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The requirement for Chaplains in the modern Navy is as great today as at any time in the past. The Ministry of Defence is recruiting Chaplains from the following Christian denominations:
The Church of England
The Church of Scotland and other Presbyterian Churches
The Roman Catholic Church
The Methodist Church
The Baptist Church
The Congregational Church
Elim Pentecostal Church
The Ministry of Defence has also recruited Civilian Chaplains to provide for the spiritual needs of its personnel who belong to Hindu, Buddhist, Muslim and Jewish faith groups.
Where will I be ministering?
At sea on a major warship
With the Royal Marines (male clergy)
In a training establishment, working with young people or reservists
At sea caring for a number of smaller ships
At a Naval Base with a large number of families, thousands of civilian workers and many ships alongside
With the Submarine Service (male clergy)
One of the exciting aspects of Naval Chaplaincy is the variety of appointments that you can have during the course of your time as a Chaplain RN. Whether you are appointed to a ship, a shore establishment, the Royal Marines, the Fleet Air Arm or attached to a Reserve Training Unit you will be part of a dynamic team of chaplains serving a highly committed and professional organisation.
Whether you are on military operations, at a social, conducting ceremonial duties or going away on adventurous training you will always need to maintain your role as an effective and thoughtful servant of the gospel. You will be ministering to a congregation who may have had little experience of church life. However, the military draws people together into a uniquely close-knit community and as a chaplain you will have much needed and respected role.
Whether at sea or ashore you will need to be "the friend and advisor to all". Using your befriending and counselling skills you will be required to be an advocate, teacher and mentor; as well as being a critical friend to the commanding officer.

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Big Crowd Sees Sioux Falls Skyforce Handle the Rio Grande Valley Vipers
A crowd of 3,380 filed into the Sanford Pentagon Friday night and saw the Sioux Falls Skyforce outgun the Rio Grande Valley Vipers 127-119.
On a second straight night, the home team had a 14 point lead and gave it up. This time a more aggressive offensive approach in the crucial quarter and measured tactics in the preceding three tipped the balance toward Sioux Falls (23-16). The Thursday night approach was to slow down and melt time away because fatigue was at hand. Coach Pat Delany made a conscious effort going into the Friday night rematch to substitute players a little more efficiently because of the heavy load borne in the double overtime loss. Thus when the game was tied at 100 with 9:14 left, the tank had fuel for the stretch run. Back cuts and fast breaks were available and well-executed on offense plus key defensive stops held the relentless Rio Grande Valley (26-12) attack at bay.
Houston Rockets assignee Robert Covington is a threat from anywhere and seemingly willed the Vipers back during a 14-point outburst in the third quarter. Covington finished with 27 points. The other Viper that confounds opposing defenses is former Los Angeles Clipper Maalik Wayns the shooter/slasher who hit for 24 points.
Henry Walker who is almost two years removed from the NBA grabbed the Alpha role in the scoring column for Sioux Falls with 29 points plus 10 boards. While rookies Larry Drew II (22 points, 12 assists) and A.J. Davis (20 points, 7 rebounds) make noise in the youth movement. For video confirmation of this written account see more in the clip including the elevated status of Anthony Mason, Jr.
Both teams will have Sunday road contests looming with playoff contenders. Rio Grande Valley will roll toward Des Moines to meet the Iowa Energy while Sioux Falls locks horns with the Canton Charge.


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Nobody in this thread picked the Hawks
Originally Posted by wiggins: the eastern conference is a joke compared to the west. there is only pittsburgh and even with them you need to worry about fleury
THAT'S a FACT, JACK!!! WHICH Marc-Andre Fleury SHOWS UP? "The Flower That Blooms in the Spring" OR "That's Not a Flower!!! That's a Little Skunk!!!"
the actor who played Bobby (Hill) played by Micheal Warren, he was actually a serious basketball player at ucla and could have gone to the nba but opted for the acting gig instead
not to turn this into the Movie & TV forum BUT Ed Marinaro, who played Officer Joe Coffey, was also a star athlete in college. was an All-American running back @ Cornell and runner-up to Pat Sullivan for the Heisman Trophy in 1971. went on to play in the NFL for six seasons before going into acting.
One guy from Florida picked the Hawks to win the cup in this thread. Just kinda funny seeing the people with all the confidence in them now in this forum
Btw I did pick Boston at the start of the season
What I should've said was every year we get these guys in here that never post (except for the playoffs) and they always start talking greasy as soon as the playoffs start.
It's these hit and runners on both sides (Boston and Chicago ) that I can't stand.
Anybody who has been around here long enough knows who the regular posters favourite teams are.
These regular guys post through thick and thin.
AND a VERY STINKY Skunk he was second year in a row!!!


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New Member Education
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To take the online Code of Ethics you must first set up an account with NAR. No credit card is needed and the Code of Ethics course is free. You'll need your NRDS number that will be e-mailed to you with your MLS user name and password after you've submitted your membership application, application fee and dues.
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Senses special: The art of seeing without sight
This is a fascinating story of a man who is blind since birth but can draw and 'see' just like sighted people. The author proposes that our senses are more plastic than previously thought -- what information we interpret from our senses really depends on which senses we engage.
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Battle Lessons
This is interesting account of the nature of decision making by US soldiers in Iraq. Specifically it is about the change in the nature of learning, from being reactive to being proactive.
[BEFORE] The Army had so loaded training schedules with doctrinaire requirements and standardized procedures that unit commanders had no time—or need—to think for themselves. The service was encouraging "reactive instead of proactive thought, compliance instead of creativity, and adherence instead of audacity," Wong wrote in his report. As one captain put it to him, "They're giving me the egg and telling me how to suck it...
[NOW] The younger officers have another advantage over their superiors: they grew up with the Internet, and have created for themselves, in their spare time, a means of sharing with one another, online, information that the Army does not control. The 'slackers' in the junior-officer corps are turning out to be just what the Army needs in the chaos of Iraq. Instead of looking up to the Army for instructions, they are teaching themselves how to fight the war. The Army, to its credit, stays out of their way."
[thanks blogkathleen]
instructional design Add tag Permalink | Friday, February 04, 2005
Educational Games Don't Have to Stink!
