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"Here is what I have learned from my adventures of the heart. Drugs are better than love. If there was a drug that had a comedown like love, you would never take it. Psst, take this. You'll feel fantastic for a while, then after the high has gone you'll feel like someone has plunged a broken shard of window pane repeatedly through your chest ……. I'm kidding, if you see a chance for love then go for it . Throw everything you have at it like you're a fool. Life without love is wilderness" Frankie Boyle
February, the most pointless month of the year, a final purgatory before the arrival of spring and the fresh impetus of hope it brings. There is also that dreaded day to confront on February 14 – Valentines Day. Even in January I see it being advertised as the corporate machine seeks to milk the theme that for one day we are obliged to make a visible declaration of romantic interest.
A lot of people profess total indifference to the day, but I wonder if beneath this veneer whether a lot of anguish resides. It's a bit like New Years Eve in the sense that you are supposed to have a good time or be seen to be doing something. To me it's a situation which can really enforce a sense of isolation or bring back memories of a relationship in the past which then leaves you in a state of nothingness.
Charlie Brooker's excellent "Dawn of the Dumb" has a splendid piece regarding his (at the
time) long term singleton status. All his simple domestic failings are held up by others for his need to get a wife. I know that very shortly that people will ask me like they do every year as to what I have planned as well as the odd thread to drop me in it with someone. Then will come the rather pitying look and comment that surely one day I will want to settle down because everybody has to at some point. Then of course the next issue, and maybe if maybe I do care very deeply then there is the mental noise as to whether I should adopt a gung ho approach to make my full declaration of sincere attraction or simply ignore the day and pretend there are no intentions. A conundrum of the highest order and one which might make some people want to stay in bed for the day.
Brooker's piece is a fantastic dissection of the pitfalls in looking for love. He concludes that if
the world demands he must have a wife then can't he just be assigned one by the government. It saves the whole arduous process of looking for the right person and filling in the forms saves so much time. His musings of early 2007 in which he spells out his horror at partnership, marriage and parenthood have a certain significance now since his recent settling down with the beautiful Konnie Huq (child number one on the way !)
As an outsider and long term single man looking in, it does seem that we make love, the greatest experience of them all, a ridiculously complicated and negative affair. If I am being critical it's only because we could do this whole business so much better. Why one day a year to oblige in letting your special person know they are loved in some garish corporate exercise? Each day spent as a partnership is to be acknowledged and deeply revered. Similarly, internet dating. Please never swear at me again. I've seen friends from each gender plough headlong into the futile exercise of creating profiles, going on numerous dates with built up hopes to only see them cruelly dashed. My biggest loathing of the social media dating experience is the observation that net dating and it's ilk encourage people to build up their own identikit, ideal partner, tailored to their own likes and tastes. Gone is the deep connection, now it's a tick box exercise and unrealistic expectation – "He is lovely and we really get on but he doesn't have the same interests as me". Profile pictures are mercilessly viewed and dismissed with the possible love of your life being ruled out because of their hair colour. Mankind might be at the the cutting edge of technology but our mindsets are as primitive now as they were 2000 years ago.
If you are lucky to find love then people are seemingly intent on making the experience as difficult as possible. Call me naive or ridiculously optimistic, but once that connection exists, there is nothing else to worry about. There is a worrying down heartedness too when things go wrong, the return to the soul crushing status quo of our daily lives is accepted too easily as we renounce our dreams and aspirations to experience something so pure and liberating. People become embittered and pretend outwardly how brave they are in resisting the chance from then on to go forward and achieve what they secretly yearn for.
Then there is the settling for second best, going off with anyone, they are not the love of our life, but hey they are stable and there is nothing worse than being alone. Drudgery has won and I'll stand by my view that selling out for not quite the best is inherently wrong.
I'll let you decide if I am deluded, overly optimistic and innocent. Maybe that is why I am on my own and unfussed about it. It's just because I love who a person 'is'
and the aim would be for them to know that they are amazing enough to go out every day to achieve anything. It's about encouraging a certain freedom so someone knows they are loved and that you are happy at anything that makes them feel at peace with the world. And as I said before, once you have that connection, nothing else matters at all.


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So, this month, I'm finding myself staring at the TV in a blank gaze watching college kids play basketball and having no interest what-so-ever in who the victor will be. My boyfriend however, has watched just about every March Madness game so far and, while he's created no bracket, is very passionate about the outcome of each game, hypothesizing on who will take the Championship. So, here's some advice for other gals like me that I will be practicing myself.
1. Don't try to pretend like you care when you really don't. The most annoying this (to me) is a girl who pretends to care about sports and has no clue what she is talking about. You know the type, you see them at Easton wearing OSU jerseys while the game is on. Be honest with him; let him know that while you don't know much about college basketball, you would like to watch a game with him and learn about it. He will be flattered that you are doing something you may not love for him, and will be impressed with you thirst for knowledge.
2. Make a "friendly" bet. As you two sit down to watch the game, ask if he wants to make a little wager on the outcome. Who ever loses gives the other person a foot rub or pays for the movie this weekend.
3. Throw a private party. The Sweet 16 games (look at me, dropping terms and all) start on the March 25. Throw a private party for the two of you and maybe another couple, to watch the games together. Order a Tailgate Dinner from Cane's and bake some cupcakes iced in the colors of the teams participating. Send out Evites to him and anyone else you want to invite. Make it a big deal, this will show your commitment to taking an interest in something he enjoys.
