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The iPhone X might be in short supply when it launches.
One analyst says Apple's suppliers can only build 10,000 units a day.
The gold version is expected to be in particularly short supply.
Apple's next high-end iPhone, which is expected to be introduced on Tuesday and called the iPhone X, according to leaks, may be very difficult to buy.
According to a note from widely followed KGI Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo that was obtained by MacRumors, Apple's suppliers are only able to build 10,000 iPhone X units per day. Kuo said this "means the model will remain in severe short supply for a while."
This aligns with earlier reports, including from Kuo, that suggested Apple was having a difficult time manufacturing the phones. One constraint might be OLED panels, which are in short supply. UBS said in August that the high-end iPhone would be delayed until September, so it sounds like Apple has managed to work out some kinks.
Kuo added that the "gold version of the OLED iPhone will encounter some production problems and will initially be available in extremely low volume," noting that it might even launch after the other iPhone X colors.
The takeaway? Set your alarm to preorder the iPhone X right when it goes on sale — at least if you want to be the first on your block with one.
CNBC reached out to Apple for comment but a spokesperson was not immediately available.
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Fiction by Brenda Lozano translated from the Spanish by Alice Whitmore.
There are thirty-three mosquito bites on his legs. He scratches each welt, one by one, before his bath. The largest is on his left heel. He and Lola had planned to visit their friends in the country together, but they broke up the day before New Year’s Eve. He decided instead to go up on his own anyway, the long weekend before work went back, just as he’d planned with Lola, just as they’d planned together. His friend is preparing coffee, and he notices that he has no bites. His other friend comes into the kitchen, she has no bites either. He asks if they have something for the itch, some kind of ointment, mosquito repellent, a spray to kill them all in the night. We don’t have anything like that, his friend says. They’ve lived in the country for years, the mosquitos have grown accustomed to them, he thinks, or they’ve grown accustomed to the mosquitos. In any case, it’s been a while since they bought anything like mosquito repellent or insecticide. I’ve been devoured by mosquitos, he tells his friend, showing her the swollen red marks on his forearms.
At breakfast, Juliana and Manuel tell him about the vegetable patch they’d only just begun planning last time he visited. Lola had been with him: he does some counting, it was around his birthday, four years ago. He remembers now, suddenly he remembers it as if Lola were there with him, as if nothing had happened and Manuel were again sketching out on a napkin his plans for the vegetable patch they were now about to admire. He observes the rosemary, the basil, the coriander, the tomatoes, the lettuce. Robust, fresh, crunchy, like young lovers, he think, still unaware of heartbreak, of that troubled weather of thunder and storms and cold gusts of rain. That word, heartbreak: for them, perhaps, it is like a sphere filled with water and blue oil and a cute little floating ship that when you shake it seems to teeter on the surface with no real danger of sinking. The thought of having to start again is overwhelming, he’s decided not to reckon with it just yet. Real, happy lettuces, he thinks. He crouches down, rubs the basil leaves: their delicious perfume surprises him. The morning sun between the basil leaves is also surprising, and exciting: he takes photos. His friends show him the goat pen that was still under construction last time he visited, with Lola. He is surprised by the passing of time. Lola could be here now, with them in the vegetable patch that had grown from a napkin and the goat pen that was no longer just an empty space marked out in chalk. There are six goats: one old goat with a long dirty red beard and five young beardless ones. He takes photos of the goats, he walks toward them and they walk toward him. The old goat mimics his movements. He moves to the left, now to the right; the goat follows him like a shadow. He asks his friends if this is normal. Juliana crosses her arms, smiling.
The house is covered in vines. The windows are the only openings in the wall of foliage, and beside the door are two large pots of lavender. Juliana shows him that in each pot there are two types of lavender: one grey, one purple. Juliana rubs the flowers to release their perfume. He takes photos of his friend with the sprigs of gray and purple lavender.
Enclosed in the bedroom, he sits at his computer. Every now and then he scratches. He discovers a large welt on his knee, and realizes it’s almost as large as the one on his heel. He removes his shoe and sock to compare them. It’s a double bite, he guesses. Maybe even a triple bite. But can a mosquito even bite you three times in the same place? He can’t write. He leaves the bedroom. Manuel is at his computer. Juliana went out to buy flour, he says. Flour? We’re making fresh pasta for dinner. He closes the front door behind him, heads for the goat pen. He crosses his arms, looks. The goats approach the fence. The beard of the old goat is wet and muddy. He enters the pen. The odor is heavy, it smells to him like the goat’s cheese he buys from the supermarket. He strokes the head of the old goat, and the others come over. He kneels, pats the back of the smallest one. With one hand he takes its little hoof, like the paw of a dog, and shakes it. He moves four steps to the right and the goats follow him. A few steps to the left, they follow him. He scratches his knee. He can’t be sure if the little goats are following the old goat or if they’re following him, but he’s sure the old goat with the wet dirty beard is following him for some reason. He discovers a black mark on the back of the smallest goat, photographs it. The goats seem disoriented, as if they’ve lost their place in some choreography. He’s wondering if he’ll ever be able to live the kind of life his friends live when he feels the wet beard of the old goat against his temple.
In the morning he deletes everything he wrote the night before. He goes to the kitchen to eat breakfast with his friends. He shows them a mosquito bite between the index and ring fingers of his left hand. He describes last night’s battle with the mosquitos. He killed three with an old magazine he found in the bathroom. He couldn’t sleep. Manuel sits beside his friend, examines the bite between his fingers. What’s that smell? It’s the moisturizer Lola gave me for Christmas, he says, just before we broke up. No, his friend says, what’s that smell? It’s orange scented moisturizer, I think. Juliana smiles, cutting the bread onto a heavy plate made of volcanic stone, and tells him it would be a good idea to stop using the orange scented moisturizer. The thing she gave him, Lola’s last gift, seems to turn in on itself, to turn against him. A lot like love, he says, without believing too much in the word, as if it were a prop in a play, an empty thing that suddenly falls from a table on the stage.
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2019-04-25T14:00:26Z
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https://as.vanderbilt.edu/nashvillereview/archives/14608
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The simple reason for the rising prices of UNGA!
If you wonder why suddenly the prices are running high for the UNGA again in Kenya. That is because the state has added taxes, they are trying to collect more money again. This is happening because its months since the elections and the subsidized UNGA is history. Therefore, expect rising prices, the maize and milk cartels want their profits. If they happen to in the pocket of the government at the same time. Is just convenient, even some of the companies earning on the sky-rocketing prices is the President himself and his own companies. I am sure the DP also owns connected businesses that could eat of the this plate too. While the ordinary and poor population will struggle to have ends meet as the government are taxing them even more.
“Poor households would be more exposed in the amendments with sweeping implications on many sectors, as the State seeks to raise Sh1.75 trillion in the next financial year. Most basic commodities are not taxed to cushion the poor, but the changes that will be proposed in the national budget will end that. “We are looking at exemptions on several products that are widely consumed, but not on VAT such as milk, sugar, maize flour, wheat flour…,” said Benson Korongo, a commissioner of Kenya Revenue Authority” (Michira, 2018).
It is special when Ernest & Young (EY) whose is known for their advice for potential investors and people who plans for invest in a republic. They have usual advice, which shows the potential and the grips of reality. Their analysis from April are now coming in effect in the end of May, as the local papers like Standard write about it now. But they say it might happen in July.
The state has favorably subsidized it and also imported on its own, that might happen again. But the added tax will hit the public. Make the staple food more expensive, because of added taxes. The shops, the importers, the distribution companies will not take the hit. The hit is always ending up at the consumer, the buyer and not the ones who produce, distribute and sells. That is known and the way we play. Seriously, when the state plans with these taxes to earn over a trillion shillings, nearly two, means they are anticipating selling enough of the needed goods and services connected with the new taxes to actually be sold.
So the prices on the staple is rising, because the Jubilee Government, the President and his party is doing it. This is their orders and their will, it is not the international market or a drought, it is initial planning and what the state does to get more revenue.
Jubilee whose are eating all of the state, needs more revenue to make another NYS Scandal, take more funds from the likes of NHIF and inappropriately use unaccounted funds in the various government bodies. Peace.
I know that Thomas Joseph Odhiambo (Tom) Mboya was a vital politician in the first part of the independent Kenya. He was a charismatic person, who even got himself on the front-page of the Time Magazine in 1960. His assassination in 1969 are still unanswered, like so many other extra-judicial killings. But that should not overshadow the impact and the wisdom of the man, who helped to form Kenya after Independence. He was part of the Kenya African National Union (KANU) and worked together with Jomo Kenyatta.
His words in this speech, should not be a fading memory, but something that the leaders of the continent should have worked upon. Since some of it has already been proven to be right. I myself wished it was different, since the trade-imbalanced with the former colonial states and the other developed countries. Therefore, the knowledge he had should be enforced now. As there are to many generations who has been lost and hasn’t gotten what they deserved. Here is the pieces of the speech that should be taken to heart.
“Meanwhile, we in the poorer. countries are faced with a rapid growth in population and’ with the standards of life demanded by the. Masses. It has been calculated that a 1% increase in the per capita income of an industrialised country increases the demand for. food and raw materials by only 0.6%, but that the same increase in per capita income in a country importing manufactured articles will lead to an increase of 1.8% in the demand for imports. Super imposed on this has been a tendency for the terms of trade to move against the less developed countries. Unless we in Africa build up quickly our domestic services of supply for enough of the industrial products which are required for the modernization of our countries, we will either become increasingly” indebted’ to and “hence” politically dependent on foreign countries, or have our. progress undermined by balance of payments difficulties” (Tom Mboya, 1966).
“Whatever industry we attempt to build the same sort of problems, arise an accurate knowledge, of natural resources is required. Although there is much more to be learned we already know that we have in Africa the natural resources to feed a vast range of industries. Cheap energy has to be obtained. While Africa is rich in energy resource only a fraction of them have been harnessed. Industry cannot grow without efficient transport, but we can get ourselves out of’ the vicious circle since new transport links can themselves be justified in strictly commercial terms by the specific development possibilities now opened up, These three subjects natural resources, energy and transport are Vitally important, but they are not on the agenda, of this Conference” (Tom Mboya, 1966).
These words from Mboya, should be cherished and remembered, as the powerful statement it was. That the will of development on own terms was key and that they could not continue with a trade deficit with the developed countries. This has happen since because the loans, the grants and direct aid from the developed countries to the African continent. That has been a paradigm to control and assess the situation in terms of donors, not on the governments who got the funds. Therefore, the circle of aid and donor aid prospered instead of industrial development and other shifts of supply.
There been many other factors as the leadership and the cronyism has eaten budgets and donor aid. We could have hoped the past had listened to Mboya, that the states and republic’s could have followed this. To build nations on dependent on donors, that in the end will work for their own benefit and not for the African development. They will use the aid and donor aid for their own gain and personal benefit for their constituents, not for the African republic. In an ideal world it would be different, but looking through history and you can say otherwise. Since the development aid and the slums are still there, where Tom Mboya left them. The poverty Mboya saw and discussed are there, the names of the streets and nations might be different, but the troubles are the same.
Tom Mboya spoke wisdom and that should be recollected and not forgotten, not only his vital role in Kenya, but beyond. Mboya’s words here should be discussed and used to change political and trade imbalances to benefit own republic’s, federations and kingdoms of Africa. The states deserves to stop the deficit and also develop themselves on their own terms. That is something they have deserved all along, but the International organizations, Multi-National Financial Organizations and Development Banks has stifled this with their creeds, their protocols and their agreements with the state. To get needed funds they have to open economy and stop government subsidizes to support local production in agriculture and industry. So, the history of the neo-colonial Africa, had deserved to follow the paradigm shift Mboya spoke of in 1966. Peace.
Sigiri Bridge collapse is the perfect breakdown and picturesque misuse of government loans by Jubilee!
“We are the only political party that has a track record that speaks for itself in an array of areas” – Deputy President William Ruto (Jubilee Manifesto Launch, 26.06.2017).
Certainly the relationship between Chinese Government and Kenyan Government is paying-off under the Jubilee Administration, as President Uhuru Kenyatta and Deputy President William Ruto. Who had inspected the done project of building the Sigiri Bridge over River Nzoia in Budalangi. A promise he made in September 2014, when he was traversing the district. Therefore, that it just under two weeks after falls to pieces, is showing how shoddy the works of the bridge must have been.
The business of the bridge that makes it special is that Geotechnical Sub Consultants, second company BAC Engineering and Architecture Ltd, third company China Overseas Engineering Group Co Ltd (COVEC), which is a Chinese State Owned Engineering, and the last company is Abdul Mullick Associates Ltd (AMA), therefore the should have been enough man-power and consultants for securing the bridge building in Budalangi and over the River Nzoia. So it took 5 companies to make a faulty bridge on the price of a fortune. That should boggle your mind, all of them are displaying the working on their pages. I checked it out today on the 26th June 2017.
That a project started in 2016 and finished early June 2017. Should have the time and preparation for building it, as the State started in 2014 the whole infrastructure project, they signed with the Chinese Engineering company on the 1st July 2015. The whole project was anticipated to cost about Ksh. 1 Billion. Therefore, the visit of the President and deputy in mid-June checking of the bridge seems now a bit pointless. Since it broke-down last night.
Citizen TV Kenya also reported this today: “10 construction workers injured after a section of Sigiri bridge in Busia County collapsed last night” (Citizen TV Kenya, 26.06.2017). But if there was 10 construction workers on open bridge, means that they we’re done yet. That the construction still continued after the President and Vice-President visited it in June. Certainly, the Kenyan government could have made this better and made sure both the engineering, architecture, geotechnical consultation and implementation of the works. The government should have made sure the infrastructure project of this size and spend this sort of funding, as the Ksh. 1 billion.
That all of the contractors and suppliers, together with the engineers are clearly not delivered. If so the bridge would last longer than a month. As the project started as a promise in 2014 and broke down in 2017. This is proof of lack of governance and procurement of infrastructure projects. We should be able to see the reason for why COVEC got the deal, why the other companies was hired and the reason for the broken down bridge in Budalangi and over River Nzoia. This is clearly a giant slap in the face and proof of bad work and not of promising use of state funds. Since this was a Billion Kenyan Shillings used on building it!
That the Jubilee needs answer, the locals in Budalangi needs answers, also the Kenyan people need answers as this bridge was built on commercial loans and for the possible benefit of them all. Instead, it will be more expensive and need to be fixed. Maybe even get another design to make it safe. What is certain, is that this massive project and its expenses will be remembered as the tax wasted by President Kenyatta and DP Ruto. Peace.
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2019-04-23T11:54:44Z
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Juan Ortner, Martin C Schmalz. 2018. "Disagreement and Security Design." CESifo Working Paper Series No. 6906.
We study optimal security design when the issuer and market participants agree to disagree about the characteristics of the asset to be securitized. We show that pooling assets can be optimal because it mitigates the effects of disagreement between issuer and investors, whereas tranching a cash-flow stream allows the issuer to exploit disagreement between investors. Interestingly, pooling and tranching can be complements. The optimality of debt with or without call provisions can be derived as a special case. In a model with multiple financing rounds, convertible securities naturally emerge to finance highly skewed ventures.
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2019-04-20T16:42:54Z
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“I’ve had quite a few people call because they’ve seen my little ad in the back of the bulletin,” says Adler, who now pays $65 per month for the message he has been placing for some 20 years.
Welcome to GAL Radio, brought to you by the Greatest American Lawyer blog. Changing the way law is practiced through technology, innovation and creativity. Turning the business of law on its head and shaking things up to the betterment of clients, lawyers, law firms, and society.
Damien: Good afternoon, and welcome to GAL Radio. My name is Damien Allen, and today joining me on the phone is Professor James Cox, the Director of the Law and Entrepreneurship LLM Program at Duke University School of Law. Good afternoon and welcome to the program, James.
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2019-04-23T18:22:14Z
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https://greatestamericanlawyer.typepad.com/greatest_american_lawyer/2010/02/index.html
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I have posted many photos of train tracks over the life of the blog. So finding a new photo consisting of any kind of tracks is pretty difficult but I did it. I took the above photo when I passed through the town of Field in British Columbia, Canada. Originally, I wanted a more of an unsaturated look for this photo. I was not planning on going this black and white but after staring at it long enough, I’m beginning to like the distinctive look of the tracks and how they seem to be the focus of the photo.
I went for the unsaturated look for this photo for a single reason – I like it in color and therefore, I’m preserving as much color as possible. This photo was taken in Jasper, by the way.
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2019-04-23T10:47:20Z
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https://yzhengblog.wordpress.com/2018/06/17/trains-and-tracks-cees-black-and-white/
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Camp NaNoWriMo: in April and July, the creators of National Novel Writing Month offer you a place to write a novel with less restrictions. It’s a great place to network with a community of writers.
Creative Communication: this site offers both a poetry and essay writing contest with chances to submit in the fall, winter, spring, and summer. Winners are published in an anthology and the top ten winners receive cash prizes.
National Novel Writing Month: this event happens every November and inspires you to write an entire novel in only one month. Are you up to the challenge?
Peculiar Short Story Contest: Win a writing workshop for you and our class with Ransom Riggs (author of Miss Peregrine’s Peculiar Children series) if your original short story is chosen. Submissions open until December 31st.
On Teaching Poem Prize: brand-new poetry contest with a large cash prize! Submissions open from October 1st – January 1st.
Creative Communication: this site offers both a poetry and essay writing contest with chances to submit in the fall, spring, and summer. Winners are published in an anthology and the top ten winners receive cash prizes.
MSU Young Playwrights Festival: this event offers the possibility for students to win cash prizes and see their original scripts performed live by the MSU Theatre Department. Deadline: Monday, December 3rd.
Creative Communication: this site offers both a poetry and essay writing contest with chances to submit in the fall, winter, and summer.Winners are published in an anthology and the top ten winners receive cash prizes.
National Poetry Writing Month: students, challenge yourselves to write a poem a day on your blog for the entire month of April (30 poems).
Creative Communication: this site offers both a poetry and essay writing contest with chances to submit in the fall, winter, and summer. Winners are published in an anthology and the top ten winners receive cash prizes.
Teen Ink: signing up for an account allows you to publish work on their site, get feedback from fellow writers, and also be considered for publication in their magazine.
Scholastic Book Reviews: share your book reviews with a wider audience by submitting to this site.
Writer’s Digest: this site has contest deadlines for a variety of forms of writing, including many we write in class. Check it out for cash prizes!
The Drabble: this is a WordPress site looking for short fiction and non-fiction, 100 word or less. No prizes, but it’s a great way to connect with fellow WordPress bloggers.
Poets and Writers: this site has a list of several contest opportunities. If you’ve got something you want to submit somewhere, check out this site to see if there’s a good match for it!
Students, if you find writing opportunities, please share them with the class so I can post them!
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2019-04-24T12:08:07Z
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https://keskescreativewriting.wordpress.com/writing-opportunities/
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Illuminate LA has a great post titled “Why Non-Cyclists Should Care About the LA Bike Plan.” I have another reason.
Annoyed by traffic? Don’t like all those other cars in your way? Then support cycling. It means fewer cars between yours and your destination.
I’m joking. Except I’m kind of not. Because plenty of people are never going to give up their cars. But wouldn’t it benefit them if others did, at least some of the time?
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2019-04-19T19:18:07Z
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https://howgreenismyvalley.wordpress.com/2009/10/27/move-it/
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Vaccines, flu shots, allergy shots and more — get what you need to know to protect your health.
Flu shot clinic dates for employees. Remember to bring your insurance card!
UHS provides free flu shots to students.
Students can drop-in for tuberculosis (TB) skin tests Monday through Friday from 9 am to 4 pm, on the 6th floor of main UHS clinic.
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https://www.uhs.wisc.edu/category/medical/allergy-immunization/
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Economic seers don’t come along too often, but Raghuram Rajan, the economist currently serving as the governor of the central bank of India, is one of them. While serving as the youngest chief economist of the IMF from 2003 to 2006, he predicted the subprime crisis that would lead to the Great Recession, standing up to critics like former U.S. Treasury Secretary Larry Summers, who labeled him a Luddite.
Since then, more and more of the economic establishment has come to share Rajan’s view that debt-fueled growth is just a saccharine substitute for the real thing. As he argued in his book Fault Lines, credit has become a palliative to address the deeper anxieties of downward mobility in the global middle class.
Debt hasn’t gone away since Rajan issued his warnings. In fact, it grew by $57 trillion from 2007 to 2014. But he steered India through the global crisis and fallout, playing a large role in making it one of the emerging-market stars of the moment.
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2019-04-20T08:32:19Z
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How Many Watts of Electricity Does it take to Power a Portable Sewing Machine?
Real power-use measurements from a portable sewing machine.
A portable sewing machine is a 3/4ths size sewing machine which uses a small motor to poke a needle through fabric and to wrap string around itself. It also uses tiny metal feet to move the fabric forward.
Power use of these items was actually tested. Individual items will vary, but these are the actual measurements.
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2019-04-19T02:52:51Z
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In this romantic fantasy based on the short story by Jack Finney, Scotty Corrigan (Campbell Scott) is a young man who is engaged to be married, but is having second thoughts about his upcoming wedding. Scotty buys an antique desk and -- hidden in a secret compartment -- he finds a letter from a woman named Elizabeth Whitcomb (Jennifer Jason Leigh), who lived during the 19th century. Fascinated by the letter, Scotty writes her a reply, using antique writing materials, and is shocked when he receives a reply -- somehow he's been able to communicate with her through time, and they begin a correspondence that spans a century and a half. It turns out that Elizabeth is also pledged to marry, but she does not love her fiancée, and a romance begins to blossom through the mail and across time. The Love Letter was produced for the television anthology series The Hallmark Hall of Fame.
There are no critic reviews yet for The Love Letter. Keep checking Rotten Tomatoes for updates!
I remember seeing this on TV, and absolutely loved it.
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2019-04-18T21:12:15Z
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https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_love_letter_1998
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These guidelines focus on establishing a climate in which safety of University of Iowa personnel has primacy, and where faculty, staff, and students know the policies, procedures, and guidelines to help ensure safe practices. Principal Investigators (PIs) have the ultimate responsibility for ensuring the safe field activities of their staff and students. PIs may elect to manage the risks involved with their fieldwork in a different manner to these guidelines, but alternative practices must provide at least an equivalent or greater level of safety.
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Always consult with your PI if you are uncertain regarding someone’s eligibility to accompany you in the field. In general, researchers or other colleagues from other institutions who not authorized by the PI are not allowed to accompany field teams.
availability of procedures for contacting the University to obtain assistance in an emergency.
Any member of a fieldwork team may refuse at any time to participate in any activity that they feel may endanger their health and safety or that of another person.
Working alone is strongly discouraged, particularly when remote or hazardous locations, high-risk activities or other unusual conditions are involved.
In situations where solitary work is deemed necessary and unavoidable, a stringent code of practice must be established to address worker competency, procedures for regular reporting, emergency procedures, and other precautions and procedures appropriate to the type of activities involved. The field member must ensure that someone knows where he/she is and when he/she is expected to return.
Before fieldwork is conducted, the PI should develop standard operating procedures (SOPs) specific to their fieldwork. The SOPs should include at a minimum, information provided in sections 6.1, 6.2, and 8.0.
Complete and submit a Fieldwork Plan (required!).
Learn about potentially hazardous plants, animals, terrain, and weather conditions in the area where fieldwork is being conducted.
Whenever possible, fieldwork activities should be done in teams of at least two people.
Ask your health insurance provider about how your coverage applies to medical treatment in the fieldwork locale, should that become necessary. Find out where to go for emergency care.
Obtain authorization for access to state, federal and/or private lands.
IIHR maintains a first aid kit in each of its cars and trucks. A kit may also be checked out from the shop when using other vehicles for field work. When not working near the vehicle, a field crew member should carry a first aid kit.
When conducting field work in remote areas, around particularly dangerous or extreme landforms, or under other special circumstances, the PI may require one or more field crew members to receive first aid certification. The PI may also work with IIHR shop personnel to prepare an appropriate survival kit to meet the circumstances of the situation.
If you do get lost or become disoriented STAY WHERE YOU ARE. You may be overcome by panic. Sit down and quietly organize your thoughts on where you are. A few moments of recollection may clarify your situation. If not, find a comfortable place to rest. Use your whistle or other means to attract the attention of anyone around you. Do not try to leave the area if there are no signs of where to go. Do not travel at night. You can sometimes assist a helicopter search by starting a smoky fire but be extremely careful not to set the surrounding vegetation on fire.
Only licensed and appropriately trained drivers should be in charge of field vehicles. This can be ensured by only allowing personnel to drive vehicles for field work if they have been cleared to drive a UI vehicle (See Greg Wagner or Laura Myers). Using private vehicles for field work is highly discouraged and the vehicle will not be covered by UI insurance; vehicle owners should check with their private insurance provider.
Vehicles used for fieldwork should be well-maintained according to the manufacturer’s service specifications and equipped with adequate spare parts and tools according to the area and length of trip. Care must be taken when loading vehicles to maintain as low a center of gravity as possible and to secure items adequately in the cabin. Vehicles must be driven with caution and attention to prevailing road and weather conditions.
The vehicle should be selected for the type of terrain likely to be encountered and drivers should be familiar with the vehicle before departure. Drivers intending to use four wheel drive (4WD) vehicles should be able to demonstrate experience in driving such vehicles. Drivers should be familiar with routine maintenance procedures such as checking oil, water, tire pressure, coolant, and battery, and changing tires. Drivers should also be aware of the fuel capacity and range of the vehicle.
Prior to setting out on the trip, the driver should check the vehicle to ensure it has been adequately maintained and has all necessary tools, spare parts and special equipment for the trip. A check should be made that luggage and other equipment are secure.
Rest stops and fuel stops should be used to check the vehicle and that luggage and equipment remain secure.
Driving times and distances should be planned to prevent fatigue. Drivers should take periodic breaks after driving for a few hours. During the break some light physical activity such as walking should be incorporated. Night driving is more hazardous because of reduced visibility and fatigue and should be minimized.
Drivers should always heed applicable speed limits and road rules, including those pertaining to consumption of alcohol. Safe speeds depend upon the road and weather conditions, experience of the driver, time of day, alertness of the driver, and the vehicle itself. Unfamiliarity with the road or conditions and the presence of nocturnal animals contribute to driving hazards.
See IIHR’s Boat Safety Plan available here.
It is often necessary to park on the side of the road when conducing fieldwork, and often to actually work along or near the side of the road. The minimum requirement for roadside parking or fieldwork is for all field crew members to wear reflective safety vests at all times. Traffic cones may also be placed behind the vehicle and a strobe light placed on the vehicle. Vests, cones, and strobe lights may be checked out from the IIHR shop.
Work vehicles in or near traffic areas should be equipped with flashing lights, such as a yellow rotating beacon or strobe light. The basic layout of a roadside work area are shown in figure UT-1, below.
If your field work requires you to use pesticides, you must either work under the supervision of a person who has a certificate for pesticide application or have a current certificate yourself. You must abide by the instructions on the pesticide label.
You must wear the appropriate safety equipment and clothing at all times and are responsible for maintaining your equipment and clothing.
Know the requirements of the University’s Chemical Hygiene Plan (http://ehs.research.uiowa.edu/chemical-hygiene-plan ) and/or Hazard Communication Program (http://ehs.research.uiowa.edu/hazard-communication) as it applies to your work; contact UI EHS Chemical Hygiene Officer (LuAnn Hiratzka at 335-7964) or Industrial Hygienist (Robin Linderboom at 335-9554) for these requirements.
In case of exposure to harmful chemicals, flush the area with water or follow other appropriate action(s) to minimize harmful reactions, seek medical attention, and notify your supervisor immediately.
When planning coastal and estuarine work, information about tides, currents, weather and other factors affecting safety must be considered. Work on rock-platforms can be particularly hazardous and adequate precautions must be taken to prevent anyone from being swept from rocks or injured by unexpected waves. Ensure that appropriate clothing, including footwear, is worn by all personnel.
Wear footwear appropriate for the tasks, e.g., rubber boots, tabis (i.e., those designed for wading). Do not jump from rock to rock. Always ensure that your footing is safe.
If, after working in a stream or in some way associated with water, you come down with flu-like symptoms that persist consult your physician and inform him/her that you may have been exposed to leptospirosis. If you have a break in your skin that could be exposed to water let your supervisor know so that protective measures can be taken or you can be assigned to other duties.
Never drink untreated water from streams or any source other than a municipal supply. If you suffer from diarrhea and have a hydrogen sulphide taste in your mouth after belching consult your doctor and inform him/her of the possibility or your having Giardiasis or amoebic dysentery or other waterborne diseases.
If your doctor confirms that you are suffering any such disease you must notify your supervisor immediately. You may not work in the field until your doctor has confirmed that you are free of the disease.
If you are working in a national park, wildlife refuge, or state forest reserve and there is an emergency, (e.g., volcanic eruption, wildfire, injury, etc.) you may be requested to participate in emergency operations. Obey the incident commander or other responsible official. Participation in such emergencies is optional but you are encouraged to support the emergency operation. During the period of the emergency you will be covered under the emergency regulations.
Field work crews should avoid working with live or near dead animals as rodents (rat and mice), cats, and other animals are known to carry a variety of diseases. If you must handle live animals, use protective bite-proof gloves with disposable gloves underneath and take precautions to prevent animal fluids from hitting your eyes, nose and mouth. Any contact with fluids on skin should be washed off with an antibacterial soap. Seek medical treatment immediately if there is a possibility of exposure to an animal- or parasite-borne disease (e.g. rabies, Lyme disease, etc.).
Check with the UH EHSO, Biological Safety Office, and the IACUC (Institutional Animal Care Use Committee) for additional approval and guidance when anticipating working with or around animals.
Keep garbage in rodent-proof containers and stored away from your campsite or work area.
Thoroughly shake all clothing and bedding before use.
Do not camp or sleep near obvious animal nests or burrows.
Avoid contact with sick or dead animals.
Wear clothes made of tightly woven materials, and tuck pants into boots.
Minimize the amount of time you use lights after dark in your camp or work site, as they may attract pests and animals.
Use netting to keep pests away from food and people.