Nice article on the misconceptions that link gameplay to teaching:
My heretical view is simply this: computer games don't teach. I think the idea that you can teach using computer games is based on a flawed analogy between gameplay and learning. Here's how the analogy goes. Players of games have to overcome obstacles in order to achieve victory. They do this by learning the weaknesses, or limitations, of the opponents they face. Similarly, students learn knowledge in order to pass tests. So learning a fact is equivalent to defeating an enemy, and passing a test is equivalent to achieving victory. And a great many educational games are created this way. This is a terrible way of learning! Why? Because in playing a game, the instant an enemy is dead, we forget him. We are only concerned with him for as long as it takes to beat him.
In short, it's my belief that games don't teach, they illustrate. That's an important distinction. Games are not useless in the educational process, but they're not good at teaching per se. Games are good at creating understanding of knowledge the student already has. And they're excellent at transforming abstract ideas into concrete experience. Games don't teach, but they can help people learn.
Read the article for a list of suggestions for using games as teaching tools. [Caution: Irritating 'free' registration process awaits, if you are not a member already]. You can find more on gaming and learning here.
gaming Add tag Permalink | Thursday, February 03, 2005
Best Practices in E-learing
Stephen Downes points to this newsletter from the University of Calgary. Nice list of articles. But, where are the archives?
Add tag Permalink | Thursday, February 03, 2005
'Zero intelligence' trading closely mimics stock
This is so interesting:
A model that assumes stock market traders have zero intelligence has been found to mimic the behaviour of the London Stock Exchange very closely. However, the surprising result does not mean traders are actually just buying and selling at random, say researchers. Instead, it suggests that the movement of markets depend less on the strategic behaviour of traders and more on the structure and constraints of the trading system itself.
[thanks UI Designer]
Add tag Permalink | Wednesday, February 02, 2005
Folksonomies Tap People Power
More on folksonomies:
"It's very much people tagging information so that they can come back to it themselves or so that others with the same vocabulary can find it."
True, but how many have the 'same' vocabulary?
Add tag Permalink | Wednesday, February 02, 2005
Trees vs. Leaves
David Weinberger on the differences between the old way of classifying things (trees) and the new way of classifying things (leaves, a.k.a folksonomies):
"The old way — trees — make sense in controlled environments where ambiguity is dangerous and where thoroughness counts. Trees make less sense in the uncontrolled, connected world that cherishes ambiguity."
Add tag Permalink | Monday, January 31, 2005
How staff look for documents
James Robertson on how staff look for documents:
Observation of typical working environments has identified that there (at least) four different situations in which staff look for documents: known-item searching unknown-item searching own documents other people's documents...
- known-item searching
- unknown-item searching
- own documents
- other people's documents
From my own observation on information use in an engineering company, many project managers and engineers resorted to using documents stored on their PC as a starting point for creating project-specific templates and forms. These people have been working in this company for many years and in many different projects that they have created their own palette and find it easier to write out documents from this palette than to search for generic documents on the intranet. This process is much like what Stephen Johnson has written about in this NY Times piece called Tool for Thought. He writes about how new software is changing his writing process:
The raw material the software relies on is an archive of my writings and notes, plus a few thousand choice quotes from books I have read over the past decade: an archive, in other words, of all my old ideas, and the ideas that have influenced me. Having all this information available at my fingerprints does more than help me find my notes faster. Yes, when I'm trying to track down an article I wrote many years ago, it's now much easier to retrieve. But the qualitative change lies elsewhere: in finding documents I've forgotten about altogether, documents that I didn't know I was looking for.
Johnson's view here could help in designing more usable intranet structures for these kinds of people who have special combinatorial needs rather than simple search and use needs.
Add tag Permalink | Monday, January 31, 2005
Recombinant Innovation
Art Kleiner has written a review of Andrew Hargadon's new book, How Breakthroughs Happen: The Surprising Truth About How Companies Innovate. There are 'two innovation imperatives' in this book: connection and control. When it comes to connection, "entrepreneurs and inventors are no smarter, no more courageous, tenacious, or rebellious than the rest of us. They are simply better connected." And many of these connections are weak connections -- "Innovators don't benefit just from deep, intensive teamwork, but from casual connections that lead to chance encounters with unfamiliar ideas". But most organizations cannot tolerate this freewheeling connection between talent and disparate ideas; they have to bring it under control for "fear of being swept through in breakthrough wave". This is where the real problem lies. Read the article for examples of this type of control. [From Strategy+Business. Free registration required.]
innovation Add tag Permalink | Friday, January 28, 2005
How bosses reveal their attitudes towards employees
According to this EBF article, the behavior of bosses towards perceived underperforming employees can have a long lasting affect on them.
In the so-called Pygmalion studies over recent years, employees are randomly assigned to two groups and new supervisors are told that one group of employees has considerably greater potential than the other. The supervisor's false beliefs about the capabilities of the 'better' group produce real performance differences over time, suggesting that employees tend to adjust up or down to the expectations of their superiors. Further evidence comes from research into self-efficacy, which shows that when individual confidence is undermined, it reduces perseverance on difficult problems and recovery from set-backs.
Add tag Permalink | Friday, January 28, 2005
Uncovering Users In Your Own Organization
Interesting perspective this:
"There is a wealth of information at your fingertips in your own office, and surprisingly, some of it is usability-related. You can optimize your internal resources by understanding where and how you can find UI information about your users within your own company. To provide context and practical guidelines, this article presents examples of how to mine internal resources at a large enterprise software company."
Add tag Permalink | Thursday, January 27, 2005
What's the Problem?
This A List Apart article is about Use Cases and how they can be used to clarify project goals or requirements. I'm a big fan of use cases and constantly use them to communicate and guide my intranet designs. Software engineers regularly employ use cases to draw high-level conclusions but I find their implementation is a little too complex (activity diagrams, forward engineering and all). I draw out use cases to answer a few simple high-level questions: Who are the users and what will they accomplish. This article is about these very questions.
Add tag Permalink | Wednesday, January 26, 2005
Malcom Gladwell in a blink
Rashmi Sinha has a 2X2 that explains Gladwell's theme in Blink. According to her, Blink is more about rapid emotional decisions (e.g stereotyping a race, or group) than about rapid cognitive decisions (e.g. recognizing an art fake). Very nice. Surprising how a simple 2X2 simultaneously broadens and focuses the understanding. It not only tells you the place where Blink belongs, but also the places where it does not. Power of the 2X2 Matrix?
