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We operate in a highly competitive industry with low entry barriers and very little differentiation in terms of the services offered. While many companies claim that their people are their biggest asset, we at Seaways believe that the proof of the pudding lies in the eating.
Employee engagement is usually defined as the emotional commitment the employee has with the organization and its goals. It is a sense of great pride for us that a significant number of our employees have been with the organization for a very long time – ranging from 10 – 25 years! Evidence that the company takes care of them, while they take care of our customers!
In Seaways, you will pleasantly find that there is a flat hierarchy and very little bureaucracy, which enables us to anticipate and respond to the needs of our customers and other key stakeholders, swiftly.
Today, after an exciting journey of over 27 years, Seaways is poised for faster growth, propelled by the passion and hard work of our human capital. With a strong Management Team, robust structures and systems, innovation, teamwork and collaboration, and highly committed employees, the future has immense possibilities.
Join us to discover "The Power of One" and get set for a wonderful journey in the fast growing shipping and logistics industry.
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Being in the service industry, we understand that positive customer experiences are the most important drivers of growth.
We have an open and transparent culture, and a spirit of entrepreneurship is encouraged among our people. The shipping and logistics industry is an action-packed one, which calls for the right balance of proactive thinking, acting fast in challenging situations, and taking ownership.
One of the things that have worked great for us over the years is the fact that we have been risk-takers, and have always relished taking on new challenges head-on. We have stumbled sometimes, but have always learnt our lessons, picked ourselves up, and surged forward with renewed focus and vigour. No wonder, we have continued to remain profitable even during the difficult times of the industry.
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Sunday, 10 January 2010
Unexpected Weather by Abi Curtis
David Briggs on Unexpected Weather by Abi Curtis (Salt, 2009)
Unexpected Weather is the first full collection from Abi Curtis, an Eric Gregory Award winner and Lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of Sussex. At the heart of the work is an interest in the numinous and insubstantial quality of atmosphere and mood, most often rendered by elemental forces, predominantly air and water. This requires a deft touch. Curtis divides the book in two sections: Fata Morgana and Ignis Fatuus, both willo-the-wispy types of light-mirage seen in the sky, with the difference that the first kind is airier, and the second found closer to the ground, especially in marshy landscapes. Indeed, the few poems with an earthier quality, 'Mole' and 'Mycelium' in particular, are placed in this second half of the book.
A recurring image is that of liquids and gases, immiscible or otherwise, mixing and coalescing. In 'Loom' the approaching weather comes slowly, "stretching its limits like milk in a bowl of water"; in 'Soliloquy of a Molecule' the speaking molecule (a character that seems to discover itself through the course of the poem in a style similar to that of Ted Hughes's Wodwo) claims: "spin us fast enough in the guise of ink: / we'll form arabesques only we can discover"; in 'Tantric' the persona speaks of many kinds of embrace, and one "where the kind of love / combines milk with water"; and in 'George Gabriel Stokes' the eponymous scientist stands on the Giant's Causeway observing "the turning sea" thinking of a doctor who "pushed morphine through his blood". Indeed, this last poem, concerning itself with a man who helped to develop equations used to understand motion in gases and liquids, takes as its subject the scientific backdrop to the book's signature image of gases and liquids in motion. A later poem, 'Cloud', also immerses the reader in a "boneless … haberdashery of vapours" just as the speaker, in flight, imagines the grit and sediment of the ground as its opposite.
The slow-motion unfurling of milk in water, or morphine in blood, is an ideal image with which to illustrate Curtis's poetic style. The predominant use of free-verse pentameter lines allows for long, detailed stanzas in which Curtis builds a slow accretion of detail, making the poems unfurl with a mesmeric quality. Similarly, in another poem dealing with unexpected weather, Curtis slows the pace at the moment of describing a woman she has witnessed being struck by lightning:
"…if you watch anything through flashes
of lightning, it appears suspended
as if life were frame after frame and never moving."
But these atmospheric effects are also a way for Curtis to examine something more bodily – the coalescing of lovers, with rain, thunder, lightning, wind and cloud all functioning as fallacies for the amorphous shiftings in relationships. The opening poem, focusing on the painting of Lady Jane Grey's execution, kept in the National Gallery, transforms the canvas to a portal between the persona and a loved one, both of whom have imagined themselves into the scene, albeit at different times. The executioner is depicted as looking on his next client with "a kind of love", thereby mirroring (through Shakespearean punning on the loss of maidenhead and cutting off the heads of the maids), the consummation toward which the female persona is being led by her lover at the end of the piece.
And this exploration of what it is to be joined to someone, to trust them, is continued in another of the book's threads: the depiction of circus performers. The trapeze artist, who must trust her life to her partner, watches him walk away from each evening's performance in the arms of another woman. The lion-tamer and the bareback rider both seem to display an uncanny closeness to the animals in their act, yet also share a form of death-wish, bringing their intimacy with the creatures to a dangerous pitch: each night, after the show, the lion-tamer rests "head and hands / in [the lion's] dangerous halo"; the bareback rider imagines how a simple slip when careering round the big-top "might be enough to free us".
This is a striking collection, full of moody, breathy language. The emphasis on the natural world is counterbalanced by a number of scientific poems and references, but the whole thing is concerned with cloudy movement and transformation: whether that's a ghost in a nature reserve detailing the decomposition of its former body, the Scarecrow from L Frank Baum's The Wizard of Oz waking to find his "temples thrumming", a cranefly being wrapped by a spider like a ham in a larder, or a werewolf failing to remember how it made it home "smoky and besotted", Curtis clothes her mutable and airy themes in rich, earthy language.
