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Ten things you might not know about Hull
While Hull, which has just been named the UK's Capital of Culture in 2017, is well known for its white telephone boxes, the Humber Bridge and its connections with poet Philip Larkin, there is much more to the city.
Here are 10 things you might not know about Hull.
Civil War spark
Ye Olde White Harte pub on Silver Street in Hull is believed to have played a key role in the start of the English Civil War.
In the room now known as the Plotting Parlour, the decision was reputedly taken in 1642 to refuse Charles I entry to the town.
This sparked the first siege of Hull, which was the first major action of the Civil War.
Bligh's nemesis
The Bounty, skippered by the infamous Captain William Bligh, was built and launched in Hull.
Originally a merchant ship called the Bethia, it was built in the city in 1784.
In 1787, the Admiralty bought the ship for a voyage in the Pacific which, two years later, would see Captain Bligh cast adrift by his own mutinous crew.
Flying legend
Amy Johnson, the first female pilot to fly alone from Britain to Australia, was born in Hull on 1 July 1903.
In 1930, just two years after starting flying lessons, she completed an 11,000-mile journey alone in a single engine Gypsy Moth plane named Jason.
The pioneering pilot drowned on 5 January 1941 when the plane she was flying crashed into the Thames Estuary during rough weather.
Fantastic voyage
Daniel Defoe's famous fictional castaway, Robinson Crusoe, set sail from Queen's Dock in Hull on 1 September 1651.
As Defoe writes, it was a journey to remember from the very start: "The ship was no sooner out of the Humber than the wind began to blow and the sea to rise in a most frightful manner; and, as I had never been at sea before, I was most inexpressibly sick in body and terrified in mind."
Size matters
Not only is the George Hotel in Hull one of the oldest surviving pubs in the city, dating back to 1683, it also boasts what is claimed to be the smallest window in England.
Originally a coaching inn, its window - which is more like a slit in the wall - is said to have been used by the porter to look out for stagecoaches and customers so they could be given immediate attention.
Miniature marvels
Used by generations of model plane fans to decorate anything from Spitfires to Boeing 737s, tiny tins of Humbrol paints were manufactured for many years in Hull.
Humbrol, originally known as the Humber Oil Company, was founded in the city in 1919 and initially supplied bicycle oil.
However, in the middle of the 20th Century, plastic model kits by companies such as Airfix became hugely popular.
As a result, the firm began to manufacture "tinlets" of paint designed especially to make these models look as close to the real thing as possible.
What's in a name?
The Land of Green Ginger, at the bottom of Whitefriargate in Hull's Old Town, is undoubtedly one of the UK's strangest street names.
There have been many theories as to the origin of the name but it remains a mystery as none has been proved conclusively.
One idea is that it was named after the Lindegreens, a Dutch family who are believed to have lived there sometime in the 19th Century.
Godber's Gold
Bouncers, written by Hull playwright John Godber, is one of the most frequently performed plays in the English language.
On average, it is performed at least eight times a year by small to mid-scale repertory venues, and is toured at least twice a year by various companies, according to Hull Truck Theatre.
Film founder
The Rank Organisation, which owned five leading film studios including Pinewood Studios, was founded by Hull-born J. Arthur Rank in 1937.
Classic Rank film productions include Brief Encounter, Great Expectations, In Which We Serve and, of course, several of the Carry On series.
Medicine man
In 1856, Thomas James Smith opened a chemist's shop in Hull and established his business selling cod liver oil to hospitals.
Smith and Nephew, now a FTSE 100 company, was formed when he was joined in 1896 by his nephew Horatio Nelson Smith and is now a successful billion-pound global medical devices business.


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With outstanding technique and team strategy, our team arrived at the finals after intense fighting with other big clubs' teams.
With the highest fighting spirit, Shoujinkan faced HKKA team, composed of experienced and highly graduated athletes, in a series of historical and dramatic matches, coming to shine as the winner of the tournament.
Congratulations to all members of Shoujinkan, once again showing that there are no miracles, but with right orientation on how correct kendo should be, associated with the enthusiasm, dedication and encouragement of all teammates from our Dojo, there is no challenge too big to overcome. Great team spirit!

