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Mohave Valley Fire donates pumper truck to school's fire science program
Fire science students in the Colorado River Union High School District have a new hands-on training tool: a pumper truck donated by the Mohave Valley Fire Department.
The 1987 FMC Class One pumper will be based at River Valley High School in Mohave Valley, but will also be used by students at Mohave High School in Bullhead City.
Mohave Valley Fire Department recently donated 25 sets of heavy duty firefighting clothing, or turnouts, as well as 13 breathing apparatus.
The truck and equipment are the latest in-kind donations to the fire science program by area fire departments, including Bullhead City, Fort Mojave Mesa and Mohave Valley.
"This truck can no longer be used for emergencies, but can be used for training," said Mohave Valley fire marshal Don Gibson. "We received a grant for a new Type One engine and pumper tender. The old equipment can't be re-sold, so this is the perfect use for it."
Fire department mechanics thoroughly inspected the pumper truck to make sure that everything was operational before it was handed over, Gibson said.
Fire science teacher Dale Stanfield said students may simultaneously dual-enroll in the Mohave Community College fire science program.
"If they follow the curriculum and recommendations, they get prepped here and within a year they're employable as firefighters and EMTs," said Stanfield.
There are currently 32 River Valley students enrolled in the program, along with 38 enrolled at Mohave High. That is a 20 student increase over last year, and enrollment has quadrupled since it was first offered by the Colorado River Union High School District as part of career technical education (CTE).
Fire science graduates of the District have been employed by five local fire departments as staff or volunteers, including Bullhead City, Ft. Mojave Mesa, Golden Shores, Mohave Valley and Oatman.
"Educating and mentoring home-grown talent is important, whether it's for the fire sciences or other professions," added Stanfield.
"Our primary goal with these donations and support is getting the students the information and training to move forward," said Gibson.
Additional information about the fire science program in the Colorado River Union High School District is available by contacting CTE director Gina Covert at 928-758-3916, x-1219.

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Wrapped Up in Bacon
Now it is bacon that has that satisfying sizzle, and bloggers, foodies, restaurants and chefs across the country, including in San Diego, cannot get enough of the fatty, crispy not-just-for-breakfast-anymore treat.
The rise of bacon has become a cultural phenomenon. Wikipedia has an entire page dedicated to the topic of recent "bacon mania." Now, there are special camps and retreats for bacon lovers where they can get together to discuss all things sliced from the sides, belly or back of a pig. Need the perfect push-up? Try the bacon bra.
"It's sinfully delicious, and it's really fun when you start wrapping stuff in bacon," said Corey James, "Chief Baconographer" at bacon news website Bacon Today, which launched in June 2008 and reports more than 100,000 unique visitors per month.
"We went to the bacon camp in San Francisco and must have had 40 bacon items in three hours. Even for us that was tough."
Cookbook authors and food columnists have been talking about the bacon resurgence and its hot-food status for years. However, in their rush to snatch their own strip of the bacon craze, reporters and cookbook authors have been spreading a specious statistic in order to bolster their claims of a bacon rebirth.
Let's try to smoke out its origins, shall we?
James Villas, in the preface of his 2007 "Bacon Cookbook," touched on just how big bacon had become by mentioning the oft-repeated statistic: "Just the 40 percent increase in bacon consumption in the United States over the past five years might have justified my writing this book." Perhaps caught up in the mania himself, or just blinded by bacon grease, Villas will want to think of some other justifications, because that number is more bogus than bacon-flavored tofu.
There is "no way" the 40 percent figure is true, according to Ceci Snyder, assistant vice president of consumer marketing at the National Pork Board.
"We are aware of the increased attention bacon is getting and it's very exciting, but we have yet to see an effect on the real numbers. Bacon consumption has been steady for the last four years," Snyder said on the phone from Iowa.
As the bacon craze has spread, so has the fallacious figure. With viral Internet hits like the artery-nuking bacon explosion — a 5,000-calorie speed bump of sausage wrapped in woven bacon strips — and new products like Baconnaise, bacon vodka and bacon salt, newspapers picked up on the trend and wrote about how the country was ignoring health concerns and re-embracing bacon in old and new ways.
The earliest reference to the dubious digit predates the "Bacon Cookbook" and comes from the The Dallas Morning News, which wrote: "During the past five years, in fact, there has been a 40 percent increase in bacon consumption in the United States," in its Dec. 13, 2006, article "We are living in the Golden Age of Bacon." There is no specific source for the statistic, but the book "Seduced by Bacon" by Joanna Pruess is referenced throughout the article.
The most recent dissemination of the figure was from the Contra Costa Times, which actually quotes "Seduced by Bacon," published in October 2006, as saying "Bacon consumption is up 40 percent from 2003." Never mind the fact that this story was published on March 21, 2009, and therefore is referring to a completely different time period than The Dallas Morning News reference. Not only does "Seduced by Bacon" not have the 40 percent figure, it actually contains a different statistic that completely contradicts it.
"From 2002-2007, bacon sales are predicted to grow 15 percent," the book's introduction states. That number also has no specific source, but in the acknowledgments, Pruess thanks Snyder from National Pork Board for help with research.
Kathie Jenkins, a restaurant critic for Pioneer Press in the Minneapolis/St. Paul area, quotes the same number in a Nov. 11, 2008, article, again with no source, but decides to hedge her bets and be vague about the time period. "Bacon mania is sweeping the country. In recent years, there has been a 40 percent increase in bacon consumption in the United States."
Considering the hard data that is available, the bacon statistic simply cannot be true. A 2001 report from the National Pork Board put the previous five years' growth in bacon consumption at just 5 percent. Also, according to the USDA, annual per capita pork consumption barely budged from 1996 to 2006. So unless bacon magically replicates in the refrigerator like mold on cheese, there is no way Americans are eating 40 percent more bacon each year.
This does not entirely discount the emergence of a U.S. Baconation. Restaurants from San Diego restaurants to New York have bought into the rebirth with new bacon-centric recipes. The Linkery scoops up a house-made "lardo" ice cream with candied bacon. Restaurateur and chef Kelley Jones, who opened Suite & Tender in San Diego's Hotel Se earlier this year, created a maple syrup-glazed bacon appetizer for the menu that became an instant hit.
"It came about as a whimsical approach to typical bacon dishes. Everything is wrapped in bacon, bacon-wrapped shrimp, bacon-wrapped scallops. People love those things, but they love it because of the bacon. So I said let's do bacon and not wrap anything in it — it's one of the most popular appetizers."
The founders of Bacon Today added to the mania with the turbaconducken — duck stuffed inside a chicken stuffed inside a turkey wrapped in bacon — which was in turn used as a metaphor for the government's stimulus package by a news columnist. On April Fools' Day, a tongue-in-cheek video about squeezable bacon traveled the Web.
Bacon is big for sure; you can bank on that like cash in your bacon wallet. It's just not 40 percent-jump-in-five-years big, that's all. This isn't the first time mistakes have been made with statistics, and it won't be the last, but let this serve as a warning to future bacon buffs: If it sounds too good to be true, it's probably isn't. Tovin Lapan writes for SignOnSanDiego.com
10 slices bacon (your choice), cut in half
20 Ore-Ida Tater Tots
Dill pickles (optional)
Yields 2 to 3 servings.
Preheat oven to 425 F. Wrap a half-slice of bacon around each Tater Tot. Place the Tots on a rimmed baking sheet (to catch the bacon grease so it does not drip off the sheet in the oven). Bake for 15 to 18 minutes, until Tots are golden and crispy and the bacon is cooked. Remove from oven and put Tots on a paper towel-lined plate to drain excess bacon grease.
Mix equal parts of ketchup and mayonnaise to create a "special dipping sauce" for your Tots. As soon as the Tots are cool to the touch (but they taste best warm so make sure they don't cool too much), dip them in the special sauce and enjoy!
— "Bacon: A Love Story" by Heather Lauer, William Morrow.
1/2 pound margarine
1/2 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
2 cups sugar
4 large eggs
1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
Pinch of salt
4 strips bacon, cooked until crispy and finely chopped
Yields 1 (9x13-inch) pan of brownies.
Preheat oven to 350 F. Grease a 9x13-inch baking pan. Melt margarine in microwave. Stir in cocoa. In a separate large bowl, beat together sugar and eggs. Add flour and salt and mix well. Add cocoa mixture and bacon and stir well. Pour batter into prepared pan. Bake for 30 to 35 minutes, until you can insert a toothpick into center of brownies and it comes out clean. This is best served warm, even better with a scoop of ice cream.
— "Bacon: A Love Story" by Heather Lauer, William Morrow.
Bacon grease
3 ounces vodka
Dash Tabasco
Dash olive juice
1 slice cooked bacon
Yields 1 cocktail.
Lightly mist martini glass with vermouth and rim edge with bacon grease. In ice-filled cocktail shaker, mix vodka with Tabasco and olive juice. Shake well and strain into cocktail glass. Skim excess bacon grease from surface of cocktail. Garnish with bacon slice.
— Adapted from justaddbacon.com.
Tovin Lapan writes about food for www.signonsandiego.com. Contact her at [email protected]


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I got an email from a reader this week asking if I'd post about how my computer is set up for productivity. As I was going through my answer in my head, I realized that I'm also very geared towards security, which is frequently overlooked. So, behold: a post about how my computer is set up.