* David Briggs' first collection The Method Men is due soon from Salt
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By Geoffrey Chaucer
Pity 1 Pite, that I have sought so yore agoo
Pity 2 With herte soore and ful of besy peyne,
Pity 3 That in this world was never wight so woo
Pity 4 Withoute deth — and yf I shal not feyne,
Pity 5 My purpos was to Pite to compleyne
Pity 6 Upon the crueltee and tirannye
Pity 7 Of Love, that for my trouthe doth me dye.
Pity 8 And when that I, be lengthe of certeyne yeres,
Pity 9 Had evere in oon a tyme sought to speke,
Pity 10 To Pitee ran I al bespreynt with teres
Pity 11 To prayen hir on Cruelte me awreke.
Pity 12 But er I myghte with any word outbreke
Pity 13 Or tellen any of my peynes smerte,
Pity 14 I fond hir ded, and buried in an herte.
Pity 15 Adoun I fel when that I saugh the herse,
Pity 16 Ded as a ston while that the swogh me laste;
Pity 17 But up I roos with colour ful dyverse
Pity 18 And pitously on hir myn eyen I caste,
Pity 19 And ner the corps I gan to presen faste,
Pity 20 And for the soule I shop me for to preye.
Pity 21 I was but lorn, ther was no more to seye.
Pity 22 Thus am I slayn sith that Pite is ded.
Pity 23 Allas, that day, that ever hyt shulde falle.
Pity 24 What maner man dar now hold up his hed?
Pity 25 To whom shal any sorwful herte calle?
Pity 26 Now Cruelte hath cast to slee us alle,
Pity 27 In ydel hope, folk redeless of peyne,
Pity 28 Syth she is ded, to whom shul we compleyne?
Pity 29 But yet encreseth me this wonder newe,
Pity 30 That no wight woot that she is ded, but I —
Pity 31 So many men as in her tyme hir knewe —
Pity 32 And yet she dyed not so sodeynly,
Pity 33 For I have sought hir ever ful besely
Pity 34 Sith first I hadde wit or mannes mynde,
Pity 35 But she was ded er that I koude hir fynde.
Pity 36 Aboute hir herse there stoden lustely,
Pity 37 Withouten any woo as thoughte me,
Pity 38 Bounte parfyt, wel armed and richely,
Pity 39 And fresshe Beaute, Lust, and Jolyte,
Pity 40 Assured Maner, Youthe, and Honeste,
Pity 41 Wisdom, Estaat, Drede, and Governaunce,
Pity 42 Confedred both by bonde and alliaunce.
Pity 43 A compleynt had I, writen in myn hond,
Pity 44 For to have put to Pite as a bille;
Pity 45 But when I al this companye ther fond,
Pity 46 That rather wolden al my cause spille
Pity 47 Then do me help, I held my pleynte stille,
Pity 48 For to that folk, withouten any fayle,
Pity 49 Withoute Pitee ther may no bille availe.
Pity 50 Then leve I al these vertues, sauf Pite,
Pity 51 Kepynge the corps as ye have herd me seyn,
Pity 52 Confedered alle by bond of Cruelte
Pity 53 And ben assented when I shal be sleyn.
Pity 54 And I have put my complaynt up ageyn,
Pity 55 For to my foes my bille I dar not shewe,
Pity 56 Th' effect of which seith thus, in wordes fewe:
Pity 57 Humblest of herte, highest of reverence,
Pity 58 Benygne flour, coroune of vertues alle,
Pity 59 Sheweth unto youre rial excellence
Pity 60 Youre servaunt, yf I durste me so calle,
Pity 61 Hys mortal harm in which he is yfalle,
Pity 62 And noght al oonly for his evel fare,
Pity 63 But for your renoun, as he shal declare.
Pity 64 Hit stondeth thus: your contraire, Crueltee,
Pity 65 Allyed is ayenst your regalye
Pity 66 Under colour of womanly Beaute —
Pity 67 For men shulde not, lo, knowe hir tirannye —
Pity 68 With Bounte, Gentilesse, and Curtesye,
Pity 69 And hath depryved yow now of your place
Pity 70 That hyghte "Beaute apertenant to Grace."
Pity 71 For kyndely by youre herytage ryght
Pity 72 Ye ben annexed ever unto Bounte;
Pity 73 And verrayly ye oughte do youre myght
Pity 74 To helpe Trouthe in his adversyte.
Pity 75 Ye be also the corowne of Beaute,
Pity 76 And certes yf ye wanten in these tweyne,
Pity 77 The world is lore; ther is no more to seyne.
Pity 78 Eke what availeth Maner and Gentilesse
Pity 79 Withoute yow, benygne creature?
Pity 80 Shal Cruelte be your governeresse?
Pity 81 Allas, what herte may hyt longe endure?
Pity 82 Wherfore, but ye the rather take cure
Pity 83 To breke that perilouse alliaunce,
Pity 84 Ye sleen hem that ben in your obeisaunce.
Pity 85 And further over yf ye suffre this,
Pity 86 Youre renoun ys fordoo than in a throwe;
Pity 87 Ther shal no man wite well what Pite is.
