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A Low-Maintenance Landscape for a Midcentury Denver Home
Working with a strict budget, a team from Three Sixty Design reimagines a Denver yard.written by: Erika Heet10.15.14
Modular Backyard Playhouse in New Zealand
A New Zealand architect riffs on toy building blocks and Case Study houses for his children's backyard fort.photos by: Simon Devitt07.14.14
6 Sublimely Serene Outdoor Spaces
The call of the wild is impossible to resist in these six patios, backyards, and gardens that offer a retreat from the hustle and bustle of city life.06.26.14
8 Backyards We Love
Offering places to garden, play, recline, and contemplate the view, backyards have the power to redefine the homes with which they share a site.04.28.14
Celebrate Modern Backyards for Earth Day
We showcase seven swoon-worthy backyards in honor of Earth Day, April 22.04.21.14
11 Ways to Dine Alfresco
Spring is finally here, bringing more opportunities to hit the terrace for meals. Here are 11 of our favorite ways to set up for modern outdoor dining.written by: Erika Heet04.08.14
5 Green Homes from Dwell's April Outdoors Issue
Dwell's April 2014 issue is now on newsstands—here's a sneak peek of the intelligent homes, outdoor products, and green building methods you'll see in its pages.03.26.14
Bay Area Ipe-Clad Backyard Getaway
An angled deck transforms a backyard in Menlo Park, California, into a welcoming gathering spot.written by: William Lambphotos by: Ike Edeani03.26.14
Swingtones: Musical Swings Built by Kids
At a summer camp with power tools, the campers helped design their own amusement: a set of musical swings.03.24.14
Tiny Garden Retreat on New York's Long Island
In New York's Nassau County, a 125-square-foot garden retreat offers a haven from bustling contemporary life.photos by: Dustin Cohen03.24.14
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Landscape Design for All Climates
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Tiny Vacation Shelters in the French Countryside
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Japanese-Inspired Landscape Design in Berkeley
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A Dutch Designer's Modern Chicken Coop
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Austin's Casis Elementary School Teaching Garden
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Wabash Valley Wine Trail
The Wabash Valley Wine Trail is made up of five wineries located in the southeastern part of the state. Visitors to this area can enjoy the scenic Wabash River Valley, historic towns, and quaint bed and breakfasts.
CITY: Lawrenceville
Kickapoo Creek Winery
A full-service winery with a tasting room and gift shop. We invite you to walk the grounds and visit the vineyard. Located just minutes from I-74 at the Kickapoo-Edwards exit.
CITY: Edwards
Villas Country Store
Located 4 miles west of Flat Rock, this Amish store features many handmade Deli Meats and Cheese as well as Homemade Breads & Cookies. Lunches are served every day except Wednesdays and Sundays.
CITY: Flat Rock
Lasata Winery
Lasata is a Native American word for "place of peace," and this winery's atmosphere lives up to the name. A variety of wines from blush and sweet to white or dry are created here and offered for tasting. Assorted cheese and other goodies are available, so bring your significant other and friends.
CITY: Lawrenceville
Hershey's/Heath Candy
Heath candy was invented in the early 1900s in Robinson, and Hershey's produced the Heath bar and all of your favorites here.
CITY: Robinson
Black Jewel Popcorn
Stop by and sample black kernels of corn that pop to the whitest popcorn you've ever seen. Tours are available.
CITY: Lawrenceville
Fox Creek Vineyards
Situated on a farm settled by the proprietor's great grandmother, the vineyard sits amid low rolling hills. Enjoy sampling the wines and spend some quality time in the country.
CITY: Olney
Berryville Vineyards
The winery harmonizes with nature to cultivate premium wine grapes. Walk through the oak forests, picnic in the vineyards or wade in the creek and stop in at the tasting room. The vineyard features fruit and grape wines from 20 varieties of grapes as well as raspberries, blackberries and gooseberries.
CITY: Claremont
Pasta Alley
Come see noodles and sauce made from scratch. Baskets and shipping are also available.
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Midway Meat and Deli
Meat market that also offers delicious sandwiches and meals.
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The Real McCoy
Featuring home style cooking in a cozy, nostalgic atmosphere. Daily specials are available in a smoke free environment. Please see our website for menu selections.
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Ty's Family Buffet
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CITY: Olney
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Monical's Pizza - Robinson
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Monical's Pizza in Olney
Great Italian food plus salads.
CITY: Olney
Old Tyme Steakhouse
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CITY: Olney
Tykel's American
Bar and grill.
CITY: Lawrenceville
Yen Ching Mandarin
Wide variety of Oriental dishes.
CITY: Robinson
Bobe's Pizza in Lawrenceville
A local tradition, Bobe's offers all Italian favorites.
CITY: Lawrenceville
Bar and grille with a variety of menu items and specials. Call for website info.
CITY: Bridgeport
Subfast offers buffet and lots of other menu choices. Salads, subs and many pizza choices.
CITY: Olney
Ophelia's Cup
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Beer award winners at Craft Beer Week on Long Island
Blind Bat Brewery's Long Island Potato Stout has won Long Island Beer of the Year honors in the third annual online Craft Beer Week poll.
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The winner for best new beer was Great South Bay Brewery's Blood Orange Pale Ale. The brewery is in Bay Shore.
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Making Sure the End of Cannabis Prohibition Benefits the Small Farmer
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At the Willits, California Food Bank, a 31-year-old cannabis farmer we'll call Mark was energetically ticking off the community service hours he'd earned for growing our nation's number-one cash crop. I watched for a few minutes as he passed bags full of apples, cheese and surplus generic sponge cake to a Mendocino County mom. I asked Mark what he thought about the approaching end of federal cannabis prohibition. He acknowledged that it was imminent, but was deeply wary of it. "It'll be the end of the small farmer," he told me. "Foks'll be buying packages of joints made by Coors or Marlboro."
