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Rian: In your first novel, you tackled very serious subject matter, such as death, depression, weight and friendship issues. What made you decide to do a novel with such issues?
Lindsay: When I first started writing "Losing It," all I had was an opening scene – a woman waking up in a psyche ward after crashing her car through the front window of a local café, completely oblivious as to what made her do it. That part was vivid in my mind, but as for the rest of the story, I didn't know where it was going! As I began to develop the character, I immediately saw Diana as someone with weight issues, probably because I struggled so much with weight/body image in my teens and early twenties and, having started the novel at 22, I still had a lot of fresh feelings on the subject. As for the other serious issues, I didn't set out to write a book that tackled death and depression, but as Diana's story unraveled for me, I found that in order to tell it honestly, I needed to include these things. Of course, I wanted to have some fun with the book, too. Diana may be "losing it," but she's also busy charting a course for self-reinvention – learning about the singles' scene, trying to make up for the fact that she hasn't had sex in fifteen years, dealing with overzealous aerobics instructors, etc. I hope the comic/lighthearted side of the book helps balance some of the heavier issues it deals with.
Rian: In your second novel, "Joyride," (which I absolutely loved by the way and couldn't put down!) the main root of the plot was the strong, lifelong friendship between Stella and Emily. Why did you make friendship the main focus of the book?
Lindsay: Thank you so much – I'm glad you liked it! I decided to make friendship the main focus of this book because I wanted to do something completely different than "Losing It." In "Losing It," although Diana shared a very special bond with her 93-year-old neighbor, Mrs. Bartle, she was basically a loner within her own peer group. I wanted to write a book about two young women who had been through the ringer together – survived it all – and were still going strong. But there had to be a twist, some kind of threat to that security. Hence, the long-buried secret that threatens to tear Stella and Emily apart.
Rian: In both books, the characters go through quite a bit of loss and sorrow and heartbreak. How come?
Lindsay: I admit, this may have something to do with being brought up on nighttime television dramas like "Knots Landing," "Melrose Place," and "Beverly Hills, 90210." I'm a big dork and still watch all these shows in rerun, so the subplots of loss, sorrow and heartbreak are forever lurking in my subconscious. I never set out to write a book that will make readers cry, nor would I ever include such dramatic elements just for shock value. But if in the process of developing a story, heartbreak seems unavoidable, or in fact, necessary, to get the character to the happier place she needs to be in the end, I'll go for it – even if writing that particular part makes me sad.
Rian: Are you like any of the characters in either book, and if so, who, and why?
Lindsay: I would have to say I'm most like Stella in "Joyride." While our life experiences couldn't be more different and I'm probably a lot sillier, we are both sentimental, somewhat resistant to change, and still living in the small suburban hometowns we grew up in. She is also close with her mother and has had the same best friend for fifteen years, just like me.
Rian: I loved your first two books. Do you have any others in the works? If so, what are they about?
Lindsay: I'm working on my third book now. I always feel funny talking about my books before they're finished, but I will tell you that this one features three main characters and is told from three different points of view. I know that doesn't say a whole lot – sorry to be so secretive!
Rian: Do you have any particular favorite writer or book of all time that inspires/inspired you to write? If so, who and why?
Lindsay: My favorite book of all time, hands down, is "She's Come Undone" by Wally Lamb. It's the first book I ever actually fell in love with. I can't say that it inspired me to write because I've been writing all my life, but Wally Lamb's style definitely challenges me to become a better writer. I think he's just amazing.
Rian: When you are writing, is there any particular habits you like to follow or things that have to be "just so" in order for the thoughts to flow freely? If so, what?
Lindsay: Unfortunately, the thoughts flow even when I wish they would stop. I've taken to taping all my favorite TV shows – that way, if I have an epiphany and absolutely must go jot something down, I know I'm not missing any crucial moments on "The Bachelor" (God forbid). As far as my writing schedule goes, I'm pretty disciplined. When you're working from home without anyone looking over your shoulder, it's easy to slack off. But I try not to. A lot of my motivation comes from loving what I do. I generally write for seven or eight hours a day while my husband's at work.
Rian: What do you think of the chick lit genre in general? Any particular thoughts on the people that bash it?
Lindsay: Hmm. Bashing something one knows nothing about. I think in some circles, they call this ignorance. I find it a little ironic that these so-called "critics" are not only completely clueless about the genre they've chosen to crusade against, but that most of them are women. I think chick lit is feminist lit – written predominantly by woman for women. Any woman who chooses to bash books about other women bonding with their girlfriends, finding themselves, establishing their careers, and going after love on their own terms is a sad, sad woman in my book. And any man who does it? Well, he's just a sexist pig.
Rian: What made you decide to be an author/writer? Was it a lifelong dream or did it just kind of happen?
Lindsay: I've always loved to write. When I was little, I used to write plays for my dolls to "act out" in front of my family, songs for my friends and I to perform in some big neighborhood concert that never actually took place, books with colorful construction paper covers�You get the gist. I was always writing. But I thought it was just a hobby. In sixth grade, I saw my first Broadway play and decided I wanted to become an actress. I took drama in high school and was actually a theater major in college. I used to get upset when professors would read my papers and tell me I should write because I'd think, Does that mean she doesn't think I'll make it as an actress? But the truth was, I was already beginning to doubt my theatrical abilities all on my own. By the middle of sophomore year, having only been cast in one play, I came to my senses and declared a writing minor. Soon, I began to wonder why I'd spent all that time fighting against what was so obviously in the cards for me my whole life. The summer after graduation, I started working on "Losing It," but getting a book published seemed like a far-fetched dream. I decided to try for my own newspaper column instead. I thought I could be the next Carrie Bradshaw. I did get the column, but "Sex and the City" it was not.
Rian: And in closing, do you have any advice for someone who wants to become a published writer?
Lindsay: Think of your favorite author and remember that he/she was once in your shoes. I've never heard anyone say, "Getting published was a breeze." It's hard for everybody. If you really want it, you have to believe it will happen and go after it as if failure is not an option. Be willing to try new approaches if the old ones aren't working, to take constructive criticism and revise your work. If you don't have any luck with one project, keep going; start another one. A writer writes. And the market is always changing. Be persistent. And never let rejection or self-doubt stand in the way of your dreams.