Pity 88 Allas, that your renoun is falle so lowe!
Pity 89 Ye be than fro youre heritage ythrowe
Pity 90 By Cruelte that occupieth youre place,
Pity 91 And we despeyred that seken to your grace.
Pity 92 Have mercy on me, thow Herenus quene,
Pity 93 That yow have sought so tendirly and yore;
Pity 94 Let som strem of youre lyght on me be sene
Pity 95 That love and drede yow ever lenger the more;
Pity 96 For sothly for to seyne I bere the soore,
Pity 97 And though I be not konnynge for to pleyne,
Pity 98 For Goddis love have mercy on my peyne.
Pity 99 My peyne is this, that what so I desire
Pity 100 That have I not, ne nothing lyk therto;
Pity 101 And ever setteth Desir myn hert on fire.
Pity 102 Eke on that other syde where so I goo,
Pity 103 What maner thing that may encrese my woo,
Pity 104 That have I redy, unsoght, everywhere;
Pity 105 Me lakketh but my deth and than my bere.
Pity 106 What nedeth to shewe parcel of my peyne?
Pity 107 Syth every woo that herte may bethynke
Pity 108 I suffre and yet I dar not to yow pleyne;
Pity 109 For wel I wot although I wake or wynke,
Pity 110 Ye rekke not whether I flete or synke.
Pity 111 But natheles yet my trouthe I shal sustene
Pity 112 Unto my deth, and that shal wel be sene.
Pity 113 This is to seyne I wol be youres evere,
Pity 114 Though ye me slee by Crueltee your foo,
Pity 115 Algate my spirit shal never dissevere
Pity 116 Fro youre servise for any peyne or woo.
Pity 117 Sith ye be ded — allas that hyt is soo —
Pity 118 Thus for your deth I may wel wepe and pleyne
Pity 119 With herte sore and ful of besy peyne.


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At Potamkin's Planet Dodge Chrysler Jeep RAM, in Miami Florida we sell new models such as the Grand Cherokee, Durango, Ram 1500, Town & Country and Wrangler Unlimited but also offer a fantastic selection of used cars. And, our repair & service center and parts department is second to none. At Potamkin's Planet Dodge Chrysler Jeep RAM, weee take the time to get to know each and every driver we mt. It doesn't matter if you're from Pembroke Pines, Davie or Pompano Beach; we get to know your driving style, needs, desires and maintenance habits.
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The Philadelphia native MC, Meek Mill is back in the news feed today. This time around the lyricist drops off a brand new track for our listening pleasures called "Glow Up." The track was produced by Honorable C.N.O.T.E., and finds Meek unleashes a barrage of his lyrical abilities.
Driven by some bass heavy drum work and some snappy, infectious melodies the track makes quite a home for Meek to do his thing and as expected, he doesn't fall short in the process. No word on where this track will end up, but we're hopeful to hear more from Meek coming very soon. Check out the new effort in the stream below and let us know your opinion below. Keep it locked for more new music coming soon!


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"To best illustrate her convincing analysis of actually existing jurisdiction, Pasternak asks us to sharpen our metaphorical guillotines — or our skinning knives — to lop off the head of the king, the sovereign, the head of state. What authority proliferates in the absence of this false symbol of power? Surely, in Turtle Island what remains and grows in the absence of the long shadow cast by colonialism are the robust forms of Indigenous legal authority: the enduring, preexisting, and co-developed authorities existing alongside imperial and colonial legalities. But from where does Indigenous authority derive? It certainly does not come from a divine ruler, the sovereign, or the most powerful political and territorial imaginary in history: the nation-state. These realms of "civilization" categorically consign Indigenous peoples to that lawless space where life is, to quote Hobbes, "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short." A place we can call death. On the other hand, Algonquin political authority, Pasternak powerfully demonstrates, derives from a multiplicity of institutions, individuals, and other-than-human agents that encompass the resilience of Indigenous life in the face of constant erasure, disappearance, and elimination."
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Paradoxes of Participation: Reflections on Jaskiran Dhillon's Prairie Rising
by Matthew Chrisler
How does participation in Canadian Reconciliation further the colonial governance of Indigenous peoples? This is the central question of Jaskiran Dhillon's new monograph, Prairie Rising: Indigenous Youth, Decolonization, and the Politics of Intervention (University of Toronto Press, 2017). Tracing the impact of nonprofit programs focused on intervening in the lives of Indigenous youth trapped in circuits of incarceration and social marginalization, Dhillon provides powerful new evidence for what Indigenous scholars and activists have argued is only a kinder, gentler colonialism.


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A small group of enthusiastic photographers were treated to a brilliant few days of great photographic opportunities and warm hospitality at Wild Bush Luxury's Arkaba Homestead in the Flinders Ranges. Thanks to Brendon, Kat, Richard and John for looking after the group and ensuring the first photo safari at Arkaba was a great success.
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Is Conjuring Series The Scariest Thing?
It is very difficult to script a horror movie in the correct direction especially movies like The Conjuring. However, during the past few decades there have been quite a few movies which despite the low budget have not only scripted history but have been critically acclaimed also.
James Wan has achieved this impossible feat in The Conjuring which has become one of the most profitable movies ever grossing a new high in Hollywood history. The movie is based on possessions which real life paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren witnessed. This movie is a throwback of old Hollywood horror movies.
