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The sizing is perfect and the quality is amazing. Very comfortable.
Enjoy fleet feet for your explorations with these low profile multisport shoes: plenty of support and cushioning – without the weight. With a flexible sole and supportive arch shank, this waterproof mid will keep your feet dry and comfortable. Lightweight cow suede/mesh upper with bellows tongue keeps out debris.
• Strobel construction offers flexibility and comfort
• Cow suede and mesh upper
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• Bellows tongue keeps debris out
• Abrasion resistant toe cap and heel
• Waterproof membrane treated with Aegis® antimicrobial solution provides a impermeable yet breathable barrier.
• Mesh lining treated with Aegis® antimicrobial solution
• Molded nylon arch shank
• Merrell air cushion in the heel absorbs shock and adds stability with an EVA midsole for cushioning
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The sizing is perfect and the quality is amazing. Very comfortable.
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I have the Boulder version and they are fantastic boots, and have been very comfortable from the first time I slipped my feet into them. I do a lot of walking on rough ground surfaces and the pair of boots that I am wearing right now, were put into use in mid September 2013. (This entire dry season plus.) I will put the replacement set into use as soon as the first rains fall, in the next week or so. I always purchase two pair, as I generally do not have access to good shopping here. I am looking forward to equally good service with the new pair.
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General long day use,17hrs/day, 7 days/week
I really enjoy wearing the Phoenix boot. It is light and comfortable from the moment I put it on. It especially easy on my feet in the rough, rocky terrain of Afghanistan. I've noticed that many of the special forces from the U.S. wear the Merrell brand as well. I ordered a half size larger this time from my first time last year. I found the wide size to be a little tighter on my feet previously. Going up a half size from what I usually wear has made all the difference. Great boot, I highly recommend it!
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I use this product daily performing maintenance on vehicles and engineer equipment and am on my feet most of the time.
Disclosure: I haven't had these long enough to know how well they hold up. Usually, I wear boots and shoes in the $150-200 range, with Gore-tex and Vibram soles. Like so many of us in this down economy, I needed to economize this time. I was NOT disappointed. In fact, I'm glad I bought these! When I got them, I was impressed with the fit. Great for us wide-foot folks. No need to wait for them to stretch. Good ankle support, sole is a good mix of flex where you want it, and stiff where you don't. The instep isn't super short, which is nice for high-instep folks like me. I bought these strictly for hiking, and so far they're doing great. They're fairly light, which is critical on long treks. I was concerned about the lack of a Vibram sole, but the traction has been comparable to my Merrell Trail Gloves with Vibram soles, which is to say excellent! The grip is solid on rock, and the fairly high-profile lugs really bite into dirt or turf. Haven't been out on a wet mountain yet, but their traction on wet pavement and tar suggests they'll do quite well on wet rock. They're not especially breathable, but no more so than any other waterproof boot. Wear a good wicking sock, and apply a liberal dose of foot powder (talc, not corn starch) before your hike. Try bringing a little bottle of foot powder, and reapply during a break. Thanks Merrell, for making quality $100 hiking boots! They'll be climbing Mount Katahdin this Summer! NOTE: You'll see people complain about these boots not being waterproof. They complain about that in most boot reviews. Here's why: a waterproof leather boot, whether Gore-Tex or M-Dry, has a waterproof membrane UNDER THE LEATHER. If your boot gets wet, the leather can get wet, but the water doesn't pass beyond the membrane under it. The feel of wet leather can make your feet feel wet. Add to that sweaty feet because you wore cotton socks, and you'll swear they leaked! A common complaint is that the boot was waterproof for a few months, then it failed. Boots usually come with a temporary water-repellent coating on the leather. This coating wears out. Cleaning it with a good boot cleaner can restore it for a while, but you need to reapply an appropriate water-repellent coating periodically. This will keep the leather from wetting out, and make it last longer.
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Exclusively for hiking
I use this product to hike the back trails of the north Georgia mountains. These trails involve multiple river and stream crossings. The waterproof aspect of these boots is exceptional. Not to mention the awesome comfort and durability. Great product!
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. — The Rhode Island Foundation will honor this year's two Innovation Fellows grantees Wednesday evening — David Dadekian and Amy L. Bernhardt — for their vision and commitment to help Rhode Island lead the way in two separate fields of expertise.
Each wins $300,000 over three years to turn ideas into reality. This is the third year for the fellowship conceived and funded by longtime philanthropists John and Letitia Carter.
Dadekian and Bernhardt were among 343 applicants, up from 183 last year. The "passion" for their work and ideas was exceptional, foundation President and CEO Neil D. Steinberg said.
Dadekian expects to create a centralized culinary hub in Rhode Island, similar perhaps to Seattle's Pike Place or New York's Chelsea Market. He envisions a year-round farmers market, commercial kitchen, bakery, beverage production, fish market, dairy and cheese facility, culinary education, food pantry and more.
His idea builds on one of four central themes chosen by one of the first winners, Allan Tear, Steinberg said. Tear's project sought to fuel high-growth start-ups in Rhode Island in four sectors, including food and beverage. Dadekian wants to pull it all together.
"Two years ago, Allan was one of the first to talk about food and beverage being an emerging industry," Steinberg said. "Now all of a sudden, everywhere we turn, there's food — someone's making it, creating it."
Bernhardt expects to build a state-of-the-art research and manufacturing business for the design and production of digitally printed textiles. She plans to buy a digital inkjet textile printer — a machine about the size of a sofa, which costs anywhere from $15,000 to $250,000. As the world of creating patterns and designing fabrics continues to transform itself in the digital age, she thinks Rhode Island has the right textile history and manufacturing past to regain relevance in the global textiles market.
The foundation liked her idea to create a pilot facility that builds on Rhode Island's past.
"With Amy's, there's an element of the old and the new," Steinberg said. "Positioning Rhode Island to tap into the global textile market takes us to a place, potentially, where we once were, with new technology. … So that is very exciting."
Both winners moved back to Rhode Island from New York in 2003.
Dadekian, 42, grew up in Cranston, earned a bachelor's degree in film and television at New York University and lives in Coventry with his wife and their two young girls.
He owns his own company, Eat Drink RI. Although he hires freelancers, Dadekian wears many hats, as a private chef, culinary writer, photographer, fundraiser and the organizing force behind the Eat Drink RI Festival, a showcase of Rhode Island's culinary world that runs April 24-27. He's active on social media and has worked in media marketing and public relations.
Dadekian is not sure yet where to create his culinary hub, but he wants it to be easily accessible. He says he won't get bogged down looking for the "perfect" location.
