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Mariposa Folk Festival Community Village 2014
Casino Rama is dedicated to its tradition of community support as an outstanding corporate neighbour, and providing year-round support through charitable giving and employee volunteerism. Casino Rama encourages you to visit these fine non-profit community organizations at Mariposa Folk Festival. Each of them enrich our lives and our communities.
Ashiko World Music Festival
Multi-cultural music and dance festival, drum circles, kids programs, international cuisine and more. The 2014 festival takes place September 6th & 7th on the Leacock Museum grounds. Proceeds to the Sharing Place Food Bank.
ArtsCan Circle
Gathers teams of musicians and artists to work in remote indigenous communities in Canada's far north. Their aim is to inspire youth through creative self-expression. They share information and offer volunteers the opportunity to be involved in their work on behalf of indigenous youth.
Couchiching Conservancy
Non-profit, non-government land trust supported by donors who want to ensure that special natural places are safeguarded for the future. Since 1993 they have protected over 11,000 acres, in some cases globally rare ecosystems.
Chippewas of Rama First Nation Pow Wow
Annual spectacular Pow Wow hosted at Chippewas of Rama First Nation. A colourful and exciting event, it features international displays of traditional dancing, music and hand drumming. Artisan booths feature beadwork, baskets, apparel, footwear and more.
Dress For Success Orillia and Barrie
An international non-profit organization that promotes the economic independence of disadvantaged women by providing professional attire, a network of support, and career development tools to help women thrive in work and in life.
Georgian College
Full and part-time quality education – certificate, diploma or university degree. Located in a beautiful woodland setting, facilities include a student residence, fitness centre, on-campus restaurant, 150-seat lecture theatre and more. Find out why this college campus is rated so high.
Georgian Bay Islands National Park, Parks Canada
All-inclusive camping in rustic cabins, traditional camping and hiking. Located in one of the most naturally unique places in Canada, only 40 minutes from Orillia. See replicas of species at risk including turtles, snakes and skink, as well as archaeology associated with Georgian Bay islands.
Helping Hands, Orillia
Services that enable seniors to live independently, and maintain and enhance their quality of life. Support includes personal care, homemaking, respite care, assisted living services, meals, transportation, friendly visiting and social programs.
Information Orillia
Information support to community organizations and agencies that serve the public, and connecting people with the services that improve the quality of their life. Drop-in, telephone and online services.
Kids For Turtles Environmental Education
Educational and outreach organization for all ages, dedicated to increasing understanding and stewardship of the environment. Opportunities for young people and their families to interact with nature in a positive learning environment.
Lakehead University, Orillia
Situated in one of Central Ontario's most beautiful areas, it offers a unique interdisciplinary studies option combining the arts and sciences, as well as programs in business, education and social work. ThunderCATS is Lakehead's student club dedicated to volunteer work.
Ontario Federation of Anglers & Hunters, Invading Species Orillia Active Transportation Orillia Community Gardens Orillia Museum of Art & History Orillia Power Corporation Orillia Youth Centre Orillia Youth Symphony Peter Street Arts District Royal Victoria Hospital Cancer Care Stand Up! Orillia Against Bullying Simcoe County LIVESTRONG The Cellar Singers
Works in partnership with the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources to deliver education and awareness programming to monitor and track the spread of invading species in Ontario waters. They also provide a summer student for the Kids for Turtles program.
A City of Orillia advisory committee that supports the recreational trail system and Scout Valley as a multi-use facility for recreational users. They also educate the public about the benefits of the trail corridor.
Increases access to healthy, sustainable food for all. The gardens create a habitat for biodiversity and rare food plants. This is a grassroots network of community gardeners who plan, plant and tend the gardens and then eat, store and share the harvest.
Artifacts and interactive opportunities at the festival. Their education programs inspire creativity and the celebration of history.
Rich in a history of more than 100 years in Orillia, their mission is to generate environmentally-friendly energy and provide information about their conservation programs.
Resource centre and a drop-in centre for Orillia and area youth. Their many programs and activities include recreational entertainment, internet access, workshops dealing with issues such as self-esteem, employment and life skills, and teen pregnancy. Youth, parents or volunteers may call 705-325-8082.
Children and teens (ages 8 to 18) get an opportunity to play in an orchestra, teaching them about orchestral music, teamwork, respect, discipline, and pride in themselves and fellow members.
Anchored by the Orillia Museum of Art & History, this fine Orillia city block comprises 12 businesses directly related to the arts, including the Mariposa Folk Foundation office.
Medical treatment and supportive care to cancer patients and their families in Simcoe County and Muskoka. They provide a full range of cancer services including prevention, screening, diagnostic assessment, surgery, chemotherapy, radiation treatment, and more.
Encouraging people to stand up to bullying through positive action is a message that never gets old. Learn about activities that can be held at schools, work places and elsewhere in your community.
Need help dealing with cancer? LIVESTRONG provides free programs, services and resources to anyone any age any cancer any stage anywhere in the world. Support and info for family and care providers. Local Canadian LIVESTRONG Leader available at email@example.com
A 60-voice choir that inspires and invigorates the community, with passionate performances and a commitment to artistic excellence.


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Use the Wonder Box to activate participants' curiosity about today's intangible gift: the gift of spirit.
With the children still in a circle around the chalice, ask them to guess what could be in this big, beautifully wrapped box. Take some guesses. Then, open the box, take out the chalice, and say something like:
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The children should recognize the chalice from the sanctuary or their own group space. Say, in your own words:
Today we will talk about the gift of spirit. What does spirit mean?
Elicit responses. Affirm that spirit is something intangible which we share with one another in a faith community. Say:
Our Unitarian Universalist congregation is a faith community. When we are together here in Wonderful Welcome, we are a faith community. We share who we are, what we need, what we believe is important, and how we can help one another. All of that is part of our spirit.