Undoubtedly, The Conjuring is one of the scariest movies ever made but has become outstandingly successful.
James Wan seems to be an expert of horror. He has made seven sequels of his horror series Saw. His series Saw also made $873 million which made him the stalwart of horror. Another reason for the popularity of The Conjuring is that the movie taps into all our childhood nightmares and it seems that all of these have come alive.
The tension in the movie also builds from the initial scenes and it tightens its grip as the movie progresses. The movie was also based on real life events and experiences of paranormal experts Ed and Lorraine. While Ed died a few years ago, Larraine is still around and apparently helped James Wan with the script. This also contributed to the popularity of the movie and made it immensely popular among the audience.
The Cojuring released on July 19, 2013 and was able to gross $318 million worldwide. The popularity of this scary movie made the producer try hand at The Cojuring 2 which was released on June 10, 2016.
The movie depicts the story of Rod and Carolyn who find that their dog has died under mysterious circumstances.
They soon find out that they have a spirit in their home which is all set to harm their daughter Andrea. They then decide to call paranormal experts to deal with this situation. It is here that Ed and Larraine made their entry and helped the couple get over this agonising experience. The story has been depicted perfectly in The Conjuring which made it one of the scariest movies ever.


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SUMMERLIN, Nev., April 1, 2011 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Kona Grill gets "fresh" with an action packed evening event next Tuesday, April 5th, in Summerlin; located in Fashion Village at Boca Park. This all inclusive event will feature nyotaimori (the Japanese art of body sushi), upbeat house music from DJ Axis, as well as Kona Grill's award-winning sushi, appetizers and cocktails.
Kona Grill's Fresh event is in celebration of many new changes to the building and menu. An all-inclusive menu will feature signature modern American cuisine, familiar favorites and stunningly fresh sushi, along with handmade signature cocktails. All-inclusive tickets will be sold in advance for only $25 and at the door for $30.
"We're creating a lively social atmosphere for people to enjoy Kona Grill's diverse menu and sexy cocktails with this event. We know 'fresh and fun' is synonymous with Kona Grill, and we're hosting a party to celebrate that," said Derrick Brissette; General Manager, Kona Grill.
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When: Tuesday, April 5th from 6:00 PM - 10:00 PM.
Where: 750 South Rampart Blvd., Summerlin, Las Vegas, Nevada 89145, 702-547-5552
The Menu: chicken satay- ahi wonton crisps- potstickers- Las Vegas rolls- oriental chicken salad-veggie flatbread- grilled apple + brie flatbread- mini jerk chicken sandwich- pork tenderloin-assorted sushi rolls- assorted sashimi- brownie bites- salt + caramel crème brulee
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Sunday, March 31, 2013
Future Imperfect
-- Konstanin Tsiolkovsky.
We're all going to die..
Even if we stop all greenhouse emissions now, the sheer inertia of the planetary weather system will cause Earth's average surface temperature to rise dramatically, according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. It seems that the 21st Century is playing host to all four Horsemen, only they're wearing Armani and riding SUVs.
Maybe the increasing gradient won't be a tipping point that'll cause a runaway greenhouse effect ending in Earth becoming another Venus in a hundred million years or so. But it will cause rampant desertification, wholesale die-offs of sea life due to acidification, catastrophic rises in ocean levels, a supply crisis in potable water -- and that's not in some dim and murky distant future; that's in your lifetime, if you're in your twenties. If you're old enough to vote, you're old enough to float.
(That high-pitched whine you hear is Thomas Malthus spinning in his grave -- though not fast enough, unfortunately, to provide the alternative energy we'll need. And that dull thud was the world population hitting 7 billion as of Halloween, 2011 -- a date entirely too appropriate.)
Work with me here -- accept for a few moments that global climate change is a real, documented problem. All hope isn't lost -- yet. But we have to profoundly change the way we look at the future, and the role that we play in it. We can no longer afford to think short-term.
We have to start thinking in terms of Deep Time.
Robert A. Heinlein once said: "Earth is too small a basket for mankind to keep all its eggs in." Too true. Sooner or later we're going to be pulverized by a killer asteroid, or fried by a supervolcano, or ... pick any one of a dozen potential apocalypses.
The big-rock-dropping-in-unannounced scenario is particularly unsettling, because it could happen any time from within the next 10,000 centuries to -- well, now. This isn't hyperbole. Consider, if you will, several bullet points (with the emphasis on "bullet"):
In 1990, an asteroid big enough to cause destruction comparable to Hiroshima's A-Bomb hit us. That's right. Hit. Us. It didn't make headlines because the impact was in the middle of the South Pacific, far enough from land that there was no tsunami effect. But a few hours either way would have had people talking. The ones that weren't busy ducking and covering, that is ...
The year before that, Asteroid 1989FC missed us by six hours. The rock, if it had hit in water (the most likely scenario, given that 70% of Earth is covered with ocean) would have caused a mega-tsunami; a wave at least 300 times as powerful as the 2004 Asian Tsunami. (For those of you heavily into irony, 1989FC is also known as Asclepius, the god of medicine and healing.)
But we were tracking it, right? Had it in our crosshairs? Dream on. We didn't have a clue. A bunch of techs looked at the plates later and said, "Wait, what?"
One more? Why not -- it's not like there's a dearth to choose from. How about 2009 DD45? Roughly the same size as the Tunguska impactor of 1908 that rendered a thousand square miles of forest flatter than a crop circle, it skimmed us closer than the tattooed swastika on a skinhead's scalp.