"I try to be relatively nimble," he said. "A lot of meetings bore me. … If I find a very good spot, we'll make it work. I don't want to deliberate to the ends of the earth."
He has adopted and paid to trademark the phrase "Food will help Rhode Island grow" as his rallying cry.
Bernhardt, 41, grew up in Baltimore, earned a degree in printmaking at the Rhode Island School of Design, and lives with her husband and their young daughter in Providence's Mount Pleasant neighborhood.
She's a graphic designer at the Basics Group, whose clients include the Rhode Island Department of Education, the state's Science & Technology Advisory Council and the Rhode Island Foundation, with whom she helped produce the "It's All in Our Backyard" campaign celebrating Rhode Island.
As she was turning 40, she felt she needed to get her creative and artistic "juices flowing," so she went back to RISD to take an infinite surface design class. She calls the class her "gift to herself," and what she discovered is a passion for designing fabric in new and different digital ways.
"This is such an incredible opportunity," she said. "I'm so grateful to the Carters and the Rhode Island Foundation."
In 2012, 438 people submitted Innovation Fellowship proposals as the foundation sought ideas to dramatically improve life in Rhode Island. That year, Soren Ryherd and Tear won. Last year, Adrienne Gagnon and Dr. Lynn Taylor won.
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I have been watching this plant grow for a while and it recently dawned on me that this looks like Poison Ivy to me. Am I correct? It sure is healthy. |
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Hi Shar. No, I don't think it is. Poison ivy is 3 leaves on a stem and the leaves are cut. |
No. What you have there appears to be very young Bishop's Wood trees - Bischofia javonica. Here's a closeup of the leaves: |
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- Posted by sharbear50 10 Pembroke Pines (My Page) on Fri, Sep 6, 13 at 16:28
Thanks for the info. When I noticed the three leaves together and that they are shiny, I started to wonder. It is growing in this cherry hedge where I wouldn't have been able to spray it with any weed killer so I am relieved. |
- Posted by sharbear50 10 Pembroke Pines (My Page) on Fri, Sep 6, 13 at 16:46
Now I am not so sure. This website shows three different leaf structures. http://www.clemson.edu/extension/hgic/pests/weeds/hgic2307.html |
I haven't seen PI for about 30 years. It was a tree crawling vine. I wasn't allergic to it. I played in the woods of upper PA growing up. Not sure if that's why. We didn't know what PI was when we were little. No adults ever went with us. My first husband got mad at me for constantly saying I wasn't allergic to it whenever he got it. He finally had me let him touch a cut,oozing stem of it to my arm. I only had a tiny black burn spot the size of the stem. No rash, no itching. Hard way to prove my point! |
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You must have a natural immunity to it then. I suppose it's possible to develop an immunity, but I imagine you would have surely hated developing that immunity. I remember there was a small island on the Air Force base I grew up on that we had built a plywood bridge to (eventually the base tore it down, being none too happy with us for building it in the first place. But it turned out that the island had a good bit of poison ivy on it. My brother and I got hit hard by the toxins but my buddy only had a very mild reaction, comparatively speaking. We all learned the benefits of Calamine lotion that summer. |
I never thought of it that way. Been in the service. I'm sure they were not thrilled at all! Sounds like something I would have done too. We were lucky we had a creek next door to play in. |
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The worst part was that for my little brother to hang out with my buddy and I on the island, we made him do a lap around the island naked. I imagine that had my mother not been laughing while applying the calamine, I probably would have gotten my butt whooped. As for the OP's question, it doesn't look like what my memory says Poison Ivy should look like, but you might want to take some in to your extension office for varification. Or just barely brush a leaf across the back of your hand. If your hand itches later, then it's Poison Ivy! |
I never got Poison Ivy where I grew up in New England, and we had plenty around the yard and woods. I moved here 4 years ago, and the contractor warned me there was poison ivy along the edge of the property (he had bad rashes on both his legs from it). I didn't pay much attention, as I didn't think I was sensitive to it. I was trimming back the brush in that area, and some had the vine on it. The next day both my forearms and stomach were covered with the most painful rash. Calamine lotion did nothing to relieve it. After a couple days my wife suggested I try Benadry. I took two at bedtime, and woke up in the morning rash free! I was amazed, you could hardly tell where the rash had been. This was probably a different variety of poison ivy, that I had no resistance to. |
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Working with UNIX timestamps in Python
So, like many others, I thought I knew how to work with UNIX timestamps in Python. After all, I pride myself on being pretty well-versed in my one favorite language!
However, I also like many others, started using MongoDB recently. MongoDB really forces you to think about timezones, so I argued to myself that this is the equivalent of going from str to unicode - more work, little payoff, but a lot more correct and in the end saves multiple headaches.
So MongoDB stores Epoch offsets like many others, in 64-bit unsigned integers. It doesn't store any timezones or anything (note: timestamps without definite timezones are called naïve.)
Why should you care? What's the point, you ask? Where is the culmination? Well as it turns out, there are subtleties. Very subtle subtleties. Here's how we receive messages on a site I develop:
- Incoming HTTP/SMSC/whatever call with message data,
- timezone is inferred depending on transport (let's say it's CET),
- either use the current UTC time, or infer from message data the timestamp and convert to UTC,
- store this UTC timestamp.
The important part: this works fine. There is absolutely nothing wrong with this process. What fails, of course, is the part you'd least expect to fail - our pagination, which is done with Epoch offsets:
- Pageful of messages is requested,
- find the last message in the dataset,
- take whatever attribute we sorted by on this particular message,
- convert that timestamp to an integer offset from Epoch.
How on earth could this fail? It's such a dead-simple task. Let's pseudocode it!
# Why isn't this part of the standard library? import time def dt2unix(dt): return time.mktime(dt.timetuple()) + (dt.microsecond / 10.0 ** 6) def next_page_offset(message_set, sort="created"): vals = sorted(message_set, key=lambda m: m[sort], reverse=True) return dt2unix(vals.next())
Seems fairly straight-forward, right? Take the lowest value for the key by which the entire dataset was sorted and make use of the fact that the next page's max(m[sort]) is less than this page's min(m[sort]).
As it turns out, no - this will behave in very odd ways on some machines. Yes, some machines - which ones will become evident soon.
The error is best explained by converting the Epoch offsets into datetime objects again:
def unix2dt(offset): return datetime.datetime.fromtimestamp(float(offset))
We should expect unix2dt(dt2unix(dt)) == dt to hold, and it does! So what's the fuzz about? Well...
>>> print dt 1970-01-01 00:00:00+00:00 >>> unix2dt(dt2unix(dt)) datetime.datetime(1970, 1, 1, 0, 0) >>> dt2unix(dt) -3600.0
Uh-oh. Shouldn't this give zero..? Well, no. The answer is that datetime.datetime.fromtimestamp and time.mktime both work not with naïve timestamps, but with local time.