Add tag Permalink | Tuesday, January 25, 2005
The Problem with Jack-Of-All-Trades Intranets
Paul Chin writes a nice article on bloated intranets, or Jack-of-all-trades (JOATs):
"You need to know when to say enough is enough. Are you putting features into your system because users have a genuine need for them or are you putting them in because you're afraid of leaving something out? You should be developing your intranet to meet a business need, not to wow users with the its extensive list of features."
intranets Add tag Permalink | Tuesday, January 25, 2005
More tsunami infographics
Interactive Narratives has a list of tsunami infographics and multimedia specials.
infographics Add tag Permalink | Monday, January 24, 2005
Users Confuse Search Results, Ads
Now, isn't this surprising:
"Only one in six users of internet search engines can tell the difference between unbiased search results and paid advertisements, a new survey finds."
Add tag Permalink | Monday, January 24, 2005
Accessibility From The Ground UpThis is a nice primer on accessibility issues.
Add tag Permalink | Monday, January 24, 2005
social consequences of social tagging
Nice discussion on the pros and cons of folksonomies.
Add tag Permalink | Friday, January 21, 2005
How to write summaries for web and intranet pages, and why
Here's a nice list of the different types of summaries that one can write:
- The executive summary - summary: This is an executive summary, similar to the first sentence in a news story.
- The key message - summary: This type of summary conveys the single most important message on the page.
- The description - summary: The page description is probably the easiest option for the writer, if slightly dull for the reader. It faintly resembles the abstract that precedes an academic article.
- The instructions - summary: Sometimes it's easiest to just say when and how the page should be used.
instructional design Add tag Permalink | Friday, January 21, 2005
You're not studying, you're just…
Ravi Purushotma on how games can help in teaching languages. Check out this related BBC article too.
"This commentary examines how content originally designed for entertainment purposes can be modified to provide natural and context rich language learning environments, without sacrificing its entertainment value. First, I examine a modification to the number one selling video game The Simsthat intelligently combines game data from the English edition with data from editions of other languages to form a bilingual gaming environment. This exposes learners to abundant L2 vocabulary, yet still provides enough L1 support not to detract from the game. This principle is then extended to other applications such as music videos, typing tutors, and voice-navigated games. Finally, areas of otherwise wasted time are identified, such as waiting for Web pages to load or walking to class, with suggestions of how technology can facilitate language learning during these times."
Add tag Permalink | Friday, January 21, 2005
Management by Design
Richard Farson discusses the need for more design decisions in management.
"Have you ever noticed the difference between a meeting held at a long rectangular table and one held at a round table? The time spent, the agenda, and the participants may be exactly the same, but the meetings are completely different. The discussion at the round table is more informal, the leadership is shared, the communication more personal."
Add tag Permalink | Monday, January 17, 2005
Glossary of terms relating to thesauri and other forms of structured vocabulary
Here's a glossary of terms relating to thesauri, faceted classification and related topics.
Add tag Permalink | Monday, January 17, 2005
The Storytelling Problem
Malcolm Gladwell, in his new book Blink, takes a look at how people make snap decisions. More specifically, he describes how people make snap decisions without knowing they are doing so. And when asked to explain their reasoning, these people attribute all the wrong reasons to their decisions. This is, according to Gladwell, because we humans have a 'storytelling problem'.
"We have, as human beings, a storytelling problem. We're a bit to quick to come up with explanations for things we don't really have an explanation for."
This becomes quite apparent when we interview experts. Being experts, these people "thin-slice" most of the time, and that too, in a subconscious manner. When we interview them, we are asking them to peep into their subconscious (their "locked door") and to come up with explanations for their actions. But its difficult for experts to figure out why they do what they do -- they can't open their "locked door" -- so they end up telling us only the most plausible story, which as Gladwell describes, can be far from the truth. It is only with sustained interviews with many experts that we can get some patterns or principles of their "thin-slicing".
storytelling Add tag Permalink | Friday, January 14, 2005
Infographics that will rock your world
From ChangeThis:
"We have a special treat for you this issue: 7 beautiful, easy-to-understand, and jaw-dropping graphics by the Princeton INA. See a whole new perspective on our world."
infographics Add tag Permalink | Friday, January 14, 2005
Edward Tufte: New Chapter from Beautiful Evidence
Tufte's new chapter, Corrupt Techniques in Evidence Presentations, from his forthcoming book Beautiful Evidence, is now online for a month.
"Here is the first of several chapters on consuming presentations, on what alert members of an audience or readers of a report should look for in assessing the credibility of the presenter."
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Today a delivery receipt arrived on my desk at work that said a package had arrived for me at the local post office. I was absolutely ecstatic. The reason for my elation was not because my parcel of clothes which I had ordered from an online t-shirt had finally arrived (thanks for the new threads, Threadless). I was relieved because of the fact that the package had actually arrived. One of the main gripes expats who live here have is the inconsistent and incoherent postal system in Vietnam. Let me explain.
For a foreigner, the Vietnamese postal system is as strange and unfathomable as rocket science would be to a sixth grader, or the rules of cricket to a Vietnamese farmer (the term Kafkaesque springs to mind, with the impending sense of doom replaced by a sense of inevitable extortion). For all we know, there may be a hive full of little post elves somewhere behind closed doors in the Saigon Central Post Office. I imagine they sit on piles of unopened packages, wearing little Bưu điện uniforms, doing little jigs while licking stamps, making paper envelope airplanes, sorting the post, and deciding not when they want to deliver the letters and parcels, but if they should deliver it!
|See that little elf on that box? I rest my case.
Too many times I've heard stories of people's parcels mysteriously disappearing into the "postalsphere" (I'm sure those elves had something to do with it). Go onto one of the online expat forums like Phu My Hung Neighbours, and on any given day you'll find complaints and concerns about letters, gifts and parcels not arriving. In my experience there are basically four scenarios when awaiting post in Vietnam.
Scenario 1: Your post never arrives. This is a very possible reality so don't be surprised when this happens. Like a lost love, don't dwell on it. Forget about it and move on – life's too short to worry about that Kit-Kat or Crunchie chocolate bar that went missing in the mail.
