again on day 10. A normal response to clomiphene is a moderate increase in FSH levels followed by a return to baseline. High levels of FSH on day 3 or day 10 indicate problems with ovarian function. However, a normal result of the clomiphene test does not necessarily guarantee a good response to fertility treatments.
Imaging tests are used to examine the uterus and fallopian tubes.
Ultrasound and Sonohysterography
Ultrasound is the standard imaging technique for evaluating the uterus and ovaries. It uses a probe placed in the vagina to send out sound waves, which produce an image of the organs. Transvaginal sonohysterography uses ultrasound along with saline infused into the uterus. This helps enhance the image and improve the detection of potential problems.
Hysterosalpingography
Hysterosalpingography is an x-ray procedure performed to discover possible blockage in the fallopian tubes and abnormalities in the uterus:
The provider inserts a tube into the cervix through which a special dye is injected.
The dye passes into the uterus and up through the fallopian tubes.
An x-ray is taken of the dye-filled uterus and tubes.
If the dye is seen emerging from the end of the tube, no blockage is present. (In some cases, hysterosalpingography may even restore fertility by clearing away tiny tubal blockages.)
If results show blockage or abnormalities, the test may need to be repeated. In case of blockage, hysterosalpingography may reveal conditions, such as endometrial polyps, uterine fibroids, or structural abnormalities of the uterus and tubes.
Surgical Diagnostic Procedures
Hysteroscopy uses a long flexible or rigid tube called a hysteroscope, which is inserted into the vagina and advanced through the cervix to reach the uterus. A fiber-optic light source and a tiny camera in the tube allow the doctor to view the uterus, ovaries, and fallopian tubes.
Hysteroscopy may be done in a medical office or in a hospital operating room, depending on whether local or general anesthesia is used. The uterus is filled with saline or carbon dioxide to inflate the cavity and provide better viewing. This can cause cramping.
Laparoscopy is a minimally invasive surgical procedure. It requires general anesthesia and is performed in an operating room. The surgeon makes a very small incision below the belly button and inserts an instrument called a laparoscope, which is similar to a hysteroscope. (The difference is that a laparoscope is inserted through the abdomen, while a hysteroscope is inserted through the vagina and cervix.)
Through the laparoscope, the surgeon can view the uterus, fallopian tube, and ovaries. Laparoscopy is most helpful for identifying endometriosis or other adhesions that may affect fertility.
Fertility Treatment Approaches
Several approaches are used to treat infertility:
Drugs to induce ovulation, such as clomiphene and gonadotrophins
Surgery to correct blockage in the fallopian tubes or other structural problems, such as fibroids
Assisted reproductive technologies (ART) such as IVF
Lifestyle measures are also important. They include maintaining a healthy weight, quitting smoking, and timing sexual activity with ovulation cycle.
Choosing a Fertility Clinic
Advanced fertility procedures and medications are expensive and often not covered by insurance. Choosing a good fertility clinic is important. You should ask the fertility clinic questions about:
The live-birth success rate, not just pregnancy success rate. (Multiple births, such as twins or triplets, are counted as one live birth.)
How many cycles of treatment the clinic performs each year.
The qualifications and training of the fertility specialists.
What treatments are available.
How your age may affect the choice of treatment.
Whether your treatments will be covered by insurance.
Special Considerations for Women with Cancer
Women undergoing cancer treatments who are concerned about preserving their fertility should see a reproductive specialist to discuss their options These discussions should take place as early as possible, and before cancer treatment starts.
According to the American Society of Clinical Oncology's guidelines, the best fertility preservation methods for women with cancer are embryo and oocyte (egg) cryopreservation. This procedure involves harvesting and freezing a woman's eggs (oocytes), and can be followed by IVF and freezing of embryos for later use. It requires several weeks of pretreatment with ovarian stimulation drugs, so planning is very important.
Ovarian transposition, which involves moving one or both ovaries outside of the treatment field, may be an option for some women who are undergoing pelvic radiation. If you are going to be having gynecological surgery or radiation as part of your cancer treatment, discuss with your cancer care team any options for procedures that may help conserve fertility. And, be sure your doctors clearly explain to you how various cancer treatments could affect your fertility.
Embryo and oocyte cryopreservation are well-established methods that have excellent chances for success. At this time, other fertility preservation methods such as ovarian tissue cryopreservation, are still considered experimental and the American Society of Clinical Oncology does not recommend them.
Treatment of Fibroids
Fibroids originate from the thick wall of the uterus and are categorized by where they grow. Treatment recommendations are based on the size and type of the fibroid.
Intramural fibroids. Grow within the middle and thickest layer of the uterus. Surgical removal of these fibroids (myomectomy) is generally not recommended as a treatment for unexplained infertility.
Subserosal fibroids. Grow out from the thin outer fibrous layer of the uterus (called the serosa). Removal of this type of fibroid is not recommended in the treatment of infertility.
Submucosal fibroids. Grow from the uterine wall toward and into the inner lining of the uterus (the endometrium). Removal of this type of fibroid is recommended in women whose infertility is otherwise not explained. It can be done using a hysteroscope if they are less than 5 cm in size.
Uterine artery embolization is a less invasive treatment for fibroids. This procedure blocks blood supply to a fibroid, causing it to shrink. However, this treatment is generally not recommended for women seeking future pregnancies.
Medications to treat infertility can be divided into three main categories:
Medications for Ovarian Stimulation. These drugs are often used alone as initial treatment to induce ovulation, particularly for women who have medical conditions that cause ovulation problems. They may also be used along with ART to stimulate multiple eggs to grow in the ovaries, a process called superovulation. The main drugs used for ovarian stimulation are clomiphene, FSH, LH, and human menopausal gonadotrophin (hMG, also called menotropin, which is a combination of FSH and LH).
Medications for Oocyte Maturation. Drugs such as hCG are used during ART to help the ovarian follicles ripen (mature)
Medications to Prevent Premature Ovulation. These drugs are used during ART to help prevent premature ovulation. They include GnRH agonists and GnRH antagonists.
Other drugs may also be used, for example:
Letrazole (Femara) is an aromatase inhibitor that is not approved for treatment of infertility but is often used "off-label" for ovarian stimulation. It is often used as a first-line fertility treatment for women with PCOS. However, for unexplained infertility, it is not as helpful as more standard drugs.
Metformin is a common drug used to treat type II diabetes. For women with PCOS, metformin may help reduce the chance of ovarian hyperstimulation.
Clomiphene citrate (Clomid, Serophene, generic) is usually the first fertility drug prescribed for women who have ovulation problems. (It is less likely to work for women who have normal ovulation.)
Unlike more potent drugs used in superovulation, clomiphene is gentler and works by blocking estrogen, which tricks the pituitary into producing the hormones FSH and LH. This process boosts follicle growth and the release of the egg.
Clomiphene can be taken by mouth, is relatively inexpensive, and the risk for multiple births is lower than with other drugs. One or two tablets are taken each day for 5 days, usually starting 2 to 5 days after the period starts. If successful, ovulation occurs about a week after the last pill has been taken. If ovulation does not occur, then a higher dose may be given for the next cycle.
If this regimen is not successful, treatment may be repeated or additional drugs may be added. Health care providers usually do not recommend more than 6 cycles.
Mood swings are a very common side effect of clomiphene. Other side effects include hot flashes, breast tenderness, nausea, pelvic discomfort, and ovarian cysts.
Gonadotropins
If clomiphene does not work or is not an appropriate choice, gonadotropin drugs are a second option. Gonadotropins include several different types of drugs that contain either a combination of the hormones FSH and LH, or only FSH.
Whereas clomiphene works indirectly by stimulating the pituitary gland to secrete FSH, which prompts follicle production, gonadotropin hormones directly stimulate the ovaries to produce multiple follicles.
Gonadotropins are given by injection. Your doctor may show you how to self-administer the injection. Gonadotropins include:
Human menopausal gonadotropins (hMG), also called menotropin, is a combination of FSH with LH
Human chorionic gonadotropins (hCG)
Follicle stimulating hormone (FSH)
Gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) analogs, which include GnRH agonists and GnRH antagonists
Human Menopausal Gonadotropin (hMG)
The hMG drugs contain a mixture of both FSH and LH. These drugs (Menopur, Repronex, and Humegon) are all derived from the urine of postmenopausal women. hMG is administered as a series of injections 2 to 3 days after the period starts. Injections are usually given for 7 to 12 days, but the time may be extended if ovulation does not occur. In such cases, a shot of hCG may trigger ovulation.
The hCG drugs are similar to LH. It mimics the LH surge, which stimulates the follicle to release the egg. Natural hCG drugs, derived from the urine of pregnant women, include Pregnyl, Profasi, and Novarel. Ovidrel is a genetically modified hCG drug. Ovidrel has fewer side effects and its quality can be better controlled than the natural drugs. It is generally used after hMG or FSH to stimulate the final maturation stages of the follicles. Ovulation, if it occurs, does so about 36 to 72 hours after administration.
Urofollitropin (Bravelle, Fertinex) is a purified form of FSH, derived from the urine of postmenopausal women. Follitropin drugs (Gonal-F, Follistim) are synthetic versions of FSH. These FSH drugs are sometimes given in combination with an hCG drug.
GnRH Analogs (Agonists or Antagonists)
Gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) is a hormone produced in the hypothalamus part of the brain. GnRH stimulates the pituitary gland to produce LH and FSH.
GnRH analogs are synthetic forms of GnRH. They are similar to natural GnRH but have very different actions. These drugs actually prevent the LH and FSH surge that occurs right before ovulation. This action helps prevent the premature release of the eggs before they can be harvested for ART.
GnRH analogs are classified as either agonists or antagonists:
GnRH agonists include leuprolide (Lupron, Eligard, generic), nafarelin (Synarel), and goserelin (Zoladex)
GnRH antagonists include ganarelix (Antagon) and cetrorelix (Cetrotide)
Risks for Superovulation
Superovulation is the process of using fertility drugs to stimulate the development of multiple follicles (eggs) in the ovaries. Superovulation is also called controlled ovarian stimulation.
Potential risks and complications of superovulation include:
Multiple Births. Superovulation increases the risks for multiple births. The risk is highest for twins. The exact risks depend in part on the drug used and whether it is used along with ART.
Ovarian Hyperstimulation Syndrome (OHSS). The most serious risk of superovulation is OHSS, a condition in which the ovaries become enlarged and filled with fluid. In severe cases, this can lead to life-threatening complications including blood clots, liver and kidney damage, and dangerous fluid and electrolyte imbalances. Symptoms include abdominal bloating and pain, weight gain, nausea and vomiting, and shortness of breath.
Cancer Concerns. There has been concern that clomiphene and gonadotropins may increase the risks for ovarian and breast cancer. Most evidence to date does not indicate that ovulation-stimulating drugs increase the risks for these types of cancers.
Assisted Reproductive Technologies (ART)
ART are medical techniques that help couples conceive. These procedures involve either:
A couple's own eggs or sperm
Donor eggs, sperm, or embryos
Fertilization may occur either in the laboratory or in the uterus. In the United States, over 68,000 live births (deliveries of one or more infants) occur each year using ART. According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), approximately 1.7% of all babies born in the United States every year are conceived using ART.
Technically, the term ART refers only to fertility treatments, such as IVF and its variants, which handle both egg and sperm.
Artificial insemination (AI) involves placing the sperm directly in the cervix (called intracervical insemination) or into the uterus (called intrauterine insemination, or IUI).
IUI is the standard AI procedure. It involves placing washed sperm into the woman's uterine cavity through a long, thin catheter. The washing procedure produces high quality sperm by removing seminal fluid and non-motile (not moving) cells, infectious agents, and chemicals used in the cryopreservation of semen. The sperm can come from the woman's male partner or from a donor (third party). The procedure is usually performed for cases of male infertility or unexplained female infertility. It may also be used if a woman has cervical scarring that prevents sperm from entering the uterus.
An IUI procedure is performed close to the time of ovulation. If a woman ovulates naturally, she may have ultrasound or other imaging tests performed to monitor for signs of ovulation. She may also use an ovarian prediction kit at home to test for the LH surge that occurs a few days before ovulation.
IUI is also frequently performed in combination with fertility drugs in a process called controlled ovarian stimulation. These drugs include clomiphene and letrozole, which may be used along with an injection of hCG. The sperm is inserted 1 to 2 days after the hCG injection.