So, the time functions in this case are compensating for the local timezone, which is CET! Hardly something you want them to be doing, I'd argue, for something like an offset (since it will lead to the same offset occurring multiple times during DST adjustment) - but hey.
We now know what is wrong, but how do we make them stop? One way is to just use UTC as the timezone. Server owners should really do this anyway, but timezones exist and they serve a good reason.
This is perhaps the second issue with Python's standard library and timestamps: it does nowhere mention how to do it without adjustment, except in the online HTML documentation. Personally I like using pydoc as a reference...
Converting from a UNIX timestamp into a non-compensated datetime is fairly easy: just use utcfromtimestamp and there we are (not sure why it says UTC though, this could really be any offset that shouldn't be compensated.)
Converting to a UNIX timestamp without compensating is a bit less obvious, even to seasoned Pythonistas because what you're looking for is actually calendar.timegm.
So we can now rewrite our two converter functions to look like this:
def dt2unix_utc(dt): return timegm(dt.timetuple()) + (dt.microsecond / 10.0 ** 6) def unix2dt_utc(offset): return datetime.datetime.utcfromtimestamp(offset)
Again with the *_utc thing, should probably be called *_global or something. I elaborated this into using the very excellent pytz library to set the UTC tzinfo.
So, that will be all then! The complexity of this really speaks for why Python should incorporate a set of functions for doing these things. I'd suggest making it obnoxiously clear that a compensation can be made:
- from_epoch(offset, compensate=False)
- to_epoch(dt, compensate=False)
If you pass a naïve datetime to these and tell them not to compensate, I think an exception should be raised. The point in compensating, I presume, is to make UNIX timestamps comparable across timezones. Ah well.


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Welcome to Tuesday Tips, a weekly guide to feeling good and aligning with love. Time is speeding up, life is getting better, and the ride is only getting wilder. This week's tips will help you use love as your guiding compass to the infinite possibilities of life. Open up your imagination and your heart and prepare to be delighted, inspired and surprised at how easy it is to let life take care of you while you have all the fun!
1. Let action be pulled through you.
You never have to take action if you don't feel certainty, or if the action isn't "in the flow". The perfect action will be pulled through you at the right time, in the right place. Leave the coordination to the universe; your only job is to allow life to bring you what you want. When the time is right to take action, it will feel like, "but of course this is happening…"
2. Take videos of your flow art practice.
It takes balls to videotape yourself and put it on the Internet. It can motivate you to perform at your best, and sharing your practice inspires others to move forward on their own journey. Mia Moore posted her hooping practice in the School of Life Design group and it made me want to make my own again soon!
3. Play the synchronicity game.
Ask your friends the last synchronicity they experienced. It's happening to everyone way more than ever!
4. Ask yourself, "Are you ready yet?"
Halcyon shared this idea from Jacob Glass in this Hug Nation video. Life keeps asking you in every moment, "Are you ready yet? Are you ready to step into the divine roll you came to live?" Are you ready to live the life of your dreams? Are you ready to experience the miracle in this moment?
5. Whenever you have a negative thought, feel the love in your heart.
Whenever there is a stray negative thought that comes in, switch to feeling the love in your heart. Stay with that feeling in your heart until you can feel it flood all through you. Any negative thoughts will disappear. If you can practise this regularly, in a very short time you will be living the life you want, in every area. As you magnetize the love in your heart, your whole life will change. ~The Secret Daily Teachings widget / Rhonda Byrne
6. What if it was the last day you saw everyone you know?
How differently would you act if you were living this day like it was your last chance to spend with everyone you see?
7. Appreciate others.
And you will be appreciated. Give compliments. Tell people you love them. Make lists of positive aspects about people who rub you the wrong way. When you appreciate, both you and the object of your appreciation increase in value.
8. Stop feeling negative.
Here's a great article about how your thoughts cause your emotions, and you are not your thoughts. You can choose the thoughts you think and therefore control how you feel. The piece uses a terrific analogy to explain:
When you are at home, people often come and knock on your door. You pause, look at who it is, and decide if you are going to let them into your home. Your home is your safe and sacred sanctuary and you don't just let anyone in. You may speak to them at the door if they are a stranger, or immediately invite them in if you recognize them as loving family or friends.
Now, replace you as the house itself, thoughts are the strangers or friends knocking at your door, and your decision to open or close the door is the power of choice you possess as a result of pausing to assess the quality of thoughts knocking at your door. The thoughts knocking outside your front door are not part of you in the house, but separate entities outside your home. Thoughts knocking for your permission to come inside and be part of your home require your approval and permission to enter.
9. Be your inner child.
Ted Hughes wrote an incredibly moving letter to his son about the universal inner child and how we build up walls to protect it. If you don't have time to read it, I'll leave you with the last line: "And the only thing people regret is that they didn't live boldly enough, that they didn't invest enough heart, didn't love enough. Nothing else really counts at all." We all know that's true. Let's live it!
10. Try my new 2 minute Daily Meditations!
I've started recording short video meditations on most weekdays. They always improve my mood, and even Reddit likes them! Here's one from last Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Monday. You can subscribe to my Youtube channel to stay caught up.
11. Breathe.
The universe is taking care of everything else. (Thanks Samuel Greenberg!)
12. Be Jesus.
Take those WWJD? bracelets to a new level. We are entering a period called Christ consciousness, in which we all realize we are divine. Each and every one of us is god in human form. Halcyon shared a video about stepping into this divine role, with instructions for embracing this level of consciousness: "Be present. Have integrity. Align with love." So I ask you (as un-ironically as I possibly can), what would Jesus do?
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Choose a Tip to focus on and share your experience with an active community of positive thinkers. Click here to join the group, and click here to join the conversation about this week's Tips. What tips work best for you?
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Dani du Plessis and Cyndi-Lee de Cerff, the two students sponsored by Exp Agency to attend the 2nd African Experiential Marketing Summit, which took place on 3 September at Montecasino, share their thoughts on the event.
"I am so honoured to have been given this opportunity to experience it, it was above all a truly big eye-opener and I intend using the information I have gained in my future as a marketing leader," says De Cerff.
"I had a really remarkable day," adds Du Plessis. "It was so interesting, enriching and valuable."
Both young women extended their thanks to Exp Agency for the opportunity to attend the event at which international marketing gurus such as Bernd Schmitt, Robert D. Calkins Professor of International Business and Executive Director of the Centre on Global Brand Leadership at Columbia Business School in New York; Kim Skildum-Reid, one of the world's leading lights in sponsorship; and Ryan FitzSimons, CEO of the Gigunda Group in the USA.