Scenario 2: Your post arrives…sometime in the following year. This often happens. I think the people at the post office just keep your post, hoping that you will eventually give up on it or forget about it (or maybe it's those mischievous elves again?). This is especially annoying if you're expecting a package containing food or goods which expire. I once had my parents send me a package from South Africa containing all my favourite specialities – chocolates, boerewors and droewors, spices and condiments (Mr Balls Chutney and Ina Paarman's Spices), and a bottle of good South African wine (Springfield Estate Wholeberry). It arrived months and months later (even though they had sent it express mail) and everything had expired and become inedible – even the dried meat. The only thing which was still good to consume was the wine, which had actually got better with time!
Scenario 3: Your post arrives, but it's been tampered with. This is the most likely option. Two years ago I sent myself a package from Australia containing clothes, English teaching materials and books and some other personal items. Eight months later, the package arrived, squashed, ripped open, then taped closed and torn open again, obviously having undergone a thorough inspection by the authorities. Everything was there…except for a few English teaching books. I was upset for a while, but at least I knew that there were some post office workers (or maybe a couple of post elves?) who are now speaking English fluently thanks to my "gift".
Scenario 4. You post arrives, but it costs an arm and a leg to collect it. I once received a receipt from the post office to collect a package which cost me eight times more to pick up then the contents was worth! One thing I've learned is if you want to make sure that the post office doesn't overcharge you, make sure the price of the goods is clearly displayed on the package. Also, don't send anything dodgy (like English books) or god-forbid some exciting and foreign like a vuvuzela. A colleague at work just had to pay the equivalent of $600 for a care package sent from Korea as it had to undergo a "culture check" (I think that means the elves had a look to see if there was anything interesting they could eat or sell).
Scenario 5. Your post arrives on time, in one piece, and unaltered. Don't worry about scenario, as it is never likely to happen.
|"Not delivering your shit, since 1978"
These seem to be the general experiences most expats I've spoken to here have regarding the postal service. Many foreigners these days just ask their friends, family or others visiting from overseas to bring something with them on the airplane to avoid the hassle and heartache of dealing with the postal service. Of course, I understand that you can't expect things to be the same as it is back home – but sometimes you just have to complain to get it off your chest. And after all, what else can you do? Write a letter of complaint addressed to the post office, hoping they will receive it? Yeah, right...


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FireFox web browsers open PDFs with its own PDF preview program. Form fields are not selectable. To have the PDF perform calculations Control click (Mac) or right click (Windows) on the PDF to save locally and open with Adobe Reader or Adobe Acrobat.
MacOS Safari web browsers open PDFs with its own PDF preview program. This do not handle form calculations. To have the PDF perform calculations Move your cursor to the bottom of the PDF form to reveal a Save icon. Open the saved PDF with Adobe Reader or Adobe Acrobat.
MacOS Apple's Preview PDF program will open the PDF in a web browser or if you save it to your computer. It is nice for viewing PDFs and other fancy things, but for form fields and for saving and sending to non-Mac users in particular - the Apple Preview program does not save the text like one would expect - the calculation fields do not work either. To send a filled-in Preview form to a Windows user, you can select Print Menu; then select PDF from the bottom left of the print dialog box drop-down menu; Save as PDF - to save the text entered.
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- Campus Computer Store - Request for Interdepartmental Purchase Form
- CAO-2 Budget Transaction (Finance and Admin)
- CAO-21 Non State Employee Reimbursement Report (Purchasing)
- fill-in form; print (one mileage rate)
- fill-in form; print (multiple mileage rates)
- print; write-in form
- CAO-35 (available at University Stores, WC 217)
- CAO-36 Student Group Travel Request Form (available at University Stores, WC 217)
- CAO-37 Request for Interdepartmental Purchase (available at University Stores, WC 217)
- CAO-44 Monthly Time and Effort Report
- Cell Phone Reimbursement Form - Request for General Receipt
- Certificate of Exemption ST-3 from MN Dept of Revenue (Accts Payable)
- CS1400 - Request for Check Writing (available at University Stores, WC 217)
- CS1404 Request for Prior Approval of Out-of-State Travel
- CS1407 To Incur Special Expense (Revised)
- CS1441 Invoice
- Direct Deposit Program Authorization for Students for Student Payroll and/or Financial Aid
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- Student Direct Deposit Program Authorization
- Student Paydays
- State Reciprocity Exemption / Affidavit
- Substitute Receipt Certification Sheet (Travel)
- I-9 Employment Eligibility Verification
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In Demeter's dichotomy, my photographic work explores the interplay of the powerful and yet harmonious forces of nature. I was inspired by the power and beauty of the weather and its dual inherent nature, the dichotomy of nature: both giver and destroyer of life. This was explored through the medium of photography. Directions about the artwork were taken from the inspiring works of Bill Henson and Rembrandt, in particular the lighting characteristic of chiaroscuro. To achieve the stylistic characteristic of chiaroscuro, the photographs had to be digitally enhanced.
In Achromatic, my black-and-white photographic work shows a young boy running in darkness. It represents images from my own feelings and dreams. It is a reflection of my emotional experiences and my constant dreams of being lost, running in search for answers. I captured these images using an external light source and a long exposure as I ran alongside the model.


