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Anaerobic Digestion ( AD) is a natural process where plant and animal materials (biomass) are broken down by micro-organisms in the absence of air. The AD process begins when biomass is put inside a sealed tank or digester. Naturally occurring micro-organisms digest the biomass, which releases a methane-rich gas ( biogas) that can be used to generate renewable heat and ...
based in UNITED KINGDOM.
The Anaerobic Digestion and Bioresources Association (ADBA) is the trade association for the anaerobic digestion (AD) industry in the UK and companies and organisations working on novel technologies and processes that compliment the anaerobic digestion process and products. With our members we promote the economic and environmental benefits of AD in the UK. We represent ...
based in London, UNITED KINGDOM.
We are solutions provider in the bioremediation field. We are a biotechnology company versed in producing microorganisms for wastewater treatment plants and methane producing plants. Engineering firms trust our products because we deliver results they can actually measure. We give back to life the place it deserves in our environmental engineered solutions.
based in Riviere-Du-Loup, QUEBEC (CANADA).
Colsen is situated in Hulst (The Netherlands). Our customer base is in the food-processing industry and in the communal & industrial waste water area. Colsen is specialized in the execution of projects in the area of water treatment and energy production via (anaerobic) digestion. The Colsen activities range from problem solving, design and engineering, project ...
based in HULST, NETHERLANDS.
Digested Organics was founded in 2013 in Ann Arbor, Michigan by a team committed to changing the way our society manages waste. Businesses in all sectors of our economy tend to create some unwanted material considered to be waste, and when deciding what to do with it, they typically have two goals in mind: minimize costs and reduce environmental impact. Our mission is to ...
based in Ann Arbor, MICHIGAN (USA).
Your partner for anaerobic digestion plants, biogas plants, biological waste treatment and sewage sludge digestion (high-performance digestion) – General contractor for turnkey plants – International plant manufacturing – Planning – Optimizing of operations.
based in Flensburg, GERMANY.
Zebec Biogas was formed to design, build and operate biogas plants. Historically Zebec supplied selected enzymes and micro-organisms in products which neutralise natural and synthetic waste that can arise from modern industrial and agricultural sources. Zebec have further taken this biological expertise and applied it on a large scale to anaerobic digestion. Zebec offers ...
based in Glasgow, UNITED KINGDOM.
American Products was established in 1991 in Port Saint Lucie, Florida. It remains a family owned and operated corporation dedicated to cleaning our environment. Its cleanup products provide safe, green, easy-to-use solutions for the world`s petroleum spills. Because of American Products` direct marketing, customers can be sure of the lowest prices, best technical ...
based in Woodstock, GEORGIA (US) (USA).
American Biogas Council is the first anaerobic digestion industry association in the United States that represents a full range of anaerobic digestion technologies and projects. We are the advocate for policy change in an effort to make industry investment more attractive. The mission of the American Biogas Council is to create jobs, environmental sustainability and ...
based in Washington, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA (USA).
AEV offers plant design, process engineering and equipment supply for sorting and anaerobic treatment of organic residue and highly polluted organic waste water including biogas handling and utilization. AEV`s core business is pre-treatment and anaerobic digestion of sewage sludge, sorted organic waste, agricultural residues and energy crops. The key components offered ...
based in Dresden, GERMANY.
One of our business philosophies is to treat waste at its source by converting it into energy for use on-site. We have developed a waste-to-energy concept designed to convert discarded food, paper and lawn trimmings into energy. The conversion process we believe best suited to the job is an enzyme enhanced microbial anaerobic digestion (EEMAD) operation.
based in Germantown, NEW YORK (USA).
Clearfleau Limited designs and builds on-site anaerobic digestion plants for renewable energy generation and treatment of effluents from the dairy, food and drink, and other industrial sectors. Clearfleau's innovative plants can be installed on confined sites enabling clients to reduce effluent and energy costs, whilst generating revenue from the energy produced.
based in Berkshire, UNITED KINGDOM.
AquaBio Environmental Technologies, Inc. (ABET, Inc.) incorporates `Green Chemistry` `a viable non-chemical method, with reduced regulatory issues.` ABET, Inc. is the Biology in your process system.`Since 1987, ABET, Inc., has been involved in the research, development, application, sales, & consulting, of non-pathogenic microorganisms for degradation of pollutants. Our ...
based in Hawthorne, CALIFORNIA (USA).
PMA Biotel Organic Solutions provides a range of professionally engineered aerobic biodigester systems to convert diverse organic waste materials into high value products such as pathogen-free organic fertilizer within 24 hours or less. By using high temperature (thermophilic) micro-organisms the Biotel process is much faster than conventional composting methods or ...
based in Lugwardine, UNITED KINGDOM.
entec biopower gmbh offers design, supervision of construction, commissioning and operational monitoring of biogas plants. Our customers not only demand technically superior biogas plants, but also attractive architectural design. We concentrate on the design of mid and large scale anaerobic digestion plants, having significant experience in realizing projects for a wide ...
based in Fussach, AUSTRIA.
ADI Systems is a world leader in industrial wastewater treatment and waste-to-energy solutions. Our innovative anaerobic and aerobic technologies reliably treat wastewater to help plants comply with environmental regulations and reduce/eliminate wastewater surcharges. We can assist with water reuse opportunities, and capture and treat biogas produced by anaerobic ...
based in Fredericton, NEW BRUNSWICK (CANADA).
Envor Protech Oy is the leading Finnish company in the field of biogas technology. We have over 20 years of experience and globally several successful references in industrial scale anaerobic digestion processes. Our EPAD (Envor Protech Advanced Digestion) process is proven, reliable and cost effective technology for producing energy and nutrients from organic waste. The ...
based in Kitee, FINLAND.
Zorg Biogas AG is a biogas plant construction company. Zorg Biogas`s Engineering bureau designs and constructs biogas plants around the globe. Biogas plants produce biogas or electrical power from agricultural / food waste and specially cropped green biomass. Biogas is produced by means of controlled anaerobic digestion treatment of organic materials by bacteria. Biogas ...
based in Zurich, SWITZERLAND.
B9 Organic Energy has evolved from the B9 family and has been set up specifically to develop the vast reserves of renewable energy embedded in organic matter. This organic matter is more commonly known as organic waste, and the energy potential can be harnessed using a natural process called Anaerobic Digestion. This process is the action of naturally occurring bacteria ...
based in Larne, UNITED KINGDOM.
Krieg & Fischer Ingenieure was founded January, 1st, 1999 by Andy Krieg and Torsten Fischer. Our service spectrum includes provision of all types of service in the field of digestion- and biogas technologies.
based in Göttingen, GERMANY.
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Victor George Rusinko, age 70, passed away Tuesday, January 28, 2014. He was born in Ravenna, Ohio on August 14, 1943, to parents John and Helen (Wanchick) Rusinko. Vic graduated from Immaculate Conception School and was a member of Immaculate Conception Parish and Knights of Columbus #1417. He was an early member of the Ravenna Boy's Club and as an adult returned to show movies to the members.
