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Recently, I was visiting a great friend of mine, Dr. Mike Porter for my monthly round of Nutrition Response Testing (NRT). NRT is a non-invasive system of analyzing the body to determine the underlying causes of illness and non-optimum health.
While undergoing my testing, he found plastics in my body. I was stunned that he could find this so specifically. Here's what I learned are the sources for such plastics in my own case. While yours might be different, check this list out:


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The garage door is meant to be the biggest entrance to any type of residential or commercial building. It is required to keep it as smooth as possible all the time in order to eliminate the threat of crashes. Appropriate inspection, normal maintenance and also examination are needed to ensure safety and security and safety as well. Ill-maintained garage doors put up the prospective threat of crashes, which could put life under hazard. As a result, it must not be left vulnerable for extended periods as well as instant examination and also upkeep is suggested.
Virtually, the most typical types of garage door repairs are electric motor adjustment, removing of extreme dust and also oil, broken torsion spring, divided cable televisions, bent panels, removed electric motor trolleys, damaged drums and also joints. Only an experienced technician could comprehend the total wellness and could use far better maintenance and also repairing solutions for smooth and also effective operation. A lot of the time technicians can obtain your electric motor running with some little changes after inspection. They could work out full look after its installation with replacement components, areas, hardware, tracks, openers as well as all the devices needed for the job.
A few of the Common Garage Door Service Offered by Repair Specialists Include:
1. Examining the Door Balance
2. Removal of or excessive dust, debris, oil, grease on the tracks
3. An extensive check of all components consisting of rollers, joints, and so on
4. Change and monitoring of the Torsion Springs.
5. Lubrication, repair as well as maintenance of springtimes, rollers, drums, hinges, shows off as well as cable televisions.
6. Inspection of the Door Motor.
7. Change of limitation buttons, inspecting the pressure modification, etc.
Correct inspection as well as maintenance of garage doors make them difficult, reliable, as well as durable. Both residential as well as commercial garage doors go through wear and tear and requires mindful interest. Before they position any type of large obstacle to the daily moving people or homeowners, correct inspection needs to be scheduled, making sure total protection. For that reason, correct setup, upkeep and also monitoring of the automated openers or shutters are required together with their indispensable components consisting of springs, rollers, drums, hinges, shows off as well as cable televisions to ensure safe as well as worry-free operation.
A poorly changed automated opener or shutter, its connected cable televisions, door openers, tracks or even an automated opener can apply hefty pressure on the doors, which is a possible threat. Consequently, choosing the right total repair provider is of utmost significance. Their technicians not just offer preventative maintenance services however additionally guarantee its ideal efficiency level, performance and also secure operation. They provide in-person inspection and diagnosis of your automatic opener prior to pricing quote a price for service. They even provide expert suggestions as well as essential services for residential or commercial garage door applications, regardless of brand or version.


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A new year, a fresh start- I love it! There us something so exciting about the freedom and blankness of a brand new year ahead. It feels like anything could happen! This is the perfect time to dive into a little strategic planning and prioritizing with these 12 free double page bullet journal monthly spread planning pages.
Why keep a monthly journal…
While my family's day to day planning often ends up being trapped in my iPhone I do love the idea of a written record of what's happened in life and what's to come. Something about seeing life in written form is just super nostalgic and pleasing. I will never, without a doubt, look back through my Apple calendar but a written journal is just different.
Enter the bullet journal monthly spread….
The thing that scares me away from scrap booking and other types of journaling is the time/ materials investment. I know, realistically, that I'm not gonna' get it done on a regular basis. I do not need one more creative project that I can't find the minutes for in my day.
A bullet journal is a system invented by Ryder Carroll to "track the past, order the present, and design the future." Sounds pretty impressive right? Sign me up for that. The bullet journal philosophy is a lot more complex than what I'll dive into here. What I love about the system is that it uses super concise, simple methods to track all kinds of things about your life. All you need is a notebook ( or these bullet journal monthly spread printables) and an ink pen. The only other thing you need is an ink pen. Easy.
What goes in a bullet journal monthly spread…
Planning in a monthly manner offers a big picture view that I just love. Day to day life tends to consume us in it's details. Month by month planning makes it extra clear that seasons (of both life and weather) really do pass, and very quickly at that. A bit of distance from the daily grind helps us to see the big picture and think strategically about designing a future that totally isn't a grind.
Whether you're planning the day , the month, or the year what you include in your bullet journal is totally up to you. I've included a 2019 calendar for each month along with just a couple of dedicated areas. Everyone has priorities. List them and plan for them here.
There are also two "tracking" bars. What's something you want to do each day? Exercise, pray, read, create? Keep track of your progress here. Naming a goal and seeing it writing is great motivation.
Use the unlabeled spaces to fill as life sees fit. Your bullet journal monthly spreads are likely to evolve as the year passes. Life changes and these bullet journal spreads offer the flexibility to change with you!
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West Bengal, India, from Himalayas to Gangetic Plain
This APM image shows rivers flowing down from the Himalayas in India and Bhutan (upper right), and across the Indian state of West Bengal, into Bangladesh.
As one can see from the contrast in this image, West Bengal encompasses two broad natural regions: the Gangetic Plain in the south and the sub-Himalayan and Himalayan area in the north.
The state has a total area of 88,752 square kilometres (34,267 sq mi). The Darjeeling Himalayan hill region in the northern extreme of the state belongs to the eastern Himalayas. The narrow Terai region separates this region from the plains, which in turn transitions into the Ganges delta towards the south.


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It's early April, a wonderful and frustrating time to be a beer garden enthusiast in Germany. Spring has sprung, the sun has too, and as the warmth grows so does our thirst. We need to get out there. Our kids need things to climb and room to run; our skins need Vitamin D; we need beer and laughs in the out of doors.
It's a great feeling -- to work all day or all week then go into the warm sun for cool beers with friends, while our kids run rampant in a place where such things are encouraged. The Biergärten are the best things for thirsty families. They kill a lot of birds with one cool, shady stone. Their existence is absolutely one of the highlights of living here.
But they are not perfect. Rather than get all rhapsodic it's far more interesting, as usual, to get cranky and talk about the bad stuff. There are drawbacks. Maybe they will help you to feel a little bit better about that place in the city you like to go that charges and arm and a leg for imported beer and is full of twentysomethings who give your kids the hairy eyeball for daring to be in the presence of fermented beverages.
1. We all wish they'd open sooner.
The first problem is, they don't officially open until the first weekend of May -- or thereabouts. So right now is when the flipping of calendar pages seems to slow down or even reverse, like the watched clock in the classroom that ticks backwards (Risky Business, was it?). A few places start earlier -- some open for nice weather, no matter what. The thing is, you've got to guess, or check in advance. Come May you can pretty much rely on them to be open, no planning needed. But then there is the additional problem of false springs... There is always another cold snap or rainy weekend just around the corner, especially in the north, and especially in spring.
2. Most of them are pretty shit for beer.
Granted, this is a matter of perspective. Many people would be happy as clams to drink fresh Warsteiner at long tables among the trees at a fair price (but it ain't always; see No. 3). Germany's most boring beers are still of a relatively high quality, ensuring that you can drink something reasonably decent if you are not very fussy. I can be fussy though. All things considered I'd prefer to be out there drinking beer of character, especially if I'm going to make an afternoon of it. Oh I can drink Berliner Kindl Pils, sure, but I'd prefer an Augustiner Hell. Got something Franconian? Even better. Got Schönramer? I may weep. But finding the places with this stuff takes another level of research (unless you're in Franconia). One local pitfall in Berlin is the Prater Garten, where the "house pils" is really just re-labeled Berliner Kindl. At least the price (€3.50 for 40cl) is fair, compared to some others in town...
3. They can be expensive.
This is another point where Franconia is an exception. Generally, beer gardens there are cheap and plentiful and likely to have local beer well worth drinking. The rest of Bavaria is pretty reliable but then the country varies widely, with the bigger cities offering more than their share of traps. One of the loveliest spots in Berlin, for example, is near the Zoo at the shady, lakeside biergarten of Café am Neuen See... where you can pay Tokyo-like prices for half-liters of Franziskaner. Makes no sense unless you're a tourist. Nice alternatives include the Zollpackhof, near the Hauptbahnhof, with its Augustiner Edelstoff vom Holzfass (from a spigoted barrel) and huge ancient chestnut tree; or Eschenbräu, a Wedding brewpub with nice urban-but-leafy garden and underrated beers.
4. The playgrounds can be junk, or non-existent.
This is not a priority for everyone. The "non-breeders" offended by children may want to look for the beer gardens that lack Spielplätze altogether. Many others offer only a pit of sand, or tiny, rickety pieces of rusted-out equipment that ought to require liability waivers. The real winners have huge, sturdy play structures though -- in Upper Franconia, be sure to check out Roppelt's Keller in Stiebarlimbach, or the Schmausenkeller in Reundorf. In Berlin, the rooftop garden at Golgatha in Kreuzberg has full views of the public park's equipment, while the long-running Fischerhütte on Schlachtensee has a big playground, swimmin' hole, smoked mackerel, and fresh Augustiner.
The best will have enough to do that you can enjoy your beers while your kids run off and forget their Apfelschorle... in which case you'd best cover the glass with a deckel, lest you attract No. 5... my nemesis.
5. The fucking wasps.
They don't tell you about this in the tourist guides. A culture that loves eating and drinking outdoors all spring, summer and fall also nourishes a certain kind of wildlife. These aggressive, pitiless creature feed on ice cream, soda pop, various leftovers, innocent children, and any parents willing to fight. Remember when you were a kid, and your parents said those wasps will leave you alone, if you just leave them alone? Yeah, that's bullshit. These "wasps" look like at first glance like black-and-yellow bees but are really what we call hornets or yellow-jackets in the States. And they are mean bastards. In my opinion, having defended my kids from them on multiple occasions -- not always successfully -- they are evil incarnate. And so, naturally, they are protected by various German laws. Back home we would find and wipe out their nests with a powerful spray bought for a few bucks from the hardware store. Here, it's not so easy. They feed and feed and are allowed to propagate.
The best defense, frankly, is (1) to avoid sweets and messes, (2) cover your drinks with deckels, and (3) drink enough beer to heighten pain tolerance, get brave, and possibly tolerate a sting or two.
After all, it would be a damn shame to let those pests -- or that overpriced, corporate beer; or that tetanus-trap of a playground -- ruin such a beautiful day.
(This is my contribution to The Session; for more info see here. Pictured above, twice, is the Wilde-Rose Keller in Bamberg. Pictured below is the Bootshaus on the Regnitz river, also in Bamberg.)
Friday, April 6, 2018
When and How German Beer Gardens Fall Short.
It's early April, a wonderful and frustrating time to be a beer garden enthusiast in Germany. Spring has sprung, the sun has too, and as the warmth grows so does our thirst. We need to get out there. Our kids need things to climb and room to run; our skins need Vitamin D; we need beer and laughs in the out of doors.