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Kawhi Leonard: The Spur of Tomorrow Arrives a Little Early
When San Antonio's Big Three of Tim Duncan, Tony Parker, and Manu Ginobili eventually rides off into the sunset, the Spurs, by most accounts, will become Kawhi Leonard's team. Leonard is the perfect fit to replace the likes of team leaders and living legends Duncan and Coach Gregg Popovich when they depart, in part because of his excellence on both ends of the court, but also for his demeanor. Like Duncan and Pop, Kawhi is a man of few words.
Look no further than Tuesday night for your evidence. Leonard's performance in Game 3 of the 2014 NBA Finals was undeniably the best of his young career. And what did he do after it?
He turned down his podium invitation.
While most budding stars would kill for that moment - the chance to break out on the NBA's biggest stage and to talk about those accomplishments in front of everyone - Kawhi was content to let his game do the talking.
And in Game 3, Kawhi's game, unlike the man, simply wouldn't shut up.
After struggling through the first two games of the series, Leonard managed to find some of the mojo that he displayed during last year's Finals, a series in which he averaged 14.6 points, 11.1 rebounds, and 2.0 steals per game, while shooting 51.3% from the floor and 34.8% from deep. In the first half of this year's Game 3 alone, he almost matched his entire production from the first two games of the series and had met or exceeded almost all those totals by the final buzzer (and far more efficiently to boot).
|Games 1 & 2
|Game 3 (First Half)
|Game 3 (Total)
It was clear from the get go that this would be a special game for Kawhi. In the first quarter alone, he was spectacular, going toe to toe with the best basketball player on the planet, LeBron James, and not backing down in the slightest.
In that opening frame, Leonard played all 12 minutes and was the definition of perfection, going 5 for 5 from the floor, 3 for 3 from long range, and 3 for 3 from the line for 16 points. That's good for an effective field goal percentage (weighted twos and threes) of 130.0% and a true shooting percentage (weighted twos, threes, and free throws) of 126.6%. He finished the game at 88.5% and 90.2%, but don't let the perceived drop-off fool you - that's still very good. In case you're a visual learner, let this big green blur posing as a shot chart tell you as much:
He had an offensive rating (the rate at which his team scored points with him on the floor extrapolated over 100 possessions) of 180.5 in that first quarter, and a 131.8 for the game. Compared to the Spurs' postseason offensive rating of 111.9 - which is impressive in its own right - that's downright absurd.
Much like the Spurs in the fourth quarter of Game 1, Kawhi was essentially efficient beyond the capacity of the metrics we use to measure such things in that first quarter and he kept up that torrid pace for the better part of the game.
Kawhi's counterpart, LeBron James, played an excellent game as well, and his stat line in the first quarter and the game as a whole would rival Leonard's by most accounts, apart from a few key differences. LeBron's 7 turnovers to Kawhi's 1 stands out, but nothing is more eye popping than the difference in plus-minus.By the end of the game, Kawhi was a +19 and King James was a -21.
For as good as LeBron was and ultimately is, Kawhi was simply better in this contest. Similarly, the Heat are the two-time champions, but the Spurs looked every bit the contender with Kawhi in the driver's seat.
Leonard's efficiency was a big part of the story, and he did a bit of everything on the offensive end, but his accomplishments are made all the more impressive by his abilities on the defensive end. The fact that he became the youngest person in NBA history (at age 22) to score 25-plus points in a Finals game while shooting over 75.0% from the field is astonishing in and of itself. But the fact that he did it while chasing around the best basketball player on the planet for the majority of his 40 minutes played, on the road, in dominant 111-92 victory? That's what makes it a performance for the ages.
And with that, the Spurs have a 72.64% likelihood to take this series, according to our algorithms. For as much as that eventuality would be discussed as Duncan's fifth championship, or Parker and Ginobili's fourth, one mustn't forget that this would be Kawhi Leonard's first. We're so caught up in discussing legacies at their end, we might be missing one at its beginning.
Leonard went out in Game 3, took the court with no fewer than seven future Hall of Famers, and outplayed every last one of them, making history in the process. For that, it's high time we stopped this nonsense of calling the Spurs a "Big Three†and call them a "Big Fourâ€. As much as Kawhi was supposed to be the Spur of tomorrow, he has clearly arrived early and earned the right to be discussed in the present tense.