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Manhattan Symphonie (Legacy/Columbia 93581)
Dexter Gordon (tenor sax), George Cables (piano), Rufus Reid (bass), Eddie Gladden (drums).
Composed by Herman Hupfield.
Recorded: New York, May 1, 1978
Rating: 95/100 (learn more)
After a long expatriation, Dexter Gordon came home during the height of 1970s fusion confusion, and helped restore jazz to its senses. Forget the electrified gimmickry of Varitones and Echoplexes; all Dexter needed was an acoustic backup trio and his trusty tenor sax. Plus, of course, an unforgettable standard. Bogie, nursing a drink and broken heart in Casablanca (1942), muttered through gritted teeth, "If she can take it, I can take it." But Dexter, the ever-superior balladeer, makes us adore this tune even sober. "Moonlight and love songs," goes the lyric, are "never out of date." Nor is Dexter Gordon.
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Appellate E-filing Request for Proposals - RFP 15-1001
The objective of this RFP is to acquire and implement an electronic court filing (e-filing) software solution that satisfies the Tennessee appellate courts' requirements for a commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) software package or licensed service. The electronic filing system will permit court case participants to use the Internet to file permitted documents in appellate cases. The system will provide the ability for appellate staff review and approval. For approved filings, the information and documentation contained in the electronic filing will be populated to the court case management system. E-mail integration is critical. The initial scope of the e-filing system will include initial and subsequent filings in appellate cases. In the future, the e-filing system may be expanded to include trial court case filings. The electronic filing system should have proven capability in appellate and trial courts.
The RFP and Pro Forma Contract and the Exhibits are linked below:
ATTACHMENT 6.6 - Pro Forma Contract
Exhibit A - Court System Structure
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Access and Visitation Grant Self-Represented Litigants Initiatives
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The grants shall be for the time period of October 1, 2015 through September 30, 2016. The Administrative Office of the Courts expects to offer funding as long as revenue continues. Not for profit entities are encouraged to apply.
Access and Visitation Programs (October 2015-September 2016)
An application for the grant funds can be found below. Applicants must provide letters of support from their local courts.
Access and Visitation Grant Application
Applications for funding must be in the AOC offices by 4:30 p.m. on Friday, August 7, 2015. Applications may be submitted in writing by standard mail or fax to the address below, or be emailed to Claudia M. Lewis at email@example.com. Notification of grant awards will be sent on or about Friday, August 28, 2015.
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Substance Abuse Grant
Under a grant from the State Justice Institute (SJI-01-N-210-C03-1), the National Center for State Courts Institute for Court Management, in collaboration with the American Judges Association, is pleased to provide judges access to an online course on Substance Abuse.
This course explores the nature of alcohol and other drug abuse as well as the dynamics of recovery in the court context. It is intended as a primer for judges who handle all types of case. Its goal is to encourage judges in all types of courts to share current information and work with experts in other disciplines to develop new systematic approaches to address this large and challenging court population. The course was created using "WebCT" instructional software and requires users to enroll prior to accessing course content and materials. The enrollment process requires participants to provide a full name, email address and phone number.
ICM is also asking participants to identify their court organization and position/title for course demographic purposes. Upon enrollment in the course participants are able to navigate the course at their own pace in an individualized setting in a secured environment.
To access the course, please go to the National Center for State Courts Institute for Court Management "Free Resources" website.
Select the Judicial Education on Substance Abuse course. You will be directed to an enrollment page where you will be required to complete the registration form and click on the submit button once completed. An email response will be returned to you within 48 hours with a user name and password. Follow the enrollment instructions to access the course.
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This Educational Curriculum was prepared with the support of a grant from the State Justice Institute (SJI-01-N-063). Points of view expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official position or policies of the State Justice Institute.
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Abolish Tax Exemption,
Aid To Religious Charities
From: "John"
To: "Positive Atheism Magazine"
Date: August 11, 2001 2:01 AM
Dear Cliff,
Your website is excellent, but may I point out two more important aspect of organised religion your organization should oppose?
The United Nations and secular governments should not finance international aid programs provided by religious bodies, every year the UN and US government give hundreds of millions of dollars to a host of religious operated organisations to provide aid to the Third World or disaster areas. This should be stopped as they're merely a front for missionary actives which degrade local cultures and religious practices to shove their own down their throats, I have lost count of all the cases I've read about where vulnerable people were forced to wait while resources were wasted building temples which recipients had to pray in to get aid or shelter.
In India, Christian religious sects openly demand Hindu people convert to Christianity before they get any help at all, many convert for the food and clothing, then return to being Hindu when they've received all they can. It's a disgusting display of western cultural imperialism, financed by secular states.
Look at the misery which "missionaries" leave in their wake, in Africa -- South America and the South Pacific Islands where centuries of belittling ancient indigenous cultures to adopt alien western ways has resulted in societal breakdowns, drugs, alcoholism, etc. However this "missionary" mentality continues on a grander scale today because it is bank rolled by secular society, they also target children through a host of Christian "sponsorship" programs where they are taught English and indoctrinated into Christianity as part of their "education" it should be opposed! There are ample secular aid providers and they should be given contracts NOT religious sects.