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How can you keep your domain safe from fraudulent acts?
A domain name is the website address through which the visitors refer to a particular website. However, a domain name is much more than a mere web address; it can be said that your domain is your image in the web. So, you should take every measure to protect it from fraudulent acts. One of the best ways to do so is to choose a good web hosting company to host your domain.
6 Ways to protect your domain name
You can take the following steps to ensure that your domain is secure.
1. Register your domain yourself – It is quite important to register your domain yourself than someone else doing it for you. If someone else registers the domain with his/her details, then he/she will be the legal owner of that particular site. However, if you choose a domain registrar, then make sure that the registrar is ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) accredited.
2. Choose a good password – While creating your account, always choose a password that you've not used anywhere and which cannot be guessed easily. This will prevent the con artists to retrieve valuable information and commit fraudulent acts. In addition to this, keep on changing your passwords from time to time.
3. Choose private domain registration – Once you enter your contact information in the 'WHOIS' database, anyone can view it who searches you domain by the website address. You can prevent it by choosing private domain registration to register your site.
4. Lock your account access – The con artists often use out-of-date or exposed information from the 'WHOIS database to hack your domain name. So, use a domain lock to prevent your account being hacked.
5. Update your information regularly – Always update any changed information in the 'WHOIS' database so that you receive important messages (such as, your domain name renewal notice) on time.
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After speaking to our new next door neighbors about their water bill being reduced after installing a 2nd water meter for their lawn watering...
Now - we are interested in one also for our new build. Questions: 1) How much is a dedicated meter for the sprinklers?
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I was able to purchase a used water meter for $35 from our utility company about 10 years ago. We have it hooked onto the primary source of water for our yard -- we have a spigot in the front that is not covered. We installed it ourselves, it was a simple installation. We get a deduction in the sewer fee only. It has saved us quite a bit over the years, but less so now that we have a gravity fed rain barrel watering system for the garden. So much will depend on how your utility handles the system. I'm in Maine so our water costs are low. |
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Hello all, new to site, new to an old house... Home was build roughly around 1850 in New England. My project started with getting a fireplace insert in an older fireplace. Was told to get a mason because the chimney needed to be rebuilt from the roofline up. Mason wanted a roofer to verify that he would be able to work on the roof with his staging/materials/workers, etc. Now, roofing company comes in and claims that my roof is hazardous due to spans between joists, some bowing of the span, etc. I'm told the whole roof needs to come down, a new one be installed, and a support beam from the basement all the way to the roofline. I have some termite damaged on a few of the exterior roof boards which was sistered by a previous owner, as well as the peak joist (sorry, don't know the technical name) was sistered. There is also a metal tie rod connected to a roof joist and to a joist of the floor. According the roofing guy they did this so that snow weight wouldn't push the roof out of the house. Additionally there is a support column (hollow) from the roof peak to the floor too. The roofing guy says both should be temporary fixes, not permanent solutions. Also said that if I brought in the local AHJ they would probably evict me and my family for a hazard. I'm concerned that #1 I got my self a lemon roof and didn't dig deep enough @ the sale, #2 it should be taken seriously and I'm going to need a new roof whether I want it or not, #3 these guys are looking at this as an opportunity to scare the *&^% out of me and make some money when it might not be so dire. Funny thing is this started as a favor from the roofing company who is in a networking group with the mason and fireplace installer. I can provide pics or measurements if needed, I'm just at a point where I need a sounding board. |
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You need to find yourself a structural engineer who is OUTSIDE any networking group to do an independent evaluation. That is the only way to determine what your next step should be. |
In addition, I'd get a termite inspection. (Around here, many exterminators do it for free assuming they will get the exterminating job if they find them.) Repairs using termite damaged wood show the level of interest and expertise of the PO. |
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- Posted by Renovator8 (My Page) on Sat, Sep 14, 13 at 16:53
I wouldn't rely on any of these self-serving opinions including that of a building inspector. Hiring a design professional to tell these guys what needs to be done could save you money and aggravation. |
Thanks for the quick feedback. Good idea on the termite inspection, I have someone coming tomorrow. I'm planning on reaching out to a few other builders I know to look @ the roof, at least see if they say the same thing or something totally different. |
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Jersey auctions exceed expectations for Dewitt Stuckey
Funding for the Andrew Cox memorial scholarship, established by former Oregon linebacker Dewitt Stuckey in the name of a high school teammate who passed away in 2010, got off to a promising start this week.
Stuckey raised $3,560 by auctioning off three of his game-used UO football jerseys on eBay, and received another $600 or so in direct donations over the last week. The scholarship fund will benefit youth in Stuckey's hometown of Stockton, Calif., who hope to play football in college but don't earn an athletic scholarship and otherwise lack the means.
"I didn't really sit down and plan it out too much; I just hit the ground running," Stuckey said Thursday, a day after his online auctions ended. "But things went smoothly and it's going really well so far."
Stuckey is planning more auctions to begin in a week or so, of items possibly including his "liquid metal" helmet from the Rose Bowl along with signed cleats and gloves. He also plans to meet with legal and financial advisers to more formally establish the scholarship fund and his Dewitt Stuckey Foundation (www.dewittstuckey.net).
Late Wednesday, Stuckey's jersey from Oregon's Rose Bowl win over Wisconsin attracted a winning bid of $2,025 on eBay. His jersey from the Pac-12 title game went for $835, and the one he wore for games at Arizona and Colorado netted $700.
The winning bidder for the green jersey from the Pac-12 title game was Darryl Franklin of South Bend., Ind., a former college and high school football coach who admired Chip Kelly's spread-option offense at New Hampshire and became a fan of the Ducks when Kelly took over in Eugene.
Franklin said he's an avid collector of UO memorabilia, and an experienced eBay user. So he waited until the final seconds of bidding on the Pac-12 title game jersey Wednesday before submitting the winning bid.
