text:
- Font:
- +
- -
It's 4,139 feet down from the top of the slope at Jackson Hole Mountain. The first 25 feet are worst.
No ski resort in North America has a chute so legendary as Corbet's Couloir in Wyoming — a crucible where skiers go to prove their mettle (or more often, to retreat in fear). The run is named for Barry Corbet, a mountaineer who in 1960 spotted a narrow crease of snow shaped like an upside-down funnel, high up on the mountain now known as Jackson Hole. Said he: "Someday someone will ski that."
In 1967 someone did — ski patroller Lonnie Ball. Today crack skiers seek to emulate his feat. Few emerge from the first 25 feet still on their skis.
You enter the chute's narrow, flinty mouth in free fall, dropping two stories onto a 55-degree slope. Fail to execute a hard right turn immediately, and you smash into a face of Precambrian rock. Survive, and you then smear speed by executing two nervy turns, exiting down a 45-degree slope as the chute fans out.
The rest of Jackson Hole Mountain lives up to this teaser. The elevation drop (4,139 feet — unmatched in the U.S.) plays out down an abrupt, serrated stretch of the Rocky Mountains' Teton Range.
Last March a group of eight skiers braved Corbet's Couloir, having enrolled in what Jackson Hole Mountain Resort calls its Steep & Deep Camp — a four-day guide-assisted program meant to push participants' skills to the limit. Four of our group, on their first attempt on Corbet's, wrecked spectacularly, their skis and bodies pinwheeling.
The first turn is the problem: Skiers have gained so much speed so quickly that some panic and try to stop; this tactic is unwise at 40 mph on so steep a slope. I barely survived, landing in the couloir in a cloud of snow and detritus and almost losing control. But with a twist of my body and some luck, I held on and emerged to plant a reasonably assertive tandem of turns, then skied out the chute. As Steep & Deep's coaches say, "Don't stop — stand up and ski!"
The camp's cost, $860, includes lift tickets (otherwise $72 a day) and decadent lunches served by waiters in a rustic cabin tucked far away from Jackson Hole's crowds. These lunches, though, are where the pampering begins and ends. Camp coaches aren't shy about shoving skiers far outside their comfort zones. "That's why you're here, right?" says Richard Lee, head coach, to a roomful of campers the night before skiing starts. His question elicits nervous smiles.
Jackson prides itself on making its customers squirm. An infamous warning sign at the summit reads in part: "Our mountain is like nothing you have skied before! It is huge. You could become lost. You could make a mistake and suffer personal injury or death. Give this special mountain the respect it demands!" You won't find such blunt warnings at slopes owned by publicly traded companies like Intrawest (Copper Mountain, Whistler) or Vail Resorts (Beaver Creek, Heavenly, Vail).
Jackson is among a very few big mountain resorts that are privately held. (Snowbird, which belongs to Dick Bass, is another.) The owning Kemmerer family has roots stretching back more than a century in Wyoming — to coal mining and to a namesake town in the state's southwest corner. They bought Jackson Hole Mountain Resort in 1992, paying a reported $18 million.
Danger isn't just accepted here, it's embraced. In 1999 Jackson opened up its treacherous, unpatrolled back country to anyone who wants to risk it. Once you exit the resort gates the threat of avalanche becomes real, and there's no guarantee of rescue. You won't find open back country like this at Vail. Steep & Deep campers spend one of their four days touring the peaks beyond the boundary ropes with guides who teach them avalanche safety tactics and demonstrate proper use of shovels, probes and beacons.
Don't miss these Travel stories
Lords of the gourd compete for Punkin Chunkin honors
With teams using more than 100 unique apparatuses to launch globular projectiles a half-mile or more, the 27th annual World Championship Punkin Chunkin event is our pick as November's Weird Festival of the Month.
- Airports, airlines work hard to return your lost items
- Expert: Tourist hordes threaten Sistine Chapel's art
- MGM Grand wants Las Vegas guests to Stay Well
- Report: Airlines collecting $36.1B in fees this year
- Lords of the gourd compete for Punkin Chunkin honors
Even the in-bounds terrain is formidable. "The on-piste [groomed] terrain here is by far the most challenging terrain I've been on, including off-piste in other places," camper Stephen Gaffney, 34, a New York developer, says approvingly. "I've never seen so many chutes."
Since the Kemmerers bought Jackson Hole, the resort has averaged $27,000 in annual net income. The family has made $55 million in improvements, and has raised some cash by selling off slivers of land near the resort's base. In 2006, for example, they sold a 3.2-acre parcel in Teton Village for $10 million.
Tight cash flow became a big issue in June 2005 when Jackson announced that its storied tram — which had whisked skiers from base to summit in just 12 minutes, 52 at a time — would be retired in September 2006 at the end of its 40-year service life. Loss of the tram has hurt the resort's appeal, even with diehards like James Walter, 46, a Michigan physician who has attended seven Steep & Deeps. "I probably won't come back until they figure this out," he says.
Slideshow: Around the World The Kemmerers warned in 2005 that a replacement tram was not a sure thing, owing to a $25 million price tag and to their being private owners with finite coffers. They sought government assistance, on the premise that the tram was vital to the region's economy. But that tactic failed. In August they unveiled a plan to finance a new tram privately. The bigger (100-passenger) and faster tram won't get rolling until the winter of 2008-09. Until then Corbet's seekers will have to ride a temporary chairlift open to shearing winds and scathing, blowing snow.
Since the early 1990s the surrounding Teton Valley has gone from spartan to Aspenish, with million-dollar condos and celebrity ranches sprouting. A five-bedroom home on 1 acre with ski-run access listed recently for $12.5 million. A Four Seasons hotel opened in 2003. Still, Jackson enjoys a more frontierlike feel than its western ski resort cousins. A wide swath of federal land plus big ranches owned by wealthy landholders keep the valley free from the congestion that plagues Vail, Aspen and Park City, Utah. Even if sprawl does come, skiers can take heart: A Four Seasons hot toddy won't ever make a two-story drop feel shorter.
© 2012 Forbes.com