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The Rev. Timothy Cargal, Ph.D., serves as Assistant Stated Clerk for Preparation for Ministry in Mid Council Ministries of the Office of the General Assembly.
"... the Land that I Will Show You" is the blog of the Office of Preparation for Ministry of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). This blog is designed to serve as a resource for those discerning and preparing for a call to the ministry of Word and Sacrament as ordained teaching elders of the church. It will also provide a place for reflecting on and dialoging about the changing context of pastoral ministry in the early 21st century.
For quick announcements about changes or developments in the preparation process, dates related to exams or other key events, discussion boards, surveys, etc., you can follow us on Facebook at "Preparing for Presbyterian Ministry."
The Presbyteries' Cooperative Committee on Examinations for Candidates (PCC) has given final approval to the revision of policies and procedures needed to make quarterly administration of the senior ordination exams (Bible Exegesis, Church Polity, Theology, and Worship and Sacraments) a reality. With these approvals, registration is now open for the exams that will be given on July 25 and 26 (and the Bible Content Exam [BCE], which will be given on August 29, keeping with the "Friday before Labor Day" schedule begun in 2010).
There are a number of changes that are coming to both the registration process and the administration of the exams as a result of the increased opportunities to take the senior exams. All the information and details may be found in the new "Handbook to the Standard Ordination Exams in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)" which is also being released today (you can download it from the denominational website by clicking here). To be sure you have this latest edition, look for "May 2014 / 2.0" on the cover.
Here are the most important things that inquirers/candidates and their presbyteries need to know about changes in the registration process.
Inquirers and Candidates must register for all exams with the user accounts registered with their presbytery of care. The exams system is now fully integrated with an online system used by presbyteries to track and report on progress in the preparation for ministry process.
Because only presbyteries can create accounts for inquirers and candidates, those planning to take exams should confirm they have accounts well before registration deadlines so that their presbyteries will have opportunity to enroll them in the system if they have not already done so. Exam registration deadlines are firm and will not be extended because an inquirer/candidate had yet to be enrolled by their presbytery in advance of the deadline.
Senior ordination exams are now "unproctored" and so may be taken from anywhere. Those exams will no longer be taken at testing sites, and so it is even more important for candidates to familiarize themselves with the online testing process before the examination period begins. The necessary information will be found in instructions sent with exam registration confirmation, the exams "Handbook," and materials available on the Mid Council Ministries webpages (go to http://www.pcusa.org/prep4min).
Registration for the Bible Content and Senior Exams are separate processes. Because the BCE has a different administration schedule and requires selection of a testing site or designation of a special proctor, it requires a different online form. Registration for both the BCE (proctored) and the Senior Exams (unproctored) is completed at the same website: https://exams.pcusa.org. Once logged in, applicants will find a link to "Register for an Exam" in the menu options on the left side of the "My Profile" page (this link is only displayed during active registration periods). Clicking on that link will display the "Select Event" page, that labels each exam "Event" by the season, year, and examination area (e.g., "Summer 2014 Senior Exams"). Those who need to take the BCE and one or more Senior Exams will need to complete separate registrations for each event; however, all four senior exams can be included in a single registration for a "Senior" event.
The registration deadline for the next Senior Exams is June 30, 2014. Because these exams will be given at the end of July rather than the end of August as in recent years, there is an earlier registration date. The registration deadline for the BCE will remain July 31 as in recent years.


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Meet The IWOB Team: Zuleyma Bebell
Hi, my name is Zuleyma Bebell, and I'm the co-founder of ImpactAlpha, an online impact investment news site. We've been following the development and the growth of the impact investing industry and exploring its trends and gaps over the past few years. Our editorial efforts are supported by ImpactSpace, a.k.a the Crunchbase for impact, the largest database of social enterprises and impact investors. We have over 6000 companies, 2000 investors, and over 5000 people in the database and growing daily.
How did you get involved in Impact Without Borders?