Prior to buying the jersey, Franklin had intended to buy one of the Rose Bowl helmets at a price of $1,050. When the Stuckey jersey became available, Franklin made that his price point; having paid $835 for the jersey, Franklin said he'll make a donation to Stuckey's scholarship fund to bring his total contribution up to $1,050.
"I coached high school and college football for 25 years myself, and I see so many of these kids that are so self-centered and selfish," Franklin said Thursday. "I saw this and thought, what a great thing. And I wanted to get it for my daughter."
Franklin said his daughter, Delaney, 11, has become a Ducks "fanatic." The two traveled to Oregon for the Civil War last season, and she got a photo with UO coach Chip Kelly.
Stuckey planned to autograph the jerseys that sold Wednesday, including a personalized touch for Franklin's daughter.
Along with more auctions, Stuckey said he has ideas for things like football camps and bowling tournaments to further benefit his foundation. He also wants to find a way to provide incentives for students who excel academically in Stockton, a community suffering through such a severe budget crisis that there's talk it may become the largest U.S. city ever to declare bankruptcy.


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I am going next year and know that I will go a bit pin mad, but I would like a nice way to display them, like in a frame. I was wondering how you all did this and does disney supply things to display them on?
Also, what is a good number to limit myself to buying pin wise? lol :dizzy:


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What is "food security"? And how does it differ from "hunger"?
Posted on 15. Oct, 2014 by Dan Ruth.
"Food security" is a term that used all the time by people who work in the world of relief and development. But what does the term mean? Is it simply the opposite of hunger? Officially, food security exists "when all people at all times have access to sufficient, safe, nutritious food to maintain a healthy […]
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Five ways Lutherans are fighting Ebola in West Africa
Posted on 06. Aug, 2014 by Dan Ruth.
As of August 1, 2014, there have been 1,603 reported cases of the Ebola virus in West Africa and 887 people have died. [source] This outbreak has gained international news coverage as it has spread. Many people are asking what can be done to help prevent this deadly disease from spreading any further, and what we […]
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Celebrating World Malaria Day & LWR's Work in Mali
Posted on 22. Apr, 2014 by Lutheran World Relief.
This Friday, April 25, is World Malaria Day, a day to bring special attention to this preventable, treatable disease. As part of the commemoration of World Malaria Day, we're excited to announce that Tim McCully, LWR's vice president of international programs, will be speaking at a special event at Johns Hopkins University. He joins Rear […]
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We Have a Dream, Too
Posted on 28. Aug, 2013 by Dan Ruth.
Today marks the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s famous "I Have a Dream" speech in Washington. (Watch the whole 16-minute speech here.) Little needs to be said about the enormous impact his speech has had on American history and culture. We wanted to share our own dreams for the future of our world. […]
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World Hunger is Declining
Posted on 06. Aug, 2013 by Dan Ruth.
Sometimes it can feel as if the world is falling apart. Earthquakes, tsunamis, poverty and hunger dominate our headlines. Is there any hope for lasting change? Is sustainable development really possible? We've put together a couple charts that show a more positive picture. Hunger is Declining With month after month and year after year of […]
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10 Facts about Clean Cookstoves
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Last week, CNN highlighted Nancy Hughes, the founder of StoveTeam International, the organization who makes clean burning Ecocina stoves, as one of their CNN Heroes. Last October, we wrote about distributing dozens of these stoves in El Salvador as part of our "Building Resilience" project. Inspired by CNN Hero Nancy Hughes, here are ten facts […]
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We Thank God for All That is Given
Posted on 29. May, 2013 by Dan Ruth.
"Open the gift! Open the gift!" sang members of the Usa River Lutheran Parish. This weekend they presented their visitors—three Lutheran World Relief staff and former Lutheran Women's Missionary League President Jan Wendorf—gifts of beautiful kanga cloth. The pastor told them the gift was to help them remember their time with Usa River, something they're […]


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Pretty Lights, A Color Map of the Sun: Derek Vincent Smith talks about the new album
A Color Map of the Sun, the new Pretty Lights album due out this Tuesday, took Derek Vincent Smith on an adventure through musical eras. We recently spoke with the homegrown Pretty Lights mastermind about the trust he has placed in his fan base, his own self doubts about taking the road less traveled and how no matter what, this latest effort will not define him as artist, but merely dog ear a new chapter in his career as an artist.
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- Feature profile: For A Color Map of the Sun, Pretty Lights started from scratch
- Photos: Pretty Lights at 1STBANK Center
Westword: How are you doing, Derek? Is it okay if I call you Derek?
Derek Vincent Smith: Of course.
Just wanted to make sure. I'd feel like we were in the Matrix if I had to call you Mr. Smith. Where are you right now?
[Laughing] We are in New York, which I usually love to be in, but it's a shitty, rainy day. I'm here for the Governor's Ball Festival, which is on an island, I guess. It's raining like crazy, and it's only supposed to get worse, but it's gonna be a muddy, wet party.
Will you play straight through the storm without any worries for your equipment?
We got some ghetto cardboard boxes painted black, so if it starts raining we can put them over the computers so they are protected, at least. Otherwise... I'll go until they pull me off if it gets dangerous or some shit. I have this one rare remix I play if it's raining balls. I made it the day of the show, if it gets rained out. It's about the rain and coming hard in the rain.
I got a preview copy of the album, both the reels and the studio productions. Which will be released if you are purchasing the music? My initial reaction is that this album is a panorama of all the musical genres where you spotlight certain areas, then painted those by sampling the music you created in the studio. I want to know in that creation process, what were you looking for?
It was definitely all of that. When I first went into the studio, honestly, I just was really nervous because I know basic music theory, but I was working with all these really talented musicians who are used to coming into sessions and getting handed a sheet of paper with the music on it. I don't work that way, and I don't want to work that way.