text:
GK & Current Affairs Quiz: July 28, 2017
First Published: July 28, 2017 | Last Updated:March 16, 2018
[A] China
[B] Japan
[C] Germany
[D] France
India's first bullet train project "Mumbai–Ahmedabad High-Speed Rail (MAHSR) corridor" will be launched during the visit of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in September 12-14, 2017. Abe and Prime Minister Narendra Modi will jointly inaugurate the bullet train project with the laying of foundation stone and a ground breaking ceremony. This is expected to take place in Ahmedabad or Gandhinagar (Gujarat). This is Rs 1 lakh crore project which involves construction of a 505-km line using Japanese 'Shinkansen' technology. For this, Japan will provide a soft loan worth $12 billion, at a cost of 0.1%, for a 50-year period including a 15-year moratorium. The Japanese government will be bearing 80% of the total project cost and the increase in cost estimate has to be borne by both India and Japan.
[A] Kolkata Metro
[B] Mumbai Metro
[C] Chennai Metro
[D] Lucknow Metro
Mumbai Metro One will launch the India's first Mobile Ticketing System 'OnGo' which will help commuters pass the Automated Fare Collection (AFC) gates using their mobile phones. The system is in the final advanced stage of testing and will be implemented by mid-August. The commuters will be able to buy tickets or monthly passes using the Mumbai Metro app on their smartphone. Once they make the payment using their mobile wallet or e-wallet, a QR code will be generated. The gate's sensor will then scan this code and let them access the platform. The 'OnGo' will be particularly convenient for those commuters wanting to book their journey through tokens or passes at their own convenience even from outside the Metro stations and avoid queues before ticketing windows.
[A] ICICI Bank
[B] HDFC Bank
[C] Axis Bank
[D] State Bank of India
Axis bank has acquired Snapdeal-owned mobile wallet FreeCharge in an all-cash deal worth Rs 385 crore to strengthen its position in the payments space. This acquisition is expected to help the bank take a significant step towards digital distribution of financial products. The platform provides access to agile customer-facing technology, which will help the bank to serve its existing customers better and approach new digitally native customers in an efficient manner.
[A] 69kg category
[B] 44kg category
[C] 55kg category
[D] 77kg category
Ajay Singh from India has won bronze medal in 77 kgs men's junior category at the Asian Youth and Junior Weightlifting Championships at Kathmandu, Nepal. With this, India medals tally goes to three. Apart from him, S. Nirpupama Devi had won bronze in 69 kgs women youth category and Konsam Ormila Devi had won gold in 44kg weight category.
[A] Microsoft
[B] Wipro
[C] Infosys
[D] Reliance
Microsoft India has officially launched 'Kaizala' a Made for India app for businesses and organizations, which is powered by Azure Cloud platform. It is designed for large group communications and work management, and works even on 2G networks. The app would help organisations communicate, collaborate and complete tasks and bring together desktop users and mobile-only users who may be within or outside their organisations.
[A] New Delhi
[B] Kochi
[C] Patna
[D] Lucknow
Recently, the Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI) has started a full-fledged merchant banking operations to help Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) utilise capital markets for their funding requirements. The purpose of the initiative is to enhance the access of MSMEs to the capital markets, including the SME Trading Platform and Institutional Trading Platform. This move will prove beneficial to the SME exchange as well as investors seeking liquidity or exit from their investment. The bank has supported over 125 venture capital funds and thus can provide help for listing the investee companies on SME exchanges via its merchant banking operations. The headquarters of SIDBI is located at Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh.
[A] Mumbai and Kochi
[B] Bengaluru and Delhi
[C] Kolkata and Delhi
[D] Chennai and Bengaluru
According to 2017 Dell Women Entrepreneur Cities (WE Cities) index, Bengaluru (40th) and Delhi (49th) are the only Indian cities among the top 50 global cities that foster high-potential women entrepreneurs. The list is topped by New York, followed by Bay Area, London, Boston, Stockholm and Los Angeles. The index ranks cities in terms of its ability to attract and foster growth of women-owned firms. It provides a diagnostic tool to advise entrepreneurs and policy-makers on how to improve conditions to enable businesses founded by women to thrive. The index also ranked cities based on the impact of local policies, programmes and characteristics in addition to national laws and customs.
[A] Hepatitis: Think to Cure
[B] Eliminate Hepatitis