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Climate Change Denial Front Group Heartland Institute Sends Emails to Bloggers Threatening Legal Action
Here's the email forwarded to me today by Jim Lakely, the Heartland Institute's director of communications, threatening me with legal action because I wrote a post about the leaked Heartland documents:
February 18, 2012
Mr. Charles Johnson
Little Green Footballs
Re: Stolen and Faked Heartland Documents
[Link: littlegreenfootballs.com…]
Dear Mr. Johnson:
It has come to our attention that your blog or web site has taken one or more of the following actions:
- Posted links to a document titled "Confidential Memo: 2012 Heartland Climate Strategy."
- Posted links to certain other documents purporting to be those of The Heartland Institute.
- Posted blogs or web pages discussing any or all of these documents.
Please be advised that the Confidential Memo is fake. It was not written by anyone associated with Heartland. It does not express Heartland's goals, plans, or tactics. It contains several obvious and gross misstatements of fact. Publication of this falsified document, or blogs or web pages about it, is improper and unlawful.
As to other documents purported to be authored by Heartland, we are investigating how they came to be published and whether they are authentic or have been altered or fabricated. Several of the documents say on their face that they are confidential documents and all of them were taken from Heartland by improper and fraudulent means. Publication or republication of any and all confidential or altered documents is improper and unlawful.
Furthermore, Heartland views the malicious and fraudulent manner in which the documents were obtained and/or thereafter disseminated, as well as the repeated blogs or web site posts about them, as providing the basis for civil actions against those who obtained and/or disseminated them and wrote about them. Heartland fully intends to pursue all possible actionable civil remedies to the fullest extent of the law.
Therefore, we respectfully demand: (1) that you remove links to these documents from your blog or web site; (2) that you remove all posts that refer or relate in any manner to these documents or quotes from them; (3) that you publish retractions of prior postings; and (4) that you remove all such documents from your server, if you have placed them there.
Please don't hesitate to contact me if you require any further information.
Very truly yours,
Maureen Martin
General Counsel
Greg Laden also got one of these lawyer letters: I Just Got an Email From the Heartland Institute About the 'HeartlandGate' Documents : Greg Laden's Blog.
Desmogblog also received a threatening letter: Heartland Demands DeSmogBlog Remove "Climate Strategy' Document.
This was tweeted tonight by Heartland Institute spokesman Jim Lakely:
RT @rsmccain: Did Little Green Footballs LIBEL the Heartland Institute?bit.ly/AuWLry GUILTY! GUILTY! GUILTY! #fakegate
— JimLakely (@jlakely) February 20, 2012
Note: Lakely is citing a tweet by Robert Stacy McCain (@rsmccain) — a well-known white supremacist and racist — containing a link to a blog that recently posted a video created by neo-Nazis, praising the racist novel "The Turner Diaries."
More threats from the Heartland Institute: Heartland Institute Threatens 71-Year-Old Veteran | Recorder Online.


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'Console Wars' Is a Deeply Flawed Telling of a Great Story about Videogames
A book on the origins of Sega, a gaming industry giant of great historical importance, could have been great.
Console Wars: Sega, Nintendo, and the Battle That Defined a GenerationPublisher: It
Length: 576 pages
Author: Blake J. Harris
Price: $28.99
Format: Hardcover
Publication date: 2014-05
Cultural artifacts have economic histories.
The relationship that exists between culture and economics might seem, on the surface, as one that may well be tense and perhaps antagonistic, as both appear to be civilizational elements that move in opposite directions. The former is expressive, exploratory, potentially excessive. The latter is efficient, organized, logical. And yet, the economic conditions within which a cultural artifact provides rich context and meaning to the thing, oftentimes tells a larger story around the story.
Consider the role of patrons in the productive lives of the Renaissance painters, whose works would have been eternally suppressed by squalor were it not for the particular sensibilities of those patrons. Consider also AMC's Breaking Bad, whose beautiful, desolate New Mexican setting that seems so central to the spirit of the tale was actually the product of economic happenstance. Vince Gilligan, the show's creator, had originally set the pilot in California, but attractive tax credits enticed the entire production to relocate to Albuquerque, New Mexico. Cultural artifacts are the products of their economic histories.
As it logically follows, video games possess an economic history as well, and this idea is ostensibly the focus of Blake J. Harris' book, Console Wars, whether he realizes it or not. The book portends to chronicle a particular moment in the game industry history (the '90s, specifically), one that witnessed an industry-shaping battle between two corporate powerhouses: a feisty up-and-comer called Sega and the then-behemoth known as Nintendo.
Harris largely tells the story as a hero's journey, with former toy company executive Tom Kalinske as the principal protagonist and a plot to take down Nintendo as his anointed quest, and readers are led through his trials and tribulations in a linear and cinematic fashion. We follow Kalinske as he galvanizes a team, as he outwits adversaries, as he navigates corporate civil war, as he commits acts of grand strategy.
But the real story here is the one that takes place on a wider, structural level. The rivalry between Sega and Nintendo at the heart of Console Wars is rife with a veritable menagerie of oppositional dualities -- upstart v. incumbent, insurgent v. establishment, improvisation v. convention, American v. Japanese – such that one might even be forgiven for using the word "dialectic" to describe what took place in this period and what happened next. Console Wars too often stays close to the ground, and in doing so, largely misses what's truly interesting about this particular battle.
That said, the details that Harris unearths are quite splendid. On the one hand, you have accounts of fascinating and often quirky corporate maneuvering, like Sega's decision to open up shop close to Wal-Mart's headquarters in Arkansas as a large-scale psychological play to win a distribution deal. On the other hand, you also get little stories of truly productive historical oddities, like the creation of Nintendo Power, the company's gaming publication, which largely came about through a fortuitous discovery of a warehouse manager and videogame prodigy named Howard Phillips. Console Wars is peppered with juicy morsels like these, and both gaming scholar-enthusiasts as well as the detail-oriented will surely get a kick out of it.
The details, though, are trite compared to the larger ideas that the book is able to provoke. To some extent, the book can also function as a gentle reminder of both the self-consuming nature of human economic affairs as well as the futility of human ambition. One only requires a cursory look at the contemporary form of the gaming industry to recognize that both corporate entities in the book are, by almost every measure, pale shadows of their old selves.
Kalinske, while possibly still known in more devoted gaming circles, is largely lost to history – a dust bunny at the feet of truly revered gaming figureheads like Shigeru Miyamoto, John Romero, Will Wright, and Peter Molyneux. (Perhaps this is more a reflection on the fact that in the gaming industry, much like the film industry, is one that does not remember its executives). The individual-focused scope of the book does not leave much active room to contemplate this within the immediate narrative, which would be more of a shame if the book weren't so frustrating to read.
Alas, while Console Wars covers really compelling ground, it is unfortunately deeply flawed in its execution – so much so that it hampers one's ability to trust the author at any capacity. Much of this is rooted in Harris' methodological choices. For some reason, Harris committed himself to a narrative reconstruction of events, which is a risky gambit because this particular method requires the deployment of literary embellishments to fill in the blanks left out by gathered evidence. Now, despite the degree of difficulty, the nonfiction-historical genre has seen this historiographical method successfully employed before. Heck, even the budding subgenre of game industry history books has seen it effectively utilized before, with David Sheff's 1993 Game Over.
But Harris' deployment of the method is so clunky and awkward that it's incredibly difficult to take him seriously. Coupled together with the fact that his prose is often cripplingly simplistic, Console Wars comes out as a piece of text that's very hard to trust in its interpretation of primary material. Take this exchange contained in the book, for example:
"Tom," Olaf Olafsson said, tapping his target on the shoulder, "I've been looking for you."
"Funny," Kalinske said, "Because I've been looking for you."
"Sure, sure," Olafsson said.
"Don't sure-sure me," Kalinske said. "I mean it! I've been around this room twice and am starting to suspect that the only way I could have missed you both times would be if you had been following right behind me."
The author's note printed at the beginning of the book reveals that Harris' research involved hundreds of interviews, and that he "re-created the scenes in this book using the information uncovered from my interviews, facts gathered from supporting documents, and my best judgment as to what version most closely fits the documentary record." It goes on: "In certain situations, details of settings and description have been altered, reconstructed, or imagined." When re-reading the note after finishing the book, one realizes: it's a warning.
Fidelity to the facts matters for a project like this. When quote reconstructions are so awkwardly and florally it's hard to tell what's real and what's imagined, and whatever truth can be found in Console Wars' pages suffer greatly and tragically from it. Still, there's something to be gleaned from Harris' subpar craftsmanship.
Molded in such a manner, Console Wars as a text ends up being a microcosm of the gaming industry as a medium. Here we have a book that's trying very hard to sell a story that is fascinating, vibrant, and potentially important in the long run of cultural economics, but is unfortunately not quite able to transcend the immaturity of its creator at this point in time. This is not to disregard some truly great books that have been written about the medium – Sheff's Game Over has already been mentioned, but I want to give specific props to Tom Bissell's Extra Lives and David Kushner's Masters of Doom, among others – much like I want to not employ any disrespect for any boundary-pushing video game, like Naughty Dog's truly revolutionary The Last of Us. But it's definitely a complex that haunts the gaming industry, and it's going to take something bigger and better to truly push video games into the cultural-artistic mainstream.
Console Wars isn't necessarily a step backwards in that regard, it's just a missed opportunity.