The tax exempt status of organized religion should be abolished world wide, they are the worlds richest institutions with trillions of dollars in wealth and assets, this fact makes it increasingly difficult if not impossible to fight their negative influence as they have the means to buy and sell politicians and influence public opinion.
The abolition of the tax exempt system which enables them to amass fantastic amounts of money playing the stock market, owning banks -- multi-national corporations -- radio & TV stations, etc, should be the Number One Priority to abolish. Take the money out of religion and you break the spine of ignorance, then and only then will logic make inroads, as contributions from the faithful alone won't sustain most churches in the way they're accustomed to.
It's money which fuels religious growth and fundamentalism, I live in Australia and we are all alarmed at the spread of Islam in South East Asia. The cashed up Islamic denominations in the Middle East spend billions "spreading their word" in Asia. Building mosques and providing aid to peasants to convert them to Islam, it is the fastest growing religion in Asia. Malaysia and Indonesia are both Muslim now and Islamic fundamentalists are trying to introduce Islamic legal codes, the Philippines are now being targeted and Muslim separatists financed.
Like Christian sects Islamic ones are big investors, they play the market and make a tax free fortune too, the only way to stop the infectious spread of religion is to deprive it off its power-base -- money! Anything else we do is whistling in the wind, preaching to the converted, you must take it to the street. Highlight the tax payer funded swindle more publicly, without showing your anti religious base lobby tax payer and business associations to lobby governments to abolish the tax exemption of organized religion. It's the only way, "money talks and bullshit walks" as we say in Australia.
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I like wine bars. I wish there were more of them around when I was single and had the energy to go out and spend hours on the town with friends. These days I don't get to visit many, thanks to the crazy day job and the little one at home. But if I do end up having a drink after work, chances are, you'll find me at a local San Francisco wine bar, with several glasses in front of me.
Right now, however, the wine bar I want to visit most in the world is in Moscow.
Why? Because I've never seen a wine bar that has a better selection of wines by the glass. Anywhere.
My friend Bert Celce went to Russia recently, and wrote an article about it, but I didn't notice the wine list until my friend Jack who runs the web site Fork and Bottle sent me a note about it being, well, the best wine bar in the Universe.
If you're a wine lover, take a gander at this list, and what you can get by the glass. (I've run the list through Google translate so some of the text on the side is in English). The prices range from moderate ($12 a glass) to pricey ($96 a glass), but the selection of more than 200 wines is purely unbelievable.
Here are a few highlights:
NV Jacques Selosse Blanc de Blancs "Initial" Brut Champagne, France
2002 Louis Roederer Cristal Champagne, France
1997 Diebolt-Vallois Brut Blanc de Blancs Champagne, France
1991 Philipponnat Sublime Reserve Demi-Sec Champagne, France
2007 Bellavista Franciacorta "Curtefranca", Italy
1994 Pascal Bouchard Chablis Grand Cru "Vaudesir", Burgundy, France
2003 Vincent Girardin Corton-Charlemagne Grand Cru Burgundy, France
1996 Domaine Antonin Guyon Meursault Premier Cru "Le Charmes Dessus" Burgundy, France
2001 M. Chapoutier Hermitage Blanc 'Shante-Alouette' Rhone, France
2004 Didier Dagueneau Pouilly-Fume 'Pur Sang', Loire, France
2003 Nicolas Joly Coulee de Serrant, Loire, France
2004 Miani Sauvignon Blanc, Friuli, Italy
2001 Valentini Trebbiano D'Abruzzo, Italy
2000 Benanti Pietramarina, Sicily
2002 Weingut Brundlmayer Riesling 'Alte Reben' Zobinger Heiligenstein, Germany
2001 Giaconda "Nantua les Deux" Chardonnay, Australia
1996 Chateau Beausejour-Becot. St. Emilion, Bordeaux, France
1996 Domaine de L'Eglise Bordeaux, France
2000 Chateau Calon Saint-Emilion, Bordeaux, France
2005 Domaine du Pégaü Châteauneuf-du-Pape "Cuvée Réservée", Rhone, France
2002 Nicolas Potel Clos de Vougeot Grand Cru Burgundy, France
1996 J. Raphet Clos de Vougeot Grand Cru Burgundy, France
1998 Faiveley Corton Clos de Cortons Burgundy, France
2001 J. Grivot Vosne-Romanee Burgundy, France
1992 Chapoutier Hermitage Le Pavillon, Rhone, France
2000 Poggio di Sotto Brunello di Montalcino, Italy
1998 Cerbaiona Brunello di Montalcino, Italy
1999 Feudi di San Gregorio Serpico, Campania, Italy
1994 Ornellaia Masseto, Toscana, Italy
2005 Prunotto Barolo "Bussia," Piedmont, Italy
1998 Masi Amarone della Valpolicella, Compolongo di Torbe, Italy
2000 Masciarelli Montepulciano D'Abruzzo Villa Gemma, Italy
2003 Jermann Pignacolusse, Friuli, Italy
1997 J. Drouhin Pinot Noir "Lauren," Oregon
2003 A. Palacios Les Terrasses, Priorat, Spain
1999 Vina Mayor Secreto Reserva, Ribera del Duero, Spain
I'd call any wine bar that had even half of these wines by-the-glass a world-class destination. Granted, the list is a little weak when it comes to California, Spain, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, and Austria and Germany. But it's all relative. And yes, paying $55 a glass for a 2005 Prunotto Barolo is a bit excessive. But the point is that you can if you want to.