After graduating from Ravenna High School, Victor served as a radio operator in the US Army while stationed in Germany and traveling to different countries. He retired as a printer from the Record Courier after over 30 years of service. In his later years, Vic lost his short term memory, but could always recall rock and roll artists, TV shows, movies, and anything pertaining to the 1950'S.
He is survived by his brothers Ben of Ravenna and Ted of Las Vegas, NV; sisters: JoAnn (Paul) Gasper and Marian Miley both of Ravenna; as well as many loving nieces and nephews. Vic was preceded in death by his parents, sister Doris Gerren, brother Alex, infant brother Paul David, and his brothers-in-law Jim Gerren and Bill Miley.
Services were held at Immaculate Conception Church and burial has taken place at St. Mary Cemetery.
Victor and his family and friends would meet every Tuesday morning at East Main Subway for many years. Victor's family would like to express their sincere gratitude to the staff at Subway, the staff and drivers of PARTA, and especially the staff of Maple Wood Care Centre. Victor was always shown kindness and compassion while under their care.
Condolences and memories may be shared at www.wood-kortright-borkoski.com. Memorial contributions may be sent to Immaculate Conception Church, 409 W. Main St., Ravenna, OH 44266.
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As a counter to the proposal to halt funding for the U.S. troop deployment
by mid-1998, senators were also considering a nonbinding measure expressing
the desire to withdraw U.S. troops by the end of June 1998. Debate on the
measures began Thursday and was expected to continue today.
President Clinton has promised to bring U.S. troops home by next June, but
members of both parties have been frustrated with a mission that continues
to drag on, after earlier assurances that it would end last December, and
with the soaring cost of deployment.
But some are concerned a funding cutoff would send the wrong message at
a vulnerable point in the Bosnian peace process.
``Our troops are on the ground,'' said Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott,
R-Miss. ``We have some very serious circumstances that have evolved there
in the last 24 hours.'' He urged members to ``think very carefully'' before
imposing restrictions on Clinton.
Sen. Russell Feingold, D-Wis., proposed the outright funding cutoff for
the troop deployment as of next June 30. Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., ranking
Democrat on the Senate Armed Services Committee, then offered a substitute,
nonbinding measure declaring the U.S. intention to pull out of Bosnia in
mid-1998 and to turn over the burden of patrolling the war-torn country
to European allies.
``The Europeans should take a greater responsibility,'' Levin said. He said
his measure expressed ``the intention of Congress that a follow-on force,
which is likely to be necessary or may be necessary, is going to be one
that will not have American ground combat troops.''
But Sen. John Warner, R-Va., said he could not support a plan to have the
Europeans accept the entire Bosnia burden.
``You're going to say we'll now have a policy when there's a risk our people
will go to a safe haven in some other land and let the (allied) chaps ...
stay in harm's way?'' Warner asked. ``I find that unbelievable.''
In June, the House passed a proposal closer to Feingold's that would actually
cut off funding for the troop deployment. Differences in the House and Senate
versions would have to be worked out in negotiations.
Both House and Senate Bosnia proposals were part of the debate on the $268
billion defense authorization bill for fiscal 1998, which begins Oct. 1.
Clinton is unlikely to veto the entire bill over a sense-of-Congress measure.
But the administration has expressed vehement opposition to any proposal
ending the funding.
Feingold chided the administration for repeatedly upping its estimate of
the cost of the Bosnia mission, from less than $2 billion when it was supposed
to last a year to more than $7 billion after the current extended mission
``What we now have with U.S. involvement in the Bosnia operation is not
mission creep, it has become dollar creep,'' Feingold said.
NATO's decision to launch raids that nabbed one indicted Bosnia war crimes
suspect, killed another and left two other Bosnian Serbs under arrest marked
a sharp departure from the past cautious handling of accused war criminals.
For a year and a half, NATO relied on local officials turning in their own.
But the resulting stalemate led many in Congress to argue that unrest in
Bosnia would continue as long as war criminals went free.
Separately Thursday, the Senate Appropriations Committee and House Appropriations
defense subcommittee recommended their versions of the defense spending
plan for next year, each recommending modest increases in Clinton's request.
The House and Senate will have to work out major differences in their defense
budgets. The House wants to add $331 million as a down payment on nine more
B-2 bombers that could end up costing more than $13 billion. The Senate
bill specifically opposes any funding for B-2s beyond the 21 now in service
or on order.
The Senate legislation instead emphasizes shipbuilding, seeking accelerated
spending on a new aircraft carrier and funding for four Aegis destroyers,
one more than Clinton requested. Unlike the Senate bill, the House also
proposed a sharp cut in the Navy's FA-18 E and F fighter program.


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Pope Benedict Will Tweet Each Day During Lent
Pope Benedict XVI will send out a tweet a day during Lent in an effort to spread his messages to those who may have fallen out of touch with the Church.
Msgr. Paul Tighe told Vatican Radio that the Vatican's use of social media is an experiment to see what kind of impact it will have on it's mission to reach Catholics worldwide. The Vatican says their goal is to widely spread the brief papal messages to reach someone who has given up on Lent and their faith.
The Pope will send every tweet in English, Spanish, Italian, French and German via @Pope2YouVatican.
The first tweet, posted on Ash Wednesday, read: "Let us be concerned for each other, to stir a response in love and good works (Heb 10:24) #Lent #Pope2You."
Msgr. Tighe said that the Vatican is embracing Twitter as a potentially useful medium for direct and instant transmission of the pope's beliefs about all Catholic events.


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Oneonta woman arrested for selling wooden shed on Craigslist that belonged to Delaware County
Mon, 14 Jul 2014 20:06:09 GMT —
An Oneonta woman is facing a maximum sentence of four years in prison for selling an Amish wooden shed that belonged to the Delaware County Department of Social Services.
39-year-old Shannon Lynne Gano was arrested after an investigation into the sale a shed, valued at $2,100, on Craigslist.
Otsego County Sheriffâ??s Deputies say the shed was being stored at Ganoâ??s home with the understanding that she did not own it.
The Craigslist sale happened in June, according to deputies.
Gano was arraigned and is being held in the Otsego County Correctional Facility, pending a future court date.


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22 Days Upper Dolpo trek, also called Inner Dolpo trek. One of the most specials treks in Nepal, visit Phoksumdo Lake, Shey Gompa, Saldang, Do Tarap and see the famous yak caravans of the Himalaya.
The Dolpo region is also known as Ba Yul, `the hidden land`. Eric Valli shot his famous Oscar nominated Nepal movie `Caravans of the Himalaya` in this remote part of Dolpo.
Type: Tent trek
Total duration: 22 days
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From day one we had a great time in Nepal !! The reception has been great (every time by the way we came by your office). We drank a lot of Nepali tea together. With your help and Hira's we have seen a lot of Nepal . Everything was taken care of and we felt really s
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The Beauty Bug has always said that great minds think alike…
A London woman recently "lashed" out against L'Oreal after she suspected that Penelope Cruz was wearing false eyelashes in the commercial for its Telescopic Mascara. She protested to the UK's Advertising Standards Authority who surprisingly listened and act. Refreshing, isn't it?
If you recall, The Beauty Bug made the same claim a while back.