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MG's July author events conclude with an afternoon of crime, spotlighting James Ziskin, Eric Beetner, and Caroline Kepnes. James continues his Anthony and Macavity Award-winning 1960's journalist Ellie Stone Mysteries -- which have also been finalists for the Edgar, Barry, and Lefty Awards -- with A Stone's Throw, which has received praise from multiple trade journals. "The lonely, well-developed Ellie is the conscience of this cinematic story that has a strong sense of place but in which the characters shine most." —Library Journal "The carefully constructed plot unfolds in unexpected ways as tough, ambitious, and dogged Ellie follows clues in the horse-racing mecca of nearby Saratoga Springs. Ziskin keeps readers guessing every step of the way." —Publishers Weekly
James has a story in Unloaded: Volume 2, an anthology of crime stories crafted without characters using guns, edited by Eric. Anthony Award-winner Eric is also a frequent contributor to anthologies, including the recent The Obama Inheritance, as well as the Lars and SHane crime novels.
Los Angeles author and screenwrite Caroline's genre-blending works include her latest, an Indie Next Pick, Providence. "Say it with me now: Caroline Kepnes is the master of the depraved love story. Providence is a novel that kept me up at night with characters that made my heart a little bigger. A dark beauty of a book," noted Jessica Knoll (The Favorite Sister) And Paul Tremblay (A Cabin at the End of the World) stated: "Caroline Kepnes's Providence is an inventive, dark fairy tale/love story for the 21st Century. A compulsively readable novel about the complexity of love, relationships, and monsters we allow ourselves to become. Plus, I have a new favorite character named Eggs."
This event is free and seating is first come, first serve. To get a book signed during one of our events, a copy of the event book must be purchased through Mysterious Galaxy. Event purchases through Mysterious Galaxy not only keeps our bookstore doors open, but also makes author signings possible.
Ellie Stone, a young newspaper reporter in 1960s' upstate New York, investigates a double murder at an abandoned stud farm near glamorous Saratoga Springs.
August 1962. A suspicious fire claims a tumbledown foaling barn on the grounds of the once-proud Tempesta Stud Farm, halfway between New Holland and Saratoga Springs, NY. The blaze, one of several in recent years at the abandoned farm, barely prompts a shrug from the local sheriff. That is until "girl reporter" Ellie Stone, first on the scene, uncovers a singed length of racing silk in the rubble of the barn. And it's wrapped around the neck of one of two charred bodies buried in the ashes. A bullet between the eyes of one of the victims confirms it's murder, and the police suspect gamblers. Ellie digs deeper.
The double murder, committed on a ghostly stud farm in the dead of night, leads Ellie down a haunted path, just a stone's throw from the glamour of Saratoga Springs, to a place where dangerous men don't like to lose. Unraveling secrets from the past--crushing failure and heartless betrayal--she's learning that arson can be cold revenge.
The Anthony-nominated collection of crime stories without guns--the collection we didn't want to be necessary--is back for Volume 2.
Two dozen more crime writers have come together to raise their voices and take pen in hand to call for a sensible and reasoned debate about guns in America. As the mass shootings continue, the avoidable accidents, the suicides, the gun violence that consumes our country rolls on unabated and unaddressed by our leadership other than to say, "Now is not the time to discuss it," these crime writers have chosen to start the dialogue.
In stories of crime, mystery and suspense these authors have left the guns out to show for a short while that we can do without them and the plot doesn't fall apart. Maybe, in a small way, we can show that the American way of life doesn't cease to be, either.
Not anti-gun, Unloaded Vol. 2 is pro-reason. These authors comprise gun owners and non-owners, voters on both sides of the political aisle. The cause that unites us all is the desire to see the senseless killing stop and to be able to have the discussion without the divisive language, vitriol and name calling that too often accompanies this debate.
The top priority in these stories is to entertain with thrilling action and suspense that readers know and love about a crime story. To do so without guns leads to some creative leaps from writers who spin tales of simians on the loose, androids with buried secrets, punk rock shows and tattoo shops.
Bestselling authors like Chris Holm, Lori Rader-Day, Bill Crider, Laura McHugh, James Ziskin and John Rector along with many more join together to call for an end to the needless violence and a start to a reasoned debate. With a forward by legendary Sara Paretsky, Unloaded Vol. 2 is a book we wish wasn't needed. But staying silent is no longer an option.
Proceeds go to the non-profit States United To Prevent Gun Violence.
"Providence, a novel for the Stranger Thingsaudience, is a fun and interesting blend of light fantasy and soft horror themes. I am a huge Lovecraft fan and devour fan fiction or books that reference Lovecraft, and author Caroline Kepnes does a nice job creating a weird and entertaining ride while explaining Lovecraft and The Dunwich Horror to those who may not be familiar. Overall, I found this book to be exactly what I needed: a nice escape from the confines of the horror genre. I'm also happy to see more female writers bringing their own voices to horror in new and interesting ways."
— Guy Lopez, Vroman's Bookstore, Pasadena, CA