Why does Mark, like many if not most of today's American black-market cannabis farmers, dread the aboveground acceptance of his industry? Why did the voters in the Emerald Triangle cannabis farming counties of Mendocino (by 6%) and Humboldt (8%) vote against California's Proposition 19 in 2010, which would have legalized cannabis?
The answer has as much to do with simple accounting as the more common outsider assumption: that farmers fear the price drops that come when a prohibitionary economy dissolves (though this is certainly part of the story). When, in three generations of farming, your family has never had to pay taxes, record payroll or meet building code, let alone meet a customer (the Emerald Triangle has an entire caste of middlemen and women who broker wholesale deals, so the farmer doesn't have to leave the farm), the prospect of coming aboveground -- and dealing with the same red tape every other industry does -- can be terrifying.
Some of these farmers, like all successful small-business owners in any industry, resist change in knee-jerk fashion by distributing worst-case scenarios the way some people pass around business cards. "Look at tobacco," Mark told me at the Food Bank. "They've made the paperwork crazy complicated so only giant corporate farmers can afford to grow it commercially."
He's actually correct. Section 40 of Title 27 of the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau's regulations has 534 subsections. You need a corporate lawyer on call to endure this document without a migraine. The system favors big producers, and Big Tobacco is at least paying attention to federal drug law: NPR has reported that Philip Morris trademarked the brand "Marley" at the height of Just Say No in 1983 (though this doesn't turn up at the United States Patent and Trademark site, and the company is mum). And Dan Mitchell reported in Fortune that tobacco company Brown & Williamson "enthusiastically" advised, in a 1970s internal report, that the company start viewing marijuana as "an alternative product line."
Regardless of corporate boardroom strategy, the stacked deck at the mass production level is explicitly why the cultivators of the Emerald Growers Association (EGA), a cannabis farmer trade group based in Northern California, prefer describing the "craft brew" model for the post-prohibition cannabis economy. In a world of Coors, these farmers plan to provide Fat Tire Ale. "We're not afraid of what might be stocked next to cheap beer and cigarettes at the corner store," says Tomas Balogh, EGA board member. "Let's remember that American craft beer was nearly an $8 billion market in the U.S. last year."
So when people ask him if globalized corporate models or small farming community-based models will emerge when the drug war ends here in a few years, Balogh says, "Both."
His point is that of course major players are going to enter the fray when we're talking about what is already a $35-billion-a-year crop in the U.S., greater than the combined value of corn and wheat. Although the end of cannabis prohibition will almost certainly cause short-term wholesale price drops, what Balogh says to jittery farmers like Mark is, "even if your worst, most paranoid fears about modern corporate ethics are correct, there is still a lucrative (and expanding) niche for top-shelf, organically grown cannabis like the Emerald Triangle provides."
If it's done right. The same shopper who today looks for local broccoli at her food co-op is going to demand organic techniques in her morning cannabis health shake. If a black-market farmer is simply churning out quick turnaround, pesticide-heavy, indoor-grown popcorn buds to pay the mortgage, that farmer is going to lose out to Coors-style mass-produced cannabis, because he's essentially growing a Coors-quality product already. But if the three-generation knowledge base that caused Michael Pollan to call cannabis cultivators "the best farmers of my generation" is put to use in the cause of long-term product quality and local community health, small-scale (maybe we can call it "microbud") cultivators will help the region become an internationally recognized paragon of consistent top-shelf production. That is called a brand.
"The best part is farmers can keep the industry benefiting their local economy," Balogh told me from his own Mendocino County farm in 2011.
Indeed, local farmers already hold meetings (I've attended several) in which they discuss the fact that the economy of cannabis cultivation communities can expand beyond the already considerable value of the psychoactive flower. To give one example, the Bavarian community of Feldheim, Germany has become entirely energy independent (while nearly eliminating local unemployment) by generating municipal power generated from the unused stalks from the rural community's farms.
When cannabis comes aboveground, its cultivators are likewise in prime position to benefit from fermenting or gasifying stalks that would otherwise be compost. Where would funding for such planet-saving entrepreneurialism come from? Perhaps from the 21st-century Homesteading Act that fifth-generation Colorado rancher Michael Bowman and others are proposing: these would be micro-grants for micro-intensive, local community-enriching farming projects. (Social/medicinal cannabis is a specialty crop requiring a great deal of farmer attention to every plant. For industrial cannabis in places like North Dakota and Kentucky, the grants might be on a larger scale, reflecting larger farming operations.)
Such plans are very much in the blackboard stage. After all, cannabis isn't legal yet. That can throw up roadblocks in the federal grant application process. Yet the discussions continue. In the Emerald Triangle, farmers have brainstormed about cost-saving techniques for the local industry that include centralized bud-trimming facilities, warehousing and quality testing services. These will bring local employment, as will "bud-and-breakfast" value-added tourism. You can't talk to an EGA farmer without hearing how Mendocino and Humboldt counties are going to do for cannabis "what Napa did for wine." (Napa did $11 billion just in tourism business in 2011.)
Get ready for cannabis tincture massages and reggae-accompanied tasting tours. And not just in California: Colorado and Washington, having already legalized adult use of cannabis, have obvious headstarts in the tourism arena (it helps when guests aren't going to get arrested in their bungalows, and operators don't need raid insurance) and regional cannabis heavies like Kentucky and Hawaii are sure to see bud-and-breakfasts before the decade is out.
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Pastor Maldonado has promised not to repeat his mistakes from 2012, saying he wants to stay away from the stewards' office this season.
The Williams driver produced one of the drives of the season at Barcelona to win his maiden race at the Spanish GP and end the Grove squad's long wait for a win.