According to an article in the Daily Mail, "It (the ASA) found the TV commercial misleading and said the magazine advert failed to be accurate and true. During the investigation, the French company admitted that the star had been wearing individual false lashes.
The ASA has ordered L'Oréal to add a disclaimer to future adverts whenever models are shown wearing false lashes.
It also told the firm to make it clear that its "60 per cent" claim referred to the appearance of the lashes – not to an actual extension in the length that could be achieved by using the mascara."
L'Oreal added that "Penelope Cruz was wearing a few individual false lashes inserted into her natural lashes to fill in the gaps in her natural lashes for a consistent standard of lashes."
A signed affidavit from the star and her make-up artist supported this.
The Telescopic mascara was applied on top.
Few things come to mind after hearing about this. How did L'Oreal think they were going to get away with this? It's SO blatantly obvious.
The Beauty Bug is surprised that we don't hear about this more often with other cosmetics companies…L'Oreal got the slap on the wrist that they deserve, but they also need some time out in the corner. Shame on them…


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Nice review man, have a pos. I really like how you actually talk about the music itself, and it flows nicely. The formatting's a bit wonky so you might want to fix that, and there are a few too many "I" statements, but otherwise very nice job!
Album Rating: 4.0 | Sound OffWhat's up with the url stuff in at the beginning?
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Yeah, that first paragraph is all messed up.
Good review.
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On a stormy night in rural Spain a crying baby is abandoned at the gates of a monastery. The baby is adopted and brought up by the monks who inhabit this isolated commune. He grows up to become the orders most powerful and pious preacher - Brother Ambrosio (Vincent Cassel). His sermons are famous throughout the parish, with the locals receiving him with a mixture of respect and fear. However when Valerio - a young disfigured character who wears a mask to hide their burnt face - arrives at the monastery a series of devastating incidents begin to unravel which puts Ambrosio's spirituality to the test.
Sadly, Moll doesn't show the same restrain, all too often allowing his overly stylised direction to dilute the film's Gothic charms. Certain elements work well, especially the juxtaposition of the bright Spanish countryside with the gloomy composition of the film's medieval monastery and the Georges Franju-inspired depiction of Valerio which clearly owes a debt to the French auteur's Eyes Without a Face. What perhaps is most jarring however is Moll's hilariously misguided use of circular fades which completely detracts from the film's brooding and ominous ambiance.
Where The Monk does impress is in how it manages to make the scandalous narrative of the original eighteenth century text still appear controversial today. It's clear to see why this story of sadistic nuns and sexually charged monks would evoke scandal back when it was originally released but for Moll's film to achieve the same degree of moral discomfort in an age where audience are desensitised to all but the most repugnant of violence and horror is a remarkable achievement in storytelling.
This overblown, yet strangely immersive Faustian tale takes the narrative foundations of a Shakespearean tragedy and forces them through a Gothic filter with erratic results. Deeply menacing yet strangely sterile, Moll's dark investigation of the psychological depths of spirituality is successful in never descending to melodrama, but The Monk ultimately fails to leave a lasting impression.
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As Auggy wrote in a review of this tea, it is very similar to Cream Soda. The vanilla aroma is lovely but I think that the vanilla overpowers the jasmine in the tea. I like this quite well, but I've had better Jasmine teas and I've had better Vanilla teas. I think that the combination does not dance symbiotically. Vanilla takes too much of a lead.
Drinking Vanilla Jasmine was more than a little pleasant but not enough of a knock-out for me to invest in a full size. But I can understand why some palates will award this with a top score of 100.
Thank you so very much to Jenn-Cha for sending me a sample of this.
The tea is really a sort of dark purple-brown color when brewed. And it's also that rarity for me: a truly unique tea. It's delicious and I've never tasted anything quite like it. The Old Wilmington Tea Company describes it as being musky, which it is—in the very best sense. It smells as if the tea had been grown in the middle of a vineyard, with a rich, deep fertilizer. I would not say that the tea is like wine, but it does leave an after-taste quite reminiscent of a big Tuscan wine. It is not merely the color! I also note a particular taste which is NOT unpleasant but which I can only describe as Korean buckwheat noodles served with an Italian wine.
This tea is clearly cosmopolitan and sophisticated!
Thanks very much to the wonderful CAIT, I had a sample of this tea. I'd had it around for a while but have not been drinking much rooibos at all. Last night I wanted a hot drink, and decided to try this one.
Unlike other tasters, I thought that the taste was not off at all—at least not off for me. Maybe it's the black current? I liked the fact that the rooibos did not stick out its head and start singing "I am sawdust, hear me roar". Instead, it was a docile and quiet vehicle for a mild-mannered vanilla/current beverage.
I think that Art of Tea has done a better job than many places of formulating rooibos blends. For me, it's tantamount to sticking the pill in cat food and hoping that the cat does not notice. Typically the cat glares daggers at me before he or she is within a room-full of the tainted food but every now and then there's a cat who bravely (or naively) will eat the food and eat the pill and make life easy for everyone. Art of Tea seems to conceal rooibos like the bitter pill that must be adulterated.
But I ramble. This rooibos tea reminded me that they need not all be deadly.
As others have mentioned, I found this tea to be a tad bitter although I did not oversteep it. I think next time I'll give it 3 mins. instead of four. It's pure almond and I have had better almond. There is something just slightly synthetic about this—-not really synthetic but as if it relied more on almond oil than some of the other teas. It is not a bad tea but I do have other almond teas that I keep around and so I probably will not reorder this one.
As a side-note, however, you can get this in a very generous $2.00 sample size which I strongly recommend. I like almond so much, that an almond tea can hardly go wrong with me unless it is utterly tasteless.
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I always thought that cats had an innate system of checks and balances that involved leaping up on tables but not knocking over the long-stemmed wine-glasses or not leaping into the tea mugs.
My first infusion of this was poured into a very nice bee house banilla-colored (I made that it — it's not quite the white of a vanilla and not quite the yellow of a banana) 5 ounce mup (not quite cup; not quite mug) that I use for a lot of my smaller samples.
Anyhow, as it was cooling my calico cat Zoey took a flying leap at it and the tea and the mup flew off the desk. Fortunately nothing broke but Zoey stared at me imperiously as I cleaned it up.
I proceed to make second infusion. I am a bit underwhelmed. I've had green teas that have really nice vegetal or buttery tastes and the most recent one I had, a Wazuka Sencha, was delighfully complex. This one is pedestrian at best. I would not invest in it as a "go-to" green tea. It's not awful—it just does not have any zing or snap crackle pop or butter or grass to it. Maybe it needed a longer steeping but a green tea can turn in the blink of an eye from a buttercup to a rancid bitter old shrew. How delicate then can be.
Zoey is unrepentent. RIght now she's licking the tea off her toes with the spirit of a Rosie the Riveter.
The O Dor sent me a free sample of this delicious green tea. Next time I order from them I will select a full size of this. It's grassy and a bit fruity although I cannot really identify the fruits—not exactly melon or citrus but perhaps a bit of a peach/nectarine/plum thing.
It's a very fine tea indeed with some butter to it, but not so much as to be distracting.