I moved to San Diego about 2.5 years ago, and I was looking for the impact space here but couldn't find the type of impact ecosystem that I thought San Diego would have. I was lucky enough to meet with some of the other founding members of Impact Without Borders, entrepreneurs, and investors who felt the same way and wanted to fill the gap.
Impact Without Borders was born to foster a thriving impact ecosystem here in San Diego and Tijuana. We decided to focus on providing educational training for entrepreneurs, as well as a coworking space and networking opportunities.
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A Study of GENEVAX-HIV, a Possible Vaccine
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|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00002232
Recruitment Status : Completed
First Posted : August 31, 2001
Last Update Posted : June 24, 2005
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Patients must have:
- Good health.
- Ability to understand the basis of HIV transmission and other common sexual and blood-borne infections.
- The following parameters within normal range:
- Hematopoietic:
- total white blood cell, lymphocyte, granulocyte, and platelet count, hemoglobin and hematocrit.
- Renal:
- BUN and creatinine, urinalysis.
- Hepatic:
- total serum bilirubin.
- Endocrine/Metabolic:
- Serum calcium, serum glucose, total serum CPK.
- Immunologic:
- total serum immunoglobulin and absolute CD4 count.
- Hepatitis B and Hepatitis C negative.
- Urinalysis:
- Normal screen with dipstick for esterase and nitrite.
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Patients with the following symptoms or conditions are excluded:
- HIV-seropositive status.
- Any positive result for anti-DNA antibodies considered of potential clinical significance as measured by anti-DNA antibody and/or anti-nuclear antibody (ANA) assays.
- Any condition which, in the opinion of the principal investigator, might interfere with completion of the study or evaluation of the results.
- Known hypersensitivity to bupivacaine or any amide-type local anesthetic (such as lidocaine, dibucaine, mepivacaine, and prilocaine) or a history of anaphylaxis or other serious adverse reactions to vaccines.
Concurrent Medication:
Any medication which may affect immune function with the exception of low doses of nonprescription-strength NSAIDS, aspirin, or acetaminophen for acute conditions such as headache or trauma.
Patients with the following prior conditions are excluded:
- HIV-seropositive.
- Known or suspected history of impairment or abnormality in immune functioning.
- Exposure to potentially-infective HIV fluids within the prior 6 months or tested positive for HIV at any time.
- History of any prior disease or therapy which would affect immune function including:
- Prior malignancy, except curatively-treated basal cell or squamous cell carcinoma in situ of the cervix.
- Immunodeficiency or autoimmune disease.
- Acute infection or a recent (within 6 months) history of chronic infection.
- History of serious allergic reaction to any substance requiring hospitalization or emergent medical care (e.g., Stevens-Johnson syndrome, bronchospasm, or hypotension).
Prior Medication:
Cytotoxic chemotherapy that may affect immune function.
Prior Treatment:
- Previous immunization with any experimental vaccines directed against HIV or receipt of any experimental agent within 30 days prior to enrollment.
- Receipt of any blood products or immunoglobulin within 6 months prior to enrollment.
- Exposure to live attenuated vaccines within 60 days of study.
- Radiotherapy that may affect immune function.
Risk Behavior:
- Active drug or alcohol abuse or uncontrolled (unstable) psychiatric disorders which, in the opinion of the investigator, would interfere with study participation.