The first day, I went in with some of my friends and just started figuring out how I wanted to work this. Each day, I went into it thinking I would go with the flow and make music on the fly trying to work with all these musicians, and here, I needed to communicate that to each musician, and every single one was going to be a little confused at first, and maybe skeptical. And every musician was skeptical of the process.
I did have one vision, which was that I wanted to make pieces of music that sounded good on a 45, or record, in the back of a record store that would make me jump up and down. That was my goal. I also had sort of brief moments in time, these different moments in musical history that I wanted to emulate, not just in the style, but in the recording process. I had to research with the engineers about what microphones were used in the certain periods and work with the analog hardware by the decade for the style that I was going for.
Working with the musicians -- it got easier every day. I learned how to communicate my vision better and work with them better. I opened up my mind how to envision breaks and sounds on the fly. I'd be working on one piece of music and just go off with and explain all the players, and when that was done, they wanted to know what was next. I'd have to be thinking, which would stress me out, and with the tape rolling, I'd direct the musicians to play certain parts, ya know, just the drums, or just the drums and bass, or just the keys.
I needed different combinations to sample. When I got everything on tape that I felt like I wanted and needed, I would let them jam. I would tell 'em to freestyle for a bit, and then come back later. So then I'd leave for a minute, and come back and be like, "Stop playing!" because I had a new idea. Then we'd start over.
Would you picture the song then write it on the computer in whatever programs you were using? Or would it be, "This is what I see. Make it happen with your guitar or voice?" What was that process of the actual music writing?
That process was simpler on the writing side, but very much more involved on the communication with the players and vocalists. Writing a piece would consist... I was writing breaks, or jams that could be evolved on. I wasn't really trying to make full songs, but as we got deeper into it, I would write parts A, B, C, so the breaks would be multi-faceted. A lot of it was one loop that would get expanded on as we played.
The writing process was really me figuring out a chord progression with a Wurlitzer in my headphones or even my iPhone app with a guitar on it, and I'd strum a chord on my phone. I'd go back and forth between the Wurlitzer or guitar, depending on what room I was in, and the other half was just imagining what instruments would work together and how those would sound.
For example, I wanted to do a really simple break in G minor, and there was nothing musically complicated about it at all. It was all about the timbre, and how you could get it played extremely simple. I'd go to the guitar player and say, "I want to get a simple, dirty, dusty, old-school funk, hard-distortion sound with a thick chord." He'd make a sound, and we'd work until he had the sound.
The guitar guy would say "That's all you want me to do?" After that, I'd hear him riff off that and do some filler, and I'd have to say, "Stop it!" It's hard to keep musicians in line because they are so used to just going off and doing their jam thing. I really wanted to have a super controlled environment. I had the same thing with the engineers and the sound guys.
It seems like with this whole process you are personifying an otherwise technological form of music. You know the sounds you want to hear and that you want these musicians to create, which for all intents and purposes, you could find in a plug-in or patches, right?
The most of it is having the live musicians in the room. It's important to have the organic element of combining five musicians. At some point in the recording evolution, sound guys thought it best to separate all these musicians so that the bass was completely clean in the mix and the guitar was completely clean in the mix, and so the drums were just the drums in the mix.
I was completely against that concept. I wanted to go back to the time when all the musicians were in the same room and the microphones were bleeding into each other. I wanted everything to pick up everything. There was an organic sort of benefit from having all these musicians working together, but also in the same manner the way that it was recorded with all the microphones bleeding into each other and all the parts becoming like they are from a different time. That was a... in hindsight it makes obvious sense, but not until I experimented with it.
Is that something that you have yearned for, or what do think has led you to come to that point through the past seven albums, which are clean and crisp and sample based? It seems like you got to this point and said, "I don't want to do this anymore." Do you think it was through this process that you developed that craving for creation?
For sure. That's all a part of how it happened in my head. There were multiple reasons for me doing this project. As my career was having success and continued to grow, I wanted to invest that success into a more challenging project, and one day it all made sense that I needed to maintain my style and sound, but go back five steps and make everything from scratch in the exact way it was done in those time periods. Through that process, I realized how hard it was.
As a sample based producer, I don't just sample one track, but more of a sample collage with ten, twenty or thirty samples in one song. When I approached this and realized how much music I get to create, I wanted to have records that sounded like they were from the classical collection like they were from '70s Mississippi blues recordings.
Anything that's ever been in a record store -- that's what hip-hop producers do. We take anything that sounds dope and make a beat. I wanted to do something more sophisticated. It was then that I realized how massive and how broad this project was.
Have you, at any point, had any self doubt as to how it will be received? I trust you wouldn't put out something you don't like, but what are your nerves like right now? With one of the biggest releases you have coming, talk about your fears and the trust you have in your fans.
That's a really good and intimate question. I'm not going to try to dilute it: I'm human. I embarked on this project that was difficult, and it didn't... When you envision something and embark on it, and with any artist, the final project is never what you thought it would be. Stylistically, this is what I wanted to do. I wanted to step back from the super banging all the time speeds and really focus on really good sounding, pleasing to the ear sounds.
The way I combined samples, I literally would write music purposefully, so it doesn't match up with the songs I was writing. I would purposefully have vocalists sing lyrics that weren't for the song I wrote them for. I wanted to tune match, speed match and work with it creatively. To answer your question, I go through waves where I feel that in this electronic culture where performers get addicted to this instant gratification of the drop.
I think fans get addicted to that, too.
For sure! I meet a lot of producers who want to drop other people's music, and that's everyone's own choice as to how they perform. It doesn't matter. But I wanted to purposefully take an extreme turn from that style and really turn it into something else. I wanted something more timeless where I wasn't thinking about the live show so much.
I wanted music that I just loved all the time, not just at certain times. It's always been part of my vision that all these are songs I can perform with a band, or flip it up and surprise people by dropping the heat with remixes of my own tracks. That was not the vision of this record.
