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Author Pavilion 2010
Thursday, September 16th
(Pavilion Hours 8:00 A.M. – 6:00 P.M.)
Presented by The Renaissance Group, The Hurston Wright Foundation, Howard University and hosted by Patrick Oliver Founder of, Say It Loud! Readers and Writers Series. Online PR provided by EDC Creations Media Group.
8:00 a.m. – 9:30 a.m. WRITE NOW!
1. Kea Taylor – I Still Do A Celebration of African American Weddings
2. Frederick Nnoma-Addison – The United States and Ghana Celebrating 50 Years of Friendship & Progress
3. Olympian Devon Harris – Yes I Can Children's Book
4. Daniel R. Biddle & Murray Dubin – Tasting Freedom Octavius Catto and the Battle of Equality in Civil War America
5. R. Michelle – Her Game Plan
6. Afya Ibomu – Vegan Soul Food Guide to the Galaxy
7. Moneek Reid & Zubari Duniani – Nigus: Images of Ourselves
8. Pierre – My 100 Homies & Phonies of Hollywood
10:00a.m. – 11:30a.m. Author Meet and Greet
1. Jessica Tilles – Loving Simone
2. Tinisha Nicole Johnson – Lessons Learned: Loving Yourself as a Black Woman
3. Harold Turley II – My Darkest Hour The Day I Realized I was Abusive
4. Jam Donaldson – Conversate is Not a Word Getting Away from Ghetto
5. Ytasha L. Womack – Post Black How a New Generation is Redefining African American Identity
6. Curtis Bunn – That Was Then This is Now
7. Towan Isom – Chasing Greatness The Young Professional's Guide to a Dynamic Life
8. Harold Fisher – Two Weeks Until the Rest of My Life
9. Willie Jolley – Turn Setbacks into Greenbacks
10. Indigo Johnson – Playing by the Unwritten Rules: Moving from the Middle to the Top and Playing by the Unwritten Rules II: From a Job Defense to a Career Offense
12:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. Community Panel Discussion
The Importance of Technology in the Black Community: Using Technology to Communicate in the Digital Age. Moderator: Dr. Sammye Miller, Chairman of the Department of History & Government at Bowie State College.
Panelists: Narcius Ridley; Cynthia Hopkins Brown; Charles Acree; and Kevin Bailey Information Technologists
Ella Curry – Black Pearls Magazine Publisher and President of EDC Creations Media Group
Martin Pratt – CEO Infinite MMS
Curtis Bunn, National Book Club Conference Founder and author of That Was Then This is Now
2:00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. Author Meet and Greet
1. Robin D. Stone – My Times in Black and White Race and Power at the New York Times Gerald M. Boyd
2. Marva L. Goldsmith – Branding Yourself After Age 50
3. Gwynne Forster – Love Me Tonight
4. Elaine Meryl Brown, Marsha Haygood, Rhonda Joy McLean – The Little Black Book of Success: Laws of Leadership for Black Women
5. Gloria J. Browne-Marshall – Race, Law, and American Society
6. Jihad – Preacher Man Blues II
7. Thomas Chatterton Williams – LOSING MY COOL: How a Father's Love and 15,000 Books Beat Hip-Hop Culture
8. Scott Simpson – Unbought and Unbossed by Shirley Chisholm: Expanded 40th Anniversary Edition
4:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. Community Panel Discussion
Preserving Our Cultural Memory Through Literature presented by The Hurston Wright Foundation. Moderator: Marita Golden author of Don't Play In The Sun: The Color Complex.
Panelists: Elizabeth Nunez – Anna In-Between
Dolen Perkins-Valdez – Wench A Novel
Tom Burrell – Brainwashed: Challenging the Myth of Black Inferiority;
Julianne Malveaux – Surviving and Thriving 365 Facts in Black Economic History
Cheryl Wills – Die Free a Heroic Family History
View the 2010 Author Pavilion at the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation schedule for Friday and Saturday by clicking on the links. Authors signing and speaking on panels Friday morning, Friday evening and Saturday, KIDS day at the CBC.
Brought to you by EDC Creations and Black Pearls Magazine. Visit the magazine here: http://www.blackpearlsmagazine.com/


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Gilgit Baltistan has always been known around the world for its beauty, hospitality, kindness, faithfulness and peaceful culture. However, now, this area is losing popularity.
Since the last few years, right after the self-governance ordinance was passed by People's Party's government; many other political parties are showing their interest in the region. Almost every party has now established their political setup in the region. The people of GB have not shown any resistance to them.
In 2009, the Govt. of Pakistan promised to provide greater political empowerment and better governance to the people of Gilgit Baltistan. However, no measures have been taken in this direction. The land is now confronting many serious problems. Unemployment among the poor prevails in the region. The rich are able to get good jobs based on their personal contacts. Poverty is growing. The government needs to turn some attention to this region.
Gilgit Baltistan, August 3.