Carry a first aid manual and kit with you on any excursion so you can treat bites or stings. If the pest is poisonous or if the bite does not appear to heal properly seek medical attention immediately.
Familiarize yourself with common pests and symptoms of animal- or parasite-borne diseases in the area.
Be aware of the appearance and habitat of pests likely to be found.
If you are bitten by a deer tick, watch for symptoms of Lyme disease, which may appear days or weeks after infection, or other signs of illness. Seek medical attention.
Impure Water – A variety of potentially harmful organisms and pathogens can live in “natural” water sources such as streams, lakes and rivers. Never drink straight from a “natural” source. If you must use these sources, treat the water first by using water purification tablets, boiling it for three minutes, or using a special purification filter (available from sporting goods stores).
Exposure to the Elements – Sunburn is a common and easily preventable hazard. To prevent sunburn, cover exposed skin and liberally apply sunblock creams. Wearing a long-sleeved shirt and hat will also provide protection from the sun.
Heat Exhaustion and Heat Stroke – To prevent heat exhaustion, drink plenty of liquids (electrolyte replacers) and take frequent rest breaks. Heat exhaustion symptoms include fatigue, excessive thirst, heavy sweating, and cool and clammy skin and are similar to shock symptoms. Cool the victim, treat for shock, and give water or electrolyte replacement slowly but steadily if the victim can drink. If left untreated, the victim can suffer heat stroke, which is very serious and possibly fatal. Cool the victim at once, replenish fluids, and seek medical attention immediately.
Excessive Cold- On any trip, even a one-day excursion, where sudden changes in weather can occur, adequate clothing must be worn or carried. Prolonged exposure to excessive cold can lead to hypothermia: symptoms include shivering, numbness, slurred speech and excessive fatigue. Wear several layers of clothing to allow adjustments to differing levels of physical activity. Avoid getting damp from perspiration.
Safety equipment used in the field should be inspected and/or tested prior to the trip to ensure that it is in good operating condition, with fully charges batteries, sufficient fuel, and all appropriate parts.
Depending on the type of work, the area, and the likely weather conditions, special safety equipment may be required. This will include personal protective equipment (PPE) such as coveralls, proper footwear or boots, sunglasses, safety goggles, insect repellent, sunscreen, hats, wetsuit, gloves, respirators or personal flotation devices. Other suggested items include: water canteen, matches, whistles and flashlights.
Ensure that the equipment and material you need has been carefully thought about, is available to the field crew, and that everyone involved knows how to use it. If anyone in the group has specific medical conditions requiring medication, or has allergies to anything that may occur during the work, make sure someone else knows about it and is familiar with appropriate treatment for the condition.
Training and licensing are required for use of certain types of radios. Where these are the main form of communication, all members of the fieldwork group must be trained and licensed in their use.
If cellular phones are used, everyone must know how to use them properly and must have access to the relevant contact numbers. Battery power for communication equipment should be sufficient to last beyond the expected duration of the fieldwork.
No trip should take place without there being properly informed and competent designated contacts both within the fieldwork team and at the University base as appropriate. Before setting out on fieldwork, the schedules and methods for maintaining contact with the University and/or other contacts must be established and understood by everyone involved. Contacts at the University and elsewhere must be informed about the location of the fieldwork, the expected duration of work, how to contact field personnel, the planned time of return, and at what time subsequent to this an alarm will be raised.
For long fieldwork, arrangements must be made to make contact on a regular basis, such as daily, or some other regular interval if daily contact is impractical. The frequency of the regular contacts will depend on the length of the trip and where it is, how many personnel are involved, and the available forms of communication.
Before any trip, contacts and members of the field team must agree on how an alarm would be given under any worst case scenario (e.g. the boat sinks, a vehicle fire) when the planned means of communication is no longer feasible.
If a scheduled contact is missed, the project PI or other designated contact person should have an alternative means of communicating with the field team and/or contact information for appropriate emergency personnel in the field work area.
The University campus security telephone number (319-335-5022), which is monitored 24 hours a day, should be displayed in all vehicles and can be used as a last resort should other University-based contacts fail.
As appropriate, contacts at the University, at home, and/or at a location near to the fieldwork should be notified of the intended route(s), timing, and number of people involved in the work so that they can provide the information and help to direct search and rescue attempts.
Anyone designated as the contact person for a particular fieldwork must be organized and know exactly what is required. Schedules for contact, the timing and method of raising alarms if contact is not made, the circumstances of the work (e.g. the registration numbers of vehicles, or boats, the place where boats are to be launched) should be documented so that the contact can find them quickly if required.
No designated contact may pass on their responsibility simply by leaving a message for someone else to take over; a new contact must be told personally and all the relevant information provided so that there is no break in the continuity of contact. The fieldwork team leader must also be informed of the change of contact person.
Call 911, give your name, location of emergency, type of emergency and type of help required.
Notify supervisory personnel and provide them with the same information. If you are working in a national park or wildlife refuge, notify the local manager.
Thirty (30) minutes from call-in time, an alert is issued. Contact person or another person should stay near the phone at the fieldworker’s office or lab.
One hour from call-in time, search procedures should begin.
One person should remain near the phone, and one person familiar with the field area should begin tracking the scheduled route.
Tracking person should call back to the lab/office every 20 minutes to see if field worker has made contact.
Tracking continues until the person is found or word is received that she/he is safe.
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Is the internet useful for clinical practice?
Background. Internet use in dentistry is increasing. The authors surveyed dentists to determine how they are using the Internet to support patient care and how useful they perceive the Internet to be. Materials and Methods. The authors sent a 25-question survey to 455 subscribers to the Internet Dental Forum, an Internet discussion list. Participants completed the survey through a Web page or by e-mail during an 18-day period in December 1998. The survey included questions about when they began using the Internet and their motivations for doing so, their positive and negative experiences, where they use the Internet and why, their use of information resources - including electronic information resources - and demographics. Results. The authors received 314 surveys from 438 participants, a 72 percent response rate. Participants reported demographic characteristics similar to national averages and were highly computer-literate. Most considered the Internet essential for their practice and had increased their Internet use for professional reasons over time. Ninety-seven percent of respondents used the Internet at home, and 68 percent used it in the office. Only 5 percent used the Internet in the treatment area. The primary reason cited by participants for using the Internet was to keep up in general, followed by to answer patient-specific questions and to provide patient education. Reduction of professional isolation was one of the most frequently cited advantages of using the Internet. Conclusions. The authors found that some dentists use the Internet to support clinical practice and that it helped dentists adopt new techniques for patient treatment and obtain information on new materials or products. Clinical Implications. The Internet appears to support clinical practice mostly indirectly, by helping users keep up in general, rather than by answering specific clinical questions.
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2019-04-21T22:16:22Z
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OWINGS MILLS, Md. (AP) -- A whirlwind week for the Baltimore Ravens continued Friday when special teams coach Jerry Rosburg retired after an 11-year run with the team.
He worked out a deal with Ravens defensive back Marlon Humphrey to get the number he wore in Seattle -- 29 -- which is also his age.
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2019-04-24T00:43:02Z
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https://sports.yahoo.com/ravens-bolster-secondary-justin-bethel-031827931.html?src=rss
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Going through ny bookmarks and saw your page.. Hope everything for you is doing well, God bless you!
God is faithful to me, Jan! Thanks for the prayers.
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2019-04-21T08:48:21Z
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Poll. Men only need apply, but whatever.
My left, or stage left?
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2019-04-24T12:00:23Z
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Stanton provided the most fireworks with his record-setting Home Run Derby victory on Monday night.
Samson and the entire Marlins organization couldn’t help daydreaming of what that picture might look like in one year’s time if the baseballs were flying around or near the home run sculpture at Marlins Park, which will host the game in what will be its sixth season.
“When you have history made the way Giancarlo did, you know it was an amazing All-Star experience,” Samson said.
Samson was with a contingent of 75 from the Marlins organization who made the trip to San Diego.
Next year will be the first time Miami has hosted the Major League Baseball All-Star Game, although the South Florida area is no stranger to hosting All-Star events from the major professional sports, having hosted the Pro Bowl as well as the NBA and NHL All-Star games.
“One of the major things was seeing the people of San Diego and how they stepped up,” Samson said.
“All the volunteers, all the police and fire rescue, and how everyone was so nice and helpful with all the tourists that come to an event like this.
Of all the memorabilia Jose Fernandez could have collected during his couple of days at the All-Star Game, getting an autographed jersey from David Ortiz took top billing.
Ortiz was more than happy to oblige Fernandez, whom he faced in his final at-bat as an All-Star during Tuesday night’s game won by the American League, 4-2.
Fernandez had said before the game he probably would throw Ortiz very hittable fastballs if he faced him to see if he would hit one out. His first offering was clocked at only 80 mph, but Ortiz didn’t swing.
After working the count full, a breaking ball ran inside and nearly hit Ortiz, who playfully opened his arms wide and pointed at him as they each shared a laugh from afar.
Ortiz took his base at first on the walk and, after being replaced by a pinch-runner, proceeded to hug his AL teammates.
Fernandez tipped his cap from the mound while Ortiz received a standing ovation from the crowd of 42,386.
▪ Fernandez entered the game in relief of Johnny Cueto in the second inning and struck out Mike Trout to end that frame. Fernandez gave up a run in the third as well as two hits.
▪ Marcell Ozuna’s fourth-inning single drove in the final run of the game and made him the first Marlin to record an RBI in the game since Miguel Cabrera in 2005 and only the fourth ever. Ozuna also became the first Marlins All-Star to start as an outfielder.
▪ Fernando Rodney struck out Cabrera and induced Michael Saunders to pop out during his relief appearance in the eighth inning. As he walked off the field, Rodney stopped and did his signature crossbow gesture for the fans of his previous team. Rodney was traded from the Padres to the Marlins on June 30.
▪ A.J. Ramos, who was selected to his first All-Star Game, did not get the chance to pitch.
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A sudden shootout in the wake of a dice game in March left two men dead and a third wounded. On Thursday, the survivor was sent to prison.
Antonio Darnell Mays, 44, was sentenced to 40 years in prison and if he ever gets out, 15 years of extended supervision.
Milwaukee County Circuit Judge David Borowski bemoaned the killings as part of the "ongoing saga, the tragedy" of people shooting each other "for no reason whatsoever" as he looked directly at Mays.
He noted sentencing other men for homicides over a jacket, shoes, a video game.
"Sadly, I don't think there's a low point for what we're willing to kill people over," he said.
Mays, 44, was charged with killing two men during a dice game in March. A jury found him guilty in October of felony murder, first-degree reckless homicide and two counts of possessing a firearm as a felon.
Police said that on March 15, Mays forced his way into a home in the 4200 block of North 27th Street and fatally shot Malyk T. Smith, 20, and Romale R. Richardson, 34.
Richardson managed to shoot and wound Mays during the encounter. After Mays fled, he showed up a hospital with three gunshot wounds — one to his head and two in the back.
At the time, Mays was on extended supervision after serving 10 years in prison for a 2002 armed robbery conviction. He told police he was just walking in the area when two armed men tried to rob him. When he ran, he said, he was shot.
But other witnesses said Mays' relative, Brandon Jones, had lost money in a dice game at the house, and after telling Mays, Mays returned to the house with a gun.
Assistant District Attorney Hanna Kolberg described Mays as barging into the small apartment, "guns blazing," on a mission "to exact revenge."
Casings from three guns were recovered, and two of the types matched two guns found at Mays' residence, guns on which his DNA was found.
Jones did not testify at Mays' trial. Kolberg said he could not be found and would likely have tried to minimize his own role in planning the attack. She explained that one charge was amended to felony murder because it is possible Smith died from a shot fired by Richardson, not Mays.
"Everybody's got the picture of me as this terrible person, but nobody knows what really happened," he told the judge. "No one said they saw me do this or with guns.
"They just point the finger at me as a bad guy because of my past."
Borowski said Mays' DNA on the guns and other circumstantial evidence convinced the jury of his guilt.
The judge imposed 15-year terms for the reckless homicide and the felony murder, plus five years for each gun possession by a felon count, and made them all consecutive.
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2019-04-23T17:53:28Z
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https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/crime/2018/12/20/milwaukee-crime-last-man-standing-dice-game-shootout-gets-prison/2369857002/
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"How do you apologize for a lie when the lie itself was almost as cruel as if it had been the truth?"
What I've come to expect about Mia Sheridan's novels is to not set any expectations at all because she blows them out of the water anyway. Every single time. Her deeply moving and unique storylines mixed with unforgettable characters are what sets Mia apart from the rest.
I dove in to Kyland having only read the blurb when it was first posted, and it really wouldn't have mattered if the blurb said "Newest Version of the Phone Book", I would have still devoured it.
Mia did what Mia does best, yet so unlike what she's done before. She is the Queen of writing the ultimate underdog, the unlikely hero. She sheds some pretty bright lights on a devastating, poverty stricken community where the only way out is likened to a miracle.
Kyland Barrett is fighting his way out. Biding his time so he can leave and never look back. No strings, no attachments keeping him tied to the heartbreaking life he's led. Tenleigh Falyn is hoping for a temporary means of escaping her circumstances, one where she can eventually come back and provide for her sister and their mentally ill mother.
Both Kyland and Tenleigh are vying for a college scholarship that will set them on the path that will get them out. The problem is, only one scholarship will be awarded.
These two form a bond only two people cut from the same cloth can understand. They both know the shame in having clothes that don't fit, hunger so big that days without food is not uncommon.
"I looked away, my cheeks heating as if I'd just intruded on a deeply personal moment. And it was. I should know. I'd done it myself. I knew the shame. But I also knew the achy emptiness of a Monday morning after a long, hungry weekend. Evidently, Kyland knew it, too."
That quote gutted me, (mild spoiler)...and it's on page two. I knew Mia was setting the stage for something unforgettable. Something gut wrenching. Something unlike anything I've read before.
Book hangover of the year...and it's only January.
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2019-04-26T04:45:00Z
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https://fourchicksflippingpages.weebly.com/book-reviews/category/kyland-by-mia-sheridan
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I’m SO excited to post this photoshoot, because I think it’s one of my favorites ever! The evening was certainly wonderful. ❤ Plus, the lighting was so perfect I didn’t have to edit most of these at all! Definitely a bonus.
Alright, I shall begin with supper. 😉 Last Sunday the weather was so nice that we brought our supper out on the upstairs balcony. It was quite a nice place to eat, especially because of the view.
When everyone was ready, all the kids hopped on the back and Mom and Dad rode up front. For some reason my siblings brought along a stuffed animal monkey puppet as a mascot or something? *shakes head* Weirder things have happened. He doesn’t look much like a monkey in this picture since he’s tucked into the hole… actually he looks quite depressed and hunched over. O.o POOR MONKEY.
Maggie loves running along with us when we drive around in the truck or the UTV. She can run pretty fast, too – about 20 mph!
Heh heh, kind of blurry… but neat? I’m not sure what that flying thing is beside Maggie. Maybe a dragonfly or something.
Ah, I LOVE this one! I have it for my desktop background, actually.
Ahh, the golden sun streaming down upon… a lovely pile of tires. : The previous farm owners used them to stack hay on, but when we cleaned out the shop they had to go somewhere, so… It’s too bad it costs money to dispose of them.
Heh heh, as we passed the gas pumps, I told Megan, “I’m going to take an aesthetic picture of the gas tanks!” XD And hey, actually I kind of did! What do you know. I’m pretty sure anything would look pretty with this lighting.
Ahhhhh I love these pictures too! I love the gleaming tassles on the corn.
Gotta love those GPS-straight cornrows! 🙂 Dad uses a GPS program thingy in his tractors to make sure the crops are planted evenly. Isn’t it amazing how much technology has pervaded EVERYTHING? It IS rather handy, though.
I think we should make this shed into a picnic shelter, don’t you agree? Wouldn’t it look lovely with a mini lightbulb garland or two, and a cleared space around it and inside it?
This is the last picture from the photoshoot. We drove on further, but when we turned the corner here it started to get pretty dim, so I didn’t get pictures of it. But ahh… *happy sigh* That was a GREAT evening. I absolutely love exploring the farm with my family! It’s one of my favorite things to do, especially when I have my camera. 😉 I hope you enjoyed exploring along with us!
Thank you so much for reading, dears, and have a lovely day!
Awesome! Running behind the truck would be fun. About how fast was it going?
You can’t call Megan weird! *gasps* Actually, your siblings sound fun and exciting. A red truck ride sounds like an adventure waiting to happen! Especially at the golden hour!
AAAAAAAHHHHHHHH SO PRETTY, ALLISON! I LOVED this post, per usual. Jeff STILL hasn’t bush hogged that pasture yet? Unfortunately, I’m unable of choosing a favorite picture. But UGH I WISH I WAS WITH YOU GUYS BECAUSE NOW I KNOW HOW MUCH FUN THAT IS.
Yep. Nope, not that I know of. XD And YES!
Thanks so much, Hannah! Ha ha, aww. Well thank you! They ARE wonderful (weird at times too – but who isn’t? :P).
P.S. Ooh YAY! I’m so excited. And my reply letter is going to be muuuuch better, believe me! Sorry about these past few “off letters” since I’ve been so busy.
Ahh, thank you so much, Livy! Ahhh it really was! I wish you could too – that would be amazing! And hee hee, I CAN’T WAIT EITHER!
Yeeaahhhh I agree. XD Thanks for the comment!
That sounds like awesome fun! Definitely going on my bucket list. 🙂 I think the shed should be turned into a picnic shelter, I’d love to see that!
Ah! Such a warming site of glowing light. I would normally be jealous if it wasn’t the fact that the UK has a heatwave at the moment. Favourite pictures are the first one and the pictures of the corn rows. You take many beautiful pictures.
Oh my goodness, that lighting!!! You’re pictures are so beautiful!
AHH I KNOW! Aww, thank you!
GORGEOUS! *jaw drops and I push it back up* I can’t wait to see your art studio!!
Hee hee, WELL THANKS, DEAR. And eep, I can’t wait to post about it!
AH! Poor monkey! *cries* Just kidding 😛 Does it have a name?
All these pictures are gorgeous!! I really love the ones with the Crepe Myrtle bushes!! So pretty!
Can’t wait for the tour post!!
That would be tons of fun to do!!
Heh heh, it is very sad. *shakes head* XD I think it might be named Fuzby…? Maybe?
I’m so glad you liked the pictures, dear! I love the Crepe Myrtle ones too.
Heh heh, I think she was. Thanks, I can’t wait either! YES, it was a ton of fun indeed!
Yeeeaah, it is. XD I believe Megan named him.
Looks like a nice and peaceful time.
Gorgeous photos. What beautiful scenery.
Your farm is so beautiful. I love these pictures!
Ahhh, I think so too!
HEHEHEHEH. I don't know about that… 😛 Thanks once again, dear, and I'm glad you enjoyed the post!
Ha ha, that’s alright! I’m so glad you’re commenting now, though – I love your comments! 😀 Anyway, ahhh, thank you! I agree! Hee hee, I’m glad you think so. XD Ooh, that sounds so fun!
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2019-04-20T12:50:07Z
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https://afarmgirlslife.wordpress.com/2018/07/21/sunday-drive-at-golden-hour/
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The Balmore Court Single-Family Residential Project consists of proposed subdivision SD17-9478, rezoning RZ17-3239, and development plan DP17-3054 for a 6.44-acre property at the northern terminus of Balmore Court. The project site consists of two APN in the El Sobrante area in unincorporated Contra Costa County. The proposed project would create a 33-lot subdivision, including 30 residential parcels, one hillside open space parcel, one storm drainage parcel, and a roadway parcel. Subsequent to the subdivision, single-family residences would be constructed on the project site, accessed by a road extension of Balmore Court. The proposed project includes a rezoning from the existing R-6 and R-7 Single-Family residential districts on the project site to a P-1 Planned unit district, to allow clustering of the single family homes while setting aside land for hillside open space, storm drainage, and the restrictive riparian easement that was established pursuant to a grant deed of within 25 ft of the intermittent drainage channel along the eastern boundary of the property. Also, the applicant proposes to remove the few trees on the property that are outside of the restrictive riparian easement to accommodate development of the property, subject to a tree permit that will be processed as part of the development plan application. Note: See MND for full project description.
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Does NZ have strong structural weaknesses like the Irish pre-crash economy? NZ, but not Ireland, has control over its own currency, say local analysts.
A London-based hedge fund manager says New Zealand is like Ireland pre-global financial crisis and it's only a matter of time before the Kiwi dollar plunges.
According to Bloomberg, Stephen Jen, a partner at SLJ Macro Partners and colleague Fatih Yimaz said in a note that while the "the case for kiwi seems compelling" the reality is "quite different".
"New Zealand has severe structural weaknesses that are very similar to those of crisis-hit southern European and southern emerging-market economies. Kiwi may be 20 per cent overvalued," the pair said.
While it was easy to tell a good story for the Kiwi, the analysts said, they were not convinced.
"The economy has high growth, high terms of trade, and the currency is high-yielding. However, the case for kiwi is, in our view, much less persuasive."
They told Bloomberg New Zealand's economy resembled those in Europe and the emerging market just before they were engulfed by crisis - "a growth model based on debt and credit, low savings rates, and current-account deficits".
Ireland went from Celtic tiger before 2007 to European debt-crisis victim, requesting a 67.5 billion bailout in November 2010 when the near-collapse of its banks meant bond markets were shut to the country.
But ASB economist Chris Tennant-Brown said the aspects of the New Zealand economy that were doing well were not debt-funded.
A key driver of growth this year was expected to be the Canterbury rebuild which was being funded by insurance payouts.
"I don't see a risk there from an Ireland-style debt crisis."
Westpac economist Imre Speizer said New Zealand also differed from Ireland and Europe as the New Zealand currency was free-floated and the banking sector had not got itself into trouble in the booming property market.
"The comparison to Ireland is debatable. "Ireland and southern Europe have no control over their exchange rate as they have a common currency.
"They don't have this buffer with which their economy can withstand shocks."
Speizer said New Zealand was susceptible to both downside and upside risks. The biggest downside risks were the potential for a sharp slowdown in China and for the US Federal Reserve's withdrawal of monetary stimulus.
"But that would push up the [US] dollar against all currencies - it's not a New Zealand-specific story. It would affect many currencies."
The London analysts also said facts don't support the image of New Zealand as an agriculture-based economy dominated by dairy, with agriculture accounting for only 5 per cent of the country's total gross domestic product. But Tennant-Brown said GDP only took into account what was happening on the farm. It did not include manufacturing or farm-related sales.
"It is one-third of the export story. I can't really understand how they can say the agriculture story is getting overstated."
The analysts said they saw considerable downside to the kiwi dollar in contrast to the overwhelmingly positive prevailing view in the markets.
"While there may be some temporary cyclical factors that may be supportive of the kiwi, there are serious structural demerits that will one day weigh on the kiwi," they said.
Speizer said he expected the kiwi to remain firm against the US dollar this year, rising above US84c to a potential peak of US86c but to decline against the US dollar next year as the US economy picked up.
Tennant-Brown said while the kiwi was close to a post-float high against the US dollar it was supported by the strong economy and pending interest rate rises. The kiwi was trading at US83.75 cents at 5pm yesterday.
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Corrections & Clarifications: An earlier version had the wrong day for Jeremy Joseph Christian's court appearance. Christian appeared in court Tuesday.
PORTLAND, Ore. — A man facing murder charges after he allegedly fatally stabbed two people and injured another on a Portland light-rail train has a history of run-ins with law enforcement and is a self-proclaimed white supremacist, authorities said.
Jeremy Joseph Christian, 35, is charged with two counts of aggravated murder, one count of attempted aggravated murder, one count of first-degree assault, two counts of intimidation in the second degree and three counts of unlawful use of a weapon stemming from the Friday attack. Christian made his first appearance in court Tuesday yelling about free speech.
Surveillance and cellphone video show Christian cutting the three victims with a knife, Detective Michele Michaels, who is investigating the triple stabbing, said in a probable-cause affidavit made public Tuesday. Videos include audio of Christian spewing racial and religious epithets during the attack.
"Detectives have received many tips about the suspect's prior behavior and interactions with members of the community and will continue to investigate this information," said Sgt. Pete Simpson, Portland police spokesman.
Witnesses said Christian stabbed three people who tried to calm him down after he was directing hate speech at two teen girls on the train who are believed to be Muslim. One woman was wearing a hijab, and Michaels said the girls told her they felt threatened.
The attack happened Friday, the first day of Ramadan, the holiest time of the year for Muslims.
Christian was drinking sangria and shouting at the girls and other people on the train, according to court documents.
"Go home. We need American here." "I don't care if you are ISIS," and "Free speech or die," were among what he was yelling, the documents show.
After several attempted to get Christian to calm down, he then made a sudden move in the direction of victim Taliesin Namkai-Meche, who responded by standing up. Micah Fletcher, who was nearby, got up and stood next to Namkai-Meche.
Court documents indicate that Christian shoved Fletcher in the chest and appeared to pull a folding knife from his pocket and conceal it in his hand. Fletcher shoved Christian back and continued telling him to get off the train.
After stumbling and telling Fletcher to hit him again, Christian stabbed Fletcher in the neck. He then stabbed Namkai-Meche in the neck, according to court documents.
The third victim, Rick Best, got up to intervene and Christian stabbed him, court documents said. Before leaving the train, Christian stabbed Namkai-Meche and Best again.
Christian then got off the train at the Hollywood Transit Center, threatened several people on the platform and left the area. Police arrested him several blocks away.
Police said he confessed to the stabbings while he was in the back of a patrol car.
"I can die a happy man," Christian said as officers recounted it in the affidavit. He also was being recorded.
President Trump condemned the stabbings, writing Monday on Twitter: "The violent attacks in Portland on Friday are unacceptable. The victims were standing up to hate and intolerance. Our prayers are w/ them."
Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler said he appreciated Trump's words but stressed the need for action. Wheeler urged organizers to cancel a "Trump Free Speech Rally" in Portland and other similar events next weekend, saying they are inappropriate and could be dangerous.
Christian gained local notoriety in April at a “Free Speech” march in Portland. He was draped with the American flag and reportedly chanting the N-word throughout the march.
His Facebook page is full of disturbing posts supporting white supremacy, attacking women, mocking transgender people. It shows a man obsessed with fascism.
In a post three days after the inauguration of Donald Trump, Christian posted, "If Donald Trump is the Next Hitler then I am joining his SS to put an end to Monotheist Question."
On that same day Christian, who shows support for Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders on his Facebook page, posted a death threat about Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.
He also called Timothy McVeigh, the Oklahoma City bomber a true patriot.
In addition to Christian’s Facebook posts, he has had multiple run-ins with law enforcement.
In 2002, he pleaded guilty to robbery and kidnapping for reportedly handcuffing the owner of a market to a counter and stealing cash and cigarettes. The Oregonian reported he was shot in the face as police tried to take him into custody.
Wheeler and City Commissioner Chloe Eudaly denounced Christian's actions and applauded the victims' bravery for standing up to Christian.
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2019-04-24T20:53:20Z
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The Big 12’s statement did not specify which calls had been blown, and Self said he had been given no such insight from the league office. But among those in question: KU forced overtime after a questionable no-call on an Elijah Johnson drive to the basket.
Iowa State’s freshman Georges Niang was then called for a hold that sent Johnson to the free-throw line for two game-tying free throws. Officials also errantly gave a foul on Jeff Withey to forward Kevin Young. Earlier, though, officials also called a questionable charge on Withey that appeared to be a clear block.
Despite all that, Self said he didn’t want to criticize the officials or any specific calls.
He did, however, voice a greater concern: That issuing a statement on a couple of questionable calls will set an unhealthy precedent.
“We benefited from a no call,” Self said. “There’s been many times we haven’t benefited from a no-call. There’s been many times that other coaches have benefited and haven’t benefited from a no-call.
The controversial end to the Iowa State game overshadowed a blistering 39-point performance from Johnson and forced pundits to consider how officiating could be improved. Self says that hard-and-fast answers can be elusive, but he is among those who would like to a see a more “unified structuring” of all college officials. For now, officials are independent contractors employed by each conference.
On Thursday, Self echoed a common complaint among coaches: Officials rove from one conference to another, where the pace and physicality of the game can often differ.
“The rules are the same,” Self said, “it’s just style sometimes dictates a little bit differently how it’s called. And you get to the NCAA Tournament, and there’s no more style.
Kansas senior guard Elijah Johnson said he accepted the official apology of the Iowa State student body president after two students sent out threatening and racially charged tweets in the minutes after Kansas’ victory on Monday night in Ames, Iowa.
The statement from Iowa State student body president Jared Knight was released on Wednesday. Self said Thursday he’d addressed the situation with Johnson and added that he held no ill will toward Iowa State or its fans.
After a five-game winning streak, Kansas (24-4 and 12-3 in the Big 12) has played its way back into discussion for a No. 1 seed in the NCAA Tournament. The Jayhawks were a No. 2 seed last season before advancing to the NCAA title game, but three more regular-season victories and a victory in the Big 12 tournament would almost assure the Jayhawks of another No. 1 seed.
Self hopes his team remains in the discussion.
To reach Rustin Dodd, send email to [email protected]. Follow him at Twitter.com/rustindodd.
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2019-04-20T01:23:08Z
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Barrie, J.M.. "Chapter 17: When Wendy Grew Up." Peter Pan. Lit2Go Edition. 1911. Web. <https://etc.usf.edu/lit2go/86/peter-pan/1622/chapter-17-when-wendy-grew-up/>. April 20, 2019.
J.M. Barrie, "Chapter 17: When Wendy Grew Up," Peter Pan, Lit2Go Edition, (1911), accessed April 20, 2019, https://etc.usf.edu/lit2go/86/peter-pan/1622/chapter-17-when-wendy-grew-up/.
This document was downloaded from Lit2Go, a free online collection of stories and poems in Mp3 (audiobook) format published by the Florida Center for Instructional Technology. For more information, including classroom activities, readability data, and original sources, please visit https://etc.usf.edu/lit2go/86/peter-pan/1622/chapter-17-when-wendy-grew-up/.