- Higher- or intermediate-risk sexual behavior (AVEG criteria)
To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contact information provided by the sponsor.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT00002232
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|Walter Reed Army Institute of Research
|Washington, District of Columbia, United States, 20307
|Study Chair:
|Merlin Robb
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|NCT00002232 History of Changes
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|First Posted:
|August 31, 2001 Key Record Dates
|Last Update Posted:
|June 24, 2005
|Last Verified:
|June 1999
Keywords provided by NIH AIDS Clinical Trials Information Service:
Injections, Intradermal
Injections, Intramuscular
HIV Antibodies
Immunity, Cellular
AIDS Vaccines
HIV Seronegativity
Dose-Response Relationship, Immunologic
Vaccines, DNA
Immunity, Mucosal
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
HIV Infections
Lentivirus Infections
Retroviridae Infections
RNA Virus Infections
Virus Diseases
Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Viral
Sexually Transmitted Diseases
Immunologic Deficiency Syndromes
Immune System Diseases
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Bloody Sunday
Background and Summary
"Bloody Sunday" occurred on March 7, 1965, when 600 civil rights marchers were attacked by state and local police with Billy clubs and tear gas so the march was cancelled. The route taken by the marchers is memorialized as the Selma to Montgomery National Historic Trail. On March 7, 1965, 525 to 600 civil rights marchers headed east out of Selma on U.S. Highway 80. Discrimination and intimidation had prevented Selma's Black population, roughly half of the city, from registering to vote three weeks earlier. On February 18, 1965, a trooper, Corporal James Bonard Fowler, shot Jimmie Lee Jackson as Jackson tried to protect his mother and grandfather in a café that they fled to while being attacked by troopers during a civil rights demonstration. Jackson died of an infection at Selma's Good Samaritan Hospital eight days later. The marchers hoped to bring notice to the violations of their rights by marching to the state capitol of Montgomery, Ala.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. called for a march from Selma to Montgomery to ask then-Governor, George Wallace, to protect Black registrants. Wallace denounced the march as a threat to public safety and declared he would take all measures necessary to prevent it. In their first march, led by John Lewis and the Reverend Hosea Williams, they made it only as far as the Edmund Pettus Bridge, which was just six blocks away. State troopers and sheriffs from the county police department, some of who were mounted on horseback, awaited the protestors. In the presence of the news media, the police attacked the peaceful demonstrators with Billy clubs, tear gas and bull whips, and drove them back into Selma.
America Reacts
Brutal images of the attack were televised, and this presented people with horrifying visions of peaceful marchers left bloodied and severely injured thereby rousing support for the U.S. civil rights movement. Amelia Boynton Robinson was nearly beaten and gassed to death — her photo appeared on the front page of newspapers and news magazines around the world. Seventeen marchers were hospitalized, leading people to the name that day, "Bloody Sunday." Rosa Parks also marched with them that day.
Immediately after "Bloody Sunday," King, as leader of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, began organizing a second march to be held on Tuesday, March 9, 1965, calling for people across the country to join him. Hundreds of people, shocked by what they had seen on TV, responded to his call. About 2,500 people marched from Selma to Montgomery for the second time.
To prevent another violent outbreak or opposition from law enforcement, the marchers attempted to gain a court order that would prohibit the police from interfering. Instead of issuing the court order, Federal District Court Judge Frank Minis Johnson issued a restraining order, preventing the march from taking place until he could hold additional hearings later in the week. Rather than abiding by the court order, the SCLC decided to hold a partial, "ceremonial" march, since hundreds of marchers had gathered for the event. The group did not want to alienate one of the few southern judges who gave them the court order and who was often sympathetic to their cause.
Finally, a third march was organized and the protest was successful in demonstrating the problems with discrimination, segregation and racism.
Sources: Wikipedia.com; The Selma Times-Journal. March 11, March 12, and March 14, 1965, editions.


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A Doncaster student has taken the first step on the ladder in her bid to be crowned Miss World.
Charlotte Mitchell, 17, received the most public votes in the Miss England semi final heat and will now go through to the finals of Miss South Yorkshire.
The official Miss England heat which leads to the Miss World competition is a direct heat to the Miss England grand final.
Miss South Yorkshire will take place on February 14 at the Hilton Hotel, Sheffield.
She will compete with 18 Miss South Yorkshire finalists for a place in the Miss England national final.


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Three Neurologists, three opinions.
The reality that doctors only practice medicine is disconcerting!
The reality that doctors only practice medicine is disconcerting!
But then . . . I know the Great Physician and He. is. God!
Sadness began to settle in my heart a bit today . . .
oh, and a dose of self-pity I suppose too.
Sad is somewhat acceptable.
But self-pity is sin.
So I closed myself in my room with my journal and my Jesus.
Immediately I am reminded of something our pastor said to us while still at the hospital. "Give me the hard facts of your situation. Your illness, your circumstance, your 'whatever'. There are no harder facts than God's promises in Scripture!"
We are lacking hard facts right now. But even once they figure out all that's going on in his cute little brain—no matter the good, the bad or the ugly—those medical facts are no harder, no truer, no surer than the promises God has made to both me and my husband. We are not only man and wife, we are brother and sister in the faith—co-heirs with Christ!