Scared? You should be.
Bottom line: Earth is a big, slow target. And one thing we all learned from dodgeball is that it's better to be small and light on your feet -- and, if you can manage it, in several places at once.
The best way to survive is to get some of us, at least, the hell out of Dodge. The problem is that leaving is far easier said than done. We've got two obstacles that are, by any reasonable definition, insurmountable.
The first is distance. The only world other than Earth that we've visited so far is the moon, and it's the only one we're likely to visit again anytime soon. That's right; you might as well stuff any notions of reaching other star systems, including ones relatively "close by," back in your tinfoil-lined fedora, because even with the fastest rocket propulsion currently available, travel to the closest stars will still take millennia. Proxima Centauri, the next star over, is four and a half light years away, the interstellar equivalent of down the street and around the corner. Doesn't sound too bad -- until you remember that a light year is six trillion miles. Do the math on that one (hint: one trillion is one followed by twelve zeroes) and you'll get a vague inkling of the distances out there. Which means that some über-geek with coke-bottle glasses had better come up with warp drive in his parents' basement soon, because there's no way we're crossing the cosmos in first gear.
So let's consider our satellite. While it's close enough to make round trips semi-practical, it ain't exactly a garden spot. Could we set up a permanent colony there? Frankly, I doubt it. We don't have people living full-time and raising families at the South Pole, and it's Cancun compared to the moon. With temperature extremes that range over 500 degrees in a single step from sunlight to shade, an atmosphere less than one-trillionth that of Earth's, and worst of all, an omnipresent and highly-toxic layer of pulverized meteorite dust that, once through the airlock and into your lungs, can cause pneumoconiosis faster than you can cough up blood, the moon doesn't seem anybody's first choice for prime extraterrestrial real estate.
But -- location, location, location, remember? The one thing we can count on is that the moon will always be about the same drive time. Which is a lot more than we can say about only other halfway habitable rock in the solar system: Mars.
That's because while the moon is tucked away, nice and snug, in orbit around the Earth, Mars and Earth both orbit the sun -- and Mars' orbit is a lot more eccentric. Mars can be anywhere from 36 million miles to over 250 million miles from us. In travel time that works out to anywhere from half a year to a year and a half, which makes booking rooms in advance a real bitch.
Trouble is, it's the best alternative of all the other planets. Mercury? Like the moon, only hotter. Venus? Pretty to look at, but underneath those clouds it makes Hell seem hospitable.
Okay, how about the outer worlds -- Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune? They're not called "gas giants" out of sophomoric frat-house humor; there's no "there" there, no hard and fast boundary between lithosphere and atmosphere. And let's not bother mentioning Pluto; it's not even officially a planet any more.
Even if there were some place in the Outer Planets that was halfway habitable, the gas giants and their moons are so far away that they might as well be in another solar system. Grad students have lost cherries and gained doctorates during the decade and more it's taking the New Horizons probe to reach Pluto. And that expedition is only feasible because the onboard robot has no need for life-support. There's no way we can afford to send crewed exploratory flights on a three billion mile schlep. The amount of food and fuel alone needed makes it impossible to get a manned mission of that complexity off the ground. Not to mention water. It's true that recycling from sources best left unnamed can maximize usage, but eventually the stores have to be replenished. While there is water on the moon, there isn't enough to warrant establishing a full-time colony. Mars, on the other hand, has plenty of subsurface water, but again, the ratio of H2O to the energy required to land and dig for it is problematic.
So it looks like, for all its considerable drawbacks -- temperatures that only look good compared to the moon, the lack of a magnetosphere which makes a tan deadly, and a travel time about twice as long as sailing around Cape Horn (along with enough cosmic rays to give the entire population of Detroit superpowers) -- Mars is the best place.
Except ... remember I said two obstacles?
Space is big -- there's no getting around that. But as staggeringly complex as merely getting to another world is, there's a much greater problem once we're there. One which makes cosmic rays, temperature extremes and lack of atmosphere look easy. We can overcome these problems, at least in theory, with terraforming techniques. It would require engineering on a cosmic scale -- playing planetary billiards with icy comets to create oceans, putting orbital mirrors up to magnify sunlight, using hydroponics to "grow" oxygen and nitrogen. Given decades of global restructuring, Mars could be tricked out with a breathable atmosphere, a decent climate -- everything except one essential thing:
Gravity. That's the one thing we can't increase or decrease, since it's a function of mass. Mars is one-third the size of the earth, and has (more or less) one-third as much gravity. The moon has one-sixth. And we won't be changing either one any time in the near future. So, unless we're lucky enough to find another world tucked away somewhere close by whose gravitational pull is within 10 to 20 percent, plus or minus, of Earth's, we're screwed.
. The problem is that, no matter how many technological advances we make, genetically we're still just a bunch of hairless apes jabbing each other with pointed sticks on the African veldt. We evolved in a one gravity field, and when we spend prolonged periods out of it (such as a few months up in the space station), bad things happen.
How bad?
Real bad.
. Prolonged weightlessness causes, among other things, dehydration, musculoskeletal atrophy, anemia, mineral and electrolyte depletion, vertigo, and a whole host of other problems ranging from unpleasant to downright life-threatening. Back in the "Pulp Era" of science fiction, when space flight was still a testosterone-fueled dream, it was theorized that time spent in zero-gee would actually be good for the body. No stress on the joints or the heart would logically mean no wear and tear on other moving parts; ergo you might outlive Methuselah and remain as spry as Barishnakov.