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Wednesday 12 September, 7:00 pm — Friday 28 September 2018
Platán Galéria
1061 Budapest, Andrássy út. 32.
TOMASZ MANIEWSKI vs. BENCSIK ÁDÁM
●●●●● Bencsik Ádám A.K.A. Ponza, rapper, slam poetry artist represents Tomasz Maniewski's exhibition entitled "This is my Warsaw" on 12th September at 19.00 p.m. in Platán Gallery ●●●●●
In Platán Gallery's new exhibition Ponza reflects on Maniewski's paintings with the help of music and literature. In the center of their art there stands the city and its inhabitants. The different urban scenes are being examined and processed from the two artists' different point of views. The boundaries of each mediums of art are being blurred: special connection points are displayed for painting, literature and music.
Whichever city we live in, we are driven by our daily concerns: stop – bus – metro – our house. Nevertheless, we only need to slow down for a moment and we can witness interesting scenes and conversations. Behind the city noise we can hear moving stories while we walking on the street. If we pay attention to it, we can join to a new world that is completely different form our own. It is not possible to forget about the vagrants, beggars and homeless people. The small coins fall into plastic bottles, the street musicians are playing; the empty drink cans are rolling away and they would quickly land in the nylon bag. Two worlds meet each other: people who live in the city and the others who are free in their own way by living on the streets. They are the heroes of our show. Abruptly captured scenes, accidentally heard conversations, dialogue fragments falling aimlessly... Everyday situations, or, on the contrary, extraordinary events that exclude us form our daily routines – all of this give us the opportunity to look at our city from a slightly different point of view. As a result, we can think about our home and our life from a new perspective. You can see the essence of the city – the essence of my city, Warsaw. (Tomasz Maniewski)
"Wherever a painter goes, he is listening. He chooses the tools of his artistic expression definitely not without ironic distancing and satirical predatory tendency (...) Expressive brush strokes, a simplified drawing, a warm color of red or the vibrant color of orange that is almost screaming, splits into the worn out colors that are hiding in the background. (...) The inscriptions on the paintings are the >>voices<< of the painter. These writings are guidelines for us: they help us to understand the pictures deeply and, at the same time, they show us the amazing literary sensibility of the painter." Krzysztof Dziedzic, from the prologue of the catalogue of the exhibition entitled It Must be Elegant. IMPART Gallery, Wrocław, 2011
After a lot of graffiti and skateboarding, Pozna graduated at grammar school and entered instantly to the world of underground music in Budapest in 1997: they started the Totoja club program with DJ Mango on a weekly basis on Tilos radio. The whole hip-hop scene from that time appeared in this show. From 2000, Dj Cadik took over the record players, and Ponza has remained the MC and its editor of the show until 2010. In 1998, the first track was released in which he performed, the Firma's classic entitled "Someone Like it Hot"/ "Valaki forrón szereti"). The Mozaik band's (Mango, Sabák, and Ponza) song called "Easy word" / "Laza szó" was added to the international selection of Eastside unia. In 1999 he became the first Mikrofon Party winner. He is the founder of AIU ("The Lodrs of Time" / "Az Idő urai"), and a constant contributor of the Kriminal Beats Records (Bankos, FaktorLabor, Norba). He started making music from 2002; his music was released on several other hip-hop musicians' albums, for instance Bankos' B-Oldal, S10's Pocket Rocket or Busa Pista's Gyémántfater. He is the pioneer of home-grown live hip-hop music in Hungary. He is the number one MC of the Fixi4 / Amoeba family. Since 2007, he has been an active participant and the traveling ambassador of the slam community in Budapest. By 2012, he was always standing on the podium after all the competitions. This year, co-operating with with the Grund Theater, the FoodFilmFighters program series was launched. Since then, they still has been playing it and Toldi cinema is always full.
Tomasz Maniewski graduated at the Academy of Fine Arts of Warsaw. He had his degree from Prof. Halina won Chrostowska. He had more than ten individual exhibitions in Poland (Warsaw, Poznań, Zakopane, Zielona Góra, Pruszków, Wrocław, Konstancin), France and Japan. He has also participated in several group exhibitions in Poland, Belgium, France, Germany, Romania, the Vatican, Italy and Taiwan. He lives and works in Warsaw as a graphic artist and painter.
On view until 28 September


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Homeowners are often faced with one big question when having home improvement projects in their homes. That question is "Do I really need to hire a general Contractor to do the Work?" But, why would someone be asking this question when they know they don't have the capacity to handle the project at hand? Most of those who ask this question aren't aware of the role general contractors play in the construction industry. Some don't understand what general contractors do. That explains why hiring one is never a priority to them.
Hiring an experienced general contractor will go a long way to ensure your building project is completed successfully. It's not uncommon to hear homeowners explain how some experienced builder they hired for their projects didn't accomplish the tasks successfully. It's time you hired a general contractor for your next construction project. Here's why.
General Contractors are Customer-Focused
The importance of communication in any renovation or building project can't be overemphasized. Effective communication in construction is one of the most important factors that ensure the success of any project. When starting your project you want to ensure your goals are met which is why you need someone who will ensures everything is communicated to you the entire time of the project. Through effective communication and advice on strategic changes that can be made to benefit your construction project, a general contractor ensures everything runs smoothly.
Warranty Protection
You don't want to hire someone who will show up for work and disappear, not to be found when issues arise. When you hire a general contractor to work on your home renovation or building, they are most likely to offer you guarantee or a one-year warranty on the project they've accomplished. What does this even mean? Well, in the event of any problems after the project, the contractor will come back and make the necessary repairs.
Project Organization and Management
Hiring a general contractor allows you to not only benefit from the experience and expertise but also provides you with peace of mind knowing they will hire the right subcontractors and suppliers for the project. Handling building projects can be extremely stressful to the homeowner. With a general contractor, you won't have to worry about anything as they will take care of everything from scheduling to inspections to handling any issues that arise. They will make everything convenient for you so you can relax. Homeowners can realize their construction dreams so easily without having to experience the day-to-day stress involved.
The Relationships with Builders
Another benefit of hiring a general contractor is taking advantage of their relationship with subcontractors and suppliers. In most cases, the contractor will hire experienced subcontractors and suppliers who they've worked with on previous projects and delivered results. This means there will be responsiveness when it comes to communication of the desired goals and work progress without any interruptions.
In conclusion, hiring a general contractor will ensure your construction project is completed successfully the first time without missing a step. This means you won't have to spend thousands of dollars trying to redo things that went wrong. A construction project that's accomplished successfully, overseen by an experienced general contractor, will increase the value of your home or business.


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China Reports Increase In New HIV Cases In 2014
Financial Times: China reports sharp rise in HIV cases
"China has reported a sharp rise in new cases of HIV infection last year, highlighting increased incidence of the disease among the elderly and young students…" (Waldmeir, 1/16).
Xinhua: China reports over 100,000 new HIV/AIDS infections in 2014
"China reported 104,000 new HIV/AIDS infections in 2014, up 14.8 percent from the previous year, the country's central health authority revealed on Thursday. Wang Guoqiang, vice head of the National Health and Family Planning Commission, said that the overall rates of infection and number of HIV/AIDS cases have stayed at a low level…" (1/15).


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Waving baa-bye to our local Shauns
SPARKLES, Groovy Baby and Star Bake have enjoyed their time grazing in the local area.
SPARKLES, Groovy Baby and Star Bake have enjoyed their time grazing in the local area.
But now, it's time for the Shaun the Sheep characters to join the rest of their flock at The Mall at Cribbs Causeway.
The sheep, which include a glittery unicorn, a hippy, and a French pastry dessert, were painted by local artists Emily Golden, Emily Ketteringham and Tom Hovey respectively.
The Great Sheep Round Up exhibition, which runs from September 12-20, will see Bristol's 70 woolly critters reunited with London's 50 Shauns all under one roof in a specially-built pavilion.
Fans of the lovable character will be able to see any Shauns that they might have missed, or revisit their favourites.
Timed-entry tickets are now available to purchase online, with all proceeds going towards the Grand Appeal to support Bristol Children's Hospital. Each session lasts an hour and a half.
The event will be followed by another exhibition in London from September 24-27. This will be the last chance to see the Shauns before they are auctioned off to raise money for sick children in hospitals throughout the UK.
Shaun in the City follows in the footsteps of its popular Gromit Unleashed trail in 2013, which raised £2.3million for the Bristol Children's Hospital.
Organisers hope that just as many flock to see the Shauns on show.
To purchase tickets (£7 for adults, £4.50 for children, £5.50 senior citizens and free for children three years and under), visit: www.shauninthecity.org.uk/exhibition.