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We all know about the manufacturers claim regarding the lifespan of home appliances. Some of the appliances perform exceptionally well when it comes to performance. Up to some extent, we are also responsible for enhancing the longevity of the televisions. If we abide by certain guidelines and take necessary precautions, televisions can last more than our expectations.
The first step towards extending the life of your television begins before you actually make the purchase, for which you should read the TV buying guide properly. Once you have bought a TV, it is advisable to take care of your televisions for a longer life using the following tips.
If you are already following these tips, your appliances are in safe hands.
Avoid High Temperature and Humid Conditions
If you have read the cautions mentioned on the packaging of the product, you will notice that the manufacturers advise keeping the appliance away from surroundings depicting high temperature and humid conditions. The internal and external components are always prone to chemical reactions in favorable conditions.
The inapt conditions can be a cause for technical failure. In humid surroundings, the presence of oxygen and water content can trigger chemical reactions, such as rust formation, that can ruin the television components.
Stabilize Power Fluctuations
This is one of the most common occurrences of technical failure. Whether it is a refrigerator or a television, the stabilized voltage will definitely enhance the life of the appliance. First of all, ensure that the electric socket is capable of delivering required voltage.
Secondly, electrical surge or dips can affect the functioning of the television. To safeguard your appliance, use a voltage regulator that can handle fluctuations and deliver a streamlined voltage.
Regular Clean Up
Dusting and cleaning seem to be cumbersome tasks. But, your laziness can cost you a ransom. Therefore, make sure that you clean the dust gathered, both inside and outside. Presence of dust is the cause of development of static electricity. Hence, the probability of short circuits increases considerably. Moreover, use anti-static cleansing agents to remove the dust and filth.
Avoid Burn-Ins
Knowingly or unknowingly, we have a tendency of not switching off the television. Or in some cases, users prefer to display a screensaver after a certain period of inactivity. In both the cases, the continuous production of same colors at the same spot can cause overheating and burn-ins.
The wise step is to switch off the television when not in use. This will prevent burn-ins and further, you will contribute to energy savings.
Optimize Brightness and Contrast
If you are working continuously for hours, and that too at your maximum efficiency, your health will deteriorate. The same is true for electric and electronic appliances as well. In case of televisions, maximizing brightness and contrast utilizes more-than-necessary energy. As a result, it affects the performance of television because the components have to work harder to deliver the output. Hence, optimize these parameters to produce best results.
Protect Against Physical Damage
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If you know me in real life, you will, no doubt, have heard me say "I don't like chocolate." I don't like chocolate cake, or brownies, or chocolate pudding, chocolate ice-cream, or that waxy brown stuff that shows up around Easter time. Gross.
However, the real truth of the matter is – I'm just an absolutely unbearable snob. I was clearly royalty in a former life, because I simply adore chocolate that is good enough for the Queen. Lucky for me, a chocolate-maker who has made chocolate for the Queen just so happens to have a corner staked out at the Wolfville Farmer's Market. Lucky for the Queen, I wasn't there when she was sampling his wares, because I might have created a diversion so I could snarf some of her goodies while she wasn't looking.
The weekend I went to do reconnaissance (see how I slipped in a wee French word there) with Gourmandises Avenue Chocolaterie I faced some resistance on the home front. Apparently Clara is encountering some market fatigue. "Max," I said, "you're up." He grudgingly came along. He brightened considerably when we arrived and I clarified our mission. By brightened, I'm meaning a glow one measures in Petawatts (I googled that word – it means one quadrillion watts – a lightning bolt only has a trillion).
Jean-Pierre Gallois is the master chocolatier AND the proprieter, so it was great fun to chat with him while we drooled over our selections. He explained that when he started the shop they produced about 70% pastries to about 30% chocolates but they currently have almost entirely flipped that ratio. In deference to this history, I decided that it would not be right for me to only sample the chocolates. It would be a disservice to both my readership and to M. Gallois. Duly instructed, then, Max chose a pot au chocolat (which is just what you are thinking, but also it has a chocolate spoon). I had crème brûlée which is my 100% hands down no-holds-barred absolute favourite dessert in the entire world.
Now. There are things I don't know much about and there are things I am afraid of trying lest they disappoint me. A badly made crème brûlée can be lumpy or eggy or too heavy on the vanilla. I have had bad crème brûlée and it makes me want to weep for humanity. I've had crème brûlée in the centre of Paris and it made me want to weep for the sheer joy of it all. Selecting crème brûlée from Gourmandises Avenue Chocolaterie was going all in with my taste bud gambling chips.
Fast forward to a few minutes later. Max tucked in to his pot au chocolat and exclaimed something along the lines of "it looks like pudding but it tastes like heaven" whilst I tentatively placed my first bite into my mouth. I closed my eyes. I sighed audibly. Max, in his ennui-laded teenager voice, said "aren't you being a little dramatic?" I arched an eyebrow and dug out a small sample (you have no idea how magnanimous this makes me). He put it into his mouth. "Well?" I said, "was that too dramatic?" "No," said he, in a voice of quiet reverence. "Do you want to trade?" he asked. Look, friend, I'm a mother but I'm no Mother Theresa. Child can buy his own with his allowance if he wants to…
But I've gone on and on and I've yet to mention the main event! M. Gallois was kind enough to insist I take a sample of each of the truffles he had on offer (and, re-sampling allows me to inform you that the selection changes from week to week!). I am not going to bore you with going on and on about how absolutely spectacular each one was – go get your own (and share with me, thanks).
What I am going to tell you is that you may never want to eat another chocolate from anywhere else ever again once you savour one of these beauties. You know how they say beauty is on the inside? Well, that is true with these chocolates for sure, but the beautiful designs make sure that they're beautiful on the outside as well. I was particularly taken with the beauty of the Gaspereau Port chocolate. M. Gallois explained that he sends the design to a speciality edible design-maker in Quebec which then sends back sheets of the motif which he carefully hand-applies to each chocolate. It's almost heart-breaking to eat them…but I assure you, you'll get over it very, very quickly.
And the lemon thyme made with thyme they grow themselves? Or the honey (local) lavender (local)? I did not even know they made a Gaspereau Maple Wine truffle until I read the website. I may die.
Everything that is crafted by this genius-with-chocolate will make you want to run away from home and join the circus if it were made of chocolate and the chocolate was Gourmandises Avenue Chocolaterie and you could just be one with the chocolate all of the time for the rest of your life and forever and always and…
I'm sorry, I got a little carried away.
And so should you. Go, eat.
Gourmandises Avenue Chocolaterie can be found at the Wolfville Farmer's Market every Saturday and at the Halifax Seaport Market. Like them on Facebook (and watch a terrific interview M. Gallois did in April for Global TV) and visit their drool-worthy website: http://gourmandisesavenue.com/
(but leave the crème brûlée for me, k, thanks).


text: Music A concert with Lee Blalock, Jen Hill, and Jenna Lyle & Deidre Huckabay © katerha via Flickr, Creative Commons Mon, 12/04/2017 7:00 PM Experimental Sound Studio 5925 N. Ravenswood Ave Chicago, IL SSSS! Second Sexing Sound Symposium Our final event of SSSS! is a concert with works by Lee Blalock, Jen Hill, and Jenna Lyle. Lee Blalock is an artist who considers what it may mean to live in a computational body, in multiple futures, in an invisible place. Rules and systems are inherent to her process, while her imagination leans toward the N3w Hum4n. Lee uses her work to create new origin stories, visual or written, which are influenced by a lifelong interest in speculative fiction and science fiction. Many ideas behind Lee's work attempts to describe the posthuman, replacing the failed language around identity with the self-constructed, expanded, and 'amplified' self. This new body (or "NeueBody" or "n3w_b0d1es") often takes the form of abstraction or algorithmic composition. In all cases, Lee's work represents the physical, computational, or behavioral body and uses repetition as a strategy to move past the automatic and into something transformative. Lee writes and performs under versions of the alphanumeric moniker, L[3]^2. L[3]^2's most recent live work embraces noise and fissure as a natural state of being for bodies living in the information age. Systems (or "Sy5z3ns") imposed on performers create conditions for meditation in the form of generative behavior in an experimental band setting. Jen Hill (b 1993) is a sound enthusiast & artist working in various media including sound, music, video, image, idea, the internet, jokes. Recent collaborations include work with/for rage thormborns a collaboration between trombonist Matt Barbier and Weston Olencki, Kendra Steiner Editions, and Cacophony Magazine; upcoming projects include recordings for Weighter Records and Kendra Steiner Editions. The opposite of tense (2015) is a performance for solo acoustic guitar modeled after Peter Ablinger's exercitium (1-6) by means of negation. Composer, performer, installation-builder, and administrator, Chicago-based artist Jenna Lyle explores how the physical body, and in turn the culture in which it functions, adapts to its semiotic or "data-based" representation. Magnifying the relationship between sonic output and physical process and separating it from the second nature, she often places performers in physical arrangements that force a heightened awareness of body while they execute a set of instructions for sound production. Deidre Huckabay is a Chicago-based performer, writer, photographer, and event producer. She is a flutist with degrees from the Eastman School of Music and Duquesne University. Her work reflects a solitary, interior world, drawing on a musical life that requires long hours alone and listening. As a flutist, she has extensively toured the U.S., Europe, and Latin America. Deidre performs with the Eastman BroadBand and Manual Cinema, and has recorded for Urtext and Bridge Records. She is co-owner of the experimental cassette tape label Parlour Tapes+ and a regular contributor to Cacophony Magazine. Jenna Lyle and Deidre Huckabay present 2 Flutes, 1 Mic, a collaborative work for precisely those resources. Back