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Grape varieties and their characteristics
Table varieties of grapes
Technical varieties of grapes
The classification of grape varieties on the novelty
The choice of grape variety
Tab is vineyards
Biological characteristics of grapes
Inventory winegrower
Preparation for tab a vineyard
Planting of vines
The quality of seedlings grape
Formation and pruning vines
Guyot system
Wine glasshouse culture
Soil conditions and location
Planting grapes
Pruning and forming grapes
Pollination of grapes
Decimation grapes
Supplementary feeding and watering grapes
The harvest of grapes
Pests and diseases of grapes
The basic rules grafting grapes
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text: Imperial Irrigation District fined for diesel truck fleet violations $45,000 goes to community colleges, clean air projects For immediate release Date May 15, 2012 Release Number 12-19 Contacts Karen Caesar Public Information Office email@example.com (916) 322-2990 Categories Topics Truck & Bus Programs Enforcement Policy & Reports SACRAMENTO - The California Air Resources Board fined the Imperial Irrigation District $45,375 for operating its truck fleet and other diesel equipment in conflict with air quality regulations. ARB investigators found that the Imperial Irrigation District neglected to install particulate filters on its trucks, and to record smoke emissions, as required by California law. The district also failed to report its diesel equipment being used in off-road activities. "To preserve the quality of California's air, we must all work to curtail the emissions of diesel-powered vehicles," said ARB Enforcement Chief James Ryden. "Businesses and public agencies alike are held to the same standards." The ARB requires all operators of diesel equipment to:Install best available emissions control technology, based on the model year of the engine;Periodically test and record smoke emissions; and,Report all off-road vehicles in use, and label them with engine identification numbers. The Imperial Irrigation District has agreed to retrofit all vehicles, and submit proof of compliance to ARB. The district will also instruct employees operating diesel equipment to abide by idling regulations. Of the $45,000 paid, $34,000 will go to the California Air Pollution Control Fund, which provides funding for projects and research to improve California's air quality; $11,000 will go to the Palomar Community College Foundation to support their diesel technology program and, specifically, instruction in diesel engine service and maintenance. Diesel exhaust contains a variety of harmful gases and over 40 other known cancer-causing compounds. In 1998, California identified diesel particulate matter as a toxic air contaminant based on its potential to cause cancer, premature death and other health problems. CARB's mission is to promote and protect public health, welfare, and ecological resources through effective reduction of air pollutants while recognizing and considering effects on the economy. The CARB oversees all air pollution control efforts in California to attain and maintain health based air quality standards. Related News California transitioning to all-electric public bus fleet by 2040 CARB gets "REAL" to further cut pollution from diesel and gas vehicles CARB investigation leads to nationwide recall of 500,000+ Cummins heavy-duty trucks


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Argo, Ben Affleck's latest film, proves two things. One, he is still a mediocre actor. And two, he is developing into one heck of a director.
Following on from one of my favourite films from 2010, The Town, Affleck returns to the director's chair for Argo, a film about the 1979 Iran hostage crisis where 52 Americans at the US Embassy in Tehran were held hostage by Islamist students and militants.
The movie itself centers on a fascinating but lesser-known aspect of a side story to the crisis in which US involvement was not declassified until 1997. Affleck plays Tony Mendez, a CIA operative tasked with finding a way to bring back six Americans who escaped the embassy at the start of the crisis and took refuge at the home of the Canadian ambassador (Victor Garber). At a time where the six Americans would likely be tortured and killed if discovered, Mendez concocted a plan that would have been unbelievable had it not been true: producing a fake sci-fi movie.
The timing was perfect, given Star Wars had taken off and Hollywood producers were scrambling to make rip-offs. But of course, if it were so easy to get them out the film would not be two hours long.
Argo doesn't have much of that stuff you see in action films these days, but it's still incredibly tense and exciting all the way through. The background and context to the crisis is swiftly and effectively dealt with at the beginning, and the initial scenes of the civil unrest expertly generate a genuine sense of terror and panic that lingers on for the rest of the film.
It could have been very easy for this film to become dull and stagnant, but Affleck sustains the tension through a series of well-crafted incidents and conversations, ensuring viewers never lost track of what was at stake and the imminent danger the Americans were in at all times. Needless to say, things were probably never that tense in real life, but that's why this is a movie.
Credit has to go to Affleck for his brilliantly authentic recreation of 1979 Tehran, which as the end credits showed paid painstaking attention to detail. Everything from the architecture, the clothing and the hairstyles brought me back to those times, and I wasn't even born then!
The performances from the all-star cast were solid. The ever-present Bryan Cranston (sorry, Heisenberg) was subtle as Jack O'Donnell, Mendez's supervisor, and yet electrifying when he needed to be. Breaking Bad has already proven Cranston to be one of the greatest TV actors of all-time, and I hear maybe Argo has given him some Oscar buzz. John Goodman, who plays Hollywood make-up artist John Chambers, and Alan Arkin, who plays director Lester Siegel, provide some of the more lighthearted moments and are both excellent.
As for the six US diplomats, the only actors I recognised were Tate Donovan (best known for being engaged to Jennifer Aniston and Sandra Bullock) and Clea DuVall (whom I will always associate with The Faculty), but all of them were very good.
As it turned out, the weakest link was probably Affleck himself as Mendez. Apart from the lack of a physical resemblance (everyone else was pretty spot on), Affleck played Mendez with his usual "blank" face and unlayered line delivery. Perhaps I'm being a little harsh and perhaps the muted performance was intentional, but to be honest I never really felt as much for his character as I probably should have.
Overall, Argo is unquestionably compelling cinema and solidifies Affleck's reputation as a director who knows how to craft impeccable dramas filled with thrills and style. I can't wait to see what he comes up with next.
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Companies will focus on the Tier 1 emerging markets for occupational activity, according to Jones Lang LaSalle poll
Corporate occupiers gave Asia Pacific a vote of confidence with 79% predicting either increased (43%) or stabilized (36%) headcount in the region over the coming quarter, according to a recent poll from Jones Lang LaSalle. Jones Lang LaSalle polled participants from 16 countries in three regions during a recent webinar and the responses are evidence that Asia Pacific will continue to fare better through the current economic volatility.Jeremy Sheldon, Managing Director of Markets for Jones Lang LaSalle said, "Despite the IMF revising global growth forecasts downward last week, occupiers are maintaining their activity in the region, which reflects the IMF forecasts of 6.2% growth for Asia in 2011 and 6.6% in 2012."According to the poll, more than one third (36%) of companies operating in Asia Pacific are focusing their real estate strategies in the coming year on Tier 1 emerging markets, such as Shanghai or Mumbai.The trend is driven by US-based companies, with the majority (67%) saying that any new activity would be focused on the Tier 1 markets.Those with their headquarters in Asia Pacific are more likely to focus on established regional centers such as Singapore and Hong Kong (43%) and companies based in EMEA are focused evenly on Tier 1 markets, regional centers, and Tier 2 cities."These results are very much in line with the pattern of economic growth that we are expecting in the region and support our expectation that 2012 will see continued take up across the region and that vacancies may fall as a consequence," said Mr Sheldon.At the same time, economic volatility means that flexibility is high on the agenda, especially for US-based companies with 60% saying they would be more willing to pay for added flexibility in lease terms today than 12 months ago. In contrast, 75% of companies domiciled in Asia Pacific expect to pay the same, while 13% of all respondents said that are less willing to pay for added flexibility."Flexibility is key to survival in uncertain times and companies need to find cost effective ways to add flexibility to their leases," said Mr Sheldon."What we have seen in the last two market cycles is landlords offering concessions that limit rental growth as a way to attract occupiers. We have also witnessed a continued move by occupiers moving certain support operations from tightly-held CBD locations, as in Hong Kong and Singapore, to suburban locations in order to benefit from rental stability and higher levels of available stock," he said. Jones Lang LaSalle's Timing is Everything webinar series explores the latest economic and market trends in the Asia Pacific region. For more information, visit http://www.ap.joneslanglasalle.com/asiapacific/EN-GB/Pages/TimingIsEverythingWebinar.aspx
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How much and how long is abusive language tolerated on this site?