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MTV is bringing back its spin-off of The Challenge that will have familiar Challenge contestants competing against a team of non-Challenge people—but this time, instead of pro athletes, those competitors will be "celebrity athletes and entertainers," which is code for "mostly reality stars."
Mike "The Miz" Mizanin will host the "eight-week special event" The Challenge: Champs vs. Stars, which is the second season of Champs vs. Pros, the spin-off that aired this summer. MTV programming executive Tiffany Williams said in a press release that MTV "expanded the format for the second season."
Also in the release, The Miz said, "After 12 years, I can't tell you how excited I am to be back on The Challenge, this time as the host. I can honestly say that if it wasn't for this iconic show, I never would've had the confidence to fulfill my dream of becoming a WWE Superstar."
The show debuts Nov. 21, and contestants will be competing for "their share of $150,000," which will be donated to charity.
The alleged 'stars' of The Challenge: Champs vs. Stars
The stars:
- Ariane Andrew from Total Divas
- Josh Murray from The Bachelorette and Bachelor in Paradise
- Justina Valentine, from Wild 'N Out
- Kim Glass, an Olympic volleyball silver medalist
- Matt Rife, one of the new TRL hosts
- Michelle Waterson, an MMA fighter
- Riff Raff, who was on the show From Gs to Gents
- Romeo Miller, aka the hip-hop star Lil Romeo
- Shawn Johnson, the Olympian and Dancing with the Stars winner who's also now on a CNBC show
- Terrell Owens, former NFL player and reality star
The returning champs weren't in the press release. But nine of the 10 are pictured in MTV's full cast photo:
- Johnny Bananas
- Wes Bergmann
- Jenna Compono
- Aneesa Ferreira
- Ashley Mitchell
- Zach Nichols
- Emily Schromm
- Cory Wharton


text: Poynter Institute NPR Names Poynter's Kelly McBride As 6th Public Editor By David Folkenflik • Apr 8, 2020 NPR has named a distinguished media ethicist as its sixth public editor, appointing Kelly McBride of the Poynter Institute to fill the newsroom watchdog role at a time when many other major news outlets have abandoned it. "The public editor represents the public interest in our journalism and helps hold us accountable to maintaining our high standards of journalism," NPR CEO John Lansing said in an interview. "And so [it's] really a critical position for us, particularly during this current [public health] crisis. St. Petersburg To Honor Ray Charles And His Song 'The St. Pete Florida Blues' By Stephanie Colombini • Feb 13, 2019 Courtesy of Roy Peter Clark The City of St. Petersburg will declare Feb. 15 "Ray Charles Day" during a special event at the Studio @ 620 Friday evening. 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LONDON: Arab countries need to do more to create private sector jobs and bolster inclusive growth amid growing youth unemployment and regional dissatisfaction, said Christine Lagarde, managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), said on Tuesday.
Speaking at an IMF conference in Marrakesh, Morocco, she said 27 million young people would join the workforce in Arab countries in the next five years in a region that has the highest rate of youth unemployment in the world at 25 percent.
Although Arab states are progressing with reforms, they must move away from being "state employers" and focus on improving social safety nets, Lagarde said.
During the two-day conference on inclusive growth, Lagarde said the public dissatisfaction that is "bubbling up" in several countries is a reminder that even more 'urgent action' is needed.
In Tunisia, violent demonstrations broke out again this month as anger mounts over IMF-backed measures that include subsidy cuts and tax increases.
Chris Doyle, director of the Council for Arab-British Understanding (CABU), told Arab News: "Frustrations across the Arab world are growing."
Doyle said: "The region must urgently deploy more resources to tackle youth unemployment and these resources must be deployed far more effectively."
The director said Middle Eastern governments must take action to end its "many conflicts and crises" to unlock the region's potential.
Doyle urged the region to look at redesigning its education system to ensure it provides the right skills for a twenty first century jobs market.
"The region needs to look at skilling up for the digital economy," he said. "However, be under no illusion, it's a massive challenge."
The Cabu expert said that Egypt represents a particularly pressing challenge due to its central location and large and growing population.
"[Joblessness] will have an immediate impact on the country and it's not rosy," he warned.
"We may well witness more protests and discontent. Governments really should be really aware that [protests] represent genuine economic weaknesses and reflect the levels of corruption in the region."
Wes Schwalje, COO of GCC research firm Tahseen Consulting, agreed that regional education systems are struggling to produce national workforces with the skills that meet "the needs of knowledge-based economic development and the Fourth Industrial Revolution."
Schwalje told Arab News: " A youthful, growing labor market can be beneficial to economic development if it is accompanied by job creation. Without job creation, the counterfactual is youth becoming unemployed, discouraged, or entering the informal economy.
"Discontent among youth is particularly significant since there is a strong link between youth bulges experiencing economic hardship and political violence. If the public sector is unable to create sufficient jobs for Arab youth, the only other option is private sector job creation."
High levels of public sector employment in the Arab World have been criticized as "perpetuating low productivity, lack of economic diversification, and high public sector wage bills, Schwalje said.
The COO added: "Market reforms will need to reorient Arab youth toward private sector jobs… A number of Arab countries are piloting ambitious labor market reforms, such as unemployment benefits, minimum wages, fees on foreign workers, and increased mobility of foreign workers, but their success is far from certain."
IMF's Christine Lagarde calls for 'urgent action' to create jobs in Arab world
IMF's Christine Lagarde calls for 'urgent action' to create jobs in Arab world
LONDON: Arab countries need to do more to create private sector jobs and bolster inclusive growth amid growing youth unemployment and regional dissatisfaction, said Christine Lagarde, managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), said on Tuesday.