Unfortunately, like so many rose-colored visions of The Future everyone had back then, pretty much the opposite holds true. Long-term weightlessness resembles, in syndrome, accelerated aging. Spend a couple of years in space (the average time of a trip to Mars), and you wind up looking -- and feeling -- like your grandfather. Sure, the process can be slowed somewhat -- by near-constant workouts. I don't know about you, but riding an Exercycle all the way to the Red Planet and back isn't a trip I'm particularly looking forward to.
And we haven't even discussed the physical and psychological effects (about which, admittedly, we don't know much yet, but the probabilities aren't looking good) of carrying a child to term and raising him or her in a lighter gravitational field. How will nine months in a womb on Mars affect bone structure? Muscle development? Brain growth? God knows.
And on top of all that, the latest findings indicate quite strongly that combined solar and galactic high-energy cosmic rays, zapping through the inner and outer planets with a reckless abandon that would make a Bangladeshi traffic cop's jaw hit the asphalt like Wile E. Coyote's, are several orders of magnitude more dangerous than previously expected. So, in addition to the dangers already listed in our Martian Odyssey, we can add making the trip in what is essentially an enormous microwave oven.
Doesn't look good, does it? Earth's on a fast track to disaster, the only other worlds we have even the faintest chance of reaching aren't even remotely pleasant, and just getting there can kill us. And there's no other world within practical reach -- certainly not in the next century or so, which everybody with a PhD is telling us is longer than we've got left here.
So what can we do?.
We can make a world.
Gravity is far and away the weakest force in the universe. Hard to believe, but the electromagnetic energy contained in a refrigerator magnet weighing a quarter of an ounce is more than sufficient to overcome the gravitational energy of the entire Earth -- which weighs, in case you're interested, 6,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 (six septillion) metric tons, give or take a few million. (Actually, the Earth doesn't technically weigh anything, since it's in a state of constant free fall around the sun, but let's face it; all those zeroes are pretty durn impressive.).
But while gravity is weak, it's also pervasive. Although it decreases with distance, it never really fades completely. The upshot being that the gravitational forces from the sun, the moon, Earth and the other planets all interact, creating whorls and eddies in spacetime like colliding river currents in a placid lake. These result in stable spots at certain locations, called LaGrange Points: areas of space where the orbital motions of bodies balance with their gravitational forces. There are five of them in the Earth-Moon system alone, and the L-4 and L-5 points are so stable that large objects plunked down in the middle of them will stay there, without course corrections, for a long, long time.
Gravity's not a problem either. If you're living on the inside of a cylinder instead of on the surface of a planet, it's easy (well, easier) to create "artificial gravity" by simply spinning the cylinder. Centrifugal Force pushes everything against the inner surface of the torus, just like in those old Tilt-A-Whirl rides at the carnival. It isn't a force in the classical sense; merely a moving body's resistance to a change in inertia. But who cares? The point is that the effect is indistinguishable from gravity. And if the cylinder's big enough, the inner-ear effect will be diluted, so you won't constantly feel like throwing up everything you've eaten since you were five. (There's also an impressive variety of antiemetic drugs available OTC to settle that queasy tummy.) .
What's more, the LaGrange Points aren't just confined to the Earth-Moon system -- there are points of stability everywhere that planets and moons do their complex orbital dances. Colonies built at these libration points are the only viable way of leaving Earth behind. Controlled environments, with regulated day and night cycles and normal "gravity," free from natural disasters and presenting much smaller, faster-moving targets for giant impactors, make a helluva lot more sense than trying to hardscrabble a living on the moon or Mars. While it is possible to build "gravity wheels" -- essentially enormous underground centrifuges to take up the inertial slack on the moon and Mars, it would probably take as long, and in the case of Mars at least, cost as much or more to build them than it would to build the habitats, once you factor in the extra distance and the mining of raw materials. It's cheaper and easier to use metals and ores from near-Earth asteroids that are "low-hanging fruit" and take advantage of the much finer production quality of zero-gee metallurgy, not to mention the vastly shorter commute. Besides, the quality of life possible in a habitat is limited only by architectural imagination, whereas once you've finished construction of a base on Mars, for example, you still have to deal with problems ranging from the niggling, such as that extra forty minutes in each Martian day, to the life-threatening planetary dust storms. Not to mention It -- the Terror From Beyond Space.
I trust I've made my point...
And eventually, once we settle in all nice and comfy, we can build smaller, sleeker craft with solar sails or other passive propulsion devices that'll take our descendants to the Centauri system, or Barnard's Star, or other "local" systems. Long before then we'll have space-based telescopes powerful enough to ascertain which stars have Earth-like worlds -- although our heirs will, in all probability, think it insane to leave our comfortable climate-controlled habitats to return to the chaos of a planetary environment. After all, would you seriously consider abandoning the air-conditioned environment of your condo for a damp and dank cave?
In August of 1962, President John F. Kennedy asked rhetorically, Why choose to go to the moon? "We choose to go to the moon," he said, "in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard. Because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win."