I think I definitely saw... one thing that I really thought about is how one piece of music can really change through so many people's imaginations. On the album, it is a hot organic beat, and then the remix which is a hot banger. That was my goal with this. It was have so many versions of my songs.
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- 13 December
At 02:00 on 13/12/08, the commissioning team successfully demonstrated energy recovery in the ALICE R&D facility. The team are now looking forward to exploiting this facility to further our understanding of the challenges of next generation light sources and energy recovery based acceleration.
News Archive 2008
November 2008
- 14 November
- ALICE Accelerates to 4 million Volt Milestone!
A major milestone has been achieved in the completion of the UK's next-generation particle accelerator, ALICE, which is set to produce an intense beam of light that will revolutionise the way in which accelerator based light source research facilities will be designed in the future.
To mark the occasion, ALICE was visited yesterday, 14 November 2008, by His Royal Highness The Duke of Kent as part of his visit to the Daresbury Science and Innovation Campus.
…read more »
October 2008
- 24 October
- ALICE - first acceleration through the Booster.
Around 4 MeV acceleration was achieved in Booster cavity 2 at 00:54 24/10/08.
The success heralds a first for UK: a high quality electron beam from a photoinjector being boosted halfway to relativistic energies by UK's first linear superconducting microwave accelerator.
The injection is the critical process in any accelerator, the electrons and the team that builds the facility sharing the sufferings, the pangs and joys of 'birth', so to speak. With this successful injection, accelerating up to the speed up light can only be around the corner and the excitement to follow in not too distant a future!!
Congratulations to the entire ALICE team in the Cockcroft Institute and the STFC's ASTeC centre for such an pioneering achievement!
(Celebration of first acceleration through the Booster in the ALICE control room at 11:45.) -
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ALICE Accelerates Towards Energy Recovery
At just past midnight last night, the ALICE commissioning team successfully accelerated an electron beam through the superconducting booster module. This was achieved when the team successfully brought into simultaneous operation the photoinjector electron source and the superconducting booster module. The electron beam was accelerated through the module to around 4 MeV.
This achievement is a key step towards demonstrating energy recovery. With these two critical technologies having been commissioned, the next step will be to accelerate to full energy and circulate the beam to demonstrate energy recovery. The accelerator is now shutdown for four weeks for planned maintenance, so the commissioning to energy recovery will commence in late November.
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September 2008
- 10 September
- Big Bang Day on BBC Radio 4 a special day of programmes planned to coincide with the official switch-on of the LHC at CERN on September 10th. »» Radio 4 »»
- 04 September
- Agreement of Collaboration between CERN and the Cockcroft Institute
At CERN on the 29th August 2008 Prof. Swapan Chattopadhyay and CERN Director General Dr. Robert Aymar signed a major and comprehensive Agreement of Collaboration between CERN and the Cockcroft Institute. …read more »
August 2008
- 12 August
- The Big Bang in Liverpool
Liverpool is currently hosting the 'Big Bang' exhibit which is aimed at making the physics and engineering of the Large Hadron Collider (http://www.lhc.ac.uk/) accessible to the general public. From now until 22nd September this free exhibit will be based at the World Museum in Liverpool.
…read more» - First protons in the LHC
The LHC first injection test was carried out over the weekend of 9th-10th August. The beam was injected at point 2, traversed the ALICE experiment and sector 2-3 and was then dumped on the momentum cleaning collimators at point 3.
Intensity plots of the first protons in the LHC and full details »
…read more » - 04 August
- After two million hours of science a British world first bids farewell Cleaner fuel, safer aircraft and new medicines, not to mention a Nobel prize, great tasting chocolate and iPods - all of these things have been influenced or made possible by world leading scientific research carried out on the Synchrotron Radiation Source at the Science and Technology Facilities Council's Daresbury Laboratory in Warrington, which closed today, 4th August 2008, after 28 years of operation and two million hours of science.
…read more »
(Photos: Ian Munro switches off the SRS as assembled staff watch the relay from the CI atrium and toast the SRS.)
June 2008
- 30 June
- Roger Jones (Physics and Astronomy, Manchester) has been awarded the honour of Fellow of the Institute of Physics.
- 26 June
- The 17th Daresbury Dash, 25 June, 2 miles round the laboratory site
Conditions were warm and breezy, damp underfoot.
The winner in 10 minutes 50 seconds was Keith Middleman of CI and ASTeC. Hot on his heels were Andy Collins (11:28) and Joe Herbert (12:07). Louise Nickleson crossed the line in 13:40 creating a new womens record. There were 32 runners in total. (Click thumbnail for larger version) - 6 June
- CM21 Meeting (4-7 June)
MICE Collaboration Meeting
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May 2008
- 30 May
- The Cockcroft Institute is pleased to announce that the proceedings of the workshop "Polarized Antiproton Beams - How?" held at the Cockcroft Institute from 29 to 31 August 2007 have now been published by the American Institute of Physics as
AIP Conference Proceedings Vol. 1008
It is hoped that polarised antiprotons will be a significant element in the programme of research at the Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research (FAIR) envisioned for construction near Darmstadt in Germany. The Cockcroft Institute is proud to have been able to contribute by hosting this workshop.
LINKS: FAIR | Scitation | AIP - 15 May
- Sir Tom McKillop visited the Cockcroft Institute during his visit to the Daresbury Science and Innovation Campus on May 12, 2008. Sir Tom was given a brief overview of the Cockcroft Institute by the institute Director Prof. Swapan Chattopadhyay, followed by a discussion on the current issues facing the institute and Daresbury Lab scientists …read more »
(left to right: Prof. Dainton, Prof. Mike Poole, Sir Tom McKillop and Prof. Chattopadhyay - click thumbnail for larger version) - 15 May
- Prominent members of the European Nuclear Physics Community visited the Cockcroft Institute for preliminary discussions to identify possible scientific overlap with the interests of the nuclear physicists in the newly proposed Large Hadron electron Collider (LHeC) at CERN by the Cockcroft/Liverpool team in consultation with the European Deep Inelastic Scattering (DIS) community. …read more »
(left to right: Prof. Gaardhoje, Prof. Rosner, Prof. Fulton, Prof. Dainton, Prof. Chattopadhyay and Prof. Klein - click thumbnail for larger version)
LINKS: LHeC | DIS2008 | EIC2008 | ECFA
April 2008
- 29 April
- Jim Clarke (Magnetics and Radiation Sources Group Leader) has been awarded the honour of Fellow of the Institute of Physics.