Almost all computers today are fast enough for the average load of tasks that a user will dump on it. Most laptops are light enough to be lugged around comfortably. Storage capacity is abundant across the board.
But the one big difference between computers that has been proven to affect productivity is screen resolution. Higher resolution displays allow you to spend less time scrolling and see more of whatever you're working on at a time. That's why time and time again, my number one criteria for buying a laptop is resolution.
To maximize my use of resolution, I try to keep everything else as small as possible. My taskbar is set to use small icons (and 'never combine' in the settings, so it's easier to switch between programs). In Firefox I use a single small-icon row for my address bar.
Wherever possible, I use the smallest font that's comfortable to read.
Web Browser
I don't bookmark anything that might be distracting. So if I want to check Reddit or Hacker News, I have to manually type in the URL. This keeps me from checking too often as a reflex. For the same reason, I also disable URL autocomplete.
I also make use of keyword searches, which you can do in Firefox by right clicking any search box on any site, and clicking "add keyword for this search".
The ones I use are:
g - google
e - ebay
gi - google images
c - craigslist
ct - craigslist (search only titles)
a - amazon
That way if I want to search for a book on Amazon, I just type "a bookname" into the search bar, and it automatically searches.
No Games
I don't have any games on my computer. I even deleted freecell and solitaire. In the past five years I've had two games on my computer, Portal and the new Monkey Island game. After beating each one I delete it so that I can't keep playing it.
I take the decision to install a game very seriously, because I know it will impact my productivity for several days. The only game I can imagine installing in the forseeable future is Diablo 3.
Good Folder Organization
I have a 12gb partition that has all of my work on it. There are only two folders in it, Projects and Resources. The Projects folder has subfolders, one for each project I am currently or was working on. Resources is stuff like photos, fonts, stock sounds for video, etc. - anything I come across that might be useful in a future project.
Having a unified way of storing files makes it extremely easy and fast to find stuff when I need it. Because this partition is outside of the "My Documents" folder and is so important, I never forget to move it from computer to computer, which is a mistake I made in the past.
Clipboard Manager
I use Ditto. It's a searchable clipboard buffer that lets me paste anything I've copied ever. It's usefol for copying and pasting two things, or for a quick backup of some text before I change it. Hard to explain how useful this is, but if you use it for a while, you'll see what I mean.
Offline Email
I use Postbox as my email client. It has search almost as fast/good as Gmail, but unlike Gmail it can be used offline (I think there's a way to do it with Gmail, but it's not as good).
Offline email is awesome because you can search your email without a connection (like in a foreign airport), and you can batch reply to email as well. I often do this on planes and trains.
The other thing I like about Postbox is that if you star a message it stays at the top. When someone emails me and I want to reply, but I don't have time immediately, I star it and see it as a reminder until I get to it.
Security is really important. I'm mainly guarding against losing my laptop and data loss, not so much hackers trying to get up in my business. Still, a lot of the precautions I take guard against that as well.
Encrypted Everything
I encrypt everything. Any new Core i5 or i7 chip has built in AES instruction sets, which mean that software encryption now has almost no performance cost. My laptop has four hard drives and they're all encrypted using Windows Bitlocker.
On one drive I also have an encrypted Truecrypt container which I use to store stuff like old email archives, journal entries, and a particularly embarrassing video journal I made when living in Project Hollywood.
If you don't encrypt your drives, anyone who gets your hard drive can go through all of your files and probably discover some or all of your passwords. Even if no one is "out to get you", you never expect to lose your laptop. Encrypting is important.
Frequent Encrypted Backups
Hands down the best backup solution is something called Tarsnap. The only problem is that you have to be a bit of a nerd to set it up. It does encrypted differential backups that are stored on Amazon's S3 service. There is no service that's more secure (Tarsnap is written by the FreeBSD security officer, is open source, andd uses your own key).
Important Data on SSDs
SSDs are far less likely to fail than conventional drives, so it's a good idea to store critical stuff on them.
My operating system and programs are run off two 64gb SSD drives that are RAIDed together for performance. I have a large standard drive that holds bulk data like downloaded TV shows, music, temporary video source, and other things I can afford to lose.
My last drive is a 48gb ExpressCard SSD that fits into a slot on my computer. That's where I store my Projects/Resources partition, my photos, and my "My Documents" folder. If I switch to a new computer, I can instantly hit the ground running just by unplugging this drive and moving it to the new computer.
Necklace Drive
This one has saved me unexpectedly a couple times. Around my neck I always wear a tiny 32gb USB flash drive. I've made it into a bootable Windows 7 install drive, and it contains a not-as-current-as-it-should-be backup of my projects folder.
I once did something dumb on a plane and totally screwed my installation of Windows. The laptop wouldn't even boot. Luckily I had my USB drive around my neck so I was able to reinstall windows. My important files were on a different partition, so I didn't lose any of them.
Smart Password Creation and Storage
You should really really really use a separate password for each site you visit. Here's why: let's say that I come up with a web app (like TaskSmash), and I did a really poor job of coding it, so your password is actually stored in plain text in my database (I didn't do this, of course, but some people do).
Now I now your email address and the password you use for my service. If you happen to use the same password for gmail, like almost everyone does, I can now "hack" into your gmail account without you knowing.
Keeping track of a lot of passwords is difficult. My suggestion is to use password hash and a password manager like Roboform or Lastpass to store all of the passwords. I like Roboform better, but use Lastpass because it has a great Android implementation.
A couple people complained about recent posts. The truth is that right now my life is a bit on the boring side: every day I eat a couple fantastic meals, spend most of my time working, read poker books, and then go play poker for a while. The consequence of reading a blog written by someone who follows his impulses is that it will sometimes be about stuff you're interested in, and sometimes not. Hopefully whatever I dive into next will be more interesting to those people.
More TaskSmash invites:
There's a downside to making your laptop completely unusable to a thief. If you set it up so that a thief can turn it on and use it (albeit without access to your sensitive stuff), you can use software like Prey to photograph the perpetrator and locate the machine. With a completely locked-down system you won't be able to do this.
There's a downside to making your laptop completely unusable to a thief. If you set it up so that a thief can turn it on and use it (albeit without access to your sensitive stuff), you can use software like Prey to photograph the perpetrator and locate the machine. With a completely locked-down system you won't be able to do this.
You check out Prey here: http://preyproject.com/
thanks for sharing these tips! already testing several of these to see if they work out for me.
If some websites become really distracting, I'll temporarily block them by editing the windows Hosts file. I find that is enough of a barrier to keep me on track.
I'm curious what your system is for jotting down quick notes (ideas, to do, etc).
"...and a particularly embarrassing video journal I made when living in Project Hollywood."
Sounds like excellent content to use to fill the lull in the blog posts lately!
Thanks for your post Tynan. I'm implementing some of your suggestions. I only have a netbook that seems to only go up to 1024x resolution, so I might get an external monitor or flat screen tv with built in speakers.
Bookmarking is an issue for me as well. I find myself not using my keyboard for hours. (i.e one clicking away on the mouse)
Been reading your blog for years now. Sometimes I find your posts great, sometime mediocre, sometimes terribly boring. But I always keep coming back and will continue to. I love your blog. Some people lose sight of the fact that it is your blog, and you write what you feel like when you feel like it. As it should be!
Oh, and you have a small typo in this post "Now I now your email address and the password" should be "Now I know your email address and the password"
My keen interest in online security and privacy has recently blossomed into a full on obsession. Some may say it's because I'm eccentric and weird, but it's at least partly because of the crazy new laws going down in this country. There is an excellent chance that all of your e-mails and IM conversations are at the very least being analyzed and logged. I doubt anyone actually reads them, but you never know.
The common argument against online privacy measures is "if you have nothing to hide, why do you care?". True, I'm not some criminal mastermind, but it's not unreasonable for people to think that I am. Many people in real life think that I'm a drug dealer for some reason. The forums that I visit to read about privacy concerns are often hot beds for credit card scammers. I think credit card scamming is retarded and would never do it, but I'd hate to be accused of being guilty by association.
There are also a lot of people sniffing traffic. The average internet user doesn't realize that it's not particularly difficult to intercept traffic on the internet - especially if you're using a wireless or shared connection. Encrypted communication can be intercepted, but not decoded - making it useless.
Most everyone uses a computer. But a few of us, well, we play a computer like an instrument.
If you're on a computer for 10+ hours per day, this blog is for you.
By "instrument" I mean we know the in's & out's of the device. We know how to eek out maximum performance from it. We're the people who others just look at in wonder when our keys fly across the keyboard.
If you've ever found it excruciatingly painful watching others use a computer because of how slow the person is, then you know what I'm talking about.
These are just my tips, but really, I'm writing this because I want to know about your tips. I want to know what saves you time and makes you more productive. So please post comments below.


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Hi everyone,
I just installed Antergos and I love it. Having been a long term Arch user, I love the convenience of installation while maintaining the flexibility of Arch. The numix themes and icons are amazing and give a polished appearance to the desktop.
The only issue I have is a weird border I see around some applications (especially qt) only with the numix theme but not other themes like Arc. All the base application look good except the gnome-terminal.
I want to know if I did something wrong or if this is a theme bug that will be fixed in future. Also, is there anything I can do to fix it in the meantime. I really love this theme.