You will take a pregnancy test a few weeks after the procedure. If pregnancy was not achieved, the cycle may be repeated.
IUI is the least complex and least expensive of fertility procedures and is often tried first in uncomplicated cases of infertility. However, it may pose a greater risk for multiple births and have a lower chance for pregnancy success than IVF. For these reasons, some fertility specialists recommend that couples who fail to conceive after 2 to 3 cycles proceed directly to IVF.
Most ART procedures use IVF. An in vitro procedure is one that is performed in the laboratory. Advances in these procedures have dramatically increased the rate of live births. IVF can be performed with a woman's own eggs and sperm, or with donor eggs and sperm.
A standard IVF cycle is divided into the following steps:
Ovarian Suppression. The woman receives treatment with either a GnRH agonist (Lupron) or GnRH antagonist (Antagon, Cetrotide). Sometimes birth control pills are given as pretreatment. The purpose is to prevent premature ovulation and make sure that the follicles will ripen at the same time.
Ovarian Stimulation. Ovarian-stimulating drugs, such as clomiphene, FSH, or LH, are used to prompt the ovaries to produce multiple eggs. The woman receives ultrasounds to monitor the growth of egg follicles and blood tests to check hormone levels. A cycle may be canceled if not enough follicles are produced or if there is a risk of OHSS (see Medications section).
Trigger Injection of hCG. About 8 to 14 days later, an injection of hCG is given to foster egg maturation. The timing of this shot is very important for the success of the IVF procedure.
Egg Retrieval. About 34 to 36 hours after the hCG injection, the eggs are retrieved. To retrieve the eggs, the doctor inserts an ultrasound-guided probe into the vagina. A needle is then used to drain the liquid from the follicles, and several eggs are retrieved. The woman begins taking progesterone or another type of medication to help prepare the lining of the uterus to support the embryo.
Fertilization and Embryo Culture. The doctor will examine the eggs to evaluate their quality and maturity. Selected eggs are placed in a culture in the laboratory and transferred to an incubator. They are then inseminated with sperm, either by placing sperm together with the egg or injecting a single sperm into the egg (intracytoplasmic sperm injection or ICSI procedure).
Embryo Transfer and Cryopreservation. One or more embryos are implanted in the woman's uterus 2 to 6 days after egg retrieval. The doctor will discuss with the woman the appropriate number of embryos to be implanted. Excess embryos may be frozen and saved for future use. It takes about 9 to 12 days to determine if pregnancy has been achieved.
Embryo Transfer Guidelines
The American Society for Reproductive Medicine (ASRM) and the Society for Assisted Reproductive Technologies (SART) have joint guidelines on the number of embryos that should be transferred during IVF procedures. The 2017 guidelines distinguish between cleavage-stage embryos (2 to 3 days after fertilization) and blastocyst embryos (5 to 6 days after fertilization). Apart from young age, the guidelines define the following characteristics as favorable prognosis: 1) expectation of one or more high-quality embryos available for cryopreservation; 2) euploid embryos; and 3) previous live birth after an IVF cycle. In people who do not meet criteria for a favorable prognosis in each of the below age groups, an additional embryo transfer may be considered.
For women with favorable prognosis, the 2017 guidelines recommend:
For women under the age of 35 years, a single embryo transfer or no more than 2 embryos (either cleavage-stage or blastocyst)
For women between ages 35 and 37 years, strong consideration should be made for a single cleavage-stage embryo transfer
For women between ages 38 and 40 years, no more than 3 cleavage-stage embryos or 2 blastocysts
For women ages 41 to 42 years, no more than 4 cleavage-stage embryos or 3 blastocysts
For women older than age 43 years, there are insufficient data to recommend a limit on the number of embryos
These embryo numbers are recommended for women with favorable prognoses. For women who have failed to become pregnant after at least 2 IVF cycles, or who have a less favorable prognosis, the doctor may consider adding 1 additional embryo. The guidelines apply to both fresh and frozen embryos.
Success Rates
Not all IVF cycles result in pregnancy, and not all IVF-achieved pregnancies result in live births. When a woman's own eggs are used, results are better with fresh embryos than frozen embryos. Success rates depend on many factors, especially the age of the woman.
Data from SART in 2015 indicate that the chances of ART resulting in live birth are about:
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Data have been conflicting on whether IVF increases the risk for genetic abnormalities and birth defects. In general, the overall risks for birth defects appear to be small. Studies indicate that most children conceived through IVF are healthy and have normal cognitive development and school performance. However, recent studies suggest that fetuses conceived with ICSI and IVF may have a higher risk of congenital heart defects.
The main risk of IVF is the consequences of multiple pregnancies. Multiple pregnancies increase the chance of health problems for a mother and her babies. In particular, there is increased risk for premature delivery and low birth weight. These factors can cause heart and lung problems and developmental disabilities in children.
Gamete Intrafallopian Transfer (GIFT) and Zygote Intrafallopian Transfer (ZIFT)
GIFT is a laparoscopic procedure by which both washed sperm from the male partner and eggs from the female partner are transferred to the fallopian tubes at the same time. Egg retrieval precedes GIFT in the same surgical event. GIFT is not an IVF procedure, since fertilization occurs in the fallopian tubes.
ZIFT is the laparoscopic transfer of zygotes (single cell stage of the embryo) to the fallopian tubes, 24 hours after IVF. ZIFT following all but the last step of IVF as described above.
GIFT and ZIFT are rarely performed due to the requirement for laparoscopy. Studies have not proven them to be more successful compared to traditional IVF.
ICSI is an ART used for couples when male infertility is the main problem. It involves injecting a single sperm into an egg obtained from IVF.
The procedure is very simple:
A tiny glass tube (called a holding pipet) stabilizes the egg.
A second glass tube (called the injection pipet) is used to penetrate the egg's membrane and deposit a single sperm into the egg.
The egg is released into a drop of cultured medium.
If fertilized, the egg is allowed to develop for 1 to 2 days, then it is either frozen or implanted.
The greatest concern with this procedure has been whether it increases the risk for birth defects. Many, but not all, studies have reported no higher risks of birth defects in children born using ICSI procedures. However, if the father's infertility was due to genetic issues, this genetic defect may be passed on to male children conceived through ICSI.
Another concern has been whether the ICSI procedure is being overused. Some doctors recommend ICSI for women who have failed prior IVF attempts or who have few or poor-quality eggs, even if their male partners have normal semen measurements. According to the SART, there is little evidence that ICSI helps improve pregnancy success for couples who do not have a problem with male factor infertility.
Although there are no dietary or nutritional cures for infertility, a healthy lifestyle is important. Some ovulatory problems may be helped by changing behavioral patterns. Some tips include:
Maintain a healthy weight. Women who are either overweight or underweight are at risk for fertility failure, including a lower chance for achieving success with fertility procedures. Choosing a healthy diet is an important part of the process.
Stop smoking. Smoking adversely affects infertility in both men and women and may affect the success of fertility treatments. Everyone should quit.
Avoid excessive exercise if it causes menstrual irregularity. However, moderate and regular exercise is essential for good health.
Limit excessive caffeine and alcohol consumption. High levels of alcohol and caffeine are associated with decreased fertility.
Avoid most commercial water-based sexual lubricants (Astroglide, KY Jelly). They can interfere with sperm motility and survival.
Avoid any unnecessary medications.
Planning Sexual Activity
The Fertile Window
An egg survives only 12 to 24 hours after it is released from the ovary. For conception to occur, a sperm must be able to fertilize the egg during this time. Couples can optimize their chances for conception by planning sexual intercourse during the woman's fertile window:
The fertile window is 6 days long, starts 5 days before ovulation, and ends the day of ovulation.
In a woman with a 28-day menstrual cycle, ovulation usually occurs around day 14 (14 days after the start of her menstrual period), which means the fertile window occurs from days 9 to 14. However, the length of menstrual cycles, and fertile windows, vary from woman to woman.
The chances for intercourse resulting in pregnancy are considered to be highest during the fertile window and especially on the 3-day interval that ends on the day of ovulation.
To determine when the fertile window occurs, women should track their menstrual cycles. They can also try methods such as charting BBT to monitor ovulation (see Diagnosis section of this report).
Frequency of Intercourse
Evidence indicates that chances are best for conception when sexual intercourse occurs every 1 to 2 days, especially during the fertile window. Less frequent sexual intercourse (2 to 3 times a week) also achieves good results. However, couples need to make their own personal choices about what amount of sexual activity is appropriate, comfortable, and desirable. Data suggests that abstinence (not having sex) of more than 5 to 10 days may adversely affect sperm health.
Sexual Practices
There is no evidence that any particular sexual positions, or resting after sex, help increase the chances for pregnancy. There is also no evidence that whether or not a woman achieves orgasm affects the likelihood of her becoming pregnant. Couples should be aware that water-based vaginal lubricants (Astroglide, K-Y Jelly, saliva) can damage sperm's ability to swim and should not be used. For lubrication, try mineral oil, canola oil, or commercially available "fertility friendly" products such as Pre-Seed, which do not harm sperm.
Dealing with Stress
The fertility treatment process presents a roller coaster of emotions. There are almost no sure ways to predict which couples will eventually conceive. Some couples with multiple problems will overcome great odds, while other, seemingly fertile, couples fail to conceive. Many of the new treatments are remarkable, but a live birth is never guaranteed. The emotional burden on the couple is considerable, and some planning is helpful. You should:
Decide in advance how many and what kind of procedures will be emotionally and financially acceptable and attempt to determine a final limit. Fertility treatments can be expensive. A successful pregnancy often depends on repeated attempts.
Prepare for multiple births as a possible outcome for successful pregnancy. A pregnancy that results in a multiple birth introduces new complexities and emotional problems.
Determine alternatives (adoption, donor sperm or egg, or having no children) as early as possible in the fertility process. This can reduce anxiety during treatments and feelings of disappointment in case conception does not occur.
On a reassuring note, studies on infertility in women indicate that stress levels do not affect the outcome of fertility treatments. There appears to be no difference in stress levels between women who become pregnant and those who do not. Women who are feeling stressed by problems with fertility or the challenges of the fertility treatment process should not feel additionally concerned that their emotional state may affect their chances of becoming pregnant.
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Last reviewed on: 3/23/2020
Reviewed by: John D. Jacobson, MD, Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Loma Linda University School of Medicine, Loma Linda Center for Fertility, Loma Linda, CA. Also reviewed by David Zieve, | 3,142 |
Teddy has been weaning now since he was six months old and if you read my first weaning post you will know that we have been doing baby led weaning. I'm so glad we went down the baby led route as it's made things so much easier for us as a family and it's also so much fun! I had to sit on my hands for the first couple of weeks but Teddy has taken to it like a trooper and I've definitely relaxed fully. It's so good watching him explore different foods and eat together as a family. Teddy is 9 and a half months old, and currently on three meals a day with at least one snack. I thought I would share a full week of Teddy's meals and snacks so you can hopefully gain some ideas or inspiration. I also hope it will give you more of an insight into baby led weaning & finger foods.
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What an absolute cute ! Also – slightly jealous of his menu – he's got some yummy options !
I miss this stage when they're exploring new foods to try! We've tried hundreds of things with Imogen but there's only certain foods she will properly eat! Teddy is adorableeeee. | usually just put it onto his highchair tray & he picks them up. Cereals such as Cheerios are great for your baby to practice the pincer grip!
LUNCH; Baked oats, Organix cheese & herb puffs (usually a small handful) and a apricot fromage frais.
TEA; Pasta with homemade vegetable sauce, half a bar of a small milky bar chocolate and green grapes.
BREAKFAST; Scrambled egg & toast with a banana.
LUNCH; (We were out for lunch at Franie & Benny's so grabbed one of the baby meals off the menu) Ella's Kitchen Spag Bol 10months+, Heinz chocolate biscotti and some Organix spicy tomato crisp.
TEA; Half a jacket potato with cheese & beans, half a milky bar and raspberries.
BREAKFAST; Baked oats, cheerios and raspberries.
LUNCH; Pasta with homemade veg sauce, Kiddylicious strawberry wafer and half a banana.
TEA; Stir fry, broccoli, prawn cracker and homemade frozen yoghurt drops.
LUNCH; Homemade tomato, cheese & ham pinwheels, slices of red pepper and a banana.
TEA; Fish finger, potato waffle and broccoli. Aaron was working the late shift so I wanted to cook something quick & easy for Teddy & I.
LUNCH; Cheese & ham toastie, quavers and grapes.