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Our beloved Rachel Maddow was on "The View" yesterday morning, dishing the news with the gals, and managed to not give Elisabeth Hasselbeck any dirty looks. Our fave part of the interview is when she talks about how meeting her partner, Susan, was a lot like "Desperate Housewives." Clip above!
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"Chiggers, poison ivy, rednecks, humid summers, cold winters. If you don't like those things, you shouldn't come here."
You wouldn't know it by listening to him, but Trevor Childress is the best spokesman there is for Chattanooga. You also wouldn't know that the blond, blue-eyed, 29-year-old Georgia transplant is at the spear tip of a civic and outdoor renaissance that has elevated this city of 167,674 from what comedian Doug Stanhope once callously described as a place "so behind the times that you can't even get AIDS there yet" to what Outside's Facebook voters overwhelmingly dubbed the Best Town Ever.
Officially, Childress isn't buying the recognition. Consider, however, that in addition to being a professional outdoor guide, he's also a dedicated rock climber and licensed pilot who happens to be airing his gripes on the shores of a favorite swimming hole after a tour of some of the most wildly textured sandstone climbing crags in the country. Spend much time with Childress and you begin to sense an ulterior motive behind the griping.
"I don't like Outside coming in here and naming this the best town ever," he says, like a kid upset that his secret hideout has been revealed. "I sure didn't vote for Chattanooga on that thing."
PLENTY OF OTHERS did. Which is how this river city near the meeting point of Tennessee, Georgia, and Alabama beat out perennial "most livable," "coolest," and "Bro, you gotta try this seasonal IPA" meccas like Boulder, Colorado; Burlington, Vermont; and Portland, Oregon.
The explanation for Chattanooga's sudden jump to civic stardom begins with the literal rise of the Cumberland Plateau. Taking in more than 24,000 square miles on its mountainous run from Kentucky to Alabama, the plateau splinters near Chattanooga to form a labyrinth of jagged ridges and sheer gorges. At the site of Chattanooga itself, the plateau towers more than 1,000 feet above the Tennessee River. The back side of the Cumberland forms the eastern wall of the Sequatchie Valley, a rich hub of recreation whose vertical cliffs and green, flat valley floor long ago established it as the hang-gliding capital of the East.
I get my first gulp of the local adrenaline while attached to Childress on a tandem hang-glide that starts with a leap off a sheer 1,800-foot cliff at a place called Henson's Gap. On a day with crazy thermal lifts, Childress once pulled off a 53-mile flight from here all the way to Fort Payne, Alabama. Our circle tour over the forest and farmlands below is much briefer but exhilarating enough.
Closer to ground, there are literally hundreds of challenging crags along the plateau. My favorite is a boulder garden, Stone Fort, about 20 miles outside the city, where a staggering playground of big rocks awaits barely two minutes from the car. And, OK, it's one o'clock on a hot summer weekday—cooler October temps bring out the climbing masses—but Childress and I have the place to ourselves.
During a different adventure, at a place called Raccoon Mountain, I experience the painful pleasure of having my ass handed to me on a rumble-tumble 18-mile network of bike trails. The tight, intermediate-to-advanced singletrack is stuffed with enough sudden rock drops and trees around which to wrap a handlebar that my catalog of hardwood-forest obscenities gets as much of a workout as my legs and arms.
Cavers and creekers are similarly blessed with an abundance of options. Commercial rafts pile up like theme-park bumper boats on the Ocoee River, but you certainly don't have to join them: within 30 minutes of downtown, there are roughly 30 creeks that feature Class IV or V runs, making Chattanooga a magnet for skilled paddlers.
STILL, FOR PEOPLE like me who are comfortable with reusable-cloth shopping bags, it's not easy twisting your head around the idea of Outside's Best Town being in a place with a history of monstrous industrial abuse (in the 1960s and 1970s, manufacturing waste and smog made Chattanooga one of the most polluted cities in the U.S.), ubiquitous evangelical dogma, and a reputation for red-state conservatism.
The people of Chattanooga, of course, will tell you that it's not that simple.
"Chattanooga is an island of sanity in the middle of a very socially conservative place," explains Minya James, a 30-year-old Chattanoogan who recently started a wooden-boat-building business. "On a social level, I don't want to say I have a love-hate relationship with the town, because I don't hate it. I don't love it, either. But for outdoor recreation, there's nothing like it."
Like virtually everyone else I meet during the three days I spend in town, James is a transplant—and most of the others tell the same story. Chattanooga is affordable: the median home value is around $128,000. Major employers such as the Tennessee Valley Authority, BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee, Cigna, Volkswagen, and McKee Foods (they make all your Little Debbie snacks) provide the foundation of an unflashy yet relatively stable and diverse local economy.
The foodies are coming, too, bringing with them those hipster Portland and Burlington restaurants that emphasize locally grown everything. And even if the hookup scene is lacking—one local single morosely informed me that Chattanooga is "a town of sixes, and barely enough of those"—there are signs of life. The weekend I was in town, the Crash Pad—a new, self-described "boutique hostel" aimed at the outdoor crowd—threw a well-attended party with DJ talent imported from Los Angeles.
AS FOR THE TOWN'S political conservatism, I'm reminded several times by locals that it doesn't always follow the script. Chattanooga's revitalized waterfront district and the city-operated adventure outfitter Outdoor Chattanooga were green projects pushed through in the early 2000s by then-mayor and current Tennessee Republican senator Bob Corker, a local hero.
Besides, the best cities are sometimes the ones that haven't quite arrived. They are places where people talk more about momentum and the future and promises yet to be fulfilled than about skyrocketing home values and what a bitch it is to park downtown.
Which is not to say that Chattanooga doesn't have enough problems to keep the gawking hordes at bay. One man, for certain, is still clinging to them.
"Ticks, mosquitoes, fleas, can't get a decent job," Childress moans, continuing to lay out the pitiable string of maladies afflicting his beloved town.
"That's all part of it—that's Chattanooga," Childress says. "I just want everyone to know before they start coming here that that's what to expect." Then he relents and almost smiles as a razor-fine shaft of afternoon sunlight cuts toward his favorite swimming hole, hidden at the bottom of a deep, rocky gorge.
"It's perfect for me, though," he says, before diving in again.
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The Beecroft Art Gallery is now open Tuesday - Saturday 10am-5pm. Come visit us in our new home in the old Central Library building on Victoria avenue, next to Central Museum.
For a list of our first exhibitions, please see the What's On pages.