Thank you to LORI for this sample. I am drinking it right now and find it simply delicious. As Ricky noted, the dry leaf seems to equally feature greenish lemongrass and black leaves—and it's an attractive mix.
Yes, it smells like Lemon Pledge but what if Lemon Pledge is really the aroma of lemon? I'm just saying—every since the Lemon Pledge comparison here was published, I've been afflicted by Lemon-y Pledge-ness. In the mouth, however, it's really not at all a polishing agent nor the least bit chemical or synthetic.
I think that this is an excellent choice for lovers of lemon and wish I had a handy slice of lemon to add. I also suspect it would be a fantastic iced tea. Perhaps the better name would be something like "Superior Black Lemon Tea" because it was hard for me to detect a Yunnan note but I can certainly taste that the black tea is a high quality one.
I have not tasted too many of them, but this is certainly the best lemon black tea blend I have had. I would consider purchasing a full load of it.
Or maybe I'm just in a good mood because I had a particularly bright Dolcetto with a dinner prepared by somebody else. (Query: why does tea taste better when I brew it myself but food and wine taste better when cooked and decanted by somebody else???)
EDIT: I think that Adagio has done something very WRONG with their Lapsang Souchongs in the past year—or else my taste has evolved. I would not order from them again. It's weak and synthetic.
Have I ever met a Lapsang Souchong I did not like? Does a bear wear a mitre around hte Vatican? I wanted to test some Adagio samples and sprang for a full-load of this and do not regret it.
I think that Narien LS is smokier and stronger and I like the sweetness that Black Dragon from Upton Teas adds, but Adagio has acquitted itself more than honourably here. Very well done and their speedy shipping is deeply appreciated.
I know that I will order this again. I have a perpetual motion machine going of various Lapsang Souchongs coming in and going out and I don't know that I will develop loyalty to any one brand—beyond my need to keep Black Dragon in stock. Knowing that I like this tea so much, I might see if I can concoct a special blend, although I cannot conceive of a Souchong sharing center stage with other flavors.
And I now see that this is my tasting note #200! It is right and fitting that it be in celebration of a Lapsang Souchong.
Wonderful note and congratulations on 200!
This was my first ever LS and thus will always have a special place in my heart and my cupboard. Now that I've had the Black Dragon and Narien (thanks to you!) I know for sure that this is a good LS, but I do like the other two a bit better :)
This elegant dry leaf brews up to a somewhat lackluster tea. I have tasted green teas that had tons more character and I've even had white teas that offered more.
I think, however, that the problem is ME and not Golden Moon. I'm one of Swift's over-sized Brobdingagians in my taste and my temperaments. I like the huge big bow-wow and Snow Spout is like one of those delicate tiny humming-birds: blink and you don't see it. I think that lovers of green tea might like this a lot and it's worth trying for lovers of white tea.
I'm thinking of Stevie Smith's charming couplet:
"That Englishwoman is so refined,
She has no bosom and no behind."
This tea has got no bosom, no behind, but it is most certainly refined.
Many many thanks to the benevolent RICKY who sent me a generous sample of Honey Pear. Like others have said, the dry tea does not give away much in its odor. The brewed tea is sweet and delicious. It is very pleasantly sweet, just slightly astringent, and while the aftertaste of pear emerges quite nicely, it does not taste overtly of pear.
All in all, I don't think I would buy a full order of this tea, but I might consider it. I think that the flavor of pear is elusive and delicate and hard to capture. When I think of Golden Moon's Melon Tea, which I adore, I think that this one is a failure—perhaps a noble failure, but it just does not hit that great mark of prominence. If I wake up tomorrow jonesing for this tea, I will be certain to revise my note.
One aspect of tea that is important to me is "memory". Do I remember the tea when it's not in front of my face? Do I think of it fondly? Do I make up endearing little nicknames for it? Do I anthropomorphize the tea? I can remember good teas that taste wonderful. That's a bit different than remembering a tea because of the time and place (you can bet I was thrilled with myself to be drinking tea in London's Tate, but I am not certain that it was the tea as much as the location and the Turner excitement).
So we will see if Honey Pear makes another entry into my life. Will it be a very minor character or will it become a friend? Is it merely going to flirt with friendship? Or am I the one flirting with it?
"Th'event", as Shakespeare often and very economically said to indicate that time and the future will reveal the outcome.
Wonderful thoughts on "tea memory." I must admit that I had a very memorable tea this morning that I'm still trying to decide where it fits in the Shakespeare cannon. The tea (which will be revealed later) was the best part of my day. :)


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$1.25 trillion. That's how gargantuan the global e-commerce market is expected to become in the next year. As more customers gravitate toward online shopping with their mobile devices, the swelling bottom lines of international retail web stores are pointing to a different kind of bottom line: there's gold in them thar hills of global e-retail.
All that Cyber Monday virtual doorbuster-sale craziness in recent weeks has shown us a telling trend as well: America's retail culture is catching on in other countries.
This begs a looming question if you're considering mining the increasingly rich hills of global e-commerce. How should you approach international retail and e-commerce localization for overseas markets? While there are many aspects to consider, we've singled out five big ones to help you build your strategy.
1. Consistent visual branding
For each and every foreign market that you expand into, it is extremely important that your end users feel that they can trust your localized website; lacking trust, they will abandon it and spend money elsewhere.
Part of engendering consumer faith in your company's website for global e-commerce is maintaining consistent branding across all of your site iterations while localizing to their cultural expectations. Think about how much of your visual color scheme and layout you can reproduce, keeping in mind how translated text can expand or contract—take up more or less space—within content frames, lists or buttons on your localized website.
2. Payment processing
People generally feel more comfortable engaging in online monetary transactions when their own form of currency is used, so make sure that your shopping cart software is capable of performing currency conversion during the checkout process.
Different countries also have different preferred payment systems when it comes to global e-commerce. Conduct research to find out how your target markets expect to pay for products. Brazilians are big on mobile, so you may decide to offer your Brazilian customers an online payment mobile app. The Chinese typically pay upon product delivery, which Amazon catered to when they rolled out the Amazon China site. Germans, predominantly concerned about privacy issues, prefer physical invoices and debit cards as opposed to credit card payments online. And while PayPal seems omnipresent, it's not available or accepted everywhere.
3. Local promotions
While the United States' behemoths in global e-commerce outdid themselves during Black Friday and Cyber Monday by taking holiday deals global, it would still behoove you to design sales and promotions with your target countries in mind. You may need to push different promotions and abide by different schedules depending on your target market's holidays and seasonal shopping habits.
Most of us are keen to shop for Mother's Day cards and gifts—but not in the middle of the holiday season! While a special Mother's Day online promotion around the first week of May would make sense for shoppers in the United States, the timing would be off for customers in Norway. In that country, Mother's Day is celebrated the second Sunday in February.
4. Shipping and delivery
Of course, a large part of global e-commerce entails how you will get your products to your customers. Shipping costs vary wildly depending on which countries you're servicing, costing just one dollar in Asia to ship one kilogram compared to around six dollars in the United States. Expectations around delivery timetables differ from country to country as well.