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AP Twitter Account Hacked
Fabricated tweet claims President Obama injured in White House explosions
Around 1 p.m. today, hackers gained access to the AP's verified Twitter account and posted a fabricated tweet reading, "Breaking: Two Explosions in the White House and Barack Obama is injured."
The AP suspended its Twitter account within minutes, according to The New York Times, and announced that it had been hacked. White House press secretary Jay Carney reaffirmed that no attack had occurred and the president was unharmed.
"We are working with Twitter to sort this out," AP spokesperson Paul Colford said in a blog post. As of 3 p.m., the AP's account remains suspended.
Immediately following the false tweet, the Dow Jones Industrial Average plummeted 140 points, a loss that was immediately recouped.
AP reporter Mike Baker tweeted that the attack may have been perpetrated by a spearphishing campaign:
The @ap hack came less than an hour after some of us received an impressively disguised phishing email.
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Crop Circles
Mostly Fakes, but a Few Exceptions
by John Van Auken
Once thought to be of grave concern to humanity and its home world, crop circles have become fodder for tabloids.
Why? Because all of the alien designers turned out to be native to this planet! Most famous among them are Doug and Dave of southern England, who claim to have made almost all of the crop circles for over ten years. Even the most complex Circlemaker designs were discovered to have been man-made. Now, each year, there is a race to see who can create the most spectacular circle without being caught in the act. Farmers are plagued by these tricky trespassers. Harvest season in England is a rag-sheet editor's dream, with front-page photos that boggle the minds of average people who fork over their hard earned money to buy another alien mystery. Yet, upon further investigation, each new circle, despite its marvelous construction, has been found to be the work of a most imaginative creature: a human being.
Case closed? Quite the contrary. Amid the many bogus circles, there remain a few fascinating exceptions that are overwhelmed by the awesome hoaxes and get very little attention. Let's take a closer look at them. In the 800s, the Bishop of Lyon, France wrote a letter to a priest who was taking over a new parish. The bishop warned the priest that there had been "devil worship" by the parishioners. He explained that they were collecting seeds out of "flattened circles" in the fields and using them for fertility rites.
Another documented case of a crop circle is the "mowing devil" pamphlet of 1678. The text describes "the Crop of Oat shew'd as if it had been all of a flame: but next Morning appear'd so neatly mow'd by the Devil or some Infernal Spirit, that no Mortal Man was able to do the like." The pamphlet includes this illustration Mowing Devil.
Crop circles were originally simple, circular depressions in crops, soil, or snow that appeared to have been caused by a heavy object. Since there were no tracks leading to or from the depression, it was assumed that the object had landed on the spot and lifted directly off–or that the "Devil or some Infernal Spirit" had done some magic. Most of today's circles are complex works of art, having no connection to a depression left at a flying saucer landing site.
One of the most famous flying saucer landing-site incidents, called the "Tully Nests," occurred in a town called Tully, in tropical north Queensland, Australia, in 1966. At 9 a.m., January 19, 1966, a calm, sunny day, a 28-year-old banana farmer named George Pedley was driving a tractor near Horseshoe Lagoon. When Pedley was about 25 yards from the lagoon, he heard a loud hissing sound, so loud that he could hear it over the noise of his tractor. Suddenly, an object rose out of the swamp. "When I glanced at it, it was already 30 feet above the ground, and at about treetop level. It was a large, gray, saucer-shaped object, convex on the top and bottom and measured some 25 feet across and 9 feet high. While I watched, it rose another 30 feet, spinning very fast, then it made a shallow dive and took off with tremendous speed. Climbing at an angle of 45 degrees it disappeared within seconds in a southwesterly direction...."
Another surprise came when Pedley rounded the bend of the road and came to the spot from which the object had risen. There in the lagoon was a large circle, clear of reeds, in which the water was rotating slowly. It had not been like that three hours ago, when he had passed the lagoon earlier, about 6 a.m. About noon, Pedley returned to the lagoon for a second look. The scene had changed; now the circular area was covered by a floating mass of green reeds that were distributed in a clockwise radial pattern. The circular mass of reeds was about 30 feet in diameter. Pedley quickly left to tell Albert Pennisi, the owner of the land on which the lagoon is located. Upon hearing Pedley's story, Pennesi recalled that his dog had acted strangely that morning, barking madly and heading off toward the lagoon at about 5:30 a.m. Pennisi and a friend who accompanied him were amazed by the circular mass of reeds. Wading out to the mass, they found that they could swim under the mass of reeds and that the lagoon floor beneath it was smooth and showed no traces of roots. Pennisi got his camera and took photographs of the mass of reeds, which was now beginning to turn brown on its top surface. George Pedley reported his experience to the Tully police that evening, and they in turn reported it to the RAAF, after making a trip to the site the next day, January 20.
Within days, the media had picked up the event, and the area was filled with investigators, many of whom were trying to prove theories as to the cause of the "nest," such as helicopters, big birds, crocodiles, reed-eating grubs, and whirlwinds of one sort or another. Pedley's UFO sighting was all but overlooked in the flurry of explanations. During the course of the Crop circle investigations, as many as five other "nests," all smaller than the original, were discovered. In some of these, the reeds were rotated in a counterclockwise direction, and a couple of them showed signs of burning in the center of the nest. Samples of the original nest were sent to Brisbane for analysis, but nothing unusual was detected. Other than being part of the nest, the only unusual thing about the reeds was that they turned brown in about eight hours, whereas reeds uprooted by hand in the lagoon took three days to turn brown.
In another unusual twist, Albert Pennisi told a reporter from the Sydney, Australia, newspaper, The Sun, that he had been dreaming about a UFO landing on his property for a week: "I'd get them almost every night. And they were beginning to worry me. I couldn't understand them. It was always the same. This thing like a giant dish would come out of nowhere and land nearby. And I would watch it in my dream and get real afraid before it went away. Then on Wednesday morning about 5 o'clock, my dog suddenly seemed to go out of its mind. It was howling like a mad thing and raced off towards the lagoon."
Not as spectacular as the Tully Nests but another key participant in the crop circle phenomena are the so-called Fairy Circles. Many stories in medieval literature make reference to pixie circles, elf circles, and fairy circles. They fall into two categories: the widely common type, which appears in moist turf grass, and those that only appear in the dry desert of Namibia, Africa. The first type can be explained by a growth of fungus in the soil that expands in a circular pattern. But the second type is more difficult to explain. In Namibia, Africa, fairy circles are disks of bare, sandy soil, anywhere from 7 to 33 feet in diameter. Found exclusively along the western fringes of the Namib desert in southern Africa, they are easy to spot because they are barren in the middle yet have unusually lush perimeters of tall, dry, desert grasses, which stand out from the otherwise sparse vegetation of the desert. From the time researchers began to take an interest (in the early 1970s), three major explanations emerged: termites, radioactive soil, and toxins left in the soil by the poisonous milkbush plant. The radioactive soil theory was easily dismissed after Gretel van Rooyen, a botanist at the University of Pretoria, sent samples to the South African Bureau of Standards to be tested for radioactivity, and they were all found to be negative. To check out the poisonous plant idea, van Rooyen's team located some milkbushes in the desert and took samples of soil from underneath. They also tried to grow desert plants on this soil in the lab and found that the grass flourished in the soil, showing there were no toxins to account for the barren patches. That left just one proposed explanation: that termites mop up all the seeds on the fairy circles, leaving nothing that will grow. "We dug trenches up to two meters deep [7 feet], but found no signs or remains of termites," van Rooyen says. So where do the circles come from? For the moment, van Rooyen admits, "we're left with the fairies." Though unexplained and strange, the Namibia fairy circles have never been connected to any sightings of flying saucers.
Amazingly, we have an Edgar Cayce reading that supports the landing of visitors from other planets: "The entity was among the priestesses of the Mayan experience. It was just before ... those that were visiting from other worlds or planets." (1616-1) Here's another: "Man may become, with the people of the universe, ruler of any of the various spheres through which the soul passes in its experiences." (281-16) People of the universe?
It's possible that these "people of the universe" that Cayce speaks of are more fourth-dimensional than three-dimensional, more mind than matter, making it difficult for them to maintain a presence in our reality, also difficult to communicate with us. Perhaps they can only appear or take form for brief periods. Perhaps the form they take is not well structured in atoms of matter, more a thought-form. This may explain why so many UFOs break the laws of matter, such as making right turns at Mach 10, a feat that would tear any truly material object into pieces. It would also explain why unmanned radar never "sees" UFOs, only manned radar. UFOs may be more in consciousness than in matter. As humanity's consciousness expands, we are sure to find out what is the real truth.


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It seems way too soon for many people, but marketers are already halfway through their planning sessions for the 2013 shopping season. Everyone from restaurant owners to specialty shops is getting ready to offer customers their finest.
The good news is that forecasts predict an 11% increase in consumer spending over last year. Of course, these numbers depend on several factors; however, last year's predictions were better than expected, with spending topping the $550 billion mark by $29 billion.
If the fact that we haven't even gotten through Halloween yet has kept you from starting your email newsletter marketing strategy, don't be fooled – time's a-wasting. It's past time to get busy.
Here's a short to-do list to help ensure you get the most out of your holiday email marketing efforts.
Map Out Your Sales Plan
- Compile a list of products or services for holiday promotion.
- Do your holiday promotions include special events? If so, it's time to button up those details.
- Design holiday greetings.
- Revisit sales autoresponders, and update, rewrite, and plan those special offers for repeat sales.
Build Those Subscriber Lists
- Promote email newsletter-only specials with new opt-in offers on your website.
- Brick-and-mortar stores should add holiday signage promoting email newsletter offers for new subscribers – have a pen and paper sign-up form, or better yet, provide a computer for customers to subscribe, and give an instant discount or free gift as a reward.
- Include offers on print and other physical advertising materials.
- Encourage sales, customer service, and support personnel to encourage sign-ups – make it a company contest to see who can get the most new subscribers, with a prize going to the one who gets the most.
Now Translate These Offers into Your Email Newsletter Marketing Messages
- Create sales and holiday messages ahead of time; edit right before it's time to send.
- Send "early bird" specials.
- Offer helpful information like gift wrapping tips, holiday recipes, party planning advice, and gift ideas for family, friends, neighbors, and coworkers.
- Create a sense of urgency by encouraging customers to buy early and avoid shortages, long lines, and last-minute hassles – free shipping if ordering by a certain date also goes a long way to nudge the procrastinators into buying early.
- Don't forget your mobile customers – make sure your Web and newsletter subject lines and who the message is from are clear, simple, and responsive. Last year, studies revealed that 20% of shoppers on Black Friday looked for the best deals on mobile devices, and even more people, 49% in fact, used their phones to find last-minute gifts.
- Social media last year was a primary sales driver, so promote your holiday email newsletters on your profile pages. Offer discounts to subscribers who share your content too.
At the end of this year's frenzy, send a holiday greeting and a sincere thank-you to everyone who helped to make your season a happy one.