Museum Branch Closure Dates
Southchurch Hall will be closed on the 28th January 2015. Southchurch Hall and Prittlewell Priory will be closed all day on 10th February 2015 due to staff training. Central Museum and Beecroft Art Gallery will be closed in the morning on 10th February 2015 and will reopen from 2.30pm – 5pm. We apologise for any inconvenience caused.
Alan Sorrell (1904-1974)
Beecroft29 November 2014 - 04 April 2015
Alan Sorrell was a Southend artist painting in oils and watercolour, a muralist, teacher and illustrator. He had a particular interest in ancient history and was well known for his illustrations of reconstructions of ruined buildings. In association with Liss Fine Art, this exhibition brings together works from Southend's collections and loans from private owners and features murals, sketches and local scenes from throughout Sorrell's career.


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Now Equipped with a Performance Built Quench Head 351 Cleveland
Beautiful Royal Maroon Metallic Paint
Gorgeous Rust Free Original Floor Pans
Fresh & Crisp New Mach 1 Interior
Fold Down Rear Seat, Console & Tilt Column
Originally Equipped with Air Conditioning
Brand New 15" USA Made Magnum 500's
Brand New BF Goodrich Radial T/A's...275 60's on the Back!
C6 Automatic Transmission with Shift Kit & Mild Stall Converter
4-Wheel Power Disc Brakes
This is a very striking car. The combination of Royal Marron with Black-Out Hood, Spoilers and Stripes is very Muscle Car. Originally Built in the San Jose Califonia Plant and delivered to Huntington Beach, California this Mach 1 has lead a very lucky life. The floorpans, quarter panels, frame rails and torque boxes appear to be the originals with no signs obvious of corrosion or prior repair. The paint looks beautiful and is good for a driver, not perfect as it has some imperfections visible on close inspections. Easily will hold its own at weekend shows and make just about anyone proud.
Inside the interior was recently restored. Reproduction Seat Upholstery, Carpet, Door Panels and Dash pad all look great. The console and radio have had new bezels installed. A Tilt-Column and Fold Down Rear Seat are other options on a long list of desirable ones this car has.
Fire up the 351 Cleveland and you will notice a nice lope to the idle and a deep note to the exhaust, watch the video!!! The C6 Automatic Transmission has a Shift Kit and a 2500 RPM Stall Converter. Out back the 9" Differential is as tough as they come with the upgraded Lincoln Versailles Disc Brake Unit. The Lincolns used a heavy duty housing, basically the same as Currie uses for their Heavy Duty Housings. An added bonus of the Versailles rear end is that it is about 3/4" narrower on each side providing extra room for some big shoes out back! The 8" Magnums and 275 60 BFG's fill up the wheel well and look great!
This car was optioned with Power Disc Brakes and Power Steering. Both are great options and really make this car a nice driver.
Being an Original Big Block car, it was fitted with the reinforced shock towers. Anyone with any experience with 69 and 70 Mach 1's has seen many small blocks with cracked & broken shock towers. The big blocks do not have this problem thanks to their stronger shock towers allowing you to drive this car as hard as you like without the fear of damaging it.


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Has it really been over 25 years since Indiana Jones swung himself (and his fedora hat) across his first snake filled pit? It seems like only yesterday we were watching The Last Crusade in the cinema too. Hang on - what were our parents doing letting us watch a film with melting Nazis in it when we were only 3? (Okay, so in 1989 we were actually 12...)
Anyway this year, possibly as excitingly for gamers as the new Indiana Jones film - especially those who have played Lego Star Wars (and is there anyone who hasn't?) - is Lego Indiana Jones the game. We've seen what developer Traveller's Tales can do with some animated Lego bricks, a classic trilogy and a generous dosage of fun-poking humour already in Lego Star Wars. And the prospect of now playing through our favourite action hero trilogy as re-imagined by the Lego masters is frankly as appealing as shoving a sock in heroine Willie's gob when she's doing all that screaming in the dinghy in Temple of Doom.
Just writing that sentence too has given us yet another famous Indiana Jones scene that we can't wait to see re-done in Lego. And - trust us - we've thought of quite a few since getting to play the game's Raiders of the Lost Ark levels and seeing just how brilliant they are.
We sort of knew what to expect when we started playing Lego Indiana Jones - which is the same as anyone who's watched the films and played the previous Lego games will be expecting too. The formula of simple platform action, block collecting and constructing and comical Lego cut-scenes remains very much intact, which should surely dampen our enthusiasm at least a little. Perhaps because of the strength of the film franchise though, or just because of the encompassing attention to minute detail, the game still manages to make a jaw-dropping impression.
That's partly because it looks so good on Xbox 360. The opening Raiders of the Lost Ark forest level in particular looks stunning - almost like the little plastic Indy and Satipo characters have borrowed the trees from Crysis and are taking a stroll amidst them. Almost.
It's mostly those details that make the game so outstanding though. As you jump about as Indy, he action rolls at every opportunity and his trusty whip is always on hand to drag objects or swing him across holes in the ground. His sidekick Satipo - who wields a spade for digging up hidden switches and Lego bricks - looks as comically terrified of every springing out spike as a Lego faced character possibly could too.
This level has a bit of everything. Rope bridges to build then throw across chasms, poison darts to roll past and even a bit of raft rowing through crocodile infested waters. It all comes to a climax in Indy's most famous scene - the giant boulder rolling one - with you legging it towards the camera, leaping over gaps in the floor to escape. Only to have your priceless idol nabbed by rival archaeologist Rene Belloq. The cut-scene here pretty much sums up what to expect from the rest of the game. As Indy accidentally produces the gold head of Star Wars droid C-3PO instead of the idol he's been asked to hand over, Belloq starts doing his best robot impression and all the Hovito tribes people start wetting themselves laughing.
After making an escape in his seaplane, Indy's "there's a big snake in the plane, Jock" line is replaced by Indy leaping into Jock's lap instead. Some games might struggle at humour, but Traveller's Tales clearly have no such problem. Of course, it helps that cut-scenes feature cutesy-fied plastic Lego versions of devil worshippers, and Nazis who can't speak so are reduced to comic over-acting. Still, you can't help but love how it's all done.


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Check in frequently to read the behind-the-scenes scoop on the Newberry's popular Book Fair. The blog is maintained by "Uncle Blogsy," otherwise known as Dan Crawford, Book Fair Manager.
The Science of Temporal Displacement
Posted on Friday, January 30, 2015
The theme for this winter, to judge by the television and movie promos, is Time Travel. Now, we have discussed the impossibility of physical travel through time in that blog…oh, right. That won't be published for another three years. Forget I mentioned it.