How fast do consumers in your target countries expect their products? Do they want an estimated delivery date displayed on your website? And for that matter, what are your shipping and delivery logistics within each target country? Are there any shipping restrictions in your target country that could pose a serious roadblock to delivering your items?
5. Online customer service
We don't have to tell you how important reliable and localized customer support is for global e-commerce, no matter what country you're dealing with. Every customer touch point is an opportunity for positive impact on your company's local and global reputation. Now is a good time to think about the online support channels and features you will provide to your customers in other countries.
Are you going to provide live online chat environments? A social media account dedicated to the country you're localizing for? Either of these options will require an in-country staff person and perhaps even a support center within your target country.
If this were a mammoth shopping mall of advice on global e-commerce, we've only just barely browsed a handful of wares. There are many other critical areas to think about.
In the meantime, we invite you to toss in your two quarters (upped from the traditional two cents due to the exchange rate). What are your plans for entering the global e-tailer ring?


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Athletic Associations
BWSA provides a safe, fun, learning environment for kids 4 through 19.
Soccer is offered in spring and fall with each season lasting 8 weeks.
Registration occurs approximately 6 months ahead of the season, with a final late registration about 2 months before the season.
In house games are on Saturdays and travel games are on Sundays.
For more information please see the BWSA web site at: www.bwsasoccer.org
Greater Baldwin-Whitehall Athletic Association - South Division (GBWAA-S) for Whitehall and Baldwin kids who live on the South side of Route 51, although others are also welcome.
Baseball and slow-pitch softball for boys & girls ages 5-17, fast-pitch softball for girls 11-18.
Spring season starts practice about April 1, games start about May 1 (2/week), season over by July 4.
Also offers Fall Ball: Baseball for boys 8-12, fast-pitch softball for girls 10-18.
For further information or to register go to our website at: www.gbwaa.org
Spring season registers in February
Fall season registers in July
The Baldwin Hockey Club is a non-profit organization that sponsors ice hockey as a club sport for residents of the Baldwin-Whitehall School District. Membership is open to any 6th through 12th grader who has an interest in competitive ice hockey. We also have a new developmental program for younger players.
Our Varsity, Junior Varsity (JV), and Freshman teams compete in the Pennsylvania Interscholastic Hockey League (PIHL), are sanctioned by USA Hockey, and operate under the guidelines set forth by those organizations. The hockey season begins in mid-October and continues through March.
Past accomplishments have included a Pennsylvania State Championship, "The Pittsburgh Cup," and an undefeated season. With the dedication of the coaching staff, the players, the parents, and the leadership of the Club's Board Members, the Club is looking to continue its tradition of excellence and commitment to sportsmanship and athletic and personal development.
For more information,
Go the the Baldwin Hockey Club web site at: baldwinhockeyclub.org
or Contact Bob Abbott at: 412-881-6769
The "BWAA" as it is known in the community is dedicated to providing children an opportunity to play ball (baseball or softball) in an environment that is structured, supervised and most of all enjoyable to children and their families.
We are proud to be a part of two communities (Baldwin and Whitehall) for over thirty years. The BWAA is open to children from all communities and is dedicated to the principle that no child will be denied the opportunity to play ball.
The BWAA has structured leagues in the following age groups for girls and boys:
15 and over
These age groups are guides and are not designed to restrict a child. Should you have a question concerning your child the BWAA can help you decide. The overriding principle of where a child can play is safety for the child and other children. The BWAA is a parent run organization.
We rely on the volunteer-ism of the parents and guardians of our children to see that we provide the best chances for our children to play. The BWAA believes in playing ball in an environment that shows a high level of sportsmanship.
We are proud to say that we are the first organization in the area that is developing a code of conduct for parents, managers, coaches and umpires. This code of conduct will ensure that children play in an atmosphere that is conducive to the highest level of sportsmanship with good clean competition.
For more information go to our website: BWAAbaseball.org
Baldwin-Whitehall Youth Football (& Cheerleading) Association (BWYFA) for Whitehall and Baldwin youth, although others are also welcome. Football for boys ages 7-13, cheerleading for girls entering grades 2-8.
Practice starts about August 1 (5 nights/week for football, 3 nights/week for cheerleading). Once school starts, Saturday games begin, and practice is reduced to 3 nights/week for football, 2 nights/week for cheerleading.
BWYFA is part of the South Suburban Youth Football League with teams from B-W, Brentwood, South Side, Steel Valley & West Mifflin.
Season is 10 Saturdays beginning end of August, with byes on 2 of those Saturdays (total of 8 games). Home games (4) are at Baldwin High School stadium.


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After a 40% off coupon at Michaels for the cording and a relatively cheap bag of hex nuts from Lowes, this project came out relatively inexpensive. I did mine different than the tutorial and continued the braid a little further. I ended each end with a spring finding and hooked on a small clasp. Nice idea for a gift!
Tuesday, July 26, 2011
I'm Going Nuts
I made these easy-peasy hex nut bracelets this evening. You can find the tutorial here. And because it isn't too specific... I used 8-32 Zinc Hex nuts and 1.2mm hemp cording.
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Well done they look fantastic. We don't have Michaels here in the UK, but when we were in Vancouver in june we found one, I knew there was one there but I hadn't written down the address! so I text my daughter back home who googled and text me back the address a short train ride to the shop and hey presto I was in my first Michaels lolReplyDelete
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First off I just want to say that I am so happy I found this site! I am on it all day at work (my job is kind of boring at times) reading, no more like devouring every bit of information, stories, recovery tips, just anything that has to do with my upcoming surgery. My friends and family have been so supportive and by my side since I decided to finally have a TT w/ liposuction and MR but I think I may be wearing on their patience considering this has become the main topic of my life for the past month. lol :)
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More on Houghton
In reading the article in the Nov. 25 issue of City Pulse, "Who's Checking?", regarding soon to be Council member Tina Houghton, I must say to the mayor, if it had been me running for a seat on the Council, there would have been a background check done in a heartbeat. How can a person be appointed to serve on a board when they cannot pay their property taxes and — surprise — Houghton is serving on the Parks Boar
Somewhere within the system, someone is failing to do his or her job. If a person is applying for a job, there is a background check, and also if you are trying to rent an apartment. Since Houghton is a friend to the mayor, I guess she can do as she pleases.
There are a number of people that are living from month to month but pay their taxes; if not, there would be a foreclosure. How long does it take to do a background check on someone? Just long enough to do the right thing to follow the City Charter and make sure people are qualified to sit on a board or run for office.
Houghton does not deserve a seat on Council or any other board within the city of Lansing. As the old adage goes, "it's not what you know, but who you know." It seems to me that she is a friend of the mayor's and she can get what she wants, which is a seat on Council by hook or crook.
As mayor of the city of Lansing, having the power to appoint people to various boards and other positions, it is your responsibility to check their background or have one of your staff do it for you. Since when are you too busy to obey the charter you have sworn to uphold? Once again, I feel that Houghton should not be able to serve and I am sure there are others who feel the same but will not speak up. Citizens of Lansing, wake up — we have four more years to put up with the mayor appointing people to positions and not checking their background. Who is next?