TEA; Vegetable pasta bake, pepper slices & grapes.
BREAKFAST; Scrambled egg and a banana.
LUNCH; Potato waffle with cheese and spaghetti, quavers & slice of watermelon.
TEA; Pinwheels (same as before), biscotti and yoghurt drops.
BREAKFAST; Baby French toast and banana.
SNACK; two orange flavoured rice cakes (from Boot's own snack range).
LUNCH; Laughing Cow cheese dippers, Organix cheese & herb puffs and biscotti.
TEA; Baked oats, watermelon, fromage frais and quavers.
My favourite place to gather inspiration for recipes, especially for baby led weaning is on PINTEREST and INSTAGRAM. My favourite Instagram accounts at the moment are AT THE TABLE WITH TOBY, ZAYNS PLATE & WEAN WITH RUBY, they post such amazing recipes and pictures with easy to follow instructions attached.
If you head on over to my lovely friends website, Amy Jane & Baby, she has written a similar post all about what her 1 year old eats in a week! Great for ideas of what to make slightly older babies.
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The session will take place on the second floor of Space At The Mill between 2pm and 4pm. Tickets are priced at £20 and are available from Fever. For more information click here. | halfway through the first month of 2019 which means most people's New Year's resolutions have fallen by the wayside. But there's still time to claw it back, and if one of your goals for the year was to get healthier, be it in body, mind or both, then a yoga class is the perfect place to start.
On Sunday (January 20) the people at Cariad Yoga are inviting Yogis of all skill level to harness the power of the full moon with a session of Luna Prana Flow Yoga.
Luna yoga involves traditional flowing postures, which are often held for a longer period of time and includes subtler practices like breath work and meditation. The class will allow those taking part to connect deeply with their mind, body and spirit in order to shed any excess baggage from 2018.
The afternoon will also include a session of meditation, Pranayama (the practice of controlling the breath) and a session of meditative and grounding Yin yoga. Plant-based treats and herbal teas will be provided.
Tickets for the session are priced at £30 and are available from Fever. The session will take place at Federation House between 1.30pm and 5.30pm, click here for more information.
And for those looking to switch things up, Cariad Yoga will also be hosting a session dedicated to mastering inversion yoga poses.
Banish those face-planting fears and learn how to access empowering poses and incorporate them into a regular yoga routine with ease. Participants will learn all the necessary techniques to develop a safe and confident inversion practice, including alignment, proper foundation and the basic principles of going upside down.
Those taking part can expect variations of foundational poses such as down dog, dolphin and side plank, which will help develop the stability and grace required for balancing on the top of the head in headstand and tripod | 384 |
Ontario Cannabis Store has signed agreements with 32 licensed suppliers
The Canadian Press Published Wednesday, September 5, 2018 8:28PM EDT Last Updated Thursday, September 6, 2018 11:48AM EDT
Growing flowers of cannabis intended for the medical marijuana market are shown at OrganiGram in Moncton, N.B., on April 14, 2016. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Ron Ward
TORONTO - Ontario<|fim_middle|>The OCS says it will continue to work with partners to ensure the province has sufficient supply and a broad selection of cannabis products to meet the needs of Ontario consumers. | has signed supply agreements with six more licensed cannabis producers, bringing the total to 32, along with 10 accessories suppliers.
The deals were announced Wednesday by the Ontario Cannabis Store, which will be selling pot online starting on Oct. 17 when recreational marijuana use is legalized.
It is also establishing a wholesale distribution network to supply cannabis to legal private stores once legislative requirements are put in place.
The agreements to date are with licensed producers such as Canopy Growth Corp., Aurora Cannabis and Aphria Inc. as well as smaller players including Starseed Medicinal Inc. and Solace Health Inc.
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As the holidays draw near, so does Lake Forest's charitable shopping event of the season. The Women's Board of Northwestern Lake Forest Hospital will host its annual Holiday Boutique from Thursday, November 16 through Saturday, November 18 at the Lake Forest Recreation Center.
Get ready to mingle and shop from a curated selection of top retail vendors in one convenient location. Proceeds from the holiday boutique will directly impact the Board's fundraising goals, maximizing its contribution to the construction of the new Northwestern Medicine Lake Forest Hospital scheduled to open in March 2018. For the second year in a row, Stephanie Bournakis, Ginny Noble, and Taddy Opat are co-chairing the event.
The Boutique will include 45 vendors—24 of them new to the event, featuring a variety of one-of-a-kind pieces, ranging from children's clothing, toys and festive home accents, men's and women's fashions, jewelry, and accessories. Boutique admission is $10 per person, $5 for seniors or students, and complimentary for hospital employees, Lake Forest or Lake Bluff school teachers, and city employees.
In addition, the Women's Board of Northwestern Lake Forest Hospital is hosting its festive Mistletoe and Holly Holiday Boutique Preview Party on Wednesday, November 15 from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. The party will feature a drawing for two tickets to see Hello Dolly in New York City, as well as specialty food and drink. Tickets for Mistletoe and Holly are $50 in advance and $60 at the door and include unlimited admission to the Holiday Boutique.
For more information or to purchase tickets in advance, call the Office of Philanthropy at 847-535-6111 or visit lfh.org/boutique.
The Guild of St. Mary will kick off the holiday season with its second annual Christmas Tea on Friday, December 1 at 300 N. Green Bay Road in Lake Forest. Building on the success the event enjoyed last year, the Christmas Tea will feature an array of holiday-centric hallmarks—from a cookie walk to a 50/50 raffle.
Proceeds will benefit the Church of St. Mary and its philanthropic initiatives, which the Guild carries out most prominently through its Circles—smaller groups of women within the Guild who meet once a month to connect and discuss service opportunities.
The Guild of St. Mary Christmas Tea will take place at 300 N. Green Bay Road in<|fim_middle|> guildofstmary.wildapricot.org. | Lake Forest on Friday, December 1 at 10 a.m. For additional information, visit | 20 |
Leatherwolf ist eine US-amerikanische Heavy-Metal-Band aus Huntington Beach (Kalifornien). Bekannt ist die Band vor allem für den Einsatz von drei Lead-Gitarren, der sogenannten Triple Axe Attack<|fim_middle|>au auf die Bahamas. Es erschien 1989 ebenfalls bei Island Records. Aufgrund des ausbleibenden kommerziellen Erfolges kündigte das Label der Band jedoch kurz nach den Aufnahmen ihren Plattenvertrag. Daraufhin löste sich die Band auf.
Erst zehn Jahre später, nämlich 1999, fanden sich die Mitglieder der Band wieder zusammen und spielten einen Auftritt beim Wacken Open Air.
Im selben Jahr veröffentlichte die Band in Eigenregie ein Livealbum mit dem Titel Wide Open, welches ohne die Hilfe eines Plattenlabels mehr als 10.000 Abnehmer fand.
Der bisherige Sänger Michael Olivieri verließ im Jahr 2000 Leatherwolf und wurde kurzzeitig durch Chris Adams ersetzt, welcher 2002 drei Lieder für eine Demoaufnahme einsang.
Kurze Zeit später kehrte Michael Olivieri jedoch zurück und nahm 2003 ebenfalls ein Demo auf, verließ die Band daraufhin jedoch erneut.
Diesmal wurde er durch den ehemaligen Racer X Sänger Jeff Martin ersetzt, welcher bei einer weiteren Demoaufnahme von drei Songs mitwirkte.
Im Juli 2005 verkündete die Band dann überraschend, dass der ehemalige Seven Witches und Crimson Glory Sänger Wade Black in Zukunft für den Gesang verantwortlich ist.
Im Oktober desselben Jahres begann die Band mit den Aufnahmen für ihr viertes Album World Asylum. Michael Olivieri ist auf dem Album ebenfalls zu hören. Er spielte bei einigen Liedern Gitarren-Parts ein und übernahm den Hintergrund-Gesang. Als Bassist fungierte mittlerweile Pete Perez, welcher zuvor bei Riot und Spastic Ink mitwirkte.
Die Abmischung des Albums übernahm der bekannte Produzent Jacob Hansen.
Im März 2006 unterzeichneten Leatherwolf einen Plattenvertrag bei Massacre Records, woraufhin das Album im Juni bei ebendiesem Label erschien.
Kurz darauf stieg das Gründungsmitglied Carey Howe aus und seine Rolle wurde von Eric Halpern übernommen, welcher vorher bei Helstar spielte. In dieser Konstellation trat die Band auf dem Bang Your Head Festival in Balingen und auf dem ProgPower VII Festival in Atlanta auf.
Ein Jahr später formierte sich die Band im Original Line-Up neu, mit Michael Olivieri als Sänger und Gitarrist und Carey Howe als Gitarristen.
Es folgte ein Headliner Auftritt auf dem Keep It True Festival und die Veröffentlichung des Albums New World Asylum.
Dieses war eine Neueinspielung ihres 2006 erschienenen Comeback-Albums World Asylum mit Michael Olivieri als Sänger.
Im Frühjahr 2008 stiegen die Mitgründer der Band Geoff Gayer und Paul Carman aus. Sie wurden ersetzt durch Patrick Guyton und Greg Erba.
Am 19. Mai 2018 spielten Leatherwolf in der Besetzung Michael Olivieri, Luke Man, Cole Jones, Patrick Guyton, Dean Roberts auf dem Rock Hard Festival in Gelsenkirchen. Das Konzert wurde vom WDR-Rockpalast aufgezeichnet.
Diskografie
1984: Leatherwolf (EP) (Enigma)
1985: Endangered Species (Heavy Metal America)
1987: Leatherwolf (Island Records)
1989: Street Ready (Island Records)
1999: Wide Open (Livealbum) (Leatherwolf Music)
2006: World Asylum (Massacre Records)
2007: New World Asylum (NIL8 Records)
2022: Kill the Hunted (ROAR)
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Geschichte
Die Band wurde 1981 in Huntington Beach gegründet. Anfangs orientierte sie sich musikalisch vor allem an der europäischen NWoBHM Bewegung.
Schon von Anfang an setzte die Band auf drei Gitarristen, ein Stilmittel welches später noch von Bands wie Iron Maiden zu größerer Bekanntheit geführt wurde.
Leatherwolf erspielten sich Live schnell einen guten Ruf in ihrer Heimat und ließen bei einem Konzert im Jahr 1982 Metallica als Vorband auftreten.
Im Jahr 1983 nahm die Band ein erstes Demoband auf und bereits ein Jahr später eine selbstbenannte EP, welche beim Independent-Label Tropical Records veröffentlicht wurde.
1985 wurde diese EP dann durch fünf weitere Stücke ergänzt und in den USA wiederum unter dem Albumnamen Leatherwolf veröffentlicht.
Für die internationale Veröffentlichung benannte man das Album in Endangered Species um.
1986 stieg der Bassist Matt Hurich aus der Band aus, um bei der christlichen Metal-Band Stryper zu spielen.
Schon kurze Zeit später übernahm Paul Carman seinen Posten.
Das zweite Album der Band erschien im Jahr 1987 und trägt ebenfalls den Titel Leatherwolf, obwohl es keinen einzigen Titel des ersten Albums beinhaltet. Es wurde beim Major-Label Island Records veröffentlicht und ist deutlich an den Glam Metal angelehnt, welcher in den USA zu dieser Zeit kommerziell besonders erfolgreich war.
Für die Aufnahmen zum dritten Album Street Ready begab sich die Band nach Nass | 360 |
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At Capital Kitchen, we're committed to offering what we feel is the best of everything – products that are kitchen-tested in our own home. From cookware to bakeware, gadgets to linens, lunchboxes to compost pails, we want you to feel confident that as a family, we've used it all and we stand behind it!
Because you continue to make a choice to shop small and support a local business, we continue to be a grateful part of the downtown Montpelier business community. We're so proud to offer you the personal customer service and community support that can't be found at big box stores or large online retailers. At the end of the day, we owe it ALL to you.
I've always loved visiting kitchen stores, and whether I was traveling<|fim_middle|> 2008, Capital Kitchen opened its doors for business in downtown Montpelier. | and scoping out the local gourmet offerings, on a mission to buy a culinary necessity or just simply wishing, I often dreamt of opening my own kitchen store in Montpelier. After years of plotting, planning, saving and scribbling, I officially made the leap and in May of | 59 |
GD Goenka Public School, Rohini, Delhi is a coeducational day school affiliated with the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE), New Delhi. Founded in 2007 by The Lord Chaitanya Educational Society, the school is part of the well known chain of GD Goenka Public schools. The school boasts 2016 students from Nursery through class XII and 118 teachers.