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What's On Stephen King and Frank Darabont's Sci-Fi Bookshelves?
When you sell as many books as Stephen King, and as many movie tickets as Frank Darabont, you don't care what people call your work, just so long as they read it and see it. At a press conference I attended last week in Manhattan for the new King-written Darabont-adapted movie The Mist, the pair made it clear that they're big fans of both genres.
Asked if The Mist qualifies as sci-fi, King responded, "I've written a lot of stories that I think of as "sort-of" science fiction, you know. For me it always has to be "sort-of" science fiction because I was a "C" chemistry student, and a "B-" physics student, so I never had that knowledge base. But on the other hand, I saw a lot of movies in the 50's like The Thing and Them and I know that like radiation causes monsters, and most important of all I know that if we mess around too much with the unknown something awful will happen."
Darabont, who apparently went to the same high school, agrees. "The first law of physics: Radiation makes monsters. Big ants."
Later in the press conference they got onto the subject of their favorite science fiction and fantasy authors, and for awhile it looked like they were going to spend the rest of the hour interviewing each other without our help. To wit:
KING: The biggest influence on my life, and it's gonna be a movie [again] in December, I am Legend by Richard Matheson. I read Poe and all those guys, and I thought that they were good, but I didn't have that kind of visceral connection where I thought oh yeah, this guy is doing it on my block, I like that.
DARABONT: That's one of my top five favorite books.
KING: I love that.
DARABONT: It's high on the list.
KING: And it's on the best seller list again now too.
DARABONT: Is it really?
KING: Yeah.
DARABONT: Oh good, they're reading the book 'cause—does [the new movie] really look like I Am Legend or does it look like kind of a remake of The Omega Man?
KING: I haven't seen the movie, they're reading the book.
DARABONT: Yeah, that's great, that's awesome. I can't wait to see it actually.
KING: Robert Bloch was another one. Today uh…Jack Ketchum, Bentley Little, I read across a wide spectrum. I don't just read horror, that would be kind of boring. But there are a lot of different people that I really like. Kelly Link is great. I really like Kelly Link. She doesn't work that field specifically but I like her stuff a lot.
DARABONT: Matheson is hugely iconic to me.
KING: Remember Charles Beaumont?
DARABONT: Charles Beaumont. Amazing short story writer. He did a lot of a lot of "Twilight Zone" work with Rod Serling. Rod Serling, amazingly influential writer.
KING: Jack Finney.
DARABONT: Jack Finney.
KING: Body Snatcher, baby.
DARABONT: Paddy Chayefsky, a dramatist, is tattooed in my brain because he was so inspiring to me. Ray Bradbury, a god. and a marvelous, marvelous human being. I've gotten to know him in the last seven years or so. Weird thing to get to know your icons, and you become friends with them. It's awesome.
KING: How about David Mamet? He writes the best dialogue.
DARABONT: Mamet's pretty muscular. Our buddy David J. Scow. Not that many people know his work, but boy he's a muscular writer. We can go on and on all day. Absolutely one of my all time favorite science fiction works is A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter Miller.
KING: Walter Miller, right.
DARABONT:He didn't write that many things but boy he floors me. And I love the guy who wrote those Bazooka Joe bubble gum things.
KING: Oh man, that guy yeah!
DARABONT:Genius … genius.
KING: And the GI Joe cards.
DARABONT: Yeah and that too.
KING: Jack Kirby he's another one. A lot of the comics, Joe Orlando.
KING: Archie Goodwin.
DARABONT:That's right Allan Moore, Mike Mignada, Eric Powell, the stuff being done in comics today are just stunning.Read More


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LGB Compendium 2nd Edition
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Completely Overhauled 2. Edition
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Updated and extended Descriptions
With over 1600 pages printed in two Volumes the Kompendium is the must-have resources for any LGB-Friends and LGB-Collectors. This is the most comprehensive work ever published - a real Encyclopedia for LGB trains.
All LGB brands for the times from 1968 - 2015are covered:
Toy Train
This edition contains 2,230 product descriptions, 2,200 pictures, and about 375 recognized variations.
Due to the extensive additions this work had to be broken into two volumes:
VOLUME I contains LGB engines (+ �TOY TRAIN�� engines), LGB train sets (+ TOY TRAIN�� Train Sets), Primus, catalogs, Depeschen �CLUB News� and �BIG�. In this current edition the chapters
�Engines� are on about 360 pages, �Trainsets� are covered on 164 pages and �Primus� on 12 pages. For the categories of catalogs, Depeschen, �CLUB News� and �BIG� are the covers printed.
The appendix of Volume I contains the Table of Content sorted by product number in ascending order coupled with a short description, a complete listing of all European and American narrow gauge railroad companies. (which are covered in the Kompendium) including their full description as well as a comprehensive listing of US cars with their English description.
Volume II contains on 328 pages the chapter �Passenger Cars� (+ TOY TRAIN�� Passenger Cars) and on 644 pages �Freight Cars� (+ �TOY TRAIN�� Freight Cars), as well as an Appendix
the Table of Content sorted by ascending product numbers followed by the short description.
The author put in the year of first appearance in the respective LGB catalog and the page of the first appearance. This way you can easily find the product in the original LGB catalog.
All standard articles, plus all special edition articles for "VEDES", "IDEE + SPIEL", etc. have the original MSRP listed (in either DM or after the reform in EURO. Additionally (if obtainable) the current street price is printed as well.
For the engines are listed weight and length specifications, for the car and train sets only the length specification..
The 2 edition has succeeded to even catalog very rare product with pictures.:
in the section engines:
�Cambrai� steam engine Product. No. 23781,
Canadian Diesel engine CP Rail Product. No.. 23552,
GG1 Pennsylvania (Auflage 35 St�ck!) Product. No. 23835,
The complete set �Wilson Brothers� Circus Train
Freight Cars�
McDonalds�� (San Diego � 20 units special edition),
the two freight cars �Dutch Masters�� including packaging,
the 3 car set �Klondike Trail�,
Passenger Cars
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den �sterr. Sta�enbahn-Beiwagen (3500 AU)
Car Sets:
So called �Goldzug�,
�Baltimore Set� (Product. No. 70457),
�Saftb�ren Express� (only for pharmacies)
�20th Anniversery Mogul Set� (Product. No. 29182).
Primus-Sets Product. No. 8000 and 81401.
2. Auflage 2015 (Date of photos and text 15. August 2015).
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|This page is a text version of the Beckoning Hills History Book. This is the story of the Turtle Mountain Area of Manitoba. You can get a PDF copy of the book on our full version page. The PDF copy is an exact page by page representation of the original book. This text version has been reformated for the web and contains text recognition mistakes. These mistakes do not appear in the full version. The full version also includes each image in the original book.
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During the middle seventies a mild depression was being felt, not only in Europe but also in Eastern Canada. The economic situa tion was aggravated by poor prices for farm produce, mounting taxes, poor wages for tradesmen, and the fact that considerable land which had cost so much to clear, was showing a marked decrease in productivity. The areas suitable for farming had become exhausted, having come to an abrupt halt against the wilderness of muskeg, rocks and forests north of the Great Lakes. By 1887 we find that settlers to the south of the International Boundary line had advanced beyond the Mississippi River. In fact, the first rancher had located in Southern Alberta in 1872 by the way of Montana.
In 1878 we find Finley Young, Coulters, Weirs, Henderson and others settling at La Riviere (Wakopa). By 1880 Jim Burgess and Bill Smith had located at Old Desford, also Rentons and Dries by Turtle Head Creek on the west end of the Turtle Mountains, just south of where Old Deloraine and the Land Office were located that same fall.
The word they took back or sent by letter concerning the abundance of wood for timber or fuel, plenty of water and broad open prairie with mile long unbroken furrows and much of it free, created a stampede for the West of not only farm folk but many tradesmen as well. During the spring of '82, it is said that every hour of each day in May, new settlers in wagons or Red River Carts could be seen following the trails in search of free land. They came by way of Chicago, Minneapolis and St. Paul to Emerson. Some had complete outfits. Others procured what they could afford at this point. They paid high prices for oxen which were supposed to have been broken and exorbitant prices for seed grain and potatoes. Many pioneers never forgot the type of deals that they were handed at this point.
The settlers of 1878 and '79 came by way of the Commission Trail from Emerson. The following year many came by the way of the Assiniboine River to Millford, near Wawanesa, on stern wheeler, flat bottom boats, and spread south and westerly via the Rowland Trail which ran south from Lang's Valley to Rowland townsite 10-4-18. Here the trail forked. One branch went south westerly again to the Cherry Creek district, the other continued on south to the Wakopa area which was usually referred to as the "Wakopa Timber Trail."