— Hazel Bethea Lansing
On last week's SoS column
I can empathize with Kyle Melinn's anecdote about frustrating visits to the local Secretary of State branch office. Like most Michiganians, I have my own tales of woe. Unfortunately, while Melinn's column is long on storytelling, it's short on substance. The reality is that Secretary Terri Lynn Land's proposal to close and consolidate the East Lansing branch office is (at best) penny wise and pound foolish.
It's no surprise Kyle encountered a line at the East Lansing branch, because it's the busiest in Mid-Michigan. In fiscal 2009, it conducted over 114,000 transactions resulting in over $13.9 million in collections. Land claims that her closure proposal will help "manage finite resources." However, her own documentation reveals that closing the East Lansing branch office will save only $2,200 annually. The new consolidated office proposed to replace it will be less efficient, resulting in only $91 per transaction compared to $122 in East Lansing.
Perhaps more important than the money is the impact that this proposed closure will have on East Lansing. Branch offices are more than line items in a budget; they provide needed services to real people who depend on them. Melinn seems to think that the increased availability of Internet transactions is a panacea that has rendered branch offices unnecessary. Nothing could be further from the truth. East Lansing has a sizable population of seniors who lack ready access to the Internet or may be uncomfortable with using it to transact personal business. These seniors depend on the convenience of the downtown East Lansing branch.
Additionally, the East Lansing office serves the 46,000 students of Michigan State University. Like seniors, MSU students will be disproportionately affected by the proposed closure. Most students have limited means of transportation and depend on the convenience of a branch located close to campus.
Closing this branch will create yet another unnecessary obstacle for students who wish to register to vote in East Lansing.
Finally, it's worth noting that the branch office brings scores of people into East Lansing's downtown. Like Melinn's self-reported trip to Georgio's, they come to renew their vehicle registration and stay to enjoy a coffee or patronize a local store. These patrons will be lost if the secretary closes this office.
The East Lansing City Council unanimously supported my resolution calling on the secretary of state to reconsider the closure. The landlord who leases the existing office space is ready to work with the secretary of state to accomplish needed savings. The bottom line is that closing the East Lansing branch office will result in inconveniences for residents, hardships for seniors and MSU students, and reduced activity in downtown East Lansing, all for a meager savings of $2,200 annually at a less efficient consolidated office.
I hope that concerned citizens will express their feelings by contacting Secretary Land at (888) 767-6424 and asking her to keep the East Lansing branch office open.
— Nathan Triplett East Lansing City Council
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MusicBrainz Installation
I just have a question concering my installation of musicbrainz. I downloaded the client version from their site and the installation goes smooth then I go to install libmusicpimp and I get the error telling me that it is unable to find Version 2.1.0 or higher of the MusicBrainz. I have just installed and ran a ldconfig is there any other options that I should be including? This is on my Fedora box. Thanks again.
Have you tried unininstalling musicbrainz, installing libmusicpimp and then re-installing musicbrainz?
I had something very similar to this happen with a different software package and it worked! (stranger things have happened) Unless I'm missing it completely, it can't hurt to try.
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No I haven't, I am using fedora and apt-get with synaptic should I remove it via synaptic or should I use another method? All that help I get I will take thanks
figured this one out, to replace the old version I had to add the prefix=/usr in my configure. All is well!
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Crowlers are changing the way we take beer home
Ian Anderson 5:30 p.m., Sept. 18
So if you've never heard a teddy bear talk about anal sex and God's farts, well, here's your chance: the trailer for Ted!
If I wasn't a useless old man, I would know how to do an awesome video mashup of this and Mel Gibson's The Beaver. But alas - click to enlarge.
I don't have a bear like Ted, but I do have a dog that sings "You're the First, The Last, My Everything" like Barry White.
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Woman Critically Injured In Shooting
COLUMBUS, Ohio
Columbus Police are searching for the person responsible for shooting a woman Saturday night in southeast Columbus.
Police say 29-year-old Cassie McClain left her mother's house in the 2800 block of Tennyson Boulevard just after 10 p.m. and was seen talking to a man in her car.
Witnesses say they heard an argument, then a gunshot.
Someone then drove McClain to the area of Old Courtright Road and Kimberly Parkway, where medics responded.
She is listed in critical condition.
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Hi newbies po ak0 magkan0 p0 kaya ang tax deducti0n sa PnG
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As the forum language is ENGLISH please post in ENGLISH only so that we all can understand your post.
I just want t0 ask, h0w much is the tax deducti0n in Png
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2014 47th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (2005)
Big Island, Hawaii
Jan. 3, 2005 to Jan. 6, 2005
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Shih-Wei Chou , National Kaohsiung First University of Science of Technology
Chien-Hung Liu , Hsing Kuo University of Management
A framework that delineates the relationships between learner control and learning effectiveness is absent. This study aims to fill this void. Unlike previous research, this study compares the learning effectiveness between two learning environments: traditional classroom and Technology-mediated Virtual Learning Environment (TVLE). Our work focuses on the effectiveness of a TVLE in the context of basic information technology skills training. Grounded in the technology-mediated learning literature, this study presents a framework that addresses the relationship between the learner control and learning effectiveness, which contains four categories: learning achievement, self-efficacy, satisfaction, and learning climate. In order to compare the learning effectiveness under traditional classroom and TVLE, we conducted a field experiment. Data were collected from a junior high school of Taiwan. A total of 210 usable responses were analyzed. We identified four results from this study. (1) Students in the TVLE environment achieve better learning performance than their counterparts in the traditional environment; (2) Students in the TVLE environment report higher levels of computer self-efficacy than their counterparts in the traditional environment; (3) Students in the TVLE environment report different levels of satisfaction than students in the traditional environment; and (4) Students in the TVLE environment report higher levels of learning climate than their counterparts in the traditional environment. The implications of this study are discussed, and further research directions are proposed.
Learner control; Technology-mediated Virtual Learning Environment (TVLE); Effectiveness
Shih-Wei Chou, Chien-Hung Liu, "Learning Effectiveness in Web-Based Technology-Mediated Virtual Learning Environment", 2014 47th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, vol. 01, no. , pp. 3a, 2005, doi:10.1109/HICSS.2005.385


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I got dysport on monday april 12th 2010, on sat april 17th i woke up with a very heavy burning sensation in my chest, not flu like just disturbing. Not my usual on-set of a cold. Barely made it through work and stayed in bed sunday with more symptoms;head ache, fever, chills, sweating, coughing, entire body weakness(severe),INSOMNIA, no vomit. Went to doc on monday and got amoxicillian and cough syrup and stayed in bed all week!
It's now sunday april 25th and I feel so sick, it's my body weakness and out of touch feeling that scares me the most. I still have "flu-like" symptoms and I have not slept more than an hour here and there only at night. can't get to sleep. I'm definitely scared that i'm not getting any better. Diarrhea started today too.
I've called numerous health officials to try and get some help. I have no answers only questions. Has anyone gotten very ill from dysport and how long did it last?