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Ana Gonzalez, MD to join Sylva Medical Center in early September
July 10, 2015
Gonzalez is a family medicine physician who received her medical degree from Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine at Marshall University and completed a residency at Cabell Huntington Hospital, both in Huntington, West Virginia.
Gonzalez is board-certified with the American Board of Family Medicine and is fluent in speaking, reading, and writing Spanish. She has experience treating patients of all ages in the hospital setting, managing acute and chronic medical conditions, as well as tropical diseases, and has also provided obstetrical care. In addition, she has training in international health.
As she joins Sylva Medical Center, which is located on the second floor of Harris Medical Park in Sylva, Gonzalez will focus on providing primary care to adult patients along with the practice's internal medicine physicians Randall Provost, MD, Lee Ann Manthorne, DO, Steven Queen, MD, and Elizabeth Dixon, MD.
Gonzalez is the 10th physician to join WestCare in 2014. In addition to family and internal medicine, WestCare has welcomed physicians in the specialties of obstetrics/gynecology, palliative care and hospice, emergency medicine, pediatrics, and pulmonology across its campuses in Sylva and Bryson City.
Gonzalez enjoys outdoor activities and recently relocated to western North Carolina with her husband and two-year-old son.
Appointments are available now by calling 828-586-8971. For more information and a full WestCare provider directory, visit www.swainhospital.org.


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So a few months ago I became obsessed with this pin from Pinterest:
Finally, even though I had no particular reason to make them, I went out and bought supplies to make my own princess peg dolls! I pretty much followed her tutorial exactly, although I did change the look of the dolls dresses/hair/etc a bit. This post will explain exactly how to make them, but to see her tutorial, just click the picture above or here: DIY Princess Peg Dolls.
I purchased my dolls from Jo-Ann's for about $2/bag (they came in bags of two). They are also called wooden game pieces. You can buy these in bulk online, if you plan on making lots and lots! Just Google them, or check Amazon. The acrylic paints used were just the one and two dollar bottles from Wal-Mart!
I looked on Google Images for quite some time, to get a better idea of the outfits for the princesses. After that, the real fun began!
First, I drew on the basics in pencil… (Below are Aurora to the left and Ariel to the right).
Then I began to paint! (Here are Cindy, Snow, and Jasmine!)
I used one color at a time, and when all the dolls needing that color were done, I would move on to the next color. (The buns were wooden beads I hot glued to the dolls' heads!)
The next two are from during the process (Please excuse the mess!)
Here is the final product!
You might notice I changed up Mulan's outfit from the other pictures – I hated her – and now Mulan is definitely my favorite! But I also love Tiana's dress… so cute! I might need to add bling to Cinderella and Belle, not sure yet if that will ever happen or not..!
I like the more classic look with small, black eyes that are fairly far apart, so all of the dolls have the same face.
Oh, and here is a picture of the backs as well!
There you have it! New princess peg dolls! I currently use mine for board game pieces, but I'm sure when my niece Addison gets older she will play with them! And hopefully a daughter someday…!


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|A small Catholic Church on the way to Rochester from Raymond.
|Roses in Raymond
|Scene standing in the front of the Raymond Post Office. I cannot resist pictures of these little trailers.
|Raymond Community Pool
|Pacific County Courthouse -- A National Historical Place being remodeled. It is located in South Bend.
|View of the Willipa River from a hill overlooking South Bend.
|Another river view in South Bend


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Email marketing will never die, so we may as well make it smarter
Email, an eternal point of macro-angst for pretty much everyone everywhere, is a source of joy for precisely one slice of the economy: the marketers.
No matter how much we whine about email on all the social media outlets that have failed to replace it, the truth is we still like being marketed to via emails. It seems insane, but it's true -- why else would email still be the most effective form of online marketing, even beating out search?
Keep in mind that, in general, we seem to be slow in adapting to new forms of marketing. Catalogs and flyers still dominated the social networks this holiday season, for example, influencing 22 percent of online purchases and 21 percent of offline purchases, a Baynote study reports. Facebook only influenced 15 percent of online purchases and 12 percent of offline purchases with Twitter and Pinterest coming in even lower.
And even though we spend more time online and on our phones than we do watching television, digital advertising shows no signs of eclipsing TV advertising in terms of ad dollars spent anytime soon. So perhaps it's no surprise that the most old-fashioned form of online marketing, the good old email, works best.
Vivek Sharma is a New York entrepreneur that noticed, amid a sea of attempts to kill email for good, there was a real business to be built in improving the way marketers reach their constituents. Thus, the idea of a "live" email and Sharma's company, Movable Ink. Launched in January 2011, the company built tools that pull live content into emails, tools that include social data in emails such as how many of your friends have opened the same offer, and tools that allow emails to detect things like local weather and instant success rates.
The company applied the idea of agile software development -- doing away with long development cycles and simply pushing code and updates live every day -- to email. "Marketing programs used to have to plan six weeks in advance… an email would be part of a two to three month cycle to put together, send and collect results," Sharma says. Now, if more people respond to a certain message, the marketer can update all the unopened emails in the same blast and so they reflect the most effective message.
It's magic! …for an email. And it's the direction all marketing campaigns are going. I can't count the number of times I've heard speeches from ad gurus, wizards, and ninjas on their plans to "kill the campaign." Digital media, and particularly social media and the content marketing, is an always-on job. The idea of the six-month campaign with a hard start and stop just doesn't translate.
Movable Ink spent most of the last two years heads-down, staffing up on sales people and focusing on client acquisition. Sharma says he initially wanted to avoid building a sales team. "The sexy thing to do is start a fast company," he says. "People come to website and put down a credit card and its easy to use." But he quickly discovered that that only works when you have a product in an existing category. With a new product like live email, clients needed education on the value of the product. So he worked out a sales pitch, hired four sales people, and they hit the pavement.
It worked: the company has grown 219 percent in bookings quarter-to-quarter, going from from 37 million emails at the end of 2011 to more than 1.4 billion in 2012, adding 60 large enterprise clients including American Eagle Outfitters, Disney, Express, Finish Line, and General Motors.
Backed by $2.8 million in venture capital from Contour Venture Partners, Metamorphic Ventures, ff Venture Capital, Kima Ventures, Joshua Baer, Bob Pittman, Andy Russell, Alan Laifer and Tom Chiu and with 18 employees, the company has a path for profitability, Sharma says. He's weighing between that and raising more capital for what he calls a "much bigger opportunity" around live email.
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In Memory
|Anderson—DeEtta (Olson) att., was born April 6, 1917, in Tolstoy, S. D., and died May 2, 2008, in Yakima, Wash. Surviving: husband Phil of Grandview, Wash.; sons Thomas att. of Spokane, Wash. , and Phillip Jr. att. of Grandview; and daughter Donna (Olson) Montague att. of Nashville.
|Blake—B Lorene (Gibbon) att., was born April 15, 1917, in Eagle, Idaho, and died Feb. 17, 2008, in Walla Walla, Wash. Surviving: sons Darrell of Tonopah, Nev., Gardell of Selah, Wash., Melin att. of College Place, Wash., and Gaylend of Walla Walla, Wash.
|Bohlman—Raymond att. was born Feb. 4, 1915, in Goodwater, Saskatchewan, Canada, and died June 11, 2008, in Walla Walla, Wash. Surviving: wife Alta (Chaney) att., of Walla Walla; son Larry '79 of Walla Walla; and daughter Donna Shelman att., of Apison, Tenn.
|Cook—Claire att., was born July12, 1934, in Colfax, Wash. , and died April 12, 2008, in Rancho Mirage, Calif. Surviving: wife Connie of Palm Springs, Calif.; son Paul Cook of Seattle, Wash.; and daughter Lisa Hirst, of Riverside, Calif.
|Clifford—Lawrence '61 was born March 31, 1919, in El Paso, Texas, and died March 14, 2008, in Paradise, Calif. Surviving: wife Donna of Paradise; sons Lawrence of Chico, Calif., Sidney of Grass Valley, Calif., and Douglas of Sacramento, Calif.; and daughter Carol McHenry of Laurel, Md.
|Chrowl—C. Eugene att., was born Dec. 23, 1931, in Seattle, Wash., and died Oct. 24, 2007, in Klamath Falls, Ore. Surviving: wife Nola of Klamath Falls; daughter Jan Chrowl '75 of Klamath Falls; brothers Keith of Salem, Ore., and Roger of Salem, Ore.