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To celebrate St. Patrick's Day, we are highlighting our Lucky Day book section. Check out or return a Lucky Day book this week and enter your name into our drawing. One LUCKY patron will win a prize bundle - Irish or not! For teens and adults. Sponsored by the Friends of the Little Falls Carnegie Library.Library: Great River Regional Library - Little Falls Map
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To nerf (nerfing, nerfed) something in a game is to lower its hitpoints, damage or other statistic to make it less powerful. The opposite of nerfing something is buffing it.
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The word nerf is an adapted word from the MMO community, much like the MMO community adapted the word "zerging" from "Zerg rush". The word itself refers to NERF-brand plasticized foam; a soft, spongy material designed specifically not to harm children. The MMO community adapted the word due to its associations with being 'safe' and 'harmless'.
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In the context of the game, the word 'nerf' usually refers to changes in a patch where a class, race or other classification of the game has been lowered quality or efficiency. It could also mean that the price for something used has increased.
In some cases, "nerfed" can also refer to opponent components, such as a "boss" in an MMO.
For StarCraft, the term "nerfed" would be used if a unit got the production cost increased or their statistical numbers in terms of HP or damage lowered. In any of the Diablo games, it would be as simple as any skill variable lowered, or its cost increased.


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KEYNOTE SPEAKER: DR JAMES FITZSIMONS – Building a collaborative national reserve system from public, private and indigenous lands: Lessons from Australia
(Thursday 9 November 2017)
Over the past 20 years Australia has been systematically expanding the National Reserve System (NRS), the national system of protected areas on all tenures, using the principles of ecological comprehensiveness, representative and adequacy. On land this expansion has been the result of governments upgrading public land or purchasing private land, indigenous people choosing to declare their lands as Indigenous Protected Areas, private landholders placing protective agreements on their properties, and the rise of the private land trusts in purchasing high priority sites for conservation. The Australian protected area system now comprises over 19% of the terrestrial land mass and over 33% of our marine Exclusive Economic Zone. Analysis shows that recent growth has been increasingly strategic – in the year 2000 less than 40% of terrestrial bioregions had reservation levels greater than 10% (the 2010 Convention on Biological Diversity target), but in 2016 this rose to 66%. The growth in the NRS has been complemented by a range of other approaches to conserve biodiversity on private land, from purely voluntary to incentive-based agreements, and large-scale connectivity networks. However, growth has slowed over the past few years with 1) the cessation of the Australian Government's dedicated National Reserve System Program fund for land acquisitions and related loss of the NRS policy branch within the environment department, 2) the decline of inter-jurisdictional collaboration, and 3) the ideological shift in some jurisdictions away from protected area expansion. With less than 43% of Australia's bioregions meeting the 2020 Convention target of 17% reservation (Aichi Target 11) as at 2016 there are still significant gaps to fill if Australia is to meet its international obligations. Options for restarting the process of strategic growth toward a truly comprehensive, adequate and representative National Reserve System are outlined, as are lessons for other countries from the Australian experience.
Dr James Fitzsimons is the Director of Conservation for The Nature Conservancy's Australia Program where he oversees the organisation's conservation planning, science, implementation and policy functions. He is an Adjunct Professor at the School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Deakin University, Australia, with particular research interests in the fields of protected area policy, practical conservation planning and mechanisms to integrate conservation outcomes on public and private lands and has edited four books (Innovation for 21st Century Conservation, Linking Australia's Landscapes, Valuing Nature, and Big, Bold and Blue: Lessons from Australia's Marine Protected Areas). He has previously worked in the fields of conservation policy and planning for government environment departments and agencies, and for non-government environment organisations.


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Right on the occasion of a new season kicking off, the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra announced some good news.
The 2011-12 season was a hit, with the company recording a 12% uptick in ticket sales – although that didn't prevent them from losing around $100,000 (off an operating budget of around $10 million).
"While the deficit is disappointing for us," said the CPO's President and CEO Ann Lewis-Luppino, "we are working to maintain our strong financial position without compromising artistic excellence. This season, we'll be placing a greater emphasis on fundraising, and we are right on track with our projections to date; and also, we are continuing to grow our audiences."
Some of the season's highlights included the Singing Tweets video, which went viral last December, and received over 110,000 hits on Youtube, as well as garnishing media coverage on CNN, CBS, CBC, Global, CTV, in the New York Times – and the Calgary Herald.
There were a diverse range of guest artists, including Herbie Hancock, Jan Lisiecki, Sarah Chang, Oscar Lopez, The Arrogant Worms and country star George Canyon, among others.
(And let's not forget the superhero symphony, or whatever that was called!)
The financial details of last season will be presented at the CPO's Annual General Meeting, which happens this coming Tuesday at 5pm, at the Grant Thornton Conference Centre, at 833 4th Avenue.
Meanwhile, the 2012-13 season launches tonight, Friday, Sept 21 at 8pm with A Hero's Life (by Strauss) and The Emperor Concerto (Beethoven), with Roberto Minczuk conducting and Stewart Goodyear on piano.
There's also a performance Saturday at 8pm, with both shows at the Jack Singer Hall in the EPCOR Centre.
For more info: cpo-live.com or 403-571-0849


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To stay up to date with the latest information in the beekeeping industry to may visit our apiculture latest news. On the other hand in case you are starting apiculture and would like to begin professional beekeeping now download a copy of our beekeeping for beginners ebook.
Beekeeping can either be a full-time profession or a simple hobby. Yet, more often than not, what started as a hobby would become a profession. But you cannot merely tell and decide yourself you will start to do beekeeping. You need to have adequate knowledge and understanding on the subject that you're going to enter before beginning on any avocation or profession. If you have been putting off your interest in beekeeping for quite a long time, then it is about time to indulge yourself. Bee farming may not look difficult; learning the basic beekeeping lessons can allow you to get off to a great beginning.
What does a beekeeper need to understand?
You should have full interest on beekeeping to begin at the right foot. You will need to spend time taking care of your colonies of bees. You should also have consented to share your home space. There are potential risks in beekeeping that can damage not only you but your family as well. You then must understand the supplies and gear you will use for beekeeping, if you decide to allow the bees inside your living space. Your focus isn't just to earn money by selling honey; a great beekeeper should have passion and a keen interest in rearing bees.
An apiarist should know the right location for the beehives. You have to make sure that beekeeping is enabled in your area if you decide to set your beehives at your backyard. There are several places limited to beekeeping; you need to get permission about this.
Beekeepers must understand whether beekeeping supplies are available in the region where the beehives are situated. When you need to go to a local beekeeping store you may never know; it is best that a nearby beekeeping shop is reachable.
Protective supplies and equipment are also essential for beekeepers to know. Beekeepers are prone to bee stings; the proper ensemble must be worn during beekeeping sessions. Understand the appropriate suit to pick to keep you from any possible danger in beekeeping.
Last but definitely not the least, among the beekeeping lessons you need to know is that: it is essential for the beekeeper to understand the proper way of harvesting honey. If you are unable to harvest honey from your bees all the beekeeping attempts would be ineffective. The approaches should be known by a beekeeper in collecting the honey in the comb; beeswax is also part of the yields in beekeeping.