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2019-04-20T22:23:00Z
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https://etc.usf.edu/lit2go/86/peter-pan/1622/chapter-17-when-wendy-grew-up/
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The deadline for annual renewals for corporations, limited liability companies and limited partnerships is noon on Friday.
Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp said the law requires companies to file annual renewals with the office and pay a renewal fee.
Business entities that fail to renew by the deadline will be charged a $25 late filing penalty fee and risk being administratively dissolved.
Kemp's office said in a news release that some entities may not have received annual renewal notices because they have moved and their records have not been updated in the Corporations Division database.
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2019-04-22T19:07:45Z
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https://www.augustachronicle.com/news/business/2013-05-30/corporation-renewal-deadline-friday
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A dead man, between the ages of 40 and 50, was recovered from a canal near the Bridge of the Americas early Sunday morning, the El Paso Fire Department reported.
At about 12:30 a.m., the El Paso Fire Department was called out to the intersection of Delta Drive and Cypress Street in Central El Paso when the Border Patrol discovered a body at a canal gate and called 911. Foul play is not suspected, officials said.
After the first firefighters arrived, the Water Rescue Team was immediately dispatched to the scene.
The El Paso County Water Improvement District sent personnel out to the scene to open the head gate to release the wedged body, according to Fire Department officials. The Water Rescue Team, waiting at the Bridge of Americas platform, was able to recover the body at about 2:45 a.m.
There were no injuries to fire personnel. A total of six fire vehicles and 14 firefighters responded to the incident. The El Paso Police, U.S. Border Patrol and the El Paso County Water Improvement District also assisted with this incident.
The El Paso Fire Department would like to remind the public that canals can be extremely dangerous and should be avoided.
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2019-04-18T16:21:18Z
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https://www.elpasotimes.com/story/news/local/2015/08/30/dead-man-recovered-from-canal-early-sunday/71996442/
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It was a warm and sunny day at Orphans of the Storm®, so for the most part the dogs I met were happy to find a shady spot and relax!
Tucker the two-year-old Hound mix is a real cutie (much like the other Tucker, but with black spots instead of brown). He caught my eye as soon as I walked into the wing with his kennel and I knew I wanted to get to know him because he greeted me in such a friendly way! Tucker continued to be a happy, friendly guy as we took our walk around the shelter–and walking him was a pleasure because he walked so nicely on the leash!
Tucker was very interested in the other dogs we saw while we were out and about, though we didn’t get close enough for any actual playtime. When it was just me and him, though, he was very attentive and enjoyed getting a good scratch on the back. Tucker is still on the younger side, so he would certainly like a family that will play with him and take him for nice romps outside. A cutie like Tucker won’t be at the shelter for long, so come in soon to meet him!
Bueller the five-year-old German Shepherd mix has a bit of an independent streak. He was more than happy to lead the way on our walk to the off-leash run, and once we got there he was more interested in exploring all of the interesting smells and seeing what it was like under the bushes (cooler, I’m sure). Bueller was sharing his kennel with another dog for a short time before the other dog got adopted, so he may be able to go to a home with or without another dog.
“Bueller? Bueller?” Unlike the movie character, he’ll come when called!
Bueller just loves going for walks, though. After we were in the off-leash run for a bit, he saw me pick up the leash and came running right over with his tail wagging. (Some dogs run in the opposite direction when they see me get the leash.) Bueller waited patiently at the gate while I put the leash back on and gave me a big doggy smile. He just has such a sweet face! Bueller is a big boy with a big heart who would love to join a happy home. Come in soon and say hi to Bueller!
Rocky the eight-year-old Chihuahua mix found himself at the shelter when his family moved and couldn’t bring him with. He’s a little nervous when strangers come up to his kennel, but when he saw I had a leash with me he calmed down immediately and let me put the leash on with no problem. Rocky is currently sharing his kennel with Gypsy, so he could go to a home with or without another dog (though he would probably be more comfortable with a dog closer to his size).
Rocky is a little snuggle-bug. After we got to know each other a bit in the off-leash run, I picked him up and put him in my lap, where he happily sat while I pet him. (Gypsy tried to jump into my lap to steal some attention for herself, too.) Rocky has the cutest underbite, so his bottom teeth stick out a bit when he has his mouth closed. Rocky has eight years of experience as a family pet, and has plenty more years of love and companionship to offer! If you’re looking for a new pal, stop by the shelter soon to meet Rocky!
Stanley the one-year-old Pit Bull Terrier mix is still very much a puppy, one who could use lots of love and attention. I’ve been trying to take Stanley out for weeks, but he would always go hide in the indoor part of his kennel. I’m glad I was finally able to get to know him, because he did not disappoint. Although he can be a little difficult to get out of his kennel (Stanley seems like he has minimal to no experience with a leash), once he’s out he turns into the biggest sweetie.
Stanley and I headed straight for the off-leash run, where he wanted to explore inside the bushes and find some shade. Instead, I took him over to the shady bench and he sat right next to me, resting his chin in my lap and enjoying getting my undivided attention. When we left the run, he found another shady spot in the grass and laid right by my feet so I could rub his belly. Stanley probably hasn’t had very many positive experiences in his short life thus far, but once he sees that someone is nice to him, he becomes a fast and lasting friend. Could Stanley be that friend for you? Come by soon to find out!
Scotty the eight-year-old Pit Bull Terrier mix is much like little Rocky, in that they’re the same age and they both came from owners who could no longer take care of them. Scotty certainly seems like he knows just how to be a good pet: he’s housebroken, he walks nicely on the leash, he’s calm, and he enjoys being around people.
Scotty spent a few minutes just meandering around the off-leash run, but eventually came to me on his own and enjoyed getting a good scratch on the back. You’ll have to be okay with a little bit of doggy drool if you adopt Scotty, but he’s definitely worth it! This big boy doesn’t understand why he lost his first family, but he’s more than ready to enjoy the rest of his life with a new one. If you’re looking for an older, gentler dog who already knows what it takes to be a good pet, stop by the shelter and see if Scotty is the one for you!
I also saw my girls Molly (who was a very good girl while getting a quick bath in the yard), Diamond, Lady, and Shasta, and my bestest boy Archie, who I just cannot say enough good things about.
Posted by Meet the Pooches on June 5, 2014 in Dog Profiles and tagged adopt, animal shelter, animals, Chicago, Chihuahua, dogs, Hound, Orphans of the Storm, pets, Pit Bull Terrier, Shepherd.
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FOREST CITY, IOWA, September 13, 2017 – Waldorf University’s Theatre Department presents The Odd Couple, September 20-23, 2017, in the Smith Theatre in Voss Hall.
Two versions of The Odd Couple will be presented. A male version will be presented September 20 and 23, while a female version will run on September 21 and 22.
The Odd Couple is a play by Neil Simon. Following its premiere on Broadway in 1965, the characters were revived in a successful 1968 film and 1970s television series, as well as several other derivative works and spin-offs. The plot concerns two mismatched roommates: the neat, uptight Felix Ungar and the slovenly, easygoing Oscar Madison. Simon adapted the play in 1985 to feature a pair of female roommates, Florence Ungar and Olive Madison, in The Female Odd Couple.
Tickets can be reserved by emailing [email protected] or by calling the box office at 641.585.8585. Ticket prices are: adults - $10, seniors and students (non-Waldorf University) - $8 and Waldorf University students - $2. The show on September 23 is sold out.
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2019-04-19T22:19:10Z
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https://www.waldorf.edu/about/news/2017/waldorf-university%E2%80%99s-theatre-department-presents-t
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The devastation was unbelievable. Glass crunched underfoot as he stepped tentatively into the carnage. A solitary light flickered into life, then died. Where was Murray? This would take some explaining!
A noise to his left set him spinning towards the tree. There, crawling out from under crushed pine was Murray. Collar askew, he crept forward, twined apologetically around John’s legs, and dropped the one unbroken bauble at his feet.
John sighed. Just another Murray Christmas.
Posted in Christmas, Flash Fiction and tagged 75 words, bauble, cat, Christmas, tree. Bookmark the permalink.
And your baubles dangle free.
Wrapped up beneath your Christmas tree.
Posted in Christmas, poetry and tagged baubles, Christmas, christmas tree, ditty, fairy lights, fun, tree, wish, wishes. Bookmark the permalink.
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2019-04-26T15:59:18Z
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https://dabblewords.wordpress.com/tag/tree/
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salon
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A month ago, sewage in the Hudson River nearly canceled New York's first Ironman swim. Yet last week, there was Martin Strel jumping into the water at the foot of the Statue of Liberty. The gregarious 57-year-old Slovenian has swum the lengths of the Amazon, Yangtze and Mississippi Rivers, so this particular 2.2-mile jaunt was really no big whoop. The swim, from Liberty Island to Battery Park City, was part of an effort to call attention to urban waterways (and partly, just for kicks). But something about the scene felt all wrong. Watching Strel crawl through the choppy gray water astride the steely Manhattan skyline, with exhaust-belching ferries and barges churning by, he looked too pink, too soft, and just too human to be there.
Centuries of boat traffic, heavy industry, sewage runoff and toxic dumping have ingrained in us the idea that urban waterways are not places for people. Even as cities have rushed to the water's edge over the past couple of decades, building elaborate waterfront parks and esplanades, few have taken the next logical step: encouraging residents to dive in. "Twenty-five years ago, I bought a pair of wire cutters and cut a fence and declared the L.A. River legally open," says Lewis MacAdams, president of Friends of the Los Angeles River. "But legally, no one is supposed to be in the river. It's still on the books as a $500 fine or six months in jail."
People like MacAdams and Strel are early adopters of the idea that cities' rivers and canals, cleaner than they've been in a century, are ripe for recreational use. Just a few short years ago, the notion would have repelled most people. But we've clearly reached a tipping point. Kayakers have become a sporadic sight on Cleveland's Cuyahoga River, the industrial-sludge channel that famously caught fire in 1969. Clammers have returned to dig in the sands around Boston's once-notoriously polluted harbor. Last month, the New York Times reported that, after years of dancing around them because they're so difficult to clean, the Environmental Protection Agency is finally going all-in on revitalizing urban waterways. "The public wants this stuff picked up and hauled away," a consultant on one of the EPA's waterway Superfund projects told the paper.
This public pressure, combined with new technological cleanup advances, is changing some cities' waterways so quickly that they may soon be unrecognizable. In fact, this transitional moment might be the most intriguing time to explore such areas, especially for anyone who loves the hidden and ignored corners of cities where few dare to venture -- those weedy, quiet, eerily beautiful abandoned spots that, just a few years from now, might be jam-packed with backstrokers and jet skiers. "It's a very urban experience," says Jim Burns.
Burns is a fisherman who lives in Los Angeles and "can be at a mountain stream within 25 minutes." But more often than not, he chooses to fish in the L.A. River, a brutalist, concrete-lined waterway that offers an unusual -- and unusually peaceful -- refuge from the city's throb. "I'd lived in Los Angeles for 34 years and didn't even know there was a river," says Burns. Three years ago, he and his son heard about it and decided to find it. "It was an incredible hassle. L.A. is lots of concrete and freeways. We would spot the river and try to find access to it, and you'd end up behind a Target or something, and the parking lot would be right up against the river with barbed wire and No Trespassing signs."
Eventually, Burns found his access points. "It's concrete, and the sides are super-steep," he says. (The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers channelized the river in the '30s to stop it from flooding.) "You walk down there in your vest and hat, and there are these huge power lines on steel frames above you. You'll see bicyclists, bird-watchers, other fishermen. Hispanic fishermen who use traditional means and eat the fish. And a lot of homeless people, who I've met and who are usually super-nice." In addition to the carp he catches, Burns sees Canada geese, mallards and herons with 6-foot wingspans. Where the bottom of the channel wasn't sealed with concrete, trees and plants sprout from the sandy bottom. Graffiti and the occasional wrecked car line the banks, all of it combining to create a surreal tableau of urban and pastoral. "It's like a secret spot that only the people there know about," says Burns. "You're not going to meet just anyone down there. It's not for everybody."
At least, not for now. But the L.A. River's resurgence promises to be one of the most astonishing urban revitalization projects of the coming decade. Until two years ago, it wasn't even legally a river, but a flood-control channel. "That was when the EPA declared it a traditional navigable waterway, which is bureaucratic shorthand for: It's a river," says MacAdams. And according to the California Public Trust Doctrine, the state's rivers belong to the people. On Aug. 28, Gov. Jerry Brown signed SB 1201, landmark legislation that legalizes access to the river for the first time in nearly a century.
Once that happens, the transformation could come quickly; there's a huge amount of pent-up demand for access. Guided kayak tours that began last summer sold out their 260 slots in 10 minutes. A 2008 report showing that fish from the river were safe to eat has sent more and more anglers searching for its tilapia, catfish and even largemouth bass. "These activities are very important," says MacAdams. "They give people the image of a living river." Indeed, there's something about the potential opening up of these urban waterways that sparks fevered interest. Maybe it's because, in suddenly gentrifying cities, where forsaken space is quickly disappearing, they represent a last wild frontier. Waterfronts were, until recently, often the poorest, most dangerous sections of cities, places where people still lived in Hooverville-style shacks and cooked over open fires. As cities reclaim these waterways, the impoverished areas around them are dissolving, replaced by prospects for new people -- and of course, new profits, as well.
This was the case in Ogden, Utah. When Matthew Godfrey was elected Ogden's mayor 12 years ago at the age of 29, he immediately set to work cleaning up the putrid Ogden River for recreational use. "We wanted to be the high-adventure recreation capital, and we saw the river as an asset," he says. "We were hoping to create a blue-ribbon fishery, we saw kayak potential, we thought we might be able to have a rodeo." But surprisingly, opposition to the cleanup came from the city council's most liberal members, who worried about displacing the poverty-stricken residents living on the river's banks. "They were in these little shotgun houses that had lined the river since the 1920s," says Godfrey, "tiny homes that probably expired their useful life in the '40s."
Eventually the cleanup went through, removing 13,000 tons of concrete, trash and abandoned cars from the river -- and, ultimately, the shacks and the people who lived in them. The city of Ogden now has kayak events and, according to Godfrey, "one of the best holes for fly-fishing in any of the rivers in the region." But even waterborne gentrification can lead to displacement.
So, however, can it create opportunities. A multi-decade effort to turn Houston's main waterway, the Buffalo Bayou, into a recreational destination has generated its own mini-economy of water-oriented businesses. "There's a private company called Bayou Shuttle run by a young guy who saw the potential for canoeing and kayaking on the Bayou. He's running a business and he's doing great," says Guy Hagstette, who's overseeing part of the Bayou's rebirth. Now the city is looking to generate $250 million to acquire more land along the Bayou to create the country's largest contiguous urban hike and bike trail system.
It's no exaggeration to say that, within the next couple of decades, the way we view our cities' rivers, harbors and canals will be radically different than it is today. "I think the river will increasingly become L.A.'s front yard," says MacAdams, an amazing speculation about an asset some residents now don't even know exists. Seeing Martin Strel crawl up the Hudson River, the new World Trade Center rising tantalizingly above him, a new view of the city -- one seen through blue-tinted goggles -- suddenly seems not just possible, but inevitable.
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2019-04-23T20:45:56Z
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https://www.salon.com/2012/09/15/lets_swim_to_work/
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Mills, Michael, and Walke, Donna, eds.
Empowering Learners with Mobile Open-Access Learning Initiatives is a well-designed book giving an overview and awareness to mobile activities as they can be provided in an educational setting. The anthology was compiled by Michael Mills and Donna Wake, both from the University of Central Arkansas. Most of the studies are North American, but there is ample diversity of circumstances in the populations studied and techniques showcased. The book is separated into four parts: practice, curriculum, assessment, and theory.
This book will likely become a historic piece of educational observation on today’s environment, but just as importantly, it is future-looking. So how is the future looking? The authors are clearly optimistic about the future of higher education. The evidence shows the effectiveness of mobile technologies to provide a more equal and motivated voice in society.
Considering the Wabash Center for Teaching in Learning in Theology and Religion’s audience, this book would be most effective for those in curriculum development and assessment. It is easy to read, but scientifically formatted. Each chapter constitutes a separate study contributing to the overall discussion, and new vocabulary is introduced and defined at the conclusion of each chapter. The publisher, IGI Global, is an established publisher of Information Science and this text could be useful even as a textbook for courses in Information Science and Technology.
The book could have been enhanced through a greater diversity of authorship and a wider distribution of geographical locations. Mobile technology is world-reaching, but much of this book’s arguments were grounded in a Western cultural understanding of the world. It would have been helpful for that to have been disclosed in the preface as a both a limitation of this volume and a signal for further study about student learning in online open-access models of education. There was some effort by the authors to attend to issues related to physical and learning disabilities and learning needs of underprivileged communities. However, the only examples the authors provide outside of the United States were Kenya and Portugal.
The real value of the book is its comprehensive structure of presentation and approach to mobile technology as a discipline. It does not make light of the common lay person’s experience with mobile technology. Rather, there is a sense of power behind today’s and the future’s possibilities for reducing social barriers in education. Empowering Learners with Mobile Open-Access Learning Initiatives would be an excellent contribution to a higher education library, and that is said without hesitancy even when the examples of technology in the book could be somewhat fleeting given the rapid changes in technology and online learning.
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2019-04-24T00:42:18Z
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https://www.wabashcenter.wabash.edu/tag/curriculum-development/
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A fibre infrastructure being rolled out by the county council in partnership with Gigaclear and Openreach is not reaching as many homes and businesses as others would have hoped. Kemi Badenoch, MP for Saffron Walden, said that more still needs to be done in Uttlesford.
Ms Badenoch said: “I’m pleased to see such positive figures for broadband coverage across the UK, but we can do better in north west Essex.
Essex county councillor Kevin Bentley, deputy leader and cabinet member for economic growth, skills, infrastructure and the digital economy, admits that the council needs to do more. He said: “Superfast Essex has made tremendous progress in helping our county become better connected and reaching 100,000 homes and businesses is a phenomenal milestone.
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2019-04-18T21:48:41Z
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https://www.supanet.com/north-west-essex-fibre-needs-improvement-a19395.html?tags=internet%20service%20provider
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There is a place where your ideas and career ambitions can be realised, in roles both expected and unexpected. It’s situated in an environment that caters for your work and social needs.
It’s globally-focused, too, so your career can take you as far as your energy, imagination and potential allow.
And, within 50 years, it’s become a UK leading higher education institution, earning the title of University of the Year 2014-2015 by The Times and Sunday Times.
There's a plethora of job roles available, ranging from academic and research posts to administrative jobs and gardeners to theatre production. We will consider applications for employment on a part-time or other flexible working basis, even where a position is advertised as full-time, unless there are operational or other objective reasons why it is not possible to do so.
We will normally only recruit employees to fill more than one position where the total hours worked in the roles do not exceed full time equivalent (FTE) hours.
Latest information for EU Nationals arriving in the UK after 29 March 2019.
Please see the link to the Gov.uk webpage which contains the latest information for EU nationals arriving in the UK after 29 March 2019 in the event of a no deal.
Note this information is subject to change as further information is released by the UK Government.
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2019-04-23T22:11:35Z
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https://warwick.ac.uk/services/humanresources/vacancies
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Events for April 2019 › Fun!
No matching events listed under Fun!. Please try viewing the full calendar for a complete list of events.
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https://golfpagosa.com/events/category/fun/
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DirecTV Enderlin ND retailer (701) 306-3258 .
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If you are shopping for cable TV service, take a few moments to ask yourself some questions. Is cable TV service offered in Enderlin? What are the advantages and disadvantages of cable TV? What are the alternatives to cable TV service in Enderlin, ND?
With DIRECTV Enderlin, North Dakota, you can forget about ever having to miss your favorite sports and shows. Whether you want to watch an international sports channel or watching one series while you watch another, DIRECTV in Enderlin, ND doesn't make you sacrifice.
As the country's leading satellite TV service, DIRECTV Enderlin has no problem making sure that your customer experience is the best you've ever had. For the 14th year in a row, DIRECTV rated higher in customer satisfaction than cable. As compared to the largest national cable & satellite TV providers. 2014 American Customer Satisfaction Index.
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DIRECTV Enderlin, ND can provide you with hours of programming that will make the world melt away. A great satellite television service provider gives you a wide variety of programming at an incredible value, and that's exactly what you'll get with DIRECTV. Enderlin, North Dakota homes should have access to the magic of movies, the most talked about television shows, and the most exciting sports.
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2019-04-19T18:34:35Z
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http://satellitetvproviders.homestead.com/directvretailerenderlinnd.html
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The agent A&M Records represents an entity (e.g. person, organization, etc.) associated with resources found in Randwick City Library.
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2019-04-22T01:09:02Z
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http://link.randwick.nsw.gov.au/resource/yweqEQVMP9o/
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Hanson, 42, visited Frankenmuth High School Friday as part of the American Dairy Council and NFL’s Fuel Up to Play 60 program, talking about nutrition and activity.
Hanson is currently a free agent. His contract ended at the conclusion of the 2012 season, and even he wasn’t sure if he wanted to return to the NFL or the Detroit Lions.
He has announced that he does want to come back for the 2013 season.
Hanson is the third-leading scorer in the history of the NFL, trailing just Gary Anderson and Morten Anderson. He holds the record for most 50-yard field goals, the most games with one team, most game-winning overtime field goals and the most seasons with one team.
In 2012, Hanson made 32 of 36 field goals, with a long of 53 yards.
Hanson admits each year it gets a little stranger in the locker room, as the older Lions and longest-tenured teammates retire. He was sad to see offensive lineman Jeff Backus retire.
With Backus’ retirement, the Lions locker room will go through a subtle change, getting younger and less experienced.
“It’s kind of strange sometimes,” Hanson said. “New guys come in and have no idea who I am. Sometimes I look in the mirror, then look at them and ask myself what I’m doing here.
Hanson’s age has become a topic, with some critics wondering if he still has enough strength in his leg to reach the end zone. Hanson understands the concern, but doesn't agree with it.
“I know there’s that question out there, even inside the organization,” Hanson said. “They’re talking about getting a punter who can kick off into the end zone, maybe save some wear and tear on my leg so I can concentrate on field goals.
That’s not the only reason Hanson peruses the Detroit Lions transactions. He was happy to see Detroit re-sign Don Muhlbach, the Lions’ long snapper. He saw the Lions sign free agent punter Blake Clingan, but it wouldn't surprise him to see the Lion bring in another punter for training camp competition.
Hanson has no timetable for signing a contract. He also isn’t making any predictions beyond the 2013 season.
“I don’t look beyond this season,” Hanson said. “I’ve learned not to look beyond the season. I’ll make a decision on next season after this season. If you look too far ahead, you lose focus on what’s happening right now.
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2019-04-18T23:15:18Z
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https://www.mlive.com/sports/saginaw/2013/03/detroit_lions_kicker_jason_han.html
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I’m going to take a slightly different approach to my previous two examples and split the Producer and Consumer into two different Windows Forms. This will allow us to run as many Consumers as we like and so demonstrate Pub/Sub effectively.
First up is the Producer.
Create a new Form and add the Input TextBox and Button as in the first two examples. Also and a new Button “Start New Consumer” .
In the previous two examples we had pretty much duplicate constructors for both Consumers and Producers. We will now fix this by creating a base class that these can both inherit from. Create a new class called IConnectToRabbitMQ.
The class name may look a little odd to most as it begins with an “I”, this is usually the naming convention for an Interface but I’m using what I like to call Simon Says naming convention. I’ll be writing a post about this in the near future. The main gist of it, is I like to have classes tell me what they do. For example, a class which calls a remote service might inherit from a class(or interface) called ICallRemoteServices. So the full class name definition would be FooService : ICallRemoteServices. There would also be a abstract method defined that implements the action e.g CallRemoteService. Other example are IAmAnOrder(for a value object), ICalculateShipping, IDeliverEmail etc. This may seem a little weird but I like it :).
So enough of that for now, lets go through the class. First we declare fields to hold the familiar IModel and Connection instances. Next up are fields to store the details of the Server, Exchange and ExchangeTypeName. Exchange is the name of the exchange we want to publish/consume messages from and ExchangeTypeName holds the type of exchange we want to use(in this example it will be “fanout”). ExchangeType is set from a constant declared in the RabbitMQ.Client.ExchangeType class, so for us it will be ExchangeType .Fanout(More on this later.) Next we have the ConnectToRabbitMQ() method, this is almost exactly the same as the Constructor methods of the Producer/Consumer methods in my previous two examples. We have this additional block which declares the Exchange.
We are declaring a durable exchange of the type ExchangeTypeName with the name ExchangeName. If this exchange had already been declared by another Producer or Consumer a new one is not created, the existing one will be used.
Now we’ll write our Producer.
Here we a have a nice lightweight publisher, the only difference from our previous examples is we are publishing to a named exchange called ExchangeName. We do not know about or use a Queue.
Then it’s our consumer, this is slightly more complicated.
What we are doing here is asking the model to declare a temporary queue for us and give it a random unique name(stored in QueueName), we then bind this queue to the Exchange called ExchangeName.
The Consume() method is very different to what we have seen before(and the Java Example). Instead of using a QueueingBasicConsumer we are using a Subscription. Subscription is part of the RabbitMQ.Client.MessagePatterns package in the .net client Library. It give us a nice wrapper to the boilerplate message de-queuing code. More info is here.
This should be fairly self explanatory. The producer.ConnectToRabbitMQ() call is handled in the base IConnectToRabbitMQ class. We’ve added little error handling code just in case the broker is unavailable(if it is run rabbitmq-server -detached from the command line .) There’s also a method to handle clicks on the “Start New Consumer” Button which spawns a new Consumer Form.
Then we have our Consumer Form.
This is exactly the same as previous Consumer examples with the additional call to the base class.
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Thanks for your blog. Very nice articles!
Laval, Thanks! keep checking back I’ve got a lot more in the pipeline.
Nice implementation! Forms are, as you mentioned in the first part, more familiar to .NET:ers than the command line.
I can’t find the source for download under the provided link (“This project currently has no downloads.”).
Thanks for pointing that out! I’ll upload some sort of archive for non-svn users after I’ve finished the next section.
Awesome examples of RabbitMQ in .Net. Any plans on doing an RPC example?
part 4.. i completed the example 4..
Thanks a lot for this blog. It’s really clear and helps a lot.
Is anyone working on the fifth and the sixth part?
I’m working on it and it takes me a lot of time to complete the whole code.
Very good blog! Many Thanks!
Hi, thanks for the post it is really useful, but i have question. What if rabbitMQ server is down and then back, how can i keep continue consuming. Because i lost connection.
I’m unable to connect to my rabbitmq server.
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2019-04-23T17:57:58Z
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https://simonwdixon.wordpress.com/2011/05/19/getting-started-with-rabbitmq-in-net-%E2%80%93-part-3/
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French Graphic Novel 'Satania' Breaks New Ground — Underground Halloween is a time for surprises, so it's a great time for Satania, by Fabien Vehlmann and Kerascoët — it's a thoroughly surprising story about a young girl searching for her missing brother.
Halloween is a time for surprises, which makes this a great time for the release of a new book by Fabien Vehlmann and Kerascoët. In 2014 this French team summoned the creepies with Beautiful Darkness, a ghoulishly comic tale in which tiny people lived on the decaying corpse of a small girl left in the woods. Like its predecessor, Satania seems to burst forth from an innocent, morally chaotic imagination. It's not actually a story about Hell, nor is it a fantasy — or, not exactly. What it is, is thoroughly surprising.
True, there are familiar rudiments here: Charlie, a teenager on a quest for her missing brother, joins a ragtag group of explorers on a journey to (well, toward) the center of the earth. Charlie is innocent, earnest and resourceful — pretty much the standard-issue Spunky Girl of a zillion stories. But what she finds as she and the team descend is wholly unexpected in both content and tone. It turns out there's plenty going on underground. Monstrous life forms dwell there, and something in the cave air makes the explorers slowly lose their minds.
Vehlmann follows throughlines unpredictably, and Kerascoët's style — reminiscent, as reviewers of Beautiful Darkness noted, of Tove Jansson's Moomin books — brings an unsettling sweetness to scenes of horror. The art is also straightforwardly beautiful, making for a delightful visual experience even when young Charlie and her comrades are edging their way through dark caverns. Kerascoët (actually the married couple Marie Pommepuy and Sébastien Cosset) do let some opportunities go by early on — a huge underground city, the explorers' first big discovery, lacks brio. But the artists' energy heightens as Charlie descends, while the story gets tighter and stranger. When the bizarre conclusion begins to unspool, events blaze across the page in an ecstatic riot of line and color.
Kerascoët have thought carefully about the most effective ways to help Vehlmann tease and discomfit the reader. The characters are drawn with varying degrees of realism and different cartoony characteristics, making them seem almost like different species (and sometimes they are). One explorer's goofy features become a kind of ghastly joke as his fate unfolds. Charlie is generically cute, but her black button eyes have an alienating effect. And the character who's drawn most relatably, a Kris Kringle-ish priest with wide eyes and friendly whiskers, turns out to have the most opaque motivations. Like Vehlmann, the artists are determined to follow one rule: Nothing here is what you'd expect.
That's the root of Satania's success — and also of its numerous failures. The characters aren't classic "types," but they aren't all that well-established or differentiated either. Charlie herself has little personality besides the requisite pluck. She's given a tortured backstory, but it feels simultaneously stingy and pointless.
Even if it falls short ... this book's sheer oddness remains mesmerizing — and not just because it's so appealing visually.
Vehlmann also trips up with the pacing. The narrative stutters along indecisively until the action-packed final third. Even then, after a series of rollicking sequences, the very last pages imply that the most interesting part of Charlie's adventure has been left untold. Other choices throughout the book were clearly intended to tantalize the reader, but this omission just seems like a failure of stamina.
Even if it falls short, though, this book's sheer oddness remains mesmerizing — and not just because it's so appealing visually. Satania may not be as weird as Beautiful Darkness, but Vehlmann has dreamed up some truly unexpected twists and trimmings for a quest tale that's the antithesis of formulaic. It's as if, by heading underground, he's managed to leave all the old stories (well, most of them) behind. You'd never guess the depths would be so refreshing.