Rian, I want to thank you so much for taking the time to read and review my books. I really enjoyed e-mailing back and forth with you these past few weeks. You run such a fun and informative site, here. See you on the forums!


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Just asking because my friend and I were wondering what do guys like most she said butt and I told her that they didn't care about how a girl looks... Show More
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2 months ago I answered this question for somebody names Sashymashy I posted...
"You know a few weeks ago I don't think I could have given you an answer. I mean I really get turned on very easily by the whole lot of it... but then again my Girlfriend has been telling me in the last couple weeks I've turned into a gigantic ass-man. I gotta admit it. I have been staring at it a lot more, but to be fair her ass has been looking really good lately. The clothes she's been wearing really set it off. Not to mention all the thongs, and lacy underwear, and see-through panties and things like that. I DIDN'T HAVE A CHANCE! I'm the VICTIM here!
What is a guy to do. :("
I ended up getting a few people laughing pretty hard at it.
I'm checking back on a lot of my old answers like I usually do. I wanted to do a follow up to see if what I told you was at all helpful to you. Did my advice help?
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You kind of limited the choices. What makes you think we are after boobs or butts? Those are just play toys one encounters on the way to what we really like, pussy. Perhaps you meant to ask which of those two guys liked best, but you framed your question more to indicate that one of those was surely our ultimate goal, and that just is not the case.
The best butt in my opinion is when it's completely round. Not flat and has it's own separate curve so it's back, butt, then legs, nothing smoothed. Actually it's kind of like the letter d
For breasts I could care less.
Regardless of their body I wouldn't judge them straight away. Personality comes first for me.
well there are things that turn me on about a girl...and between booty and boobs, I definitely got to go with bootyaayy ; ) it just attracts me a lot more, and if a girl has a nice big one, ill probably give her more attention than one who just has big boobs. Alothough if a girl had a big booty and big boobs, id pay more attention to her than any other girl lol
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CANASTOTA, N.Y. "Yo, Adrian! I did it!"
That was one of the more famous lines from the "Rocky" movie series that not only made Sylvester Stallone what he is today, but also captured boxing's heart for decades.
On Tuesday, Stallone was rewarded. He, in fact, "did it!"
The actor, who penned the script about an underdog boxer from Philadelphia named Rocky Balboa, was named - along with Iron Mike Tyson and Julio Cesar Chavez, among others - to the 12-member 2011 class for induction into the International Boxing Hall of Fame and Museum.
"Rocky" was released in 1976, and was nominated for 10 Academy Awards, winning best picture, best director and best film editing.
"It has been my privilege to have been blessed with the ability to write about the incredible courage and commitment of the many thousands of real-life Rockys whom we have watched perform honorably in the ring," Stallone said in a statement.
Stallone also wrote five other movies based on the Rocky Balboa character and in 2006, was awarded the Boxing Writers Association of America award for "Lifetime Cinematic Achievement in Boxing."
"The two things that brought boxing back to the forefront with the public was the great success of the 1976 Olympic team and when Sylvester Stallone gave us our heavyweight champion - Rocky Balboa," Hall of Famer Emanuel Steward said. "I still get goosebumps when I hear the Rocky theme."
While Stallone delivered goosebumps, Tyson delivered plain, old bumps (and bruises) during his career.
The self-proclaimed "baddest man on the planet" won his first 19 professional bouts by knockout, 12 in the first round. On the November 1986 night that he knocked out WBC champion Trevor Berbick for a piece of the heavyweight title, a man who had watched Tyson learn the sweet science in Cus D'Amato's gym in Catskill, N.Y. said he figured Tyson would end up in an electric chair one day.
"I am honored," Tyson said. "The sport of boxing has given me so much, and it is truly a blessing to be acknowledged alongside other historical boxing legends because they paved the way for me, as I hope I have inspired others in this great sport."
Tyson electrified boxing with his devastating punching power and crude off-the-cuff remarks. When he beat journeyman Jesse Ferguson in his first nationally televised fight after a stunning uppercut sent blood spattering into the ringside seats at Houston Field House in Troy, N.Y., Tyson said, after the bout was stopped in the sixth round, that he tried "to push the bone into the brain."
Tyson won the WBA title with a 12-round decision over James Smith in 1987 and unified the titles later in the year with a 12-round victory over IBF champion Tony Tucker. Tyson defended the unified titles in victories over Larry Holmes, Tony Tubbs, Frank Bruno and Carl Williams, then stopped Michael Spinks in 91 seconds to earn universal recognition as champion in 1988.
Both cocky and shy with the lispy voice of a little boy, Tyson's time at the top was fleeting. He suffered a stunning 10th-round knockout loss to James "Buster" Douglas on Feb. 11, 1990, in Tokyo. After rebounding with four victories, a proposed title fight in 1991 with Evander Holyfield was postponed because of a rib injury. Tyson was then incarcerated for rape from 1992-95, and ensuing bizarre behavior took over his career from that point.


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Hidden camera video footage taken inside the Shin Nippon Biomedical Laboratories USA (SNBL USA) by a Washington state undercover news investigator in early November 2007 clearly shows a lab employee placing into the cage-washer a wire cage with a female cynomolgus macaque monkey still inside. The monkey, who was slated to be used in a drug experiment, was boiled alive during the 20-minute washing cycle, which uses 180-degree water, caustic foam, and detergent.
If labs like SNBL USA are careless enough to put an animal through a cage-washer, how can anyone trust their claims that lab employees offer humane treatment to animals used in experiments?
"Accidental" animal deaths like the one at SNBL USA are not uncommon. Here are a few other recent examples:
- January 2005: Three chimpanzees at the National Institutes of Health's (NIH) Alamogordo Primate Facility in New Mexico were electrocuted when their perch came in contact with a 270-volt electric line, according to court papers filed by a New Mexico district attorney.
- July 2005: Three marmoset monkeys at the University of Wisconsin-Madison primate facility were left in their cage when it was sent through a sanitizing cage-washer. They were scalded to death by sprays of chemical wash.
- August 2005: Seven monkeys at the NIH National Primate Research Center at the University of California-Davis died after a heater malfunctioned, the temperature rose to 115 degrees, and the water supply ran out.