|Devitt—Archie '50 was born Dec. 4, 1920, in Milner, N.D., and died Dec. 16, 2007, in Longview, Wash. Surviving: wife
|A lifetime of service
|"When I get older and have finished college, I want to become a minister. There are many ways to spread the gospel, but I want to be a minister because I want to preach the gospel." Earnestly handwritten and signed by 11-year-old Jere Patzer, this simple note reveals the beginning of what was to become a lifetime of service to the Seventh-day Adventist Church. Jere received degrees in business administration and religion in 1969 from Atlantic Union College (Lancaster, Mass.), followed by a Masters of Divinity degree from Andrews University (Berrien Springs, Mich.). He directed youth ministries in the Pennsylvania Conference and in the Oregon Conference before he was named youth ministries director for the North Pacific Union Conference in 1977. For five years Jere worked at the NPUC—the headquarters for the Seventh-day Adventist Church in the Northwest—before receiving the call to become vice president for the Upper Columbia Conference in Spokane, Wash. In 1985 he was named president for the Upper Columbia Conference, a post he held for 11 years. In 1996, Jere returned to the NPUC as president, and was also named chair of the Walla Walla College Board of Trustees. During his tenure as chair, the board was involved in a number of initiatives, including Faith in the Vision, the $18 million campaign that replaced our administration building and funded other efforts to revitalize key areas of campus. Under Jere's chairmanship, Walla Walla College changed its name and identity to better reflect its curriculum, becoming Walla Walla University in September 2007. Jere served on the WWU Board of Trustees until his death from complications related to non-Hodgkins lymphoma on Oct. 26, 2008. Jere earned an MBA and a Doctor of Ministry degree, authored four books, hosted the radio program Issues and Interviews, and served as chair of the Adventist Health Board of Directors. Those who worked with Jere appreciated his lifelong dedication to serving others. During a memorial service for Jere on Nov. 15, 2008, at Meadow Glade Church in Portland, WWU President John McVay recalled, "He served energetically and ably, with a passionate dedication to the Adventist message and to seeing the church strengthened in the great Northwest." Jere is survived by his wife, Sue; two sons, Darin '96 and Troy '99; one daughter, Carissa Britcliffe; and his father, Arthur '43. He was preceded in death by his mother, Pearl att.
|Mickey of Longview; and daughter Kathleen Moor '74 of Kelso, Wash.
|Gates—Lee Orville '63 was born June 7, 1940, in Denver, Colo., and died March 20, 2008, in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Surviving: son Warren Gates of Seattle, Wash.; daughter Heather Wilson of Santa Rosa, Calif.; father Lee Gates Jr. of Grand Junction, Colo.; brother Garry Gates of Placerville, Calif.; and sister Sandra Drobny of Grand Junction, Colo.
|Green—Iris (Booth) '41 was born Jan. 21, 1918, in York, Pa., and died Jan. 29, 2008, in Franklin, Ga. Surviving: son Jordon of Guatemala; daughters Bethel Gordon and Esther Recinos of Franklin.
|Greene—Marilyn (Stickle) '70 was born Feb. 11, 1947, in LaCombe, Alberta, Canada , and died Nov. 4, 2007, in Big Pine Key, Fla. Surviving: husband Tyrone of Big Pine Key; son Andre of Big Pine Key; daughter Krystal of Big Pine Key; father Stanley Stickle; mother Ruth Stickle; and brother Donovan Stickle.
|Hallock—Sylvia (James) att., was born Jan. 3, 1923, in Eugene, Ore., and died March 14, 2008, in Walla Walla. Surviving: husband Howard '47 of Walla Walla; son Kenneth '75 of Buckley, Wash.; daughters Judy Schneider att., of Gentry, Ark., Brenda Mulder of Shafter, Calif.; brothers Gordon of Spokane, Wash., Wilbur of Dallas, Ore.; and sister Arlean Bechtel of Talent, Ore.
|Hamilton—Robert '34 was born Feb. 15, 1914, in Missoula, Mont., and died June 5, 2008, in Walla Walla, Wash. Surviving: son Robert att. of Conrad, Mont.; daughters Melissa Craik att. of Walla Walla, Candace Shermeta att. of Largo, Fla., and Shelley Kaylor att. of Walla Walla.
|Kruger—Sandra (Edwards) att., was born Sept. 22, 1946, in Toppenish, Wash.,
|In Memory
|Loyal WWU Supporter
|hyllis Hall loved hiking. As a marathoner and Pacific Crest Trail hiker, she had hiked all of Washington and Oregon trails and 700 miles of the California Trail. Phyllis and her husband, Don, founded Wellsource, Inc., a health promotion firm that develops health management
|and died Jan. 23, 2008, in College Place, Wash. Surviving: spouse Roger '68 of Pendleton, Ore.; sons Timothy att. of Walla Walla, Wash., Todd att. of Joseph, Ore.; father Donivan Edwards of Milton-Freewater, Ore.; mother Eilene Edwards of Milton-Freewater; sister Twyla (Edwards) Kruger att. of Walla Walla.
|Lamberton—Ned '61 was born March 18, 1925, in Brewster, Wash., and died Jan. 30, 2007, in McMinnville, Ore. Surviving: wife Margie Lamberton of Sheridan, Ore.; sons James of Brewster, Wash., and Thomas of Yakima, Wash.; daughter Ruth (Lamberton) Corson '78; and brothers Clark of Chiang Mai, Thailand, Lyn Lamberton att. of Harare, Zimbabwe; and sisters Chloetta (Lamberton) Kruegar att. of College Place, Wash., and Kay (Lamberton) Hanson '55 of Brewster.
|McLendon—Duane att., was born July 12, 1960, in Rapid City, S.D., and died Feb. 28, 2008, in Walla Walla, Wash. Surviving: wife Shelley of College Place, Wash.; son Thomas of Deltona, Fla.; daughters Jenna McLendon of Walla
|software and training systems for organizations that provide health and wellness programs for their employees. Wellsource products are used by more than 2,000 organizations throughout the United States, Canada, and China. Phyllis was also a loyal supporter of Walla Walla University. She graduated from WWU in 1968 with a degree in home economics, and contributed to WWU's most recently completed campaign, Faith in the Vision, which resulted in the new administration building and other capital improvements. She is survived by her husband, Don '68, of Happy Valley, Ore., son David '93 of Happy Valley, and daughter Heather Tourville '97 of Portland, Ore.
|Walla, Christian Kennedy of Cleveland, Tenn.,Tawney Minkel of College Place, Arica Schwedtfeger of Libby, Mont., Junnifer Cotton, of College Place, and Rachel Kline, of Walla Walla; father Thomas and mother Evelyn of Offerman, Ga.; brothers Ripley of Enterprise, Ala.; Marty of Deltona; Billy of Offerman; and Lance of Titusville, Fla.; sisters Wendy McLendon of Enterprise; Monica Allen of Offer-man; and Eva Wandersee of Liberty, Pa.
|Merickel—Charles '54 was born Sept. 20, 1916, in Mapleton, Minn., and died March 17, 2008, in Portland. Surviving: wife Stacia Merickel of Portland; son Charles of Gnomes, Texas; daughters Phyllis (Merickel) Wilson '71 of Portland; and Donna (Merickel) Judy att. of North Port, Fla.; and brother Robert of Chippewa Falls, Wis.
|Poole—Joan (Selfe) '52 was born Sept. 7, 1923, in Wales, England, and died March 19, 2008, in Salem, Ore. Surviving: husband Vernon Poole '51 of Salem; son David of Orlando, Fla.; daughter Elizabeth Poole of Salem; and brother William Selfe of Prineville, Ore.
|Pritel—Philip '36 was born Oct. 12, 1910, in Butte, N.D., and died July 19, 2007, in Vancouver, Wash. Surviving: wife Betty of Vancouver; sisters Emma Coffin of Watkinsville, Ga., and Alice Livadney of Harrah, Okla.
|Rasco—Jimmy '76 was born Feb. 17, 1938, in Borger, Texas, and died March 19, 2008, in Pullman,Wash. Surviving: Joanne (Carcich) att. of Albion, Wash.; sons Donald att. and Ronald att. of Moscow, Idaho; and brother Eddie of Borger, Texas.
|Stewart—Kenneth Lynn att. was born April 6, 1956 in Leavenworth, Wash., and died Jan. 31, 2008, in Port Orchard, Wash. Surviving: wife Carolyn of Port Orchard; daughters Crystal Jutte of Lynwood, Wash., and Tara Stewart of Port Orchard; father Kenneth of Cashmere, Wash.; and sister Jeannie (Stewart) Leno att. of Boise, Idaho.
|Wallace—Dorothy (Calvert) '87 was born July 19, 1920, in Hillsboro, Ore., and died Aug. 24, 2007, in Kent, Wash. Surviving: husband Felix '49 of Kent; son Edelidio of Las Vegas, Nev.; and daughters Elaine Phelps '76 of Kent, Beth Robison
|Blazing a Trail
|esides teaching as many as 24 credit hours per quarter, Dr. Eugene Winter '41 founded and shaped the physical education program at Walla Walla University. Dr. Winter was the chairman of the WWU physical education department for 32 years, and it is entirely appropriate that the Eugene Winter
|'76 of Lyle, Wash., and Rebecca Ryan of Tacoma, Wash.
|Watson—Roger att., was born April 16, 1929, in Milwaukie, Ore., and died July 26, 2007, in Forest Grove, Ore. Surviving: wife Mary of Gaston, Ore.; son Brian att. of Gaston; daughters Roma Clewell '84 of Carson City, Nev., Corinne Nieman att. of Gaston; and brother William att. of Grants Pass, Ore.
|Wilson—Roen (Bernard) att. was born Dec. 8, 1928, in College Place, Wash., and died March 6, 2008 in Longview, Wash. Surviving: husband Everett '51 of Longview; sons Duane '78, Daryl att. and David of Longview; daughters Diane Weseman '80 of Fife, Wash., and Debbie McClusky att. of Vancouver, Wash.
|Ziebarth—Verna '46 was born June 29, 1919, in Spokane, Wash., and died Sept. 13, 2007, in Grants Pass, Ore. Surviving: husband Lovel of Duarte, Calif.; son Jim Jr. of Grants Pass; and daughter Janet Hackleman att., of Grand Terrace, Calif.