The school hosts a centrally air-conditioned four-storey building with a unique architectural design, state-of-the-art furniture, a reception hall, specialist studios for computer science, visual and performing arts, digital e-library with a vast collection of books, facilities for indoor and outdoor games including health and fitness centre, separate swimming pools for junior and senior students, cafeteria and medical center.
The school has systems monitored from the control room via the IBMS (Intelligent Building Management System) which includes automated temperature (heating/cooling) control, power and water back-up, smoke detectors, circuit breakers, computerized fire-fighting equipment and CCTV surveillance of all entrances and exits and campus-wide broadband e-connectivity with Wi-Fi.
The junior level children learn to question, analyze, classify and communicate their perceptions and an unconventional system of education is adopted by the school where education is imparted through play-way methods and concepts are taught via origami, clay modeling, sand play and painting.
The curriculum is based on phonetics to provide children with a strong foundation of spelling and vocabulary; vital skills like motor and reading skills, language and communication skills, writing and number concepts are established and strengthened. The curriculum also includes music, art, library and computer programs.
The middle school curriculum ensures special inputs for the students adept at any field from languages, mathematics, science and technology or performing arts. The third language option is set taking into consideration new economic trends and changing geo-political phenomena. Students are encouraged to learn from experience and analysis and a great deal of emphasis is placed on 'one-on-one' teaching and interaction with people eminent in diverse fields.
The Senior Wing of the school strives to maintain excellence in academics to enable the students to stand at par in today's competitive world. The conformity with the CBSE-CCE pattern ensures the holistic development of the students encapsulating scholastic and co<|fim_middle|>013. | -scholastic aspects including Life-Skills, Attitudes and Values, Performing Arts, Health and Physical Education. The prime focus is to bring forth innovation in teaching-learning methodologies by devising student friendly and student centered paradigms. In addition to academics, emphasis is laid on dexterity, innovation, steadiness, teamwork, athletics, public speaking and behavior.
This in turn provides opportunities for the students to showcase their talents in the field of Arts, Humanities, Sports and Music, among others.
The application forms are issued at the school from the beginning of January till the mid of January between 8.30 am and 3.00 pm on all working days. The last date for submission of forms is January 15 and the list of selected candidates is declared by the third week of January. The total number of seats in nursery are 180. The age of the child seeking admission in nursery must be 3 years as March 31 of the year of admission.
Please refer the link http://www.gdgoenka-rohini.com/images/Important%20Info.pdf for information on fees.
GD Goenka Public School, Rohini has been ranked among India's top day schools by the EducationWorld C-fore Survey 2 | 259 |
Volume 3, Issue 1 (Jan-Mar 2016)
Nutr Food Sci Res 2016, 3(1): 5-16 Back to browse issues page
Fenugreek: Potential Applications as a Functional Food and Nutraceutical
Nasim Khorshidian, Mojtaba Yousefi Asli, Masoumeh Arab, Abolfazl Adeli Mirzaie,<|fim_middle|>.html
Volume 3, Issue 1 (Jan-Mar 2016) Back to browse issues page | Amir Mohammad Mortazavian
Dept.of Food Science and Technology, National Nutrition and Food Technology Research Institute, Faculty of Nutrition Sciences and Food Technology, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
Fenugreek (Trigonella foenum graecum), native to southern Europe and Asia, is an annual herb with white flowers and hard, yellowish brown and angular seeds, known from ancient times, for nutritional value beside of its medicinal effects. Fenugreek seeds are rich source of gum, fiber, alkaloids, flavonoids, saponins and volatile content. Due to its high content of fiber, fenugreek could be used as food stabilizer, adhesive and emulsifying agent to change food texture for some special purposes. Some evidence suggests that fenugreek may also be regarded as antidiabetic, anticarcinogenic, antioxidant, antibacterial agent, antianorexia agent, and gastric stimulant, as well as remedy for hypocholesterolemia and hypoglycemia. The present article is aimed to review the potential applications of fenugreek as a functional food and nutraceutical agent.
Keywords: Chemical composition, Fenugreek gum, Fenugreek, Health benefits
Protocol Study: Applicable | Subject: General
Received: 2015/08/24 | Accepted: 2016/01/2 | Published: 2016/01/2
DOI: 10.18869/acadpub.nfsr.3.1.5
Khorshidian N, Yousefi Asli M, Arab M, Adeli Mirzaie A, Mortazavian A M. Fenugreek: Potential Applications as a Functional Food and Nutraceutical. Nutr Food Sci Res. 2016; 3 (1) :5-16
URL: http://nfsr.sbmu.ac.ir/article-1-120-en | 412 |
The Stonehenge Gate
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A dark mystery has been buried beneath the sands of the Sahara for eons. In a basement in New Mexico, four poker buddies find reason to believe that a startling secret is out there, and these four amateur adventurers are about to uncover it.
Curiosity propels mild-mannered professor Will and his three friends to the Sahara to excavate a site where radar has detected trilithic stones hidden beneath the sand. There they stumble upon an ancient artifact that will change their lives—and the world—forever: a gateway between planets, linking Earth to distant worlds where they will discover wonders and terrors beyond imagining. Now each traveler must play a crucial role in unraveling an ancient mystery, the solution to which may reveal the true origins of the human race—if they can survive the journey back to Earth.
"Williamson's artificial creatures are brilliant as always…Lush descriptions and a refreshingly brisk pace buoy the novel." —Publishers Weekly
"Williamson's combination of SF technological inventiveness and heroic quest is surprisingly successful, offering a neat origin story for humanity, to boot." —Booklist
"Harlan Ellison's narration is spectacular…He's energized and seems to be convincingly living the parts he's portraying to a greater degree than can be said of most voice actors." —SFFAudio.com
Author Bio: Jack Williamson
Jack Williamson (1908–2006) published his first short story in 1928 and produced entertaining, thought-provoking science fiction from then on. The second person named Grand Master by the Science Fiction Writers of America, he was always in the forefront of the field, being the first to write fiction about genetic engineering (he invented the term), antimatter, and other cutting-edge science. A Renaissance man, he was a master of fantasy and horror as well as science fiction.
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ISBN: 9781455185238 ISBN: 9781482119862 ISBN: 9780786167784 ISBN: 97807861 | 645 |
The name of all geysers in Iceland and around the world comes from the Great Geysir that erupted in the 14 th century. This geyser used to erupt every 60 minutes till the 20 th century when it finally became dormant. But, because of the earthquakes that occurred in June 2000 the geyser reawakened and it now erupts every 8-10 hours.
What exactly is a geyser? The word derives from the Icelandic verb gjósa, which means "to erupt<|fim_middle|> in Iceland erupt, no matter how small they are can be a fascinating sight for anyone. In the beginning the water starts boiling, then a bubble forms and bursts as the steam forces its way out being much lighter than the water.
But as the best thing is that you see it with your own eyes, in what you are buying tickets to Iceland, we leave you a video of Strokkur in action. It's a wonder to travel to Iceland and pay a visit to Geysir, the father of the geisers. Phenomena like these can only be seen in certain areas of the world, so they are a gift to the eye. | ". They are no more or less than hot springs that periodically emit a jet of hot water, accompanied by steam. Why is this happening? Geysers have a particular structure, distinct from that of other thermal sources, the opening to the surface is connected to one or more tunnels connecting to underground aquifers. There, the water comes into contact with rocks heated by the magma flowing underground, which causes the water to increase its temperature to reach the boiling point and to come out of the opening.
There are two very famous geysers in Iceland, Strokkur and the Great Geysir, both in the geothermal area of Haukadalur, just 120 kilometers northeast of Reykjavík.
Another very famous geyser in Iceland is Strokkur. This one erupts every 8 minutes throwing water and steam to a height of approximately 20 meters. Throughout the island there can be found several other smaller geysers that can be either active or dormant. They are usually found in active volcanic areas or even lands that are prone to earthquakes. The thermal springs are considered to be geyser features as being boiling mud pools.
In Iceland is located Geysir, who is considered the father of the geysers and who curiously gives name to this curious geological phenomenon, and to the geothermal area where it is located. The area of Geysir is one of the best known in Iceland and is very close to Þingvellir by car. From Reykjavík there are lots of bus tours, so you have it easy to contemplate these wonders. As one of the most famous attractions in the country, Geysir has a small hotel, a café, car parks, a souvenir shop, bathrooms and so on. The geysers and the pools are fenced and are all ready for travelers to visit. But don't think it's crowded. In Iceland nothing is crowded. 400 meters north of Strokkur, lies the Great Geysir, which can catapult the water up to 80 meters. The bad thing is that it is a little more lazy than your partner and it takes years without erupt.
Every one of the geysers in Iceland and around the world has a powerhouse that lies deep in the underground. There the surface water goes through fissures and is collected in caverns. Because of the high temperature of the volcanic rock (around 200 C) the trapped water is heated. Thus, it expands into steam forcing its way up and out. For example, the Great geyser's column length is of 23 meters. The water erupting from this geyser used to reach the height of 60 meters, but today its maximum is only about 10 meters. Watching geysers | 576 |
The niche that 'demi-fine jewellery' is defining for itself in the jewellery box vocabulary is in its use of materials. Opting for 9ct, 10ct, 14ct gold and semi-precious gems, the demi-fine aesthetic is modern yet timeless, and very much 'understated minimalism' with a motif design or simple organic shapes. Browse our edit of elegant pieces which can be layered or worn on their own.
Fusing<|fim_middle|> multiple piercings.
Hoop is 20mm in diameter. Ball is 12mm in diameter. Made from 14ct yellow gold. | functionality with pure London avant-garde, these iconic spiked statement earrings sell like hot cakes from season to season! Made from rhodium plated steel. Features click-on closure for pierced ears. Handmade in Italy. Hypoallergenic. Also available in Gold.
These seamless, lightweight hoops with a moving gold ball component are so versatile - layer them with other earrings for a more standout look or remove the gold ball to wear them as classic hoops.
Two pairs of earrings in one! The ball is completely removable if you want the flexibility of wearing just the minimal hoop on its own. They can also be layered up with other small hoops and studs if you have | 132 |
Delivering a new content management system to support the future vision of a digital newsroom.
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Want to be part of the team? Find a role | enough to allow for different journalist needs but, at the same time, ensuring a coherent design for the site as a whole. This frees journalists to focus on content, not on the structure of the site.
TMG was previously using an off-the-shelf CMS that, whilst incredibly feature-rich, no longer supported the way journalists were working. Under the old system, for example, producers had to go through 58 steps including seven repeating steps – to get a story online.
On top of this, only a handful of authors were authorised to upload content, and there were limitations in producing the rich content, graphics and imagery that today's reader demands. The goal was to find the fastest way reporters could go from writing a story to having it ready for publication.
A blended Cognifide / TMG project team set about understanding the day-to-day workflows of the digital journalists and assessing every step of the publishing process.
The proposed solution lay in creating a bespoke authoring interface to meet the varied needs of journalists on different desks. News and sports reporters, for instance, have very different needs to a fashion journalist.
At the heart of this interface, a set of bespoke components were designed and built to:
Deliver a rich end-user experience - we needed to support all the elements used in the existing site and build new scalable components to support future updates.
Be reused across multiple areas of the site - our components needed to be flexible enough to allow for differing journalist needs, whilst helping to deliver a coherent design for the site as a whole.
Enable optimal performance across multiple channels - the site is fully responsive and designed 'mobile first'. Components are designed with the constraints of mobile device performance in mind.
Streamline the work of creating the site - journalists need to focus on content, not on the structure of the site. Our components and templates needed to support a 'tag-driven' approach to building the site, where content appears in particular places by virtue of the way in which it has been tagged by the author, rather than because it has been explicitly placed on the site.
Following testing by around one-third of the Telegraph's newsroom, the site began a gradual roll-out which culminated in March 2016 with the migration of the fast-moving, high traffic Home and News sections.
This was a relaunch designed to improve the digital experience for both readers and authors.
For readers:
A new News stream with a rolling page of the latest stories of the day - arranged in chronological order so readers can easily find out everything that has happened in the past 10 minutes, the past hour or the past day.
New topic pages that collect stories from across a range of desks, accessed via tags at the bottom of articles
A redesigned navigation, making it quicker and simpler for users to find their favourite sections and articles
For authors:
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Hear Toby Wright, CTO of Telegraph Media Group, talking about their journey to digital transformation | 642 |
Unusual places to stay in Lanzarote. Helping Dreamers Do.