I pray and then I listen . . . and I hear—
"Be of good courage. You believe! Believe also in Me! Process your faith through these daily experiences. Embrace today—all of it! I will not let you down. You don't need to hear more from Me. You just need to live what you have already heard. Live your faith!"
And so, in a new way, I begin to live the faith I believe in my head by walking it out from my heart.
He is good, all the time!
All the time, He. IS. Good!
Thank you for your prayers—Soli Deo Gloria!
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1930s nurse Bea
Centenarian Bea's fond memories of training as a nurse here in the 1930s
Mrs Dunphy first moved to England to work as a nurse over 80 years ago
A Sligo nurse recently celebrated her 100th birthday and is looking back on the last decade and her achievements in midwifery, helping the unemployed and even becoming Redruth Carnival Queen, writes Fiona O'Brien.
Bea Dunphy's three daughters and two sons came together to celebrate with her and call her an 'inspiration'. Daughter Ingrid says: "Congratulations on reaching this amazing milestone of 100 years young, you are an inspiration to us all. May you continue to enjoy health and happiness."
Bridget Dunphy, Bea to all who know her, was born on December 3rd 1916 at Faranaharpy, Skreen, Co Sligo. Her parents, Henry & Kate Davis, were farmers and they had eight children, Bea being the second eldest.
Born on the cusp of the promise of a new and assertive Ireland, Bea's her future life of service bears testimony to the spirit of confidence born out of 1916. Bea departed for England in 1935, aged 19, to study nursing, taking her finals in late 1939 and obtaining the coveted title of State Registered Nurse.
She was very happy in her chosen career and enjoyed her time in England, particularly at Redruth Hospital in Cornwall, and Bridgewater, Somerset.
She became so much part of the Redruth scene that, in 1936, she overcame stiff opposition and was crowned Carnival Queen. In 1939 her sister Margaret joined her to study, the advent of World War II put any long-term plans of the two sisters on hold as the health services confronted total war.
Following a bout of diphtheria Bea resumed her Midwifery studies in Bristol and in 1944 became a State Registered Midwife and worked happily at Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge. But Bea's heart was in Ireland and she returned in 1945 securing a midwife position in Easkey on the princely annual salary of £80, rising to £100.
She continued to serve the people of Easkey and surrounds until her retirement in 1980, and is well revered for her help and support often in difficult times.
Life was hard and poverty widespread in rural Ireland in the 40s and 50s; and Easkey parish was no exception. Bea served her patients faithfully, cycling long distances to deliver babies before she got her first car, and often in the middle of night to the light of an oil lamp or candle, and with no running water.
She still speaks proudly of the babies she delivered in difficult circumstances, when calling out the doctor was a last resort. And indeed, there are many people in the parish who still fondly remind her that they are one of her "babies".
Bea met her future husband Joe, who had recently taken over the family farm, while lodging with Alice Dunphy in Easkey and they married in October 1949. Bea entered a new phase in her long life, combining her work as District Midwife, assisting with the running of the farm, and mother to five children.
Hard work, discipline and optimism personify her long life.
But that was not enough. Both Bea and Joe were passionate advocates of self-help and combined with others in the Easkey Development Association to undertake practical measures to improve Easkey and counter the scourge of unemployment in the parish.
The 1960s also saw a groundswell of action to promote farmers' rights by the National Farmers' Association (now IFA). Bea proactively assisted her husband who was NFA County Chairman, and Chairman of the NFA Rural Development Committee.
When nine farm leaders, including Joe, maintained a 25 day winter vigil outside Government buildings in pursuit of those rights, his place "on the chairs" was taken by Bea (and the other wives) while the nine men attended NFA council meetings.
Joe passed away in 1996 but Bea still lives independently in the village with the help of family, friends and carers. She still goes to Mass regularly and attributes her longevity to keeping active, enjoying regular seaweed baths, early to bed, eating only three meals a day and keeping in touch with current affairs.