With those words, the thirty-fifth President sounded a clarion call that defined the Sixties for many as much or more than the war in Viet Nam, the music of the Doors, or the art of R. Crumb. It sparked the beginning of a decade-long, across-the-boards effort that united scientists, teachers, engineers, doctors, test pilots (the last group under the new rubric of "astronauts") and many others in a single goal -- to win the Cold War by beating the godless Commies to the moon. Because make no mistake; we needed a foe, a mysterious and implacable enemy, to rally the troops so that, on that glorious day in July 1969, we could stand proud as a nation on the dusty gray plain of Mare Tranquilatis and say to the Soviets in a voice strong and united: "Neener-neener-neener!"
Many felt that America's military, engineering and scientific communities have never been as unified regarding anything as we were behind the space program during those ten years -- despite the generation gap, burning bras and draft cards, and a distressing tendency on the part of circuit court judges to throw beardless youths into hardcore maximum security for a few decades just for possession of a single Jamaican Red joint. (On the other hand, it was Christmas all year long for inmates named Bubba and Cletus.)
To reach the moon, we crammed fifty years of technological development into a single decade. It won't be as easy this time. This time our foe can't be found in the gray monolithic hallways of the Kremlin or the Forbidden City. This time, as Walt Kelly's Pogo said, "We have met the enemy and he is us."
Which brings us back to Deep Time.
Instead of going for the quick fix, the (relatively) easy gratification, we'll have to adopt a mindset that we as a species haven't used for centuries: patience. We have to look back in order to move forward; back to the times when we routinely embarked on projects so monumental they took generations to finish. Projects like the cathedrals of Europe, the pyramids of Egypt, the aqueducts of Rome; projects of which the builders knew they would never see the completion; the trade-off was lifetime room and board (if not necessarily pay).
It was easier for people who lived back then to accept that one's father and one's son would be employed on the same venture, because back then the future looked much like the past. Change was slow and incremental; we hadn't reached the steep part of the curve yet, whereas today we've toiled up and over the top and are now in free-fall. Think of the world a hundred years ago: the majority of the population had never even heard the sound of an internal combustion engine nor seen an airplane, much less ridden in one. Most lived and died within fifty miles of their birthplace. The world's population was just over a billion and a half, and life expectancy for adults in America around fifty. Since then, there have been more changes -- technologically, biologically, sociologically, and in any other venue you can name -- in the 20th Century than in all of human history.
And as for the 21st Century:
"We set sail on this new sea because there is new knowledge to be gained, and new rights to be won, and they must be won and used for the progress of all people."
The stakes are far higher than Kennedy knew; far, far higher than few today will admit. Because what's at stake now isn't just progress -- it's survival. If humanity is going to make it, it won't be here on planet Earth. It'll be out there: outside the atmosphere, beyond the van Allen Belts, across the frothing sea of radiation and cosmic dust.
And the diaspora will be soon. How do I know this?
Because if it isn't accomplished soon, humanity is done.
But we don't have to be. We have most of the technology we need -- in fact, we are far more equipped and prepared to create the L-5 habitats with our current level of knowledge and ability than we were capable of landing a man on the moon a decade prior to Neil Armstrong's one small step.
It's our choice. Oh, sure, we can wait for the aliens to come, arriving against a background of theremin music and a strobing light show, and just give us the tech we need. But the chances of it happening from star-folk sporting heads the size of casaba melons and Seventies-style silver lamé jumpsuits? Put it this way:
In 1950, the physicist Enrico Fermi ruined everyone's lunch by asking one of the most troublesome rhetorical questions in astrophysics: "Where is everybody?"
The Fermi Paradox, as it came to be known, is simply stated: it cites the apparent contradiction between the high probability of extraterrestrial civilizations' existence and the lack of contact with them. According to the Drake Equation, it seems probable that many extra-terrestrial civilizations are ephemeral; if they form at all, they don't last very long. And that's the problem. Despite the unimaginable distances between the stars, what isolates us isn't space so much as time. Consider: Homo sapiens has only been around for a half million years, and we've only been broadcasting our presence for a hundred or so. And, after a brief spike in the 50s and 60s, our radio wave transmissions have fallen off sharply in recent years, because everyone's gotten cable. (Yeah, that's right; the chances of E.T. phoning us have dropped drastically because you had to have HBO.) Pop quiz: given the billions of years it takes life to develop on worlds such as Earth, what are the odds of some aliens just happening to intercept a Jerry Lewis telethon on their interstellar iPhone by listening in at precisely the right cosmic moment?
Your answer counts for half your grade.
The paradox of the Great Silence has only grown more salient with the discovery in the last decade of a huge bevy of exoplanets. With literally billions of earth-like worlds estimated in our galaxy alone, the chances are overwhelming that life must have developed on a significant portion of them, and intelligent life (if we define "intelligence" as the ability to imagine and eventually search for other civilizations) on at least a few. If no more than one other civilization made it further than we have, they could have seeded the entire galaxy with robot probes in a few million years. That sounds like a long stretch, but in terms of Deep Time, it's really not. The Milky Way is over ten billion years old; almost as old as the universe itself. A million years -- a million centuries -- is nothing.
Once SETI put its collective ear to the sky back in the early Sixties, we had every expectation of hearing radio waves from Out There buzzing, humming, stridulating and otherwise vocalizing juicy galactic gossip. Instead we got the lonesome interstellar equivalent of crickets chirping.
But -- even considering the few brief sparks of civilizations guttering in the vast cosmic night, such a plenitude of Earth-like worlds postulated still begs Fermi's question: Where is everybody?