Rather than resorts and cloned apartments, seek out some of the more unusual places to stay in Lanzarote, from casas rurales to fincas with yurts. Or stay in a converted fisherman's cottage, with lapping waves the best wakeup call imaginable. Digital detox heaven.
Until you have been there, you may be under the impression that Lanzarote is a run of the mill, resort filled island. But here you are wrong. A dramatic volcanic landscape, the heart of which is barren and unbuildable<|fim_middle|> gorgeous tropical plants and cacti. Or even bathe among them in the outdoor shower. Not too near, though, in case you were worried about that! Anyone who thinks that they can't grow anything in their garden back home will have a lot to learn from the skilful planting carried out by these gifted owners, as well as having a beautiful cosy place to stay. | upon, it has a raw and wonderful beauty. Similarly, there are plenty of unusual places to stay in Lanzarote which match this beauty, created by people who don't see this Canary Island as one big beach.
Head to the north east coastal village of Arrieta to stay in a traditional fisherman's cottage, beautifully converted to accommodate up to four people, with a double bed and a sofa bed. This is the sort of place where you could almost cast your line straight out of the bedroom window and wait to get a bite. Nestled on the water's edge but also in the heart of the fishing village, the slipway beside the cottage still houses traditional wooden boats for local people.
In this stunning restoration even the bath has a sea view, although you will probably spend most of your time in the sea water, or hanging out at the nearby tapas restaurant watching the world go by. And it isn't a big world, this part of the island being very much a local hangout. The fisherman's cottage has been designed to be as "eco" as possible, using local building materials, traditional techniques and solar panels to generate power. You also don't need a car, being only a stone's throw from the village shops, and a line's throw from dinner.
There's also a restored farm, or finca, by the sea in Arrieta, which you could almost drive past without noticing, until suddenly you do a double take and spot eight conical roofs poking through the swaying palm trees, mirroring the conical peaks of their volcanic backdrop. In the dry, hot climate that Lanzarote is famous for, sleeping under canvas has to be one of the best ways to holiday, especially for families. Yurts range from standard to luxurious, from silks and sassiness to simple yet classy.
Family run by an English couple who have lived here for over 20 years and raised their own children here, these yurts echo with screeches of delight from children as they collapse on the shaded daybeds during the midday heat, or bounce on the trampoline surrounded by dramatic volcanic landscapes at sunset. Even better – it's just a short walk to the beach which stretches out in front of them. With solar panels and wind power, and a totally sussed approach to sustainability by the founders on their beloved Lanzarote, these yurts are the sort of place that people book again and again, to get their finca fix.
It is rare to see flourishing gardens in Lanzarote, due to the arid climate throughout the year. So the Cactus Garden, which was founded by the island's sustainability guru César Manrique, and has over a thousand spiny species laid out with skillful planting techniques, just stops you in your tracks. Similarly, in the same small village of Guatiza, on the north coast, you can stay in a garden apartment, a restored farm building on a 300-yer-old finca, where two people can surround themselves with the most | 626 |
Q: Interpretation of $(r,s)$ tensor A tensor of type $(r,s)$ on a vector space $V$ is a $C$-valued function $T$ on $V×V×...×V×W×W×...×W$ (there are $r$ $V$'s and $s$ $W$'s in which $W$ is the dual space of $V$) which is linear in each argument. We take $(0, 0)$-tensors to be scalars, as a matter of convention. The interpretations of $(r,0)$-tensors are trivial, since they are definitions of multilinear functionals (as a special case $(1,0)$-tensor interpreted as covector (elements of dual space)). We can interpret $(1,1)$ tensors as follows: $A(v,f ) ≡ f (Av)$. Say we have a linear operator $R$; then we can turn $R$ into a second rank tensor $T$ by $T(v,w) �<|fim_middle|> be proved by taking a "gradient" with respect to the vector space of $\Lambda^s V^*$.
Geometrically, $\underline T$ maps an $r$-vector (which corresponds to an $r$-dimensional subspace) to an $s$-vector, and the $s$-covector $\Sigma$ allows us to extract the components of $\underline T(R)$.
| � v · Rw$ where $·$ denotes the usual dot product of vectors. If we compute the components of $T$ we find that the components of the tensor $T$ are the same as the components of the linear operator $R$. Ok. Everything is good. But I cant understand interpretations of other $(r,s)$-tensors. For example I found in Wikipedia $(0,1)$-tensor interpreted as a vector or $(0,2)$ as a bivector and in general $(0,s)$ tensor as $s$-vector tensor; or $(2,1)$ tensor as cross product and so on. I want you to show how the tensors in general interpreted. Is it possible for you to show these interpretations like as I did for $(1,1)$-tensor ?
A: Any alternating $(r,s)$ tensor has a corresponding map that goes $\Lambda^r V \to \Lambda^s V$. Suppose $R \in \Lambda^r V$ and $\Sigma \in \Lambda^s V^*$. Then define $\underline T:\Lambda^r V \to \Lambda^s V$ such that
$$T(R, \Sigma) = \Sigma[ \underline T(R)]$$
The uniqueness of $\underline T$ can | 264 |
If you are a young adult and have ended up in a place in life that you are not happy with, you are the only person with the power to change your future. The problem that you may have in this situation is knowing where to begin. If you feel hopeless and have no idea where to start, it might be worthwhile to spend some money on life coach services. Here are three ways this service could help you change your path so that you can have a great future.
The first step a life coach may help you with involves the way you view yourself. If you struggle with a low self-esteem, this may play a critical role in your success, motivation, and drive. If you do not work on changing the way you<|fim_middle|> life, primarily because they will guide your steps. Without them, how do you know which direction to go? Therefore, your life coach will help you create obtainable goals. Some of these may be small, short-term goals, while others may be long-term goals. For example, a short-term goal might be to find a job if you currently do not have one. A long-term goal might be to finish college to earn a degree.
The third key objective will be to create actionable steps that will help you achieve the goals you created. Without actionable steps, it will be hard to know how to reach your goals. With the right steps, though, you will know exactly what you need to do and the amount of time it should take to do it, and your life coach can help you with this too.
If you want to change your life for the better and do not know where to begin, hiring a certified life coach would be one of the best things you could do. For more information, contact Fagan & Associates or a similar firm. | view yourself, it will be hard to make true life changes that will make your life better. This is why your life coach may begin by learning more about you, how you look at yourself, and the reasons you feel the way you do.
For many people, changing the way they feel about themselves is easier to do as they make positive changes in their life. Developing a better attitude is a great place to start, but the second step your life coach will help you with is creating goals.
Goals are extremely important in | 104 |
W<|fim_middle|> death (a capital offense), suggesting that these are offenses of a substantially different magnitude. Strictly speaking the scope here is limited to miscarriage or unintentional abortion, so its applicability to an intended abortion is subject to debate. | oe to you who strive with your Maker, earthen vessels with the potter!
Does the clay say to the one who fashions it, "What are you making"?
or "Your work has no handles"?
Woe to anyone who says to a father, "What are you begetting?"
Because procreation is the work of God, it is unseemly to question how or when it occurs, much less speculate about God's competence in making humankind.
Ancient biblical culture is also characterized by the command to propagate (Genesis 1:28) and thus by a strongly reinforced desire for children. In addition to any innate yearning or social pressure for offspring, the infertile in biblical culture no doubt feared being seen as disobedient, and several biblical stories contain impassioned pleas for children. The most notably such plea is that ofpostmenopausal Sarah, the wife of Abraham, who according to the story subsequently gives birth to Isaac from whom all Israel descends. That God can cause this to happen against nature is taken as evidence of God's supremacy over nature.
In view of the involvement of God in procreation and of the command to populate the earth, it is somewhat surprising that Hebrew Scripture says little or nothing about the moral status of human life in utero. Exodus, chapter 21, discusses the legal consequences that follow from an accidental miscarriage: "When men strive together, and hurt a woman with child, so that there is a miscarriage, and yet no harm follows, the one who hurt her shall be fined, according as the woman's husband shall lay upon him; and he shall pay as the judges determine. If any harm follows, then you shall give life for life ..." (Exod. 21: 22-23).
While the text leaves much unsaid, it does prescribe different penalties for causing a miscarriage (a fine) and for causing the women's | 396 |
The Vincent Comet had frame similar in layout to the V-twin Vincent Black Shadow which included Vincent's proprietary cantilever rear suspension and Vincent's Girdraulic forks up front. Also typical of Vincent motorcycles, the Comet had two Single Leading-Shoe (SLS) front drum<|fim_middle|> like this Vincent Comet away. Kudos to its owner. | brakes, one on each side.
The Vincent Comet engine was an air-cooled 499cc OHV single with its camshaft set high in the crankcases. Both the cylinder block and cylinder head were made of aluminum alloy with a cast iron cylinder liner. The compression ratio was 7.3:1. These engines included a very unique valve arrangement with two valve guides on each valve with the forked rocker arms acting on that portion of the valves that laid between the two guides. This gave the valves more support and a much straighter path. The Comet single served as the basis for the V-twin engine in the Vincent Black Shadow, they just doubled everything. The gearbox was a Burman BAP 4-speed.
This lovely Vincent Comet was on display at the 2017 Quail Motorcycle Gathering in Carmel CA. A bit of a tricky day weather-wise (windy and it almost rained) but thankfully, it didn't keep amazing bikes | 198 |
Getting work out of Programmers, Part 2
20 Aug 2007 • industry
So here's how I think you get the most work out of programmers. This is a follow on from part 1.
Programmers have good morale when they are treated well, and they are given a problem that they know they can solve. Thank programmers whenever they do something. Let them know you not only know how much they work, but that you care. Keep track of morale through weekly one on ones with each and every programmer. Keep track of commitments you make to your programmers (including the verbal ones) and follow through on them. Make it clear that you are looking out for their interests. (Creating a Software Engineering Culture, Chapter 3.)
Money and stock options only have a limited effect on morale, and may have a negative effect (Agile Development, p63). Most often, a gift of money or stock options is a substitute. (Rapid Development, p262). Morale events can be fun, but don't actually raise morale – they just allow for a different kind of interaction with people. (How to avoid Lame Morale Events).
And there are all kinds of things that can hurt morale. I think the major one is the Broken Window Theory (Pragmatic Programmer, p4). Under the Broken Window Theory, any neglect or rot in a system that is not directly addressed and countered is a drag on morale. People wonder why it is that they have to write good code and do things right, when they're not allowed to fix the crappy code. Management assertions that "we don't have time right now" or "we'll do it later" start to sound empty and hollow as project after project goes by, and the crappy code festers and rots as hack after hack is piled on top of it.
The Psychology of Computer Programming, Chapter 10 deals specifically with Morale and Motivation. Rapid Development, Chapter 11 goes into typical developer motivations. They are both very much worth reading.
You can't make people sleep, and you can't do much about sleeping arrangements. But you can tell them that you want them to get 8 hours of sleep a night, and you can bring up lack of sleep as an issue. Anyone who looks sleep deprived needs help; either they have been trying to sneak in work late at night, or they're suffering in other ways. Give them all the help you can. The number of work hours will be an issue there.<|fim_middle|>19) (Building a Software Engineering Culture, Chapter 4).
You can hire talented programmers, but I think that's as much as can be done. I think that talent is not a static quality. I believe talent is a series of mental habits, and that new habits can be learned, just as old habits can be put aside. I believe that some useful habits are solid grasp of systems theory, along with an ability to ask the "right" question. But that's another essay. And there is another problem: talented people get bored doing things that don't stretch their capabilities. If you have work that doesn't require PhDs, you may be better off not hiring them.
According to decades of economists and management experts: 40 hours. Contrary to popular belief, the standard work week was not invented by the government or the unions. It was pioneered by Henry Ford in 1926. More than 40 hours a week, and the factories didn't produce as much money; the temporary increase in productivity was more than offset by industrial accidents and mistakes, and after two weeks there was less productivity. (Why Crunch Mode Doesn't Work) (Can People Really Program 80 Hours a Week?) (When Should You Start Project Overtime?)
This is counter-intuitive, so I'll say it again: studies prove overtime provides a temporary benefit for a maximum of two weeks, and is worse than useless thereafter. James Shore provides a recent example.