Educational Complex, dedicated April 27, 1990, bears his name. Dr. Winter is remembered for building up the physical campus as well. During his tenure both the Alumni Gymnasium and Tausick Memorial Pool were built. He was a knowledgeable "rock hound." In 1979, he started "Prof 's Rock Shop" in College Place. Predictably, he pressed his hobby and his students into service, teaching his students to make rocks into pins, end tables and coffee tables to help raise money for the pool. Dr. Eugene Winter graduated in 1941 with a history degree. He was born May 18, 1916, in Clinton, Miss., and died Sept. 12, 2008, in College Place. He is survived by his wife, Carolyn '71, of College Place.


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It was on August 2nd last year that American journalist Steven Vincent was kidnapped in broad daylight along with his friend and translator Nour Weidi. Shortly after, they were both shot. Vincent died and Weidi was seriously wounded.
This was an astounding loss for those of us trying to understand what's happening in Iraq. Vincent's book In The Red Zone is an indispensable resource and a must-read for anyone that wants a clue about the nature of the battle in the Long Global War On Terror's central front.
In the month that followed Vincent's death, many tried to blame everyone except the terrorists who committed the act. Juan Cole waited until after Vincent was dead to respond to Vincent's criticism of his position on the war and politics in Iraq. British authorities, who had been severely criticized for basically caving in to the Shiite fundamentalists in the Basra area did the same.
The story exploded, though, when Vincent's widow, Lisa Ramaci-Vincent, responded to Cole's "informed commentary" but received no answer from the good professor. She posted the letter to Mr. Cole in the comments section of Murdoc Online, and I posted it in full in an entry I titled "It's Called Courage".
Here's a taste of what Mrs. Ramaci-Vincent had to say:
You did not know him – you did not have that honor, and you will never have the chance, thanks to the murderous goons for whom you have appointed yourself an apologist. He was a brilliant, erudite, witty, charming, kind, generous, silly, funny, decent, honorable and complex man, who loved a good cigar, Bombay Sapphire gin martinis, Marvel Silver Age comic books, Frank Sinatra, opera and grossing me out with bathroom humor. And if he was acting in a dangerous manner, he had a very good excuse – he was utterly exhausted. He had been in Basra for 3 months under incredibly stressful conditions, working every day, and towards the end enduring heat of 135 degrees, often without air conditioning, which could not have helped his mental condition or judgment. He was yearning to come home, as his emails to me made crystal clear. But on August 2nd, two days before my birthday, he made the fatal mistake of walking one block – one – from his hotel to the money exchange, rather than take a cab, and now will never come back to me. I got a bouquet of flowers from him on August 4th, which he had ordered before he died, and the card said he was sorry to miss my birthday, but the flowers would stand in his stead until he made it home. They are drying now in the kitchen, the final gift from my soulmate….
You strike me as a typical professor – self-opinionated, arrogant, so sure of the rightness of your position that you won't even begin to consider someone else's. I would suggest that you ought to be ashamed of yourself for your breathtaking presumption in eviscerating Steven in death and disparaging Nour in life, but, like any typical professor, I have no doubt that you are utterly shameless.
The post attracted quite a bit of attention across the blogosphere and beyond, and if Murdoc Online helped get some awareness out there about Vincent's work and the shameless campaign to blame him for his own murder, then I feel like I accomplished something. If I can convince you to read his book, I will feel like I accomplished even more.
In December, I noted an interview with Mrs. Ramaci-Vincent. In it she said she hopes to write Vincent's second book using the notes he gathered before his death.
I didn't know Mr. Vincent. But I know he will be sorely missed.
My thoughts go out especially to Lisa, who I've had the honor and pleasure of emailing back and forth with a bit over the course of the past year. I'm sure that the impending anniversary brings up a lot of things both great and sad, and I wish you the best.
Previous Steven Vincent-related posts on MO:
- Remember when Pres. Carter said US troops were igniting more violence?
- What do the Baathist Sunnis stand for?
- IN THE RED ZONE by Steven Vincent (Pt 1)
- IN THE RED ZONE by Steven Vincent (Pt 2)
- IN THE RED ZONE by Steven Vincent (Pt 3)
- Oh my God: American Journalist Found Dead in Iraq
- The whole "Steven Vincent is to blame for his own murder" theory
- What?: A Disgusting Smear On A Brave Man
- "It's called courage"
- RE: The letter from Lisa Ramaci-Vincent to Juan Cole
- Juan Cole replies…well, sort of
- Marshlands in southern Iraq recovering
- Interview with Steven Vincent's widow
- Cleanin' up the neighborhood


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11 September 2014
The Straits Times Index (STI) ended +8.65 points higher or +0.26% to 3347.28, taking the year-to-date performance to +5.76%.
The FTSE ST Mid Cap Index declined -0.05% while the FTSE ST Small Cap Index declined -0.05%. The top active stocks were DBS (+0.71%), Jardine C&C (+0.16%), Genting Sing (-0.83%), ThaiBev (+3.40%) and UOB (+0.57%).
The outperforming sectors today were represented by the FTSE ST Consumer Goods Index (+1.04%). The two biggest stocks of the FTSE ST Consumer Goods Index are Wilmar International (+1.26%) and Thai Beverage (+3.40%). The underperforming sector was the FTSE ST Basic Materials Index, which declined -0.28% with Midas Holdings' share price unchanged and Geo Energy Resources' share price unchanged. The FTSE ST Consumer Services Index declined -0.23%. The FTSE ST Real Estate Index gained +0.23%. The FTSE ST Utilities Index declined -0.07%.
The three most active Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) by value today were the DBXT FT China 25 ETF (unchanged), DBXT MSCI Asia Ex Japan ETF (-0.37%), IS MSCI India (-0.39%).
The three most active Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) by value were CapitaMall Trust (-0.25%), CapitaCommercial Trust (+0.30%), Ascendas REIT (unchanged)
The most active index warrants by value today were HSI24800MBeCW141127 (-1.99%), HSI25200MBeCW141030 (+1.09%), HSI24600MBePW140929 (+50.00%).
The most active stock warrants by value today were DBS MB eCW150106 (-5.44%), UOB MB eCW141201 (-6.04%), KepCorp MBeCW141201 (unchanged).
Singapore Stock Market
Thursday Wednesday
*ST Index 3,347.28 +8.65 3,338.63 -4.33
Volume: 1,194.1M 1,102.8M
Value: $855.5M $878.4M
Gainers/Losers: 181/219 156/275
Daily Market Commentary (Securities)
11 Sep 2014
The FBM KLCI index lost 4.74 points or 0.25% on Thursday. The Finance Index fell 0.26% to 17475.09 points, the Properties Index dropped 0.13% to 1503.2 points and the Plantation Index down 0.51% to 8518.06 points. The market traded within a range of 8.56 points between an intra-day high of 1874.67 and a low of 1866.11 during the session.
Actively traded stocks include KTB, SUMATEC, CME, EFFICEN, DGB, REACH-WA, TIGER, IRIS, PDZ and MARCO. Trading volume decreased to 2042.14 mil shares worth RM1918.08 mil as compared to Wednesday's 2180.93 mil shares worth RM2015.36 mil.
Leading Movers were BAT (+96 sen to RM72.50), ASTRO (+4 sen to RM3.34), MISC (+6 sen to RM6.90), PPB (+10 sen to RM14.76) and YTL (+1 sen to RM1.65). Lagging Movers were FGV (-8 sen to RM3.70), HLFG (-30 sen to RM17.90), MAXIS (-10 sen to RM6.39), SIME (-13 sen to RM9.25) and SKPETRO (-5 sen to RM4.23). Market breadth was negative with 412 gainers as compared to 430 losers.
The KCLI extended yesterday's losses by finishing 4.47 points lower at 1866.11, weighed by selling in selected heavyweight counters. The performance of our benchmark index was in line with most of regional peers, amid concern over the geopolitical implications of Obama's vow to combat Islamic State Militants.
Trade Summary
Date As of: 11 September 2014
Description Volume Value Frequency
Stock 6,825,367,100 5,722,280,610,855 226,542
Warrant 88,361,200 4,709,669,900 1,723
Total 6,913,740,900 5,726,999,277,555 228,388
Trading Summary
As of 11 September 2014 Unit: M.Baht
Type Buy Sell Net
Institution 6,116.86 5,673.69 443.17
Proprietary 5,728.05 5,936.16 -208.12
Foreign 12,015.83 12,190.80 -174.96
Individual 42,715.38 42,775.47 -60.09
Total Trading Value 66,576.12 M.Baht
Vietnam index closes nearly flat in lower volume Vietnam's benchmark VN Index closed nearly flat on Thursday in lower volume as many cautious investors stood on the sidelines after a sharp fall earlier this week.
A total of 129.41 million shares changed hands, down 8.6 percent from Wednesday. The index lost 2 percent on Tuesday due to profit taking, with volume hitting a record high of 280 million shares.
"We do not recommend buying at the present time, investors should continue monitoring the market for the next few sessions before making a concrete investment step," MB Securities said in a note to clients.
Shares of PetroVietNam Gas , the country's largest listed firm, ended flat at 121,000 dong ($5.7).
Here is a snapshot of the VN Index at the close
VN Index 628.99
SE Asia Stocks-Indonesia, Philippines indexes end down after expected rate decisions
Most Southeast Asian stock markets ended flat to weaker on Thursday after a bout of late selling, with Indonesian shares erasing early gains after the
central bank maintained key interest rates. Philippine stocks closed 0.2 percent lower after expected rate hikes.