Of course, time travel via books is a simpler matter. Authors do their best to pick you up and drop you into another time and place. You can vicariously experience existence as a caveman, an Egyptian priestess, a medieval minstrel, or a Regency buck. If you need a little more help, you can read a time travel book and live vicariously as a twenty-first century commuter accidentally transported into another life as a frontier gunfighter or Gilded Age actress. In fact, there are novels about historical novelists who are transported through time to the era they write about…it gets really involved.
Books provide another, better type of time travel as well. One of my regular customers has noted that while reading certain books, he always tastes a Spam and pickle sandwich. See, he was given these books decades ago to read in the car during family road trips, and his mother always packed these Spam and pickle sandwiches. The book and the sandwich (and the car, and the wind blowing in the little front seat window) are forever connected. He no longer eats Spam and pickle sandwiches, but the Emerald City of Oz is always filled with them. (One feels L. Frank Baum would have been amused.) Another frequent book buyer has admitted that Hercule Poriot smells like apples: she read his adventures first while sitting in an upstairs window, always with an apple to eat.
Reading, therefore, can send you back to two different eras at the same time, a thing mere physical time machines cannot. You can be Dr. Watson in nineteenth century Switzerland and at the same time be the ten year-old stunned at the heroic death of Sherlock Holmes. You can be Sir Nigel battling for the Black Prince and simultaneously be the child pretending not to hear that call to the dinner table. With a little effort, you can also be the slightly younger child opening the wrapping paper around the book on your birthday, and the slightly older child kicking a smaller sibling for spilling the glass of Kool-Aid on your treasured book.
Some lesser objects donated to the Book Fair work the same time travel magic. A large graduation photo defeated virtually every attempt to guess its age. The hairdo and clothes sort of give it away, but people guessed in four different decades. See, everyone who came by recognized it as a high school graduation picture and dated it to whatever decade they personally graduated from high school. The whole attitude of the sitter sent the flying back into their personal past.
If you stop by the A.C. (Antique Cards) McClurg Bookstore, you will see a similar magic time travel token. In conjunction with the Love On Paper exhibit, there is a box of vintage schoolroom Valentines: the kind you bought by the boxful because you had to bring one to each kid in your class. Remember the tissue box with the construction paper hearts: your mailbox? Remember the absolutely wretched puns? (Lettuce be Valentines; you can't be Beet. You're a Peach; we'd make a good Pear.)
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SMircle Workshop Meeting Monday (2/2) at 3:15PM: Kalivoda & Zyman
Please join the SMircle Workshop next Monday at 3:15 in the Greenberg Room as they hear from Nick Kalivoda and Erik Zyman (UC Santa Cruz) on the syntax of relative clauses in Zapotec.
Their title and abstract is given below.
On the Derivation of Relative Clauses in Teotitlán del Valle Zapotec
Much recent work argues that some or all externally headed relative clauses are derived by raising of the head NP from a relative-clause-internal position (Åfarli 1994, Kayne 1994, Bianchi 1999, Bhatt 2002). We present novel data from Teotitlán del Valle Zapotec (TdVZ) which show that relative clauses in this language lack the head-raising derivation entirely. The evidence comes from the failure of reciprocals in RC-heads to reconstruct into their relative clauses for Condition A (despite reciprocals' regularly reconstructing for Condition A under A′-movement more generally) and from a subtle difference between TdVZ and English with regard to variable-binding possibilities in a particular configuration—a difference unexpected on a head-raising analysis of TdVZ relatives. We discuss two strands of evidence that seem to present challenges to our analysis—one involving apparent relativization of an idiom chunk that preserves the idiomatic reading, the other involving RC-internal interpretations of RC-head modifiers (Bhatt 2002). We argue that this counterevidence is only apparent, and the only plausible analysis of TdVZ relatives is one on which they are not head-raising structures. This shows that externally headed relative clauses are a cross-linguistically heterogeneous category: superficially similar relativization structures in different languages can have very different derivational histories.


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Old Navy was so EMBARRASSED by a batch of botched t-shirts they made ... the company resorted to emergency destruction protocols ... TMZ has learned.
Here's what happened ... Old Navy hired an third party company to design a slew of vintage pro-football themed t-shirts ... honoring classic teams like the Texans, Jets, Chiefs and Browns ... problem is the company they hired screwed up the final product.
Old Navy was left with THOUSANDS of error-filled items ... listing the wrong championship team ... the wrong year ... or even listing the wrong league (above: the Jets were AFL champs, NOT NFL champs in 1968).
TMZ obtained a memo from the corporate office to retail outlets ... telling managers to enact "standard D&D process" ... which means DESTROYING the goods and then disposing of them ASAP.
Old Navy has previously released a statement on the screw-up ... saying, "The NFL clothing sold in our Old Navy stores is created by a third party sports licensing company. It is our intention to always provide the best merchandise to our customers and NFL fans. We apologize for this error and are removing the T-shirts."
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How big is the universe?
I am preparing a presentation to 16 year old students about "How big is the Universe", mainly about how it is measured. I wondered if you know what is the current record holder for the most distant object from Earth. If you could point me at a URL with pictures I would be grateful. So far I have found this BBC article but it is a little short on astronomical detail and may not be up to date.
You might say that the most distant object visible from Earth is the Cosmic Microwave Background, the remaining heat from the Big Bang which is visible all around us. The Background is found at a distance of about 15 billion light-years from us in all directions. It appears as a smooth, even distribution of thermal radiation with a temperature of about 3 degrees Kelvin. Have look at The COBE site for more info on how the CMB is observed.
If you're picky about what you call an "object," the CMB may not qualify. The most distant objects observed are generally quasars, famously bright nuclei of active galaxies. Quasars are found out to a redshift of about z=6, or about 12 billion light years. (The CMB is at a redshift value of 1000.) Which particular object is the farthest changes almost every week--- there's a lot of stuff out there! Usually, the images of these objects are about the size of a camera pixel, and so don't look very impressive. In any case, you can see the photos from the Keck run of an object at redshift z=5.4 at the Keck Public Site. Have fun!
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For some reason, our Mad Science Derby produced a lot of really, REALLY nerdy designs. Who could've seen that coming? Observe our favorites among the also-rans now...
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Bring your own Van Halen tapes.
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Come and have a go if you think you're hard-drive enough.
Dihydrogen Monoxide Control Labs
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Do you know how much DHMO is in virtually everything you drink? GET THE FACTS!
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These phones get smaller and smaller every year.
Who's laughing now?
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I think I saw something like this in a video booth in Tokyo.
Pluto's Revenge
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This is what my funk-thrash band was called back in high school, only with a Z. Pluto'z Revenge RIPS!