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2019-04-18T13:31:11Z
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https://www.npr.org/2017/10/31/560097229/french-graphic-novel-satania-breaks-new-ground-underground
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In this dissertation, we analyze characteristics of eigenfunctions of the Schrödinger operator on graphs. In particular, we are interested in the zeros of the eigenfunctions and their relation to the spectrum of the magnetic Schrödinger operator. We begin by studying the nodal count on finite quantum graphs, analyzing both the number and location of the zeros of eigenfunctions. This question was completely solved by Sturm in one dimension. In higher dimensions (including domains and graphs), we only know bounds for the nodal count. We discover more information about the nodal count on quantum graphs while analyzing eigenvalues of the magnetic Schrödinger operator. In particular, we show a relation between the stability of eigenvalues of the magnetic Schrödinger operator with respect to magnetic flux and the number of zeros of the corresponding eigenfunctions. We also study the location of the zeros of eigenfunctions while analyzing partitions. Specifically, we show that the critical points of the energy functional are the nodal partitions corresponding to zeros of an eigenfunction and that the stability of these critical points is related to the nodal count. Then using Floquet-Bloch theory, we study the spectrum of the Schrödinger operator on infinite periodic graphs by analyzing the eigenvalues of the magnetic Schrödinger operator on a fundamental domain. Here we consider both discrete and quantum graphs. We find a characterization of critical points of the dispersion relation that occur inside the Brillouin zone under certain conditions on the graph. In particular, we show that if the fundamental domain is a tree, then the eigenfunction corresponding to an interior critical point must be zero on a vertex. Finally, we use the results from infinite periodic graphs to study the magnetic Schrödinger operator on a finite quantum d-mandarin graph. We find that extremal points of the dispersion surface occur inside the Brillouin zone where two surfaces touch and the corresponding eigenfunction is zero on a vertex.
Weyand, Tracy Kathleen (2014). Zeros of Eigenfunctions of the Schrodinger Operator on Graphs and Their Relation to the Spectrum of the Magnetic Schrodinger Operator. Doctoral dissertation, Texas A & M University. Available electronically from http : / /hdl .handle .net /1969 .1 /153392.
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2019-04-19T10:32:18Z
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https://oaktrust.library.tamu.edu/handle/1969.1/153392
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Bottle: If you have or show bottle, you have courage, particularly under pressure. Conversely, if you lack bottle, you are not brave. Often, if a player pulls out of a tackle, they may be said to bottle it – meaning to avoid something that requires courage.
Example: Before winning Euro 2008 Spain were often accused of lacking bottle in international tournaments.
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2019-04-23T16:37:52Z
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http://languagecaster.com/football-glossary-bottle/20/
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Dead Wood: Key to Enhancing Wildlife Diversity in Forests -- Figure 3. Brush piles provide shelter, shade, perch sites, and food resources.
Figure 3. Brush piles provide shelter, shade, perch sites, and food resources.
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2019-04-24T11:53:49Z
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http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/LyraEDISServlet?command=getImageDetail&image_soid=FIGURE%203&document_soid=UW277&document_version=21223
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One ship builder’s plaque from the USS Massachusetts (BB-59). The rectangular brass plaque is embossed with lettering reading “U.S.S. Massachusetts / Built By / Bethlehem Steel Company / Shipbuilding Division / Fore River Yard Quincy, Mass. / 1942.” The flat background has a dark finish while the lettering and plain border are bright brass. There is a rivet hole in each corner of the plaque.
USS Massachusetts was commissioned 12 May 1942. She was a South Dakota-class battleship and the fifth ship to be named for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Most of her career was spent supporting operations in the Pacific Theater. In October 1944, she participated in the Battle of Leyte Gulf.
Massachusetts has the honor of being the first US ship to fire 16-inch shells against the European Axis Powers following an attack by the French battleship Jean Bart on 8 November 1942. She is also credited with firing the last 16-inch shell in combat in World War II while bombarding the Japanese ironworks at Kamaishi on 9 August 1945.
She received 11 battle stars for her service in World War II. She can now be found at Fall River, Massachusetts where she was transferred to the Massachusetts Memorial Committee in 1965.
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2019-04-19T14:54:17Z
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https://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/artifacts/ship-and-shore/plaques/builder-s-plaques/BuildersPlaqueUSSMassachusettsBB59.html
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Peppers – You Asked It!
If you eat foods with hot peppers, you likely know the spiciness, or heat, can vary a lot.
The heat comes from a group of compounds called capsaicinoids, including the well known capsaicin. This fiery compound causes “chemesthesis” in which the receptors inside the mouth react to pain, touch, and heat. Some may call it pain, others call it pleasure.
Chile pepper varieties have a varying amount of heat and can also be quite different within the same variety. Growing conditions will also determine heat in peppers. If the plant is stressed, the peppers will produce more capsaicin.
The pith, or white membrane, contains a majority of the heat from capsaicin. Simply cut out the pith, as well as the seeds, to cool down the heat. Save these to add back to a recipe if more heat is desired. The size of pepper makes little difference in heat pungency.
On the outside, they look like hot peppers. But don’t be fooled! These small, sweet peppers have very little heat. But they pack flavor!
Shishito peppers are mainly mild in flavor, but one in ten may have a little heat. The Japanese name for these is shishi which means lion. The tips of the peppers are puckered and looks a bit like a lion head.
Farmers markets and some grocers may carry these. Look for peppers with wrinkles and twists, a narrow shape and about three inches long. They are usually green, but may have red and orange color also. Store refrigerated in a paper bag up to two weeks.
Grill, roast, or sauté to blister the skin with a little vegetable oil, season with salt or other seasoning and serve immediately.
Bell peppers can add a variety of color to many recipes. But they also add different amounts of nutrition. Red, yellow and orange peppers are the ripe versions of the green pepper. Therefore, they cost more. They are all equal in the macronutrients of protein, fat, and carbohydrate.
The differences are found in the vitamin, mineral and phytonutrient content. In the case of vitamin C, green peppers contain 80mg per 3 ounce serving. Yellow peppers have 184mg per serving. The Recommended Daily Allowance is 75-90mg per day so either pepper is a good choice.
Different colors of peppers have different amounts of carotenoids. Red peppers are bursting with beta-carotene. Yellow peppers have very little beta-carotene. Orange peppers have 10 times the amount of lutein and zeaxanthin. Carotenoids are beneficial for eye health.
Bottom line, don’t skimp on peppers and add color to your meals!
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2019-04-25T12:42:12Z
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http://enewsletters.k-state.edu/youaskedit/tag/peppers/
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In a recent New Yorker article, George Packer described the Senate as a “sclerotic, wasteful, unhappy body.” He spoke with Need to Know.
Following a Need To Know report on violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo, viewers wrote to ask how to avoid buying products that use minerals from conflict-ravaged areas. This response examines the challenges of unraveling the supply chain and what industry, government and NGO groups are doing to address the issue.
Feds push detention reforms amid record number of deportations, but the move from a punitive to civil detention system could take years.
Come Selma. We have to run.
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2019-04-18T19:50:37Z
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http://www.pbs.org/wnet/need-to-know/security/page/12/
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Match report On a splendid sunny afternoon and on a cracking batting pitch Leigh took first innings and had a bright start before Mueez quereshi made the initial breakthrough shortly followed by chand chouhan bowling opener liston for 20. Three more wickets fell to Abid alaracu and Faizan Rana as the home team took to spin in the heat, but a 6th wicket stand between leigh skipper Sexton (76) and wicketkeeper Bradley (56) added 85 and took the score to a final declaration of 220 for 7, probably below par for the conditions. Quereshi finished with 3 for 39 and Rana 2 for 32 with Alarau and chouhan taking the other wickets. In reply Park 's openers Sunil Mistry (63) and Abid alaracu (32) added 80 very quickly. Veteran left armer Johyn Elliott settled into a long and steady spell but with James Patient in fine touch (75 not out) Park were always in touch and he duly hit the winning boundary with an over to spare as Park won by 5 wickets. Elliot finished with 3 for 49.
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2019-04-24T00:48:37Z
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https://www.gprcc.co.uk/scorecard/fixtureID_328330/Saturday-2nd-XI-v-Leigh-On-Sea-13-Jul-2013.aspx
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17:28:09: @coreyann Ooh! I haven't see those! I want 'em! You should try the Kashi Pumpkin Pie (well now they're called pumpkin pecan) bars.
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2019-04-19T11:25:18Z
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https://thinkerofthunks.livejournal.com/1639701.html
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independent
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The tour begins by the Palace of Mirabell built in the year 1606 for the Archbishop Wolf Dietrich and is today home to the office of the local Mayor and city offices. Then pass the Mozarteum (University of Music) one of the world's most prestigious music academies. Passing the Marionette Theatre, you will arrive in Markart Square with the Landestheatre (The Regional Theatre), The Trinity Church a baroque masterpiece from Fischer von Erlach plus Mozarts Wohnhaus (Mozart's Residence), where the composer lived for many years. Crossing over the Salzach (Salt) river which was once a major transport route you will have a wonderful view of this magical city. Following the river along part of the old fortifications you will pass the Law Courts on the way to the Hellbrunn Palace where you will have a short photo stop. Hellbrunn Palace was built at the start of the 17th century to the design of the great architect Santino Solari and used as a hunting lodge and weekend residence by Salzburg's Archbishops.
On the way back to the city center you will pass the Palace of Frohnburg and the Nonnberg Abbey, situated beneath the impressive Hohensalzburg Fortress, before entering the heart of the city through the Siegmunds Gate. Once in the old city you will pass by the Festival Halls, Old University, Horse Pond, Getreidegasse and the Blasius Church. The tour finishes in Mozart Square where you will see the famous Mozart statue, Cathedral, Old Residence of the Archbishops and the Fortress Hohensalzburg.
Hotel pick up; Food and beverage; Gratuity.
Available: Daily; Departs at 9:00am, 10:45am, 11:45am, 1:45pm, 2:45pm.
Tour is approximately 1.5 hours plus 1 hour at Mozart's Residence.
Tour departs from Mirabellplatz 2, A-5020 Salzburg.
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2019-04-24T18:51:43Z
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https://traveloffers.independent.co.uk/holiday/mozart-city-tour-and-mozarts-residence-e7f68ae660fd9c6ff003e15f1505a638/overview
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The first point of contention is that, as much as Elena has changed as a person (and then as a vampire) since the beginning of the series, I don’t think Elena’s moral compass has actually transformed much. It has always been people she cares about first, people of Mystic Falls (including herself) second and everyone else last. It’s just that before season one she hasn’t been in a situation where these distinctions are something she has to prioritise or that have such a drastic effect on lives. I do like the twisted nature of her moral compass but also how realistic it is as most people would put their loved ones above others. There’s also the important point of her being seventeen/eighteen and I think in a way having a different view of the world, she recognises the consequences on the wider world but doesn’t acknowledge them.
This involves the whole out of sight out of mind, denial thing; the force of this is strong in this one. I believe for Elena her denial and moral compass are intermingled aspects of herself that are co-dependent on each other (but more on that later). It’s natural to worry more about the people in your surroundings than the people starving/being massacred on the opposite side of the world, if we constantly thought about all the suffering we wouldn’t be able to function, so we focus it. But there’s also another kind of denial that people often go into, the human mind is known to fill in gaps automatically, find patterns automatically, automatically dismiss things that don’t seem to fit into their world view of another person, this is how people can be convinced that the person they love didn’t do that horrible thing; it doesn’t make sense and they didn’t see it happen so it must not be true.
There’s also the emotional reaction to someone doing something to someone you care about as opposed to someone you don’t. If there’s an emotional connection to the situation the view of the perpetrator will most likely be different, on an emotional level.
These all affect Elena’s behaviour, but there is a very stark contrast between the things that happen within Mystic Falls and outside of it.
The first time it’s obvious is in ‘The sacrifice’ and the episodes after. Elena is clearly more than willing to give herself over to be sacrificed if it means her family and loved ones stay safe. But completely disregards the other members of the sacrifice; the werewolf and the vampire, which is an intriguing insight not only into her moral compass but also into her level of denial. The others who will be sacrificed don’t exist to her. Not even a thought seems to be given, Elena is in her mind doing what is right and sacrificing herself for the sake of her loved ones, others who may get hurt/killed don’t matter, the greater power Klaus will have, and destruction he will reap on the world, almost seems to not matter either; but the plan is to kill him so maybe not so.
Elena is in denial about the possibility of her loved ones getting hurt as well, she is so convinced in her belief that if she does the right thing everything will be okay. If she holds up her end of the bargain, Klaus will hold up his end too; don’t forget this is a bargain they haven’t actually made but an implied covenant based around the concept of Isobel telling Klaus that Elena wouldn’t run to make sure her friends don’t get hurt. But perhaps she’s assuming that Klaus holds deals and honour in high regard the same way his brother does. Whatever she’s thinking she seems to deliberately overlook (because Elena is much too smart and perceptive to not have noticed) that all of the vampires and werewolves available are actually her friends and loved ones.
Here she clearly makes the distinction between things that happen around her and things that don’t. She’s not asking him to stop, she’s asking him to not do it around her, so it doesn’t affect her; so it doesn’t exist to her.
Here’s another starker example of Elena’s moral compass and denial. At the beginning of season three Stefan has been spending his summer running up and down the East coast murdering people, physically ripping them apart. Elena knows this but only responds with sympathy, with love, with entreaties that she can help him. In her mind he’s not bad, he can’t be, that doesn’t fit into her view of him; he must’ve been forced by Klaus; or the things he did must’ve been exaggerated. She doesn’t accept that this part of who Stefan is exists as an actual part and not just an illness to be expunged. The people he killed weren’t in Mystic Falls; they don’t exist, they don’t matter. Then at Bonnie’s mother’s house Stefan doesn’t kill anyone, he doesn’t even really hurt anyone, he just forcefully compels Jamie to leave. But here Stefan’s actions are taking place in front of Elena and she can’t deny or ignore them. Now Elena’s response is “I don’t think you realise how bad you’ve gotten”.
It’s not just about the unknown strangers not mattering, but more importantly the immense, compassionate, empathetic love she has for her loved ones being the reason she puts them above everyone else. That’s where her certainty with decisions comes from. Her willingness to sacrifice herself on many occasions demonstrates this; she doesn’t pause in 2x10 when saying the doppelganger is ready to hand herself over, resurrects a possibly dangerous Elijah rather than let Bonnie put herself at risk etc. The massive importance her family and friends have to her is very significant, she is someone who loves and cares strongly and that’s why, the more danger her loved ones are placed in the more she’s willing to do to protect them and the more atrocious the crime against them seems.
As the arc of Elena and her moral compass is pushed to a new level by the increase in danger towards her brother Jeremy, an important comparison can be made. In season three Elena says to Esther; if you kill all these vampires you will be the same as Klaus. This is referring to the vampires she cares about though; it’s before they know who sired their line. It is a terrible crime because it’s happening to her vampires, her people, her loved ones. But when it comes to Kol and the lives of hundreds, possibly thousands, of vampires outside of Mystic Falls, of course there’s no question in her mind that her brother comes first. There’s something to be said for that brutal certainty. But it’s also that those other vampires don’t really exist to Elena. She never hesitates or doubts or seems anyway remorseful as she tells of her plan to kill Kol and so many others as a result, because for Elena the protection of the closest person to her, the only family she has left, is paramount, and thus is above all the right thing.
Elena’s denial and Elena’s moral compass feed on each other and allow each other to exist. Elena’s stance of loved ones above others is an ordinary human one, but taken to extremes, because the situations in her life live in extremes. Her moral compass dictates that something is right or wrong and this allows her to be in denial about the truth of the matter. At the same time her denial helps her to make peace with her moral compass which will with all the compassion she possesses champion the safety of her loved ones and ignore all collateral in the way of doing so. So it’s fitting that her denial breaks and the line for her moral compass breaks at the same time.
For the shows portrayal of this final breaking spiral, the two big Elena episodes 4x06 and 4x15 are inextricably linked together. The first parallel is with the aftermath of Jeremy’s temporary death in 4x06 alongside the aftermath of his permanent death in 4x15. Both obviously sources of guilt for Elena, as with the first she killed him and the second they were looking for the cure for her when it happened. This leads into the second parallel with Elena cracking under the influence of the hunter’s curse and Elena cracking under the weight of all the loss; both times are about her grief, not just for Jeremy but every loved one she has lost.
In 4x06 it’s revealed that Elena thinks she’s ‘maybe worse’ than Katherine. This is possibly a reference to Katherine successfully following her own code of ‘better you die than I’, whereas Elena has in a way failed to live by her own moral code; she has failed to die for her loved ones, so many of those she would give her life for are dead and here she is, still alive. Elena’s subconscious as ‘Katherine’ talks about Elena getting worse and worse, but maybe it’s also about how much worse it has all gotten already. It’s about her being a vampire, but it’s also about her being herself. And Katherine goes on to talk about the things Elena did as a human, the lives she cost, (Sheila, Abby, etc.) even as she was willing to sacrifice herself, bringing the point home more about the ‘kills’, not just the ones when she was a vampire.
Later in the episode at Wickery Bridge her subconscious manifests as Elena’s mother and says ‘This bridge is where your life should’ve ended, not just once but twice.’ The fact that not only is the first time (when she was human, but before all the supernatural mess) mentioned but also that it’s her mother saying it suggests that Elena at least in part believes she should’ve died on Wickery Bridge that first time, then there would be no doppelganger, she would’ve died and all those lives would’ve been saved. ‘It’s the right thing to do you know it is’ her ‘mother’ says because she’s already supposed to be dead, this is an integral part of her moral compass; her life above her loved ones. It’s a long list of losses and deaths she’s possibly blaming herself for; including Miranda, Grayson, Jenna, John, Alaric, Sheila dying and Abby, Caroline and Tyler becoming vampires (maybe Isobel and Vicki too), and this links in with 4x15 and the theme of culmination of loss that’s depicted wonderfully with lines such as ‘there’s no more room in the Gilbert family plot’.
So we come to 4x15, Elena’s brother is dead and here her denial is shown in all its glory, where before it may’ve been a subtle shadow of a thing, here it’s screaming from the tree tops. Elena always carries on, Elena is always fine. They’re sitting around a table with Bonnie arguing about how she will bring Jeremy back to life. And this is Elena’s line; she cannot hold her denial in check anymore; Jeremy is dead. This is the ultimate failure; she is alive and Jeremy is dead. She snaps into ‘being fine’ mode, they need a cover story right, need to burn the house down with him inside it, actions so manic and raw and ridiculous, it’s clear she’s spiralling and yet she says it in such a no nonsense tone and it actually makes sense again. Confounding all her irrationality with rationality, it’s brilliant. Also Jeremy is not going to be just another ‘animal attack’. This is Elena stating she’s not in denial but she’s doing what she always does and pretending to be fine, except this time things are so much worse so her pretending to be fine is taken to extremes.
I love that this is the line for Elena. No she wouldn’t bring back every supernatural being to bring him back, she asks Damon about wanting his drinking buddy back, again linking back to this also being an accumulation of loss, but it’s also still mainly about Jeremy. I love Elena wondering whether it makes her a bad person that she won’t bring back all the monsters to bring back Jeremy, because that’s the crux of her moral compass; do whatever it takes to save her loved ones, Jeremy is the most cherished of loved ones, and if she’s not willing to do whatever it takes, what sort of person is she. It contrasts with just two episodes earlier she was willing to let countless numbers of vampires die to protect Jeremy without a second thought and in her mind that was right, but this is too much. It’s a glorious end, with this moral line being drawn, happening in the same moment her denial ends; at the realisation that yes, Jeremy is dead, everyone is dead, and she can’t bring back all the supernatural dead creatures, can’t let Bonnie destroy herself by killing twelve people. Her denial is gone and the surety aligned with her moral compass of right is gone. So who is she now but someone left with just her guilt and grief.
I love what you've done here. I love what you're intimating about Elena's breakthrough into stepping up to a new moral ground. This needed to happen.
I wrote an Elijah ficlet about Elena's mindset back in S2....because my take on the character was very much the same as yours here - I felt she was hugely flawed BECAUSE of her parents' death and the fact that she should have died...in that accident but was saved by supernatural forces, however she didn't know that at the time and her moral compass got seriously broken after her parents' death AS WOULD ANY fifteen year old's compass!!!! Nothing unusual in that except for the fact that within a few months of the fatal accident Elena's world takes a serious sidestep in the supernatural and coupling the already immoral life of the supernatural with her broken morality....and we got three amazing seasons out of her psychic breakdown.
Thank you so much for the compliments :).
Yeah, I fully accept that characterisation on a tv show will be affected by all those things, I'm usually cool with characters taking a completely different direction than I think they would, as long as it's done in a way that makes sense. And yeah I so hope that whatever they do with Elena it actually works with her characterisation so far.
YES; this is something not brought up enough; the way the supernatural entering Elena's life at that time compounded the effect of her parents death.
I think the reason no one was at all excited about Silas being able to bring people back was partly because they didn't believe Shane; knew he was up to something, wanted to raise Silas and would say anything to make that happen. Also I don't think any of team Mystic Falls was planning to raise him, but it would've been an interesting choice for Elena, but I doubt she would've believed Silas was likely to just raise the people she wanted to be.
It's an important stepping stone for Elena now, I just hope they don't back-pedal.
Your take on Elena is spot on. I've always been a fan of Elena's character, and her moral compass, though questionable, has always been pretty realistic.
What made her character not work for me so well this season is that while she's never cared about people outside her circle, she's always been willing to sacrifice herself for her loved ones, which somehow balances the fact that she (much like Damon) doesn't stop to think much about collateral damage.
In season four, however, self-sacrificing Elena is gone. Everyone is looking for the cure FOR her and yet she doesn't step into the quest until she helps Jeremy kill Kol, twelve episodes into the season. She saw what the hunter's mark did to Connor and yet she agreed to let Damon train her brother to become a killing machine (not before making sure he wouldn't kill her or any of her vampire friends, of course). Seasons 1-3 Elena would've never agreed to that (as Matt rightly pointed out).
And then Stefan manages to stop Elena from killing Rebekah with some whine about all the nameless vampires that would die with her, but mere episodes later she does exactly that with Kol. It didn't bother me that she killed Kol, but that the argument had worked to stop her from killing Rebekah, because it wasn't consistent.
I don't mind her moral compass, since I don't think any of us has a perfect compass, but I like it better when the show actually acknowledges it exists, like when they killed Chris and Tyler made sure they knew that had been wrong.
Some times when I read metas like this that perfectly explain a character's arc so well, I wonder if the writers are that aware of how they're building the arc or if that's what us, the audience, see when we piece together what we're given. I really hope it's the former, but sometimes I wonder.
It certainly would be great to see Elena openly questioning all she's stood for over the past coouple of seasons.
I think somewhere near the end of the season we'll see some of that. Her questioning her actions as a human, as a vampire and as a humanity-free vampire and come to a conclusion of who she is now. Since her parents died she's said plenty of times "the girl who I was (before they died, before I turned, before Jeremy died, five minutes ago) is dead". She's been trying to build a comprehensive image of who she is and hasn't yet succeeded. I really hope the resolution of her humanity-free arc serves as a catalyst for the answer to that question.
You make some very good and intriguing points. I think possibly they've shown Elena's self-sacrificial side less because it has also been clouded with issues with the sire bond; I still think what they've done with the sire bond is a bit of a mess, even though it had its moments. Possibly because Elena self-sacrificing wouldn't make Damon happy. I don't know, it's a bit of a mess.
I think the difference with staking Rebekah and staking Kol does show an aspect of Elena's morality because she backs down with Rebekah, showing she cares about all those lives, and then with Kol, because of the Rebekah bit we know she cares about all those lives but still places them below the life of Jeremy.
Oh, yes, I loved that Tyler bit so much for exactly that reason. They do sometimes need a character to play the un-skewed moral compass to show just how off-kilter the others have gotten.
I really hope at least some of the writers are aware of what they're doing with characterisation. I'd like to hope they'd do something that makes sense even if they go in an odd direction. I enjoy most tvd characterisation though, so I think it will be okay.
Yeah, I so agree it would be awesome if they had Elena form an understanding of her new self and acknowledge that answer.
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Hello, guys! Today I’m posting my wrap up for the first month of the year and I’m happy that it’s quite packed! I’ve gotten around several books and managed to post reviews as well. I’m sticking to my resolution of posting thrice a week and I’m proud to say that I was able to do so.
For January it was more of a poetry month for me since my finished books were all poetry collections.
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2019-04-23T00:30:28Z
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Chanell Crichlow (M.M. tuba '10) and her ensemble, Pitchblak Brass Band, were featured in the February 2014 issue of Downbeat Magazine in an article titled "Getting Deep and Breaking Rules" by Jennifer ODell. The article discusses a new wave of brass bands that are blending New Orleans street music with hip-hop and rap to create a totally new art form.
The Pitchblak Brass Band is a ten-piece New York City-based ensemble of composers, producers, artists, and rappers who have performed together since 2010. Drawing upon its members’ diverse musical backgrounds, styles, and visions, PitchBlak mixes hip-hop and brass to create music that pulses with Afro-Caribbean beats, soaring jazz solos, and mind-melting guitar licks. They infuse their hip-hop-driven music with funk, rock, jazz, and classical. "Pitchblak percussionist and emcee Chris Johnson also works as a classical bass player; guitarist Ben Brody plays classical French horn; and about half the group wrote the original music that appears on their debut album, "You See Us."
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Are you an artist? What about a poet? Do you think computers are cool? Do you play with code? Are you a Facebook freak? Come work with Prof. Saum-Pascual!
Alex Saum-Pascual is looking for a graduate student interested in working with her in the teaching and research involved in an experimental undergraduate course on electronic literature, i.e.: poetry and narrative created on a computer, meant to be displayed on a computer (hypertext novels, generative poetry, social media fictions, etc.). This is a Mellon award funded project, part of the DH program at Cal.
The course would be structured as a workshop, and most of the instruction and all lectures will be carried out by her, selected consultants from the D-Lab, Digital Humanities at Berkeley staff, and invited guest professors. The GSR would be in charge of helping students identify the tools they need to create their digital artwork, and assist them in their production during workshop time.
Class schedule is yet to be determined, but the course will probably meet twice a week (1.5hrs x2), dividing sessions between lectures and making workshops. The class will be cross-listed in the department of Spanish and Portuguese, and the Berkeley Center for New Media.
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2019-04-20T15:17:54Z
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Matt Riebesell singled to right field; Robert Cappadona advanced to second.
Billy Brittingham singled to right field, RBI; Matt Riebesell advanced to third; Robert Cappadona scored.
Chris DeGiacomo homered to right center, RBI.
Chris Grillo doubled to right center, RBI; Brenden Weiss scored.
John Serruto singled to center field, RBI; Chris Grillo scored.
Mike Smith singled to left field.
Frank Clara walked; Mike Smith advanced to second.
Austin Sacks homered to right center, 3 RBI; Alex Darwiche scored; Chris DeGiacomo scored.
Eric Reitmeyer singled to center field.
Dillon Bowman advanced to second on a wild pitch.
Alex Darwiche singled to right field.
Austin Sacks walked; Alex Darwiche advanced to second.
Mike Smith walked; Austin Sacks advanced to second; Alex Darwiche advanced to third.
Zach Jaffe singled to right field, 2 RBI; Mike Smith advanced to third; Austin Sacks scored; Alex Darwiche scored.
Truman Devitt to p for Matthew D'Ambrosia.
Frank Clara homered to left field, 3 RBI; Zach Jaffe scored; Mike Smith scored.
Jon Capra hit by pitch.
Eric Reitmeyer singled to center field; Jon Capra advanced to second.
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Nick Bodner to p for Alex Ross.
Chris DeGiacomo doubled to right field.
Mike Eberle singled to center field; Chris DeGiacomo advanced to third.
John Serruto singled to second base; Robert Cappadona advanced to second.
Matt Riebesell doubled to right center, RBI; John Serruto advanced to third; Robert Cappadona scored.
Billy Brittingham homered to right field, 3 RBI; Matt Riebesell scored; John Serruto scored.
Josh Hejka to p for Nick Bodner.
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Dillon Bowman reached on a fielder's choice; Frank Clara advanced to second; Zach Jaffe advanced to third; Mike Smith out at home 3b to c.
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2019-04-22T06:28:32Z
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My freshman housing experience was awesome. I was lucky enough to end up in the elusive and illustrious Birnkrant Triple, what is in my opinion the best housing option on campus. It’s two rooms, one with beds and the other with desks, for three people.
We had a ton of space for the three of us which made everything easier. What really made things easy though were my roommates. I met one of them on the admitted students facebook page and the other was randomly assigned to us through USC Housing and it worked out perfectly. We had a great roommate dynamic and I think that was the number one thing that contributed to such a great freshman housing experience.
Because of the size of our room, we tended to attract all of our friends to come and hang out in our room, which was a ton of fun. My favorite part of living in a dorm as always having my friends around, so it was even better that they were always in my room.
I met a ton of great people through dorm life and I can’t imagine having started college another way. It really was the perfect way to get to meet people and adjust to life at USC.
Birnkrant is also great because of the location. It’s right next to a 24 hour library and on the first floor, there’s a 24 hour convenience store/coffeeshop. This means it’s the most well equipped dorm for late night studying and snacking, which always comes in handy. It’s also right on the quad with most of the other dorms and even has a dining hall right next to it. It’s the perfect location.
USC also funded lots of great events for us, capped off by a trip to Disneyland at the end of the year. Essentially any activity a RA came up with could happen. It was a good way to make the housing experience a universal experience across a building, not just the floor.
The RA’s were also a cool part of the experience. My RA was a really fun guy and could frequently be found in my room playing FIFA or NCAA with us. He was really accessible if you ever needed help and because of his unbelievable networking experience, was a huge resource for me in getting resumes made and learning how to treat career fairs and networking.
I was pretty used to communal living because of years at summer camp, but I think it’s one of the most fun things around. Your friends are around all the time which means that life never gets boring. There are a few things to get used to about sharing rooms and bathrooms but it was really never an issue for us and my roommates and I had a problem free year. It was a great experience and I wouldn’t trade my year in the dorms for anything.