examples of trollspeak in the thread Junk Science re: Feral Cats Supposedly Killing Billions of Birds, by someone who calls themselves "Nature Advocate":
"There's something seriously wrong with people like you. A human genetic trait gone horribly wrong.
Though it could be the way that cats' Toxoplasma gondii parasite hijacks the minds of its hosts, from rodent to human. That might possibly explain it."
"This could have saved you from making your thoroughly asinine comment."
"ecological disasters caused by those phenomenally stupid and criminally negligent people who should have never been born in the very first place. (edit: You know, people just like you.)"
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Yeah - I have to deal with trolls - I report them and they are gone. I would report to to the owner of the website.
I have actually reported it twice, and nothing changed and I didn't get any response from a moderator about it. When I made the original post, it had been about a day since I reported it. But as of now, nothing has been done about it.
Perhaps, when the violation of guidelines is in a group, it's the group owner's responsibility to deal with it. The owner of this group is "Little Name Atheist" who has their profile set to private, and apparently one can't even leave a comment on their profile page unless they're a friend of "Little Name Atheist".
I was guessing that perhaps a moderator had emailed the group owner.
But if the group owner isn't reading their email - how long does someone get to go on calling people names, etc.?
Maybe the group should be cancelled, and someone who DOES read their email, could create a new group for cat-lovers, owned by them.
This person does seem to be "trolling". Lots of reviling of TNR advocates, and cats.
Did you use the "Report an Issue" link at the bottom of the page?
I reported it too.
I used the "Report an Issue" link the the FAQ.
The "contact the owner" link in the FAQ doesn't work.
Oh ok - I used that too. I suppose we will see what happens.
I will report it and you should as well. Use Report an Issue (see bottom of page).
I have reported the issue.
The rule that we don't insult other people here, go "ad hominem" in an argument, or try to upset other people here, seems extremely important.
I get into discussions other places online and people argue by getting insulting. Not only is it an emotional shock, it also makes me not want to continue the conversation. And I tend to think this is the purpose: the insulting person feels they have "won" an argument in a solipsistic way, when they push away disagreement. It doesn't feel that way to me, I feel "how tiresome", having seen similar behavior over and over and over again online ...
And when people get insulting, I realize I've gotten used to civility on AN. I don't want the (relatively) safe space here, violated.
When people here avoid "ad hominem" comments, it makes them think. So people's comments are more thoughtful :)
Insults being a substitute for thinking.
I agree. Just recently I deleted my membership in another forum for just this sort of thing. The majority appeared to revel in abusive insults which is not my idea of a civilized, intelligent conversation. I really like that A/N has mostly steered clear of this and I, for one, would like it to continue that way. After all this is the only time we will have on this earth and I prefer to spend the little time I have left doing things I enjoy that are enlightening and benneficial.
I think it's because the group owner is away. I sent them a note with a "friend request" but I haven't heard back.
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Alabama's Immigration Law to Cost State Millions in Lost Taxes, Study Says
Alabama's new immigration law is likely to cost the state tens of millions of dollars in lost taxes, says a new study.
The report by the Center for Business and Economic Research at the University of Alabama would cause 70,000 to 140,000 undocumented immigrants to lose jobs and would cost about $1.2 billion to $5.8 billion in the earnings of those immigrants as well as $56.7 million to $264.5 million in lost state income taxes and sales taxes.
"The cost is quite certain," said the center's director, Sam Addy. "It's simple economics. If you have more people you have a bigger economy, less people a smaller economy."
A sponsor of the immigration bill, Republican Rep. Micky Hammon of Decatur, disputed the report.
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"It's clear the study overestimates the negative and underestimates the positive to skew the result toward an agenda," he said. "If 40,000 illegal workers leave the state, they free up jobs that homegrown Alabamians are happy to have."
Hammon said the state's lower unemployment rate proves the immigration bill is working.
"It doesn't take a PhD to see that since the law was signed unemployment has dropped from 10 percent to 8.1 percent," Hammon said. "In Marshall County, once a known hotbed for illegal immigration, unemployment has plunged from 10 percent in June to 6.9 percent last month."
Statewide, the unemployment rate has dropped from 9.3 percent to 8.1 percent since January, 2011.
The report found that the economic costs of the new law outweigh the benefits. The report listed benefits of the new law and saving state funds used to provide benefits to undocumented immigrants and making more employment opportunities available to legal residents. But the report said the costs to the state include hurting the state's economic development effort and the cost of implementing and enforcing the law.
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Workers who leave will not be replaced by high salaried workers and will not be a big boost to the economy, said Addy, a U.S. citizen who came from the west African country of Ghana in 1989.
The sponsor of the bill in the Senate, Sen. Scott Beason, R-Gardendale, said the study does not take into account that many immigrant workers send much of what the earn to family members back home.
"It's our understanding that a tremendous amount goes out of state," Beason said.
The study estimates that 20 percent of undocumented workers "send their earnings to their home countries."
This is based on a story by The Associated Press.
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The Northwest Indians seemed to have all the momentum going their way after outlasting Crestwood 33-31 in the first set of Thursday's Division II regional volleyball semifinal at Stow-Munroe Falls High School.
Crestwood, however, made sure that was as good as it got for the Indians.
Using a balanced offensive attack that struck from antenna from antenna, the Red Devils rallied to defeat Northwest 31-33, 25-19, 25-20, 25-23.
The win moves Crestwood (23-3) into Saturday's regional championship match against Cleveland Heights Beaumont, which defeated Lake Catholic in three sets in Thursday's first semifinal.