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As always, you can see the losers of tomorrow in the current Derby. Keep at it, runners-up. Galileo didn't catch on his first time around either.
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A Once in a Lifetime Opportunity!!
Friday October 25, 2013
In partnership with The Hotel Plaza Athénée in Paris, My Beautiful Paris founder Norma Thiessen and Paris based photographer Carina Okula are proud to announce EMBRACE - Paris 2014.
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Tags acoustic, indie, harmonica, fun, mellow
Genres rock, indie, alternative, classic rock, indie rock (beta) (flag as incorrect)
Published February 16, 2012
The title sums it up nicely
So this is what you do, you start out slow, gradually build up speed and then slow back down again by vladtamas
The title sums it up nicely.
acoustic, indie, harmonica, fun, mellow
No really, I'm fine by vladtamas
Nine tracks including music by Belle & Sebastian, The Decemberists, and Oasis.
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I occasionally contribute to the Christian Science Monitor's Americas blog, Inter-American Dialogue's Latin American Newsletter, World Politics Review and Al Jazeera. CSM's editorials are reproduced from my blog (some are listed here) while those that appear on Al Jazeera are original content.
Briefings for the World Politics Review
Justice Deferred: Rule of Law in Central America (November 11, 2014)
Despite U.S. Efforts, Root Causes of Migration Crisis Prevail in Central America (July 21, 2014)
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Ending the "ruthless leadership" of the Zetas? (July 17, 2013)
up on violence in Honduras (June 8, 2013)
Guatemala: Rios Montt genocide trial ends with historic verdict (May 15, 2013)
US President Obama returns to Latin America (May 2, 2013)
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The battle to define Chavez's legacy (March 7, 2013)
Predicting the results of El Salvador's next election (February 3, 2013)
Meet the first head of state to head to trial in the Americas for genocide (January 31, 2013)
Guatemalan President Otto Perez Molina's first year in office (January 18, 2013)
The United States should grant TPS for Guatemala (December 27, 2012)
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Mitt Romney, the Republican Party and Latin America (September 19, 2012)
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A second chance for President Funes in El Salvador (June 24, 2012)
Vice President Marco Rubio? (May 23, 2012)
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El Salvador's gang truce (April 7, 2012)
El Salvador's FMLN wobbles, but doesn't fall down (March 17, 2012)
Decriminalising drugs in the Western hemisphere (March 14, 2012)
El Salvador's brutal civil war: What we still don't know (March 1, 2012)
How will Montt defend himself? (February 3, 2012)
Republicans derail US ambassador to El Salvador (January 13, 2012)
Defending human rights in Latin America (January 9, 2012)
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10 Say among the nations, "The LORD reigns! Yea, the world is established, it shall never be moved; he will judge the peoples with equity." | 10 Say among the nations, "The LORD reigns." The world is firmly established, it cannot be moved; he will judge the peoples with equity. |
Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyright 1952 [2nd edition, 1971] by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved. (Revised Standard Version - Holy Bible) | Scripture quoted by permission. Quotations designated (NIV) are from THE HOLY BIBLE: NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION®. NIV®. Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984 by Biblica. All rights reserved worldwide. (New International Version Bible Online) |


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Best Original Screenplay
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American Hustle, Eric Warren Singer and David O. Russell
Blue Jasmine, Woody Allen
Dallas Buyers Club, Craig Borten and Melisa Wallack
Her, Spike Jonze
Nebraska, Bob Nelson
This is anybody's race to win. I think Jonze will be a front-runner for his imaginative and philosophical romantic sci-fi — a nice combination of ingredients, that is hard to pull off. If the larger Academy is looking for a place to reward Her, this could be the place — while the rivals have strong shots in other prominent categories.
Who's out: Joel Coen and Ethan Coen, Inside Llewyn Davis
The brothers have a strong history at the Academy, but this film about the Greenwich Village folk-music scene in the early 1960s simply didn't strike the right note (sorry) with voters.
Prize Fighter Score: Four out of five.
I had Inside Llewyn Davis on the final list. The complaint I kept hearing was that it was too bleak, the main character too unpleasant to care about. I should have listened, but disagreed on both counts. It seemed hilarious to me, and I thought Davis was self-destructively sympathetic. But predictions are about accuracy, not agenda.
My wild-card choice was Nicole Holofcener's Enough Said, which also didn't make it. How did I overlook Dallas Buyers Club? D'oh. That's a forehead-slapper. It seemed like more of a performance movie, but then again … the words the actors said and the storylines they played out were all on the page. The writer's branch wisely reminds us of that with this bid.
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5 The Lord says, "The time is coming when I will choose as king a righteous descendant of David. That king will rule wisely and do what is right and just throughout the land. | 5 "The days are coming," declares the LORD, "when I will raise up to David a righteous Branch, a King who will reign wisely and do what is just and right in the land. |
Scripture taken from the Good News Translation - Second Edition, Copyright 1992 by American Bible Society. Used by Permission. (The Good News Translation - The Holy Bible Online) | Scripture quoted by permission. Quotations designated (NIV) are from THE HOLY BIBLE: NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION®. NIV®. Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984 by Biblica. All rights reserved worldwide. (New International Version Bible Online) |


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TV's original horror-show hostess (whose real name is Maila Nurmi), Vampira was an S&M-lite concoction made up of equal parts Theda Bara and Morticia Addams. Blessed with a 17-inch waist and ample cleavage, she had fans all over the world at the height of her fame in the mid-'50s, when her eponymous show aired on L.A.'s KABC. One of her fans was director Ed Wood, who cast her in 1956 for his no-budget horror opus Plan 9 From Outer Space, and who has posthumously attained lowly new heights of fame through Tim Burton's recent biopic.
Now 72, the Finnish-born Nurmi lives (with a cat and two pigeons but no phone or car) in a small Hollywood apartment, where she subsists on Social Security. Although she had previously worked with portrait artist Bernard of Hollywood and was a popular pinup model for Vargas, things got tough when KABC canceled her show in 1955. ''There was a horror craze going on,'' she recalls, ''and I was thinking someone was going to knock on my door.'' Mr. Wood did. ''I was on unemployment $13 a week and I was paid $200 for one day (for Plan 9).'' In the late '50s and early '60s she made three movies for quickie producer Albert Zugsmith (including Sex Kittens Go to College), but after that she found herself ''housecleaning for friends, charging 99 cents an hour.'' Her clients included Burt Reynolds, Tuesday Weld, Troy Donahue, and Tab Hunter.