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Changed by Christ
Have you ever fallen into a period of sin and rebellion since your Christian life began? What happened? In all likelihood, your enjoyment of the sin swiftly waned, godly brothers called you to repentance, or the Holy Spirit convicted you. ...Read More
Dead to Sin
At times, our growth as Christians seems painfully slow. Sin entices us; discouragement stymies us. We may be tempted to give up. But that is not an option. One who is truly born again simply cannot return to a life ...Read More
Guilt and Guilt Feelings
What do you feel guilty about? Can you trace these feelings to an actual violation of some rule, regulation, law, or divine commandment? If so, seek forgiveness from the proper authority. If not, your guilt feelings may be out of ...Read More
A Work Yet to Be Done
Obviously, our salvation is not yet complete. And yet, the appropriate behavior for Christians is not doubting, second-guessing, and legalistic striving, but rejoicing, for our salvation is secure. Do you rejoice to be saved, knowing that you always will be ...Read More
Our Cherished Hope
You may have been a Christian for many years, but in a very real sense you are still standing in the "foyer" of God's grace. He is going to take you farther on, even unto glorification, when you will see ...Read More
Being Trustworthy
Do you have a reputation for dependability? Or do others think of you as less than trustworthy? If the latter, how can you address this problem? Simply put: promise cautiously, deliver studiously. Do not say you "forgot" or make other ...Read More
Trusting in Adversity
Have you ever faced a situation when you knew that obedience to God would bring negative consequences? What did you choose? What happened? How would you encourage someone facing a similar situation? True faith can stand during times of testing. ...Read More
The Source of Daily Faith
Think back over your Christian life. How has your encounter with Christ changed you? What things do you do now because of your faith in Christ? In what areas has Christ called you to deeper obedience? But consider the present ...Read More
Faith for Sanctification
We are to live our lives by faith in God. We are to let our roots grow deep into Him, trusting Him for all we need. We are to do all we can to grow in obedience, relying on Him ...Read More
Is Faith Blind?
Do you believe that all sin is, at its root, unbelief? When we sin, we are disbelieving God's testimony in His Word that sin brings grief, pain, and separation from Him. By contrast, obedience is rooted in trust that God's ...Read More
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Llanmaes Dig, 2007
July 2007
Tuesday 10th July
Contributed by CAROLINE
Today we were blessed with yet more sunshine- perhaps summer is here afterall!
Here's an update from the trenches…
Trench 1: The largest trench
The Eastern half of trench one has been behaving itself quite well and a series of features have been revealed and their function is often evident. The majority of the features are postholes, some are shallow, while others are quite deep and have in some instances post packing intact. Some of these postholes and pits have had prehistoric pottery within them and are therefore prehistoric in date. However, not all contained dating evidence (pottery or coins etc) and so their date is unknown. It is difficult at present to determine what postholes are likely to be contemporary to each other, but hopefully when we have drawn a full plan of the trench we will see if the postholes form a pattern- rectangular, circular or otherwise. However, there are so many postholes that the pattern is so far highly confused as they seem to be from a series of structures dating from very different periods. As one person has commented, its like trying to do a puzzle without a picture. There is also quite a large curvilinear gulley which seems to have both been cut by a ditch on the one side, while the other appears to have cut an earlier ditch. While in the Western half of the trench the features are slightly more complicated. Again we seem to have two, maybe three gullies, one of which is very shallow. Two of these gullies may be at right angles to each other and one of which is cut by a later post hole. There is also a large rubble-filled ditch and another potential rubble-filled ditch about 2m away.
Trench 2: the L shaped trench
This trench is quite confusing. An extremely deep feature appears to be a natural geological hollow filled in with dumps of occupation debris from the settlement. A slot was dug down through the feature to the natural base and there appears to be a very substantial glacial fill at the base of this hollow. In one area this pit/natural hollow appears to have been cut by a later shallow pit, which was filled with a high concentration of ash and iron objects. There are also a series of postholes, but these do not seem to make up any discernable structures.
Trench 3
This trench was intended for exposing and excavating a sample of the enclosure ditch which appears to have been cut during the middle-late Iron Age. The ditch is approximately 1.3m deep and encloses a sizeable area – creating such a feature would have taken a lot of effort, manpower and time. The ditch appears to have then become naturally filled in with soil, washed or blown in from elsewhere. Then in the 2nd or 3rd century AD, it was recut, this time much shallower than before and therefore less substantial and not so impressive but again this may have formed a defensive function or possibly demonstrating the resources of the inhabitants. Alongside there was a large area of rubble which was initially believed to be the remnants of a bank( banks quite often accompany ditches), but has since proved to be otherwise. This rubble is instead derived from a series of rubble-filled features, a number of which have now been exposed. There are also 2 pit like features which are similar in character to each other. The southern most of these ditches has clearly been cut by the ditch, we can therefore say that the pit is earlier than the ditch.
Monday 9th July
Contributed by CAROLINE and pupils from LLANTWIT MAJOR COMPREHENSIVE SCHOOL
Today good fortune was with us again with amazing sunshine. We had a visit from 14 year 7 school children and their teacher from Llantwit Major Comprehensive, the site visit took place between 9 until 1pm. The fieldtrip was not compulsory, instead the children volunteered to visit Llanmaes, I asked Kirsty whether her reasons for visiting Llanmaes was to skip lessons but instead Kirsty seemed genuinely interested in visiting the site and is very interested in history. Kirsty has visited the site before and so it is very encouraging that she wished to visit again, perhaps we have a budding archaeologis? Another student- Yegor seemed to be enjoying his first visit to the site.
The students were taught how to use a dumpy level, and using angles and height measurements helped us position canes to plot out the outline of the enclosure surrounding the site. This helps us and the school children to visually see its shape and grand scale. Again these students were from geography class and following their visit are expected to write up a small report about their visit, about what they enjoyed and learnt. Photographs and video footage accompany the students visit today. The children were expected to use the dumpy level to lay out correct angles and to determine the height of the staff and using tape measures.