- July 2006: A power outage at Ohio State University killed one rabbit and almost 700 mice and rats when temperatures in the laboratory rooms soared up to 105 degrees.
- August 2007: 102 rats were killed by extreme heat at the University of Georgia when a heating and cooling unit in the psychology building failed.
Agonizing deaths like the ones listed above often happen in experimental facilities because lab personnel tend to have little concern for the animals. Federal regulators do almost nothing to punish the labs responsible for such "accidents," and researchers are rarely held accountable for Animal Welfare Act (AWA) violations. The maximum fine for an AWA violation at an animal research facility is $2,500, but labs usually face much smaller fines—if they are fined at all.
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A shortage of polysilicon solar panels, those mirror-like panels seen most often on the top of buildings, will continue to crimp the potential for solar energy for a second straight year, according to a report from investment bank Piper Jaffray.
Alternative solar technologies, such as thin-film solar panels, however, will begin to pick up the slack in 2007 and allow the industry to accelerate again.
The production of technology for harvesting solar energy will grow by only 9 percent this year, rising from 1,709 megawatts in 2005 to 1,868 megawatts. (The numbers reflect how much energy the entire output of solar technology could harvest at any given moment.)
Shipments would likely be higher, but factories can't produce enough silicon solar panels, according to the study and several different executives. Output of solar technology rose by 67 percent in 2004 and by 35 percent in 2005. The shortage, which began in 2005, retarded grow that year, too.
In 2004, more processed silicon got consumed in making solar panels than in making semiconductors, according to Nick Parker, chairman of Cleantech Venture Network.
By 2007, however, production of solar technology will grow by 18 percent to around 2,200 megawatts, with a substantial portion of the growth coming from thin-film solar panels. Thin-film manufacturers incorporate energy harvesting molecules into polymers and coatings.
Typically, thin films--despite a variety of underlying technologies--aren't nearly as efficient as using rigid silicon panels to harvest solar energy. Thin-film solar panels, however, are cheaper to manufacture. The solar-harvesting technology can also be incorporated unobtrusively into windows and roof tiles.
Thin-film production from companies such as Evergreen Solar and Energy Conversion Devices will grow by around 70 percent in 2007, according to the report, while polysilicon production will grow by 9 percent.
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- The article about the solar panel shortage is misleading. You can still get panels and systems , it just takes a little longer. In fact some of the best panels and equipment is being made today by Sunpower at 20% efficient. The price per watt is about the same as others.
Also the incentices have never been higher from states, utilities and even the federal government.
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Recently, anonymous hackers released symantec 2006 antivirus source code for all platforms .
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CHEF JEFF — ONE BYTE AT A TIME: Pakistani Carrot PuddingHave you eaten gajraila, the tasty Pakistani pudding?
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Have you eaten gajraila, the tasty Pakistani pudding? If not, try the following.
Pakistani Carrot Pudding
4 cups milk
¼ cup basmati or Carolina long-grain rice
1 pound carrots, scrubbed and grated
½ cup sugar (or more, depending on sweetness of carrots)
¾ teaspoon ground cardamom
½ cup golden raisins
¼ cup shelled pistachios
Combine milk and rice in a medium saucepan, and set aside 30 minutes to soak. Add grated carrots, sugar and cardamom. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat and simmer, uncovered, for 1½ hours, scraping down the sides of pan and stirring occasionally to keep rice from sticking. If a thick pudding is desired, mash some of mixture with a potato masher or immersion blender. Add raisins. Taste for sweetness, adding more sugar if desired. Cook 30 minutes longer, stirring every so often. When pudding is done, transfer to 1-quart serving dish or individual ramekins. Sprinkle with pistachios. Serve warm or chilled.
Yield: Serves 6.
Approximate nutritional analysis per serving: 293 calories, 7.9 grams fat (3.4 grams saturated), 6.3 milligrams cholesterol, 8.1 grams protein, 50.1 grams carbohydrates, 3.4 grams fiber, 119.2 milligrams sodium.
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Geometry-Driven Architecture: House in Rocafort by Ramon Esteve Studio
Geometry was the starting point for this modern project in Valencia, Spain, designed by Ramon Esteve Studio; "The concept was born from the trapezoidal shape of the plot, located in a residential area. The vegetation is a dense element of edge. That is the reason why the house is proposed like a volume where focusing views becomes especially important". Massive walls finished in bright white contrast the lush vegetation, delivering a visually appealing exterior. Hidden by the trees, a wooden terrace takes the focus off the simple lines of the street facade.
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Barcelona assistant coach Jordi Roura reserved particular praise for Alexis Sanchez and Andres Iniesta after La Liga's leaders beat Getafe 6-1 in today's early kick-off at the Nou Camp. Chile forward Alexis finally opened his account for the season by grabbing the opener in the sixth minute, with Lionel Messi's 35th league goal of the campaign making it 2-0 soon after.
David Villa and substitute Cristian Tello stretched the lead in the second half before Getafe substitute Alvaro Vazquez's late consolation, and there was still time for Iniesta and Gerard Pique to add their names to the scoresheet to round off an enjoyable afternoon for the Catalan club.
Roura, overseeing first-team affairs with head coach Tito Vilanova still in New York undergoing cancer treatment, was delighted to see Alexis get off the mark and purring with superlatives for Spain midfielder Iniesta.
"We're very pleased with his work and attitude," the Barça number two said of Alexis. "He's been a bit unlucky lately and I think he scored a great goal. That goal gave him a lot of confidence. [Iniesta] played at an extremely high level. He plays with such ease. He makes football look so easy. This is what makes him great."
The match kicked off at midday local time - the first time Barça have played so early in La Liga - and Roura was delighted to see 85,610 fans in attendance and thrilled with how his team responded.
"The players were at an extraordinary level," Roura said of his men, many of whom had clocked up considerable air miles on international duty for Spain's midweek friendly against Uruguay in Qatar. "They played with a lot of intensity from the first minute. It was an unusual time to play but we had a party in the stadium. (A full stadium) is important for the spectacle."
The win lifted Barcelona provisionally 12 points clear of Atletico Madrid and restored their 16-point advantage over third-placed champions Real Madrid. Iniesta, who was involved in Barça's first three goals before scoring the fifth, was typically modest in his post-match analysis.