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2016 Relentless®
"The 2016 Relentless offers deep, elegant, meaty, gamey aromas and flavors that are pure Syrah. These are fused with blueberry, black pepper, wet stone, and black tea. The vintage offers an ideal balance of immensity and energy, along with a beautiful, silken texture in the mouth, a lengthy finish, and ripe tannins that promise many rich, memorable years ahead."
— Shafer winemaker Elias Fernandez
Vintage and Production Notes
Release Date: September 1, 2018
Vineyard Location: A small ridgetop site and a foothills site along the Vaca Mountains just south of Stags Leap District.
The 2016 Growing Season: Plenty of rain in winter and spring ended a series of drought years and kicked off a long, warm growing season that produced clusters of fruit with radiant color, pure flavors, and enticing aromas.
Varietal Composition: 90% Syrah, 10% Petite Sirah
Brix at Harvest: 24.0° - 26.0°
Cooperage: 30 months in 100% new 60-gallon French oak barrels (Allier & Tronçais)
Alcohol: 15.8%
Suggested Retail: $95
Video: Relentless – the inspiration behind the name
Shafer's Syrah was named to honor winemaker Elias Fernandez and his relentless pursuit of quality.
The Relentless Story
Relentless is a blend of Syrah and Petite Sirah that originates in a rugged, sloping vineyard planted in the chaparral foothills of the Vaca Mountains, along Napa Valley's drier, cooler southeast corridor. The soul of the wine, though, comes from its namesake, our longtime winemaker, Elias Fernandez, who the Shafer family honors with this proprietary blend for his relentless pursuit of quality.
Relentless is a wine that originates in a rugged, sloping vineyard planted within the chaparral foothills of the Vaca Mountains, along Napa Valley's arid, cooler southeast corridor. For more than a decade this site has produced a consistently rich, elegant proprietary blend of Syrah and Petite Sirah.
The soul of the wine, though, comes from its namesake, Shafer's longtime winemaker, Elias Fernandez. Before the first vintage was bottled in 1999 and before the first label was printed, the Shafer family wanted this wine to honor Elias for the key attribute they believed put him in a class all his own – his relentless pursuit of quality in winemaking.
Tenacious mindset
Elias, born the son of seasonal farm workers, went on to graduate with honors from University of California, Davis and joined the Shafer team in 1984.
"His attention to detail in the vineyards and the cellar is unmatched," says Doug Shafer. "He inspects and tests hundreds of corks each year; he checks every new barrel coming into the winery for toast level, grain tightness, and more; every day we're bottling he comes to the winery at 5:00 a.m. and personally steam cleans every piece of equipment that will come in contact with the wine. He is truly relentless."
And so Relentless emerged as a testament to both a person and a place.
Original approach
Doug Shafer and Elias Fernandez originally conceived of Relentless as a field blend, meaning that the vineyard site was planted to 80 percent Syrah and 20 percent Petite Sirah. Since then the two grape varieties were picked, crushed and fermented as one. For ten vintages the Shafer team produced the wine in this style winning over consumers and critics alike. The 2008 vintage was named Wine Spectator's "Wine of the Year" in November, 2012.
In the first vintages, the wine was dominated by the Petite Sirah's blueberry, smoke and char aromas and flavors. But as years went by and the vines matured, it was the Syrah that began to take the lead position with it rich, meaty aromas and flavors in combination with more floral, perfumy characteristics.
Question Everything
As with each of their wines the Shafer team kept asking if Relentless had reached its finest expression. With this pursuit in mind the decision was made to move away from the structure of a field blend toward an approach similar to Hillside Select® in which only the most compelling, refined fruit of the vintage determined the make-up of the wine.
With this approach as a guide the 2010 Relentless was made as a proprietary blend of 94 percent Syrah and 6 percent Petite Sirah.
"Elias and I believe that this new take on Relentless gives everything that fans of the wine have loved while taking it to a new level," says Doug Shafer. "It's a style that we're very excited about, believing that it lives up to the wine's name and reputation."
Shafer Donates Land to Help Wildlife Rehabilitation
Shafer recently donated five acres of land to Wildlife Rescue Center of Napa County, which dubbed the site "Shafer Sanctuary," and has built an aviary on it to rehabilitate wild birds.
Beating TCA
At Shafer the Aromas and Flavors of 'Corked' Wine Are History. For more than 20 years the winemaking team at Shafer has been fighting TCA on multiple fronts and they're winning.
Shafer Announces the End of Corked Corks
Learn how Shafer is combining the running of an obsessively clean cellar with the latest innovations from its cork partners to cut the chances of a wine leaving Shafer with cork taint effectively to zero.
Robert M. Parker reviews a complete vertical of Hillside Select
After tasting through a complete vertical of Hillside Select (1983 to 2013), Robert M. Parker, Jr. has published his tasting notes. Click here for a complete version (PDF).


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Files in the Dataset have been checked for format consistency, and merged into a single, integrated, downloadable file.Download Entire Dataset Submit Data For This Cruise How to Cite Dataset
These cruise reports should be added to the DataSet for ar21_1991 leg 2. They are the same reports already in the DataSet for ar21_1991 leg 1.
These cruise reports should be added to the DataSet for ar21_1991 leg 2. They are the same reports already in the DataSet for ar21_1991 leg 1.
I just added new text and pdf versions of the cruise report to the /data/repeat/atlantic/ar21/ar21_a2 directory. Changes/additions include: 1) Expanded CCHDO Data Processing Notes 2) CCHDO-generated station location maps 3) Expanded standard CCHDO summary pages Both new versions are already online since they replaced earlier versions with the same names. The old versions were renamed and moved to the Original directory.
Notes on AR21 Leg 2 bottle data EXPOCODE 3175MB91_2 110309/dm 1. Original bottle data received from Bob Key as AR21a.leg2.Z on January 5, 2005. 2. AR21a.leg2.Z has no ALKALI data. TALK are in NOAA Data Report ERL AOML-24(dated April 1994) but are calculated data (uEq/Kg) and were not used. 3. DELC13 have no quality flags. Used flag 2. 4. CASTNOs do not match Summary file cast numbers from CTD data and NOAA Data Report ERL AOML-24(dated April 1994) Changed bottle data file cast numbers from all "1"s to Data Report cast numbers. 5. Bottom depths in AR21a.leg2.Z file differ from bottom depths in NOAA Data Report. Used Data Report values since they have better agreement with deepest bottle depths. For example, Station 4 deepest bottle is 5645m(5765db), Data Report bottom depth is 5908 and data file bottom depth is 3589m.