Jakarta's composite index closed down 0.2 percent, with interest rate sensitive stocks such as Bank Rakyat Indonesia down 0.2 percent after a 1.2 percent rise in early trade.
Indonesia's central bank held its key interest rate steady on Thursday, as expected, but questions loom about how much the now-contained inflation rate might increase if the new president raises fuel prices to cut costly subsidies.
The Philippine main index eased 0.2 percent, weighed down by a 1.2 percent drop in shares of Philippine Long Distance Telephone , the country's biggest firm by market value.
The Philippine central bank raised both its policy rate and the rate on its special deposit accounts by 25 basis points on Thursday, its most aggressive move against persistent inflation amid buoyant economic growth.
Nine of 11 economists polled by Reuters had expected the central bank to tighten monetary conditions on Thursday.
Brokers in Bangkok said investors awaited U.S. data, including the U.S. Federal Reserve's statement middle of next week, to guage the direction of foreign fund flows.
Indonesia, the Philippines and Thailand posted net foreign outflows worth 599.8 billion rupiah ($50.74 million), 296 million peso ($6.74 million) and 175 million baht ($5.44 million), respectively, Thomson Reuters and stock exchange data showed.
Among bright spots, shares of True Corporation Pcl , 18-percent owned by China Mobile Ltd <0941.HK> , finished up 4.2 percent, after the telecoms operator said it expected to make a net profit in the fourth quarter of this year after years of losses.
Market Current Prev Close Pct Move
Singapore 3347.28 3338.63 +0.26
Kuala Lumpur 1866.11 1870.85 -0.25
Bangkok 1580.87 1582.13 -0.08
Jakarta 5133.03 5142.99 -0.19
Manila 7202.06 7212.78 -0.15
Ho Chi Minh 628.99 628.80 +0.03
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1.1 This test method uses reflectance spectra from the ultraviolet, visible, and near infrared region to produce an index of the temperature rise of polymeric siding above ambient temperature that occurs due to absorption of the sun's energy.
1.2 The test method determines the intensity factor of a sample color. The intensity factor is a function of the sample's reflectance spectra and the energy output of the heat lamp used in the test method Test Method D4803.
1.3 Appendix X1 provides a method for using the intensity factor to determine the maximum temperature rise of a sample under severe solar exposure.
1.3.1 A correlation between intensity factor and heat buildup (temperature rise) as predicted by Test Method D4803 exists.
1.3.2 The heat buildup (temperature rise) for a polymeric building product specimen is determined from its reflectance spectra and the correlation's regression equation.
1.4 Units—The values stated in SI units are to be regarded as standard. No other units of measurement are included in this standard.
1.5 This standard does not purport to address all of the safety concerns, if any, associated with its use. It is the responsibility of the user of this standard to establish appropriate safety and health practices and determine the applicability of regulatory limitations prior to use.
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BERGEN COUNTY, N.J. -- Just in time for cold and flu season comes Feel Better Pops , ice pops sold locally at The Health Stop in Wyckoff.
The story behind the health-oriented treats has a very "mom and pop" (sorry: couldn't resist the pun) story with ties to New Jersey.
The idea came when Owner (and Vernon native) Marisa Teiner developed a pop made with healing ingredients for her son, Chace, who was suffering from a bad stomach virus.
Teiner, who has a degree in Nutrition and Dietetics from FIU in Miami, FL and is certified in Health Supportive Cooking from the Natural Gourmet Cookery School in Manhattan, took the idea in June 2013 to the Rutger's Food Innovation Center in Bridgeton where she started the beginning phase of her company. She then reached out to Joe Flock, a food scientist from Pennsylvania to continue product development; he is now her partner.
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The modern menu has become a mix of foods from around the world. But it is still heavy on the fruit, roots, and grains of our American natives—albeit eastern natives and plants originally domesticated from central and South America. Cranberry sauce, succotash, the starchy side dishes and pies all have American origins. Some of the plants can be grown here; others have special requirements that would make it difficult.
I have a vivid memory of a rather tense discussion between my father and grandfather about the origins of that hard, candied fruit that sticks in your teeth when you eat fruitcake. One said it was a citrus, the other said it was a melon. These were two proud men, each sure of his position. The oldest child was eventually dispatched upstairs to look it up in the encyclopedia. The answer is at the end.
So to help your family resolve these factual disputes, here is some basic information about the Thanksgiving comestibles!
Vegetables and snacks:
The colonists didn't have any of these!
Vegetable sticks:
* Carrot -- Daucus carota sativa, and
* Celery -- Apium graveolens dulce.
These are cool season annuals; celery is from Europe and Asia, and carrots are probably from Afghanistan. Planted in early fall for winter and spring crops. Celery is surprisingly easy to grow, but a little tricky to blanch for the pale stalks you see in the store. So garden celery is green and has strong flavor.Carrots require loose soil or the roots will be misshapen, and the seed takes a long time to germinate. So it is often planted together with'
* Radishes -- Raphanus sativus
From the Mediterranean. Family: Brassicaceae (Mustard). Radish seeds germinate in days, and are ready to harvest in 3 – 6 weeks. Planted in fall or early spring in loose soil. The carrot seeds will just be sprouting as you pull the radishes.
* Olives -- Olea europea
Small tree, grown in full sun. Easy, ornamental, drought tolerant. Common allergy plant.
Mediterranean. Family: Oleaceae
Soaked in water, brine or lye to remove the bitter glucosides. Usually cured from green olives in California, then some are processed by bubbling air through the solution to make them turn black. Black (ripe) fruit are used for Italian and Greek-style olives.
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Brain Parts and Function
Brain Function, It's a Team Sport
The brain is the most complex organ in the body. It is the organ that allows us to think, have emotions, move, and even dream. Given this complexity, it should not be surprising that there are many ways to separate the parts of the brain. Brain parts can be separated on the basis of what they look like to the naked eye, under a microscope, or by what certain brain parts do. The brain and spinal cord make up the central nervous system and all of the nerves found in our body make up the peripheral nervous system.
When you see a picture of the brain you probably think of a wrinkled gray blob. Well, the wrinkles are called cortex and it is where the majority of brain cells or neurons reside. The cortex can be divided into four main lobes. The frontal lobe, where you do your heavy thinking, pondering and planning your actions; temporal cortex, where you process sounds and form memories; occipital cortex, where you process all the things that you see; and parietal cortex, where you integrate or makes sense of all of the different bits of information that are bombarding your brain.
The Hindbrain
Having evolved hundreds of millions of years ago, the Hindbrain or the Reptillian Brain is the oldest part of the human brain. As you might guess from it's name, it's a piece of brain anatomy that we share with reptiles and is the most primitive. Likewise it's in charge of our primal instincts and most basic functions. Things like the instincts of survival, dominance, mating and the basic functions of respiration, heartbeat all come from this area of the brain. Located in the Hindbrain are:
The Spinal Cord
The Medulla Oblongata
The Pons
The Cerebellum
This is the infomation superhighway of the body. It carries information up to the brain and instructions back down.
Helps control the body's autonomic functions (things you don't need to think about to perform) like respiration, digestion and heart rate. Also acts as a relay station for nerve signals going to/from the brain
Has roles in your level of arousal or conciousness and sleep. Relays sensory information to/from the brain. Also involved in controlling autonomic body functions.
Mostly deals with movement. It regulates and coordinates movement, posture and balance. Also involved in learning movement.
The Limbic System
The Limbic System sometimes called the "emotional brain" or "Old Mammalian Brain" is the next part of the brain to have evolved in the more primitive mammals about 150 million years ago. This is where our emotions reside, where memory begins and where these two functions combine together to mark behaviours with positive or negative feelings. It's where mostly unconcious value judgements are made. Information going through the Limbic System are filed under "agreeable or disagreeable". It also plays a role in salience (what grabs your attention), spontaneity and creativity. Located in the Limbic System are:
The Amygdala
The Hippocampus
The Hypothalamus
The Thalamus
It's name is latin for almond which relates to its shape. It helps in storing and classifying emotionally charged memories. It plays a large role in producing our emotions, especially fear. It's been found to trigger responses to strong emotion such as sweaty palms, freezing, increased heart-beat/respiration and stress hormone release.
This guy is all about memory and a little about learning. It's primary role is in memory formation, classifying information, long-term memory. Like the RAM in your computer it processes and stores new and temporary memory for long term storage. It's also involved in interpreting incoming nerve signals and spatial relationships.
It should be called the Hyperthalamus because it does so much. It's linked closely with the pituitary gland to control many of the body's functions. It monitors and controls your circadian rhythms (your daily sleep/wake cycle), homeostasis (making sure your body is running smoothly), apetite, thirst, other bodily urges and also plays a role in emotions, autonomic functions and motor functions.
The Thalamus is THE relay station in the brain. Most of the sensory signals, auditory (sound), Visual, Somatosensory (from your skin and internal organs), go through this organ on their way to other parts of the brain for processing. It also plays a function in motor control.
The Neocortex
The last and most advanced brain to evolve to date is called the Neocortex, neomammalian or rational brain. We share this part of our brain with other higher level mammals like the primates and dolphins, although in humans the neocortex is the largest. It takes up 2/3's of the human brain. This is where we find the brain power to develop language, abstract thought, conciousness and imagination. Let there be no doubt, this is what grants us our status on the food chain and allows us to be human.