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2019-04-20T13:10:28Z
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http://viterbivoices.usc.edu/zachb/my-freshman-dorm-birnkrant-6/
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The Delta shape cleat functions by a rotational movement that allows release by the interior or exterior of the foot. The two sided exit improves safety. There is nothing to interfere with inside pedal release. The fluoropolymer material eases entry and exit and diminishes considerably the possibility of cleat noise.
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2019-04-20T19:57:26Z
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FRANKFURT: Finance ministers and central bankers have long fretted that at some point, the rest of the world would lose its willingness to finance the United States' proclivity to consume far more than it produces - and that a potentially disastrous free-fall in the dollar's value would result.
But for longer than most economists would have been willing to predict a decade ago, the world has been a willing partner in American excess - until a new and home-grown financial crisis this summer rattled confidence in the country, the world's largest economy.
On Thursday, the dollar briefly fell to another low against the euro of $1.392, as a slow decline that has been under way for months picked up steam this past week.
In addition to increased nervousness about the pace of the dollar's decline, many currency analysts now also are willing to make an argument they would have avoided as recently as a few years ago: that the euro should bear the brunt of the dollar's decline.
The euro, shared by 13 countries, once looked like a daring experiment. But it has gained credibility and euro-denominated financial assets are as good as their U.S. counterparts. With a slow economic overhaul under way in European capitals, and a fundamentally sound corporate structure, a weaker dollar justifiably means a stronger euro.
"The euro has earned what it has gotten," said Stephen Jen, global head of currency research at Morgan Stanley in London. "It is not simply rallying by default."
So long as Americans buy more than they earn from exports - and they did, creating a current account deficit of $850 billion last year - the rest of the world financed the binge by bringing dollars into the United States for investment in stocks, bonds, real estate or other assets, thereby preserving demand for the dollar.
The continued appetite for U.S. investments stemmed from a track record of strong economic growth and a financial system that has been remarkably resistant to shocks.
But the latest turmoil in mortgage markets has, in a single stroke, shaken faith in the resilience of American finance to a greater degree than even the bursting of the technology bubble in 2000 or the terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, analysts said. It has also raised prospect of a recession in the wider economy.
While most economists just a few months ago would have dismissed the prospect of a dollar collapse outright, they now are debating the possibility that something on par with the dollar debacle of the 1970s might just happen again.
When a currency collapses, the central bank can push up interest rates to attract needed investment, but strangle the economy in the process. Alternatively, it can let the currency fall and watch prices of imports - and eventually competing domestic goods - rise sharply.
Double-digit inflation resulted in the 1970s and only a global recession brought it to an end.
Today, the dollar's current weakness is being driven by uncertainty over how central banks will react to the turmoil in financial markets, unleashed by the collapse of the U.S. market for subprime mortgages given to borrowers with shaky credit histories.
The European Central Bank put off an interest rate increase it had planned for September, but is still inclined to tighten credit at least one more time by the end of this year. By contrast, the U.S. Federal Reserve has hinted at a rate cut at its meeting next Tuesday - a step that would diminish the appeal of dollar-denominated assets, almost certainly sending the dollar lower.
But across a horizon of 18 months to two years, investors are pondering how quickly the dollar will fall, a question to which there are no easy answers.
After a run of strong growth, the U.S. economy has lurched into a phase of slower expansion, and last Friday the most serious warning sign appeared - an outright deterioration in employment growth.
The data has coincided with profit warnings from major U.S. retailers like Wal-Mart Stores and Home Depot, suggesting that consumer spending, the backbone of the American economy for years, was ebbing. This step would logically follow the rapidly cooling housing market, since Americans have spent heavily with money borrowed against rising home values.
A drop in consumer spending by Americans means fewer imports. The current account deficit peaked at 6.8 percent of gross domestic product in late 2005 and is now running at about 5.5 percent, with figures for the second quarter of 2007 due out on Friday.
A lower deficit means less capital needs to flow into the United States, and is consistent with a steady decline in the dollar. Since the middle of last year, the dollar, weighted for trade flows, has fallen steadily against a broad range of currencies, according to data collected by the Fed.
All this suggests that, in spite of headline-grabbing news about the latest low, the dollar could be adjusting gradually as the U.S. economy becomes driven less by lending on the back of rising home price.
The problem, as every economist knows, is that the current account deficit - about $770 billion - is still colossal in absolute terms.
And foreigners are being asked to provide those dollars at a time when the subprime turmoil is threatening to spill over into the broader economy.
Put another way, at a time when the psychology of crisis has gripped financial markets, intangible attitudes toward the dollar have become all the more important. And with growth strong elsewhere in the world, there are appealing places to go besides the dollar.
"The problem is that the deficit is still very, very large," Jen said. "And there are plenty of other investment opportunities outside the United States."
Pressed to make an educated guess, most economists opt for calm, believing the dollar is unlikely to go into a tailspin even as they mark up the odds of one.
The major holders of dollars - notably the Chinese, with their $1.3 trillion in currency reserves - have little incentive to see the dollar weaken, and their support provides the dollar with a bulwark of strength. And since investors need to stay diversified, and U.S. markets are deep and liquid, abandoning the dollar wholesale is hardly a realistic option.
"Rather than a precipitous decline, we are probably be looking at a move steadily lower," said Simon Derrick, chief currency strategist at Bank of New York in London.
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2019-04-26T01:59:00Z
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http://survivetheflu.tripod.com/moneywise/id107.html
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Be Our Guest Restaurant is arguably the most beautifully themed restaurant at Walt Disney World Resort. You literally feel like you've stepped into Beast's enchanted castle!
You can make reservations for Be Our Guest online or by calling Disney Dining at 407-939-3463. Reservations can be made 180 days in advance and they usually go quickly! When you make your reservation, you will be asked to provide a valid credit card number that holds the spot for you. It won't be charged unless you don't show up. Payment for your meal will be made when you arrive at the restaurant. Breakfast and lunch at Be Our Guest also includes the option to order your meal in advance.
On 1/7/2018 Lynette from VA Asked: Is dinner at Tusker House a character meal? If so, what characters will be there?
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2019-04-26T06:09:37Z
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https://disneyparksmomspanel.disney.go.com/question/reservations-guest-restaurant-pay-meals-making-357351/
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The embalmed remains of a husband and wife that have been lying in a mortuary for 13 years after they were found may finally be laid to rest.
Eugenios and Hilda Marcel died 23 and nearly 30 years ago respectively, but their bodies were kept at a private mausoleum by their sons Nigel and Melvyn.
Their bodies have been in Edinburgh City Mortuary, run by the Edinburgh council, since being discovered in the basement of a former fishmonger’s in 2002.
It was reported that staff at an undertakers in West Lothian had been paid to preserve the bodies by embalming them, and four employees were sacked.
But no charges were ever brought.
Now Edinburgh City Council is due to appear at the Court of Session at the end of this month to continue its bid to win the legal authority to lay the bodies to rest.
Local authorities can normally cremate or bury unclaimed bodies in their custody and indeed have a legal obligation to dispose of them properly.
But Edinburgh City Council had great difficulty in making any progress in negotiating with the two sons as they had left the country, leaving only a forwarding address.
The local authority had been intending to resolve the matter some time ago, but has had to wait for the Court of Session to accommodate different dates for the case.
Jeremy Balfour, Conservative list MSP for Lothian and a serving Edinburgh city councillor since 2005, said there the council had not been to blame for this unfortunate saga.
Embalming a body helps to slow down the natural process of decay after death and to help the skin keep as natural a colour as possible.
A spokesman for the National Association of Funeral Directors said families would choose to embalm a body to preserve it as well as possible prior to a funeral.
He added that some funeral directors also choose to embalm wherever possible to assist staff in looking after the body as part of their overall care.
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2019-04-25T22:28:26Z
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https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/our-region/edinburgh/embalmed-bodies-of-edinburgh-husband-and-wife-may-be-laid-to-rest-after-13-years-1-4335075
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For those who are birders, or merely curious, here’s the official list of the bird species I’ve found to date in Taylor County during my 2019 Big Year. This list is in taxonomic order, not alphabetical order or the order the birds were seen. The list is generally updated in the evenings, so it may not reflect the most recently added species until then.
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2019-04-19T07:21:20Z
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https://bigyear.reporternews.com/list/
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April 26 - U.S. President Barack Obama attends a memorial in Texas for those killed in blast at fertilizer plant last week. Julie Noce reports.
Hundreds of well wishers attend a memorial service in Waco, Texas for the 12 firefighters who died in an explosion at a fertilizer plant last week. Family and friends filed past the caskets which were draped with American flags in an auditorium at Baylor University. U.S. President Barack Obama assured the community that they have the country's support. (SOUNDBITE) (English) U.S. PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA SAYING: "...We may not all live here in Texas but we're neighbors too. We're americans too. And we stand with you and we do not forget and we'll be there even after the cameras leave and after the attention turns elsewhere." 14 people were killed in the April 17th explosion at the West Fertilizer Company plant. The cause of the blast is still under investigation.
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2019-04-18T21:30:08Z
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https://in.reuters.com/video/2013/04/26/obama-attends-memorial-for-victims-of-te?videoId=242484521
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Of something so sweet, so carnal, so right.
Of granite, so small, stable, contained.
Where is the river? Where is the sand?
Where are my people? Where is my land?
Water dries, people die, land is lost.
How time has washed away who I am.
Submissions Open For Issue 2!
The theme of our second issue is Sphinx.
In Egyptian mythology the Sphinxes were creatures with human heads (both male and female heads were used) and the body of lions. There are various differences in the mythology behind these creatures. According historians the symbolism behind the Egyptian Sphinxes is unclear, but some say that it has to do with the god Ruti who guarded the entrance to the underworld. In Greek mythology the Sphinx was a monster plaguing a town, she asked riddles and then devoured those who failed to answer correctly.
She lay against rocks that were smooth against her back, hair falling in a wild tangle, matted and washed through as it was with salt water. Cocooned in place, she gazed over the calm water, watching for new boats on the horizon, looking for someone new.
It’d been so long since someone new came her way, and she was bored.
Water lapped around her, swirling foam around her ankles and drying there in lines of salt under the sun. Sometimes, if she remained there long enough, the salt formed a crust to be washed away next time she ventured into the water.
Her sister was away, had disappeared into another part of the water they rarely touched, and probably wouldn’t return until the next phase of the moon. It was unusual for them to venture away from their cliff and the caves they had hewed from the wall, but sometimes one of them did. Going away meant breathing space, away from all the ghosts of people who had come to them in the past and never managed to stay. For a while, she considered slipping back into the water, feeling it surround her as she tried her newest song.
Instead, she lay flat, aligning her body perfectly straight and letting her hair be the only deviation from even neat lines. Birds cried to each other in the distance, though the sun above her blotted out where they were, and dolphins chirped far below the surface. She was practiced in shutting out the noises though, and silently drifted her fingers over the rock as she composed.
Her reverie was broken by the quiet hum of a motor, and she raised her head with half-curiosity, half-boredom. It wouldn’t do any good if this one was like the last one, strange ear-plugs in place and unable to hear. As the boat approached, she could make out the lack of threads from the ears, and she drew in her breath, felt her lungs and diaphragm expand.
The motor stopped only feet from the rock, and still she felt frozen in place. This sailor was young, with kind eyes, and she could feel the concern radiating from where she sat. This was an uncommon sight, she knew. She’d learned as much from observing humans over the centuries before she began to sing: they found it unusual for a young woman to live off the ocean.
The sailor held out one hand – steady, calm, she noticed – and unbuckled the bright vest.
Rescue, she understood suddenly. The sailor wants to rescue me.
This was new. In all her time, none had ever tried to save her. She had always been a curiosity first, and a danger second. None had ever managed to live with her, no matter how hard she tried to keep them safe and healthy. She stood on stiff legs, not bothered about her appearance, and stepped over to him, appraising.
He has a good soul, she thought, distracted – she could almost smell it.
She didn’t want to leave, though. Her sister would come back to her, and find the cave empty, the rocks cold. She could never live in the human world.
Trust, concern, hesitation all mixed in his eyes. She could read it as easily as if he’d said what he was feeling, and could almost feel it herself. Of course, she could work around it, let him stay. This time, she could look after him. He could be family.
It almost made her regret what she was about to do.
She opened her mouth, and began to sing.
and still he came closer.
the shadows in his eyes.
deepening with the setting sun.
I am a familiar face, ancient though I may be.
I guard knowledge from those without the answer I seek.
I look across desert cities towards the God at the Horizon.
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2019-04-23T22:29:48Z
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http://cauldronanthology.weebly.com/blog/archives/05-2017
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Belinda Goldsmith, editor in chief, Thomson Reuters Foundation, gives a talk for the Reuters Seminar Series.
Come dance with us for the Midday Moves Kickoff on January 28th at 11:30 A.M. in the UC Atrium!
Transient storage is the temporary detainment of water between a stream's main channel and surrounding storage area. Modifications to stream morphology can influence the transient storage zone, altering how streams detain, store, and subsequently process nutrients. My research focused on human influences on streams and how it can lead to modifications to natural stream morphology.
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2019-04-20T06:47:32Z
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https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/xpert/scoreresults.php?keywords=Virtual%20yeast%20c&start=7340&end=7360
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The doctorate in Educational Leadership (Ed.D.) is designed for delivery to a cohort of full-time educational professionals in diverse formats, including: weekday evenings, summer and winter sessions, some weekends, and online. The Ed.D. is based on the premise that learning takes place through an integration of course work and experiences that stem from a clear conception of leadership, the knowledge base of the field, and a structure that allows doctoral students and faculty to collaborate on shared work improving education in the State of Connecticut at all levels. The Ed.D. includes two distinct strands that support the learning needs of two different groups of educators. Both strands require 48-63 credit hours for completion.
The P12 strand serves teachers and administrators in P12 education who want to prepare for a variety of leadership positions: principals, teacher leaders, department heads, curriculum and assessment specialists, assistant superintendents, and superintendents. Some graduates also eventually move into careers as higher education faculty, however, the program is not designed as a preparatory experience to enter faculty roles in higher education.
The Higher Education strand serves professionals employed in higher education institutions who aspire to a wide range of leadership positions in academic or student affairs at a broad range of institutional types.
locate, interpret, and assess relevant educational research and apply it to both practice and the design and conduct of research.
To be considered for admission to the Ed.D. in Educational Leadership, applicants must have earned a master's degree in an appropriate discipline or professional field and have career aspirations that are consistent to the goals and standards of the program.
Admission to the cohort in either strand of the program is available in alternate years. The deadline for submission of applications is November 1.
Master's degree from a regionally accredited institution of higher education in a discipline or professional field that is relevant to the Ed.D. Program.
Minimum GPA 3.00 on all graduate coursework.
Two positive letters of reference from leaders in education familiar with the applicant's work.
Submission of a detailed resume that illustrates important work-related experiences.
Graduate Record Examination scores (within five years of admission and including a writing assessment).
If selected as a finalist, a satisfactory interview with an admission panel.
P12 strand only: An additional requirement is completion of EDL 590 Leaders as Learners or an equivalent graduate-level introductory course. Applicants holding the 092 or 093 administrative certificate, or that have completed a Sixth Year certificate program in educational leadership, are considered to have met this requirement.
Instructions for uploading the references, resume, copies of GRE scores, and personal statement will be found within the online graduate application.
Application information and links for each Ed.D. strand are available through the Ed.D. program website. Admission decisions are made by a faculty admissions committee. University administrators may also participate on the admissions committee for the Higher Education Strand. Admission is competitive and there may be occasions when minimally qualified candidates are not able to be admitted due to cohort caps. Cohorts are admitted approximately once every two years for each strand. Applications are due by November 1.
The total credits required for the program range from 48-63. Up to 15 credits of eligible post-master’s graduate coursework may be applied to the required credits for the specialization.
The curriculum of the Ed.D. program is aligned with applicable professional and accreditation standards and with the program learning outcomes. Throughout the first two years of the program, each Ed.D. candidate completes a summative electronic portfolio which uses a variety of evidence (artifacts, evaluations, projects, and reflections) to document mastery of program learning outcomes. This portfolio must be successfully defended before a faculty committee before commencing dissertation work. Candidates then also complete and defend a dissertation prior to being awarded the Ed.D. degree.
EDL 705 is taken for 6 credits in the P12 strand. Students take 3 credits in the first summer, 1.5 in the first fall, and 1.5 in the first spring. EDL 735 is taken for 1.5 credits in the second fall and 1.5 credits in the second spring.
EDL 719: taken if the capstone is not completed at the end of EDL 718 and may be repeated for up to 18 credits over three calendar years.
EDL 697 may be repeated for up to 6 credits.
EDL 705 is taken for 3 credits in the Higher Education strand.
This specialization is appropriate for students most interested in a career in administration, academic affairs, and support of program development. Courses develop skills in using a systems lens for designing innovative solutions to problems of practice. Candidates create project and design-based products to meet organizational needs. Students 15 credits of graduate level coursework in advisor-approved directed electives within the Department of Educational Leadership, Policy and Instructional Technology.
This is an appropriate specialization for students without a background in the area, but who are planning a career in student affairs. Students take 15 credits of graduate level coursework in advisor-approved electives in content related to supporting student development in institutions of higher education.
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https://www2.ccsu.edu/program/EducationalLeadershipHigherEducationStrand_EdD/curriculum
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I won’t get into the details of the project itself. Suffice to say that it had to do with eighteenth-century literature, the origins of the English novel, female heroines, etc, etc, you’re already bored. At the time, however, I believed in this project. I dedicated more time and energy to it than I probably had to anything else I had as a college student.I wanted it to be awesome, like anything a person puts their all into.
I had pretty free range from my thesis adviser when I started the project in the fall. He did, however, give me one stern warning: DO NOT DEPEND ON IDEAS OF MORALITY TO MAKE YOUR ARGUMENT!!! I, the sweet untrained acolyte that I was, assured him that I would never stray down that unseemly path. Armed with my laptop and a stack of theory and secondary sources, I skipped off, prepared to write the best piece of critical writing ever undertaken by an undergraduate. I had no idea of the perils that lay in store for me.
Flash forward about eight months: it’s nearing the end of the spring semester, and I’m sitting in front of my computer. I’m almost there. My thesis is literally almost done. It’s just this one part that refuse to hang together. I’ve tried over and over to make it work, but it’s dawning on me that in essence, even if I never said it out loud, my argument about the novels I’m analyzing are based on moralizing the heroine’s position. I look at the page count: 23 pages. If I take this section out, I will essentially lose all of my work thus far. I’m on the verge of tears because plain and simple, I’ve written myself into a corner. I’m desperately trying to think of a way out of completing the project. Perhaps if I go to the English department and claim that I actually can’t read, they would just pass me out of pity. I was too scared to go to my adviser at this point and tell him that I had done exactly what he told me not to. My own foolhardy actions had created this monstrosity and I would have to over come it myself.
So how did I do? How did I smite this particular writing monster? I admitted to myself I messed up and would have to re-think my project. I took a deep breath, had a good long cry, and went back to the beginning (Despite popular belief, every once in a while crying does help). I came up with a new, related, and overall better argument. I combed over each and every page I had written and just eliminated what I couldn’t make fit. While I didn’t exactly start from the beginning, I actually ended up junking 12 of my 23 pages. For 72 continuous hours, I read new theory and secondary sources and wrote and re-wrote non-stop. When I got to the end, I was just over the page minimum for the thesis project. I wasn’t sure that it was as good as I wanted it to be, but I printed it out and handed it in. I was over, I was done. As I walked out of the building that housed the English department, it started hailing, big, tic-tac sized piece of ice. Not a good sign, but I went home.
My thesis was accepted. I got an A on it and ended up graduating with honors. While I’m not saying I did everything right in this particular situation, I learned some pretty valuable writing lessons. If you find a flaw in your writing that you can’t get around, it’s not the end of the world. You have to be willing to take a step back and re-evaluate. You have to be willing to push forward when things look awful and see it through to the end. Sometimes the biggest problems you encounter in writing are of your own making, even if you have been warned to avoid them. If that is the case, you have to turn around and face it. You might feel have nothing left, that you just can’t write anymore and should just give up. But every now and again, if you just keep going, fighting on with your tiny wooden sword, you might just come out on top of that writing struggle.
This is a great story! I… can’t even imagine what I would do if I were in that position. Especially when I was an undergrad. That monster-alien thing totally would have eaten me alive.
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https://blogs.montclair.edu/cwe/2014/01/09/me-vs-my-undergraduate-thesis-the-fatal-flaw/
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The 1945 Criminal Justice (Northern Ireland) Act also applies to abortion in Northern Ireland. It allows the abortion of a child ‘capable of being born alive’ only where the mother’s life would be otherwise at risk.
In 2009 the Department of Health published a document which, for the first time, provided guidance to health professionals in Northern Ireland on terminating pregnancy.
Because the clinic will only provide medical abortions, which are only possible up to nine weeks, a woman in need of a late-term abortion will still have to travel to hospitals in London or Liverpool.
If the woman chooses, an ultrasound scan should be performed between 18 weeks 0 days and 20 weeks 6 days to detect structural anomalies.
If an anomaly is detected during the anomaly scan, inform women to enable them to make an informed choice as to whether they wish to continue with the pregnancy or have a termination of pregnancy.
Fetal echocardiography involving the four-chamber view of the fetal heart and outflow tracts is recommended as part of the routine anomaly scan.
What Alex Neil was talking about – assuming that, as Health Secretary, he was expressing an informed view – was that the abortion limit should be lowered to 20 weeks so that when a woman had the anomaly scan, there would be little or no time for a woman to decide she needed to have an abortion. (The Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists disagrees with him.) Even as it is, the legal window for abortion is very short. Alex Neil apparently wants to be shorter, to increase the likelihood of getting to force women to endure a pregnancy which will end in death of the foetus and risk the woman’s own health and wellbeing.
I was challenged on this in the comments in an earlier post, as to why I thought Alex Neil was a misogynist, and I acknowledged that I didn’t: he could just be speaking out of ignorance – it could be that as Health Secretary, he does not think he needs to know about the healthcare needs of pregnant women.
But if it was ignorance, since he made the comments days ago, he’s had plenty of time to ask his civil servants to educate him and make him realise his informed position needs to be what human rights and the medical evidence say it should be. If he’s unwilling to do that, that unfits him to be Health Secretary, if the SNP hope to maintain any pretence that they are aiming for a progressive new nation.
Judging by Alex Neil’s silence, the SNP’s inaction and the comments both I and Kate Higgins have received, Alex Neil is, at best, not interested in having an informed view that upsets his ignorant little bubble, and neither the party nor their supporters are particularly interested in appearing progressive, even if appearing regressive costs them votes. Worse yet, perhaps they think they will get more votes by going against women’s rights: given three out of four Health Ministers in the UK are against women having full access to abortion when necessary, is the right-wing in the US winning here?
Last year, 1007 women from Northern Ireland travelled to England or Wales for an abortion, as did 4149 women from the Republic. “When women are faced with a crisis pregnancy, it’s a time of great personal turmoil. Knowing that someone is here to help them come to a decision reduces the trauma and upset,” said Ms Purvis.
The worst news that any expecting parent can receive, is that their unborn child will not survive outside of the womb. The law in Ireland does not allow mothers and fathers the personal choice to terminate a pregnancy under these very tragic circumstances. Instead, we are forced abroad, without care or advice, to undergo termination procedures. This website seeks to change this law and campaign for termination of pregnancy for medical reasons in Ireland. Help us make this possible.
In February this year two Glasgow midwives, Concepta Wood and Mary Doogan, neither of them old enough to remember the bad old prolife days when illegal abortion was one of the leading causes of death for women of childbearing age in the UK, complained to the courts that women who had had abortions were receiving care in their ward, and they were required to provide nursing care to those women, and they were also required to “delegate, supervise and support” other midwives and nurses who were more directly involved in providing the abortions. They claimed as a consequence of their religion that they shouldn’t have to care for women who had abortions even indirectly, instructing other nurses and midwives who were caring for them directly.
I’ve seen men argue that since women want access to abortion “tightened up”, advocate forcing women to give birth against their will, that means it can’t be a misogynist position. But Wood and Doogan exemplify misogny against other women, impelled, they claim, by religious faith that says that if a woman has done wrong according to the rules of Wood and Doogan’s faith, they don’t have to help her or care for her, or help and support others to care for her. That’s not Christianity: it’s misogyny.
“Nothing they have to do as part of their duties terminates a woman’s pregnancy.
“They are sufficiently removed from direct involvement as, it seems to me, to afford appropriate respect for and accommodation of their beliefs.
Making abortion illegal only ever makes abortion more expensive and less accessible: a woman who has decided she needs to terminate the pregnancy will, if she medically can, travel to get her abortion, go into debt to get her abortion. The women who die in prolife jurisdictions are those too poor, too young, or too desperate to be able to find a safe, if illegal, practitioner. Restrictions on abortions are intended to put women in fear of breaking the law: they are not intended (and are never effective) as a means of preventing abortions.
Just 1.4 per cent of British abortions take place between 20 and 24 weeks, though one in 12 of all abortions performed in Britain on women from the Republic of Ireland take place after 20 weeks, said Mara Clarke, director of the London-based Abortion Support Network.
British research shows that the majority of all women who have abortions between 20 and 24 weeks are disproportionately young; older women who do not recognise that they are pregnant because they believe they are going through the menopause; or those in abusive relationships.
“However, the real reason why so many Irish women are late coming over is that they are trying to raise the money,” said Ms Clarke, who pointed out that abortions up to 14 weeks cost £400 approximately, between £600 and £700 after 14 weeks and £1,300 and over after 19 weeks, plus travel costs.
Aneurin Bevan devised the NHS to be a source of healthcare for all, free at point of access. It is good that at least some women in Ireland will no longer have to find the air fare to England or buy illegal abortion pills over the Internet. It is sad that, in Northern Ireland, a woman who needs an abortion cannot get it on the NHS.
I am now a mother to a daughter who I will raise to believe in feminist goals, but I also believe that I may be doing the world an even greater service by raising feminist sons. It’s one thing for women to want to be equal, to try to be equal, and to even feel equal, but it is yet another for the men in our lives to step up to the equality plate and support our quest for equality.
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2019-04-21T12:15:19Z
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https://edinburgheye.wordpress.com/2012/10/11/the-nhs-and-prochoice/
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Analysis of complex shell tools is rewriting the history of human development in Australasia, says one archaeologist.
Dr Katherine Szabo of the University of Wollongong has just taken up a Queen Elizabeth II Fellowship to further her research.
"This bears on questions of our history as a species," says Szabo.
To understand human development, archaeologists tend to analyse either fossilised human bones or stone tools.
In Africa and Europe stone tools are seen to increase in complexity over the last few million years, says Szabo.
But in East Asia, Southeast Asia, Australia and New Guinea, stone tools don't appear to develop until the last 4000 years.
She says this has led to the conclusion by some that this region was "static", with some dubbing it "culturally retarded".
Some archaeologists argue that, like the hunter gatherers of today, humans in Australasia relied on plants, such as bamboo, rather than stone, and these aren't preserved in archaeological record.
"That may very well be true but we can't prove it," says Szabo.
She says researching shell is exciting because it can be preserved for just as long as stone in the archaeological record.
"It's not a material that anyone's looked at or that anyone particularly understands very well," says Szabo.
In published research to date, Szabo reports having excavated shell tools dating back 32,000 years from a cave site in eastern Indonesia, and comparing them with stone tools from the same cave.
"It transpired that the shell tools were in fact much more complex to produce than the stone tools," she says.
The stone tools were randomly chipped, but the shell tools had been carefully chosen and shaped.
In one case, a "catseye" or operculum shell was flaked systematically with five blows, each one slightly overlapping with the last in a clockwise direction.
In another, a limpet shell was used as a scraper, resulting in a smooth edge.
Szabo says these finding suggest humans in Australasia were using shell, rather than stone as their raw material of choice.
She says, this made sense because while Europe has high quality flint. Australasia generally has very poor quality stone, but a high diversity of marine molluscs.
"The story is that stone tools should encapsulate the story of humanity," says Szabo.
"But if we're an adaptable, flexible species, living in a range of habitats around the world from the subarctic to the humid tropics, then we should really expect to see a lot of variation in the way that humans are going about solving problems."
Szabo says there has been some debate among archaeologists over what qualifies as good evidence for shell tools.
She emphasises shell does not fracture the same way as stone tools. Therefore they need to be analysed using different protocols to those usually used to analyse stone tools.
Szabo now plans to re-excavate the Indonesian site to obtain more samples and develop a robust methodology for analysing shell tools.
Use these social-bookmarking links to share Shells give new take on human evolution.
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https://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2009/03/30/2529845.htm?topic=ancient
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Bolton School hosted its second festival of girls’ football today, in association with the Independent Schools Football Association.
The competition was for Year 7 and Year 8 pupils. Eight teams from the Grammar School at Leeds (GSAL), Canon Slade, Turton, Rivington & Blackrod, Thornleigh and Bolton School took part in the tournament, which ran as two groups. The Bolton School girls showed a lot of energy during every game but unfortunately on this occasion the competition was too strong.
Canon Slade won the Group A competition, and Turton emerged the Group B victors. It was a closely contested final, with Turton eventually beating Canon Slade 1-0. Turton were therefore crowned the overall victors for 2014 and were presented with the Centennial Football Cup.
The sun was shining throughout and the girls were able to enjoy a full afternoon of football, playing both competitive and friendly games as part of the festival. All of the teams played with enthusiasm and represented their schools with pride.
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2019-04-25T20:11:17Z
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https://www.boltonschool.org/senior-girls/news/football-festival-for-year-7-and-8-girls/
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When you say you're going to take a 30-minute nap and wake up 3 hours later.
Don't ask why healthy food is so expensive. Ask why junk food is so cheap.
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2019-04-19T14:16:28Z
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https://tinystoriescomicsdotcom.wordpress.com/
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It has been about five months since I walked across stage in the Times Union Center, five months since I packed up my life and moved to Texas, and five months since I have seen my friends. Although reading that sentence may make it seem like I am setting this blog up to be sob story about being alone in The Lone Star State but (surprisingly) it is not.
I am happy and even surprised to say that life hasn’t been too bad since graduation and five months later my life seems to be falling into place. I admit that I spent a little too much time watching Netflix, making some mildly questionable choices, and taking a break from life before I actually started to apply for jobs but I think I earned it after the last four years of my life. Regardless about whether or not my hiatus from life was earned, I can say that I am now gainfully employed at not one but two jobs.