One student Becky has had previous experience with archaeology having once been a member of a Young Archaeologists Club in Shetland, she was a member of the club for 2 years and made many new friends. Found pottery and recreated the pot where possible. Becky learnt about prehistory, and the work of an archaeologist. Two years a member. Made new friends at the club. Becky has very much enjoyed learning about archaeology at Llanmaes and at the club in Shetland which was held during school time. When at the club Becky considered becoming an archaeologist, but its been two years now since she left the archaeology club (because she moved house) and Becky has changed her career choice to being hopefully a beautician with her own business.
3 groups of year seven geography students have now visited us at Llanmaes, 2 in one day previously and today just one group, this is however the last. Next week follow up activities are planned at their school. These activities include art, poetry, music and creative writing. An afternoon of creative writing is planned following their visit to the site. The children are expected to write about what life may have been like for the inhabitants during the prehistoric and roman era. The Welsh poet of the year is coming in to help the children create poetry and a musician (a drummer) is visiting to carry out music workshops. These visits to the site are intended as a way of archaeology forging links with the community and giving the children an insight as to what it is like to be an archaeology student. The site visit has been very much cross curricular in nature, particularly for history and geography. This was intended mainly as a geography fieldtrip as the children are learning to appreciate why the inhabitants would have chosen to occupy this site. They will also look at aerial photographs to understand how archaeologists often find sites through cropmarks as well as see the settlement in its wider landscape setting in terms of nearby features such as brroks and drainage of the soil, relief, temperature and climate.
Sunday 8th July
Contributed by CAROLINE
Today's open day was a great success, there were many visitors to the site, of all ages. It was good to see familiar faces of those who had visited in previous year(s). The visitors brought good fortune to the site- marvellous sunshine; something which has been greatly missed this year at Llanmaes!
We would like to thank those who cam to the site firstly for bringing us good weather and secondly for allowing us to share our excitement and interest of the past with a keen audience. We hope to see you again next year!
Friday 6th July
Contributed by CAROLINE and pupils of LLANTWIT MAJOR COMPREHENSIVE SCHOOL
The students visited the site as a geography field trip. However, it also it also covered subjects such as art, science, biology and history. Today the students were making clay huts replicating Iron Age Roundhouses. The students were shown around the site and shown post holes and a hearth forming a roundhouse as inspiration for their Iron Age roundhouses of clay.
Last year (then in year 6 of primary school) the same students visted the site, looking at the spoil heap and sieving for finds. Today they were learning more in depth about the structural elements of Iron Age roundhouses, particularly their entrances and the positioning of the hearth in the centre of the roundhouse.
The weather was particularly bad and a temporary hut was constructed using posts and tarpaulin. Unfortunately the archaeologists weren't so lucky and had to continue digging in the rain while the comprehensive students made clay huts under shelter…
Site visit was 2 hours long, involved a site tour and creative tasks. The students from this year's year 7 are hoping to come again when in year 8.
Thursday 5th July
Contributed by CAROLINE and the pupils of ARCHDEACON JOHN LEWIS PRIMARY SCHOOL
The children have been working on a School Performance entitled "Rainbow people." Today they performed to the archaeologists while they were on tea break. It is a story which is both appropriate for today and for societies in the past. The story taught us that race and religion is irrelevant that people can still be friends despite these small differences. The story is appropriate in the context of Llanmaes, with evidence of both Roman and Iron Age occupation. The inhabitants of Llanmaes would have been a mixture of Romans and natives and potentially integrated, hopefully relatively peacefully.
The piece was performed twice, the first was narrated by the teacher and several of the school children.
The children chant while banging buckets with wooden spoons:
'Green people are happy, blue people are sad
Green people are good, blue people are bad'
(and vice versa for the blue people)
To further strengthen the story's connection with the excavation, the children played on buckets- a vital accessory for an archaeologist!
The green people and the blue people disliked each other and were ignorant of each others ways and believed themselves to be better than others. However, when a younger member of the green group was hurt and helped by a young blue person, and the favour was later returned, the two young people realised the idiocy of disliking those from the other group. The younger generation taught the rest of society that they are wrong and that all people are equal and worthy of friendship and co-operation.
The children then performed the story through the medium of dance accompanied by a musical score composed by a Welsh musician.
The children were asked some questions about their performance and the archaeology at Llanmaes.
"What was the performance trying to teach us and how is it relevant to the Llanmaes excavation?"
"The play teaches us that friendship and working together is important. The performance of the Rainbow People helps to show that."
"The dig is like the play because the archaeologist work together, teamwork is important and they are unselfish like the people did at the end of the story."
"The play is like the dig because the archaeologists found places in their heart that made them want to work together as a team and not to be an outsider."
"The archaeologists like the Rainbow people came together as a group and formed bonds of friendship."
"The Rainbow People didn't like each other nor did the Romans and the Celts until they joined together and worked together. The Romans came to the Celts land and had to get along with one another."
"The Celts and the Romans at first fought and bullied each other just and warred with one another, just as the Green and Blue people did."
"What message would you give to the Celts and the Romans?"
"Don't be enemies."
"Don't be nasty."
"It doesn't matter if you are a different colour or follow a different religion, we are all one and are part of the same human family."
"No one is better than anyone else."
"No one is really bad."
"Wealth is unimportant, Even if your people's possessions seem nicer than other peoples' it doesn't make you better than them. The Romans had better weapons and pottery but are not better than the Celts."
"What did you think of the excavation? What did you like most about visiting an archaeological dig?"
"I was excited, especially because they find lots of things."
"I was frightened at the beginning, it's a strange new place. But then interested after having looked around and learning about what is really happening."
"It's interesting to see what they did years ago."
"I liked the dogs"
"Would you like to be an archaeologist? Why?"
"I would like to be an archaeologist because I like the Romans"
Hywel"I'd like to be an archaeologist so that I could find out what happened before Jesus Christ."