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Delaware offers a variety of state and private parks that welcome recreational vehicle owners with pets. You can find pet-friendly RV facilities in Fenwick Island, Millsboro, Rehoboth Beach and Selbyville. While Delaware's state pet visitation rules apply to all animals, most regulations are written for dogs. Different RV parks maintain additional rules.
State Rules
You can find a list of state pet guidelines -- including requirements for licensing and vaccinations -- at the Delaware State Parks website (see References). Pets must be on leashes of no more than six feet, except when in designated off-leash areas or while hunting. On park grounds, pets must be kept quiet from 10 p.m. to 7 a.m. Owners must clean up after pets in Delaware state parks and use the composting receptacles -- called doggie dooleys -- wherever available for the disposal of waste bags. Pets cannot be left unattended outside or in vehicles, and park rangers on state property are allowed to break into vehicles to rescue animals that could die of heat exposure in summer months.
Fenwick Island
Lost Lands RV Park on Fenwick Island bills itself as a family-oriented community. It's known for large RV sites and quiet, secluded areas. Well-behaved, leashed pets are welcome without fees. Fenwick Island sits at the southeastern tip of the state, near Ocean City, Maryland.
Holly Lake Campsites, located nine miles from Delaware Bay and the Atlantic Ocean, admits dogs of all sizes with no pet fees. In addition to the camping and tent sites, leashed dogs are allowed on the two miles of hiking trails and in the dog-walk area. Animals must be attended at all times outside, and pets are not allowed inside cabins.
Rehoboth Beach
Situated with the Atlantic Ocean to the east and Rehoboth and Indian River Bays to the west, Delaware Seashore State Park welcomes dogs of any size without fees. While dogs are not allowed in public swimming areas, there is a designated area where dogs can swim. The camping, tent and RV sites also accept leashed dogs, and the campground provides a dog walk.
Treasure Beach RV Park and Campground offers RV sites that permit small pets only if kept on a leash. No additional fee is required to bring a pet, and animals cannot be left alone at any time. Treasure Beach lies one mile west of Fenwick Island and is a short drive from Ocean City.
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Madonna 'disappointed' with M.I.A.
MADONNA has slammed M.I.A. for her "teenage" antics during their Super Bowl performance.
The 'Music' hitmaker admits she was disappointed in the British rapper - who caused controversy when flipped her middle finger at the camera during her appearance for 'Gimme all your Luvin' - because she didn't feel her antics were appropriate for the prestigious Super Bowl XLVI Half Time Show last weekend.
Madonna told KIIS-FM DJ Ryan Seacrest: "I wasn't happy about it. I understand it's kind of punk rock and everything, but to me there was such a feeling of love and good energy and positivity, it seemed negative.
"It's one of those things, it's such a teenager. in a way, kind of irrelevant kind of thing to do. There was such a feeling of love and unity there, what was the point? It was just out of place."
Despite her comments, Madonna admitted she didn't know about the incident until afterwards.
She added: "To tell you the truth, I didn't even know about it. I didn't know about it until I left. I found out about it in the elevator, actually.
"I was really surprised. I didn't know anything about it."
TV station NBC Sports have already issued an apology over M.I.A.'s actions.
A spokesperson said: "We apologise for the inappropriate gesture that aired during halftime. It was a spontaneous gesture that our delay system caught late."


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White Palace
White Palace (1990)
★★★★ / ★★★★
Max (James Spader) ordered fifty White Palace burgers for his friend's bachelor party, but when the guys opened some of the boxes, it turned out that six of them were empty. Max, being a man of principle, ignored his friends when they said it was no big deal and actually drove back to the burger joint to either get a refund or claim the missing burgers. Nora (Susan Sarandon) happened to be manning the cashier and she was not at all the type to be pushed around. After the night was over, out of pure coincidence, Max and Nora ended up drinking in the same bar. The power of "White Palace," based on the screenplay by Ted Tally and Alvin Sargent, can be found in the way the filmmakers focused on two damaged souls and why they were potentially each other's healing agents. Their devotion toward each other was so intense at times, it bordered on obsession. I liked not knowing whether I should be happy for them or be concerned that something was about to go very wrong. Every time the characters spoke about himself or herself and to each other, there was a piece of information given to make us consider reasons why Max looked so sad and Nora felt the need to put on an air of false confidence to remind herself that she was good enough. Since Nora and Max were initially strangers to one another, hearing them speak so vividly and openly about their personal lives was like going on a journey with them through their beautiful but tragic memories. Spader and Sarandon, although the two exercised different approaches to communicate what grief meant to their respective characters, were equally consummate performers in that each time the lens of the camera focused on their faces, the act of recollecting the past and discussing those they loved was like opening a gash that desperately wanted to heal. I felt their pain, rage, and disappointment toward an imagined life that would never be. I was most impressed in the way the material dealt with passion. Its rawest form was Max and Nora having sex and working to reach an orgasm. I found it titillating–sexy but not pornographic–mainly because the camera didn't linger on the body of one gender. Most often, the two bodies shared a frame as to highlight their need for connection in a physical as well as in an emotional way. I enjoyed and admired that Luis Mandoki, the director, allowed the sex scene to play out without resulting to sleaze. The direction was so assured, there was even a nice comedic touch about a sandwich found on the floor. Equally commendable was the scene in the bar where Nora tried to seduce Max. It showcased Sarandon's acting as Nora slinked from her initial lonely spot until she was able to place her hand on Max' thigh. I just loved the idea of an older woman and the possibility of her taking advantage of a younger man. I was so intrigued by that sense of danger, I caught myself hoping the characters would put deposit more drinks down their throats just to see how far they would get with one another if all the red lights they lived their lives by suddenly turned green. But "White Palace," based on a novel by Glenn Savan, was more than painful pasts, sex, and seduction. Although slightly less surprising, it was also about class differences experienced through Nora not having a college education and "just" being a waitress. With all the eyes that judge, it was no wonder that not only was she a fighter, she was a survivor.


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Part 1:
- What are podcasts?
- Do you listen to podcasts?
- What are characteristics of podcasts?
- What makes a good podcast?
- What is the difference between a podcast and a radio show?
- How do you find podcasts that interest you?
- Do you have to download podcasts?
Good podcast for InS:
- Crazy Genius
- NYT's the Daily
- IMF Podcasts
- Freakonomics
- Goats and Soda
- The Guardian podcasts
99% invisible
Planet Money
This American Life
More Perfect
Fresh Air
Hardcore History
- TED radio hour
- Hidden Brain
- All Songs Considered
As will listen to a Crazy Genius podcast, compete this handout.
Part 2:
I will be absent on Monday May 27th. You will have time to begin working on your own podcast showing your understanding of a globalization issue and of the podcast format.
We have been discussing ways that gobalization impact us, the environment, governments, power, people, places etc.
Pick a topic that you are all interested in, and do some research to answer a question about globalization.
Hyperlink your team and work here
You podcast must include:
- A research question
- A title
- Definitions
- All members' voices
- Soundbites (quotes)
- Music (intro, out-tro)
- Audio credits
- Segments with audio transitions
- Varying arguments (you could include a discussion you all have in the podcast)
- Ideally, tell a story from beginning to end, with a character (can be you) or place or event a the core of your reporting.
- MLA sourcing on a separate doc
- 5-10 minutes long
- Be creative, be funny, be entertaining
It might be a good idea to split the roles such as:
- Lead researcher
- Script editor
- Sound/GarageBand Editor (This will be time consuming)
- Host
- etc
Possible themes are:
- culture / diaspora /
- uncontacted / remote society
- migration
- cybersecurity / cybercrime / privacy / Government surveillance /government control
- smart city and new technology
- nationalism /right-wing / populism
- women / empowerment
- anti-globalization
- TBP Transboundary pollution
- superpower
- ISIS / Tribalization
- Technology / internet / mobile phones / social media /social networks
- climate change / environment
- outsourcing
- agribusiness
- development
- tax heavens / money
- free trade
- protectionism
- Transport
- Glocalization
- cultural imperialism
- Anything else with teacher approval.
You will have all of next week to create your podcast.
They are due during the week of Monday June 3rd
You will be graded on all 4 ATLs: Organization, collaboration, thinking and communication and criterion B
You may use iMovie to create your podcast, but GarageBand is better.
Mr Broughton will come to give us a crash course on audio editing and using mics.
Mr Noonan says: Have you students look at the automation function
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British Impressionism
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Determined to set up an alternative to the academic position of the Royal Academy, in 1886, the New English Art Club was established by artists including Philip Wilson Steer and Sir George Clausen. The artists work was characterized by broad brush strokes, scenes of everyday life and the practice of working outside, Plein air, which they had witnessed while studying abroad in France. Walter Richard Sickert and Steer organised the first London Impressionist exhibition in 1889, in the Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly. James Abbott McNeill Whistler never exhibited with the group, but is considered to have heavily influenced British Impressionism with his rejection of traditional subject matter, composition and a finished surface. Likewise, John Singer Sargent, who had met and painted with Oscar-Claude Monet in France, brought many elements of French Impressionism into his portraits of British sitters.
Sitter in 6 portraits | Artist of 2 portraits
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Genre painter
Sitter in 4 portraits
Sitter in 34 portraits | Artist associated with 3 portraits
Sitter in 19 portraits | Artist associated with 17 portraits
Sitter in 3 portraits
Artist and teacher of art
Sitter in 24 portraits | Artist associated with 222 portraits
Portrait and landscape painter and muralist
Sitter in 5 portraits | Artist associated with 72 portraits
Sitter associated with 21 portraits | Artist associated with 10 portraits
Sitter in 14 portraits | Artist of 3 portraits
Painter, doctor and teacher
Sitter associated with 15 portraits | Artist of 29 portraits
Painter and etcher
Sitter in 15 portraits | Artist associated with 4 portraits
Sitter in 1 portrait
Sitter in 1 portrait | Artist of 2 portraits
Artist associated with 6 portraits
Elizabeth Adela Forbes (née Armstrong)1859-1912
Painter and print-maker
Artist of 1 portrait
Critic, painter and gallery director
Sitter associated with 7 portraits
Sitter in 1 portrait
Landscape and figure painter
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No, it's not the latest SHAKIRA single hit about the soccer world cup but the new ARIANESPACE successful launch that put in orbit tonight, two satellites for AFRICA: NILESAT 201 and RASCOMQAF 1R. Congratulation and loudly vuvuzelas to our friends of THALES who built the two birds and of course to the ARIANESPACE Teams.
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Today's card is one I wish I could pass around for all of you to see up close and touch. These photos fall way short of doing it justice. I hope that you will get enough of the idea of its coolness and want to try it yourself. I think a step-out tutorial will be coming soon, until then though I am going to talk you through it… so cool.
The base of the card is a white cardstock card base. I added a strip of gold Deco Sheet along the bottom. I randomly applied Mushroom Alcohol Ink over the gold to add age and darken the gold color.
For the next layer, which is the blue area, I cut a piece of manila cardstock to fit the front of the card. I embossed it with the new Tim Holtz Tiles Texture Fade (ships in April). I cut the lower edge around the design
Here is where the cool part comes in… I applied Texture Paste over the embossed cardstock piece. spreading it with a palette knife until the paste filled in all the debossed areas. After the paste was dry I misted it with Tumbled Glass Distress Spray Stain. The Texture Paste soaks up the spray. The light color is the manila base. I inked the edge of the piece with Gathered Twigs Distress Ink before attaching it to the card front.
I die cut two matching butterflies from manila cardstock with the new Butterfly Duo die (shipping NOW). I embossed both with the coordinating Texture Fade. I inked the butterflies with Shabby Shutters and Peeled Paint Distress Inks using an ink blending tool. I misted the butterflies with Mint Perfect Pearls Mists.
After drying the butterflies, I inked the raised areas on the butterflies with Black Soot and Gathered Twigs Distress Inks. I sprinkled clear embossing powder over the wet ink. I melted the powder with a heat tool. I adhered the bodies of the two butterflies together. I adhered the assembled butterfly to the card and bent the wings upward.
On the left side of the card I added a strip of postage stamps die cut with manila using the new Postage Dots die. I tore the die cut along the perforations so that I had a strip. I inked the piece with Tumbled Glass Distress Ink. I misted water onto my hand and flicked it onto the ink to create water spots. I dried the die cut with a heat tool and then inked the edges with Gathered Twigs Distress Ink.
I die cut flowers from manila cardstock using the Tattered Florals die. I inked both sides of the flowers with Tumbled Glass Distress Ink. I flicked water onto both sides to create spotting. After drying the flowers I inked the edges with Gathered Twigs Distress Ink. I crinkled the paper over and over until it was soft and really flexible.
The flowers are crazy, something I kind of made up on the fly. I created a knot out of silver jewelry wire to create a flower center and a stem. I fed the flowers onto the stem. I then pinched the paper under the flower so that I could do some crude wire wrapping around the paper and down the stem. It is hard to describe the process so I think a video might be in order.
Finally, I adhered the bundle of flowers to the front of the card on the postage stamp piece.
I dyed Crinkle Ribbon with Tumbled Glass Distress Spray Stain. I tied it around the front of the card over the stamp and added a bow. (Check out the Fluffy Bow tutorial.) I added a new Shield Charm below the bow.
I die cut a label from a scrap of a Pocket Card using a die from the Labels die set. I used Remnant Rubs to add "love you" to the label.
I die cut a "friend" using the new Friendship Words Script die set. I inked the sentiment with Peeled Paint Distress Ink. While the ink was wet I sprinkled clear embossing powder on the die cut. I melted the embossing powder with a heat tool. I ran the die cut through my Xyron and adhered it to the label.
I love the background of course, but I also really love how dimensional all the other elements are. This card is so soft and feminine looking and oh so vintage!