The Neocortex is divided into two hemispheres, right and left. The right side of the brain controls the left side of the body and vice versa. Also the hemispheres are divided in terms of what kind of thought they process or produce. The right being more concerned with the artistic, spatial and musical. While the left is more concerned with the colder, linear, rational and verbal aspects. Located in the Neocortex are:
The Frontal Lobe
The Parietal Lobe
The Temporal Lobe
The Occipital Lobe
Broca's Area
The Corpus Callosum
This is the most recent evolutionary addition to the brain. If the brain had a White House it would be here. It is the true center for command and control in your body. The Frontal lobe is responsible for functions such as reasoning, problem solving, judgement, impulse control. This coupled with the fact that it's the last to develop when we are young adults, probably answers a lot of questions for many parents out there. It also manages our higher emotions such as empathy and altruism. This lobe is also involved in motor control and memory.
The Parietal Lobe is involved in processing pain and touch sensation. It's where the Somatosensory (from your skin and internal organs) Cortex resides. It's also associated with cognition (including calculating location and speed of objects), movement, orientation, recognition and speech.
The Temporal Lobe is involved in auditory (sound) sensation and is where the Primary Auditory Cortex and on the left hemisphere, Wernicke's Area (language recognition) are located. This lobe is also involved in emotion, memory and speech.
The Occipital Lobe controls visual sensation and processing. The Visual Cortex is resides here.
This part of the cortex controls speech, language recognition and facial nerves.
This is the neural bridge that connects the two hemispheres to each other, located centrally in brain.
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Playfield Institute is located within Stratheden Hospital, 2 miles west of Cupar, Fife, in Scotland. Below is a map of the Institute's location within the hospital grounds.
Please click here for a Google map showing the location of the hospital. If you are using a sat nav, the postcode for Stratheden Hospital is KY15 5RR.
Parking spaces next to the Institute are limited, so please park at Springfield House (shown on the map above).
If you are travelling to Playfield Institute by public transport, please visit Traveline Scotland for further information.
Note: it is advisable to use our postcode (KY15 5RR) when searching within the Traveline Scotland website.
If you are coming for a course, meeting or other event, please check the screen in the main foyer to see which room you should go to. Click here for the Institute floor plan.


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Today the BB started grade 3, and the Smallie went back to Kindy for the 2nd time, last Tuesday, 20th Jan 2015 was his 1st day. Last night as I put the boys to sleep in their bed, a bit earlier than had been the routine over the 6 weeks of the holidays, they tried every trick in the book they could to stay up, which they did anyways. The BB said, he was having scary dreams, even before he had fallen asleep. So I asked him to pray to Bapu, and say, "Bapu I am feeling scared, please hold my hand and put me to sleep." The BB said nothing, but The Smallie goes "Bapu hold Dada's hand, he is feeling scared, and put me to sleep." I had a good laugh ofcourse.
Today morning, which their lunch boxes and everything was packed, and the boys were sitting down for breakfast, the Smallie, opened his lunch bag, looked in, and said, " Aah! that's my sandwich. Looks like I have everything I need for Kindy!". And so off he went for his 2nd day in kindy-land.
Bapu bless my boys always, stand by their side and guide them at every step of life. Mi Ambadnya Aahe.


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As a not-for-profit organization, JCVI depends on donations to maintain and improve our laboratory and to recruit the world's best researchers. Now, you can have a direct impact on the course of modern science by giving JCVI the ability to transcend even more scientific boundaries. A host of naming opportunities is available for you to create your personal legacy with JCVI.
Research Laboratory Wing — $15,000,000
The single-story, 12,605-square-foot laboratory wing is home to 125 scientists and is where JCVI's most meaningful work happens. It includes wet bench research and dry research workspaces. The labs use an innovative "plug-and-play" casework system that allows researchers to modify spaces to suit their needs.
Courtyard — $5,000,000
Located between the laboratory and office wings of the Institute, the central courtyard is the heart of JCVI. The green space serves as both an informal gathering place for staff and as a setting for receptions and other special events. Photovoltaic arrays, which also generate power for the building, provide shade over the space.
J. Craig Venter Institute Archives — $5,000,000
Located on the second floor, the archives were formed in late 2005 to preserve, care for, and provide access to the JCVI History of Molecular Biology Collection. The Collection is a comprehensive array of documents and artifacts marking significant milestones in the history of molecular biology.
The collection includes original, rare, and unique primary source materials, including galley proofs, correspondence, photographs, offprints, edited and unpublished manuscripts, and laboratory notebooks from Nobel Laureates and renowned scientists such as Sydney Brenner, Francis Crick, Max Delbrück, Rosalind Franklin, Aaron Klug, Linus Pauling, Max Perutz, Maurice Wilkins, and James Watson.
Auditorium — $4,000,000
Located on the third floor, JCVI's state-of-the-art auditorium seats more than 100 guests. It is used for training, seminars, specialized workshops, and conferences throughout the year.
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The chairman's suite is situated on the second floor, overlooking the terrace and garden and with inspiring ocean views. The space serves as the workspace for J. Craig Venter and is also used as a meeting room.
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Large conference rooms (located on the first and third floors) serve all staff and provide spaces for board meetings, special seminars, and smaller-scale gatherings of students, staff, and visitors. Rooms are equipped with high-tech systems to facilitate video conferencing and communication with global collaborators.
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Permanently etch your name, or that of a loved one or science supporter, on a paver that will be placed in the courtyard for all JCVI staff and guests to see and appreciate.
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Not by might nor by power, but by my Spirit,
says Yahweh of Hosts. Zechariah 4:6
Lift up your heads, O gates, and be lifted up, O ancient doors,
That the King of Glory may come in! Who is this King of Glory?
Yahweh of Hosts: He is the King of Glory. Psalm 24:9-10
Proverbs 8:1
"Does not wisdom cry out, and understanding lift up her voice?"
Whatever may have been the satisfaction experienced by many devout minds in reading this chapter, especially the latter part of it, as if it contained the words of Christ and evidence of his pre-existent divinity, of his love from eternity, of his eternal purposes of mercy towards our fallen world, I dare not on this account withhold what I believe to be the true principle of interpretation. The objections to its meaning Christ or the Word before he became flesh, when "in the beginning he was with God and was God" (John 1:10), are to my mind quite insuperable.
1. It should be noticed that the passage is not so applied in any part of the New Testament. You will misunderstand me if you imagine that I adduce this consideration as any direct objection to the interpretation in question. It certainly does not follow that from the circumstance of a passage not being actually explained of Christ in the New Testament that it must not therefore be so explained. What I mean is no more than this: that from its not being so explained there, we are relieved from any necessity of so explaining it. Had any New Testament writer expressly applied any part of the chapter to the Son of God, this would have been a key which we could not have been at liberty to refuse. Such necessity then being thus precluded, the direct objections may be allowed to have their full force. Observe, then,
2. Wisdom here is a female personage. All along this is the case. Now under such a view the Scriptures nowhere else, in any of their figurative representations of "the Christ," ever thus describe or introduce Him. The application on this account appears to me exceedingly unnatural.
3. Wisdom does not appear intended as a personal designation inasmuch as it is associated with various other terms of synonymous or at least of corresponding import. Were it meant for a personal designation, like the LOGOS or WORD in the beginning of John's Gospel, this would hardly have been admissible.
4. That the whole is a bold and striking personification of the attribute of wisdom as subsisting in Deity appears further from what she is represented as saying in verse 12: "I, wisdom, dwell with prudence, and find out knowledge and discretion." Here wisdom is associated with prudence; and the import of the association is that wisdom "directs to the best ends and to the choice of the best means for their attainment." Prudence, or discretion, teaches to shun whatever might, in any way or degree, interfere with and impede or mar their accomplishment. This is precisely what wisdom as an attribute or quality does. And it is worthy of note that this association of wisdom with prudence is introduced by the Apostle as characterizing the greatest of the divine inventions and works--that of our redemption: "In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of His grace which He made to abound toward us in all wisdom and prudence." Wisdom was associated with prudence in framing and perfecting that wonderful plan.
5. It is very true that there are many things here, especially in the latter part of the chapter, that are in a very interesting and striking manner applicable to the divine Messiah. But that things which are true of a divine attribute can also apply to a divine person is no more than what might have been anticipated. The question is not whether particular expressions and representations can be applied naturally and emphatically to the Eternal Word, but whether they should be. The answer must be determined by such considerations as have been mentioned, and by the general scope of the passage and style of the Book.
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Proverbs 8:24
"When there were no depths I was brought forth, when there were no fountains abounding with water. Before the mountains were settled, before the hills, I was brought forth."
This is one of the very few passages adduced in support of the doctrine of eternal generation of the Son of God; that is, of his having been the Son of the Father from eternity according to his divine nature alone--mysteriously and eternally begotten in the essence of Deity. But there is evidently a previous question to be considered, namely, whether the Son of God in person is the speaker. Till this has been clearly and fully established, the words ought not to be quoted in evidence. And in my judgment, the considerations assigned in the last lecture render this interpretation much more than doubtful.