"In one way yes I'd like to be an archaeologist because you get to find out what happened before Jesus Christ, in another way no I would not like to be an archaeologist because you can hurt yourself." (even though he plays rugby)
"You can hurt yourself if you're an archaeologist because sharp objects are dangerous"
"I don't want to be an archaeologist because it takes too long to dig and is very hard work"
"To be an archaeologist you need lots of patience"
"I'd like to be an archaeologist to be famous and in a magazine."
"I'd like to find out what the Romans had."
"The farmer is also famous because he has an archaeological dig on his farm."
"I'd like to be an archaeologist because it is really exciting"
Monday 2nd July
Contributed by NICK COMERFORD
I came down to the site in October, so it was nice to come back to see the site opened up. With a little help I'm starting to make sense of the colour of the earth, the position of the post holes, etc. I'm looking forward to seeing what turns up?
Monday 2nd July
Contributed by SEAN HARRIS
Visiting Llanmaes this time last year was fascinating as always – took a few photos, soaked it all up, went home… With no idea what it would lead to. I'm sitting here, talking to Nick Comerford, teacher from Aberdare School with whom I made the film Dadeni, a cauldron extravaganza based on finds from Llanmaes – sharks tooth, coin and so on. This time last year none of these had been unearthed. What will come from this years dig I wonder?
Monday 2nd July
Contributed by IWAN BALA
It was remarkable to come here, having heard stories about this place, and imagined other stories too. To stand on the floor that was stood on so long ago. Like Sean Harris, I am inspired to do some work based on this. Not sure what yet. Wedi mwynhau yn ddirfawr. 01/07/07
June 2007
Friday 29 June
Contributed by ANNA
Only having come to Llanmaes for a week, today is my final day – and the week ends as it began, with everyone rained off site. But we had fair weather through the middle of the week, and good progress was made in the trenches. A mixture of pre-Roman and Roman finds in Trench 1 suggests that the site was occupied over a long period, intersecting features indicating that the (potential) settlement was built and re-built over the same spot. There are many post-holes in Trench 1, making an Iron Age settlement likely, although its shape (round or rectangular) has not yet been determined.
I have spent the week working on a large post-hole which, unexpectedly, developed into a second post-hole, almost certainly of different date. As the fill continued further and further back below the top soil, it felt at times as though I would be chasing this feature endlessly across the trench – but it was a nice change to be taken by surprise by a feature, and exciting to realise that the two intersecting post-holes might tell us something about different periods of occupation on the site.
A week is not really long enough to spend on as rich a site as Llanmaes, where new possibilities seem to emerge every day. As well as the potential Iron Age settlement, there is also possible evidence of a furnace, a hearth and a Roman building: plenty for everyone to mull over whilst skulking in the cabins and barns, keeping an eye on the rain.
Thursday 28 June
Contributed by EMILY
Hello Archaeology fans!
Llanmaes has given us an unexpectedly sunny day today, with our courageous team of archaeologists only getting rained on once, and the grand total of wet socks at a paltry 4 from the wet sieving brigade.
Today I have been working in a strip of trench one, and have consequently seen very little of the rest of the goings on in the site.
I can however assure you that trench one has seen enough excitement for the whole of Llanmaes with a host of interesting finds coming to light. Among these finds came a shard of what appears to be Roman glass, which Nick has speculated may have originated from a window pane, leading to a somewhat enthusiastic, and yet to be proved 'We have a house here'. More on that another day perhaps.
Another exiting find was found by the intrepid archaeologist Andy, who braved the adversity of forgetting his glasses to bring us a beautiful bucket handle. In order to quell the pre-history/Roman debate this find created, pacifists among us have suggested that we are dealing with pre-historic peoples coexisting happily with Romans in a somewhat utopic society. Our current 'special person' on site, Ian, added that within this society they may have been consuming donkeys, based on a rather large bone found in the lower right hand side of the trench. This with many other things in this blog entry, is yet to be established as a fact.
For my part, myself and Rob have been uncovering some interesting features in the lower right corner of the trench. Rubble fill may prove to be a surface or a dump of some description, whilst finds from the area have included a Roman coin, Iron nails and a number of animal bones. Tomorrow we hope to expand outwards from the feature that may be a surface in hopes of discovering its true purpose, but for now we are left to speculate on a number of features throughout the trench and site.