At the end of August I landed a job working as a freelance writer for a country website called The Boot. Although I worked at a country radio station in Albany, I was never writing content or fully immersing myself in the “country lifestyle,” so when I started writing about Garth Brooks, “brocountry,” and Luke Bryan while also living in Texas I couldn’t help but to see the humor in it. Writing for The Boot has helped me not only understand the passion people have for country music but also has helped me feel part of my Texas home.
Cadillac Ranch- The cars were awesome, my duck face not so much.
After only about two weeks writing for The Boot I scored a dream first job as a Public Relations Coordinator for Moody Gardens. Moody Gardens is one of the top tourist destinations in all of Texas and boosts some pretty cool stuff that I get to check out while working. We have three giant pyramids that each have something different, a replica rain forest that you can walk through with free roaming monkeys, an aquarium that has seals, penguins, and all sorts of fun aquatic things, and a discovery pyramid that features traveling exhibits as well as Spongebob Subpants Adventure. Although it is really cool to work in the same building that houses a Giant Amazon River Otter, the coolest part about my job (so far) has been the fact that I get to travel all around Texas and some other southern states to talk about Moody Gardens on radio programs and TV shows. Since I used to work for a cluster of radio stations I feel more at ease behind the mic, but as I start doing live TV interviews I am becoming more comfortable on camera as well. This past week our media tour brought us to West Texas and I got to check out Cadillac Ranch (Cadillacs that are buried nose down in a field that people come to spray paint), Palo Duro Canyon State Park, and a 2D buffalo that you can ride for photos. I’ll be in Louisiana by the time you’re reading this and throughout the month I’ll be in Austin, Dallas, San Antonio, and some small towns spreading the word about Moody Gardens and our upcoming holiday attractions. Aside from my traveling adventures, the best thing about going to work everyday is the people who I work with. I’ve only been at Moody Gardens for two weeks but I can honestly say that I have some pretty awesome coworkers that have already showed the promise of being some pretty awesome friends.
To current seniors– there is so much advice/reassurance that I could give about entering the real world but when I was a senior, those five months ago, I refused to listen. I thought that the world was going to end, that life was going to be pretty miserable, and that I would miss my friends so much. It is true that I miss my friends on a daily basis but it is also true that the world did not end and just like in college there are good days and there are bad days. Thankfully, in the past month I have found a career, coworkers, and adventures that make the good days out weigh the bad.
One of my coworkers and I on set during one of our media tours.
This will be my last blog post for a while until I come back to visit Saint Rose so until I check in next time, take your cues from Ferris Bueller, continue to hold the door for your peers (although they refuse to use both doors in Albertus), and if you’re a senior know that life will change but once you accept it (and step away from the Netflix) there is a chance it wont be that bad.
P.S. No but really, the Giant River Otter that lives in the same building that I work in is so amazing! One of the biologists let me have an inside look into her training and it was amazing to see her do all these tricks- I can promise you that I looked happier to be there than the otter did to be receiving treats.
Don’t make me pull out old college cribs videos to prove that you’ve always been very comfortable in front of a camera…haha.
But seriously, congrats, Courtney! We are so proud of you!
Those College Cribs videos are both a blessing and a curse. And thank you!! Who knows, maybe when I come visit in April and we can make a classic Courtney and Kayla production….
Just kidding, congrats, Court! We miss you!
I used to say that to Katie all the time so it is fighting you send it my way. And thank you!! Who wouldve thought I would actually move on? Miss you too!
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2019-04-21T12:23:05Z
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http://blogs.strose.edu/found-a-career-adventures-and-a-river-otter/
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If students are given permission by parents and staff to bring and use their personal device at school, they must understand the conditions under which they do so.
The act of accessing the MHS computer network implies that the user is aware of and agrees to abide by the code of behaviour statements contained in the DoE Communications Policy and the MHS BYOD Student Agreement.
Use the link below to download a copy of the Student BYOD Agreement.
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2019-04-18T10:23:28Z
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https://mudgee-h.schools.nsw.gov.au/about-our-school/rules-and-policies/byod/student-agreement.html
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BETHEL – Adam Shinkle, a senior at Bethel-Tate High School, probably enjoyed the CBS March Madness commercials featuring Charles Barkley, Samuel L. Jackson and Spike Lee more than most.
In it, Barkley is driving at night and has taken the group to "The Annapolis" by mistake instead of Indianapolis.
When Shinkle arrives in Annapolis, it won't be because of a wrong turn or lack of direction.
The highly-focused Tiger with a 4.35 grade point average was offered and accepted an appointment to attend the U.S. Naval Academy in Maryland. More than 20,000 applications are received with about 1,300 appointments made. Of that group, only around 1,000 complete the difficult demands and become graduates.
"I got a nomination from Congressman Brad Wenstrup," Shinkle said of the process.
Like his brother, Erik, a 2012 Bethel-Tate grad and junior at the Naval Academy, it's "anchors away" for the latest Shinkle to become a Midshipman. Both Shinkles were multi-sport standouts in high school.
Adam Shinkle has seen as many letters as Pat Sajak and Vanna White on "Wheel of Fortune." He has participated in four years of varsity cross country, three years of varsity soccer, three years of basketball and four years of track. For good measure this spring, he added tennis.
Not surprisingly, he won his first doubles match April 7 teamed up with senior Jacob Trabish. Shinkle has been practicing tennis for the most part and working in track when he can. He's not even sure what events he'll be in but is looking forward to being in a 4x800 relay with teammates Jackson Coates, Derek Dotson and Zane Copestick.
How does the multi-talented senior do it and maintain a perfect-plus record in the classroom?
"It's just time management," Shinkle said. "It's not easy, but it's worth it."
That's a fairly short, but accurate answer for a young man with a long list of accomplishments. He's on pace to be school valedictorian. He likes math, which should be helpful at an academy loaded with engineering students. However, he doesn't officially have to declare a major until after the first of the year.
"You've got to balance your time," Shinkle said Erik has told him. "Pretty much while you're there you have to stay focused on why you're there. The ultimate goal kind of keeps you on track."
Soccer is part of the early "balancing" plan in college, but he's not sure what level he'll be playing. He teamed up last fall with fellow senior Jason Altmayer to make All-City from Bethel-Tate's 13-2 (8-0 SBAAC-National) squad. Altmayer was one of the area's top scorers but occasionally shared the wealth.
"It was fun playing with him," Shinkle said. "He gave me a lot of assists, that's for sure."
While playing soccer for Dave Schellenberger, Shinkle and several of the players also ran cross country for Pam Taylor. Not many schools permit multiple sports in the same season, but Bethel-Tate has been historically cooperative in sharing athletes.
"Both of our coaches were happy we were doing both sports," Shinkle said. "Each sport pretty much kept us in shape for the other."
After the running and kicking of fall, Shinkle went to the Tiger basketball team, which had a great comeback season at 12-10 under new coach Tom Jutze. The previous season was a struggle at 1-21.
"It was really enjoyable," Shinkle said. "It was definitely a lot more enjoyable than last year. It's not fun losing every game."
His favorite moment of his athletic career actually came in basketball in Bethel-Tate's 58-52 overtime loss at Loveland March 3 to Clark Montessori of the Miami Valley Conference. Many thought the Cougars would run away with the game, but the Tigers led at the half 32-23. Clark regained the lead in the third quarter, but Shinkle and the Tigers forced overtime before falling by six.
Adam was 3-for-4 from the three-point line in the contest and led Bethel-Tate with 21 points in his final court appearance. For his play during the season he was selected to play in the recent April 10 East-West All-Star Game.
By the end of the tennis and track season in late May/early June, one of the more productive seniors ever will leave with all of his letters, numbers and records. Next fall, it will be odd to see a Bethel-Tate roster without the name "Shinkle."
• Member of National Honor Society, treasurer one year.
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2019-04-25T00:09:27Z
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https://www.cincinnati.com/story/sports/high-school/ohio-high-school/2015/04/07/bethel-tate-sends-another-shinkle-naval-academy/25415033/
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Dalton Risner (71) has launched a foundation that aims to provide hope and inspire young people.
MANHATTAN, Kan. — Dalton Risner remembers the first time he visited Camp Hope, a place where children and teens diagnosed with cancer can bond over a shared love of the outdoors, and being struck by their positive outlook in even the most dire of circumstances.
Kansas State’s star offensive lineman signed hundreds of autographs and posed for countless pictures with awe-struck kids that day, yet Risner left wishing he could have done more.
Three years later, he’s hard at work fulfilling that wish.
Risner started a foundation called RiseUp that seeks to share his story, faith and passions as a means of inspiring others. What started as modest print and video blogs posted online has evolved to include contributions from other young people, a busy schedule of speaking engagements and grand plans to turn the organization into a football-centric version of Camp Hope.
“I want people to be able to donate money, or I can donate money, and with all that money put on camps for free for all sorts of things,” Risner said. “Maybe a camp for kids from small towns, where they might not necessarily have the experience or connections to learn football like they should. I can put on a camp for free, give out T-shirts and give them an experience.
This is hardly another summer job.
Then again, Risner is hardly another college football player.
He arrived at Kansas State with little fanfare but had moved into the starting lineup by his sophomore season. Then, Risner was so dominant last season — despite two bum shoulders, one of which required surgery that caused him to miss the Cactus Bowl — that many talent evaluators thought he would be a first-round pick if Risner declared for the NFL draft before his senior year.
“I’ve known D-Rise for a couple years now,” Kansas State wide receiver Dalton Schoen said, “and you know you’re going to get 100 percent every time, and you know he’s going to grind it out no matter how he’s feeling or what his body is going through.
Once a week, Risner visits a home for children with special needs. He’s active in Big Brothers Big Sisters and has formed a special bond with a boy diagnosed with leukemia. He spends time in retirement communities, volunteers with local elementary schools and helps with the Flint Hills Breadbasket.
Throw in his nascent foundation, his blogging efforts and the countless inspirational speeches he has delivered, and it’s little surprise the first-team academic All-Big 12 selection was also given the conference’s Sportsperson of the Year award last season.
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2019-04-24T16:54:53Z
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https://www.foxsports.com/kansas-city/story/riseup-kansas-state-ot-dalton-risners-foundation-seeks-to-inspire-080818
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RALPH NADER: The Japanese disaster has ended whatever nuclear renaissance is being considered here in the United States. The problem is that people have got to get more involved, because the government and the industry will defend nuclear power in the United States to the last mutation. They are representing a closed, monetized mind that does not have options for revision, which true science should provide for. Secretary Chu, Energy Secretary, has refused for two years to meet with the leading critics of nuclear power, such as the Union of Concerned Scientists, Friends of the Earth and other groups. He has met with nuclear business interests regularly, and he has written articles touting nuclear power.
What we’re seeing here is 110 or so operating nuclear plants in the United States, many of them aging, many of them infected with corrosion, faulty pipes, leaky pumps and combustible materials. These have been documented by data from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission assembled by the Union of Concerned Scientists. Indian Point, for example, is a plant that presents undue risks, in the opinion of the Union of Concerned Scientists, to millions of people in the New York City greater area. And it is unevacuable if there’s an accident. You’re never going to evacuate a population of millions of people, whether it’s around San Onofre or Diablo Canyon in Southern California or Indian Point or Davis-Besse near Toledo and Detroit or any of the other endangered nuclear plants.
Why are we playing Russian roulette with the American people for nuclear plants whose principal objective is simply to boil water and produce steam? This is technological insanity. It presents national security problems, for every nuclear plant is a prime target. It affects our civil liberties. It endangers our workers. It is an industry that cannot be financed by Wall Street because it’s too risky. Wall Street demands 100 percent taxpayer guarantees for any nuclear plant.
So I suggest that people listening and watching this program to pick up the phone and dial the White House comment number, which is (202) 456-1111, (202) 456-1111, and demand the following: that there be public hearings in every area where there’s a nuclear plant, so the people can see for themselves what the hazards are, what the risks are, how farcical the evacuation plans are, how costly nuclear power is, and how it can be replaced by energy efficiency, by solar energy, different kinds of solar energy, by cogeneration, as Amory Lovins and many others, Peter Bradford, have pointed out.
We must no longer license any new nuclear plants. We should shut down the ones like Indian Point. How many people know that Hillary Clinton, as senator, and Andrew Cuomo, as attorney general, demanded that Indian Point be shut down? That doesn’t matter to the monetized minds in Washington, D.C. We also should prepare a plan where, apart from the aging plants, which should be shut down, and apart from the earthquake-risk plants—should be shut down—for the phase-out of the entire industry. We’re going to be left with radioactive waste for hundreds of thousands of years, for which there is no permanent repository. This is institutional insanity, and I urge the people in this country to wake up before they experience what is now going on in northern Japan: uninhabitable territory, thousands dead, hundreds of thousands at risk of cancer, enormous economic loss. And for what?
Glenn Greenwald on Bradley Manning.
Is this what the American people have settled for?
(Reuters) – The Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday that members of a fundamentalist church have a free-speech right to hold anti-gay protests at military funerals to promote their view that God hates America for tolerating homosexuality.
Personal responsibility is something that applies to everyone, even those that voluntarily go to war.
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2019-04-25T06:45:54Z
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https://joeblow.wordpress.com/2011/03/
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Dillon Ching arrived home at Sunset Beach last year to find up to 40 people, some of them admittedly drunk, fighting on or along Kamehameha Highway with beer bottles and baseball bats flying.
Witnesses described an "alcohol-fueled riot" that led to the death of a North Shore father.
"It was in this fast-moving, dangerous, chaotic, adrenaline-pumping situation that out of the corner of his eye, Dustin Jimenez saw somebody approaching him," said Chester Kanai, Jimenez's lawyer, yesterday. "He reacted instinctively. He turned and fired, fearing that he would be physically harmed."
Jimenez, 22, of Wahiawa, is on trial in Circuit Court for second-degree murder in the death of Ching, 30, and on other charges.
Kanai told the jury that Jimenez is not guilty of murder because he fired in self-defense or while experiencing extreme emotional disturbance.
Deputy Prosecutor Wayne Tashima said Jimenez challenged Ching before shooting him in the neck and chest.
The fight started just before midnight May 19 when Blake Wabinga, 26, who had been drinking beer at the Ching residence, challenged one of about 20 people who were drinking beer at the beach across the street and knocked him to the ground twice.
"Then a lot of guys came running up to the street, throwing bottles at me," Wabinga testified.
One bottle hit him near his left eye.
Others who were drinking at the Ching residence, including Wabinga's older brother, also ran out to the street.
Brandon Wabinga, 29, said he swung a bat at four or five guys to prevent them from attacking him. He said he saw one of Ching's younger brothers attacked with a bat.
He said everybody stopped fighting momentarily after Jimenez fired a shot from a handgun into the air. He said Jimenez then fired a second shot into the air.
As the people were fighting in the street, Ching was returning home from a party with his wife and 3-year-old son, Tashima said. He said Ching's wife told her husband to help his brothers stop the fight.
After the second shot, Brandon Wabinga said, Ching came up along his left side and asked him what was happening.
Blake Wabinga said he yelled at Jimenez to put the gun down. Instead, he said, Jimenez pointed the gun at him, his brother and Ching and said, "You like get nuts or stupid or something?"
Ching's wife saw Jimenez lower the gun and yelled at her husband to watch out and get out of the way, Tashima said. As she approached her husband to try to pull him out of the way, Tashima said, she heard Jimenez say, "What, you wanna act, f--, you wanna act?"
The Wabingas said they ran for cover and heard two more shots.
After Ching's wife saw her husband shot, she covered his body to prevent further injury and was kicked and punched, Tashima said.
An ambulance took Ching to Wahiawa General Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
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2019-04-19T20:18:35Z
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Is Mera SA.’s (WSE:MER) Balance Sheet Strong Enough To Weather A Storm?
Does Mera SA. (WSE:MER) Go Up With The Market?
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2019-04-25T22:05:03Z
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https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/mer?ltr=1
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like FIRST, KM and relative newcomer Guarder.
at an affordable price without cutting to far back on quality.
impressed with the fleeting glances I had taken of Karlos set.
I had ordered for the project.
its a 1:1 copy of the real steel handguards.
the metal hand guard ring was sealed separately in cellophane.
to adjust the position of the outerbarrel interesting!
Handguards themselves are very different from the TM set.
TM versions, but are a matt dark grey.
and rough more like the real steel parts.
grips have been fitted with authentic heatshields.
to prevent soldiers taking them apart).
the gas expansion pipe that runs the length of the real weapon.
have to adjust its position to hake the handguards fit properly.
on, and once that fitted properly I tightened the screws fully.
Presto a fully fitted handguard set!
that they are so rigid and durable.
then you will be limited to using the 1100mAh Twin pack type batteries.
they lack any means by which to adjust barrel length.
that the M203 could slide forward and possibly off its rear mounts.
keep the TM handguard and keep the M203 secure.
accuracy barrel or gearbox upgrades it is low priority upgrade.
worth it if you want to have the most realistic looking M4.
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2019-04-24T12:59:40Z
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http://arniesairsoft.co.uk/news2/reviews/guarder-m4grip/guarder_m4grip_review
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Trevor Lockhart, a Queen’s 1992 BAgr graduate and Group Chief Executive of Fane Valley Co-operative, is to be the CBI’s new Vice Chair in Northern Ireland and will go on to become Chair during 2018 and 2019.
Currently serving a second term on the CBI NI Council after a recent break, Trevor will succeed David Gavaghan as CBI Chair in January 2018. He brings to the position an in-depth understanding of both manufacturing and the agri-food industry in Northern Ireland and further afield.
Trevor began his working life with Masstock International in Atlanta, USA accumulating important global experience before he returned home to Northern Ireland to work with the Ulster Farmers’ Union. He joined Fane Valley Co-operative Society in 2004 and was promoted to Group Chief Executive in 2007. Fane Valley has business operations in Northern Ireland, Republic of Ireland, England and Belgium.
On his new appointment Mr Lockhart said: “It is a great honour for me to be appointed as the CBI’s Vice Chair for 2017. The CBI’s current work programme is focused on a number of areas that are of great interest to me and the wider business community.
David Gavaghan, CBI’s Northern Ireland Chairman, said: “I am truly delighted to be working with Trevor in the year ahead. His record of success in the Northern Ireland business community is outstanding and I know that he brings to the CBI a true understanding of all the opportunities and challenges that the business community face. He will be a true asset to the CBI’s leadership in the years ahead”.
Speaking about the appointment Angela McGowan, Regional Director of the CBI said: “Trevor’s recent appointment as vice chair of CBI Northern Ireland will be a great benefit to the organisation. His business acumen, his knowledge of manufacturing, agriculture and exporting, will help the CBI to navigate our dramatically changing economic environment in the year ahead.
To contact Trevor Lockhart, please email Iain Hoy or call +44 (0)28 9010 1100.
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2019-04-22T16:07:41Z
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https://daro.qub.ac.uk/trevor-lockhart-cbi
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Seven fire appliances have been called to an incident in a town house in the Capital's George Street tonight.
The Scottish Fire and Rescue Service was called at 7.20pm to a report of a burning smell coming from a house above Starbucks, and smoke is also coming from the property.
Six fire engines and a higher reach appliance have been dispatched to the scene and are conducting an investigation as to the cause of the smell, which is believed to be electrical.
There are also reports of smoke coming from the property.
The occupants of the premises have been evacuated while fire crews are searching for the cause.
A Police Scotland spokesman said: "Police in Edinburgh are currently supporting the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service in George Street following a report of a fire. A road closure is currently in place and the public are urged to avoid the area if possible."
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2019-04-18T10:34:44Z
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https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/our-region/edinburgh/seven-fire-appliances-called-to-starbucks-on-edinburgh-s-george-street-1-4831280
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At the time of the change of County Seat, there was a flourishing village on West banks of Shoal Creek, about two miles south-east of Kingston, known as Salem. It had two or three stores and a hotel and made a vigorous effort to become the County-town, but without success. The location of the County Seat so near it was its knell. It has now an existence only in name.
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2019-04-25T23:51:27Z
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http://kingscrossfarm.tripod.com/caldwell_history/Salem.htm
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Gaming the System takes philosophical traditions out of the ivory tower and into the virtual worlds of video games. In this book, author David J. Gunkel explores how philosophical traditions—put forth by noted thinkers such as Plato, Descartes, Kant, Heidegger, and Žižek—can help us explore and conceptualize recent developments in video games, game studies, and virtual worlds. Furthermore, Gunkel interprets computer games as doing philosophy, arguing that the game world is a medium that provides opportunities to model and explore fundamental questions about the nature of reality, personal identity, social organization, and moral conduct. By using games to investigate and innovate in the area of philosophical thinking, Gunkel shows how areas such as game governance and manufacturers’ terms of service agreements actually grapple with the social contract and produce new postmodern forms of social organization that challenge existing modernist notions of politics and the nation state. In this critically engaging study, Gunkel considers virtual worlds and video games as more than just "fun and games," presenting them as sites for new and original thinking about some of the deepest questions concerning the human experience.
David J. Gunkel is Distinguished Teaching Professor of Communication Technology at Northern Illinois University. He is author or editor of seven books, including Thinking Otherwise: Philosophy, Communication, Technology, The Machine Question: Critical Perspectives on AI, Robots, and Ethics, and Of Remixology: Ethics and Aesthetics After Remix.
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2019-04-22T00:19:40Z
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http://www.iupress.indiana.edu/product_info.php?products_id=809148
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Hello! This page is intended to replace the confusing “Concept Guide” page that will soon be removed from this website. The idea here is to clearly set out all of the information established throughout the long course of this story, in a way which is condensed and comprehensible. If you ever come across something while reading the story and think, “What? Since when was that a thing?” then you could benefit by referring to this page. This page is absolutely thorough, covering every episode in the series, so if you can’t find something in here, that must mean it’s something that came from an actual Sonic game. (I’ve found this website to be quite helpful with those sorts of questions.) And of course, if you still have questions, feel free to email me at [email protected], or send me a PM.
Whether you’re looking for a refresher course on the series, looking to quickly catch up on episodes you missed, or even just looking for where in the series to start reading, this page should be a big help. If you’re looking for very specific ideas and concepts, I suggest jumping to the “Breakdown by Episode” section. If you’re thinking about reading the entire “Breakdown by Episode” section, I would advise just reading the actual story instead, because that section would make for a pretty lengthy read anyways. If you’re instead looking for the basic facts surrounding a general event from the series, then “Breakdown by Arc” would likely work best for you. “Synopsis” and “Breakdown by Season” may be more useful for determining what part of the series you want more detail on, or just remembering what the sequence of events was.
Chaos is the name of the game, quite literally. This series as a whole focuses on answering the big questions about the nature of Chaos as an energy source, and the Chaos Emeralds themselves. The first big answer to these questions comes in the Lords of Chaos. Scientifically, the Lords of Chaos are powerful extradimensional beings who have relatively little contact with Sonic’s world. However, many would see them more as gods. The only way that something from their Realm of Chaos can exist in Sonic’s world is in the shape of a gemstone, first seen in the Chaos Emeralds. It isn’t clear that the Lords of Chaos actively created the Chaos Emeralds, but they did have some sort of hand in it, and clearly regret doing so. Why do they regret it? That would be because of the Chaos War. When the Chaos Emeralds were created in the ancient past, there was a thriving, almost futuristic human society. But a war was fought over the Emeralds, a war so catastrophic that all semblance of civilization was obliterated. But among all this destruction, something else emerged. A Hedgehog, gifted with the ability to naturally draw from the Flow of Chaos that channels through the Chaos Emeralds, who would become known as the Controller. Seeing a chance to make up for their mistake, the Lords of Chaos ensured that this ability would not be lost after the Controller’s lifetime. Instead, it would be passed on to a new individual, and upon their death, another, in an endless cycle of heritage. More than ten thousand years later, Sonic the Hedgehog was born.
As the series progresses, Sonic comes to learn more and more about his role as the Controller, and his connection to the Flow of Chaos. And the ultimate responsibility of this role, to protect and save the world from Darkness. And when Dr. Eggman successfully abuses the power of the Chaos Emeralds to take over the planet, that Darkness comes to be. And it’s up to Sonic to lead the fight against it, to gather the Emeralds one by one, no matter how long it takes.
Are you confused yet? Good! Because we’ve barely scratched the surface.
This four-part introduction to the series throws you right into the middle of the story, where much has already been learned, yet is still hidden to you. It takes place on “The Day of Earth’s Demise,” the day in which Eggman successfully manages to conquer the planet. He does so using a device (which he calls “The Chaos Project”) to amplify the power output of the Chaos Emeralds, giving him the power to fuel unbelievably large armies sent all over the world at once, as well as three ultimately powerful mechs, the E-X series, used to distract Sonic and friends while the rest of the world invasion proceeds. For a more detailed description, look to “Breakdown by Arc” below.
This double-length season isn’t like any of the others, taking place in the year before the above Premiere Event. This is broken down into distinct arcs, where each arc is meant to reflect what the story of a hypothetical Sonic video game could be, for a total of five arcs/games, plus two special episodes. The overarching purpose of this arc is really just to get from point A to point B, from the end of the most recent Sonic game (Lost World at the time writing began, but Forces by the time the season ends), to the point where all exposition is done with and the real story begins. That means that all the big revelations about Chaos and the Emeralds come over the course of this season.
At the end of the first arc, Sonic finally learns that he is the Controller, the chosen wielder of the Chaos Emeralds who can protect the world from Darkness. Unsure of what that means for him, Sonic seeks a teacher, someone who can truly show him what it means to have that power. Failing to find a teacher in Shadow, Sonic later meets Chaos the Hedgehog, a Lord of Chaos accidentally given bodily form, who agrees to stay in Sonic’s world to teach him all he wishes to know. Along the way, Shadow goes through a journey of his own, abandoning his job at GUN to find his own path, meeting Blacklight, a poorly-conceived attempt to perfect Project: Shadow, and eventually coming to the same conclusion as Sonic—the desire to help the world through the power of Chaos—even joining him under the teaching of Chaos the Hedgehog.
This first regular season hasn’t started yet, so little is known about it. It most certainly involves Sonic, Shadow, and many of their friends fighting back against the newly-established Eggman Empire.
While instructing Sonic and Shadow in meditation, Chaos the Hedgehog receives a terrifying vision of the future, of a world in ruins from the Darkness. Quickly moving to action to stop this future from occurring, the three split up, Sonic going after Eggman, Shadow going after Blacklight, and Chaos attempting to glean any further information that he can. Meanwhile, Eggman and Blacklight have already joined forces. Sonic’s pursuit leads him to Station Square, where he battles against an Artificial Perfect Chaos created by Eggman and powered by his “Chaos Project,” while Shadow’s leads him to a similar robotic replica of Devil Doom in Westopolis. The results of Chaos’ further meditations lead him to Grand Metropolis, where he comes across “Metalumis,” a robotic replica of a yet unknown villain whom Chaos seems to know personally. They are each victorious in their battles, and meet up in Grand Metropolis for one more battle, this time against a supercharged Blacklight. The battle wages for hours, leaving Eggman’s armies more than enough time to conquer the world. At the end of the battle, Chaos is defeated, presumed dead, and Sonic and Shadow barely escape with their lives. And there it was left, as we stepped back in time.
When unusual vortexes begin to form randomly throughout the world with unusual space-time properties, Sonic is recruited by a mysterious entity named Janice to rescue time itself from Chronos, a supposedly tyrannical Lord of Time. Along the way, he meets up with Silver, who doesn’t seem to remember him, and Zero, a Chaos-wielding Hedgehog from the distant past. Zero, it is later revealed, was not only the first ever Chaos wielder, but the also the first anthropomorphic animal, referred to as “animoid”. Together, Sonic, Silver, and Zero collect the Temporal Sapphires from throughout time, which Janice claims to be able to use to repair the flow of time. However, it is revealed that Janice was actually the apprentice to Chronos, and betrayed him after feeling underappreciated. Janice expresses the wish to use the Sapphires to destroy all of existing time, and recreate a new, perfect timeline. After revealing her plan, she casts off Chronos and the hedgehogs to a place where they could not interfere. But the Hedgehogs manage to find the last of the seven Chaos Emeralds, and use them to return to Janice, take back the Sapphires, and use both sets of gems together to repair the flow of time. In an odd vision brought on by contact with both sets of gems, Sonic meets with the Lords of Chaos, a chorus of mysterious voices, who inform him that he, like Silver and Zero, is a Controller, chosen to keep Balance in the world. When Sonic awakes, it seems almost as if none of it ever happened. Until Sonic realizes that he’s still in possession of a locket that was owned by Silver. Sonic resolves to start making a few changes in his life, saying that he knows where to start.
A mysterious hooded vigilante has appeared on the streets of Westopolis. And GUN thinks that he might have something to do with the disappearance of Shadow the Hedgehog. Hoping to improve relations with the world’s greatest hero, the GUN High Commander personally approaches Sonic about this issue. Sonic agrees to help find Shadow. But the streets of Westopolis have become a dangerous place since the invasion of the Black Arms, now run by a criminal mastermind by the name of Wolfric King. Meeting the Black Cloak for the first time, Sonic learns that it is his mission to put a stop to the crimes of King, by any means necessary. Undeterred, Sonic continues his investigation, meeting with Rouge along the way. The two become ever more entangled into Black Cloak’s mission, until Sonic and Black Cloak are unexpectedly captured by King, and Sonic watches as Black Cloak’s mask is removed, revealing the face of Shadow the Hedgehog underneath. Shadow had quit his position at GUN after somehow losing the ability to use Chaos Control, and thought that he could get it back by finding a new purpose, the defeat of King. However, this didn’t work. Sonic and Shadow manage to escape, and confront King directly. But Wolfric King, or as he is revealed to be, King the Wolf, has his own past. He was severely injured, and a loved one of his was killed, during the Black Arms invasion, as a result of Shadow’s careless destruction during that battle. With Rouge’s help, Shadow regains his control over Chaos and manages to defeat King, and, claiming the last of the seven Emeralds, he and Sonic move on to Eggman, who had secretly been working with King over the previous few days. Eggman’s mech, augmented with King technology, is defeated, but Eggman gets away. Shadow refuses to return to GUN and hangs up his vigilante cloak, and Sonic requests that Shadow teaches him what he knows about Chaos. Shadow again refuses, claiming to know little more of the matter than Sonic himself. Before Shadow leaves, Rouge gives him a file she found, one that describes a second Ultimate Life Form.