On the authority of the Holy Scriptures, I do firmly believe that in the divine essence there has subsisted from eternity a threefold personal distinction; but how, according to what mode, this distinction subsists I do not think the Bible at all informs us. All that has been said and written about the Father being the Fountain of deity, about the Son as "begotten but not proceeding," and the Holy Spirit as "proceeding but not begotten," has long appeared to me only as showing the eagerness of men to pry into the mysterious beyond the limits of revelation. There is ground to fear that such expressions convey no ideas. And yet, as often happens, the more remote the subject from all human comprehension the more fiery the dogmatism of the different parties! What hair-splitting niceties of distinction (often without perceptible difference) have been maintained and vindicated as if each of them for himself had succeeded in "finding out God," in "finding out the Almighty unto perfection."
Holding firmly the belief I have already stated, I do not believe it to be the doctrine of Scripture that any one of the Divine Three possesses divinity by communication. I am not for divesting our holy religion of any of the mysteries belonging to it that have clear Bible authority to support them. But I am very hostile to making mysteries beyond what that authority evidently affirms. And I am strongly inclined to think that the doctrine now referred to [eternal generation] is more than a mystery--it is self-contradictory. I am unable to think of communication without the idea of priority and posteriority, of supremacy and dependence, of inferiority as connected with derivation. Nor can I think of such communication, or generation, as eternal without a feeling of contradiction.
It was my anxiety to maintain the true, underived, independent divinity of the Lord Jesus Christ that first led me to doubt the prevalent systematic doctrine about "generation and procession from eternity." And the more I searched the more I became convinced that there is not one atom of Scripture evidence for the "eternal procession of the Holy Spirit from the Father and the Son," the only text adduced in its support (John 15:26) having no relation whatever to any such subject. The proper Deity of the Son of God--eternal, underived, independent--is incomparably better sustained (and the mind freed of all its feelings of impossibility and contradiction) by regarding the title SON OF GOD as belonging to Christ according to the complex constitution of his mediatorial person, as "God manifest in the flesh," a sense quite peculiar to Himself and of which the Scriptures abound in proofs.
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Proverbs 8:30-31
"Then I was beside Him as a master craftsman; and I was daily His delight, rejoicing always before Him, rejoicing in His inhabited world, and my delight was with the sons of men."
Wisdom was the constant companion or associate of all God's plans and all their execution, inseparable from God in all he purposed and in all he did, and "was daily his delight." I cannot but consider the word daily here as having immediate reference to the successive days of the world's creation. As the products of divine power and wisdom successively appeared on each of these days, the almighty and all-wise Creator delighted in the manifestation of his own perfections. Even God's intelligent creatures have pleasure in putting forth their faculties, and in witnessing their successful results. God's work is perfect, and His satisfaction correspondingly perfect. And what but this divine satisfaction can be meant when it is said, "God saw everything that He had made, and indeed it was very good" (Gen. 1:31); and afterward, that "on the seventh day He rested and was refreshed" (Ex. 31:17)?
The personification gets bolder still: "rejoicing always before Him." The counsels of wisdom, when carried into execution, advances the glory of God. And she is, in the figure, strikingly represented as rejoicing or exulting in this--rejoicing in His very presence--there being nothing in the results of her counsels of which she has any reason to be ashamed.
It is added, as the consummation of Wisdom's joy, "rejoicing in His inhabited world, and my delight was with the sons of men." There can be no doubt that Divine Wisdom delighted in the last creative effort of the sixth day more than in all that had preceded it: "In man the last, in him the best, His Maker's image stood confessed."
Wisdom was displayed in man's creation, but wisdom was to be magnified still more in man's redemption. The scheme by which this was to be effected should contain in it a display of wisdom unparalleled in any of the wonders of creative power and skill. It was to be a plan of mercy to the last, in which all the perfections of the divine character should be shown shining forth in blessed harmony, all equally glorified, all mutually illustrating each other, providing for the honor--the unsullied honor--of justice in the exercise of mercy and saving the fallen creature. All this was enacted without the slightest infringement of the rights of Yahweh's holy government or the slightest abatement or sacrifice of the claims of His eternally righteous law. Nay more, it was not merely without infringement of the divine glory, but with such an augmentation of it as should fill eternity with the adoring homage of an intelligent universe.
It was, we apprehend, especially on this account that Wisdom delighted here. Not indeed with any complacency in the character of fallen man, but with joy in the anticipation of a temple being reared on the ruins of his apostate nature. In this, higher notes of praise should sound to the glory of God (for his love and mercy, justice and purity, truth, wisdom and power) than had ascended to him from Eden itself. Yahweh as the God of man's creation was glorious. Yahweh as the God of man's salvation was to be still more glorious, and the delight of divine Wisdom was to be proportionally more elevated and exquisite.
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Drinking and wobbling... watching the dogs play
Looking out a front window at our new view
Flowers from our friendly neighbor, Jerry.
She was looking out of her playroom window, laughing at the dogs chasing one another
I know, I totally teased you. These are mostly just pics of Ava in the new house. I don't have everything in the right spot yet so I don't want to post pics until it looks "presentable". We (I) have been hard at work unpacking. I'm absolutely shocked how non-empty this house is... we had a lot of stuff. In fact, we didn't even have enough room on the truck to get it all in. Nope. We are going downtown tomorrow to get the remaining things out of storage and to take showers/ give Ava a bath... oh, did I forget to mention that we have NO GAS until Tues???!! Without gas, you'd be surprised how strapped you are. No stove usage (ovens are electric so that is good)... and no hot water. I was trying to think like a pioneer today... brainstorming of ideas to create a warm bath. I got as far as: get all slow cookers on high with water in the pots... but bake-safe dishes/ pans in the ovens (also filled with water)... and lastly, microwave the water... and maybe then, we'd have enough hot water to give a small rat an acceptable bath. This sucks... but so far, appears to be the only bad thing about this move. We had a few casualties (6 wine glasses), but other than that, things went pretty smooth. Ava is adjusting wonderfully. She loves her new playland. She just wanders about, babbling and taking toys from one room to another. She has a dedicated playroom which is just off of her room; it's nice to have a whole room to put her things when picking up the place. She is sleeping soundly... one tuckered-out little girl after all of the exploring she did today. The dogs are doing well, too.... all things considered. Biscuit has a major separation anxiety that pops up every time Ken leaves his sight, so... anytime we put them in the backyard by themselves, he stares into the door and barks and or cries. NONSTOP. I will admit, he was better today than yesterday... but still whining like crazy. I thought he would be stoked! Willy couldn't be more pleased. He has found his paradise. Crazy little weezer. They certainly are getting their exercise... they run for hours. It's awesome. When they come in (after scoping out every nook and cranny for a morsel of food... even licking AJ's leftover mac n' cheese that is on her cheeks) they pass out immediately. Nice change from the condo... :)


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The blaze is a big blow to Banff's tourist industry and a setback for an historic asset, said Mark Hendrikse, vice-president of marketing for owner Brewster Travel Canada.
Owner vows to rebuild historic Banff hotel after fire damages every room
Nearly 300 people escaped an early morning fire Thursday that badly ravaged the historic Mount Royal Hotel in Banff.
Fire crews from across the Bow Valley converged on the blaze that began on the 108-year-old hotel's roof and wrecked all of its 135 rooms.
The blaze is a big blow to Banff's tourist industry and a setback for an historic asset, said Mark Hendrikse, vice-president of marketing for owner Brewster Travel Canada.
"It's an historic hotel at the heart of the Banff experience but it's a good thing everyone was evacuated with no harm," he said.
It appears all of its rooms were severely damaged but said it's likely the hotel will be rebuilt.
"We're investing in it whatever it takes to get it back to its original form," said Hendrikse.
RCMP reported the fire at 2:32 a.m. after seeing a glow on the Mount Royal Hotel roof during their patrols and fire crews responded in less than one minute as the hotel is located 40 metres away from the Banff fire hall.
New Yorker Casar Jacobson was in a third-floor room when her mother burst through her door to raise the alarm.
"There was too much smoke, I couldn't see clearly in the hallway … I went back to a rear staircase," said Jacobson, 31, a former Miss Canada.
"The flames were quite big, and it looked like one of the fire trucks was leaving but it flared up again."
Jacobson said she probably lost all of her belongings, including Christmas gifts, to water and smoke damage, but added escaping put things into perspective.
"It makes you realize gifts aren't what matter at Christmas time," she said, adding she was given a $100 emergency voucher and put up in another Banff Ave. hotel.
All 297 guests of the hotel were evacuated safely and are being housed in nearby hotels. There were no reported injuries.
Banff Ave. was closed for hours as firefighters battled the blaze.
"The damage is extensive, and I have no idea on dollar loss," said Banff deputy fire chief Mike Geisler.
Along with Banff, fire crews from Lake Louise, Canmore and Exshaw were on site at 7:45 a.m. with two ladder trucks attacking the blaze from above while firefighting personnel worked their way through the three-storey building.
"We did a defensive attack and an offensive attack. We fought the fire from the outside and the inside," said Geisler.
Twenty-two firefighters from Banff Fire Department responded to the call, eight from Exshaw, five from Lake Louise Fire Department and eight from Canmore Fire-Rescue assisted.
Geisler added the firefighters are fatigued from the hours-long battle.
"We have rehab and we've got them food and coffee and … drinks. They're doing quite well," he said.
The building was undergoing some construction on its roof, from which it appears the fire may have broken out. The fire occurred in the building's older wooden section.
This is the third major fire in the hotel's history, the last occurring in 1967. The original hotel opened in 1908 on the site.
— With files by Russ Ullyot, Postmedia