Conserving Government Propaganda prints from the Great War
Historic Photography Project (Esmee Ffairburn)
Linking Natural Science Collections in Wales
Research in Norway and the Barents Sea
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- Carbon dynamics under natural and manipulated meteorological boundary conditions in a forest and a fen ecosystem (2009)
- Current climate models predict changes in the amount, intensity, frequency and type of precipitation within this century. These changes are likely to result in an increasing frequency of severe drought periods in summer, causing irregular and extreme drought stress in well-drained soils or a lowering of the water table in water-logged soils. Due to rising temperatures precipitation is more likely to occur as rain rather than snow, resulting in reduced snowpacks in winter. In some regions, this can lead to an increasing frequency of soil frost. In summary, changes in the global water cycle can significantly affect boundary conditions within soils. This thesis investigated the impact of extreme meteorological boundary conditions on CO2 fluxes in two ecosystems in South-eastern Germany. Using a combination of field site manipulation and laboratory experiments we investigated the effects of prolonged summer drought and soil frost on soil C dynamics in a Norway spruce forest. In a minerotrophic fen located nearby, the effect of water table lowering (as a result of summer drought) on ecosystem C dynamics was quantified. Additionally, soil C dynamics at both sites were modeled under current meteorological conditions. For the Norway spruce forest, modeling indicated that soil C turnover predominantly occurred within the organic horizons. During the last decades, the soil has acted as a small sink. The possibility of altered C dynamics at the site due to undocumented liming has to be considered when comparing results presented here to results from other sites. For the fen, modeling revealed that soil C turnover was dominated by processes occurring within the uppermost 15 cm of the peat and that root biomass was a very important soil C stock. Most important, modeling indicated that the fen was turned into a net C source during the last decades, presumably because of disturbance of the hydrological conditions. Results from this fen cannot be regarded as representative for undisturbed peatlands. Soil frost was induced at the forest site by removing the snowpack in the winter of 2005/2006. On the snow removal plots, soil frost occurred down to a depth of at least 15 cm and for several weeks, in contrast to the snow-covered control plots where no soil frost occurred. Soil C losses were significantly reduced not only during the soil frost period but also in the summer of 2006. This phenomenon could be explained by changes in the composition of the microbial community due to soil frost, primarily a reduction of fungal biomass. To investigate the effect of drought on soil C dynamics we experimentally induced prolonged drought at the forest-site by excluding throughfall with a transparent roof during the summers of 2006-2008. Additionally, undisturbed soil columns from the site were subjected to drought in the laboratory. In both experiments, drought reduced total soil C losses in comparison to C losses from a control. This reduction was mainly owed to decreased soil respiration rates during the actual drought period, but water repellency also hindered rewetting of the dry soil, thus further prolonging the period of reduced soil respiration rates. In the past, mobilization of stabilized C due to drying-wetting has been repeatedly discussed as a possibility to actually enhance soil C losses. In the studies presented here, no evidence for this assumption was found. Soil C mineralization rates were reduced during drought and recovery was slow, possibly delayed by water repellency and preferential flow. At the fen site we used two approaches: (i) Experimental lowering of water tables to measure resulting C fluxes in comparison to C fluxes under natural conditions (i.e. control plots), and (ii) repeated measurements under varying natural conditions to be able to later statistically identify the main drivers of CO2 fluxes. We included measurements of C uptake and respiration by aboveground vegetation, thus being able to study ecosystem rather than soil C dynamics at the fen site. In summary, the impact of the water table on CO2 fluxes in and out of the fen ecosystem was minimal. Soil respiration was not affected at all by the manipulative lowering of the water table from ca. 15 cm down to more than 60 cm, most likely due to low substrate quality in deeper peat. Measurements of the natural C dynamics indicate that water table could have an impact on soil respiration within the uppermost 0-15 cm of the soil, but predominantly low water tables during summer under current boundary conditions make it unlikely that further lowered water tables due to climate change will markedly affect soil respiration rates at this site. In summary, CO2 fluxes at the site are presumably very resilient towards an increasing frequency of summer drought resulting in lowering of the water table.
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- Vegetation ecology of springs: ecological, spatial and temporal patterns (2009)
- Acidification is a phenomenon, which affected the forested catchments of the northern hemisphere severely over recent decades. Acidic depositions depleted the buffering capacities of soil and groundwater, what lead to an impairment of forests, headwaters, and lakes. Even though the depositions were reduced considerably since the early 1990s, the recovery of catchments was found to occur time-delayed. The grade of recovery was found to vary significantly between regions. Biomonitoring is an appropriate tool to detect spatial and temporal patterns of ecosystem alterations, such as acidification and recovery. However, to know the interrelationships between organisms and their environment is an indispensable precondition for the identification of indicator species. The complexity of ecosystems and ecological processes hampers this quest oftentimes. Springs provide a natural setting that minimises such constraints. Compared to other habitat types, external factors are less relevant, which makes it easier to relate changes in species abundances to changes in their environment. Studying this species-environment relationship, here the response of plant species to the acidification of the spring waters was of particular interest. In a survey of five regions in Central Europe - taking spatial, hydrophysical as well as hydrochemical parameters of the springs into account - it was clearly shown that the species composition of springs is essentially determined by the spring water chemistry, and more precisely by the gradient of acidity and nutrient availability. This connection was reflected by spatial patterns within and between the regions. These patterns provide useful ecological information about spring water quality and in return about the acidity status of their forested catchments. Including catchment traits - like bedrock, climatic parameters, and forest vegetation - in the analyses, these emerged to be relevant for the species composition of springs, but less than the spring water chemistry. A path analysis showed that the catchments affect the vegetation of springs not directly, but indirectly via the determination of spring water quality. Hence, the catchments are a part of the functional chain, which is driven by the atmospheric depositions. The pH-value was found to represent the gradient of acidity and nutrient availability best. It can serve as a proxy measure that can be related to species occurrence and to species dynamics respectively, aiming to identify indicator species for assessing the status and alterations of spring water quality. With the aim to delineate niche optima and amplitudes, which in return can serve as indicator values, the realised niches of spring-inhabiting species were modelled with respect to pH. The niche attributes were found to be a matter of sampling scale. Larger plot sizes (grain) weakened the species-environment relationship, what consequently resulted in broader niche amplitudes. In contrast, the grain did not influence the species' pH optima. Monitoring approaches that target to assess processes in time, such as acidification and recovery, are dependent on the response time of indicator species to changes in their environment. Investigating an interval of four consecutive years, inter-annual variability of the species composition could not be attributed to changes in the acidity of the spring waters. Looking at single species, bryophytes did not show a higher sensitivity to the inter-annual variability of the environment than vascular plants. Actually, only a minority of all species featured abundance changes which were significantly correlated to variations in spring water acidity. Our results suggest that the species inertia retards the vegetation dynamics of forest springs. A delayed or long-term integrating response of potential indicator species must be considered when evaluating their indicator suitability. In conclusion, the biomonitoring of spring water acidification or recovery is expedient only for longer time intervals. In a nutshell, the vegetation of springs is closely related to the hydrochemical traits of the spring waters, in particular to a gradient of acidity and nutrient availability. Individual species as well as whole plant communities are suitable indicators which allow for the monitoring of the acidity status of forested catchments. The results of this study contribute to a better understanding of the species-environment-relationships, and in return to an improvement of indicator systems.