I believe this, not just from the studies, but from my own experience with extended overtime. Programmers will not only do less work, they'll make mistakes in the work that they do. Then they'll get irritable and suffer from low morale. Then they'll burn out completely. I believe (but do not have the studies to prove) that after even after normal work hours are restored, there is a convalescent effect; people will produce less work following the overtime, producing the same amount of work overall. So after the project goes live, they'll need a long convalescent period before they're up to snuff, or even worse, they'll look up from their monitors, take a good hard look at the results of their labor and their (usually meager) rewards, and quit, producing a huge opportunity cost for the company in terms of hiring, maintenance, and reputation. (It's Not Just Abusive, It's Stupid)
For every complex problem, there is a solution which is simple, obvious, and wrong. Extended overtime is that solution.
Fine; hours worked have no effect. What about directly applied pressure? What happens if we keep the hours, and if we tell the programmers to work harder and produce more work during those 8 hours?
Surprisingly, nothing. Programmers produce work using their brains; the amount of thoughts a programmer can have is fairly constant. Tom DeMarco and Tim Lister researched this and formulated Lister's Law: People under time pressure don't think faster. (Slack, p50) They might be more stressed, but that doesn't help people think faster; stress impedes complex thought, and pushes the brain to a "flight or flight" response. If you're stressing your programmers, they'll be at their desks more. But they're not going to write any more code.
This advice is all simple and straightforward. I don't see anything in here that comes as a shock, and even my mother said "Well, that's obvious, isn't it? It's like being a farmer and taking care of your cows. If you want your cows producing the most milk, you make sure they're treated like cows should be treated."
So treat your programmers well. Keep track of morale through weekly one on ones. Make it clear you care about the health and welfare of your programmers. Make sure programmers know what they should be working on at all times. Don't change out work that the programmers are doing or abuse the bug tracking system. Keep interruptions to a minimum to allow for flow. Establish a training and education budget, and establish mentoring and brown bag sessions to transfer experience. Keep to 40 hour work weeks, and forgo direct pressure.
Do all of these things, and you'll get more work out of your programmers. And you'll probably have programmers beating down your door to work for you.
EDIT: Also see this LinkedIn question that provides some useful advice. Larger monitors have been mentioned in several studies, but I don't have the references to hand. | And if someone loads up on caffeine and junk food late at night… well, I'd point out that there may be a connection (How to Sleep Better).
Exhausted employees are easy to spot. They're the people who frighten small children and spouses. They are not fit for work. They barely even know they are at work. They should be sent home until they know what they're doing. Just that simple act of humanity will raise morale.
The best way to ensure focus is to ensure transparency and feedback. If programmers have a public, physical way to see what needs to be done at a granular level, whether in a todo list on a whiteboard or a series of 3x5 cards on the wall, they can see at a glance what they will be working on not just today, but next week as well. (Agile Development, p97) This works very well for helping out programmers who have a large list, or determining the priorities – you can only have one task on the top of the list, so what you are supposed to do is never in doubt. This is a technique that is used in several agile methodologies, and is known as an information radiator. (Crystal Clear, p32)
Don't confuse your programmers, or worse, try to multitask them. If you give them two jobs to do at the same time with the same priority, you're putting them in a situation where they cannot win; no matter what they do, they'll be working on the wrong thing. And if they try to do them in parallel, they'll do both jobs more slowly than they would if they did them sequentially. (Joel on Software) (The Multitasking Myth) (Quality Software Management)
Keep the number of goals small in a project. Pick one objective and make it clear that it's the most important one. (Rapid Development, p257)
But the best thing you can do for programmers is to let them work. Don't interrupt them. Don't spring meetings or interviews on them with no warning. Don't change what they're working on. Don't spring last minute high priority projects on them. Don't file marketing requests to change the font size as priority one critical bugs. Don't come up and ask when a bug is going to be fixed. Don't ask them for status updates every five minutes. I've seen constant change requests happen at company after company and I can tell you from experience what happens… the programmers roll their eyes, and they stop taking priority changes seriously. Because they know that in an hour's time, it won't be a priority any more. (Rapid Development, p259)
If you let your programmers work uninterrupted, something wonderful will happen. There's a psychological state called flow that has been documented by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi. In this state, programmers are able to be "in the zone" and become focused to a great extent. Programmers in flow can produce far more code than they would be able to ordinarily. There is a catch though; it takes the average person at least 15 minutes of uninterrupted work to enter flow. If they are interrupted, or even expect to be interrupted, then they're less lightly to enter flow. (Rapid Development, p506) Some teams implement a policy called "focus time" (Crystal Clear, p33) or the "cone of silence" (Alistair Cockburn) where meetings and interruptions are banned for a portion of the day. Other teams use a red bandanna (Peopleware) or a sign to indicate that they are not to be interrupted, or other methods.
The best way to have programmers with the best background in the problem domain is to cultivate them. I've been surprised in the past how little programmers know what the business does. I've often thought it would be a useful exercise to have new programmers spend some time with each member of the business team to understand their concerns and priorities. Failing that, it can be a good idea to have documentation (business process management or six sigma documentation) that can bring new programmers up to speed on the organization as a whole. Of course, this only works so far in that it doesn't track the history of the organization. Legacy code is nettlesome to new programmers, because typically they reflect legacy business processes and legacy business decisions. But ultimately, it comes with time.
Business specific domains, by nature, share little common ground with each other. There are only a couple of books I can recommend here. Domain Driven Design is the single best book I have read about how to effectively model and discuss domains. It is a similar book to Design Patterns, as it not only talks about implementation and common patterns, but it talks about domains as a common language. And Working Effectively with Legacy Code does an excellent job of pointing out useful ways to desnarl and refactor code that is no longer up to snuff.
Experience comes with work. It doesn't always come with time. To quote Weinburg, experience is the best teacher, but it doesn't necessarily teach anything. Experience can be passed on by proxy, through education and mentoring: some of the best experiences I've learned from have been the ones other people have had. If you want books that give experience, then Code Complete 2 and Refactoring are the best bets. If you want to read about experience, then Software Craftsmanship and Software Creativity are the best books. But if you want to make gathering experience, then make it available to your programmers. Set aside an education budget. Encourage your employees to attend conferences and seminars. Join a software engineering book club and have programmers pick out reference books for an in-house library. Have regular brown bag sessions and encourage your team to pass techniques around the company. Do this, and you will not only raise the general experience level of your team, but you will raise morale as well. (Rapid Development p257) (Software Craftsmanship, Chapter | 1,229 |
The Bible begins with the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil (Gn 2:9). It ends with the trees of life on the banks of the river of life-giving waters in heaven (Rv 22:1-2). Ezekiel described the Messianic kingdom as a majestic cedar tree on a high mountain (Ez 17:22-23). In contrast, Jesus described His kingdom in a much less impressive way as being like a mustard tree or shrub (Mk 4:32<|fim_middle|> establishing God's kingdom on earth as it is in heaven. It is the way to enter the kingdom of heaven.
There were trees in paradise. There are trees in heaven. The Spirit called the early Church to view the cross as a tree. The poet Joyce Kilmer was right when he said he would never see anything as wondrous as a tree.
Prayer: Father, may the sight of a tree make me think with gratitude of Your Son's cross.
Praise: Praise You, Jesus, crucified and risen Lord of life and love. Alleluia forever! | ). Finally, the early Church referred to Jesus' cross as a tree (see Acts 13:29).
The cross is the ultimate tree of life bridging Genesis to Revelation, the beginning to the end, earth to heaven, and humanity to God. The tree of the cross is the fulfillment of the Messianic prophecies. It is the means of | 75 |
Set out for an exciting vacation to Phuket in Thailand, and enjoy the best of a tropical landscape. The island is located in the Andaman Sea, off the western coast of the mainland. Bask in the sun on pristine white beaches and let the gentle waves of the cerulean sea caress you. Treat your eyes to the beautiful panoramas of the tropical foliage and have the vacation of a lifetime in one of the many resorts found here. For your convenience, we have put together a list of pool villas in Phuket, found on Airbnb, and all under the cost of 120 USD per day.
Situated on the Loch Palm golf course, this four-bedroom luxury garden villa is perfect for families or small groups of up to six who hanker after the delights of a luxury villa without busting the wallet. Aside from the usual package of amenities which includes a spacious open-plan lounge, a well-appointed kitchen, and a private pool, this tropical villa also offers several treats that you are unlikely to get anywhere else. Guests will also have access to a fully equipped gym, a large pool, lush tropical gardens, and fantastic Thai dining at the clubhouses at Loch Palm and Red Mountain. The host also encourages longer stays by offering a 10% discount for a week-long stay and 20% for a month-long stay.
The villa itself is well-furnished with all the comforts of a relaxing, enjoyable and memorable stay being provided. It is situated far<|fim_middle|> of amenities, including a private infinity edge pool encompassed by a large teak sundeck and a mature tropical garden, both sweet spots to dine al fresco or simply relax under the sun. The added cherry on top is its provision of a wooden Thai diving yacht, as well as a luxury speedboat, to explore the neighboring islands such as the Similans, Phang Nga Bay, Krabi, and Phi Phi.
A fan-favorite on Airbnb, Safari Home enjoys a beautiful location near Nai Yang Beach. The spacious bedroom is air-conditioned and has an attached bathroom and balcony. A living room and kitchen are also offered for your private use. Enjoy a vigorous work-out in the gym and jump into the pool, to cool off. Alternatively, you can just run to the beach and splash about in the sea. Savor delicacies from around the world, at the various restaurants around this beachfront accommodation.
Cradled in the midst of a lavish landscaped garden, Silk Town House is an oft-picked accommodation on Airbnb. It offers a perfect getaway for the entire family and comes with two spacious bedrooms and bathrooms. You can even bring your pets to this amazing resort. The huge swimming pool, with its crystal-clear waters, invites you to jump in and have the time of your life. Located in the middle of Phuket Island, many of the local attractions are easily accessible from here.
Perfect for couples looking for a romantic getaway, family vacationers or business vagabonds, this one-bedroom Balinese villa comes with a wealth of amenities for its modest size. It features a plush king-size bed with luscious sheets, a well-appointed kitchen, as well as a peaceful, private garden for a nice nap in the warm sunshine. The highlight of the accommodation is undoubtedly the large plunge pool adjacent to the garden, where guests can socialize with their friends and loved ones while lounging on the sun chairs provided. The Nai Harn and Rawai Beach, located a stone's throw away from the villa, are great swimming spots as well. If you're looking to escape the crowds, look no further. This villa is the only private one-bedroom standalone villa in Baan-Bua that you'll definitely enjoy.
This apartment in Tambon Chalong renders memorable hospitality with a stay that offers a unique combination of valuable amenities and a winning proximity to local beaches. Featuring the care of two en-suites, an open-plan living area, a fully equipped kitchen, and a private swimming pool with a sunbathing terrace, this getaway is within walking distance of an array of cafes and restaurants that serve fresh seafood which will delight your taste buds. Add to that the fact that the beach is just a 5-minute walk away, and you know you're in for a superb beach vacation in Phuket! The host encourages longer stays by offering a free transfer from the airport for guests who staying for more than 5 days.
Enjoy a month-long vacation in this luxury condominium, a favorite on Airbnb. Two lavishly furnished bedrooms and a single bathroom are given for your private use. A kitchen and living area, along with a private balcony, are also provided, to make your stay more comfortable. A fully equipped gym is available so that you need not break your work-out schedule. Splash about in the huge pool and have the vacation of a lifetime with your loved one.
Have the perfect vacation, while you stay in a lavish three-bedroom house and enjoy the perks of an outdoor pool and a sauna. The air conditioned townhouse, preferred by many on Airbnb, is surrounded by beautiful green hills and is within easy walking distance of Kamala Beach. Spread out over three floors, the house comes with a fully equipped kitchen and living area. Bond with your family and utilize the modern amenities provided for your entertainment.
Get an entire villa for your use at Cedric Sweet Villa, which is a favorite on Airbnb. With three spacious and air conditioned bedrooms and two bathrooms, it is quite ideal for a large family. A beautiful garden surrounds the villa, with an outdoor pool, where the whole family can jump in and have fun. The fully equipped kitchen invites you to play around with new recipes and surprise your family with delicious treats. Please note that the electricity price is not covered in the rent.