"It's good that we all contributed, but in the end the best thing is that the team won and that we played well," he said on www.fcbarcelona.com. "There are seasons that I've played almost every match. I try to stay at the same level and I try to improve. It was a great morning for football. It was spectacular."
Pique too was more than content with how Barça responded to the challenge of their first early kick-off. "We felt great on the pitch," the centre-back said. "A lot of people were able to make it to the stadium and the atmosphere was fantastic. It wouldn't be an inconvenience if we had to play at the same time in the future.
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'Resurrection' at Comic-Con 2014: Cast, creators tease Michelle Fairley's Season 2 antagonist and moreAdd to Favorites | Resurrection
ABC drama "Resurrection" returns this fall for Season 2, and the cast and showrunners came down to San Diego on Friday (July 25) for Comic-Con 2014 to share all the spoilers and teases you could ever want. Here's all the highlights revealed during the panel, including all the details on who "Game of Thrones"/"24" star Michelle Fairley will be playing:
-- Is Bellamy a returned? We will find out in Season 2. "If he is, does Bellamy know this?" Omar Epps wonders. "And if so, what does the whole first season mean? And if he doesn't, what does that mean?"
"Resurrection" Season 2 premieres Sunday, Sept. 28 on ABC.
-- Executive producer Aaron Zelman teases there will be a slight time jump in the Season 2 premiere. "There's a very surprising way into Season 2," Zelman says. "We won't open right at the end of Season 1. We come in about a week later. Things have happened in town that you'll get a surprising explanation for that will take things in a darker direction for Season 2."
-- Fans who worry that there is no explanation planned for why the dead are returning in this town, the showrunners promise they have one. "The fear is that we don't know and are stringing you along," executive producer Michelle Fazekas says. "But there is an answer. The show is not only about the answer, about why this is happening. It's about these characters and how this affects them."
-- The audience got to see a clip introducing a new character, a returned that will be an antagonist/foil for the entire season. "Michelle Fairley from '24' will play Jacob's grandmother and Henry's mother for the whole season," Fazekas says. "She's the mother-in-law from hell, literally," Zelman adds.
Fairley will have a big impact on the whole mythology surrounding the series as Margaret Langston. "A big part of the mother of Henry and Fred coming back is what she reveals," Zelman says. "When the returned come back they tend to have secrets. Her secrets have to do with the family business and what that secret entails uncovers a big part about the returned phenomenon itself."
The "Game of Thrones" star recorded a video interview that the audience got to see, detailing how Margaret Langston has a dark past and if she needs to turn on her own, she will. Plus, she's going to be younger than her sons, so watch out for some trippy mother/son scenes. The audience got to see a sneak peek of the scene where Henry sees Margaret after she returned for the first time, and it gave everyone goosebumps just like Jacob's returned scene still does to this day.
-- How is Maggie's relationship with Bellamy going to evolve in Season 2? "There's clearly a connection between them. There's clearly sparkles beneath the surface," Devin Kelley says. "But the dead are coming back to life so they kind of have bigger issues to deal with. But in Season 2 they get closer. Maggie might have a house guest for a while and it might be this guy over here to my right [meaning Epps]."
-- Sheriff Fred's cheating wife has returned, and on top of that, went back to the guy she was cheating on him with in Season 1. Ouch. "He's got a lot going on," Zelman says of Fred's situation at the start of Season 2.
Fazekas elaborates a little more. "He's at his lowest point in the first episode of the second season," she says. "He's just essentially betrayed the Langston family and his daughter. But when his mother returns, that gives an entirely new spin on things. He has to deal with the ramifications of what he's done. He's involved in uncovering the season-long mystery that his family and his mother is wrapped up in as well."
-- Besides Fairley, expect to see more new characters popping up in Season 2. "We have a character who is an elegant woman," Fazekas says. "Bellamy loses his job and gets a new one, and the elegant woman is his new boss."
-- We will find out more about Rachel's pregnancy. "That plays a huge part in the second season," Zelman says.
Fazekas explains that the explanation for why Rachel is pregnant is rooted in the mythology of the show. "You come back, you return, how you were when you died," Fazekas says. "She was pregnant when she died so she's pregnant now."
"Resurrection" Season 2 premieres Sunday, Sept. 28 on ABC.
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This photo was taken at Greensboro, NC zoo. When I came home and looked at the pictures, I was disappointed to see that white speck as I thought it was dirt on the lens. But I realized it was something on the gorilla's fur as the speck moved along with him in the next picture that I captured.
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Students at Oakland's Life Academy of Health and Bioscience interviewed District 5 city council and school board candidates Thursday night in a public forum they organized.
Principal Preston Thomas described the event as "totally authentic and student-led."
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Following in the fashion of Stephen Jay Gould and Peter Medawar, one of the world's leading scientists examines how "pure science" is in fact shaped and guided by social and political needs and assumptions. "[Lewontin] is the most brilliant scientist I know and his work embidies, as this book displays so well, the very best in genetics."
A Reasonable Skepticism
Science is a social institution about which there is a great deal of misunderstanding, even among those who are part of it. We think that science is an institution, a set of methods, a set of people, a great body of knowledge that we call scientific, is somehow apart from the forces that rule our everyday lives and that govern the structure of our society. We think science is objective. Science has brought us all kinds of good things. It has tremendously increased the production of food. It has increased our life expectancy from a mere 45 years at the beginning of the last century to over 70 in rich places like North America. It has put people on the moon and made it possible to sit at home and watch the world go by.
At the same time, science, like other productive activities, like the state, the family, sport, is a social institution completely integrated into and influenced by the structure of all our other social institutions. The problems that science deals with, the ideas that it uses in investigating those problems, even the socalled scientific results that come out of scientific investigation, are all deeply influenced by predispositions that derive from the society in which we live. Scientists do not begin life as scientists, after all, but as social beings immersed in a family, a state, a productive structure, and they view nature through a lens that has been molded by their social experience.