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Put in a considerable amount of time on organising a team building exercise for your team? But lo and behold, on the day of the event, you are greeted with muffled yawns and eye rolls while you relay the day's itinerary to your team. Not the response you were expecting, was it? Do you even know why is it happening?
Team building is crucial to an organisation's success. It gives the employees the much-needed respite from work and offers them an opportunity to forge trust and understanding to build a relationship with their colleagues outside of the workplace.
The benefits of building valuable relationships with your colleagues are manifold. Such a relationship among employees of the same department or different departments will help them understand each other's strengths and weaknesses, which will further allow them to coordinate more efficiently at work; encouraging a higher output and increased productivity. Apart from the increment in profits, team building also promotes a positive work environment. Team building, thus, has multifaceted advantages for a business.
While many organisations have realised the importance of a team-building exercise in the last few years, only a few have mastered the art of nailing it and getting the employees excited about the day; the others sadly fail due to lack of creativity and an efficient planning approach.
If you are struggling to get your team excited about a team building event, then the following reasons will help you to understand the situation better:
1. Your meetings lack creativity and vision
Creativity is the key to making any event appealing!
What have you done so far to make your event attractive enough for your employees to look forward to it? The following questions might sound familiar to you:
- Have you failed to take down notes from the last feedback that your employees shared, and planned an event which is as repetitive as it can get?
- Are you still practising the same old trust falls, human chains and other mundane activities to build confidence among your employees?
- Don't they get boring after a point; other than being least engaging and inefficient?
- Imagine, it's their day off from work, and instead of entertaining & engaging them, you are keen on making it an uninteresting day. Doesn't sound right, does it? They seek and expect more from your team building day.
- Your employees will not share any of the concerns mentioned above with you directly, but it is something that you have to realise yourself. Observation is the correct answer! These questions might be present in your mind already, but you are too naive to accept them right away, is that it?
Notice the reactions of your employees, and you will know what the truth about your activities is!
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Moreover, if your event is planned around a holiday, then expect a low attendance because your employees will have plans of their own for the holidays, and honestly, spending their day off in the office is not so appealing anyway.
Try to incorporate the activities during the work hours or plan corporate away days because if they feel that you are considering their personal lives or taking them on a fun-filled trip, then they will be happily obligated to enjoy your event.
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- Are you making the event mandatory for your employees?
- Are you trying to make them come against their will?
- What do you think will happen if you even think of doing this?
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You can also involve the employees in the planning process to attract them way before the big day. This will seem more welcoming to all of them, and especially, if their colleagues are a part of the event, then they might turn up to see what the event is all about. Engage them beforehand to engage them in the future!
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Final Rule Issued to Improve Tracking of Workplace Injuries and Illnesses
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The Occupational and Health Administration (OSHA) issued its controversial final rule to expand electronic recordkeeping requirements for the workplace on May 11, 2016.
The new rule provisions on reporting, which take effect on January 1, 2017, require various employers to submit injury and illness data electronically. OSHA is requiring each and every establishment (i.e., each separate workplace) with 250 or more employees in industries covered by the recordkeeping regulation to submit information from their 2016 injury and illness recordkeeping Form 300A by July 1, 2017. The following year, these employers are required to submit information from all 2017 forms (300A, 300, and 301) by July 1, 2018. Beginning in 2019 and for every year thereafter, the information must be submitted by March 2. For those employers who utilize an alternative to the OSHA Form 301, such as a workers' compensation first report of injury, as expressly allowed by the existing rules, these changes will in essence require that the employer also complete the OSHA Form 301.
Establishments with 20-249 employees in specified "high-risk industries" – identified on a specific list and including all employers in the agriculture, utilities, construction, and manufacturing industries – must submit their Form 300A by July 1 in 2017 and 2018, and by March 2 every year thereafter. Because the information is kept and must be submitted by each establishment, many companies will be required to submit thousands of reports every year.
Those employers with establishments that are not required to submit records yearly may still be required to submit information upon OSHA's direction. OSHA intends to provide notification of these data collections through direct mailings, publication in the Federal Register, and publication on its website and other notices.
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On an airplane, the handles controlling the throttle and the fuel mixture are often topped with ball-shaped grips, referred to by pilots as (what else?) balls. The cockpits I have seen have a ball on top of the flight stick (what used to be called a joystick before USAF deemed that un-PC), which the pilot uses with his right hand. The power stick (throttle), used with the left hand, and the one aj is referring to, is more like the gearshift in a Japanese car, a cylindrical grip.Balls to the walls would mean pushing the flight stick forward to the max, which causes the aircraft to pitch down sharply, reducing altitude and increasing airspeed really really fast - like Zeros did in WW II.I have no idea if that's the origin of the expression (joystick max forward).
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The University of Cape Town Teaching and Learning Conference on 20 October 2014 served as an opportunity to reflect on our teaching and to consider the complexities and challenges of teaching at UCT in the current South African context. More than 70 presenters replied to the call for submissions in July, and more than 65 sessions were held on the day.
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Reverie Interrupted
Besides learning how to complete tax forms and fill out checks, one of the saddest, inevitable aspects of aging is the gradual diminution of daydreaming. That isn't to say that there aren't adults out there who still pass the hours with their head in the clouds, seemingly idling away while their imaginations rev with steam power, but I beg to proffer a generalization when I say that most adults in our Capitalist system don't have the time or mental energy to dream like they used to.
This unfortunate phenomenon occurred to me last night after seeing Pacific Rim in IMAX 3-D at Universal's neon-lit CityWalk. Despite the obvious holes that even Guillermo Del Toro admits to, this film was an increasingly rare personal experience in which I was actually able to relax and enjoy a summer blockbuster and all the giant, sword-wielding robots it had to offer. But while beating back motion sickness for the thrill of prismatic kaiju-jaeger carnage, the thought occurred to me that if I were a twelve-year-old kid watching this movie, my mind would be racing to fabricate a myriad of subplots and potential characters, and as soon as the movie ended I would hurry home to manifest my alternate narratives via writing, illustration, or a long bout of daydreaming. As it was, the movie ended and I hustled home to collapse exhaustedly into bed.
It's a real shame that daydreaming seems to be a pastime literally and ideologically reserved for children. Even for those adults fortunate enough to still possess the active reveries of juvenescence, our culture seems to perpetuate a social stigma about daydreaming after a certain age. The phrase, "get your head out of the clouds," comes to mind when pondering the fact that idle behavior in adults is generally chastised by the United States' emphasis on productivity. Since youth, aging in America runs parallel to an exponential loss of time: our homework starts to amass in middle school to ensure that we'll be ready for high school; or social lives have to be marginalized in order to complete all the high school work that prepares us for college; college buries us so deep in post-college preparation that sleep becomes an irregular recreation; the five unpaid internships a city like Los Angeles demands from us and the secondary jobs we fill just to make rent consume every waking hour of the day in preparation for a career; and unless we're lucky enough to secure a relaxing schedule and ample time off, our careers become synonymous with "life." Of course it all peters out eventually, and one can only hope that the reinstated free time of retirement might kindle some sense of contemplative woolgathering… as long as the exhaustion of the years prior doesn't preoccupy the mind.
I think hispanic countries got it right when they established midday siestas as a cultural repose. Providing people with an opportunity to regain their energy and cerebrate at their leisure is a genius social strategy that not only aids in employee stamina but also in creative output. Daydreaming, while criticized as mere inattentiveness, self-absorption, and absentmindedness, is a progenitor of art and innovation. Back when I had the time and the energy to simply explore the contents of my imagination for as long as I saw fit, my artistic output was tenfold its current yield. Today, if I'm lucky enough to have a writing implement and jot down a creative thought when it galavants my way, I have to seek time to flesh it out, and by then I might already be preoccupied with the next fleeting fancy.
But I shouldn't be so quick to bellyache about the future to come, for having attended art school, I'm geared up for a career in creative ideation. Despite these occupational prospects, the expectations of most middle and lower class vocations that I grew up amongst are worrisome on the creativity front. Unless you have a job at Pixar or in an advertising agency, work schedules are not conducive to imaginative thought. And even with a creative occupation, daydreaming just isn't the same when you work to produce creative ideas versus spontaneously slipping into hours of free associative contemplation.
I suppose if there's any consolation to be garnered from this predicament, it's that even though the American system demands that we work hard to afford the necessities of life and work even harder to live leisurely, creativity continues to flourish. Eccentric couture designs continue to catwalk their way into fashion shows, anonymous muralists continue to adorn city streets with whimsical illustrations, teachers continue to create innovative curriculum to engage their students, architects and urban planners continue to brainstorm new strategies for cost effective living, and artists like those assigned to Pacific Rim continue to dream up bigger, more fantastical monsters. With creativity manifesting all around us every day, it's clear that innovation is not solely the product of excessive daydreaming, and with the help of these imaginative adults, creativity will continue to augment social progress. Yet despite this propitious silver lining, I can't help but wonder what this country would be like if everyone still had the time to dream with the same fervor that propels a child to build castles in the sky.