[C] Hepatitis: Aware Yourself
[D] Elimination
The World Hepatitis Day (WHD) is observed every year on July 28 to raise awareness of the global burden of viral hepatitis and to influence real change. The 2017 theme is "Eliminate Hepatitis". Hepatitis is a viral infection which causes inflammation in the liver. It is a group of infectious diseases known as Hepatitis A, B, C, D, and E. The ' 2017 WHO Global hepatitis' report indicates that a large majority of these people lack access to life-saving testing and treatment. As a result, millions face risk of chronic liver disease, cancer, and death. As per estimates of World Health Organisation (WHO), 4 crore people in India live with chronic Hepatitis B and an additional six lakh with Hepatitis C, which accounts for 40% and 20% of Hepatitis B and C infections in south-east Asia. Thus, hepatitis affects hundreds of millions of people worldwide, causing acute and chronic disease and killing close to 1.4 million people every year.
[A] India Quake
[B] Bharat Wake
[C] Quake Shell
[D] Sagar Pani
The Union Ministry of Earth Sciences (MoES) has launched two Mobile apps – India Quake and Sagar Vani to send alerts on earthquake parameters and oceanic disturbances. The 'India Quake' will automatically disseminate earthquake parameters like location, time and magnitude, after the occurrence of earthquakes. The app will make information dissemination faster with no restrictions on the number of recipients. Any citizen can download this App and get the real time earthquake location information on his/her mobile. While, the 'Sagar Vani' will disseminate ocean related information and alerts like high waves and Tsunami early warnings, to the user community in timely manner for their safety. The apps are developed by the National Centre for Seismology (NCS). The NCS is an office of the MoES and is tasked with providing earthquake monitoring and hazard reports to governmental agencies.
[A] Assam
[B] Manipur
[C] Uttarakhand
[D] Kerala
The Rajaji National Park (RNP) is an Indian national park and tiger reserve located in the three districts of Uttarakhand: Haridwar, Dehradun and Pauri Garhwal and covers an area of over 820 km2. It is home to Asian elephant, Bengal tiger, Leopard, Jungle cat, Striped hyena, Goral, Indian hare, Sloth bear, etc. The park was named after C. Rajagopalachari, a prominent leader of the Freedom Struggle, the second and last Governor-General of independent India and one of the first recipients of India's highest civilian award Bharat Ratna (in 1954).
GKToday publishes 20 questions with explanations every day in its Current Affairs - 2020 Daily MCQ Series in Android App for nominal fee of Rs. 750/- a year. Download Now
Category: Daily Current Affairs Quiz « Previous QuizNext Quiz »
Q.10 has incorrect options.Kindly correct it.
Whts correct answer?
the answer is correct Rajaji national park is situated in Uttarakhand.
give in hindi quiz because it help hindi medium student
QUE-10 wrong answer hai… uttrakhand hoga…..rajaji national park Uttrakhand me hai
usne bhi utrakhand hi likha hai
rajaji national park is located in Uttarakhand not Karnataka
Amit chaturvediReply
Last question is wrong
There should be Uttarakhand in Options.
options is there
Amit chaturvedi
It wasn't yesterday
It's actually corrected by admin
Balram singhReply
In 10 no question options are not given correct.
last bit is wrong
Gaurav singhReply
Last questionof rajaji national park is wrong what are you doing giving wrong information
The Rajaji National Park (RNP) is located in which state?
[A] Assam
[B] Manipur
[C] Karnataka
[D] Kerala
None of the above – mentioned
Correct answer is uttarakhand
questions are very much of current affairs -thanks
check question 10
Answer of 10 question is dehradun
10 quiz answer wrong
10th quiz- option answer wrong but explanation gave correctly
J RAJESH KUMARReply
Rajaji National park Karnataka? Uttarakhand?
Rajaji national park is in Uttarakhand.
Please edit Rajaji national park located at Uttarakhand state not Karnataka
Remaining questions is very useful to preparing the upcoming exams
Rajaji national park is situated in Uttarakhand explanation is correct but answer you given is wrong
Santosh goudarReply
Thank you for your information.
Santosh goudarReply
Thank you si
abhishek chandrakarReply
rajaji national park.. option given was wrong.. and you have taken karnataka as right answer ? while explaination is correct.
vishnu RajReply
Biraj sarmahReply
It helps me alot….
Rizwan khanReply
just now i got ans that 287 tiger war in karnataka but new repot basis uttrakhand tiger is around 400 thatswhy……asn a) karanataka uttrakhand both is rt…..dosto………
Rajaji national park at near new Delhi ..
I search just Google so….pls correct it
answer sahi ho gaya hai
Subhadip MaityReply
better question, thanks.
Noor alam khanReply
Question no 10 is correct
thank you team for uploading corrected answer.