Above that personal level of perception, science is molded by society because it is a human productive activity that takes time and money, and so is guided by and directed by those forces in the world that have control over money and time. Science uses commodities and is part of the process of commodity production. Science uses money. People earn their living by science, and as a consequence the dominant social and economic forces in society determine to a large extent what science does and how it does it. More than that, those forces have the power to appropriate from science ideas that are particularly suited to the maintenance and continued prosperity of the social structures of which they are a part. So other social institutions have an input into science both in what is done and how it is thought about, and they take from science concepts and ideas that then support their institutions and make them seem legitimate and natural. It is this dual process--on the one hand, of the social influence and control of what scientists do and say, and, on the other hand, the use of what scientists do and say to further support the institutions of society--that is meant when we speak of science as ideology.
Science serves two functions. First, it provides us with new ways of manipulating the material world by producing a set of techniques, practices, and inventions by which new things are produced and by which the quality of our lives is changed. These are the aspects of science to which scientists appeal when they try to get money from governments or when they appear on the front pages of newspapers in their public relations efforts to maintain their prosperity. We read repeatedly about how "science has discovered" something, but more often than not those announcements are hedged with qualifiers. Biologists discover "evidence for" genes that "may one day" lead to "a possible" cure for cancer. While their over-optimistic reports breed a certain cynicism, it is nevertheless true that scientists do actually change the way we confront the material world.
The second function of science, which is sometimes independent and sometimes closely related to the first, is the function of explanation. Even if scientists are not actually changing the material mode of our existence, they are constantly explaining why things are the way they are. It is often said that these theories about the world must be produced in order, ultimately, to change the world through practice. After all, how can we cure cancer unless we understand what causes cancer? How can we increase food production unless we understand the laws of genetics and plant and animal nutrition?
Yet it is remarkable how much important practical science has been quite independent of theory. In Chapter 3, 1 will consider one of the most famous examples of scientific agricultural change: the introduction of hybrid corn all over the world. Hybrid corn is said to be one of the great triumphs of modern genetics in action, helping to feed people and increase their well-being. Yet the development of hybrid corn and, indeed, almost all plant and animal breeding as it is actually practiced has been carried out in a way that is completely independent of any scientific theory. Indeed, a great deal of plant and animal breeding has been done in a way indistinguishable from the methods of past centuries before anyone had ever heard of genetics.
The same is true for our attempts to cope with killers like cancer and heart disease. Most cures for cancer involve either removing the growing tumor or destroying it with powerful radiation or chemicals. Virtually none of this progress in cancer therapy has occurred because of a deep understanding of the elementary processes of cell growth and development, although nearly all cancer research, above the purely clinical level, is devoted precisely to understanding the most intimate details of cell biology. Medicine remains, despite all the talk of scientific medicine, essentially an empirical process in which one does what. works.
Also in Chapter 3, I will consider the relationship between scientific biology and changes in life expectancy. It is not at all clear that a correct understanding of how the world works is basic to a successful manipulation of the world. But explanations of how the world really works serve another purpose, one in which there has been a remarkable success, irrespective of the practical truth of scientific claims. The purpose is that of legitimation.
"[Lewontin] is the most brilliant scientist I know and his work embidies, as this book displays so well, the very best in genetics."
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Troubled Premont school district needs almost $12M in repairs, state-mandated assessment finds
PREMONT - The long-struggling Premont school district needs almost $12 million in repairs, from peeling paint and broken windows to leaking roofs and inactive sprinkler systems, according to a recent facilities assessment.
The $18,500 study, donated for free by an architectural firm that works for Tuloso-Midway ISD, gave district and Texas Education Agency officials their first in-depth look at the extent of problems at the district's rundown and outdated campuses neglected for years because of financial constraints and budget shortfalls.
The results were grim.
The consultants determined that six of the district's 10 facilities, including the football and baseball stadiums, are in such bad shape that they should be abandoned or replaced.
Two campuses occupied by students — a high school and middle school — need major improvements worth more than $9 million.
More than $673,000in health and safety improvements are needed immediately, including the addition of proper fire alarm and public address systems.
At a time when school districts statewide face financial constraints, those cost figures are pricey for any district, but they especially are steep for Premont ISD, which had a fund balance in the red five years in a row. The district recently got control of its finances under the leadership of Superintendent Ernest Singleton, who took over the district in June 2011.
The district has not identified how it will pay for the needed improvements, although REM Consulting Group recommended the district consider floating a $7.5 million bond election in the spring.
A bond could raise the tax rate by 26 percent to $1.67 per $100 valuation and would mark the second time in a year and a half the district asked residents for financial help.
In November, Premont voters overwhelmingly approved the district's tax increase after striking down the previous two tax rate increases floated by the district in recent years.
That community support for the tax increase along with the district's strides prompted the education commissioner to temporarily halt the closure and offer the district a deal.
Along with giving district officials a road map of how and what to repair, the completion of the facilities assessment moves the district a step closer toward accomplishing 11 mandatesfrom the state for Premont ISD to stay open.
The state announced plans last summer to close the district, but in a surprise move in December, it offered the district a one-year reprieve if it met certain requirements, including conducting a facilities assessment by July 1 and opening two fully functioning science labs by Aug. 1 after the deteriorating labs were shuttered for years and filled with mold.
The district accomplished the assessment on time and expects to open threescience labs before school starts.
The labs, funded with more than $315,000 in donations from area schoolchildren, businesses and foundations, provide Premont students the same educational opportunities enjoyed by other public school students, said board President Carmela Garcia.
"It will put them on the same playing level as our neighboring schools," she said.
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A handout photo taken by one of the Algerians held hostage at a gas plant on January 16, 2013 and released on January 23, shows Algerian workers standing outside an accommodation unit of the plant. AFP PHOTO / KYODO
LONDON: A photo circulating on jihadi online forums says it all: a plane flying into the Eiffel Tower with September 11 written in Arabic in red letters alongside.
The French military intervention in Mali and an Islamist militant attack on the In Amenas gas plant in Algeria in which at least 38 workers died have re-energised international jihad.
These events also closed a loop which many thought had frayed over recent years linking North African insurgents with Al-Qaeda's central leadership and ideology.
It is those links, spanning regions and times, connected through the shadowy career of Algerian militant Mokhtar Belmokhtar, which are now coming under fresh scrutiny to assess whether the west underestimated the resilience of global jihad.
Back in 1994, Algerian militants fighting the French-backed government in Algiers hijacked an Air France plane. Though it was successfully stormed by French forces in Marseille, French intelligence believed they planned to fly it into the Eiffel Tower, foreshadowing the Sept. 11 attacks on the United States.