While any coach will say that momentum can be fleeting in a sport like volleyball, the Indians found it hard to recapture the first-set form that saw them save two set points and eventually close out the Red Devils on their own seventh set point.
"I don't know Crestwood's mental state, but I would say they're used to close games," Northwest coach John Rafailedes said after his team finished its season at 18-8. "We played close games all year, but never in a regional like this. I don't know, but we came out flat every game but the fourth.
"Crestwood exploited our weaknesses tonight. Our outside hitting and blocking hasn't been as consistent this season."
Northwest took the lengthy first set by serving extremely tough throughout. Sophomore Hayley Macko served four staight points to get the Indians out to an 18-16 lead. Once it got past 26-26, the teams alternated points until a Kaitlyn Thompson kill and Crestwood hitting error gave Northwest the set.
Crestwood coach Brittany Mayle said her squad, making its deepest tournament run in school history, needed some time to warm up to the environment and the Indians' tough serving.
"Northwest is a strong serving team and we'd never faced a team like that this season," Mayle said. "Our serve receive was out of sync all game. I was worried that the first set was going to determine the match, but thankfully it didn't.
"We've never been on a stage this big and it was a sloppy game for us. After that we got back to playing Crestwood volleyball. In the huddle I reminded them how we play volleyball. I think that's why they came out with fire in the second game."
Crestwood controlled the second set throughout, as middle hitter Hayley Zigman and outside hitter Taylor Atkins, along with right side hitter Reana Szarka and middle Morgan Strenk, all contributed at various times.
The third set proved key, as Crestwood overcame a 20-19 deficit by running off the final six points. Five of those came on Zigman's serve to close out the set.
Raifailedes said the Indians' inability to mount a consistent attack from the wings turned their offense one dimensional.
"They knew where we were going with the ball, so they're setting their defense up. We just didn't move the ball around well enough," Rafailedes said.
Northwest overcame a 23-18 deficit in the fourth set with a Thompson kill followed by four straight points on Leah Luring's serve. Zigman's kill took the Red Devils to match point, though, where she followed with a solo block to end it,
Celsie Channell paced Northwest with 18 kills, while Thompson added 12. Abbie Swaino contributed 38 assists.
Zigman and Atkins each had 11 kills for Crestwood, while Strenk added 10. Szarka and setter Hayley Hoffman had six kills each, with Hoffman adding 42 assists.
With three freshmen on the floor at times, the future appears bright for Northwest, despite the loss of Channell and Thompson.
"This was the most fun team I've had," Rafailedes said. "They loved one another and they played hard for each other. They didn't ever quit. This is my 28th year and they made it fun for me to go to practice. I'm going to miss it."
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The Northwest Indians seemed to have all the momentum going their way after outlasting Crestwood 33-31 in the first set of Thursday's Division II regional volleyball semifinal at Stow-Munroe Falls High School.


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I really love how it all turned out. I spray painted everything in Krylon Ivory Gloss. (Remember how much I love Krylon spray paint???) Then, I put that Scotts Wall Mounting Tape on the backs of the plates and platters and stuck them to the wall.
This is my favorite piece of the collage...a pretty wall...sconce...thing. I drool over the details every time I look at it.
THAT'S IT! Oh how I love easy peasy beautiful! (Dude...that totally sounded like that "easy breezy beautiful, COVERGIRL commercial! HAHAH!)
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Dr. Dianne Portfleet of the Hope College English faculty will present the address "Learning to Live Before You Die" on Monday, Nov. 17, at 7 p.m. at Hope in Wichers Auditorium of Nykerk Hall of Music.
The public is invited. Admission is free.
Portfleet is the inaugural speaker in the new "Last Lecture Series" organized by the college's Alcor chapter of the national Mortar Board honorary society to feature members of the faculty. An adjunct associate professor of English, she is one of the chapter's co-advisors.
The title of the series is rhetorical. The lectures are not literally presented as the last that the speakers will deliver at Hope, but are meant to highlight the advice that they would most want to share if the event was indeed the final opportunity for them to address the college's students. The professors are being asked to reflect on their careers and lives, and to think deeply about what matters to them and about what wisdom they would like to impart.
The concept was inspired by the "Last Lecture" delivered at Carnegie Mellon University by Dr. Randy Pausch on Sept. 18, 2007. Pausch, a member of the Carnegie Mellon faculty who had terminal pancreatic cancer - a fact known at the time that he spoke - presented "Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams." He died on July 25, 2008, at age 47.
In memory of Pausch, the first 50 people to arrive for Portfleet's address will receive a copy of Pausch's book "The Last Lecture." All others will receive a bound copy of the transcript of Pausch's Last Lecture.
Portfleet has been a member of the Hope faculty since 1988. In the summer of 2007, she received one of only three "Excellence in Advising" awards presented nationwide from the national Mortar Board organization for her work as a chapter advisor. The graduating class presented her with the annual "Hope Outstanding Professor Educator" (H.O.P.E.) Award in 2006, and she won the "Hope's Outstanding Woman" Award in 2003. She was the college's Commencement speaker in May 2007.
Her teaching and research specialties are expository writing, Western world literature and children's literature. Her courses in the college's cultural heritage and Senior Seminar programs are especially popular with students.
She is the author of two books on Walter Wangerin Jr.: "Walter Wangerin, Jr.: Artist, Poet, and Prophet," published in 2007 by Greenleaf-Wilcop Press; and "Shaping Our Lives with Words of Power: A Study of the Major Works of Walter Wangerin, Jr.," which was published in 1996, and was the first critical, in-depth study of his work. She is also the author of the 2005 book "The History of the Adventure Mining Company from the Ancient Miners to the Present," which she wrote after her son purchased the mine, located in the Upper Peninsula, and has written numerous scholarly articles.
A 1969 graduate of Pennsylvania State University, Portfleet did graduate work at the University of Georgia and received her Ph.D. from Columbia Pacific University in 1984. She also taught for 12 years at Grand Rapids Baptist College (now Cornerstone University).
Mortar Board is a national honor society that recognizes college seniors for outstanding achievement in scholarship, leadership and service, and provides opportunities for continued leadership development, promotes service to college and universities, and encourages lifelong contributions to the global community. Since its founding in 1918, the organization has grown from the four founding chapters to 226 collegiate chapters with nearly 250,000 initiated members across the nation.