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The Mississippi Department of Marine Resources (DMR) has received a grant from the Gulf of Mexico Community-based Restoration Partnership (GCRP) to help fund a part of the Deer Island Restoration Project. The GCRP is a multi-year, regional partnership between the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) Community-based Restoration Program (CRP); the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Gulf of Mexico Program's Gulf Ecological Management Sites (GEMS) Initiative; and the Gulf states and Caribbean territories. The purpose of this partnership is to strengthen the conservation efforts of the CRP and GEMS by supporting on-the-ground restoration activities and fostering local stewardship of ecologically significant areas.
The $20,000 grant, to be matched by DMR, will be used to help protect about 800 linear feet of shoreline on the northeast corner of Deer Island from erosion by creating a breakwater/berm using bags of recycled oyster shell stacked and staked along the shoreline. The breakwater/berm should be just below the surface of the water during high tide and exposed during low tides, and will break up the wave action along the shoreline, therefore reducing erosion. The recycled shell will be bound in mesh wire bags, which will eventually rust away leaving the oyster habitat free of debris.
Once the breakwater is in place, live oysters will be deployed along the base of the shells. The recycled oyster shells will provide suitable substrate for oyster spat (small oysters) to settle and create an oyster reef. The oyster reef in turn will attract fish and create a habitat for small marine plants and animals.
The initial deployment of oyster shell is planned for early March 2010.
The Deer Island Restoration Project is part of an ongoing effort to restore Deer Island to its original size prior to Hurricane Katrina. Deer Island is a GEMS site, which is part of a program developed in coordination with the EPA and the Gulf of Mexico Program to acquire information about coastal wetland sites and make them accessible to the public through the Internet. The Mississippi Department of Marine Resources Management Team for the Mississippi GEMS Program includes: Jeff Clark, site manager, and Rhonda Price, coordinator; DMR Shellfish Bureau Director Scott Gordon and DMR Marine Fisheries Scientist Marty Jones, project grantee; and the Gulf of Mexico Foundation Restoration Program Manager Ryan Fikes and Executive Director Quenton Dokken, corresponding project grantor.
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Anyhoo, here are some photos from around the house, the tree is one we bring in every year, it is looking slightly sad this year, for some reason it has started to grow in a curve!:
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CBS 46 reports from Georgia. "Atlanta home prices are the highest in recent memory. According to the Atlanta REALTORS Association, Atlanta's median home price jumped from $105,000 in 2012 to $250,000 today. With some properties seeing such quick gains in pricing, however, some real estate agents say Atlanta's market can't handle it. 'In 12 to 18 months I think that we will see a correction in prices,' Said Kris Kolarich of Atlanta Intown Real Estate Services. Kolarich believes Atlanta's housing bubble is about to burst. 'I don't see how you can sell houses in certain zip codes for $250,000 and $275,000 without commerce still, in heavy crime areas and without good schools,' he said."
The Miami Herald in Florida. "Close your eyes if you don't like bad news. The volume of existing home sales in Miami-Dade County fell 20.8 percent in July compared to July 2015, according to a monthly report released Wednesday by the Miami Association of Realtors. Three main factors are conspiring to slow down Miami's real estate market: Not enough affordable housing for locals. A lack of foreclosure inventory available for investors to snap up. And a major drop-off in the number of foreign buyers, who've been burned by the strong dollar."
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A few weeks back I wrote about what may be, for a little while at least, the world's largest fully-permitted onshore wind farm, the Shepherd's Flat Wind Farm. Located near Arlington, Oregon the farm will consist of 303 wind turbines spread over 30 square miles. It is expected to generate 2 billion kWh of electricity every year. At the time there was no word on when the facility would come online, but no longer: it is now expected that the plant will begin producing power in 2011 or 2012.
The other bit of new information on Shepherd's Flat is that the entirety of the wind farm's output will be bought by one utility: Southern California Edison. Announced this afternoon, SCE says it has signed a 20-year contract with DCE, an affiliate of Caithness Energy, the wind farm's developer.
This latest news means that SCE now has contracts in place to increase its renewable energy portfolio from its current 16% to over the state-mandated 20% by 2010. SCE's current renewable energy portfolio consists of, approximately, 62% geothermal power, 21% wind power, 5% solar and 5% biogas, 4% small-scale hydroelectric, and 3% biomass.
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