But that Algerian phase of the jihad was overlooked by a focus on post Sept. 11 history, by hopes that Osama bin Laden's death in Pakistan in 2011 had fatally wounded Al-Qaeda, and, crucially, by a view that Belmokhtar had drifted away into making money from smuggling and seizing hostages.
"There have been a lot of debates over whether Belmokhtar is a criminal or a jihadist, but this overlooks the possibility to be both," said Stephen Tankel, a professor at American University and non-resident scholar at the Carnegie Endowment and the author of a forthcoming book on the evolution of jihadist groups since 9/11.
Algerian and western intelligence had been watching Afghan war veteran Belmokhtar for years, but they either misread his intentions or underestimated his capacity for the kind of sophisticated planning required to pull off the most dramatic terrorist act since the 2008 attack on Mumbai by the Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba militant group.
Yet the signs were there for all to read. In a post on the authoritative Jihadica website, North African specialist Andrew Lebovich noted that when Belmokhtar announced in December the creation of a new combat unit, al-Mouwakoune Bi-Dima ("Those Who Sign with Blood"), he threatened both France and Algeria.
The name he chose for his new combat unit was also the same one originally used by a group of the Algerian Armed Islamic Group (GIA) behind the hijacking of the Air France plane.
In a video in December, when he allegedly "split" from Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), Belmokhtar also pledged his loyalty to Afghan Taliban leader Mullah Muhammad Omar and Al-Qaeda leader Ayman al Zawahiri, without mentioning the AQIM leadership.
"He gave me the impression that he now was working independently and behaving as though he is the true emir of AQ-linked groups in the Sahel," said Camille Tawil, a journalist at al Hayat and a leading authority on north African jihadism.
True to Belmokhtar's words in that video, the hostage-takers at In Amenas made the classic demands of Al-Qaeda's central leadership - for the release from U.S. prisons of Omar Abdel-Rahman, the blind Egyptian sheikh jailed for involvement in a 1993 attack on the World Trade Center, and Pakistani neuroscientist Aafia Siddiqui, whose uncle by marriage was Sept. 11 mastermind Khaled Sheikh Mohammad.
And while it is possible the In Amenas attackers hoped to escape with foreign hostages who could be traded for money, it is equally plausible the primary motive was to re-energise global jihad at a time when French military intervention in Mali provides a powerful magnet for Islamist militants worldwide.
"In both the Air France attack and last week's assault, hostage-taking may have been an ancillary instead of a primary goal," wrote Lebovich.
"In the Air France hijacking ... it later emerged that their true goal was always to detonate the plane over Paris," he said. At In Amenas, "Algerian authorities have said the group's goal was to destroy the facility, though they may have also hoped to escape with at least some hostages."
Whatever the truth, the relationship between Belmokhtar and global jihad goes back more than 20 years. Some time after the death in Pakistan in 1989 of Palestinian scholar Abdullah Azzam, bin Laden's mentor, he left Algeria for Afghanistan.
"We were able to confirm, from a reliable source, his presence in the (training) camps which the Pakistanis were running in Peshawar," wrote the former French intelligence analyst who blogs at Le Monde newspaper under the pen-name Abou Djaffar. "There, towards the end of the 1980s, or the beginning of the 1990s, he received paramilitary training which would be very useful to him in Algeria."
By the mid-1990s he was back in Algeria, part of the Armed Islamic Group which goes by its French acronym GIA and which had sprung up to fight the government after it suppressed elections in 1992 which the Islamists were poised to win.
"The GIA quickly emerged as the most potent insurgent force in the country and the cause célèbre for many in the international jihadist movement who initially saw great promise for the Algerian jihad," said Tankel.
Bin Laden - who by then had moved from Afghanistan to Sudan - sent several emissaries to the GIA to discuss whether they wanted to join up with his then still struggling Al-Qaeda.
Lawrence Wright, author of "The Looming Tower", claimed in his book that bin Laden sent $40,000 to the GIA before regretting it as Algerian group's reputation suffered because of its appetite for mass killing during the civil war which would eventually claim up to 200,000 lives.
With the GIA discredited, infiltrated by Algerian security services and looked upon with distaste even by the global jihadi movement, the group splintered. Its most successful offshoot became the Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat (GSPC), which eventually merged into Al-Qaeda as Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb in 2007.
Over the years, the trail linking Algerian militants to core Al-Qaeda runs hot and cold, but recurs often enough to suggest a resilience in a movement which was deliberately designed with horizontal networks and an emphasis on unity of ideology which would allow it to survive the decapitation of its leadership.
According to al Hayat's Tawil, bin Laden sent an envoy, Ahmed Alwan, also known as Abu Mohamed Al-Yemeni, to the GSPC in the summer of 2001. Among the GSPC leaders he met in Algeria was Belmokhtar. "The aim of bin Laden envoy's visit was to establish links between AQ and the Algerian jihadi groups," he said.
With the GSPC running powerful networks among the North African diaspora in Europe, they may also have been linked to the assassination of Afghan Tajik anti-Taliban commander Ahmad Shah Massoud two days before the Sept. 11 attacks. His killing was seen as a present from Al-Qaeda to the Taliban then in power in Kabul, meant to undercut their opponents ahead of the expected U.S. counter-attack.
The exact links between the GSPC and Massoud's assassination by two Belgian Tunisians remain murky, though they were connected to the same network through a mosque in Paris.
In a sign of the ties that bind across regions and across years, another member of that network was Willy Brigitte, a Frenchman later convicted of planning attacks for the Lashkar-e-Taiba. His minder in Pakistan was Sajid Mir, a man who Indian authorities say was also involved in the Mumbai attacks, which killed 166 people.
"All of these guys were floating around in the same milieu at the same time," said Tankel.
The massive intelligence crackdown which followed Sept. 11 largely broke apart the European networks; but then a new link was built - between Al-Qaeda in Iraq leader Abu Musab al Zarqawi, who was killed in 2006, and GSPC leaders, which eventually convinced them to join Al-Qaeda.
The chaotic aftermath of the fall of Libya's Muammar Gaddafi in 2011 - which helped AQIM acquire weapons and exploit discontent among Tuareg tribals in the region - allowed them to expand their operations, particularly in neighbouring Mali.