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- Analysis of flow patterns and flow mechanisms in soils (2009)
- Matrix flow and preferential flow can occur concurrently in the same soil. Both flow regimes produce typical flow patterns that can be visualised in dye tracer experiments. To extract quantitative information from dye tracer studies a vast variability of approaches exists. One of them is to describe dye patterns by the so called dye coverage function, i.e. the percentage of stained area per soil depth. Based on extreme value statistics the dye coverage function can be reinterpreted as a probability function to find the tracer in a certain depth. Therefore, the two-parametric probability distribution 1 – H, H being the generalised Pareto distribution, can be fitted to the dye coverage function. The form parameter of this distribution serves as a risk index for vertical solute propagation. We did tracer experiments with Brilliant Blue FCF at three study sites: in a Norway spruce forest in southeast Germany, in a tropical mountain rainforest in southern Ecuador and on an agricultural field in southern France. We tested the ability of the risk index to summarise main information obtained in dye tracer studies and characterise flow patterns in different soils. Our results suggest that the risk index is to some degree invariant to changing experimental conditions (such as irrigation rate). The initial soil moisture, however, seems to have a large influence on the risk index. It is difficult to adjust the parameters of the generalised Pareto distribution when the dye coverage function fluctuates or does not decrease monotonically. This might be due to tortuosity of paths, varying flow mechanism or changing soil physical properties. Thus, we restricted the analysis to the lowest part of the profile. Since the theory of the risk index is based on extreme values of vertical solute propagation it is the lowest part of the profile that is the most interesting. We propose to combine the two parameters of the generalized Pareto distribution and to use the complete distribution 1 - H to estimate the risk of vertical solute propagation in soils. Despite a certain resistance to changes of experimental conditions, the risk index is not an intrinsic soil parameter. Since the flow regime in the same soil can be dominated either by preferential flow or by uniform matrix flow, the risk of vertical solute propagation will change. The adjusted parameters of the generalised Pareto distribution will capture the dominant flow regime as reflected by tracer flow patterns. Bearing in mind the boundary conditions of the tracer experiment like irrigation rate, the tracer employed, soil initial moisture or type of vegetation (permanent or seasonal, deep rooted or shallow rooted) it is possible to compare different study sites or to consider the same site at different boundary conditions and to access the risk of vertical solute propagation. Pattern analysis based on the risk index for vertical solute propagation revealed the occurrence of preferential flow at the German study site. To gain insight in flow mechanisms and possible impacts on soil chemistry we analysed soil texture, fine root density, soil bulk density, exchangeable cations, pH and total C and N contents in preferential flow paths and soil matrix. Results from linear mixed-effects models suggested that at this study site roots constituted main preferential flow paths and induced macropore flow, especially in the topsoil. In the subsoil root density decreased and inhomogeneous infiltration from preferential flow paths into the soil matrix caused non-uniform flow. There were no textural differences between the flow domains, but smaller bulk densities in preferential flow paths. This is probably due to a higher soil organic matter content in preferential flow paths. We found smaller pH values, more Ca, more Mg, more C and more N in preferential flow paths. Compared to the adjacent soil matrix, more Al and more Fe (but small absolute amounts) were found in the subsoil where macropore flow along root channels decreases and heterogeneous matrix flow dominates. These distinct chemical properties can be explained by root activity and translocation of solutes and DOC (dissolved organic carbon) via preferential flow paths. During transport along preferential flow paths contact time between DOC and soil is reduced so that DOC is transported to greater depth where it potentially forms organo-mineral associations. If this holds true, preferential flow is a mechanism that promotes C sequestration in subsoil and does not only influence its immediate environment around paths, but also underlying subsoil horizons.
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- Within the BMBF funded project BIOLOG-Bayreuth (01LC0014) investigations on implications of functional groups on ecosystem functions related to water- nutrient- and carbon cycle were carried out. Three experiments were conceived to test for implications of dominant species traits and phytodiversity on ecosystem functions. I Water, nutrient and DOC fluxes and losses from grasslands were investigated on Experimental Grassland Stands in lysimeters II Two dominant (P. lanceolata / H. lanatus) and two transient species (R. acris / A. odoratum), identified in Experimental Grassland Stands were used for the Rhizodeposit Experiment (RDE) to investigate implications of different Fe acquisition strategies on rhizodeposition of organic compounds in nutrient solution cultures. III The Root Mineralisation Experiment (RME) aimed at evaluating potential implications of the identity of rhizosphere microflora on mineralisation performance of root tissues from H. lanatus and R. acris derived from RDE. Root biomass for the RME was obtained from plants of the RDE Experimental Grassland Stands were sown in lysimeters (1.3×1.3×1.0 m) filled with 70 cm of sub- and 30 cm topsoil of tillered material derived from a Stagnic Cambisol. Precipitation was collected and soil solution was obtained at 15, 30 and 90 cm, seepage at 100 cm depth. KCl-extractable Nmin was determined in June and September. NH4, NO3, DON, DOC, K, Mg and Ca were measured in solution and nutrients in above- and belowground biomass. In Experimental Grassland Stands on lysimeter facilities, herb contribution to grassland stands rather than functional diversity showed implications on ecosystem functions such as nutrient use, use efficiencies, yields and loss with seepage. Differences in ecosystem performance were due to the identity of functional group of dominant and co dominant species (grass/herb). Positive relations between higher nutrient availability and WUEbm of both grass and herb species were indicated for experimental grassland stands. Grassland stands with higher herb contribution favoured a higher nutrient sequestration in biomass and thus played an important role for safety net functions in grassland ecosystems. Slightly higher Nmin concentrations in soil solution likely reflected higher root-turnover rates of grass dominated stands in 2002. Grass species showed higher base cation use efficiency and hence provided considerably growth under low cation supply. Grass dominated stands showed rather low performance in safety net functions for nutrients. Lower base cation yields in biomass of grass dominated stands were not automatically reflected by indicators for use of soil nutrients. In contrast to Nmin, base cation concentrations and losses with seepage did not reflect differences in base cation use by the grassland stands. In the RDE P. lanceolata was identified as a species featuring lower competition ability in concern of biomass building up and Fe acquisition (Cab; WILSON, 1988) under Fe deficiency compared to H. lanatus. For swards containing P. lanceolata complementary was found in concern of individual biomass production and individual Fe stocks. P. lanceolata gained lower biomass than the accompanying species. Inverted patterns of Fe acquisition ability and the ability to build up individual biomass, hint at a trade-off between Fe demand and biomass build up for P. lanceolata. DOC release to rhizodeposit solution was enhanced after the 1st harvest. P. lanceolata showed the highest release of DOC, a higher diversity of carboxylic acids as well as a considerable release of potential Fe chelators (malic, citric and malonic acid), while H. lanatus swards released only small amounts of carboxylic acids. Higher competition ability for species Fe contents after the 1st harvest indicated enhanced competition between P. lanceolata with A. odoratum. This finding was also reflected by higher DOC release and a higher release of potential Fe chelators in these swards. It was found that even transient grasslands species may show a high competition ability for Fe-acquisition under Fe-deficiency. During the RME, the basal respiration of the rhizosphere sand obtained from RDE differed only tendentiously due to its origin (H. lanatus, R. acris, diculture rhizosphere or Ref sand). H. lanatus root tissues increased respiration rates significantly during a 236 h incubation period to a four-fold of basal respiration whereas application of R. acris root tissues did not. Root tissue material was mineralised to the same extent as Corg material within the first 236 hrs. Since no differences of chemical parameters were found, for roots of the two species, enhanced mineralization of H. lanatus roots in the initial phase are likely due to lower root diameters and higher root surface areas.