Read about my friend Bert's visit there.
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Wales is an upland country where hills, mountains and moorlands dominate the rural scene. Overall, 40 per cent of the total land mass lies above the 250-metre contour, but this rises to almost 70 per cent in north-west Wales.
The uplands are diverse in character and display marked regional contrasts: for example, the long fingers of high ground separating the densely populated South Wales valleys; the steep scarp face of the Brecon Beacons; the rolling moorland of the Cambrian Mountains; and the craggy summits of Snowdonia.
Types of Upland
Despite their local distinctiveness they all have certain things in common. Much of the uplands is enclosed farmland, but more notable are the large areas of rough grazing, open moorland and blanket bog which lie beyond and sometimes around the farmland.
The Limits of Farming
Today, the uplands lie at the very limits of farming and settlement, and they are economically marginal and under-populated. We know that this was not always the case. People have lived, worked and farmed in these hills and mountains for at least the last 9000 years, modifying the landscape and leaving behind remains of their activities. A lack of intensive agriculture in recent centuries means that the uplands are home to a remarkable series of archaeological sites and landscapes dating from the earliest times to the most recent past. Unlike similar sites in lowland settings, these have often never been ploughed or disturbed, leaving fossilised landscapes rich in remains of all periods. In addition, there are widespread deposits of peat containing valuable botanical data which tell the story of the human impact on the environment. The uplands seem remote compared to the more populated lowlands, and this gives the impression that they are a detached wilderness, separate from the broader landscape. In fact, there were always physical and economic links, and the nature of those links and how they changed through time is of interest to us.
Relict Sites in the Uplands
The Uplands Archaeology Initiative project was set up to promote a deeper and wider understanding of the uplands and their role in the history of Wales, through programmes of exploratory survey, research and publication. For a hundred years or more archaeologists and antiquarians have been wandering the hills discovering the more obvious prehistoric and Roman remains that interested them, such as burial mounds and forts. It is only since the start of the project in the early 1990s that archaeologists have been funded by the Royal Commission to walk upland landscapes systematically at parallel intervals of 30-50 metres. The integrated methodology of ground searching and air photo mapping National Projects has led to a vast increase (eight- to eleven-fold) in the number of registered archaeological sites in the areas explored. This in turn has revolutionised perceptions of the type and density of remains, emphasising the complex history of human activity on high ground.
Even though there have been close physical and economic links between uplands and lowlands throughout history, the land-use contrast between the two is striking. The reasons are complex, involving both the natural processes which created and conditioned the landforms in the first place and the history of human activity specific to each area. A key ingredient in the story is climate and, perhaps more importantly, climate change.
The familiar picture of mist-shrouded uplands above clearer lowlands reflects not simply localised weather but a very real climatic difference, resulting from Britain's geographical position. In an oceanic climate the weather components change very sharply with elevation. Most of them, such as rainfall and wind speed,, increase, but temperature falls with altitude. This so-called 'lapse rate', between 6 and 10 degrees Celsius per kilometre rise, is particularly steep in Wales. There are several consequences of this phenomenon. Perhaps the most important is a shorter growing season at altitude, a big disincentive to permanent settlement on high ground even where other factors are beneficial. However, there were certain times, for example in the Medieval period, when improving climate favoured settlement on high ground. Continental-type climates are more stable and conditions at altitude, at least in summer, are more congenial. Temperature inversions occur when cold air sinks to lower ground, leaving the high ground warmer. These are now quite rare but are more frequent in continental climates. The growing season at these times was still short but it was intense enough for successful cultivation, and this attracted upland settlement. Episodes like this were often followed by changes in land-use, and even retreat to the lowlands, when the climate once again deteriorated and the relative effects of topography reasserted themselves.
A Fragile Environment
An important outcome of the climate contrast with elevation is that the uplands are environmentally more sensitive than the lowlands. Normal processes of erosion are intensified by lower temperatures and higher rainfall. This makes moorlands naturally unstable places and influences the character of the landscape. Even brief episodes of human intervention can unsettle delicate balances and have long-lasting consequences.
Limestone is characterised by its permeability to water, so it offers graphic illustrations of upland instability. The limestone country above Abercrave in the upper Swansea Valley is a good example. The most visible features are naturally formed solution hollows, or 'shake-holes'. This effect occurs in limestone on lower ground but not to the same extent. Numerous archaeological features lie around these holes and many have been undermined by them. Field walls have tumbled into some, tramroad causeways, serving industrial workings, have subsided into others, and a prehistoric stone row is perched on the lip of one. In some cases shake-holes have been used as boundary features, and the base of one even supports the remains of an early circular building. This is an extreme example to show how intricate landscapes can be when natural forces and human activity coincide. The results of this interaction vary across the landscape and contribute to the diversity we see around us.