- 28 April
- CI Director Swapan Chattopadhyay has been elected to the American Physical Society's Division of Physics of Beams, the first such Chair from outside USA.
Chair-line, 2007-2010: Vice Chair, Chair-elect, Chair and Past Chair - 28 April
- Three invited talks have been solicited from Cockcroft in the International Particle Accelerator Conference 2009 in Vancouver, Canada.
- 21 April
- SciTech08
View a selection of photographs of the CI presentations taken during SciTech08 at the Barbican, London on the 17th April 2008. …photographs » - 15 April
- Matter, Anti-matter and MICE
"Prof. Ken Long of Imperial College, a Special Affiliate of Cockcroft Institute and a Visiting Professor at the University of Liverpool speaks of the first successful milestone achieved in connection with the MICE experiment, designed to decipher matter-antimatter asymmetry in the universe by observing behaviour of neutrinos… "
…read the full article at www.interactions.org » - 10 April
- New Light Source Project Launch
Cockcroft Institute staff are playing a lead role in developing technologies that will enable a next generation light source in the UK. On the 11th April at the Royal Society, the UK Government will launch a project (www.newlightsource.org)to investigate the case for a next generation light source (NLS).
…read more » - 2 April
- Minister of State for Science and Innovation visits CI
Cockcroft Institute Director Swapan Chattopadhyay meets Science Minister Ian Pearson on his visit to Daresbury Laboratory.
left to right: Prof. Chattopadhyay, Graeme Burt, Helen Southworth, Mike Hall, Keith Mason, Ian Pearson M.P.
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- Newsnight Interview
Director Swapan Chattopadhyay was today interviewed by Susan Watts, science editor of BBC TWO's Newsnight programme. The interview will be broadcast early next week.
March 2008
- 26 March
- Getting Behind the Wheel and onto the ILC website!
Dr. Ian Bailey of Cockcroft Institute and Univ. of Liverpool, working on the ILC positron source development, getting behind the wheel and onto the ILC website. Headline photo on the ILC web and Photo of the Week on ILC Newsline.
(www.linearcollider.org/newsline/) (www.linearcollider.org/cms/) - 18 March
- Director Chattopadhyay accepted a gracious invitation from colleagues in Scotland and visited Glasgow on March 18, 2008 to initiate discussions on possible collaboration with the Scottish Universities Physics Association (SUPA). The Cockcroft Institute was already visited by Dr. Avril Manners in 2007 for joint collaborative programmes on Physics Education and Training in the field of Accelerators and Lasers.
(left to right): Prof. Chattopadhyay, Prof.Guenther Rosner of the University of Glasgow and Prof. Dino Jaroszynski of University of Strathclyde - 14 March
- APS Outstanding Referee
Dr. Desmond P. Barber, an affiliate of CI and a Visiting Professor at the University of Liverpool Physics Department has been named as an APS Outstanding Referee.
…read more » - 14 March
- Professor Gerald Gabrielse who is a Distinguished Affililate of the Cockcroft Institute and a Visiting Profesor of Physics at the University of Liverpool has received the Tomassoni prize from Italy.
…read more » - 14 March
- Kosmas Panagiotidis has won a prize in the annual PhD poster competition run for PhD students in the University of Liverpool.
…see poster » - 11 March
- OLAV II ~ Second Workshop on the Operation of LArge Vacuum systems 10th-12th March 2008
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February 2008
- 27 February
- CI Director Swapan Chattopadhyay gives evidence to the Innovation, Universities and Skills Committee at the House of Commons
A transcript of this session is available at www.parliament.uk » - 15 February
- Richard Walker giving his first presentation regarding the New Light Source at Cockcroft Institute, Daresbury Laboratory.
Photograph shows Swapan Chattophadyay, Richard Walker and Mike Poole.
(Click thumbnail for larger version) - 14 February
- Research Studentship Quota Allocations 2008 & 2009
…documents available » - 08 February
- Discussions with STFC, associated UK universities and the community - regarding Next Light Source project in UK.
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- Meeting of the stakeholding universities, CI, STFC and DL - regarding possible Detector/Instrumentation centre.
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January 2008
- 21 January
- New CI website launched ».
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I was extremely disappointed about this as well. I have almost all of them (all the ones I want, anyway). I'm really looking forward to seeing "Walt & el Grupo" because I love Saludos Amigos and the Three Cabelleros, plus I'm looking forward to seeing documentary footage of Mary Blair. That Sherman Bros. documentary looks good, too.
I had the opportunity to see "Waking Sleeping Beauty" at a local theatre. It was pretty good, but only if you're really interested in Disney history and animation. I personally enjoyed the short documentary "Dream On Silly Dreamer" more, and it deals with almost the exact same subjects.


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Well we did it! We dug deep into our pocketbooks and had four 50 year old camellia "trees" moved to our new home. They were professionally dug up by hand. Each one had an enormous root ball about 5-6 feet across and 2-3 feet thick. They were wrapped in burlap and gently loaded onto a flatbed truck with a crane. Everything looked great.