The Alcor chapter has existed at Hope since the 1936-37 academic year, although it did not become part of the national Mortar Board organization until 1961. In addition to Portfleet, the chapter is advised by Martie Bultman, who is the wife of Hope College president James E. Bultman.
The Alcor chapter sponsored a "last chance talk" during the 1960s. The idea back then was to invite a faculty member to express his/her ideas under the hypothetical assumption that this would be the last opportunity to address the student body. The late Dr. D. Ivan Dykstra, professor of philoosphy, delivered the first "last chance talk" in the spring of 1962.
Nykerk Hall of Music is located in the central Hope campus at the former 127 E. 12th St. between College and Columbia avenues.


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Back in January we reported that ChevronWP7 Labs, the officially-sanctioned "jailbreak" service for Windows Phone "homebrew", was coming to a halt. At the time, the reasons cited mostly revolved around the difficulties some users experienced in installing it and the following tech-support needed to help them out. The project was put on indefinite hiatus with more tokens possibly being bought in the future.
However, today it's official: the experiment is over.
Within 120 days, those who unlocked their phones via the ChevronWP7 Labs service will have their phones re-locked. The good news is all users who bought a token are eligible for a one-year Microsoft App Hub membership, a $99 value and allowing them to stay unlocked for 12 more months.
The jailbreak service is being permanently shut down for a few reasons, including those cited above but also because many of those who did unlock their phones so that they could "sideload" apps for experimentation, never moved on to actually publishing any apps to the Windows Phone Marketplace. That was one of the goals of the project -- to reduce the $99 barrier for devs who might not be able to afford the App Hub membership.
While ChevronWP7 Labs is gone, the ChevronWP7 team made up of Rafael Rivera, Long Zheng and Chris Walsh will continue tinkering around:
"Fear not, we will continue to explore other ideas with Microsoft. All sides are still very interested in the hobbyist and homebrew developer communities."
For more information on the closure of the service and for those looking to upgrade to that App Hub membership, head to the ChevronWP7 Labs site here.


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Thanks for the reports, the utter bafflingness of some of these problems actually helped point this out. At the very least, the issue will be fixed in the coming Friday's update.
sitnaltax wrote:One more tiny request: please change the "Less Glyphs" prep name to "Fewer Glyphs". It's driving me just a tiny bit crazy.
Haha, I think this is a part of the aforementioned problem. Pretty sure we fixed that grammatical snafu a coupla weeks back.
Terrabull wrote:I had to search the forums to figure out how to send you an image! Activate image uploads for this thread so people can actually do that! Or have some instructions somewhere!
Uhhh, not quite sure what you mean? This forum uses pretty bog-standard IMG tags for its pics, as below (it's one of the button options just above the reply text panel when you're composing).
Sorry 'bout the weirdnesses this week, folks. Have some cuteness.


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The team have proposed that such extensive damage is likely to occur when the chromosomes are condensed for mitosis and could be caused by ionising radiation or linked to telomere attrition. If the cell attempts to repair such extensive damage, the evidence suggests that the repair goes badly wrong, resulting in a genome that is riddled with mutations. In most cases, such haphazard repairs would be detrimental to the cell's ability to survive and divide but in some cases can amplify cancer genes or inactivate tumour suppressor genes. It is remarkable that the cell can not only survive such a cataclysmic event but can emerge with a selective advantage.
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Appliances Missing in Sioux Falls
Call it the case of the disappearing appliances. Sioux Falls Police Information Officer Sam Clemens says it happened over the weekend at an apartment complex at 1313 North Cleveland Avenue.
Clemens says some remodeling was being done, and 5 stoves and 6 refrigerators had been left outside for someone to move them into a garage, but forgot to do so.
Clemens says sometime over the weekend all 11 of the appliances were taken.
They were valued at $5,500.
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HST's First Observation Of Jupiter
This black and white picture of Jupiter, taken in green light at 1:14 a.m. on the 11th March, 1991 by the Planetary Camera on NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, shows a wealth of fine detail in the clouds that cover the planet. The Great Red Spot is seen at the lower right, also on the right near the equator the satellite Europa is disappearing behind the limb of the planet. The dark 'j' shaped clouds along the equator are the result of a pattern of intense jet streams in the Jovian atmosphere. This picture is as sharp as the Voyager pictures taken five days before the closest approach in 1979.


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Day Trips Around Charleston: Wadmalaw Island
Bordered by Bohicket Creek and just southwest of Charleston, the rural Wadmalaw Island has some of the best must-see locations that are perfect for a day trip. It's climate and rich soil create ideal growing conditions, allowing the island to support family and commercial farms including a tea plantation, a vineyard and one of the nation's oldest oak trees.
Charleston Tea Plantation
6617 Maybank Hwy
Trade in your morning coffee for a cup of tea. The Charleston Tea Plantation is the only working tea farm in America and is the home of American Classic Tea. Its grounds include 127 acres of Camellia Sinensis tea plants, a working Tea Factory and a charming Plantation Gift Shoppe. You can also learn about the production of the tea while exploring the scenic grounds by taking a Trolley Tour.
Irvin-House Vineyards
6775 Bears Bluff Road
Irvin-House Vineyards is the perfect place to unwind after a long day and take in the beauty of the Lowcountry while lounging under the oaks and sipping muscadine wine. Charleston's only domestic vineyard and winery, also features walking trails, a petting zoo, a garden and a large pond. Firefly Distillery, whose products include Firefly Vodka, Sea Island Rum and Sweet Tea Bourbon, also calls the vineyards home. It is the largest micro-distillery in South Carolina and even has a tasting room where people may taste Firefly products and purchase bottles right on the property.
Angel Oak
3688 Angel Oak Road
On your way back to Charleston Place Hotel, be sure to stop and see the Angel Oak on Johns Island. With a height of 65 feet and an area of foliage that reaches 17,000 square feet, it is easy to believe that the Angel Oak Tree is known for being one of the oldest living oaks in the country. The tree itself is named after the property's original owners Martha and Justis Angel. Thanks to the help of the local community, the Angel Oak has with stood Hurricane Hugo and many other natural disasters. In 1991, The City of Charleston acquired Angel Oak Park and now maintains these historic grounds for visitors to come and experience it free of charge.