Had botox twice before nothing negative. Had the dysport only for frown lines(it did work). Thank God i was on a budget and couldn't do my eyes. I can't imagine this being any more severe. I've looked all over the net for answers and it's very likely this is a side effect from dysport, and I know my body this is not the flu!
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Earthquake strikes Philippines: Aftershocks have followed
A powerful earthquake has struck the central Philippines, killing at least 20 people and injuring many others, according to civil defence officials.
The quake, with a magnitude of 7.2, has been followed by strong aftershocks. The epicentre of the earthquake was beneath the island of Bohol which appears to have suffered extensive damage.
The BBC's Jonathan Head said many historic buildings had been severely damaged.
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NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- I'm not sure why I let this stuff bother me so much.
I guess, at the end of every hard-earned day ... if I expect to still find some reason to believe, I need to cue up Springsteen and then call out financial media injustice. This time with respect to Pandora (P).
It's a shame to see Seeking Alpha, the site that provided me and so many of my friends and colleagues with an excellent platform to learn and grow from, devolve into a sweatshop for uninformed and poorly-researched "Short Ideas."
There's a "contributor" to Seeking Alpha who stands out among the handful who constantly publish bearish Pandora proclamations. This person only rises from the pack because his short theses do not stand up to even the lightest journalistic eyeball or most casual edit.
I presume Seeking Alpha has stopped using editors because the ones I worked with between 2011 and 2012 would have never let this sort of tripe get past them.
In "Quoth the Raven's" most recent Pandora piece, he tells us that ...
Clearly, the active listeners have started to hit some type of plateau ...
He makes this case void of any context whatsoever beyond what he can pull from his clearly uninformed and shamefully opportunistic perch.
First, moderation in the growth of listenership, whether you choose to use listener hours or active listeners, has been expected for years. It's expected as a general function of the broad business Pandora runs in. But it's also expected by Pandora's own admission.
This is where Seeking Alpha is culpable. Any good editor would have directed this "writer" to do a search for the Pandora ticker (it's 'P') at the very Web site he writes for. He would have, after about a minute and a half of searching, come across the articles I cited in this week's Pandora: The Definitive Look Back and Look Ahead.
These linked articles, published at Seeking Alpha, explicitly state -- in my own words and in the words of Pandora's CFO in 2012 -- that Pandora would see growth moderate. Anybody who has even studied the dynamics of Pandora's business understands this. It's not the shocking relevation "Quoth the Raven" makes it out to be. It's not something Pandora has been hiding from us and does not want us to see.
There's absolutely zero smoke and mirrors here.
As transparent as can be, Pandora has been anticipating and preparing for moderation in growth for years. Certainly longer than this person has been producing hack journalism for a once-respected Web site. And, like the good business it is, Pandora has clear-headed ideas on how its business will play out.


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Henry van Dyke (1852-1933) was an American clergyman, educator, and author. He graduated from Princeton in 1873, and from Princeton Theological Seminary in 1874. He was pastor of the Brick Presbyterian Church, New York City (1883-99), professor of English literature at Princeton (1899-1923), and U.S. minister to the Netherlands (1913-16). Among his popular inspirational writings is the Christmas story The Other Wise Man (1896). As President Wilson's ambassador to the Netherlands from 1913, Van Dyke was a first-hand witness to the outbreak of World War I and its progress, and was a key player in the President's diplomatic efforts to keep the U.S. out of the conflict.
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BOZEMAN -- Michelle Larson, a Montana State University alumna and the president and CEO of the Adler Planetarium in Chicago, will give an Astronomy Day lecture at 3 p.m. Saturday, April 5, in the Taylor Planetarium of MSU's Museum of the Rockies.
Larson will discuss "Cosmic Wonder, The Only Thing Bigger Than the Universe is Human Curiosity." The lecture is free and open to the public.
Throughout time, humans have engaged with the cosmos through an ongoing cycle of wonder, observation and discovery, according to Larson. In this talk, she will discuss the universe, from ancient observations to modern discoveries, as well as unsolved mysteries that still challenge scientists. Featuring historic images from the Adler Planetarium's archive, as well as modern satellite data, Larson will tell the story of how we've built, over time, an understanding of the workings of the cosmos. The audience will also hear about Zooniverse, citizen science projects that allow anyone to participate in frontier science and help unlock mysteries of the unknown.
In 2013, Larson became the first female president of the Adler Planetarium, "America's First Planetarium." A native of Anchorage, Alaska, Larson received her undergraduate and graduate degrees in physics from MSU. She completed her postdoctoral work in high-energy astrophysics at the California Institute of Technology. Larson previously served as vice provost and professor of physics at Utah State University and deputy director of the Center for Gravitational Wave Physics at Pennsylvania State University. She also served as the deputy director of NASA's Montana Space Grant Consortium where she coordinated research and education activities with the faculty and students at 24 affiliate campuses and partners.
Larson's lecture is sponsored by MSU's Department of Physics and presented by the College of Letters and Science's Distinguished Speakers Series. The series, which began in the spring of 2011, brings distinguished scholars to MSU to give a public talk and to meet with faculty and students in order to enrich the intellectual life on campus and to enhance research connections.
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COMPLETED IN 1912, five years after the Pike Place Market opened, the Corner Market Building is set like a keystone at the head of its landmark block bordered by First Avenue, Pike Street and Pike Place. The architect, Seattle's Harlan Thomas, wrapped elegance around the corner with contrasting brickwork, generous arching windows along the top floor, and, at the sidewalk, open stalls for selling mostly fresh foodstuffs.
Photographer Frank Shaw dated this, his 2-by-2-inch slide, April 12, 1975. Joan Paulson disagrees, and in this I join her. April 12 was the Saturday when the nearly weeklong "Rain or Shine Public Market Paint-in and Historic Restoration" was fulfilled and celebrated. That morning, before the awards, artists could apply their last brush strokes to their assigned 4-by-8-foot primed panels, which for the next seven months would serve as both an exhibit and as a construction fence to separate and protect laborers and shoppers from each other.
It was Paulson who put the primed panels and about 50 painters together and, when needed, purchased the art supplies as well. Paulson recalls, "They could start painting on Monday. It rained on Tuesday. Most likely this is Wednesday or Thursday. There's too much left to do with the panels and too few people for it to be the celebration on Saturday the 12th."
As a chronicler of Pike Place Market history, Paulson notes the unique "bottom-up" energies that made protecting the Market a people's project connecting historic preservation with urban renewal and its federal funding. Appropriately, a force named Friends of the Market fueled the victorious 1971 citizens' initiative to "Save the Market." In most of this, University of Washington professor of architecture Victor Steinbrueck was never out of the picture, and here in Frank Shaw's slide, Paulson has found him as well. Far right, in a straw hat, the "savior of the market" is working on his own contributions to the paint-in.
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In Jean Sherrard's "now" photo 39 years later, Paulson stands at the corner by the lamp post holding up a rolled paper in her right hand.
On Saturday April 12, at the lunchtime awards ceremony, Steinbrueck was one of the winners. The judges explained that to this special "paint-in artist we give the whole Market to do with as he pleases for the rest of the day, and arts writer Roger Downey (one of the judges) will wash his brushes." With work completed on the Corner Market Building's exterior in late November, all the "unique-to-the-market masterpieces" came down, including the surviving half of Steinbrueck's mural, the part not punctured by a beam during construction.