Located within easy walking distance of Kamala Beach and Patong Beach, Kamala Silk Bungalow offers you two lavish bedrooms with attached bathrooms. A favored pick on Airbnb, it offers you a fun-filled vacation. Enjoy a splash in the pool with your near and dear ones. The spacious kitchen is perfect for the budding chef as you experiment with exotic recipes. Revel in the beautiful landscape of a forest-covered mountain side. | enough from the hustle and bustle of the city, but located just a short drive to attractions such as Patong beach, Phuket Town, Central Festival, and Big C shopping centers. Whether you're in for some golf, or to sample splendid Thai cuisine, work out at the gym or the pool, or just amble around while taking in the serenity of the surrounding gardens, a stay in the Luxury Garden Villa at Loch Palm is guaranteed to melt all your stresses away.
Get lost in the hidden world of The Mangrove Panwa Phuket Resort, one of the best-loved resorts on Airbnb. Surrounded by lush green foliage and overlooking the Chalong Bay, this is the perfect getaway from the stress of your life. Lounge along the pool deck and have fun, splashing in the cool waters of the outdoor pool. The single bedroom is air conditioned and equipped with many modern amenities and a lavish bathroom.
The room can accommodate up to two guests and this is one of the few places in the area that provides a complimentary breakfast buffet that has earned rave reviews from guests. The resort is remotely situated, so expect long trips to and from town. They do provide a shuttle service twice a day to town, but do note that you will need to make your own arrangements for the trip back. Spend some time in The Mangrove, and you may not find any need to leave. If you are looking for solitude and tranquility far away from the crowds, this is the perfect place for you.
This two-bedroom villa on Rawai Beach is near-mythic in comfort and convenience. It features two-ensuites, a spacious open-plan lounge, a fully functional kitchen, and the most outstanding of all amenities, a 6.5 x 3.5-metre (21.3 x 11.5-foot) pool with color-changing lights that are sure to dazzle anyone. As if these weren't enough to entice guests, the villa is a mere 5-minute walk away from the Rawai beachfront, which houses a wealth of restaurants, bars, and shops, apart from azure blue waters that are perfect for a swim. With the popular gypsy fish and seafood market only a 10-minute walk away, you can purchase a ton of fresh seafood and cook up a feast to enjoy in the comfort of the cozy lounge!
Enjoy your vacation and stay in a one-bedroom apartment at White Breeze Pool Apartments, found on Airbnb. Step out of the huge glass doors, directly onto the deck of a lavish swimming pool. The apartment is air conditioned and has a bathroom, living area and kitchen, all for your use. Get away from the crowds and enjoy a private terrace and the beautiful garden that surrounds the apartments. Head to the nearby Phromptep Cape and revel in the beautiful colors of a romantic sunset.
Serenity beckons you at Private villa in the outskirts of Rawai. Favored on Airbnb by those who wish to have a break from the noisy atmosphere of the city, these villas offer you two lavish bedrooms and bathrooms. Equipped with an outdoor pool and spacious balconies, the villa is the ideal place for you to unwind the stress of life. Take advantage of the proximity to restaurants offering delicious cuisine, and spa centers offering therapeutic massages. Bask in the beauty of nature on all days of your vacation.
Run down to the beach at any time of the day while you stay at Koh Sirey beachfront villa, a favored choice on Airbnb. Two spacious and air conditioned bedrooms are available for your use here. Splash about in the outdoor saltwater pool, equipped with a Jacuzzi, which overlooks the pristine white beach. Whether you are on honeymoon or a family vacation, these villas have the perfect accommodations for all your needs. Enjoy the private beachfront and have a grand vacation.
With an amalgamation of contemporary Thai and Shanxi furniture, along with artwork collected from across Asia, this two-bedroom boutique villa is the epitome of "East meets West". The eye-pleasing details undoubtedly attracts artistic souls seeking an enclave to be inspired in their creative pursuits and create a romantic and luxurious atmosphere, conducive to the most relaxing holidays. On top of that, it boasts a range | 859 |
Carrie Mess is a dairy farmer in southern Wisconsin who has built a well-known food and agriculture blog. Better known publically as Dairy Carrie, for the last six years she's traveled the world sharing her journey with agricult<|fim_middle|> | urists of all ages. By sharing her own story, she encourages other to let their voices be heard. Last week, she was a keynote presenter on FarmHer's Grow Tour.
More than 500 young women across the Midwest listened to Mess's presentation, Your Voice Matters. The inspiring and empowering tour made stops at Iowa State University, University of Minnesota, and University of Wisconsin.
The messages Mess shared with the high school- and college-age women stem from a lesson she had to learn for herself through twists and turns in her career.
"I am not the person anyone expected to be doing this," Mess confesses, reflecting on her early years growing up in Madison, Wisconsin. In fact, early on Mess pictured herself training horses or interpreting for the deaf.
While she has always been an animal lover, Mess's experiences in agriculture were limited. Outside of a litter of baby raccoons at her grandparents' farm, growing up she had no exposure to livestock, she explains with a laugh.
Fortunately, for the four years she was there, her high school had an FFA chapter. Involvement in the program opened a door to showing livestock, specifically miniature donkeys. Mess explains that showing animals out of the petting zoo didn't exactly make her popular, but FFA did facilitate some important relationships in her life.
Today, Mess is still friends with the instructor who facilitated her first showing experience. Due to FFA connections, she also met her husband, Patrick.
When her in-laws declined her offer to work for them, she quit her office job. She was determined to work on the farm. "I really found my passion being on the farm," Mess reflects.
A number of years later, her husband joined her on the family operation.
After realizing all she'd learned on the farm, Mess decided to start sharing online. In 2011, as farmers in Texas were suffering from drought, she got an idea. She set a goal of organizing two loads of donated hay through her blogging connections. By the time she was done, seven loads of hay were sent south.
"That's when I learned my voice online could really mean something in real life," Mess shares.
Since then, she's been using her voice to bring attention to causes and information that matter to her. She's dedicated hours to explaining the practices on her family's farm and milk labels. | 481 |
Be prepared to be hassled by Census staff a lot more
WOES: Census' epic fail on August 9 earnt the ire of many. Contributed
by Scott Sawyer
Scott Sawyer
23rd Sep 2016 5:00 AM
DESPITE a shambolic start the Australian Bureau of Statistics is telling us nearly 95% of households have completed the national survey.
Ten million households were under the scope of the Census and a Census spokesman said they'd so far identified about 8.7 million households occupied on Census night (August 9).
Of those 8.7 million almost 95% had returned their forms ahead of today's final return date.
The spokesman said that percentage would alter slightly as the number of non-respondents was identified and that data captured, meaning the final figure on<|fim_middle|> be washed out).
"If they lose a type of person (from the data) well that's going to be a problem," he said.
In the 2011 Census, 89.3% of dwellings were found to be occupied on Census night, with unoccupied residences having to be accounted for in order to accurately calculate the response rate.
The spokesman said fines were still available to be imposed on those who did not partake, although Census workers can visit households up to five times to try and capture data before a notice is issued and matters are progressed to prosecution.
The Census helpline will stay open until the end of September.
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australian bureau of statistics census 2016 data editors picks federal government statistics sunshine coast | just how many households took part will still be some time away from being known.
He said the Bureau didn't factor for responses from unoccupied households.
University of the Sunshine Coast senior lecturer of social science and statistics expert Doctor Peter Innes said the completion rate announced was an impressive figure.
He said typical surveys were lucky to achieve a participation rate higher than 10%.
"Typical response rates (to surveys) can be very low," Dr Innes said.
"In research terms, it's (the Census participation rate) excellent. Anywhere over 90% heading towards 95% of a population ... that's always going to give you fantastic indicators."
But Dr Innes prefaced his comments with a salient point.
If the technical issues and controversy over data being collected had driven a specific group away from completing the survey, the data produced would be skewed.
"If it's (non-participation) systematic (rather than random) it's a problem because it represents a bias," Dr Innes said.
"If non-responses are random it's not going to be a problem, the data indicators will still be okay (as any bias would | 233 |
Burna Boy Talks "AfroFusion," His Still-Blazing Career & More With 'British GQ'
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Burna Boy has been bubbling as an artist since releasing his debut studio album L.I.F.E. back in 2013. Fresh from winning a Grammy Award for his latest set Twice As Tall, the "AfroFusion" artist talks up his still blazing career, how he's transformed the musical landscape, and what It means to be a leader for his generation.
Sitting down with British GQ, the entertainer born Damini Ebunoluwa Ogulu spoke with the publication from his home of Port Harcourt in<|fim_middle|> a worthy read. Check out the full chat at Britsh GQ here. | Nigeria. The piece opens up with the prideful moment when Burna won the Best Global Music Album award at the 63rd Grammy Awards show and the celebration that ensued. Burna's acceptance speech made sure to center those within his nation and all of Africa.
The interview pointed to the fact Burna hasn't truly opened up in interviews, preferring to let his songs speak for him and provide insight into his life. As the sound of AfroFusion became Burna's trademark, so did his fame around the world rise. It is amazing to note that Burna's style of music has crossed over to western ears but it should be expected when the music is as rhythmic as the style he employs.
As evidenced in the interview, Burna Boy realizes what he represents to his Nigerian brothers and sisters, and it appears he's ready to accept the responsibility.
From GQ:
"I wasn't celebrating because of myself," he tells me. "It was almost as if I've broken a mental cycle of our people. Because our people have been very mentally oppressed to feel like they can't do certain things and that certain things are unreachable. You are what you think, at the end of the day. [It is] time to start thinking about ourselves, not what the society said we should be or what our limitations say we should be. I've come from Port Harcourt, the bottom of the map in Nigeria, and now I've become a champion. It may not mean anything to someone else, but to me, and to us, it means more than you can imagine."
The entire piece is | 324 |
Cultural Calendar
Angela Brown, "Opera…from a Sistah's Point of View"
Whitley Auditorium, 7:30 p.m.
Angela Brown personifies the ideal soprano: sheer vocal power, luxurious finesse and shimmering, high pianissimos. Her highly acclaimed Metropolitan Opera debut in the title role of "Aida" captured international media attention and catapulted Ms. Brown onto the world's prestigious opera and symphonic stages. Her groundbreaking show, "Opera…from a Sistah's Point of View" dispels the myths surrounding the sometimes-intimidating art form and delineates the ethnic, geographic and socio-economic diversity portrayed in famous characters. Preconceived expectations of opera are shattered by show-stopping arias, poignant art songs and moving spirituals. The Elon performance will include students from the Department of Music. Admission: $15 or Elon ID. Tickets available beginning February 9 at elon.universitytickets.com. Sponsored by the Department of Music and supported by a grant from the Elon University Fund for Excellence in the Arts & Sciences
Elon Community Church, 12:15 p.m. and 9 p.m.
Sacred Space, Numen Lumen Pavilion, 3:30 p.m.
All are welcome to receive ashes during a worship service beginning the Christian season of Lent. The 12:15 p.m. worship is ecumenical (Protestant and Catholic), and the 9 p.m. service is Catholic Mass. A shorter Ash Wednesday service will be offered at 3:30 p.m. Please visit org.elon.edu/ccm for the full schedule. Sponsored by Catholic Campus Ministry, LEAF (Lutherans, Episcopalians, and Friends), and the Truitt Center for Religious and Spiritual Life
Angela Brown Master Class
Yeager Recital Hall, 6 p.m.
As part of her multi-day visit to Elon University, Angela Brown will coach students from the Department of Music in operatic repertoire. The master class is open to the public.
Liberal Arts Forum Lecture
Whitley Auditorium 7:30 p.m.
Department of Performing Arts presents "Bridging: The Spring Dance Concert"
Friday-Sunday, March 4-6
McCrary Theatre, Center for the Arts
Mar. 4, 7:30 p.m.; Mar. 5, 2 and 7:30 p.m.; Mar. 6, 2 p.m.
Artistic direction: Renay Aumiller; guest artist<|fim_middle|> dance program will celebrate interconnection and togetherness with each other and the audience in McCrary Theatre. Admission: $15 or Elon ID. Tickets available beginning February 11 at elon.universitytickets.com.
"Sounding Bodies: Identity, Injustice and the Voice"
Isabella Cannon Room, Center for the Arts, 6 p.m.
The Women's, Gender and Sexualities Studies Research Collective is excited to hold its inaugural common reading panel discussion on "Sounding Bodies: Identity, Injustice and the Voice" featuring co-authors Ann Cahill (Elon University) and Christine Hamel (Boston University). Refreshments to follow.
Danu
McCrary Theatre, Center for the Arts, 7:30 p.m.