But it would be a mistake to suggest they suddenly appeared out of nowhere as a new Al-Qaeda threat, given their long history with the group.
Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, author of a book on bin Laden's legacy, noted on U.S. security website Gunpowder and Lead that documents captured from bin Laden's compound in Abbottabad showed communications between AQIM and Al-Qaeda's leadership over four years, including discussion of strategic and operational issues.
"While it is possible that after bin Laden's death, when Ayman al Zawahiri became ... emir, these communications were crippled or otherwise ceased, there's no reason that this should be our a priori assumption," he wrote.
In an interview given to the Mauritanian news agency in 2011, Belmokhtar himself noted that GSPC member Younis al-Mauritani, arrested in the Pakistani city of Quetta in Sept 2011, had been sent to hold talks with Al-Qaeda leaders.
In the shadowy and often shifting alliances of global jihad, it will take time to trace all the different threads behind the attack on In Amenas.
For now though, the In Amenas raid has brought together two quite different decades - the 1990s attacks on French interests which included bombings in Paris and the Air France hijack, and the post Sept. 11 U.S.-led assault on Al-Qaeda's capabilities in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
"Maybe the leadership approved it, maybe not," Lebovich said in a phone call from Dakar. "Al-Qaeda core has been quite slow in their statements recently. It will be interesting to see if there is a statement from al Zawahiri."
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Nov 2 - Tropics to the Falklands
And so, after passing Fernando de Noronha, the ship, at a distance and out of site, reached the north-eastern tip of the Brazilian coast. This was the start of the long journey down along the Eastern coastline of the whole of South America. Despite our relative proximity to the continent, the closest point of approach was actually 100 miles, well out of visual range.
Our closeness to land though was apparent by the sudden change in the wildlife accompanying us. For the first 3 days or so down the coast we were accompanied by a host of tropical species of seabird including Boobys and Frigatebirds. Also, passing over the Vitoria-Trindade Seamounts brought us into more prosperous waters, giving some members of the crew views of Tropical Whales breaching well out of the water, within just a few hundred yards of the ship.
After passing east of Montevideo, at about 35 degrees south of the Equator, on 26th October, the ship passed into the much deeper and colder water of the Argentine Basin. This lead to a very sudden change in air temperatures, at least in comparison to the sauna like conditions of the previous week. An atmospheric depression at the same time also lead to the first proper ocean swell the ship had encountered on the trip. This was also the start of a further change in accompanying birdlife. The tropical species now absent for several days were to be replaced with an ever increasing number of birds that should be with us for many months to come.
And so, early on the beautifully bright, if slightly breezy, morning of 31st October the James Clark Ross came in sight of land for the first time in well over 2 weeks. After calling Fishops (Fisheries Operations) to let them know that we were soon to arrive, the ship headed into Port William Sound, passing between Mengeary Point to the North and Cape Penbroke with it's lighthouse to the South. The ship turned to port into The Narrows, Engineer and Navy Points to either side, taking us into Stanley Harbour and at last giving us full view of our destination. Since the JCR has to Berth on her starbord side, Captain Elliott reversed her into position in the centre of FIPASS. In full view to forward was the wreck of the Lady Elizabeth, one mile away in Whalebone Cove, and in the far distance to stern, past Stanley itself, was the other end of the harbour, Moody Brook.
The first view of the Falkand Islands at first light
Stanley Harbour seen through the Narrows
FIPASS stands for the Falkland Islands Port and Storage System. This consists of 7 large pontoon barges linked together and connected to shore by a causeway. In total this system allows for 305 metres of berthiing and even has a rollon-rolloff ramp at its eastern end
The Lady Elizabeth with the JCR behind
The Lady Elizabeth, as shown in the photo is the wreck of an old Iron Ship. She was built in Sunderland in 1879 and when registered was 223 feet in length and had a weight of 1208 tonnes. She first came to grief passing around Cape Horn in 1913 carrying a cargo of Oregon Pine, losing four of the crew in the process. She limped to safety, though, at the very last, hit a rock on the way into Stanley Harbour. This was the final straw and she was condemned and sold, with her cargo of timber, to the Falkland Island Company for £3350. She was moored up and used as a floating warehouse for over 20 years before breaking free during a storm in 1936 and drifting to her final resting position in Whalebone Cove.
Having taken on 4 new members of the ships crew and 22 'scientists' the next journey for the ship was possibly one of the shortest of it's career, a distance of approximately 100 metres taking a grand total of 14 minutes. This was simply to allow room on FIPASS for the JCR to be joined by a large cargo ship. This short voyage probably went unnoticed by many a member of ships company who was not up bright and early on the morning of 31st October. In total the ship was to be berthed at FIPASS for a total of 3 nights and 4 days. For the crew, this was a solid 4 days of working cargo, while for some members of BAS staff, this was the last chance to enjoy a few of life's simple luxuries prior to up to two and a half years in the field.
Loading cargo in the wind and rain
The next, and slightly longer leg of the ship's season in the southern hemisphere was scheduled for 4pm on 2nd November. All 51 members of the ships company thus had to be on board by 3pm to allow the gangway to be lifted clear and let the ship set sail for it's next, slightly colder port of call, Signy Base.


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Welcome to Karnataka German Multi Skill Development CenterKarnataka German Multi Skill Development Centre(KGMSDC) is a society promoted by Government of India and Government of Karnataka with technical support of German International Services(GIZ-IS). The primary mission of the Training Centres is to conduct a broad based multidisciplinary programme in various Industrial Technical Fields, directed towards the development of skills and trades and to become a world class training centres that represents specialized trade training programs in alignment with the Industry requirements across the globe.
It has set up Karnataka German Technical Training Institute (KGTTI) having centres at Bangalore and Gulbarga. The program of KGMSDC offers challenging and complimentary roles for administrators, engineers and technicians.
All programs follow German vocational education and training standards that are demand oriented and directly imply a close relationship with industry. To provide International Standards and Hands-on training both KGTTIs has extensive state-of-art training facilities. KGMSDC is a registered society formed under Society Registration Act 1960. The registered society has members from Government of India and Government of Karnataka, complemented by local stakeholders and representatives of industries, chambers and academia. GIZ IS is the technical partner for project implementation.