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A Markham taxi driver got a big scare on Thursday morning when he was confronted by what he thought was a black bear.
Mohammed Naim had just dropped off a passenger near a sod farm on Highway 48, south of Elgin Mills, when he became lost.
"I was actually right here and the bear was standing right there. He was just looking around," Naim said.
He called York regional police, saying he couldn't get out of his cab because there was a bear walking around it.
Police arrived and found what they said were bear tracks surrounding the cab — but it took some time for officers to find the vehicle in the first place.
They had to turn on the sirens and flash their lights so the cab driver could direct them to his vehicle.
Officers then arranged a tow truck to pull the cab — and Naim — to safety.
"Then, he went somewhere else in the trees. It was scary but after, I started laughing," he said.
It turns out the bear was a 150-pound black Newfoundland dog named Bear.
Matt Gauthier, the manager of the sod farm, told CityNews that when his dog is laying down, she looks exactly like a bear.
"The reason the cab driver was able to get so close to her," he said, "is that she wanted to lick him to death."
Naim's passenger was Gauthier's father-in-law, he said.
If you do encounter an actual black bear, back away slowly and quietly, the Ministry of Natural Resources advises. If the bear knows you're there, raise your arms to show you're human and make yourself as big as possible. And speak in a firm but non-threatening way as you walk away.
This 150-pound dog, named Bear, was mistaken for an actual black bear in the early-morning hours of March 13, 2014. Courtesy of Matt Gauthier.
Dog tracks are seen in the snow in Markham on March 13, 2014. A cab driver called police when he spotted what he thought was a black bear. CITYNEWS.


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Everyone loves to sit near the fire and to feel the warmth. But who wants to carry the firewood? And where should the fire be left in the living room?
Brændevogn by Past and Future offers a solution to these problems, transporting and storing the fire in a stylish fashion.
The Brændevogn firewood waggon and chimney-stand is traditionally handmade in a small locksmith's workshop in Lower Saxony. It is made of rolled steel sheet, burnished, keeping the original rough material of the Brændevogn visible and in perfect harmony with the roughly split firewood.
The Brændevogn by Past and Future is suitable for firewood of at least 25 cm of length. Up to 60 kg of wood can be transported with the firewood waggon. Rubber wheels make it easier to push the Brændevogn by Olaf Janzon & Irmela Heine.


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Suzuki Swift 1.2 SZ3 Hybrid
Spec rating ★★★☆☆
Swift with Hybrid
Be part of the future with Suzuki Hybrid, the new self-charging advanced driving system offering greater fuel economy and lower CO2 emissions – all without having to plug it in.
New Car Benefits
As standard with every new car we sell, the Swift SZ3 Hybrid is covered by our Tracks Lifetime '100,000 mile' Warranty, giving you total peace of mind for the duration of your ownership.
We promise you'll experience levels of care and leave our dealerships impressed by the little extras we include as standard when maintaining your new car.
All our new cars are supplied with 1 year's AA cover, including home start, recovery and roadside assistance in the UK and Europe, meaning you can drive with confidence at home and abroad.
Don't delay picking up the keys to your new Suzuki with free drive away insurance giving you more time to arrange your annual insurance.
We'll set up your free cover and for no extra cost, you can add your spouse or a civil partner providing they live at the same address.
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With assembly polls likely to be announced any time now, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav went on a ribbon cutting spree on Tuesday and set a record of sorts….reports Asian Lite News
In a packed schedule, the 43-year-old inaugurated 910 projects, laid foundation stones of 13 more, distributed free laptop to 26,000 students and gave away cheques under the Samajwadi Pension Scheme to a whopping 91,125 beneficiaries.
While Akhilesh Yadav went to each Lucknow project to inaugurate them, other were done remotely.
An official told IANS that the projects inaugurated on Tuesday were spread in 59 of the 75 districts of the state and cost more than Rs 51,000 crore.
They included the newly built wing at the Lohia Medical Institute here, community health centres in Faizabad, a 200-bed hospital for pregnant women and newly-born in Lucknow and 80 new hospitals in various districts.
Akhilesh Yadav also inaugurated the international cricket stadium and CG City at Shaheed Path in the state capital, built on 846.49 acres of land.
It comprises an IT City, an Indian Information Technology Institute, a modern dairy plant, a super-speciality hospital, an administrative academy and a modern medi-city and a cancer institute.
The other projects the Chief Minister took up included a state university building in Allahabad, agriculture marketing hubs, rural infrastructure centres, multi-purpose buildings, link roads and guest houses, garlic, vegetable, potato hubs in Kannauj, a solar plant in Mainpuri and a five-storey new OPD at the Sanjay Gandhi post-graduate Institute of Medical Sciences.
There was also the riverfront projects on the Gomti in Lucknow, a fancy, hi-tech and sprawling Chief Minister's Secretariat, the trial run of a small stretch of the Lucknow Metro Rail and the 302-km long Agra-Lucknow Expressway.
Many projects are also lined up for Jhansi.
A modern facilities equipped Rs 11 crore model bus station was inaugurated at Qaiserbagh in Lucknow.
Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) chief Mayawati has accused Akhilesh Yadav of "rushing through half complete projects" since he has nothing to show in five years of his regime.
She has even threatened action against officials in charge of such projects if she was voted to power in the 2017 assembly polls.
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) General Secretary Vijay Bahadur Pathak accused the government of rolling out incomplete projects like the Agra-Lucknow expressway and imperilling the lives of the people.