Then the not-so-great thing happened. When the trees (they are all 12-15 feet tall) were unloaded, one of them had some movement in the crown. It wasn't a lot, but all of the others were rock solid. The mover told me the root balled had slightly cracked but he thought it would live. He supported the tree with stakes and said it just needed to be left alone for a good long time. Now for the really not-so-great thing... The camellia with the cracked ball is not in right location. This mistake was entirely mine, and unfortunately it really can not permanently stay in the spot it's in (too much crowding of the house). I haven't told the mover yet because I'm afraid he'll yell at me! But I did speak with the crane worker and he thinks it wouldn't be a problem to come back and pick it up. This is were I need your advise. Would it be less stressful on this camellia to be left where it is for several weeks or months before it's relocated, or should I just have it re-dug, wrapped, and lifted out now? |
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Crowding of the house? What, exactly, are you talking about here? I have to wonder if you are anticipating something that wouldn't really be an issue. You might be made more uncomfortable by killing the shrub than having it stay where it is. |
If you are set on moving the camellia, then I'd do it sooner than later ... and real carefully so as to avoid that dirt from falling off the rootball! Really no use leaving the plant to establish new roots only to soon be digging it up and damaging them. Best of luck! Terry |
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There's a whole head of garlic up in these cyber pages. By now you should be able to smell it through the screen.
I know. You have boys to kiss. Important business meetings and no Altoids. You don't have time to smell like garlic.
But indulge me for a moment, please.
We've eaten a whole head of garlic on this Adventure before, as with our Lebanese garlic sauce Toum, but this time our garlic is making friends with lentils and Swiss chard. They bubble and steam up together, considerably mellowing out the flavor.
To round out the flavor, there's a squeeze of fresh lemon juice, a splash of pomegranate syrup, and a pile of cilantro.
(To my cilantro haters: don't worry, the offending leaves get waaay cooked down. If you can eat Salsa, you can eat these lentils).
The result is a lovely warm lentil side dish or dip (best enjoyed with homemade pita bread). I even like it cold, with salad. And it's definitely better the next day, although you might want to "refresh it" with another squeeze of lemon juice and another sprinkling of salt.
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Adapted from A Mediterranean Feast by Clifford A. Wright.
Serves 6 (as a side or a dip)
2 cups lentils
1/3 cup olive oil, plus extra for drizzling
1 small head garlic, mashed or crushed
1 bunch swiss chard, stems removed and sliced very thinly (about 8 leaves)
1 bunch cilantro, minced
1 lemon, juiced
3-4 Tbsp pomegranate syrup (available at Whole Foods or a Middle Eastern market)
water, as needed
salt & pepper
Rinse the lentils, cover with a few inches of water, and cook 20-40 minutes, until just tender. (Cooking times really vary with lentils, so I suggest checking them after 20 minutes)
Heat olive oil in a large skillet. Add garlic and cook for a minute until fragrant.
Add in the thinly sliced chard and de-stemmed cilantro leaves (reserve a bit of cilantro for garnish, if desired) and cook another two minutes.
Add the cooked lentils, lemon juice, and pomegranate syrup and cook until the lentils are a bit mushy, about ten more minutes. Add water as needed to keep the mixture loose and to keep it from drying out.
Season really well with salt, to brighten up the flavors.
Serve warm with an extra drizzle of olive oil and wedges of pita bread.
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Updated: January 14, 2012 9:10PM
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Legislators stung last year by county prosecutors who opposed a sweeping plan to overhaul Indiana's criminal sentencing scheme won't push the issue in this year's General Assembly.
Backers said last year's bill, endorsed by Gov. Mitch Daniels, would have saved $1.2 billion in new prison construction over seven years by easing penalties for low-level offenders like petty thieves and drug dealers who crowd state lockups. But the bill stalled after prosecutors said it was too soft on crime.
This year, with prosecutors' concerns largely eased, sheriffs are worried that an attempt to reduce crowding in state prisons could aggravate overpopulation in their jails.
"Overcrowding is a daily concern for the sheriff and ... adding more inmates on top of already overcrowded jail facilities would make a recipe for future lawsuits," said Steve Luce, executive director of the Indiana Sheriffs Association.
Officials hope to send many of those low-level felons to community corrections programs such as work release, but Luce said they still could end up in jail if they violate the terms of their sentence.
Luce said low-level offenders — those convicted of class D felonies — currently account for about 15 percent of Indiana's prison population. Shipping those to county jails would add about 45 inmates to each lockup on average, he said, though in practice larger counties would likely receive more prisoners than smaller counties.
"I think the sheriffs have a legitimate concern," said Republican Rep. Ralph Foley of Martinsville, who serves on the Criminal Code Evaluation Commission, one of two state panels involved in the sentencing overhaul.
Ohio-Dearborn County Prosecutor Aaron Negangard, who serves on the board of the Indiana Association of Prosecuting Attorneys, said prosecutors' concerns about the legislation that came out of a study by the Pew Center on the States and the Council of State Governments Justice Center had been largely eased, but prosecutors were reserving judgment until they saw the final product.
He said prosecutors' main concern was that violent criminals receive strict penalties and serve more time in prison. Last year's prison legislation was amended to have offenders serve a higher proportion of their sentences, but the bill bogged down amid debate.
"When someone can get the maximum on a rape and be out in six years, that's a problem," Negangard said.
A key legislator said overhauling state sentences is such a huge undertaking that any proposal was bound to include sections that would offend various interests.
"If people are against it, they'll just divide and conquer. There's going to be things in here they like and things they don't like," said Republican Brent Steele of Bedford, who chaired the criminal law and sentencing policy study committee.
The two panels charged with sentencing overhaul did come up with a few pieces of proposed legislation — chiefly routing more support to local community corrections programs — but decided to put off the main push of reorganizing penalties, in part because the job is so big.
"It's not going to happen in 2012," Steele said, adding the panels would keep working throughout the summer and hoped to have a package of legislation ready for 2013.
He said it took lawmakers two years to overhaul the criminal code in the 1970s, the last time they attempted it.