After the Ice Age
People have been visiting the uplands since the early stages of climatic warming after the end of the Ice Age. The uplands were attractive to Mesolithic groups who followed migrating herds of large herbivores onto less densely wooded high ground. The presence of these hunter-gatherers has been detected at altitude across Wales. Waun-fignen-felen is a former lake basin, now a peat bog, located four kilometres south of Llyn y Fan Fach, near Craig y Nos. Artefacts of Mesolithic type were discovered around the margins of the basin, which was first visited more than 9000 years ago. No structural remains were found, but pollen evidence from peat showed human interference with the local vegetation. Fire may have been used to create a leafier browse which supported greater numbers of game animals. Waterfowl and migratory birds would have been attracted to the lake basin, which may also have been a source of fish before it began to dry up. Hazel nuts were found in associated deposits, their gathering another indicator of the value of the site. This kind of evidence accords with a model of seasonal use in which summer activity at upland places was part of an annual round which included the use of coastal and estuarine resources and perhaps also intermediate lowland sites at other times. Seasonal and episodic use of high altitude locations is a recurring theme in the land-use history of upland Wales.
Settlement in Later Prehistory
Pollen analysis of peat cores, supported by radiocarbon dates, has shown that vegetation change caused by human interference continued in the uplands of Wales during the Neolithic period. However, it is not until the later Neolithic and the start of the Bronze Age, about 4,500 years ago, that more intensive patterns of land- use are detected. Clearance horizons and agricultural episodes of varying intensity show the expansion of farming and settlement into previously under-exploited areas. This was perhaps in response to rising population at a time when improving climate made the uplands more amenable to permanent settlement.
The foundations of circular houses, known as 'hut circles', are the main indicator of this early settlement. Snowdonia is particularly well-endowed with them, but new discoveries are being made elsewhere in Wales as survey proceeds across the country. Often associated with these buildings is physical evidence for farming. This takes the form of old field walls, now linear spreads of stone rubble, and stone heaps, or 'clearance cairns', of irregular size and shape, often in large numbers, the result of stone removal prior to cultivation. Remains like these are widespread in the Welsh uplands and, although few independent dates are available for them, they are believed to belong, at least in part, to the earlier Bronze Age.
Sacred Places
Bronze Age ritual and burial sites are amongst the best known upland monuments. Barrows, cairns and stone settings of different types are to be found across Wales, but they are often best preserved in the uplands. Their appearance in the landscape coincides with the start of more intensive land-use activity detected in the upland pollen record. Extensive searching in recent years has led to some interesting findings. Several stone circles have been discovered. As so few of these monuments are located in Wales, new finds are especially important.
Burial and ritual monuments often appear in large numbers in distinct localities without any nearby evidence for contemporary settlement, leaving the problem of where the builders lived. Comprehensive searching allows us to make some sense of this. Ruabon Mountain, near Wrexham, is mostly heather moor. Its westerly scarp is defined by limestone crags and most of the prehistoric cairns are located there, possibly to ensure their visibility from lower ground. The interior of the mountain contains far fewer cairns and no farming or settlement evidence has been found, although this may be due to early sites lying beneath the blanket peat that has developed over the mountain. On Mynydd Hiraethog, the Denbigh Moors, there is a similar over-emphasis on funerary and ritual monuments like large cairns, stone rows and ring cairns. Often these survive on improved land adjacent to moorland, but again no traces of early farming and settlement were found. Both mountains are surrounded by large tracts of agriculturally viable lowland, which was perhaps sufficiently extensive for early settlement without the need to expand onto nearby upland. This left the mountains free for other uses. Similar locations elsewhere in Britain have been described as 'sacred mountains', set aside in prehistory for burial and ceremonial purposes.
The Moorland Fringe
It is on the moorland fringe that some of the most detailed and complex remains of human activity in the uplands are to be found. The interface between moorland and improved pasture has not always remained static; in some locations it has expanded and contracted, back and forth, over centuries. Enclosures on this fringe constitute land which is finely balanced at the margins of profitability. Sensitive to small economic or structural changes, they move in and out of use repeatedly as conditions change. Economically, this is the 'marginal' zone. Some locations with a long history of intermittent use display the layered remains of successive occupations, as at Is-mynydd in Dyffryn Ardudwy, south of Harlech. Although the land is currently farmed, its use for pasture has allowed evidence for previous episodes of activity to survive.
Medieval Expansion
There is widespread evidence for intensive activity in the uplands during the Medieval period, with permanent settlement suggested by cultivation remains. These findings are believed to reflect a renewed phase of expansion onto more marginal land during the climatic optimum of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. The main indicator of this activity is the so-called 'platform settlement'. The long platform, the recognised type site for Medieval upland settlement, comprises a level area cut into rising ground and projecting outwards from the slope. They originally supported rectangular buildings, the low foundations of which are sometimes visible. They are widely distributed across the uplands, often in considerable numbers and not always associated with traces of cultivation.
A platform group in the Berwyns above Llandrillo lies close to strip fields, long narrow enclosures formerly subdivisions of larger ones. They contain direct evidence for arable husbandry in the form of broad cultivation ridges and extensive lynchets, ridges or ledges formed by ploughing on a slope. Elsewhere, platforms are found with clearance cairns.
Although remains like these have been found across Wales in favoured locations, the character and distribution of upland land-use at this time was influenced by non-economic factors which affected the landscape unevenly. Anglo-Norman lords established large hunting reserves which were often in upland areas, and activity there was strictly regulated. From the twelfth century Cistercian foundations were granted extensive tracts of remote moorland, primarily, but not only, for animal husbandry, with arable cultivation focused on lowland granges.