Shadow sits down to read the file that Rouge gave him. It details “Project: Sunlight,” the attempt of Lt. Alfred Robotnik, son of Prof. Gerald, to perfect his father’s work, without the use of alien DNA. Alfred succeeded, but Sunlight was killed in an accident. However, Eggman meanwhile has obtained the very same file that Shadow reads from his dealings with King, and he becomes interested in his uncle’s work. Using a new machine he invented, he transports a Chaos Emerald backwards through time, which contains a message from him to Sunlight. In the past, Sunlight found the Emerald, and changed the course of history. Shadow is suddenly thrown into a new timeline, one where Sunlight has nearly destroyed the world, somehow protected from its changes by the Chaos Emerald he holds. With the help of the Sonic and Eggman of this new timeline, Shadow manages to go back in time to stop Sunlight. Shadow and Sunlight proceed into a sort of time-hopping game of tag, each one trying to convince the other to join their side. At the end of it all, Sunlight, under the new name of Blacklight, kidnaps Maria from the ARK, and takes her back to his own time. Thinking that Blacklight has crossed the line, Shadow resolves to put a stop to him by any means necessary. After a long and drawn out battle which nearly results in his own death, Shadow finally succeeds in rescuing his long-lost friend. However, by Maria’s own words, Shadow is convinced that Blacklight cannot be allowed to die. Instead, Lt. Alfred hides Blacklight away where he might never be found, putting the timeline back just the way it was. Shadow finally gets the chance to say goodbye to Maria, and resolves to be prepared when Blacklight is inevitably found and awoken.
As a result of Shadow’s meddling, the future has changed. To correct this error, the Lords of Chaos attempt to intervene, sending an envoy to Sonic’s world to assist him in the coming battle. On a starry night, Sonic and Tails discover an odd gem dubbed the Chaos Moonstone, sealed within a meteorite. Something else emerged from the meteorite as well, an odd sort of liquid light which would copy Eggman’s human form and call itself Lumis, before being captured by Eggman. Tails’ experiments on the Moonstone accidentally result in the creation of a new living creature; Chaos the Hedgehog. Seeming to act on instinct alone, this creature runs wild, escaping from Tails’ lab and causing havoc through the Mystic Ruins and Station Square. With the help of Amy, Sonic tracks Chaos down to find an Eggman base, where they all end up captured. Tails calls on Knuckles’ help to rescue them, along with Lumis. While Tails and Amy slowly begin to reason with Chaos, Lumis steals the Master Emerald from Sonic and Knuckles, stating his desire to perform a Ritual that would shift the Balance of the world. Sonic, Tails, Knuckles, Amy, and newly-conscious Chaos race against Eggman and Lumis for the remainder of the Chaos Emeralds, and lose. Left with no other choice, Sonic volunteers himself to Eggman and Lumis, since he as the Controller is needed to begin the Ritual, while the rest try to sneak back into the base another way. Sonic is forced to begin the Ritual, but manages to get the Chaos Emeralds back, and, with the help of Knuckles and the Master Emerald, use them along with the power of Chaos himself to defeat Lumis and end the Ritual. Having had a backup plan, Eggman activates a device he’d planted on Chaos that let him take control of him, along with the Dark power source that was used for the Ritual. However, Sonic manages to get through to Chaos, overcoming the device, and promises to learn from Chaos as a teacher, thus putting an end to Eggman’s scheme. Then they all celebrate Sonic’s Birthday together.
Where was it that Blacklight was hidden again? Well, Null Space, duh. And after the events of Sonic Forces, Infinite discovered him there, enraged at seeing the duplicate of Shadow’s face. But Blacklight managed to steal the Phantom Ruby from Infinite, and used it to escape, though he was spit out considerably later due to the time-warping effects of Null Space. He arrives in the modern day, where Eggman happily greets this new potential partner after his latest failure with Lumis. Blacklight agrees to become the new Infinite, and help Eggman take over the world. When Sonic arrives to stop him before the invasion begins, he is overwhelmed by the Phantom Ruby’s power, and trapped in a Virtual Reality, leaving him unconscious in the real world for several weeks. In the meantime, Eggman and Blacklight begin their conquest. In the hopes of finding someone who can save the world in Sonic’s place, Tails seeks out Shadow, and, one by one, they begin to reform a new Resistance. Blacklight becomes bored with Eggman, and splits off from the Empire to conquer the world for himself, leaving a war on two fronts for Shadow and the rest. Even the Jackal who was called Infinite joins the group, willing to do anything to get his Ruby back. The group joins with GUN, better equipped to fight a war, while Eggman meanwhile discovers the Hard Boiled Heavies, and forces them to join his army. And then…wait, spoilers! This hasn’t happened yet! To be continued!
Sonic, Shadow, and newly-introduced Chaos the Hedgehog meditate in a dim, secluded shack, with a Chaos Emerald on the floor in front of them. He seems to be teaching them a lesson, regarding “entering the Flow of Chaos”. He explains that success is only possible through patience and focus, calling Sonic by the name Controller for the first time. At some point, he had also explained that the Flow of Chaos would appear as a representation of one’s own light and darkness. Sonic successfully follows Chaos’ instruction, and enters the Flow of Chaos, seeing much light about himself. He even continues to look into his future, finding that it seems to cut off rather suddenly. Meanwhile, Shadow has successfully done the same. What he sees is a continuous fluctuation between light and darkness. But eventually, it gives way to light. During the process, he also has a flashback to a lesson from Professor Gerald, who explained to him that Chaos energy flows through the universe in a sort of network, where the Chaos Emeralds serve as nodes. Chaos also enters the Flow. He moves above himself to view the energies of the entire world, where he finds that darkness is spreading rampantly, foretelling the world’s destruction. Concerned by this, he informs Sonic and Shadow. They agree to split up and find the cause of the darkness. Before they do, Sonic thanks Chaos for everything he’s done.
Meanwhile at Eggmanland, Eggman approaches newly-introduced Blacklight with a proposition. Blacklight nearly kills Eggman, with a power that’s never been seen before, which he calls Chaos Frost. But he decides against it, and gives Eggman a friendly greeting instead, mentioning that at some point in the past, he removed Eggman from power and now legally controls Eggmanland. After a moment to recover, Eggman makes his proposition, claiming to have a device, called “The Chaos Project,” which can amplify the power of each Chaos Emerald tenfold, wanting to combine his five with Blacklight’s one for maximum usage, and assuring that that sort of power would be more than enough to power Blacklight’s Super Form. At the implication that he would have the chance to destroy Shadow, Blacklight agrees only to a demonstration. After they leave for Eggman’s base, it is revealed that Blacklight has been spying on Shadow, having a wall full of screens displaying images and even live footage of him.
Blacklight is satisfied with Eggman’s demonstration, and agrees to become the General of his army. Eggman shows Blacklight three incredibly large robots which are obscured from view. Blacklight claims to recognize one, but not the rest, and Eggman comments that he must’ve done his research on Shadow. Eggman continues to show that he has much larger robot army than anything he’s ever created before. Blacklight lets slip that he might intend to betray Eggman.
Sonic finds Tails in his lab and wakes him up, wanting his help to find Eggman. They locate an airship where he’s likely based, and fly to it in a sleek new combat model of the Tornado. After a brief dogfight, they crash-land on Eggman’s airship, and find him inside. Eggman offers Sonic a chance to surrender himself and his Emerald, making the promise to stop all machine-making for good if he agrees. He even assures Sonic that he’ll be set free in short time, and none of his friends will have to be involved. He also threatens to unleash his strange-looking machine on Station Square down below if Sonic refuses, in addition to the armies that are already beginning their invasions around the world. Sonic recognizes the machine, one of Eggman’s big three that were shown to Blacklight. Sonic refuses, Eggman drops the machine, and Sonic and Tails let Eggman go, diving after the machine instead.
Meanwhile, Blacklight is waiting for Shadow at Eggmanland. Shadow isn’t particularly surprised that Blacklight’s been spying on him. Blacklight ponders the possibility of renaming Eggmanland, asking his friend Shadow for suggestions. Shadow doesn’t have any of it. Blacklight complains that this is the second time Shadow has failed to give him good name suggestions, but realizes that he was happy with the way that turned out last time, and no longer wants Shadow’s help. At Shadow’s insistence, Blacklight reveals that he’s working with Eggman, and invites Shadow to join them in creating a new world order. But when he lets slip that one of Eggman’s big three is attacking Westopolis, Shadow leaves immediately. Blacklight comments after Shadow leaves how much he hates that guy.
In the Lost World, an ancient Echidna temple in the Mystic Ruins, Chaos meditates further, trying to learn anything he can. He comes into contact with a mysterious chorus of voices who he calls the “Lords of Chaos.” They inform him that point at which the future diverges into unknown direction will occur in Grand Metropolis. They continue to say that in order for Balance to be restored the soonest, Chaos himself must return to them. They also refer to Shadow as the “Outlier,” stating that he and Sonic must survive the coming battle, and cannot know what is to happen to Chaos. A tear in his eye, Chaos expresses the hope that Sonic will forgive him for concealing the truth, and apologizes for being unable to complete his training.
In Westopolis, Shadow battles against one of Eggman’s big three, the E-4X Blackdevil, a robotic replica of Devil Doom. He mentions that all the work he did in the city has been undone. During the battle, Shadow is forced to remove his inhibitor rings, allowing him to execute a new ability, Chaos Shine. He also shows the new ability to finely manipulate the direction of his Chaos Spears, and cause them to detonate on impact. Shadow wins the battle, but loses consciousness from exertion, swearing to protect the world before he does.
And in Station Square, Sonic battles against E-1X Mechaos 7.0, an artificial Perfect Chaos. Before the battle begins, Sonic sends Tails off, telling him to contact everyone, and to prepare a hidden place for them to meet up, taking anything he can from his lab before destroying the rest. Tails reluctantly agrees.
Shadow meets Chaos in Grand Metropolis, where they have some time to rest and recover. Chaos quickly instructs Shadow on how to draw directly from the Chaos Emerald in order to heal himself. While he does so, Chaos expresses disappointment that Shadow removed his inhibitor rings, explaining that doing so drains his energy do a dangerous level, and can likely result in his death if he continues. Shadow objects angrily that Chaos doesn’t really care, that he only thinks of him as an Outlier, something that doesn’t matter in the grand scheme of the universe. Chaos says that the opposite is true. That he’s learned that Shadow’s role as an Outlier will have great effect on the future, and more importantly, that he cares about him deeply. Shadow apologizes, explaining that he’s having trouble changing his bad habits of pushing others away. Sonic arrives, not much harmed by his own fight, only for all of them to find that Blacklight has been waiting for them there. He offers them all one last chance at peaceful settlement, saying that he doesn’t really care what Chaos does, as long as Sonic and Shadow each do as they have already been requested. They ask for a chance to consider the offer, and use that time to prepare for a fight. Chaos explains that Shadow, a heart of Darkness, and Sonic, a heart of Light, may be able to Balance each other, and create a new sort of power which might be able to compete against Blacklight. They do so, and Chaos joins them, revealing his true form to be nothing more than a rainbow-colored gemstone, which Sonic and Shadow are able to draw further power from. Blacklight appears to them in his Super Form, Black Night. They engage in a battle that lasts for hours. But Chaos eventually pulls them out, saying that they simply don’t have enough power to continue competing with Blacklight’s near-limitless supply. He convinces Sonic and Shadow to flee, while he holds Blacklight off as long as he can, creating an illusion that could make Blacklight think that Sonic and Shadow are still there. Sonic and Shadow watch as Chaos is defeated, presumed dead. Shadow barely manages to tear Sonic away in time.
Sonic’s friends, all over the world, fail to fight back against the overwhelming numbers of Eggman’s robots, forcing them to flee one by one.
Eggman explains to Blacklight that there is a flaw in the Chaos Project, a sort of energy vacuum that takes power away from the user, just as Blacklight himself begins to feel unusually weak. While he’s distracted, Eggman shoots him in the back, presumably killing him. And with that, Eggman finally had singular control over the entire world.
One year before Crisis of Chaos, Sonic and Tails are out trying to have fun in the snow. Sonic is acting a bit stranger than usual. They discover a strange vortex, a Space-Time Rift. Believing that Eggman may be responsible, they seek out and find a nearby Eggman base, finding a Chaos Emerald along the way. After defeating one of Eggman’s mechs with his first use of Chaos Control in a very long time, Sonic proceeds into a dungeon area of the base, where he finds a strange woman who claims to know why the Space-Time Rifts are forming. She explains that Chronos, the Lord of Time, is failing to hold time together, and needs to be defeated. Thinking that it sounds like fun, Sonic agrees to search time for the twelve Temporal Sapphires, telling Tails to stay behind. Meanwhile, Eggman notes that he and Sonic somehow have the same Chaos Emerald, and that Sonic is likely being tricked.
The woman, Janice, revealed to be an incorporeal being herself, presently living in a pocket outside of time called The Void, sends Sonic to the distant past, where he finds a post-apocalyptic city, not believing that it really is the past. Janice assures him that it is. In the city, Sonic finds another Hedgehog, Zero, who he mistakenly believes to be Chronos in disguise.
Several hours earlier, Zero was brooding outside of the city. He explains that what happened to the city was over a year ago, and claims it to be his fault for not stopping it from happening. He also has a Chaos Emerald, which appeared to him from a Space-Time Rift. When he hears a voice calling for help, he runs into the city. There, he finds trapped under rubble a little girl who bears a strong resemblance to Janice. In fact, she is Janice. Just like Sonic, she invites Zero to help in the search for Temporal Sapphires. She reveals that she was once the apprentice to Chronos. Zero has a flashback, to some sort of explosion that caused people to scream. Searching for the Sapphire, he has another flashback, this time to a streak through the sky that he was too late to chase, that hit the city. When Zero finally meets Sonic in the middle of the city, he thinks that Sonic is trying to take the power of the Sapphire for himself, so they fight over it. But before either of them are seriously injured, Janice manages to stop them, and call them back to The Void. Janice explains that she did recruit Sonic and Zero for the same mission, but didn’t intend for them to meet, having sent Sonic to Zero’s time by mistake. At their insistence, she introduces them to the third and final recruit, Silver the Hedgehog. But the moment Silver sees Zero, he attacks him.
Silver lives in the distant future of Neo Soleana City, a futuristic metropolis where everyone seems to be happy. Silver tells a legend of the Controller, a person who saved the world from Darkness a long time ago. Now, Silver is the Controller, though he isn’t really sure what that means. But, hearing a cry for help, he knows he must answer it, and so finds Janice in the form of an older woman, under attack by a large savage creature who she identifies as Chronos. In the ensuing battle, all three of them are thrown into a Space-Time Rift.
Silver wakes up on the Space Colony ARK, which is supposed to be destroyed in his time. He manages to defeat Chronos by throwing him out into space, before he disappears through another Rift. Using a Temporal Sapphire found on the ARK, Silver makes his own way to The Void, excited to meet two others like himself who might help him figure out what it means to be the Controller. The moment he sees Zero, he has a flashback to a time when he was a child, and was attacked by him. Enraged, Silver attacks first this time. Janice convinces him to stop, ensuring him that Zero is the first Controller, just as Silver is the last and Sonic is the greatest. Silver is shocked at hearing that he is the last, thinking that means the world is destined to end. Janice angrily tells all of them that she doesn’t intend to tell any of them about their futures. She locates a Sapphire for each of them to find, and sends them on their way. She tells Zero that because his connection to the natural energies of the universe is stronger than the others, he can use Time Control to open his own Rift to get there. Before Silver leaves, Sonic gives him a very confused greeting, explaining that they both should and should not know each other. When Silver doesn’t understand, he instead asks him how Blaze is doing. Silver doesn’t know who that is.
Sonic goes even further into the past than he did before, to bustling human city, where he is almost immediately attacked by some strange robots.
Zero goes to the heart of a jungle in Sonic’s recent past, where the Sapphire he is looking for is stolen by Eggman in his Classic outfit. Hunting him down, he encounters Amy Rose, with a similarly Classic appearance, who, of course, mistakes him for Sonic. She tells him about Robotnik, and agrees to help him get the Sapphire back. Zero has a flashback to another time when he heard the name Robotnik, a scientist who performed some very painful experiments on him. In the flashback, Zero agreed to keep subjecting himself to the experiments, so that Robotnik wouldn’t bring out Subject 009.
Sonic finds a Chaos Emerald, which Janice insists is a Temporal Sapphire.
Amy is kidnapped by Robotnik, and Zero abandons Janice’s mission in order to save her. He finds her in the dungeon of Robotnik’s jungle base, where they encounter Eggman piloting a mech, the Egg Justice. In the battle, Zero accidentally induces Time Control, causing time to slow all around him. But he fails when he tries to do it a second time. Amy manages to take the machine’s hammer, which turns out to be the origin of her famous piko piko hammer, and they beat Robotnik together. For his backup plan, Robtnik calls on Robo Sonic, a Metal Sonic robot that has only ever been seen in the background of Sonic Adventure. Robo Sonic, powered by a Temporal Sapphire, nearly gets the best of Zero, but Amy destroys it with just one swing of her hammer. In the aftermath, Zero admits to the urge to share everything with Amy, and tells her about his mission. Even though he never asks, Amy answers his unspoken question, saying that she can’t possibly go with him, because that would mean giving up on Sonic. On his way out, he advises her to relax and let her hair down if she wants to be noticed by Sonic, and in return she advises him on the importance of making friends. They promise to see each other again. Meanwhile, Robotnik is preparing to launch his jungle base, which turns out to be the first Egg Carrier. As he dons a more modern outfit, he tells E-101 Beta that he plans to start thinking bigger, and intends to be called Eggman henceforward.
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2019-04-22T22:42:03Z
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https://sonicchaosproject.wordpress.com/readers-companion-beta/
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Our year-old male Cairn, Seamus, has recently started obsessing on shadows and light beams on the floor. Sometimes, he's so obsessed he neglects food, toys, everything to focus on these, scratching, biting the hardwood floor, tearing up bits of carpet, etc. Anyone have encouragement or solutions ideas? Thanks.
I ALSO HAD A YOUNG CAIRN THAT DID THIS. MY KIDS FOUND IT TO BE VERY AMUSING. MY VET , HOWEVER SAID THAT THIS OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE BEHAVIOR SHOULD BE DISCOURAGED AND A HEALTHIER FORM OF EXERCISE/PLAY SHOULD BE ENCOURAGED.WHEN SHE WAS TOLD NO AND STOPPED FROM DOING THESE TYPE OF ACTIVITIES,SHE FORGOT ABOUT IT,AT LEAST FOR THE MOMENT.
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2019-04-23T18:27:54Z
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http://www.faqs.org/qa/qa-4123.html
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Giving Away Your Content and Marketing to Gain Customers with Entrepreneur Jay Baer - Duration: 2 minutes, 59 seconds.
How to Lead and Manage People: This Innovation Expert Tells You How to Develop Strong Teams - Duration: 4 minutes, 3 seconds.
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How to Communicate Your Brand Across Multiple Audiences and Platforms - Duration: 4 minutes, 6 seconds.
How to Create Company Culture and Communicate Your "WHY" Throughout - Duration: 5 minutes, 31 seconds.
Why Go Guru? - Duration: 85 seconds.
Mickie Shaw Testimonial - Duration: 85 seconds.
Larry Speaks Testimonial - Duration: 101 seconds.
Diane Elarde Testimonial - Duration: 100 seconds.
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2019-04-24T01:12:32Z
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https://www.youtube.com/user/impromptuguru
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Mastitis, an infection of the mammary gland, is the most common and expensive animal health problem for the dairy industry and affects every dairy farm to some degree. This disease complex is painful for dairy cows, increases the on-farm use of antibiotics, presents a threat to milk quality and is a waste of time, money and milk production. Each year, the dairy industry loses as much as a billion dollars to mastitis.
Many cows will experience mastitis at least once during a lactation cycle and some animals will develop recurring mastitis episodes in a single mammary quarter. These mastitic quarters can be difficult to manage during the lactation cycle. Cessation of production in the quarter while continuing to milk the other three can be a beneficial management decision in this scenario. However, the current methods available for cessation of lactation in a single quarter are limited. This study investigated the use of casein hydrolysate as a non-antibiotic option for causing cessation of lactation in a quarter.
From this preliminary study we were able to apply our results to another aspect of mastitis prevention, which is the routine use of intramammary antibiotics at the end of the lactation cycle. This management practice is known as dry treatment and is a standard practice in the dairy industry with many years of proven efficacy against clearing infections present at the end of the lactation cycle. Increasing pressure from consumers to decrease antibiotic use in food production animals has caused this practice to come under scrutiny. This secondary study investigated the use of casein hydrolysates as a nonantibiotic alternative to standard antibiotic dry cow treatment.
Overall, these studies demonstrated that casein hydrolysate has some efficacy in inducing mammary involution of a single quarter mid-lactation and also potentially as an alternative dry cow treatment. None of the animals treated in these studies displayed any symptoms of pain or discomfort, and all treated quarters resumed milk production after the next calving. Additionally, all antimicrobial milk tests on treated animals were negative. Casein hydrolysates may be a useful management tool for milk quality and animal health within the dairy industry.
Britten, Justine Elena, "Evaluation of Casein Hydrolysate as an Alternative Dry-Off Treatment and Milk Quality Management Tool in Dairy Cows" (2019). All Graduate Theses and Dissertations. 7476.
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2019-04-26T10:35:07Z
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https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/7476/
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Look back in horror: This column's preseason baseball predictions, reviewed.
With baseball back in full-service mode Friday night, the second "half" of the season is under way, so it's a good time to look back at this column's preseason predictions about the American and National leagues to remind everyone just what a complete dunce this column is.
Also because that's what we columnists do after the All-Star break.
One of my favorite Web sites these days is Fire Joe Morgan, a blog with a fairly obvious goal, one I happen to disagree with. But it's a rare example of the printed word making me laugh out loud.
The site's writers -- who identify themselves as dak, Ken Tremendous, Junior, Matthew Murbles and Coach -- comment on baseball commentary by Morgan or anybody else they think reaches Morganesque levels of baseball unenlightenment. The "Baseball Tonight" crew is a favorite target, as is MSNBC columnist Mike Celizik, known to the FJM crew as "Hat Guy."
Joe Morgan: I never would have gotten a chance to play if someone had just looked at me on paper. I got a chance and it paid off.
For the last time, Joe: you had great statistics. Because you were great at playing baseball. In spite of your underwhelming physical appearance. I don't know how to be more emphatic about this. I'm already writing in choppy sentence. Fragments.
To my knowledge, I've never gotten the treatment. So, while I can't do it justice, I'm going to steal the format. Sample it, as it were, which makes it more of a tribute and less of a theft, as we look back at our look ahead to this season.
Too much Orlando Cabrera, or a key injury or two among the pitchers, and this [the Angels] is a wild-card team and first-round loser at best.
The Angels aren't going to win the wild card, but they could still sneak away with this weak division. Orlando Cabrera, of course, is having a fine season.
3. Texas Rangers: All kinds of offense in a hitter's park, but, like their National League cousins the Colorado Rockies, they just can't seem to put together a pitching staff.
The Rangers are tied for first thanks to their improved pitching. And the Rockies? They're fifth in the National League in pitching. Sweet analysis!
[For the Mariners] It's going to be another long year in a tough division.
The Mariners are three games out in baseball's weakest division.
1. Chicago White Sox: Your World Series champs have one of the best starting rotations in the game, and they've added slugger Jim Thome. If he's healthy, which he wasn't last year in Philadelphia but has been so far this spring, he'll help a lot. Barring injuries, there's no reason to think the White Sox won't be at least as good in 2006 as they were in 2005.
Blind squirrels and broken clocks come to mind here, eh? Also, I picked the A's to win the West, and they're tied for first place, though they're barely over .500.
Actually, my Central Division section wasn't too bad. I picked the Indians second, but expressed pretty major reservations about them. I said I was unimpressed by the Twins' offseason moves but that if a bunch of things went right, they could contend for the wild card. They're not quite doing that thanks to the White Sox and Tigers being so far ahead, but they're playing well of late, and they're in third, right where I put 'em.
Jim Leyland comes out of retirement to manage a team that's moving in the right direction and has some good-looking young pitchers, but isn't quite there yet.
That was technically true when I wrote it, because Opening Day was five days in the future. The Tigers have the best record in baseball and are on pace to win 105 games.
If [A.J.] Burnett can stay healthy, he and Roy Halladay are a formidable top two. If 30-year-old career middle reliever Ryan wasn't a one-year wonder as a closer in Baltimore, well, hey, that'd be great. New corner infielders Troy Glaus and Lyle Overbay add some pop. I don't really know if there's enough here to beat the Yanks.
Burnett hasn't stayed healthy, everything else was pretty accurate, and the Blue Jays trail the Yanks by two games -- and the Red Sox by four and a half. I also said the Yankees couldn't count on much from Gary Sheffield, Randy Johnson or the rest of their pitching, which was smart, and that you never can tell about Jason Giambi, which was noncommittal. Giambi's had a good year.
[The Red Sox, picked to finish third, are] a team hoping for big things from old and/or injury-damaged Curt Schilling, Mike Lowell, Trot Nixon and Keith Foulke.
And, Foulke excepted, that's exactly what they've gotten, not to mention dynamite rookie closer Jonathan Papelbon, whom I cleverly neglected to mention.
Here, for ease of ridicule, are this column's American League predictions in one place.
Rafael Furcal will help [the Dodgers], and if J.D. Drew, Jeff Kent, Eric Gagne and Brad Penny can stay healthy all year, the Dodgers can win this weak division.
Not really, pretty much, not entirely, no and yes. And the Dodgers are in second place, two and a half behind the Padres, with a decent chance to win this weak division, one of two in the league. I saw Nomar Garciaparra's 1.000 OPS coming, of course. I just forgot to mention it.
2. San Diego Padres: One of the worst division champions in history overhauled the roster without appearing to get better. The likes of Vinnie Castilla, Mike Cameron and even the current model of Mike Piazza are not the stuff of dynasties, or even 2006 contenders.
Right. Except that the Padres are in first place, they'd be a half game out in the Central, and they have the third best record in the league. Other than that, they're not good enough to be contenders. They're also 40 points of winning percentage better than last year, which translates to seven games by the end of the season.
Nothing to get overly excited about, and don't forget Denver is the place where pitchers go to have nervous breakdowns, but given the context of their weak division, the [Rockies] can win 75 games, finish third and feel pretty good about themselves.
Denver has ceased to be the place where pitchers go to have nervous breakdowns. The Rockies, as mentioned, are fifth in the league in pitching and they're playing .500 baseball. They're in fourth place, but only four games out in the division and one and a half out in the wild card.
Not too bad. I said the Cardinals looked like they've slipped but still have enough to win the division -- they're only on a 90-win pace, but lead by four games. I said the Brewers could contend for the wild card if everything went right and Ben Sheets stayed healthy -- he didn't and they're hanging around the wild-card race.
And I picked the Cubs third and said if Mark Prior and Kerry Wood weren't healthy, they wouldn't make the playoffs. Those two aren't healthy, and not making the playoffs is now just a nice way to put it for a hideous team being kept out of last place only by Pittsburgh.
4. Houston Astros: I've been predicting the demise of the Astros for years, and they keep not demising. They even went to the World Series last year after starting 15-30. Just to make me look bad. But this looks like the year.
Bzzzt. Wrong again. The Astros have the same record as the Brewers, and they ended the first half by getting swept by the Cubs. But they've got Roger Clemens for the whole second half, and they just added Aubrey Huff, a small but real upgrade on offense. They might not win, but demise isn't the word either.
6. Cincinnati Reds: The Reds can hit, but, man, can they ever not pitch. They did a little something to address that problem last week by trading outfielder Wily Mo Pena to the Boston Red Sox for right-hander Bronson Arroyo, who goes from being a swingman at Fenway to the front of the rotation at Great American Ballpark. That should give you some idea.
Of what a dunce this column is.
The Reds are third in scoring, 11th in ERA. That doesn't sound great, but they play in a bandbox, and they're better pitchers than five other teams. Not quite good enough, but closer to good enough than to "can they ever not pitch."
And of course Arroyo got to Cincinnati and became an ace. He's tied for sixth in the league in ERA.
The Reds made a huge trade with the Nationals Thursday, sending outfielder Austin Kearns and shortstop Felipe Lopez for a package of middle relievers and Royce Clayton. It looks like they gave up a lot to get some middle-relief help, which is always a tricky thing to predict, but then again, middle-relief help is what they needed, and you can make the argument that Kearns and Lopez are pretty replaceable.
Oh, and as for picking the Reds sixth, they're second, four games out, and a half game out in the wild-card race.
The Mets are the pick because I'm tired of picking the Phillies and being disappointed, though that's too strong a word. I have no expectations of success here, you understand.
Nice! I finally make the right call in the N.L. East, where I make it a tradition not to pick the Braves, and then I undermine it.
The Mets lead the division by 12 games.
2. Atlanta Braves: I'll hedge by calling the Braves a wild-card team, but I realize I'm kidding myself.
Yeah, the Braves are hopelessly out of the wild-card race too.
3. Philadelphia Phillies: It looks like another gentleman's third in 2006. The good news is that Pat Gillick is the new general manager, and he wasted no time making the kinds of smart moves that helped him build winners in Toronto, Baltimore and Seattle, starting with the unloading of Jim Thome to make room for Ryan Howard at first base.
Yeah, bet Gillick's pretty happy to have dumped Thome on the White Sox.
This team [the Nationals] still has no owner, and general manager Jim Bowden's trade of Brad Wilkerson for Alfonso Soriano, he of the tantrum over moving to left field, speaks volumes ... As a second baseman, Soriano's a notable slugger. As a left fielder, he's just another dude who strikes out a lot.
The team has an owner now, and Soriano is having a superb year.