subset: commoncrawl


text:
An ongoing list of my 2008 reading (the new entries are #s 3-8):
- The Miserable Mill (A Series of Unfortunate Events, Book the Fourth) by Lemony Snicket
- The endless, near-blind stupidity of the adults in the lives of the Baudelaire orphans (chased from home to home, guardian to guardian by the unscrupulous, Baudelaire-fortune-hungering Count Olaf) is becoming somewhat exhausting. The tone and design of the books is delightful; if only their narratives were less formulaic. [Tuesday, January 1, 2008 ***]
- Alas, I don't know enough about the background mythologies of these various comics worlds to appreciate fully this collection of short pieces Neil Gaiman penned for various more-and-less mainstream series. Still, like a lot of Gaiman's work (and I always enjoy him more as a comics writer than as a novelist) it was very pleasant reading. [Friday, January 4, 2008 ***1/2]
- Homer is pure delight, the purest of pure delights - the kind that gets richer and richer the more time you spend with it. The only thing that keeps The Odyssey from the kleos of a full five stars is that it never quite achieved (for me) the sustained and consistent richness and density of structure that characterized The Iliad. Maybe it will ripen into my mind into a five-star, however. Or maybe the difference is that I expected to love The Odyssey as much as I did, but I was surprised by delight in my reading of the grim old Iliad. [Thursday, January 10, 2008 ****1/2]
- I took this along to the MLA (the national conference where I rushed madly from one job interview to another for several days in the Chicago slush) with the idea of having reading that would instantly distract me from my frenzied professional thoughts when it was time to make an attempt at sleep. It served its purpose very, very well. Unfortunately, although the language was always a delight, the plotting was not as ingenious as I expected. (I think this may be the only Jeeves book I have read, and I had read it before, so that may account for a certain... lack of freshness that hung like a miasma about the plot. On the other hand, my last reading appears to have been 15 years ago, so surely the miasma had had time to disperse since then.) [Sunday, January 13 ***1/2]
- A second reading! That's right. I'm teaching it, so it paid to be thorough. [Monday, January 28 ****1/2]
- And I also plead pedagogical thoroughness here. I have to say, however, that it is rare that I read classic works with a line-by-line critical companion, and I have gotten a little bit addicted to it (particularly when I don't have access to the linguistic nuances of the text's original language). [Monday, January 28 ****]
- I live in the town that Sacred Cows takes as its setting, a town that does not often inspire any literary interest, much less enthusiasm. Sadly, Olsen's incredibly detailed mania for the town isn't very well integrated into the plot or thematics (are there even thematics at work here?) of the novel. Often, a plot point would evoke a long digression about a restaurant that the heroine loves on a nearby corner, a restaurant which could only exist in this town, oh and by the way let me tell you in mundane detail about what items make an appearance on the menu of this place.... This happens not once, but numerous times over the course of the novel, and not once does the digression prove to have any relevance to the events of the novel. And bear in mind, I was a reader EAGER to have this town portrayed for me - positively elated by the prospect of living in the same literary world that I move through every day - and even I found it tedious. I can't imagine how people who don't live here got through it. [Monday, January 28 *1/2]
- This is my first John Green novel, although he and quirky sibling Hank have delighted me for months with their 2007 video blog project (Brotherhood 2.0). It was indeed an ambrosial whirlwind of a read amidst the madness of teaching prep, the job market, and dissertation-finishing. This YA (but not too Y) novel centers on a washed up prodigy as a painful dumping by his 19th girlfriend named Katherine prompts him to flee with his best friend on the iconic post-high school road trip. [Wednesday, January 30 ****]