The stone foundations of linear buildings, usually referred to as long-huts, are widely found in the uplands. Ground searching has revealed large numbers, often in strong local concentrations with ancillary structures. These buildings are amongst the most frequently encountered monument types. So widespread are they that their absence is noteworthy. Their dating is uncertain. Lowland versions have given dates from the thirteenth to the eighteenth centuries. They are usually interpreted as summer dwellings in use as part of the 'hafod', or transhumance, economy. There is documentary evidence for seasonal occupation of Welsh uplands in the sixteenth century and for the use of summer dairies. However, seasonal activity is unlikely to apply in every case and a range of different uses must be imagined.
Long-huts have a variety of ground plans and in some cases are sufficiently large and detailed to suggest accommodation shared with animals, rather like the lowland longhouse. Other buildings were perhaps barns for mountain hay. Often they are accompanied by a range of small enclosures, circular, semi-circular and square. Most were probably animal pens. The small circular structures are believed to be folds for geese or pigs, though some may have been used as cold stores for dairy products. Clusters of buildings are very common and sometimes give the impression of entire communities moving onto higher ground for the summer. The presence of small cairns in some cases indicates the cultivation of garden plots close to buildings. Some nearby 'shelters', cut into the slope, are interpreted as root stores. Some of these habitations eventually became permanent, mainly on good land close to existing farmland. When they became part of the modern enclosure pattern, the 'hafod' place-name element often remained in use and can be seen today in farm names across Wales.
Industrial Wealth
The most numerous site types discovered in the uplands are related to industrial activity. In addition to mountain pasture, the uplands have always offered a range of resources that could be harvested, such as ferns, gorse, peat and kindling. With the exception of peat, their use leaves no obvious trace. It is in the exploitation of other upland resources, specifically their rich mineral content, that extraction takes on a very different significance. Mineral exploitation has produced the most striking man-made features in the upland landscape.
Coal mines, their associated iron-mines, chiefly a feature of lowland areas of south and south-east Wales, and the slate quarrying landscapes of north Wales are well known and some are of international importance. These industries are localised in their occurrence, but non-ferrous metal ores are found throughout Wales and traces of their exploitation are widespread. Their extraction was especially prevalent in the uplands, where 75 per cent of known mines lie within the 200 metres-400 metres zone, others extending to as high as 770 metres. The sheer intensity of this mining is remarkable. On Halkyn Mountain in Flintshire, one of the most important lead and zinc ore fields of Wales, the mines contain some 4,500 individual shafts and adits. The most significant discovery of the last few years has been the great age of many of these workings. Of those mines which show evidence for early activity more than half lie in the uplands. In north Ceredigion metal-mining sites are the predominant upland site type. The distinctive Copa Hill landscape near Cwmystwyth, shown here, has been well studied through systematic survey and partial excavation. The entire complex spans about 4000 years, from the very beginning of the metal-working period. Most of the linear features visible there are water channels connected with a process known as 'hushing', the periodic release of stored water to remove topsoil and reveal mineral-bearing strata. As a method of mining it was far more extensively used than previously realised, and over a much longer period.
Where can I find out more about the uplands of Wales?
Regional summaries of the results which emerged from The First Ten Years of the Uplands Archaeology Initiative are available. A review of the first decade of the project was published in 2003. The book, The Archaeology of the Welsh Uplands, indicates the scope of this ambitious survey programme at its halfway stage. It includes period summaries, case studies, a glossary of site types and an extensive bibliography. A large survey in the Brecon Beacons, Mynydd Du and Fforest Fawr: The Evolution of an Upland Landscape, by David Leighton (published by the Royal Commission in 1997) explains much about upland archaeology. Reports on the archaeology of selected areas, regional overviews, and detailed project archives and photographs (from 1998 onwards) are held in the National Monuments Record of Wales. Site information, accompanied by digital images, can be accessed through Coflein. Information is also available from the regional Sites and Monuments Records held by the Welsh Archaeological Trusts.


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More than 20 children in the borough still have no primary school to go to in September.
Kingston Council said six per cent of children failed to get into any of their preferred schools when they were handed out in April this year.
Since then the authority has received 51 new applications, some were offered a place, but 22 children currently have no offer.
The situation could leave anxious parents waiting until the first day of school term to find out where their child will be educated, which councillor Andrea Craig said was very worrying.
She said: "My issue is its extremely stressful for the parents without places waiting with trepidation to find out where their kid may go because they are given no choice.
"They have no control over the process which doesn't feel right."
Kingston's executive member for education, Councillor Liz Green said she understood parents' concern but said the figure was not alarming and urged people not to worry.
She said: "We are still in the shift around period. It's a worrying time if you haven't got a space allocated for the parents. But in the big picture we do know spaces will become available.
"Unfortunately that might be right up to the first day of school."
In neighbouring Richmond 24 children are yet to be offered a school place but a Richmond Council spokesman said they hoped they would be placed within the next few weeks.
Meanwhile more than 19 Kingston parents are currently going through the appeal process in a bid to secure their preferred choice of school.