In the mid-'60s she opened a clothing boutique called Vampira's Attic, where rockers like Iron Butterfly and Grace Slick shopped. By the early '80s, amid the Hollywood punk-rock scene, she found herself performing on spoken-word night at L.A.'s Anti-Club, doing monthly recitations from a book she was writing about Googie's, a '50s coffee shop and actors' hangout. ''I got to chapter five and the Red Hot Chili Peppers came in those guys who appear naked with socks on their penises and that was the end of it,'' she remembers. ''In fact, it ended my career. I said I'd never face a live audience again except with a loaded machine gun.''
Although Nurmi has been married three times, her close yet platonic friendship with James Dean remains the highlight of her life: ''He was the first and the last human being I've ever known with whom I'd felt we were of the same species. Everybody else to me is a stranger.''


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The Qumi Q5, the next generation of Viviteks series of HD LED pocket projectors, has a brightness level up to 500 lumens and weighs only 1.1 pounds. The Qumi Q5 features a DLP Pico chipset and BrilliantColor technologies from Texas Instruments and wireless capability. The Qumis sleek design and connectivity options allows it to be used with a variety of other portable devices, including, but not limited to smart phones, laptops, netbooks and tablets, digital and video cameras. Versatile and portable, the Vivitek Qumi Q5 is perfect for sharing digital content at work and play.


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The board
The ARONAH Board has been selected by an independent Selection Committee of eminent Australians in accordance with the process outlined by the National Registration and Accreditation Scheme.
Under this scheme the Board most compose of:
- One practitioner from each of the larger jurisdictions (New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria and Western Australia), one of which must be from a regional area.
- One practitioner from one of the smaller jurisdicitions (Australian Capital Territory, Northern Territory or Tasmania)
- Three community members (members who have not been practising naturopaths or herbalists)
The members of the Board of the Australian Register of Naturopaths are:
Practitioner members
- Dr Amie Steel (Queensland), Chair
- Ms Lisa McDonald (New South Wales)
- Ms Jackie Arbuckle (Victoria), Treasurer
- Ms Yulia Onsman (Tasmania and territories), Deputy Chair
- Ms Marion Volk (Western Australia)
- Vacant (South Australia)
Community members
Practitioner members
Jackie Arbuckle is a naturopath practicing in Melbourne, and rurally in Benalla, Victoria. She is a degree-qualified, graduating from Southern School of Natural Therapies in 2007. Jackie also has an Applied Science Degree (Human Biology) and a Graduate Diploma in Psychology, both from RMIT.
Jackie's practice focuses in treating people with digestive problems as well as stress and fatigue. She has a special interest in iridology and uses it extensively in her practice.
Previously, she worked in scientific research at Melbourne University and the Cancer Council Victoria, mainly in the area of cancer prevention.
Lisa is a qualified naturopath and passionate about our naturopathy and western herbal medicine profession continuing to be a well educated and a respected health care provider in the Australian health system. Lisa has worked for over 12 years in global organisations in human resources, change management and business re-engineering roles before having children and pursuing her passion as a naturopath.
In additional to her Naturopathy qualifications, Lisa has a Bachelor of Arts (psychology) degree and a Masters of Management. Lisa is a member of the NHAA and an Associate Member of AIMA and ACNEM. Lisa currently practices in a clinic in Sydney and is studying towards a qualification in Nutritional and Environmental Medicine with ACNEM.
Amie has completed her PhD through the Faculty of Health, University of Technology Sydney where she examined complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) use amongst pregnant women. Amie is a member of the Network of Researchers in the Public Health of Complementary and Alternative Medicine and co-founder of Embrace Holistic Services (www.embraceholistic.com). Amie is a Board Member of the 'Evidence, Research and Policy in Complementary Medicine' Special Interest Group at the Public Health Association of Australia. She is also in clinical practice as a naturopath at Herbs on the Hill (www.herbsonthehill.com.au) in Brisbane, Australia. Amie's current research focus includes a diverse area of complementary medicine including pregnancy and women's health, curriculum content of conventional and complementary medicine courses, integration and regulation of complementary medicine within the wider health system, and the interface between evidence-based medicine and complementary medicine practice. Amie is widely published both in text books and peer-reviewed journals, has given invited talks at international research conferences and is on the editorial board for multiple international peer-reviewed journals related to complementary and alternative medicine.
Marion has a background in sociology, education, naturopathy, herbal medicine and homeopathy. She is a naturopath and herbalist in clinical practice with over 16 years experience and fellow of the Australian Natural Therapists Association, and a practising member of the National Herbalists Association of Australia, the Australian Register of Homoeopaths and the Australian Homoeopathy Association.
She has a strong interest in supporting the Western herbal medicine and naturopathic professions to improve and maintain their high standards by working in academic and clinical training, and mentoring graduates in clinical practice. She is committed to working towards registration of the profession. Her goal is to contribute to make prudent use of complementary health more accessible to the whole community to promote public health and wellbeing.
She has been lecturing in herbal medicine, naturopathy and clinical practice since 2003 and is also working as academic state manager at Endeavour College in Perth.
She has completed a masters Health Science degree in complementary medicine and graduated from Bachelor degrees in each sociology (Hon), education, naturopathy, and Bachelor Health Science HSc degrees in complementary medicine and Western herbal medicine. She is currently studying a Masters degree in education.
Community members
Eloise graduated from Adelaide University in 2012 with a Bachelor of Laws and is currently studying a Master of Public Health at Flinders University. Eloise has research interests Public Health Law and the regulation of health professionals, and works in research in this area with a team at Bond University's Law School. She also has strong research and personal interests in natural medicine.
In addition to rabbinical studies, John has completed postgraduate studies in communal service, psychology, management, mediation and gerontology. John is a Senior Fellow of the University of the Sunshine Coast in recognition of his contribution to community education through the U3A Sunshine Coast as well as his participation in interfaith activities. John also has an Honorary Doctorate from HUC-JIR in USA.
As an ARONAH Board community member, John's primary focus is the patient/client, health fund member, and a tax paying citizen's perspective. ARONAH has an important role to play in helping the public identify who has met educational and practice standards when selecting a registered practitioner. ARONAH will also give the public the opportunity to have their complaints dealt with by an independent complaints mechanism.
John optimises his health and wellness by first consulting an experienced and well-trained naturopath. He has selected a team of professional health advisors who communicate with each other and respectfully cross-refer. John believes that well-trained naturopaths and western herbalists deserve to be included as an integral component of the public's health maintenance and prevention team.
Karen is a remedial massage therapist with 13 years' experience. Prior to studying natural therapies, Karen was a medical research scientist, working on the development of the cervical cancer vaccine. Her previous career and her love the Eastern approach to holistic health is combined in her practice. Karen is committed to assisting the transition of natural therapies to a place where treatments are based upon empirical research with proven efficacy.


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