text:
Karnes County snapshots: Six lives impacted by Eagle Ford
Sketches of the lives of some of those affected by the dramatic transformation of Karnes County in the wake of Eagle Ford Shale drilling.
Steve and Cayla Milner
High pay earned by Eagle Ford workers made things too expensive for family.
Drawn from Michigan to Texas by the robust job market, Steve and Cayla Milner moved to Karnes County with young son Shaun in early 2011, renting a modest apartment in Kenedy.
Steve, 27, worked long hours with maximum-security prisoners at the Connally Unit.
Another guard, who could not find housing, slept on their couch for a few months.
A new correctional officer earns $2,320 a month, and many have left to take higher-paying jobs in the oil field. Recently, 780 of the 2,928 beds at Connally were idled because of staffing shortages.
The boom also has inflated housing costs. When the Milners' lease was up last spring, Cayla said the complex would not renew it. She suspects it was to make room for rich oil field workers.
When the housing hunt proved futile, the Milners moved east to Bay City, where Steve works in a prison about 40 minutes from home.
More Information
"If we could have found a place to live there, we'd still be in Kenedy," Cayla said.
During his long workweeks, Steve often sleeps in a prison dorm. His take-home pay, without overtime, is about $1,700 a month, his wife said.
"His cycle is six days on and three days off, but unfortunately, he has to pull overtime," she said.
And the move from Kenedy caused other financial problems.
"It messed up our bills for about six months," Cayla said, adding that her car was almost repossessed and the electricity was turned off several times.
"I understand there has to be growth, but the oil companies are like locusts. They come in and suck up all the resources so people who are already there get choked out," she added.
Humberto Montalvo
Little did this man know what would be in store for old shop that he purchased.
GILLETT — Born in Mexico, Humberto Montalvo, 81, spent 50 years working in construction and real estate in California before moving to Texas in 2007. He bought his retirement acreage in Karnes County with plans to raise mules and cattle.
But then the vacant general store in Gillett, a quiet farming community at Texas 80 and FM 119, caught his knowing eye.
"They were asking $180,000. It was in really bad condition. I offered $80,000," he recalled.
It was a buyer's market back then, and his lowball offer was accepted. The store soon reopened, but until the oil boom hit, it struggled.
"We were working to pay the light bill," said his daughter, Yolanda Navarro.
Now Gillett is hopping. Wrecks are frequent at the intersection, which draws mobile vendors hawking everything from hot dogs to fire-resistant clothing.
The store, which added a restaurant, is pulling in 10 times the initial revenue.
"Now we are blessed beyond our imagination. It's very, very good," Navarro said.
All of this, of course, was beyond imagining when Montalvo arrived in Texas from Mexico as a teenager, alone, penniless and speaking no English.
"I started working at a farm in Colorado City in 1951 for 20 cents an hour," he recalled.
Booming California eventually beckoned, and there he found his calling in real estate.
"I had a little vision of what you can do. I started with $300 buying my first house in 1957," he said.
Now he's trying to open a filling station in Gillett and looking at acreage in Wilson County to subdivide.
"It's just like anything else. You put your mind to it, and do it," he said.
John Braudaway
Long-time observer predicts that we haven't seen anything yet in oil output.
Working in the Karnes County oil patch since 1957, John Braudaway, 73, has been a roughneck, owned a service company and was a consultant. Now semi-retired, he's having the time of his life in the rollicking Eagle Ford Shale play.
Businessmen, oilmen and even Wall Street Journal reporters regularly seek him out for the skinny on the biggest energy boom ever to hit South Texas.
"I once had two reporters from South Korea show up at my door," he said.
Like most oilmen, Braudaway is a wild dreamer in his secret heart, but even he never foresaw the monster known as the Eagle Ford Shale.
"This is gonna be at least a 20-year play, and I think that within five to 10 years, South Texas will produce more oil on a daily basis than Saudi Arabia," he said recently, although others find this far-fetched.
"In my day, if we got 600 barrels a day, we thought we'd cut a hog's ass. Made a gusher," he added.
Now, he said, many local wells come in at more than 1,000 barrels a day, and a few are making 5,000 barrels. Best of all, the dry holes are rare.
Karnes County alone is producing 3 million barrels of oil each month, and new millionaires are multiplying.
But as huge as the Eagle Ford has become, Braudaway sees bigger things coming.
"It's my vision that the Pearsall Shale will produce three times what the Eagle Ford does," he said of a deeper formation now being secretively probed in test wells.
And, he said, when the current Karnes County mineral leases begin to expire in the next year or so, a mind-blowing land rush will follow.
"Whenever the Pearsall comes in, the oil leases will be going for $10,000 to $12,000 an acre," he said, double what some local leases went for two years ago.
Joe and Maricela Corcoran
When the boom got to be too big, couple abandoned Kenedy in favor of Lampasas.
In 1999, Joe and Maricela Corcoran moved to Kenedy from the Hill Country, finding a quiet place that also had life's basic amenities: an
H-E-B, a Wal-Mart and a hospital.
"It was a nice little town. Very rural. We loved it there," recalled Joe, 65, who enjoyed cycling on the lightly traveled back-country roads.
The Corcorans quickly settled in, with Maricela commuting to her job in San Antonio until she retired and Joe continuing as a traveling medical analyst often involved in litigation.
They bought a nice Victorian home and several Main Street properties.
"The original Wal-Mart had killed the downtown, so there were many buildings to buy," he said.
"We had an antique store in one. We were going to have a bookstore in another and also an art store."
But then came the boom, and the old Kenedy began vanishing.
"Lo and behold, while cycling I'd be passed by convoys of 20 to 25 trucks. And the lines in the little
H-E-B became almost comical," he said.
"I said, 'We're leaving.' I knew it wasn't going to be good for all the things we wanted," he said.
Maricela, 62, didn't require much convincing.
"It just got so congested. A lot of travel trailers came in and made the place look sloppy," she said.
The properties in Kenedy were sold, and in 2011, the Corcorans escaped to Lampasas, a quiet town two hours north of San Antonio. They now are remodeling the old post office for their home.
"I think the second question I asked the City Council there was if there was any oil and gas beneath the town," recalled.
"We have friends in Kenedy who are interested in this area. I give them the dog and pony show," he said.


text:
Gaelic Language Tutor - Relief, Various Locations (HGH03155)
- Recruiter
- Location
- Various Locations within The Highland Council
- Salary
- £15.12 per hour
- Posted
- 06 Aug 2019
- Closing date
- 06 Sep 2019
- Ref
- Industry
- Schools, Secondary teaching, Gaelic
- Job level
- Experienced (non manager)
- Hours
- Part time
- Contract
- Temp
- Listing type
- Job vacancy
Hours: Various
Duration: Various (Relief)
Salary: £15.12 per hour
Contact Person: Gaelic Team, Tel: 01463 702402
Job Purpose: To deliver a programme of Gaelic Adult/Youth/Community learning activities either formally or informally within the local community or relevant setting. The work is to be carried out in accordance with Highland Council policies, guidelines and codes of practice.
Please APPLY ONLINE. If you are unable to apply online and you wish to request an offline application pack, please contact Business Support - HR Hub C&L Tel. No: 01349 868640 (24 hour voicemail) quoting the post reference number above.
Applications from Gaelic speakers are essential.
Prior to confirming appointment, we will require successful candidates to become members of the Protecting Vulnerable Groups (PVG) Scheme.
Closing Date: 30/6/20