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PG: Luke Ridnour, Delonte West, Greg Minor
SG: Andre Iguodala, Mickael Pietrus
SF: Shareef Abdur-Rahim, Boris Diaw
PF: Charlie Villanueva, Ian Mahinimi, Amir Johnson
C: Eddy Curry, Mamadou Ndiaye, Adam Parada
I get that this is a computer simulation, so it's not 100% real. But the real problem with tanking, free agency, etc. lies with the fact we have no way to negotiate a contract extension with our players. And quite honestly, I don't know what would be the best way to fix it.
damn, i go to see looper(pretty good movie btw) and **** pops off up in here
I can almost guarantee that Jamison will not sign with Orlando in the offseason. He went from having a good chance (biggest contract in league history?) to virtually no chance.
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Yeah I was out of reception zone all of yesterday and I come back to see all this. Tanking is terrible! Unless people think I was tanking too. Then...uh...I wasn't tanking!
I offered coltsguy Mcdyess and 2 firsts for Jamison and he turned that down. i offered him him 4 firsts for Jamison and he turned that down. now he trades him for 1 05 first and 3 scrubs???
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Please, we were still discussing the inclusion of one player in the deal. You wanted me to include an asset for him, I didnt want to. I let the trade hold to see how my team was playing. I improved the next sim and the sim after that I held off. I'm also happy I held off because your deal was not good. No trade was posted, nor approved to. All you had to do was throw in Haywood for free.
These are the changes I'd personally make after thinking about it
Free Agency:
1. First FA sim is dedicated to resigning (Maybe 2 if there are truly 10 FA sims) to be done Daily.
2. You can't bid more money than you have cap room. (Due to being able to go out and sign your own guys first you should have an accurate count on you cap up to this point). In your bid pms to CP3 you must post: Total Cap room, Induvidial bids on players, the sum of those year one bids , and what your cap figure looks like after it.
3. If you trade an expiring, you can not bid on said player in the corresponding FA.
4. You must have 4 bird years on a contract (Maybe 3 only this year since we didn't set out own contracts from the snake draft) to be able to bid above salary cap threshold (This is a RL thing and would help ease concerns to GMs like PreP about teams being able to go obnoxiously over the cap. This ALSO makes expiring 4 year bird rights more valuable to trade if you are truly done with said player).
1. 1 Strike Warning
2. After two strikes of posting a bad lineup, the sim will decide what your lineup, focus and pace will be.
3. Countless moves to get rid of best players to make your team terrible and signing the worst Free Agents you can find? Lose your pick and your assets are frozen.
1. We need a trade committee for questionable trades, like yesterday.
I would strike out 3. In the NBA it is legal to trade an expiring and then go sign him in the FA period. is it common..NO, but it can happen.
Trade committees should not happen. Everyone in this game has bias. Of course people will strike out deals that make one team much better, but if they made the same deal they would argue for it. Unless there is pure cheating happening or someone is obviously trying to give another team a leg up on the competition then all legal trades should be allowed.
Its good rules you came up with Ballsohard, it's just if the commish dig it. So hopefully someone shot him a Pm about it. Either ways it goes I'm happy, this rule can help with guys always trading away there best players because its there final year of that player deals. If nothing is done this process of guys trading players while on the final year of there contract will continue, it kinda sucks. You sign or trade for a guy and offer him 4 years, after 3 years you trade him because you are afraid of losing him.
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Old Navy Conjures Some 90s Nostalgia with Cast of 'Blossom'
It seems as though the hiring manager at Old Navy's "Funnovations Inc." is quite the fanatic of early 90s sitcoms. After all, Blossom star and current Big Bang Theory cast member Mayim Bialik revives her giant floral hat for a stint spent deploying "Bee Bots" on spring dresses. It's always amazing how quickly these Old Navy spots from CP+B and prodco Brand New School turn into surreal portrayals of a dystopian society controlled by excessively cheerful celebrities who run clothing factories.
So maybe using Bootsy Collins to sell boots last winter was a bit of a stretch, but if there's one media personality we can immortalize for bringing colorful clothing to the masses 20-some years ago, it was blossom and her outrageously bright clothing. Also, it's kind of nice (and a little depressing) that Joey Lawrence can still make some money on the side by not wearing a shirt and saying, "Whoa."
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