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1 Preheat oven to 190°C. Pat the Ingham's fresh whole chicken dry inside and out with kitchen paper. Combine the walnuts, cranberries, onion, sage and garlic in a bowl and mix well. Add the breadcrumbs, stock and butter, then season with salt and pepper and mix to make a stuffing.
2 Press the stuffing into the chicken cavity, then secure the opening with a skewer. Brush the chicken with olive oil and season generously with salt and pepper. Arrange in a roasting pan and bake for 1 hour 25 minutes, until the juices run clear when pierced at the hip.
3 Meanwhile, heat the sherry in a medium saucepan over a moderate heat and boil until reduced by half. Add the stock, then boil until reduced to 1½ cups. Put ½ cup of the mixture in a bowl with the celery salt and cornflour, whisk until smooth, then return to the saucepan and simmer until thickened. Carve the chicken and serve with the gravy and baked vegetables.
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Part of the beauty of the Audubon Center at Francis Beidler Forest is that nothing is exactly the same. The Four Holes Swamp watershed drains like a bathtub into the Edisto River just upstream from the Givhans Ferry State Park, so the water level in the swamp is never static. The trees are mainly static (sometimes they fall), but viewing them from a different angle makes one a first-time visitor again. There are no cages, so the wildlife comes and goes as it pleases and may not reward visitors with a glimpse. All of this has come to pass this week.
The heavy rains that fell yesterday and today have transformed the area around the boardwalk from a rapidly-drying mudflat to a rapidly-moving, 1.5-mile wide ribbon of water flushing through the swamp. If crayfish could, they would rejoice as the ever-shrinking pools of water made them easy targets for a variety of predators. The added water also extends our canoeing season! Fortunately, today's deluge did not occur until the Rogersville City, TN students had cleared the boardwalk and boarded their buses for home.
Although we've walked the 1.75-mile boardwalk through the old-growth swamp hundreds, if not thousands, of times, we always see something different. Today, Mac Stone, seasonal naturalist and photographer, released his impressions of the Francis Beidler Forest. His video is a collection of images that he has taken during his brief time here this spring.
This week's wildlife sightings included the Eastern Cottonmouth killing the Red-bellied Water Snake described in Wednesday's blog, Barred Owls feeding their young near #15 along the boardwalk, Raccoons leaving a trail of crayfish carnage, and Prothonotary Warblers feeding chicks and building nests. Entering the data collected during Project PROTHO into our Geographic Information Systems (GIS) software has begun to reveal the varying sizes of the nesting territories along the boardwalk. The territories out by Goodson Lake appear to be more desirable and are therefore smaller, while territories along the swamp's edge are considerably larger due to the lack of rivals.
Tomorrow, the National Audubon Society Board of Directors will have the opportunity to experience the wonders of Beidler Forest as they tour the boardwalk and enjoy a barbecue beneath the canopy!


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The class action launched in California at the end of April by plaintiff Mona Estrada - and other lawsuits similar to hers - has served to reveal an allegedly sinister side of a product that before now has always been held in the highest regard and totally beyond reproach: Johnson's Baby Powder - a heritage talcum powder product used for generations not only for a baby's bottom, but by women as a preferred and revered product for personal hygiene.
In Estrada's case, she had been using Johnson's Baby Powder for genital hygiene on a daily basis for 60 years or more. There was never any indication, Estrada holds, that talcum powder, which forms the basis for Johnson's Baby Powder, has been associated with a 33 percent risk for ovarian cancer when used by women on their genitals.
Studies have been inconclusive. Some have pointed to an ovarian cancer risk, whereas others have not. The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) maintains a habit of fence-sitting when studies are inconclusive in such fashion. However, a reference by the American Cancer Society that talcum powder "probably" increased the risk for ovarian cancer is enough to leave women aghast at the potential and possibility of a link between body powder and cancer.
Estrada notes that over the 60-plus years she has faithfully used Johnson's Baby Powder, she has seen the product label change over time. But there has never been any reference to even the possibility of ovarian cancer in concert with the use of talcum powder on female genitalia. Her position is, if it's a possibility, then it should be on the label and consumers should be allowed to know.
However, the removal of asbestos from talcum powder has not stemmed the tide of litigation. The typical talcum powder lawsuit is based upon asbestos-free talcum powder. In other words, talcum powder does not appear to require asbestos to pose a risk for ovarian cancer in association with use for female hygienic purposes. Talc, it seems, can pose that risk all by itself…