text:
This is a great last minute dinner for a cold winter's night!
A note about the boxed Trader Joe's soups: most of the boxed soups are Kof-K Kosher pareve or dairy, but always check the label before purchasing. They taste really good on their own, but I like to spice them up a bit by throwing in some sauteed veggies, fresh herbs, or dashes of pepper or hot sauce. If you do not live near a Trader Joe's, there are plenty of other options out there. Imagine makes a creamy organic tomato soup as well. You can purchase kosher soup Amazon.com and have them delivered to your door!"
Imagine Organic Soup, Creamy Tomato, 16-Ounce Boxes (Pack of 12)
Serves 4
Kosher Recipe Ingredients
For the Instant Tomato Soup:
- 1 Box Trader Joe's or Imagine Brand Organic Tomato & Roasted Red Pepper Soup
- 1 small onion, finely chopped
- 1/4 cup chopped fresh basil (or 1 tbsp dried basil)
For the Grilled Cheese:
- 8 slices whole wheat bread or any healthy grain bread
- 1 pkg. shredded cheddar or mozzarella cheese**
- butter and/or olive oil for coating the pan
Pour a dash of olive oil into a pot, turn heat to medium high, and saute your onion until cooked through. Add the box of soup to the pot, lower the heat all the way and let simmer until it is nice and hot.
Take a large nonstick frying pan and put a dollop of butter/olive oil and heat on a medium flame. Put two slices of bread in the pan until toasted. Sprinkle some cheese (about 1/4 cup, depending on how big your bread is) on one slice, then cover with the other slice. While the cheese is melting, throw some more butter in the pan for it to melt (trust me, this will help with sticking). Spread 1 tbsp cheese on top of the grilled cheese, then delicately flip over to the other side of the pan (with the cheese underneath). Wait until the cheese underneath gets nice and crispy, add butter to the pan, then sprinkle cheese on top and flip again. When both sides are crispy, turn onto a plate and cut in half on the diagonal. Watch the video above for a tutorial.
Ladle the soup into four mugs and sprinkle with basil. Place the mug on its saucer and put the grilled cheese on the plate. Dip the grilled cheese into the soup to eat. Alternatively, get cute bowls with attached plates. I found these Soup & Sandwich plates from Crate & Barrel, they are super cheap and adorable!
* Beware of some boxed/canned soups as they can contain a lot of sodium. I always reach for the "lower sodium" options and make sure I don't make these soups every day. They are great in a pinch but try not to make them a staple in your kitchen.
**If you're looking to cut calories, you can use fat free kosher cheese. I love cheese so I cannot make that type of sacrifice, but I find that if you use half regular cheese and half fake cheese (like Smart Beat Cheese) it tastes similar to the original and lowers the calories.


text:
Any URL's added here will be added as
<script>s in order, and run before the JavaScript in the editor. You can use the URL of any other Pen and it will include the JavaScript from that Pen.
You can apply a script from anywhere on the web to your Pen. Just put a URL to it here and we'll add it, in the order you have them, before the JavaScript in the Pen itself.
If the script you link to has the file extension of a preprocessor, we'll attempt to process it before applying.
You can also link to another Pen here, and we'll pull the JavaScript from that Pen and include it. If it's using a matching preprocessor, we'll combine the code before preprocessing, so you can use the linked Pen as a true dependency.
If active, Pens will autosave every 30 seconds after being saved once.
If enabled, the preview panel updates automatically as you code. If disabled, use the "Run" button to update.
If enabled, your code will be formatted when you actively save your Pen. Note: your code becomes un-folded during formatting.
Visit your global Editor Settings.
Templates are Pens that can be used to start other Pens quickly from the create menu. The new Pen will copy all the code and settings from the template and make a new Pen (that is not a fork). You can view all of your templates, or learn more in the documentation.
Any Pen can act as a template (even if you don't flip the toggle above) with a special URL you can use yourself or share with others. Here's this Pen's template URL:
var money = 12.3456789;
var roundedMoney = money.toFixed(2); // round to 2 decimal points
alert("Before : $" + money)
alert("After : $" + roundedMoney)
Also see: Tab Triggers


text:
A significant revision of a best-selling text for the introductory digital signal processing course. This book presents the fundamentals of discrete-time signals, systems, and modern digital processing and applications for students in electrical engineering, computer engineering, and computer science.The book is suitable for either a one-semester or a two-semester undergraduate level course in discrete systems and digital signal processing. It is also intended for use in a one-semester first-year graduate-level course in digital signal processing.Proakis, John G. is the author of 'Digital Signal Processing ', published 2006 under ISBN 9780131873742 and ISBN 0131873741.[read more]
You can find lots of answers to common customer questions in our FAQs
View a detailed breakdown of our shipping prices
Learn about our return policy
Still need help? Feel free to contact us
View college textbooks by subject
and top textbooks for college
With our dedicated customer support team, you can rest easy knowing that we're doing everything we can to save you time, money, and stress.


text:
Your cart is currently empty.
© 2020 Artist Anon Brighton
Sign up for our mailing list to receive new product alerts, special offers, and coupon codes.
To receive updates on what we are up to and the odd special offer or two.
© 2020 Artist Anon Brighton
| Shopify Theme by Mile High Themes |
Powered by Shopify


text:
With one of the most competitive ethanol franchises in North America, BNSF has the ability to access more than 6 billion gallons of the ethanol in the United States and deliver to all major population centers.
BNSF moves ethanol from production facilities (predominantly located in the Corn Belt) to fuel blending locations throughout North America. Always flexible, BNSF can provide products that work in any given market - including single car service, trains from multiple origins to a single destination, trains from single origins to multiple destinations, unit trains, and combined commodity trains.
To keep you competitive, BNSF will work with you to design products and services that will place your company in a winning market position for the long term. We offer:
- The largest transportation franchise for ethanol in the United States amongst all modes - Largest market share.
- Competitive rates and shipments vs. trucks and barges for short-distance movements.
- Ability to help customers capture spot price in volatile markets.
Browse the tabs below for more details on shipping ethanol with BNSF.