Mother of two, Jess Deverson, is hoping to secure a school place for her four-year-old daughter Daisy, after failing to get any of their preferences and declining an offer to Kings Oak Primary in New Malden.
The 35-year-old teacher from Norbiton said: "Whether we will have any luck I don't know. If we are not successful I dread to think what we will do, really it's a desperate situation.
"We want the best for our daughter, as everyone does."
Hundreds of Kingston pupils will be joining schools with bulging classes that have been educated in temporary classrooms after the council was hit by a rising birth rate and fall in pupils in private schools since 2008.


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|Cobra Adds Experience to Roster
MOSCOW, Idaho—Emmie Marx, who last played collegiately at Illinois State, has signed a scholarship agreement to play with the Vandal women's tennis team this fall, head coach Mariana Cobra announced on Tuesday.
"Emmie is a very talented, hard-working player," Cobra said. "She will make a huge impact on our program on and off the court. She has an all court game which will impact the top of our singles and doubles line up. I am thrilled to have her join us."
Marx, a native of Mossel Bay, South Africa, attended Illinois State from 2011-13. Her freshman season was spent playing in the No. 2 position where she finished with a 14-9 overall record. In doubles play she recorded a 4-4 record in the first position. Marx was named to the Missouri Valley Conference 2012 All-Select Team.
As a sophomore, Marx recorded an 11-7 record in singles play, including a 4-2 record at the No. 1 position. She and her doubles partner finished 6-2 overall.
Marx, who will study cellular biology, becomes the third senior on the 2014-15 roster, joining veterans Sophie Vickers and Beatriz Flores.


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The One Move I Couldn't Do
Patagonia Climbing ambassador Nico Favresse headed to Baffin last year with fellow ambassador Sean Villanueva O'Driscoll to see what they could see - maybe climb a few things. They returned with killer images and a sack full of first ascents and notable repeats of huge granite lines in a landscape seldom visited and even more rarely climbed (original post here).
As a follow-up to the trip, Nico dropped this nugget in our inbox - an account of his attempts to free one of the more rugged climbs: The Belgarian (5.13 A1, 850m) on the west face of Mount Asgard's South Tower. The climb was completed in 11 days, big wall style, with one aid move. Our palms are already sweaty after checking out this trailer for their movie, "Asgard Jamming." Nico's essay gives us a better idea of the wrestling match that went into that one move standing between him and freeing the route. Read on for the report and pick up a copy of the full film online at www.nicolasfavresse.com or www.xpedition.be
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I have been blocked here already for at least one hour, hanging on the very tip of the sharp end at more than 600 meters from the glacier. I am looking for any weakness of the rock. Maybe it will go here, and if not maybe I can lower and join another crack system by traversing on the face. Here where I am it's hard, that's for sure! But my instinct tells me there is something; a possibility is hiding behind these microscopic crimps. I analyze the sequence, imagine a solution and here I am going for it again. My fingers crimp with all its strength and I throw myself again at it hoping to have some kind of new sensation… GGGRRRRR!! I dyno, I see the hold, it's getting closer then… It's going away again, I fall... the nut holds.


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It certainly appeared that Air Force and Canisius were headed to overtime in their Atlantic Hockey quarterfinal series opening game at Cadet Ice Arena. After all, that's what these two teams do. Five of the past ten meetings between the schools had ended in ties. So when Air Force's Tony Thomas redirected a Dan Weissenhofer slap shot past Canisius goalie Tony Capobianco with 1:08 remaining, it looked like extra hockey was in the offing.
Thomas's goal was short-handed, but came with an extra attacker, as Falcon goalie Jason Torf had been pulled, already for the second time. Unfortunately for the Falcons, Canisius still had plenty of time on their power play, and Kyle Gibbons found an open net from low in the left circle with ten seconds left for the winner, giving the Golden Griffins a 4-3 victory and a leg up in the series. Gibbons goal came after Mitch McCrank's shot was tipped by Cody Freeman. The puck went right to Gibbons, and Torf had no chance at moving to his right in time to make a save.
"In the playoffs, if you chase scoreboards, especially against a good defensive team, it's usually not a good recipe," said Falcon head coach Frank Serratore, referring to the fact that Air Force never had a lead in the game. Canisius took a one-goal lead three times, but Air Force fought back to tie the score each time.
"He's not gonna let the first shot in, most times," Falcon winner Ryan Timar said of Capobianco, who is one of the better goalies in the conference. "So the key is to get rebounds." Which is how Kyle DeLaurell got the Falcons' first goal, scoring off a rebound of a Cole Gunner shot at 6:36 of the second period. Stephen Carew tied the game again later in the period by sweeping around the Canisius defense and beating Capobianco between the pads.
In the third, Patrick Sullivan score his second goal of the night, and the first power play goal for the Griffins, in a scramble in front of the net. Sullivan was credited with an unassisted goal when it was determined that the Falcons' Thomas actually tipped the puck into the net. That set the stage for the mental roller coaster of the last two minutes.
"We can't really describe it in words. So high, so low," said Timar. "We have to tighten some things up, especially in the defensive end. They got two power play goals, so we gotta figure that out, too."