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— Jeff Sharon (@Jeff_Sharon) May 9, 2014
That was my reaction when the Jacksonville Jaguars selected UCF Quarterback Blake Bortles with the third overall pick in last night's first round of the NFL Draft.
Believe me, as a UCF fan, I want Bortles to succeed as much or more than anyone else out there, because it would be good for UCF, and also he's a good kid who deserves it. But I think he's going to get killed in Jacksonville, and here's why:
1. The Jaguars have no running game to take the pressure off him. And that was before they lost Maurice Jones-Drew to the Raiders – the RAIDERS! – in free agency. As a team, Jacksonville was second-to-last in the NFL in rushing offense, averaging just 78.8 yards per game on the ground. And Jones-Drew, whose car was running in the parking lot from training camp on, accounted for 63.7% of the team's rushing yards.
Stepping in to fill that void is Toby Gerhart, the ex-Viking who made a name for himself at Stanford, but has a grand total of 1,305 career rushing yards in five seasons (although, to be fair, he played behind Adrian Peterson). Head coach Gus Bradley has also said he plans to utilize ex-Michigan quarterback Denard Robinson as a running back this year. But if you're an opposing defensive coordinator, are you staying up nights the offseason watching film and figuring out how to stop Toby Gerhart and Denard Robinson?
Young quarterbacks need a solid running game to take the pressure off of them, shorten third downs, and keep the defense honest. That doesn't look like it's going to happen this year.
2. They can't protect him. The Jags' offensive line was the second-worst in the league in 2013 (behind Miami). They gave up the second-most sacks, the sixth-most QB hits, and that resulted in Blaine Gabbert and Chad Henne combining for the second-fewest TD passes and the third-lowest percentage of first downs by pass in the league.
On top of that, the Jags dealt arguably their best veteran offensive lineman, Eugene Monroe, to the Ravens mid-season, leaving the blind side in the unproven hands of Luke Joeckel, who is also coming off a broken ankle he suffered against the Rams last October.
True, Joeckel could return at full strength (or better), and the rest of the group could pull it together this off-season. But if they are going to at all, they'd better hurry up, because otherwise, Blake Bortles will spend much of his time either on his rear end or running for his life.
3. They don't have enough weapons for him. Sure, it would have been nice to have Justin Blackmon to throw darts to. But thanks to his apparent disregard for the NFL's substance abuse policy, the Jags' front office is openly saying they don't expect to have the formerly-promising Oklahoma State standout around for 2014.
That leaves the capable-but-hardly-frightening Cecil Shorts (66 rec., 777 yards, 3 TDs in 2013) as Bortles' best remaining downfield target, with role player Ace Sanders (51 rec., 484 yards, 1 TD) n the other side. Former Pro Bowl TE Marcedes Lewis can be a safety valve, but he's coming off his lowest reception total since his rookie season back in 2006 (25 rec., 359 yards, 4 TDs).
So when things go awry in the pocket, who will bail him out and get open?
4. Who's going to coach him? At UCF, Bortles came up under the tutelage of offensive coordinator Charlie Taaffe, the former Maryland and CFL coach who injected some juice into George O'Leary's offense, and made Bortles the prospect that he is.
For all the credit he deserves from last year's late surge, Bortles' new boss, Gus Bradley, is a defensive-minded coach. His offensive coordinator, Jedd Fisch, who oversaw last year's offensive fiasco, does have some promise (reportedly, the folks at the University of Miami were less than thrilled when he left for the Jags). QB coach Frank Scelfo came to Jacksonville last year after not being in football for two years following his stint at the University of Arizona, where he coached up current Eagles QB Nick Foles.
But if Bortles is going to make the adjustment from pro to college smoothly, these coaches will have to get behind him whole-hog. After all, their jobs now depend on it.
Late word out of Jacksonville today is that the Jags plan to hand Bortles a clipboard and let him watch and learn behind ex-Dolphin Chad Henne for a year before turning the keys over to Bortles in 2015. If true, this could be the best possible situation for Bortles: Give the offense a year to work out the kinks, learn the playbook, and adjust to professional-level speed smoothly.
But if circumstances change (Henne gets hurt, Henne stinks, or Gus Bradley gets anxious), and the Jags change those plans, what then? He is, after all, the third overall pick, with a third-overall pick's contract. That's a lot of money to spend on a guy holding a clipboard.
The Jaguars are eyeball-deep in a rebuilding phase that saw them become a laughing stock last year. And as we all already know the last time they drafted a QB quite this high, it didn't go so well.
So yes, I want Blake Bortles to succeed in the NFL, and succeed in spectacular fashion. But given the circumstances surrounding him in Jacksonville, I'm just not all that optimistic.
I hope I'm wrong.
Gee, Jeff, thanks for that rosy outlook. Are you always this jolly?
Don't be so glum. Yes, I will be your UCF Insider here at SportsTalk Florida starting this summer, when UCF starts summer practice. You'll hear more from me then. In the meantime, please follow me on Twitter (@Jeff_Sharon) and let me know if there are any interesting UCF stories you'd like to see covered this coming year. Lord knows I've got plenty.


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I had a mole removed 3 weeks ago. Should I be worried that I'm left with a hole that won't scab? (Photo)
I've kept it covered with mupirocin 2% since surgery and a bandage. It was dysplastic Nevus, moderate. In my pubic area. They got it all. But dr said I possibly had skin infection so I started bactrum, it's been a week and this is the result. I changed dressing daily, followed the rules. It looks like this is going to be a huge hole. Also, I had hysterectomy and A&P repair in jan., they shaved me in that area where the mole was, within 6 weeks it went from the diameter of a pencil to a dime.


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In this lecture I cover the principle of Unity. When you are putting together an entire slide deck it's important that it looks like a single thing instead of a collection of individual slides. This is very important when you are the one receiving slides from other people and are in charge of putting everything together.
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Maybe the difference between them is that MFA's may have at least a smidgeon of content. The click trap I refer to has one adlinks unit and three adblocks on one page - nothing else. Oh, and the back button was disabled.
Anyway, given that there seems only a small chance of Google booting you for having a pure clicktrap, is it a profitable business model?
My experience of being an adwords avertiser is not overly successful. I want people to visit the site, but it would also be nice if some of them clicked on the ads too. The reason they didn't, and I suspended the campaign for a while was content - I have shedloads of it. However, this time around my current campaign is very good at appearing above the other scammers - click price is enough to be at the top, but low daily budget.
So the business model for my new site:- A clicktrap as described above (no content - only way to exit is via an ad) and adwords. A couple of $ a day in adwords should be repaid by loads of clicks on the ads. Simple and foolproof!
Now all I need is suggestions for a topic.
I'm sure Google gets thousands of these and they have to prioritize them, investigate the site, probably contact the site owner and wait some period of time to see if they respond and/or fix their site, etc.
Nether was mine. I have to question if people really are making money, other than Google of course.
Advertising with AdWords and making profit just isn't as easy as slapping a few AdSense ads on your website.