text:
Plant Engineer is very similar to another occupation for which we have
a full profile.
Check out our full profile for:
Engineering Managers
Plan, direct, or coordinate activities in such fields as architecture and engineering or research and development in these fields.
Architect Manager
Chief Engineer, Waterworks
Chief Petroleum Engineer
Director of Engineering
Engineer, Chief
Engineer, Manufacturing Chief
Engineer-in-Charge, Transmitter
Engineering Manager
Engineering Manager, Electronics
Health Safety Manager
Highway Administrative Engineer
Manager, Engineering
Manager, Research
Plant Engineer
Principal Engineer
Project Coordinator
Project Engineer
Project Engineering Manager
Project Manager
Research Development Manager
Safety Director


text:
A number of people have found that 3.0 doesn't work as well for them as 2.x used to. Others find that 3.0 works better or just as well (albeit with some different ways of achieving the same thing). Either way, we'd like to make future versions better still.
To help with this, we'd like to get a better feel for how different people use BeyondPod, and let us know what works well and what could work better to help with your own usage pattern. We know that there are lots of ways to use the application, many of which we'd probably never thought of. If you have examples of things that work better in different versions or even different podcatchers, this is the place to mention them. It would also be informative to know what device and what OS version you have on your device.
I'd like to keep this thread positive, and on-topic as a reference for development, so any issues or questions on how to do things or general gripes will be split off into separate threads and addressed there.
We can't promise that we'll implement everything that you request, or do it in the particular way that you would like, but we would at least like to get a feel for how you like to use your podcatcher.
Hopefully the thread will also serve as a resource for users looking for ideas on how to make existing versions of BeyondPod work better for them.
So please contribute your use pattern (in a similar form to @skarkkai's post, which I have copied (and trimmed) from the original thread that sparked this idea.
Thank you for your contributions.


text:
Oil and gas leasing programs are among the initiatives that could get slashed if Congress doesn't stop automatic spending cuts set to begin March 1, a top congressional Democrat warned today.
The warning from Rep. Ed Markey, D-Mass. came as the Obama administration stepped up pressure on lawmakers to agree to a deal to avert the across-the-board spending cuts. Flanked by firefighters and other emergency responders at the White House on Tuesday morning, President Barack Obama appealed to Congress to pass a short-term fix, lest the cuts jeopardize "investments in education, health care and national defense."
But those aren't the only investments and programs at risk, Markey suggests. An 8.2 percent spending cut at the Interior Department would translate to fewer offshore drilling inspectors and fewer onshore drilling leases, Markey said. Permitting of oil and gas projects on public lands and waters also could slow down, Markey speculated.
>>> Read more: Bruce Babbitt pitches plan for balancing drilling, conservation
"Republicans say they want to drill, baby, drill," Markey said, invoking the GOP chant that caught on after oil price spikes in 2008. "Yet by letting the sequester go forward, Republicans in Congress will put the brakes on oil and gas development on public lands in America and reduce our ability to protect against another offshore drilling disaster."
According to an analysis prepared by Democratic staff on the House Natural Resources Committee, the sequester could pare some $6 million from the budget of the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement that oversees offshore drilling, while eliminating 52 employees.
"Such cuts would not only prevent BSEE from improving the oversight and safety of offshore drilling, they would cut critical resources that could make offshore drilling less safe," the report concludes.
At the same time, spending cuts at the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management could hinder the government's ability to lease new offshore areas for energy development. The bureau is tasked with vetting companies' broad drilling blueprints — the first step in launching exploratory drilling on leased offshore tracts.
In a letter to Sen. Barbara Mikulski, D-Md., the Interior Department stressed that "efforts to expedite processing of offshore oil and gas permitting in the Gulf of Mexico would be thwarted by delays, putting at risk some of the 550 exploration plans or development coordination documents" the bureau expects to review this year.
Read more: Lawmaker urges Interior to stick with tough drilling rule
Onshore, there could be permit slowdowns too, as the Interior Department's Bureau of Land Management loses more than $92 million. The Interior Department has said that could translate into 300 fewer onshore oil and gas leases in Western states such as Wyoming, Utah, Colorado and New Mexico, effectively "delaying prospective production from those lease tracts."
Of course, the dire warnings about the effect of the sequester may never be realized. And even if the automatic cuts happen, they may be short lived.
According to The Wall Street Journal, Erskine Bowles, the White House Chief of Staff under former President Bill Clinton, predicts that Congress won't reach a deal to avert the reductions immediately, but the cuts will eventually be reversed because of the inconvenience to Americans.