Game two of the best-of-three series is tonight at 7 pm. Since joining Atlantic Hockey in 2006, Air Force has lost just one elimination game in the playoffs. That came in a semifinal loss to Sacred Heart in 2010. The Falcons will now need to win two straight to earn a seventh consecutive trip to the conference final four.
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Colorado College also fell behind one game to none in their first round WCHA playoff series. The Tigers dropped a 5-3 decision in Denver. Game two of that series will be a 7 pm at Magness Arena in Denver.


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If you can't make it in person, you can listen live at http://player.tritonmedia.com/entercom/WWEIFM or on your mobile device by downloading the TuneIn App and going to 105.5 FM WEEI.
Tonight's special guests will be kicker Brendan Levengood, punter Colter Johnson and defensive tackle Galen Clemons. Send in a question to be answered on the air at http://www.umassathletics.com/ot/ask-coach.html or Tweet your question to @UMassSportsNet.


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College Hockey:2002-03 Northeastern Season Preview
The Huskies appeared poised to take home ice last year until dropping four of the last five games in the regular season, falling to fifth. Even with significant graduation losses, Northeastern remains within striking range of achieving that goal this time.
Unlike the past few years, the goaltending looks solid and could even be among the league's best. Keni Gibson carried the Huskies for long stretches until he either wore down or suffered a crisis of confidence following Northeastern's tough loss to BU in the Beanpot title game. (Prior to that marquee contest, he'd posted a 13-4-1 record, allowing as many as four goals only twice; from that point on, however, he surrendered four or five goals in all but one of the final seven games, all but one of them losses.)
Coach Bruce Crowder dismisses the possibility of anything but fatigue. "Kenny ran out of steam. Looking back, as a coaching staff we should have given him some nights off here and there. But you get into the heart of the season and every game becomes so important and you're trying to get home ice. I think the coaches learned as much about it as the player did. He came in in great shape this year and we expect him to be the guy for us again."
Mike Gilhooly, who played in 25 or more games his first two seasons on Huntington Avenue, returns for his senior year as one backup, along with Tim Heneroty.
"Depth-wise and strength-wise this is probably the strongest we've been in goal since I've been at Northeastern," says Crowder.
Last season, All-America selection Jim Fahey helped bring along five freshman defensemen: Tim Judy, Jon Awe, Brian Nathe, Donny Grover and Jack Celata. With Fahey and Arik Engbrecht gone, that sophomore class will make or break the Husky blue line.
"You don't replace a Jimmy Fahey," says Crowder. "You've got to try to find ways to [take] what he did and maybe spread it [around]. It's an area where we're young. Extremely young. We don't have a senior defenseman.
"We have Brian Sullivan coming off a medical redshirt year. He's going to be a big question mark for us. We're hoping that he can add quite a bit to this defensive corps. Other than that, the rest are sophomores and one freshman in Chuckie Tomes. It's definitely an area where coaching-wise we'll have to spend a lot of time, continually working with them and [teaching them] what we want them to do with our system."
Up front, the Ryan-Guerriero connection will anchor an offense that will need the continued development of returning players as well as some freshmen making immediate contributions to offset the losses to graduation.
"We lost Chris Lynch, who was a 20 goals, 20 assists guy for us, and Willie Levesque," says Crowder. "But I like our forwards. A guy like Mikey Morris coming in will probably find himself with Mike Ryan and Guerriero. I think that's going to be a pretty good line for us. I think we're going to see a better year out of a guy like Scottie Selig.
"Some of the role players we had last year have stepped it up. I thought [Jaron] Herriman came on at the end of last year. We expect him to continue moving in that direction. Eric Ortlip and Trevor Reschny are a couple guys who are going to bring leadership. I really like our forward position. I think we're going to be able to get some goals out of those guys."
While there are questions to be answered, there's reason for optimism on Huntington Avenue.
"I think we're a team that can be knocking on the door for home ice," says Crowder. "I really do. But we're a team that has to be hitting on all cylinders and guys have to be playing up to their level each and every time they step on the ice. That can make it happen.
"We fell short by three points last year to a veteran team in Lowell and then had to play them in the playoffs. Hopefully, all those experiences are going to help out a team that was loaded with freshmen last year. We're going to be young again. We only have three seniors. We've got 18 or 19 freshmen and sophomores in the locker room. [Our success will depend a lot] on how these freshmen that we've recruited come in and how quickly they step up and play like they're sophomores and juniors."
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First off, thanks to listener/reader Ron Fowler who pointed out to me that Justin Fargas was not ranked on the RB list from last night. This is what happens when you finish things late at night with Robot Chicken in the background.
My apologies. I will re update it HOWEVER I'll just lay it out here for you – and add a rerank on Tashard Choice. I would move him back to about 32/33 – the whole alleged Owens/Witten near-fight has me worried the Cowboys are imploding and Romo might pass a ton to try and placate everyone with or without Barber in. So I'm not hot on Choice – I mean even less than I was before. I know he had a good week last week. I get it. Just really worried about him this week.
I would plug Fargas in at about 30. He's good for yards against a bend but don't break run defense but as the Pats have given up only 7 TDs (4 to Ronnie Brown in one day and three the whole rest of the season) you can't depend upon getting one tomorrow. So figure between 60-80 yards (maybe a little more if the Raiders stay close) – a TD or somethign would be gravy.
Thanks again Ronald – good looking out.


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