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Anna is a lonely woman, running her dead grandmother's flower shop. She hates Christmas and could not feel more lost when a handsome and mysterious Russian, Alexander, walks into her shop and her life. Each has secrets that they are harboring. Just as their passion erupts, the good old boys in town threaten to ruin everything. Getting to know each other is tough for most couples, adding in magic does not make it any easier. Now with a pack of werewolves out to destroy them, things become intense. They find themselves in a fight for their lives. Can their newfound love give them the strength to win against this threat and trust in the future?
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Mikhail is only in Paris to finding the missing heir to the German fox clan so that he can return to Russia and celebrate his last Christmas of freedom. Soon the Gathering would be called and he would be forced to find a mate. However, things become much more interesting than expected when he meet Ellie. Not only is his missing fox fierce and gorgeous, there is a connection between them that neither of them can explain. Before they can explore what is going on between them though, Mikhail must help Ellie as she faced some darkness from her past. Courage, magic, and maybe even love will help them both on a journey to find the future that they deserve. Can Mikhail and Ellie overcome their pasts and trepidation about the future in order to truly find the Christmas spirit and so much more?
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Although we had never met until I set about marrying his sister, he and I both unknowingly went to the same school – Bedford. As it happened, his other Brother-in-Law, and his wife's other brother also went there, so there must be something in the water of the River Ouse which flows through the centre of the town.
Anyway, the newspaper story refers to Jack Beresford, an oarsman from Bedford School, whose name has faded into most people's distant memory. However, in his day (the 1920s and 30s), he won 5 Gold and Silver medal in consecutive Olympic Games from 1920 to 1936, a feat only surpassed recently by Steve Redgrave. Leni Riefenstahl filmed him as part of her stunning "Olympia" project in the 1936 Berlin Olympics. That's quite a record.
The story in the letter recalls how Beresford not only carried the British flag at that utterly unforgettable event, but as one story goes, he so impressed Hitler by his prowess, that Hitler presented him with an Oak Sapling. This was brought back and planted in the grounds of the school (see Picture above), to be known thereafter as the Hitler Oak.
As the march of time, and more physically the march of New School Buildings, progressed, the the Oak was removed and the Biology Department took cuttings from it and these were planted throughout the school estate. Also, wood from the oak was kept back and used as bowshields for the successive generations of Bedford School Boat Club Oarsmen, with a formal signed authentication being added to each one by the Master of the Day to confirm their origin.
It does make you ponder about the Alumni of the School. I'm not a great "looker-back", and school holds mixed emotions for me – it was a very sports biased place, and my abilities in that direction were, in the words of a famous Cricket person, "never going to trouble the Scorers".
But a swift trawl over the Internet makes you realise how many individuals from the School went through the same training course as myself, and went on to achieve true greatness in multifarious spheres. The list I came up with, in about 10 minutes, is as follows. I've excluded a whole raft of hugely worthy individuals who, if you put them all together, seemed to run the Armed forces of this country for many decades. It must have been the CCF Army Training!
Harold Abrahams – immortalised in David Puttnam's film "Chariots of Fire" as the winner of the sprint in the 1924 Olympics
Dan Wheldon – Britain's most successful Racing Driver over the last few years, but you haven't heard of him because all his success is in the USA. Won the Indianapolis 500, and the last Brits with their name on that trophy were Jim Clark and Graham Hill – you wouldn't mind following on from those two geniuses!
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Cardio… PART II
~ From Dr. Chris Cherubino, Chiropractic Physician, Cherubino Health Center, https://cherubhealth.com ~
Last week, I raged about cardio and this week I would like to give you an example of why cardio is not only useless and time-consuming as a way to lose weight and get fit, but why it is potentially harmful to your metabolism…
A little background info first, when I say "metabolically active tissue" I'm talking about muscle. Muscle, as opposed to fat, does work, so it requires calories to use it. The amount of muscle a person has drives his/her metabolism.
I would like to be clear, though, I am not grouching at people who want to run marathons, climb mountains, or complete triathlons. Those activities are incredibly difficult and completing one is a great accomplishment. But to those of you who are trying to use massive amounts of cardio as a means of weight-loss… it's not particularly efficient. Here's why…
- The traditional idea of losing weight is that you need to be eating fewer calories than you spend to be alive. Doing cardio uses up some of those calories, putting you into a "calorie debt". For the sake of explaining this, let's use some nice round numbers. Let's say you need 2000 calories to do your life in this example (that number is called TDEE–total daily energy expenditure). The cardio you do is giving you a 300 calorie per day debt.
- Over the course of your cardio plan, you will begin to lose weight. You think, "yay! all this cardio is paying off!" Unfortunately, this is not totally true. While you were doing all that cardio, you WERE losing weight… but a lot of that weight was muscle. Let's pretend you've been doing this for a month. At the end of that month, you might have lost 6 pounds. What you're not seeing is that probably 4 of those pounds were muscle, since muscle is a better source of fuel than fat is from your body's perspective. That means that you have four pounds less metabolically active tissue to keep eating calories for you and your metabolic rate has gone DOWN! Let's say that your TDEE is now 1700 calories. Most people cannot keep up with a cardio plan like this for very long, so let's say you stop doing that cardio for a week or so and keep eating normally. You're eating 2000 calories per day, which would have been your TDEE before, but because of the muscle you lost, you're eating 300 calories over your TDEE now!
- Most people choose one of two options here, neither of which makes much sense. 1. Go back to the gym and do EVEN MORE cardio. or 2. reduce the number of calories you take in to below your new TDEE. Either way, you're pushing the cycle of your metabolism getting slower and slower while you're doing more and more work, either in the form of restricting and planning food or in the form of hours and hours of time-wasting cardio.
Now let's look at a better scenario. Your TDEE is 2000 calories per day. Instead of doing anything on or near an elliptical or treadmill, you hit the weights. Over the course of the month, your weight stays exactly the same, but your body fat percentage goes down a couple points. Now, your TDEE is 2300 calories and you are in a calorie debt just by being alive, without changing anything about your food. Additionally, because you're building muscle, your body looks shapelier and your heart has been getting conditioning from pumping extra blood into your exhausted muscles. As you continue with this strengthening plan, you can eat more food and still lose fat and have better cardiovascular strength as you go. Win-win-win!
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