text:
2013 Awardees of the Rosalinde Gilbert Innovations in Alzheimer's Disease Caregiving
The 2013 winners, chosen at the close of last year, are described below. The organizations are expected to receive their awards from Family Caregiver Alliance and The Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation this week at the American Society on Aging's Aging in American Conference held all this week, March 11-15, at the Manchester Grand Hyatt in San Diego.
The awardees will be honored and their programs highlighted at a reception for the Rosalinde Gilbert Innovations in Alzheimer's Caregiving Legacy Awards, held Thursday, March 13th, 6:30-8pm. These programs focus on improving the lives of adults with Alzheimer's disease and their family caregivers through creative expression programming, targeting diverse/multicultural communities, and organizing for advocacy and policy changes. The National Center on Caregiving of Family Caregiver Alliance and the Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation are pleased to host this reception and invite everyone to attend! And the winners are . . .
Creative Expression (2 Winners)
Organization: Alzheimer's Poetry Project/New Mexico Literary Arts (Santa Fe, NM)
Program: Alzheimer's Poetry Project
Overview: The goal of the Alzheimer's Poetry Project (APP) is to improve the quality of life of people living with Alzheimer's disease and related dementias by facilitating creative expression through poetry. The rationale for using poetry with people living with dementia stems from research that shows aerobic benefits and increased synaptic activity when reciting poems and significant emotional and psychological benefit from being able to access the creative part of one's identity. Since 2003, APP has provided professional arts programming in 24 states and internationally in Germany, Poland and South Korea serving over 15,000 people with early to late-stage dementia and their caregivers. It also provides training for professional caregivers and teaching artists. The result has been an innovative, highly replicable arts intervention to improve the quality of life of people living with dementia and their families.
Organization: WeOwnTV (San Francisco, CA)
Program: The Genius of Marian
Overview: WeOwnTV is a nonprofit organization that produces educational documentary films that explore critical issues of our time by creating robust social campaigns and educational outreach activities around its productions. The organization produced The Genius of Marian, a visually rich and emotionally complex, feature-length, documentary film, that explores the heartbreak of Alzheimer's disease, the power of art, and the meaning of family. The documentary follows Pam White and her family for three years following her Alzheimer's diagnosis as her son, the filmmaker, documents the changes that occur in all of their lives. The Genius of has been particularly resonant for family caregivers, caregiving professionals and those directly affected by Alzheimer's disease and age-related disabilities because it prominently features family caregiving in action. The objective of the film is to inspire new thinking about how we define health and wellness and to change the way we cope, as individuals and as a society, with Alzheimer's disease, aging and loss.
Diverse/Multicultural Communities (1 Winner)
Organization: Alzheimer's Community Care (West Palm Beach, FL)
Program: Community-based Alzheimer's Specific Services (FNC) for Everglades Agricultural Area
Overview: Alzheimer's Community Care launched the Family Nurse Consultant (FNC) program in the Everglades agricultural region of Palm Beach County two years ago, reaching the underserved communities of Belle Glade, Pahokee and South Bay. The program provides Alzheimer's disease caregivers with education, support and access to community-based services to continue home-based care and experience quality of life for themselves and their loved ones. The minority population (56% Black, 34% Hispanic) of predominantly farm workers faces many challenges including poverty (34%), low education levels (44% less than high school education), and high unemployment (37%). Because minority populations are at greater risk for Alzheimer's disease, the need for access to dementia-specific interventions is critical. The Family Nurse Consultant (FNC) program serves as a lifeline for families living with Alzheimer's disease. The program's goal is to provide caregivers with support, tools and resources needed to continue providing home-based care for their loved ones with Alzheimer's disease. The FNC provides interventions, home visits, needs assessments, and care plans designed to meet the needs of the patient and family caregiver throughout all stages of the disease. These interventions have proven to reduce caregiver stress and reduce or eliminate the need for nursing home placement. The results are improved quality of life and safety for both the patient and the caregiver.
Learn from the experts and gain new insights from this community of 3,000 engaged professionals as the ASA also celebrates its 60th anniversary and continues in its mission to explore best practices and replicable models for serving an aging population.


text:
Europe delivers first JWST instrument
The first instrument to be completed for the James Webb Space Telescope, MIRI, was handed over by the European consortium that built it to ESA at a ceremony held in London today, and will now be delivered to NASA aiming for launch in 2018.
The delivery of MIRI, the Mid InfraRed Instrument, marks an important milestone for JWST, an infrared space observatory with a collecting area more than two and a half times larger than ESA's Herschel Space Observatory – the largest infrared scientific telescope so far flown to space.
The handover comes at the end of a rigorous testing and calibration phase during which MIRI proved it can deliver cutting-edge science.
"The whole team is delighted that our hard work and dedication has resulted in a MIRI instrument that will meet all our scientific expectations," says Dr Gillian Wright, the European Principal Investigator for MIRI.
"It is wonderful to be the first to achieve this major milestone for the JWST project. We can now look forward to significant scientific discoveries when it is launched."
Once in space on JWST, MIRI, which comprises a camera and spectrometer, will operate at infrared wavelengths and at an extremely low temperature of -266°C – just 7°C above absolute zero.
The low temperatures are required to keep the instrument's own infrared emission from overwhelming the faint signals from astronomical targets of interest in the distant Universe.
MIRI will be capable of penetrating thick layers of dust obscuring regions of intense star birth, it will see galaxies near the beginning of the Universe, and it will study sites of new planet formation and the composition of the interstellar medium.
"It is an immensely challenging project, but together with our US and Canadian colleagues, European scientists and engineers have successfully risen to the challenge and are now delivering key parts of JWST to NASA," said Prof Mark McCaughrean, head of ESA's Research and Scientific Support Department.
"The JWST project is looking forward to receiving MIRI," says Dr Matthew Greenhouse, the Integrated Science Instrument Module (ISIM) Project Scientist for JWST at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.
"The delivery of MIRI will mark the start of ISIM integration, a major milestone for NASA on the way to completion of JWST by 2018."
ESA is also leading the development of another of JWST's four instruments: NIRSpec, the Near-Infrared Spectrograph, will obtain spectra of more than 100 galaxies or stars simultaneously to study star formation and chemical abundances of young distant galaxies.
JWST is scheduled for launch in 2018 on an Ariane 5 rocket from Europe's spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana.
It will be positioned about four times further from Earth than the Moon, 1.5 million kilometres beyond Earth's orbit around the Sun, around the gravitationally stable point known as L2.