"It's important to the prosecutors that it be a comprehensive and complete process, from top to bottom," Negangard said.
Currently, Indiana has four levels of felonies — D, C, B and A — with escalating penalties. Officials say a group has been working on converting the four-tier system into a six-level one, which would allow more flexibility in sentencing. Officials have not determined penalties for each level.
"It's not a one-size shoe fits all. There was no latitude ... there was no room to wiggle," Steele said.
The challenge facing lawmakers is to make penalties better fit the crime and ease penalties on low-level offenders without relaxing them for violent criminals. And to do that, it has to get a bill passed.
"We have a big mission. Can we make a difference? Yes. Do we have the political will to make a difference? I hope so," Foley said.


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Upon cracking the box open, we are greeted with another box. This box sits on top of the power supply itself, and holds all of the modular cables.
Remove the cable box, and you find that the power supply is very well protected.
On top of the power supply, you can find the I/O specification label for the unit, and see the black textured finish of the XTR 550W power supply.
Both sides feature the same XTR logo, with the opposite being inverted.
About 80% of the back is meshed, so that as much air as possible can flow through. The AC input, and on/off rocker switch are also back here.
All of the connectors on the front are well labeled for the modular cables.
The octagonal fan grill is integrated into the case, and is a pleasant difference from the norm.
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Katon W et al. – Depression in patients with diabetes was associated with a substantively increased risk for development of dementia compared with those with diabetes alone.
Methods- The Diabetes and Aging Study was a cohort investigation that surveyed a racially/ethnically stratified random sample of patients with type 2 diabetes.
- A large, integrated, nonprofit managed care setting in Northern California.
- A sample of 19 239 diabetes registry members 30 to 75 years of age.
- The Patient Health Questionnaire 8, International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision (ICD-9) diagnoses of depression, and/or antidepressant prescriptions in the 12 months prior to baseline were used to identify prevalent cases of depression.
- Clinically recognized dementia was identified among subjects with no prior ICD-9 Clinical Modification (ICD-9-CM) diagnoses of dementia.
- To exclude the possibility that depression was a prodrome of dementia, dementia diagnoses were only based on ICD-9-CM diagnoses identified in years 3 to 5 postbaseline.
- The risk of dementia for patients with depression and diabetes relative to patients with diabetes alone was estimated using Cox proportional hazard regression models that adjusted for sociodemographic, clinical, and health risk factors and health use.
- During the 3- to 5-year period, 80 of 3766 patients (2.1%) with comorbid depression and diabetes (incidence rate of 5.5 per 1000 person-years) vs 158 of 15 473 patients (1.0%) with diabetes alone (incidence rate of 2.6 per 1000 person-years) had 1 or more ICD-9-CM diagnoses of dementia.
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Jan 17th 2012 5:57PM In-reply to Aykwa :
Thanks for the fascinating analysis.
However, I think the point Fox makes could still be evaluated in short-term, and might show already some trend over a mere few weeks.
The assertion is that the trend would be roughly the same across all realms, because the root cause is shared regardless of the average population, save perhaps on realms with a population largely focused on PvP, or with a very low-level population.
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May 25th 2011 7:44PM Hey Fox, thanks for this column, it's interesting to see how deep one can go into the analysis of DOT and Haste. The numbers especially are sweet to understand.
Now here is where I find myself a bit puzzled : for my L71 Undead, Green-Blue'd Shadow Priest, most++ of the fights last less than 15 seconds. Besides, I trust I'm nowhere near 5% haste.
In fact, in my typical 5-man PUG, I spend a lot more time spreading DOTs and managing my mana (pit-stops to eat some faces - just got Dispersion and not used to it yet), than worrying about ticks or refreshing my DOTs.
Now that we've focused on the nitty-gritty details, would it make sense to establish a check-list on the top priorities to maximize DPS ?
Something like : ( assuming 5-man PUG, Heroic or not )
1. Must-have talents and glyphes.
2. Gear for stats
3. Eat to Win - food, potions, buffs, etc.
4. Rotations : Boss vs Multi-Mob
5. Macros.
6. Mana recovery.
Likewise, a global SP strategy for PvP would be also helpful.
Last question : should you ever use Fade ?
Thanks a bunch in advance !
Laurelius, in Hydraxis.
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Apr 27th 2011 7:31PM Fox Van Allen, you are the most impressive WoW columnist I have ever had a chance to read.
I love your assessment of the 1337 enchants, and the reduction to a ration of "+int/MC".
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"Four Stars! Highly recommend- ed. An excellent book….
A skillfully written blend of
Tom Clancy
, the movie,
Top Gun
, with just a dash of
The Caine Mutiny
.... the story line and very realistic characters are beautifully woven into the weft and weave of that troublesome period of the Cold War….
Crack the cover and you will be unable to put it down!"
Dr. V. H. Schumacher,
Tin Can Sailors Assn. Book Reviews
Mr. Partel knows history
there is a lot of gold in these pages."
John Shea,
The Martha's Vineyard Times
"Great read...
truthfully tells the way it was during the US Navy's Cold War."
Rear Admiral Gil Guilbault USN (ret.),
former Battle Force Commander, US Sixth Fleet.
The Chess Players
is a naval story and a love story and opens with an audacious, espionage mission - a Soviet submarine penetration of Stavanger, Norway - and closes with a thrilling episode between a missile-equipped, Russian nuclear submarine and a US Navy destroyer escort in the Mediterranean Sea. Commander Pebbles, Operations Officer of anti-submarine carrier,
, on a career track for admiral, mentors the well-educated, but inexperienced young Ensign Cannon. Based in part on actual, untold, historical events typical of the Cold War at sea, their task group encounters several provocative incidents at the hands of the Russian Bear above the Arctic Circle and in the Mediterranean Sea prior to and after the 1967 Six Day Arab-Israeli War.
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A Novel of the Cold War at Sea
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