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Service Guard
The three central components of Serviceguard are
Package Manager
Cluster Manager
Network Manager
A manual startup forms a cluster out of all the nodes in the cluster configuration. Manual startup is normally done the first time you bring up the cluster, after cluster-wide maintenance or upgrade, or after reconfiguration.
The system administrator starts the cluster in Serviceguard Manager or with the cmruncl command issued from one node. The cmruncl command can only be used when the cluster is not running, that is, when none of the nodes is running the cmcld daemon.
Automatic cluster startup will take place if the flag AUTOSTART_CMCLD is set to 1 in the /etc/rc.config.d/cmcluster file. When any node reboots with this parameter set to 1, it will rejoin an existing cluster, or if none exists it will attempt to form a new cluster.
Service Guard Daemons:
- /usr/lbin/cmclconfd - SG Configuration Daemon
- /usr/lbin/cmcld - SG Cluster Daemon
- /usr/lbin/cmlogd - SG Syslog Daemon
- /usr/lbin/cmlvmd - SG LVM Daemon
- /usr/lbin/cmsnmpd - SG Cluster SNMP subagent
- /usr/lbin/cmnetd - SG Network Manager Daemon
- /usr/lbin/qs - SG Quarum Server daemon
- /usr/lbin/cmlockd - SG lock LUN Daemon
cmclconfd: This daemon is used by the Serviceguard commands to gather information from all the nodes within the cluster. It gathers configuration information such as information on networks and volume groups. It also distributes the cluster binary configuration file to all nodes in the cluster. This daemon is started by inetd.
cmcld: Two of the central components of SG - Package Manager and Cluster Manager - run as parts of cmcld daemon. This daemon determines cluster membership by sending heartbeat messages to cmcld daemons on other nodes in the SG Cluster.
cmnetd: This daemon monitors the health of the cluster networks, and performs local LAN failover. It also handles the addition and deletion of relocatable package IP(s).
Package Manager
Packages are the means by which Serviceguard starts and halts configured applications. A package is a collection of services, disk volumes and IP addresses.
The package manager residing on the cluster coordinator is known as package coordinator.
The package coordinator does the following
- Decides when and where to run, halt, or move packages.
The package manager on all nodes does the following:
- Executes the control scripts that run and halt packages and their services.
- Reacts to changes in the status of monitored resources
There are three different types of packages.
01. Failover package (Most common type)
02. System multi-node package (Runs on all nodes)
03. Multi-node package (run on all or some of the nodes)
Serviceguard uses a special file, /etc/cmcluster.conf, to define the locations for configuration and log files within the HP-UX filesystem. The following locations are defined in the file:
################## cmcluster.conf ############### # Highly Available Cluster file locations # This file must not be edited ################################################# SGCONF=/etc/cmcluster SGSBIN=/usr/sbin SGLBIN=/usr/lbin SGLIB=/usr/lib SGRUN=/var/adm/cmcluster SGAUTOSTART=/etc/rc.config.d/cmcluster SGFFLOC=/opt/cmcluster/cmff CMSNMPD_LOG_FILE=/var/adm/SGsnmpsuba.log }
Disabling Service guard:
To disable service guard on a system, comment out the following two lines from /etc/inetd.conf file and force the inetd daemon to re-read the file using inetd -c command.
hacl-cfg dgram udp wait root /usr/lbin/cmclconfd cmclconfd -p hacl-cfg stream tcp nowait root /usr/lbin/cmclconfd cmclconfd -c
To disable the package switching to node2
# cmmodpkg -n node2 -d pkg1
To enable package switching to node 2
# cmmodpkg -n node2 -e pkg1
To view the cluster config and status
# cmciewcl -v
To stop monitoring pakage pkg1, create a file MAINT in /etc/cmcluster/pkg1/MAINT
# Touch /etc/cmcluster/pkg1/MAINT
To restart the packge again
# rm /etc/cmcluster/pkg1/MAINT
To activate a VG which is under Service Guard control, and when the cluster is not running
#vgchange -c n vgname #vgchange -a y vgname
and when you are done you just need to deactivate your VG with
#vgchange -a n vgname
Quorum Server
If equal-sized groups of nodes become separated from each other, the Quorum Server allows one group to achieve quorum and form the cluster, while the other group is denied quorum and cannot start a cluster
The Quorum Server uses TCP/IP, and listens to connection requests from the Serviceguard nodes on port # 1238. The server maintains a special area in memory for each cluster; when a node obtains the cluster lock, this area is marked so that other nodes will recognize the lock as "taken."
01. Install the Quorum server using swinstall command
02. Add the following line in /etc/inittab file
qs:345:respawn:/usr/lbin/qs >> /var/adm/qs/qs.log 2>&1
03. Start the Quorum Server as follows:
# init q
04. Verify the Quorum Server is running by checking the qs.log file
# vi /var/adm/qs/qs.log
05. Creating and Updating the Authorization File.
# cat /etc/cmcluster/qs_authfile test1 test2


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2060 State Road 13
Switzerland, Florida
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- Alpine Groves named Park of the Month – Florida Communities Trust bestows "Park of the Month" honor upon St. Johns County's Alpine Groves Park. Located in NW St. Johns County, Alpine Groves has more than 54 acres of natural landscape and scenic views featuring a turn-of-the-century homestead, farm-themed playground, picnic area, butterfly garden, trails, and a covered dock for fishing and canoe / kayak launching. A Great Florida Birding Trail destination, the park provides a natural landscape for taking photographs, painting, or observing an abundance of wildlife.
Alpine Groves Park is a passive park containing 54.5 acres. It is located in Northwest St. Johns County between the beautiful St. Johns River and William Bartram Scenic & Historic Highway in Switzerland, Florida.
When you enter the park you step back in time as you view the partially restored house and grounds of a turn-of-the-century homestead and citrus grove under moss-draped oak and magnolia trees on a high bluff overlooking the river.
A magnificent butterfly garden, a farm themed playground, picnic area and a winding wooded trail that leads you to hanging swings in a quiet natural setting inviting guests to linger and unwind. Alpine Groves provides a stunning natural landscape for taking photographs, painting, or just relaxing and reading a great book on the farmhouse porch. Families can also enjoy a covered dock for fishing or taking a journey down the St. Johns River from the park canoe/kayak launch.
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