Wilkerson apparently had to go, but why put up with the problems Soriano was sure to bring just to stick him in left field? On Florida spring days it rains outfielders who can post an .810 OPS in a hitter's park like the one the Texas Rangers play in.
Soriano has posted an .888 OPS in the severe pitcher's park the Nats play in. Baseball Prospectus rates him as the fifth best hitter in the league among left fielders, the eighth best among all outfielders. Not exactly the type that falls from trees.
Wilkerson? He's posted an .819 OPS in the hitter's park the Texas Rangers play in.
The splashy but ultimately useless trade is a hallmark of Bowden, architect of the consistently mediocre Cincinnati Reds of 1993-2003. This team needs a front office.
If a lot of observers are correct, Bowden just pantsed the Reds. I'm not so sure he did, but I'm not so sure he didn't. At any rate, that's the general tenor of the early commentary I've seen.
Here, for ease of ridicule, are this column's National League predictions in one place.
Say, that's not too bad. If the Dodgers make up those two and a half games on the Padres, which could happen, I should sweep the divisions. Maybe, at least when it comes to the National League, I really do know what I'm talking about.
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2019-04-25T21:46:13Z
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Before we dig in, have you heard of JVZoo?
JVZoo is an all-in-one digital commerce platform designed to help product creators and affiliate marketers come together to sell digital products.
As a product creator, it’s a great place to sell your products and enable affiliates to promote your products as well.
As an affiliate marketer, it’s a great place to find quality products to promote.
Whether you’re a seller or an affiliate, JVZoo enables you to see some of the information about your transactions.
But, in order to get a better picture of your data it’s helpful to use a 3rd party system like the one Kevin Fahey released today, iDasho Zoo Extractor.
iDasho Zoo Extractor is a WordPress plugin that enables you to tailor your business according to each of your customer’s needs, which can help increase your overall profits.
As you can see, iDasho Zoo Extractor enables you to quickly segment your customers based on what type of products they like to buy.
With this data you can customize your marketing campaigns to target customers that have bought similar products in the past.
For instance, one customer bought 3 YouTube-related products from you. Do you think they are interested in a Snapchat marketing training? Probably not.
Why bug them with it!
Use the data iDasho Zoo Extractor supplies to target them with more YouTube-related offers.
Having the type of customer data that iDasho Zoo Extractor provides at your fingertips can dramatically improve your conversion rates.
*Note – I realize that iDasho Zoo Extractor is a WordPress plugin and not everyone wants tyo deal with WordPress. If you like the idea of having this level of JVZoo transaction data at your fingertips, but would prefer a cloud-based alternative…give Affiliate Trax a look.
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AACAY - AAC Technologies Holdings Inc.
How Much Did AAC Technologies Holdings Inc.’s (HKG:2018) CEO Pocket Last Year?
AAC Technologies Holdings Inc. -- Moody's announces completion of a periodic review of ratings of AAC Technologies Holdings Inc.
Announcement: Moody's announces completion of a periodic review of ratings of AAC Technologies Holdings Inc. Hong Kong, March 06, 2019 -- Moody's Investors Service ("Moody's") has completed a periodic review of the ratings of AAC Technologies Holdings Inc. and other ratings that are associated with the same analytical unit. The review was conducted through a portfolio review in which Moody's reassessed the appropriateness of the ratings in the context of the relevant principal methodology(ies), recent developments, and a comparison of the financial and operating profile to similarly rated peers.
What Kind Of Investor Owns Most Of AAC Technologies Holdings Inc. (HKG:2018)?
Is AAC Technologies Holdings Inc.’s (HKG:2018) 26% Better Than Average?
What Makes AAC Technologies Holdings Inc (HKG:2018) A Great Dividend Stock?
Is AAC Technologies Holdings Inc’s (HKG:2018) High P/E Ratio A Problem For Investors?
Moody's Investors Service has assigned a first-time Baa1 issuer rating to AAC Technologies Holdings Inc. "AAC Technologies' Baa1 issuer rating reflects the company's position as a leading miniature components manufacturer, with a long operating history and a track record of adapting to changing market and product demand," says Gerwin Ho, a Moody's Vice President and Senior Credit Officer. AAC Technologies' competitive strength is evident from its ability to compete against global competitors and to supply its products to leading mobile phone and consumer electronics makers.
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2019-04-26T06:14:27Z
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A five-day intensive short course focusing on the four key health issues of global significance for young people: sexual and reproductive health; mental health – including suicide prevention; alcohol and substance use; and violence.
The course explores the extent, impact, causes and responses to these issues across different cultures and in societies characterised by varied levels of economic development. In examining these key health concerns, the course engages with cross-cutting issues shaping adolescent health and wellbeing globally such as: inequity; disability and inclusion; displacement; and gender identities and relations. The course takes a strengths-based approach that identifies the exceptional opportunities that adolescence represents for the adoption of positive behaviours and lifestyles that can lead to life-long health benefits, while also interrogating the key health challenges faced by young people and their communities.
This course is delivered in a highly interactive format, with a combined focus on knowledge acquisition, critical thinking and skills development. The course is coordinated and delivered by a team of internationally recognised experts in adolescent health, who draw on contemporary case studies and research to ground the course content and skills development in real world contexts.
This course is suitable for students or early-mid career professionals with an interest or experience in global health, particularly in the area of adolescent health.
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http://events.unimelb.edu.au/events/11884-global-challenges-in-adolescent-health-short-course
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We writers are often told how important networking is to our budding career. I couldn’t agree more. Most of my sales have been acquired through networking, either at conferences or meetings of writers’ organizations. Success most often comes because of who we know, but we can only get to know contacts by getting out there and meeting them.
Each year I try to attend at least three conferences. Many attend more, some less. Whatever you can afford to do, money and time wise, then do it. In addition, I always try to speak at a few gatherings to make new friends or touch base with old ones.
Last weekend I attended Oklahoma Writers Federation, Inc. (OWFI) in Oklahoma City. As I wrote earlier, this is a conference I’ve attended for about 13 years, only missing a couple of times. At OWFI this year I also obtained an appointment to speak with an editor from St. Martin’s Press. Besides that meeting, I was also contacted by a local television station for an interview. In addition, I attended several very informative sessions and met up with some old friends. Most important of all, I learned some things I didn’t know.
If you can’t imagine this, then think of the monks who with painstaking concentration recorded words onto scrolls. Do you think for one minute they could have imagined books printed as they are today. Or that they believed for one minute one day books would be written simply by sitting down at a keyboard watching our words appear on a screen. We must admit to the possibilities of progress before we can hope to keep up and succeed.
Long gone are the days when a starving writer sat in his garret all alone scribbling words onto brown wrapping paper using the stub of a pencil. Those odd and elusive writers shunned company, sat alone for hours waiting for the muse to visit. Suffered, tore at their hair, moaned and wailed. I’ve often wondered if such stories aren’t the figment of some later author’s vivid imagination. We read how some more talented authors became alcoholics, drug addicts or went insane.
I’ll have to admit, there are days when I’m tempted to fall victim to all three. Days when nothing goes right, when every word only comes with a great deal of struggle, the weeks and months when rejections fill the mailbox, the years when books that should make the NYT best seller list don’t. Let’s face it, even today the profession is only for the strong of heart, mind and soul. For those of us too stubborn to give up in the face of adversity.
If you’re struggling to become successful as a writer, then get out there and find a conference to attend, or a writer’s group to join. If you’re already successful, don’t sit at home either. Remain fresh and up to date on what’s going on in your profession. Go to a conference, join a group, share your knowledge with “newbies.” Believe me, it will refresh your imagination.
Next year check out OWFI’s website.
There are a multitude of conferences out there. Google for them and attend at least one this year.
For thirty years I've been a writer. Publication of my work began in 1994 . I'm pleased to have recently settled with Oghma Creative Media as my publisher. My brand is SexyDarkGritty and that applies to my western historical romances, mysteries, women's fiction and horror novels. I recently signed a contract to write westerns again, and what fun it's been working on the first one. If I weren't writing my life wouldn't be so exciting.
This entry was posted in agents, conferences, Inc., Oklahoma Writers Federation, Ozark Creative Writers, Ozark Writers League, pitching editors, St. Martin's Press, Women Writing the West, Writers. Bookmark the permalink.
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2019-04-25T14:47:28Z
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Airports are getting crowded as people head out of town for holiday celebrations.
The skies are going to be very busy we have David Curley at Reagan international airport Megan Lopez at Denver international to let us know we can expect. At the airports David let's start things up with you you know this could be they're saying the busiest Thanksgiving ever so Howard the airports can handle that. They're doing pretty well right back then you're just gave you the best news it is. An American. Eagle plane landing here at Reagan national airport the big news as the weather and I gotta tell you. I talk to airlines this morning in over the past several days and I think they were worried about the most. Is not the fact that they might actually set a record. But that the weather's going to cooperate because of they have bad weather it's very difficult to handle these kind of record crowds. So the number of passengers just today. This number can it. Boggles the mind is nearly three million people in America we'll get on a plane today and law. That's a 6% increase from last year this is the second busiest day in this. Contact Thanksgiving. Travel time Sunday will be the biggest it's expected to be over three million passengers on Sunday so how they airlines deal with that one they have the weather. Going in their favor they've also added a 158000. Seats. And a lot of people say how do you add. Seats on something like this in the way they do it is that they they time their maintenance of their aircraft so that they avoid this. Heavy travel periods of the other get an enemy in early or if they can wait a couple of weeks or ten days after this and they take those planes. Through maintenance and so they have all those extra seats that they can actually fly. And they have to use bigger planes in some of these airports to move a bunch of people die and because. They have a certain number slots you can only take off and land so many times. At an airport here allowed a certain number the other thing that they Don is that they've gotten some help from the FAA in the military. Off the East Coast here is a lot of air space that is owned by the military Dave. Lifted those restrictions of the planes to make it more direct routes when they're flying around this areas which should help. Move folks around a little bit so that's good news and then I looked at the lines a TSA a little bit earlier this morning here at Reagan. And they were little longer than normal but TSA is at a 12100 officers and eighty canine units across the country. And they use those K nine issues units actually. Move passengers through did checkpoints. Quicker and they say they're available to move everybody through so the airlines feel pretty confident. Generally. Here at Reagan Y talk about a 6% nationwide increase its actually 30% more passengers here that's the bigger aircraft what other antivirus. Ian Lopez's there she's been watching what's going on. At that airport Megan what's the latest so far this morning. So far is actually going pretty smoothly and that's despite the fact that we're seeing. A lot more passengers Unser were expecting one point two million passengers to comes through DIA in this Thanksgiving week alone. Like you said we're gonna see Sunday be the worst but Saturday is going to be breaking records. Something that I can tell you guys both is that we have seen as airport breaking record after record in recent years. But guess what we were just voted the number one airport in the nation by a Wall Street Journal poll. Now out here at the lines are not too bad right now but they are expected to get worse. In just about an hour's time we're actually expecting to see in the worse than it could possibly be. For the Harry expecting it Cindy. But so far passengers that I talked to said that they don't think that it's going to be that I'm mad now a couple of bats and the chaos of all the travelers that we got right now. With construction. DI a right now is undergoing a 650. Million dollar construction projects this entire area is going to be completely redone and those security lines are not going to be there the going to be here where I'm standing so. People have ten or navigate around all the construction chaos in the fact that they're so many travelers here guys. Few barriers it sounds like you know but it does it does not doesn't like these airports are handling this. Pretty well David the one thing you didn't mention is getting bumped does this all these travelers being in the environment. Increase that chance at all. Well you know this is the one time that airlines really don't want to bump here they don't want to pay you to get off the plane. Everybody wants to get home for the holidays you don't have a lot of flexibility. So what usually happens at the airlines have overbooked flights and that's why some people. Get bumped the case during a period like this they don't over book because they don't want to have to tell somebody. There's somebody want to take. Money to get off a plane so there shouldn't be much bumping going on at this point and we flights moving and and and leaving and arriving on time. Because of the weather they really shouldn't be a problem with that this number. I love the figures cross of George David Curley and Megan Lopez and we appreciate it guys thank you hope you get your holiday destination safely and quickly. And now let's head over to KABC's chopper reporter Scott rice who is keeping an eye on the roads Flores has of course. It's not just the sky as it and are going to be busy if you're driving expect a lot of company. Scott what are you seeing and what you think we can expect. Hey good morning folks I'm Scott reif a KB CTV and Los Angeles simpler right off the bat this morning. We have started out looking at heavy traffic much heavier than normal people look at the channel Monica freeway and the westbound can't commit city. They could tell you leave an ally look at the westbound side it's bumper to bumper camp up already at this early hour. It's rather that wanted to freely about it's not due back. But that's the pattern that we are seeing hear him make that arrival of the getaway commutes in the drive toward the airport. LA actually just sorting out to be top. They expect Q&A half million people to go through LEX over the holiday and they expect some four million people to get the roadways over the holiday according to triple play. That's going to be dreadful on a freeway here. And then not only that we are expecting some possible waited to command right about the time we get our heaviest volume for the getaway driver. Around 2 o'clock this afternoon but certainly a lot of things complicating. The community at this hour it's going to be a prevalent throughout the country that everybody realizes this is one of the heaviest traveled. Games of the year that you do have to prepare for it humorous side be patient.
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2019-04-18T18:58:57Z
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https://abcnews.go.com/Travel/video/thanksgiving-travel-picks-record-high-season-59343976
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WASHINGTON -- Ross Perot's offer of a million dollars to the Republican Party for a television program attacking President Clinton's health care plan has given new focus to a debate going on within the party. Should it court Perot himself, or just his supporters?
Based on what he did to GOP candidate George Bush in the 1992 election, many Republicans are arguing that it's better, or even imperative, that Perot be brought in under the party tent before 1996. Others, however, warn of his unpredictability and note that he apparently hit a stone wall in trying to buy nationwide television time himself to hit the Clinton plan. They see him as trying to enter a temporary marriage of convenience to climb over that wall.
At least some Republicans also see Perot as a spent political comet whose tail burned out in his debate with Vice President Al Gore on the issue of the North American Free Trade Agreement last year.
But there are few in the party who don't recognize the advantage of luring most of Perot's 19 percent of the popular vote in 1992 to the next GOP presidential candidate, or to Republican congressional candidates this fall.
The whole question of what to do about Perot and his voters got a thorough airing the other day in a forum sponsored by the Project for the Republican Future, the new issues group that is the brainchild of William Kristol, former chief of staff for former Vice President Dan Quayle.
Kristol asked the panelists: "Should one appropriate the message without the messenger? Should one appropriate the messenger?"
The consensus seemed to be to go after the Perot voters as aggressively as possible, and swallow Perot along with them if necessary, but to make the Republican message appealing and forward-looking enough to pull the Perot voters in with or without Perot.
Republican pollster Frank Luntz, who worked for Perot for a time in the 1992 campaign, argued that the Perot voters, coupled with "religious conservatives," could actually produce a Republican majority in Congress this fall because "a vast majority [of both groups] can't wait to get out and vote against the incumbent."
But Luntz agreed with another panelist, former Tennessee Gov. Lamar Alexander, himself a prospective 1996 presidential candidate, that it is not enough for the Republican Party to voice the opposition to Washington that is central to the Perot voters' lament; it must also say plainly what it is for.
Alexander, who argued that Republicans need to stop talking in Washington jargon and speak in plain language to average Americans, somewhat facetiously suggested that if Perot wanted to make a contribution to the GOP, perhaps he could be asked to run "Dr. Perot's Academy of Common Sense and Plain Talking" for Republican candidates.
Kristol wondered, though, in one of the few derogatory references to Perot, whether it wouldn't turn out to be an "Academy of the Cult of Personality and Crackpot Ideas."
Alexander said that he didn't see anything wrong with taking TC million dollars from Perot, as long as the party spent the money to tell voters what it stands for and intends to do in the future.
What the party should not do, he said, was "crawl around on our knees trying to find out what he's for, so we can be for it." That, he said, would be "pitiful."
Asked about the prospect of Perot running again as an independent or third-party candidate in 1996, the panelists argued that if Perot really wants to bring about change in the country he can best achieve that objective by joining one of the established parties.
But that viewpoint goes to the heart of Ross Perot.
Does he, indeed, really want to bring about change?
Or is he still on an ego trip that precludes throwing in entirely with a party whose leaders, he charged in the 1992 election campaign, tried to sabotage his daughter's wedding?
For all that was said at the Kristol forum, it's pretty obvious that most Republicans would prefer to have the bathwater without the baby -- the Perot voters without Perot.
Appealing to their distaste for Washington and their desire for change is an obvious way to get them, but it's not likely that Perot himself will just go away as that attempt is being made.
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2019-04-19T19:06:19Z
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https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bs-xpm-1994-07-05-1994186039-story.html
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First we heard about the world’s biggest garbage dump – made up of the detritus of our time: plastic bottles, plastic bags, DVD cases – floating in our ocean. About 44 percent of all seabirds eat plastic, apparently by mistake, sometimes with fatal effects. And many marine species are affected by plastic garbage—animals are known to swallow plastic bags, which resemble jellyfish in mid-ocean, for example—according to a 2008 study in the journal Environmental Research by oceanographer and chemist Charles Moore, of the Algalita Marine Research Foundation.
Just as soon as we’ve had time to digest this news, we discover that the more improbable impact to the oceans from plastic comes from microscopic particles of plastic: In fact, the mass of plastic the size of Texas often said to exist in the North Pacific is a myth, according to filmmaker Craig Leeson, who is producing a documentary (backed by David Attenborough and the UK-based Plastic Oceans Foundation) on the spread of plastics in our oceans. Instead, particles of plastic lurk in our oceans invisibly, in seemingly clear water.
Charles Moore has found that in some areas, plastic outweighs zooplankton – the ocean’s food base.
It’s not just in the water: Dr. Mark Browne, University College Dublin, and several colleagues gathered sand samples from 18 beaches on six continents for analysis. It turns out that every beach tested contained microplastics (particles about the size of a piece of long grain of rice or smaller). Charles Moore carries a bag of sand from a beach in Hawaii which he had analyzed – and found that it was 90% plastic.
Studies show that this contamination is getting worse – and link it with health conditions in humans including cancer, diabetes and immune disruption.
So how does this tie into our blog topic of textile issues?
It turns out that 80% of the microplastic found in the samples which the scientists collected on the beaches was fibrous: polyester, acrylic and polyamides (nylon) fibers. And the scientists are pretty sure the fibers come from fabric.
In order to test their idea that sewer discharges were the source of these the plastic discharges, the team worked with a local authority in New South Wales, Australia, and found that their suspicions were correct. Sewage treatment does not remove the fibers. But where do the fibers enter the waste stream?
Dr Browne and his colleagueProfessor Richard Thompson from the University of Plymouth carried out a number of experiments to see what fibers were contained in the water discharge from washing machines.
According to a study published in September’s Environmental Science and Technology , nearly 2,000 polyester fibers can shake loose from a single piece of clothing in the wash.
Browne, Mark et al; “Accumulation of Microplstic on Shorelines Worldwide: Sources and Sinks”, Environmental Science and Technology, 2011, 45(21), pp 9175-9179.
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2019-04-24T18:03:00Z
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Can you belong somewhere you’ve never actually lived? Especially a place that’s engulfed by millions of tourists every year?
I don’t know the answer, but I hope it can be ‘yes’. Although, sadly, I’m not sure the few remaining true inhabitants of Venice would agree with me.
After multiple visits, Northern Italy’s wondrous lagoon city has me captivated. If someone offered me the chance to go and live there, I wouldn’t even hesitate.
And it’s not just sights like the Grand Canal, Rialto Bridge and Saint Mark’s that have me mesmerized. There’s nothing I enjoy more than getting lost among the calli (singular calle; the narrow Venetian alleyways), campi (singular campo; the Venetian squares – campo literally means field), and canali (singular canale; canals) of the Cannaregio district. Although I’ve walked the area so often now, getting lost is harder and harder!
Whether or not the locals will have me, my heart will forever belong to Venice.
PS. Most of these photos were taken while researching the fifth book in the Jaspa’s Journey series, The Ses Collector of Venice.
This post was inspired by the photo theme of Place in the World from Erica of The Daily Post and Jo’s Monday Walk.
This entry was posted in Adventure, Europe, Travel, UNESCO World Heritage Site and tagged calle, canal, Cannareggio, Italy, Venezia, Venice. Bookmark the permalink.
Great post! I love it when people add so many pictures to posts. Great job!
Glad you enjoyed it, Dan… I just couldn’t cut any more from the collection!
You did manage to find some seductive empty spaces, Jaspa. I really enjoyed sharing them with you. 🙂 🙂 What a city!
Indeed, Jo. I’m already looking forward to going back there again next year. In the meantime, it’s fun to watch my Venetian adventures brought to life, in the shape of Rich’s next book, Jaspa’s Journey 5: The Ses Collector of Venice.
Such a gorgeous post full of love for Venice. Great job!
‘Love’ is certainly the right word, Ishita! Thanks!
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2019-04-26T14:56:40Z
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https://jaspasjourney.wordpress.com/2018/05/09/the-calli-campi-and-canali-of-cannaregio-venice/
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Julianna Goldman, Bloomberg White House correspondent is really quite pretty.
This entry was posted in Uncategorized and tagged bloomberg businessweek, bloomberg news, bloomberg television, julianna goldman, white house. Bookmark the permalink.
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2019-04-23T13:51:05Z
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https://teapartisan.wordpress.com/2010/12/07/julianna-goldman-bloomberg-white-house-correspondent-is-really-quite-pretty/
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Those who drive on our streets and highways would agree that traffic patterns change on the weekend. There are fewer cars on the road than at the times when people travel to/from either work or school. We’re happy to drive when it isn’t rush hour. It frees us up to leave a little later or drive a little faster. Perhaps we can make an unplanned stop along the way.
People may choose to alter their behavior on the road of life. Jesus said, “If someone forces you to go one mile, go with him two miles.” (Matthew 5:41) His practical teaching addressed a troubling dimension of Israel’s culture. Roman soldiers could require civilians to carry military baggage for them. To his listeners Jesus was saying that a person could either resent the command and do the minimum or cheerfully do more than what was required. The teaching symbolized a larger issue of the life his followers were called to lead. They were to do more than what was expected of them.
Going beyond what’s expected us of us still remains a choice. Followers of Jesus possess the privilege of acting differently when life’s road makes demands on our services. Those who take the path of doing more than what is expected will find themselves in rare air. It’s a road similar to the weekend traveler. As author Zig Ziglar once observed, “There are no traffic jams on the extra mile.” You’ll always have plenty of freedom and room to be generous.
Motivated by love we may pray for someone, offer a smile, or take time to speak needed words of encouragement. We may open a door, help a person carry a heavy load, or drive out of our way to pick up something or someone. It’s more than what people expect or feel they deserve. But that isn’t the most important thing for us to consider.
What people expect isn’t as important what God expects. “And what does the Lord require of you? To act justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God.” (Micah 6:8) When we humbly act in ways that treat others fairly, and also with grace, we’re showing what God is like. God is just, but He also loves to show us grace and mercy.
Whether it’s the weekend or a weekday, the traffic patterns are not under our control. But we can choose how we feel about them and what we do with them. Let’s go beyond the minimum and show people what our God is truly like. By sending His Son the Father did so much more for us that we could ever have expected. With God’s example and by His grace we may do more than what is expected of us. May we do so in 2016!
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Target took an active step in trying to reassure shoppers that their information would be safe when making purchases at its stores, by saying it would upgrade its store-branded cards with Mastercard's (MA) chip-and-PIN technology starting early next year.
But don't expect other retailers to immediately follow suit.
Though experts said Target's move is a step in the right direction, the fact that its cards are issued by Target (TGT) puts it in a unique position to be able to expedite these security measures for its shoppers, according to Brian Riley, research director with CEB TowerGroup.
What's more, since it fell victim to a very public data breach, the discounter has more incentive to act with extreme caution.
"I think Target's in a position where they're trying to look at everything as quickly as they can," Riley said.
Target on Tuesday said that it will enable its entire REDcard portfolio, which includes Target-branded credit and debit cards, to include the new chip-and-PIN technology beginning in early 2015. The system is said to be safer than what is currently used for U.S. credit cards, as the chip makes the card harder to counterfeit, while the PIN combats against fraud when cards are lost or stolen.
Although the discounter's consumer credit card portfolio was sold to TD Bank last year, the company said in a release that it "will maintain the current deep integration between its financial services operations and its retail operations." This gives Target more leverage when it comes to the processes behind its store-branded cards, Riley said.
Because only a few retailers have the same sort of leverage -- Nordstrom (JWN) and Talbots are two companies on the short list of big-name retailers that have an affiliated bank -- it puts them in a unique position.
But there's another reason Riley doesn't expect other retailers to follow Target's lead: The fact that there is so much change under way involving new technologies in the payment category.
"In fact, if they do, I think it's a little bit premature," he said.
Riley would, however, see more reason for a quick reaction from stores that also underwent recent breaches, he said. Neiman Marcus and Michaels Stores also recently reported data breaches, but neither responded to requests for comment as to whether they will expedite their move to chip-and-PIN technology. Michaels doesn't offer its own store-branded credit card.
Walmart (WMT) said all of its U.S. stores will be able to accept EMV cards before the end of the year. That's because its point-of-sale machines are already compatible with the technology, so there is no material cost for the retailer.
Banks and retailers are facing an October 2015 deadline when they need to be compliant with EMV technology -- a global set of standards for secure payments that uses a different set of digital data for every transaction. After that date, the liability of counterfeit card transaction will fall on either the card's issuing bank or the retailer, depending on who does not meet the set standards.
But the cost of switching over to EMV technology will be costly for retailers. Ramesh Siromani, a partner in the financial institutions practice at global management consultant A.T. Kearney, said upgrading point-of-sale terminals to read the chips could cost anywhere between $300 and $600 per terminal, which adds up when accounting for retailers with hundreds -- even thousands -- of stores.
Target said its plan to switch its REDcard portfolio, which includes more than 20 million cards used at nearly 1,800 stores, over to chip-and-PIN technology will cost $100 million.
Industrywide, Mallory Duncan, senior vice president and general counsel of The National Retail Federation, said it will cost retailers between $25 billion and $30 billion to switch over to chip-and-PIN technology, mainly because of the cost associated with upgrading sales terminals.
%VIRTUAL-article-sponsoredlinks%He said the most significant piece of Target's announcement is that it will be including the PIN requirement with its security upgrades. He said this is the fastest, most effective step the industry can take in helping to reduce fraud, as it's a less costly undertaking and still protects consumers.
By switching over to PINs, and postponing or eliminating the change to chips, the move toward more secure payments would only cost retailers about $4 billion, Duncan said.
"What you want to do is fix the weakest link first, and the weakest link is the signature," Duncan said. "[Target is] leading the charge to fix the weakest link ... it's the banks that have to follow suit."
Still, the new technology isn't perfect. Many point out that the new point-of-sale terminals only secure in-store transactions, leaving online sales vulnerable. Jason Oxman, CEO of the Electronic Transactions Association, also pointed out that the Target breach affected the retailer's systems that stored card data, so EMV technology would not have stopped it.
Target has been working to restore the confidence of shoppers, who stopped spending -- and, in some cases, visiting its stores altogether -- following the data breach that affected up to 110 million shoppers.
Last month, a report from Kantar Retail found that only 33 percent of U.S. households shopped at a Target or SuperTarget in January. That was the retailer's lowest level of shopper penetration in the past three years.
The pullback in foot traffic was also reflected in the retailer's fourth-quarter earnings report. The company said its domestic comparable-store sales fell 2.5 percent from the same period a year earlier, and were affected by "meaningfully softer results" following the Dec. 19 news of the data breach.
However, CEO Gregg Steinhafel also said in the release that he was "encouraged that sales trends have improved in recent weeks."
Recent data from YouGov's BrandIndex also indicate that consumers are slowly forgiving the discounter. According to the firm, Target's consumer perception currently stands at 15, after plummeting as low as -35 in wake of the breach. Though the company is still only about halfway back to its pre-breach score of 26, YouGov said it is only several points below what they consider a recovery.
Scores range from 100 to -100 and are calculated by subtracting negative feedback from positive. A score of zero means that a company has received equal positive and negative feedback from respondents. The index interviews 4,300 people each weekday to draw its conclusions.
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Piera is a municipality that covers a lairge portion o the sootheastren corner o the comarca o Anoia in Catalonie, Spain, on the left bank o the Anoia river. The agricultural laund, maistly nan-irrigatit, is uised for the cultivation o cereals, grapes, olives an awmonds. The toun itsel hosts a nummer o licht industries: textiles, plastics an construction materials. Tourism durin the simmer months is relatively important for the local economy an aw.
The FGC railwey line R6 frae Martorell an Barcelona tae Igualada runs throu the toun, while local roads lead tae Capellades an Sant Sadurní d'Anoia.
Notable monuments include the castle o Fontanet. The castle which wis restored in 1916 bi Ramon de Viala d'Aiguavives, Baron o Almenar is documentit in 955 a.c. an nou uised for private functions.
The sister o the Baron o Almenar, Isabel de Viala d'Aiguavives financit an patroned the modrenist kirk o Ca n'Aguilera an aw which wis donatit tae Barcelona's Bishop bi Zaragoza de Viala faimily on 1921. The airchitect o Ca N'Aguilera modrenist kirk is Francesc Berenguer i Mestres, who wis Antoni Gaudi's disciple an personal friend.
The municipality o Piera includes several ootlyin veelages (barris): these are uisually distinguished intae the aulder, tradeetional dounsets (barris antics) an the newer urbanisations which hae been developit tae cope wi the expansion o the municipality (barris nous). Populations are gien for 1999, frae the Ajuntament de Piera an citit in Història de Piera: the toun o Piera (nucli urbà) haed a population o 5036 at that date, whauras the total population o the municipality wis 8551.
Panareda Clopés, Josep Maria; Rios Calvet, Jaume; Rabella Vives, Josep Maria (1989). "Guia de Catalunya", Barcelona:Caixa de Catalunya. (in Spaingie) ISBN 84-87135-01-3. (in Catalan) ISBN 84-87135-02-1.
Wikimedia Commons haes media relatit tae Piera.
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