Hailing from historic County Waterford, Ireland, Danu is a leading traditional Irish ensemble. Their standing-room-only concerts feature high-energy performance and a glorious mix of ancient Irish music and new repertoire. For more than two decades, Danu's virtuosi players on flute, tin whistle, fiddle, button accordion, bouzouki and vocals, have taken audiences on a musical journey to their native home, offering a moving and memorable concert experience. Admission: $15 or Elon ID. Tickets available February 15 at elon.universitytickets.com.
Andrea Grimes Parker, "Transforming the Health of Communities through Innovation in Social Computing"
McCrary Theatre, Center for the Arts, 7 p.m.
Voices of Discovery Science Speaker Series
Andrea Parker's work centers on software tools that aim to improve health and wellness as well as addressing public health challenges, including racial and socio-economic health disparities. Specific projects from Parker's lab have included designing and evaluating the use of mobile health interventions in marginalized and underserved populations; studying the effectiveness of current social networking systems in addressing health disparities; developing and evaluating technology support systems for caregivers; and creating mobile family-based games to promote physical activity. Parker's research has been supported by the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, Google and the Aetna Foundation. She was a recipient of a Microsoft Graduate Research Fellowship for the social impact of her research.
Susanna Crum: "Negative Mirrors"
Gallery 406, Arts West, artist talk and opening reception, 5:30 p.m.
Exhibition continues through April 29
In "Negative Mirrors," project-based multidisciplinary artist Susanna Crum shares bodies of work that investigate alternative ways to map and observe systems that shape our societies – from natural geography, the built environment and the information network of the U.S. Postal Service. Using processes like cyanotype, intaglio, drawing and video, as well as wet plate collodion photographs in collaboration with artist Rudy Salgado, Crum combines community-based research with archival materials, and proposes an interpretation of place in which past and present are concurrent and vital.
Her work has been featured in international and national exhibitions at venues such as Museu do Douro in Portugal, Nicole Longnecker Gallery in Houston, TX, and 1078 Gallery in Chico, CA.
Grand Night
Roberts Studio Theatre, Scott Studios at Arts West, 6:30 and 8:30 p.m., one night only
Faculty advisors: Deb Leamy and Chris Rayis
An evening of song and dance by the students in the Elon Music Theatre program. Admission: $15 or Elon ID. Reservations are highly recommended and will be offered beginning March 18 at elonperformingarts.com.
Leland Melvin, "Chasing Space: An Astronaut's Story of Grit, Grace and Second Chances"
Alumni Gym, Koury Athletic Center, 7 p.m.
The Baird Lecture
Leland Melvin is an engineer, educator, and former NASA astronaut. He served on board the Space Shuttle Atlantis as a mission specialist on missions STS-122 (2008) and STS-129 (2009), helping to construct the International Space Station.
Drafted by the Detroit Lions in 1986, a hamstring injury thwarted his NFL career. Three years after being drafted, Melvin, who majored in chemistry in college, joined the NASA Langley Research Center. Less than a decade later, Melvin was selected as an astronaut. Upon hanging up his space boots, he led NASA Education and co-chaired the White House's Federal Coordination in STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) Education Task Force, developing the nation's five-year STEM education plan.
After 24 years with NASA as a researcher, astronaut and Senior Executive Service leader, he now shares his life story as an athlete, astronaut, scientist, engineer, photographer and musician to help inspire the next generation of explorers to pursue STEAM careers. Admission: $15 or Elon ID. Tickets available beginning March 10 at elon.universitytickets.com.
January/February Events
Elon University Speaker Series
Download the Calendar (PDF) | /choreographer: Ashley Lindsey; faculty choreographers: Renay Aumiller, Shaleigh Comerford, Jen Guy Metcalf, Jasmine Powell and Keshia Wall
"Bridging: the Spring Dance Concert," features original works by Elon faculty and our guest choreographer, Ashley Lindsey. "Bridging" describes places, or periods of time that thematically explore the means of connection or transition. After almost two years of dancing alone together, the | 94 |
Lyon president Jean-Michel Aulas is mentally-prepared for Liverpool to revive negotiations over a deal for Nabil Fekir this summer.
The Reds withdrew from talks in the 11th hour at the beginning of June having agreed a £53million fee and personal terms for the Frenchman.
Fekir himself even conducted LFCTV interviews ahead of his unexpected unveiling, only for concerns raised in his medical to scupper his Anfield switch.
Despite his reputation as a tough negotiator, Aulas has since been open to the possibility of Liverpool resurecting the transfer for the playmaker after he returns from the World Cup with finalists France.
Aulas has again admitted that Fekir could still join the<|fim_middle|> if Liverpool do opt to reignite their pursuit.
The coming weeks could be telling in regards to where his future lies. | Reds, but believes he would also be happy to stay put at Lyon.
He said: "It seems to me that Liverpool could come back to the charge … That's what I saw in the press, but I'm not informed," per le10sport.com.
Liverpool's step back from the deal evidently stemmed from an underlying knee issue relating to his anterior cruciate ligament injury in 2015.
It may be that the club strives to restructure the financial aspects of the initially agreed deal in light of fears over his longevity.
Whilst the late withdrawal proved a shock twist at the time, it has since materialised as a potentially wise reconsideration given the physically-demanding nature of Jurgen Klopp's style of football in a far more intense division than Ligue 1.
Having rarely featured for France in Russia, Fekir's original price-tag is unlikely to be altered | 179 |
This May Be the Simplest Ad That's Ever Saved Lives
Grey Poland sent out 28 million fliers to prevent CO poisoning
It's as easy as holding a piece of paper to your vent, but it could prevent carbon monoxide poisoning.
Grey Group Poland
Not every life-saving ad campaign has to rely on complicated new technology or emotional pleas for awareness. In this case, all it took was a piece of paper.
Grey Group Poland recently brought together the nation's largest retailers and the Polish National Fire Department to distribute a flier that looked like almost any other ad you might find in your mail or newspaper. But the difference was in how Poles were told to use it.
Instructions on the leaflet took up only part of the ad page and told the recipient to hold it up to a home intake vent. If it sticks, the house has good circulation. If it doesn't, the vent might be clogged and could pose a carbon monoxide threat.
Here's a case study about the ad, of which 28 million copies were printed to reach an estimated 40 million Poles:
Odorless and deadly Carbon monoxide kills about 100 Poles each year. Here in America, the number is closer to 430 per year. The ad was created in part by art director Dominika Hałas, who was inspired by the frequency of
"The starting point was connected to my hometown," she tells Little Black Book. "I was born in Silesia (Katowice), the Polish 'land of carbon,' where the problem of carbon monoxide poisoning is very strong."
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Check out a sample flier and translated instruction copy below:
Hat tip to Nico Huvé at the Epica Awards for sharing this one.
Clients: Pepco, Lewiatan, Złote Tarasy, The National Fire Service of Poland
Creative agency: Grey Group Poland
Executive Creative Director: Jakub Korolczuk
Art Director: Dominika Hałas
Copywriter: Jakub Korolczuk, Marek Górski
Additional credits: Per Pedersen, Anna Pańczyk, Adam Śmiłowski, Rafał Ryś, , Anna Green, Aleksandra Śliwińska, Izabela Łukaszewska – Grygoruk, Weronika Kendra, Dominika J | 165 |
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However, the Portuguese boss has confirmed that Pogba is no longer the vice-captain behind Antonio Valencia following his side's EFL Cup defeat to Derby County this evening. After United's opening day victory over Leicester City, Pogba claimed he would be fined if he said what he wanted to say about his situation at United.
I'm excited to play with a younger group of guys who get up and down, play at a faster pace and to play with another passing big like (Jonas) Valanciunas. The preferred destination was, of course, Los Angeles, but Ujiri came in with the Leonard trade anyway, hoping a sterling 2018-19 season could convince Leonard to sign long-term.
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Senate on Food & Wine list of 'America's Best Hot Dogs'
Tasha Stewart
tstewart@cincinnati.com
The national love just keeps coming for Over-the-Rhine restaurant Senate.
Food & Wine magazine recently included the eatery in its list of "America's Best Hot Dogs."
Writer Pervaiz Shallwani said of Senate, "Chef Daniel Wright has received national accolades for his playful takes on pub food, including a regularly changing menu of hot dogs like the Croque Madame (Black Forest ham, poached egg, béchamel) and the Lindsay Lohan (goat cheese, caramelized onions<|fim_middle|> most popular hot dogs and other menu items. The book is available at Joseph-Beth Booksellers, where there will be a book signing on 7 p.m. on June 23.
Senate: 1212 Vine St., Over-the-Rhine. 513-421-2020; senatepub.com. | , bacon, arugula and balsamic vinegar)."
Senate's Croque Madame hot dog also has recently been singled out for extra kudos. In May, The Daily Meal featured it in its list of "America's 50 Best Hot Dogs," along with Blue Ash Chili's coney.
Wright earlier this month published a cookbook, "Senate: Street & Savory," that shares recipes for many of the restaurant's | 88 |
Resources: Local History
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Local history of Ridgefield, Connecticut.
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The Ridgefield History collection is located in Adult Services which is on the upper level of the Ridgefield Library at 472 Main Street in Ridgefield, Connecticut. The collection includes:
Books and resources on the history of Ridgefield,
Microfilm editions of the Ridgefield Press newspaper from 1875 to present.
An index of Ridgefield Press obituaries from 1875 to 2005.
An architectural survey of historic homes in Ridgefield.
Ridgefield High School yearbooks.
Ridgefield Chronicles
Ridgefield Chronicles by Jack Sanders
Purchased from the Ramapoo Indians in 1708, Ridgefield welcomed immigrants to its bustling community from the start. The peaceful Connecticut town later served as a retreat for wealthy New Yorkers. With its long history and cast of local characters, Ridgefield has many fascinating stories to tell. In the early 1900s, Typhoid Mary was known to cook for a Ridgefield family. On Olmstead Lane, the landmark that most locals<|fim_middle|> | think is a broken fountain is actually a watering trough. For more than forty years, newspaper editor Jack Sanders has covered the captivating history of Ridgefield. In a uniquely selected collection of articles, the town's history comes to life with tales of Pulitzer Prize winners like Eugene O'Neill and disasters such as the 1905 train wreck. These and other glimpses of the past celebrate Ridgefield's rich history.
Wicked Ridgefield
Wicked Ridgefield, Connecticut by Jack Sanders
Ridgefield is no stranger to life's shadier characters. The history of this idyllic community includes cunning crooks, suburban embezzlers, bungling burglars and wandering scallywags. In 1894, a group of bank robbers literally blew it in a heist at the Saving Bank--the explosion attracted witnesses to see the gang miss out on a grand haul of fifty dollars. Half a decade later, in 1940, a skeleton whose origins still befuddle experts was unearthed in a tree nursery. This look at the darker side of Ridgefield's past includes sad and tragic moments as well, such as newlyweds imprisoned in the Tombs, the Satanists of the '70s and a hermit murdered for love. Local editor Jack Sanders tells fascinating tales of two centuries of Ridgefield criminals, n'er-do-wells and even wayward do-gooders in this entertaining--and occasionally humorous--glimpse into some of the town's wickedest moments.
Hidden History of Ridgefield, Connecticut
Hidden History of Ridgefield, Connecticut by Jack Sanders
Time nearly erased many astounding tales and unexpected anecdotes from Ridgefield's history. Its colorful characters include a widow who built a landmark Manhattan hotel, her neighbor who invented one of the first "helicopters" and a CIA operative who helped one thousand Americans flee Saigon at the end of the Vietnam War. Lesser known are the stories of the Ridgefield artists who gave the world Superman and Lowly Worm and brought the Wild West to life. One local writer helped make Hawthorne famous, while another penned thousands of hymns still sung around the globe. Join retired newspaper editor Jack Sanders as he uncovers nearly forgotten people and moments of Ridgefield's past.
Ridgefield, 1900-1950
Ridgefield, 1900-1950 by Jack Sanders
Ridgefield has long been a destination-for tourists seeking a picturesque country village, for city dwellers looking for a weekend and summer retreat, and for immigrants in search of a new life. In the first half of the twentieth century, a period that corresponded to the heyday of the picture postcard, hundreds of views were published, depicting the beautiful Main Street, the many inns and resorts, the mansions, estates, village shops, churches, and scenic hills and lakes. Ridgefield: 1900-1950 offers more than two hundred of these glimpses of a bygone time of affluence and change-what one historian has called Ridgefield's golden era.
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