There are a few hypotheses as to where everybody's hiding -- my favorite is the Prime Directive, AKA the Zoo Hypothesis, which should be self-explanatory even to non-Trekkies. But there's also a more sinister one, known as the Great Filter. It says that the majority of civilizations reach a point at which they either run out of energy and catastrophically return to barbarism, or make it past the crisis and enter a technological utopia.
Judging from the signal-to-noise ratio out there, it would seem that utopia is seldom achieved.
But "seldom" isn't the same as "never." I think that, if we want to join the galactic Kiwanis, we'll have to take the initiative.
We have to get the hell out of Dodge.
Imagine a future a hundred years from now: a huge factory station, one of dozens set in orbit high above an uninhabited world, where robot miners feed a constant supply of raw materials via space elevators up to us, to be fabricated into whatever we desire. It's certainly a pleasant vision of the centuries to come -- far more so than endless variations of Little House On Utopia Planitia. And we'll have the luxury of time to decide if it's for us or not. Time and space, and plenty of both.
All of eternity and infinity.
Mankind has searched for a way to secure passage into Heaven (without the inconvenient proviso of having to die first), for as long as he's walked upright. Prayer hasn't proven overly efficacious -- neither has abstemiousness, sacrifices or genocide. But now, finally, we have the tools; if we have the will and the fortitude as well, we can build Heaven.
It's that, or take our chances on an Earth that's all too rapidly going to Hell.
(c) By Michael Reaves All Rights Reserved
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- thewhalepeople.com said...
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I tried to remember your suggestions to me about my own personal aspirations to become a big name writer and was not quick enough to jot them down. I believe you mentioned three things: Write in the present tense, 2. Avoid He/She; I was not quick enough to jot the third one down - something about descriptive adjectives.
I really did appreciate your comments, though and always wish you the best. I actually knew Neil's parents (before his father died). His father had a great wit.
Best to you and high hopes for your resolution of PD. Jon Soeder artmanjs at yahoo dot com
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The Arctic Niche
UAF is the nation's Arctic University and CNSM plays a special role in educating undergraduate and graduate students who will become leaders in Arctic research. With climate change at the forefront of people's minds and concerns, there is a lot of research into how climate change is and will affect arctic regions as well as the entire Earth system.
Arctic research crosses over into all of our disciplines from using math to create models of glacial melt to studying the "greening" of the arctic as plants and shrubbery change on the tundra. Because of our unique role, our students are able to learn from and collaborate with researchers all over the circumpolar north. There are also opportunities for our students to study abroad in other arctic or even antarctic regions.


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Appendix 11b
Serbian Aid Society
With the outbreak of World War I, a large number of aid societies arose in the United States and Switzerland to provide relief for the Serbian, Belgian, and Polish people. Patrons established the Serbian Aid Society in Berne, Switzerland on 19 May 1916, to extend aid to Serbs across Europe, under the honorary presidency of Madame Slavko Grouitch, the wife of the Serbian Minister to the United States. The American branch of the organization was the Serbian Aid Fund, organized in New York City. The Serbian military collapse in 1915 resulted in the internment of large numbers of Serbian soldiers in German, Austrian, and Hungarian prison camps and the creation of a desperate refugee community in Switzerland. Madame Grouitch worked to collect donations for Serbian POW's (particularly for boy prisoners), students in Switzerland, and exiled officers' and functionaries' families. Ernest Sautter, a prominent member of the World's Alliance of YMCA's served on the organization's board of directors. The YMCA worked closely with the Serbian Aid Fund in other areas as well. Relief shipments bound for Serbian POW's passed through the Association's warehouse in Copenhagen and YMCA secretaries distributed the aid directly to the Serbian prisoners.1
The wide range of relief activities are outlined in this twenty-four-page pamphlet. Starting with a list of the prison camps in Germany, Austria, and Hungary that held Serbian prisoners, the publication provides a general report on relief activities and financial summaries. The section on the Serbian Hospital Fund provides an in-depth overview of the aid dispensed to Serbian POW's such as bedding and hospital garments, comfort kits for convalescent soldiers, sanitary and medical outfits, operating room equipment, sterilizers, tents and rubber blankets, motor trucks and ambulances, and a civilian refugee hospital. Another section addresses the efforts of the Fund for Serbian Officers and Functionaries' Families, which included relief work for Serbian students stranded in Switzerland and Serbian boy prisoners of war. The report then details a variety of fund-raising activities for the Serbian Section, including a Serbian booth at the Russian bazaar, charity work by auxiliary organizations, charity concerts, and the donation of office space. The pamphlet provides a series of lists, such as a summary of aid shipments to Europe by date and by ship; donated supplies; dispersements; a treasurer's report; and contributions by name or organization, which totaled $90,126.04 (contributions ranged from $1 to $10,290, which reflected the reliance relief organizations had on wealthy patrons while foreshadowing the need for popular-based fund raising campaigns). The report concludes with a sample of letters of thanks and appreciations written by the relief recipients.2
The second document was part of the Annual Report of the Serbian Aid Fund, 1 May 1917 to 30 April 1918 and describes how the YMCA worked with the Serbian Aid Fund to provide relief to Serbians. The report details Association assistance to Serbian students stranded in Switzerland. The second section focuses on the relief effort for Serbian boy prisoners of war incarcerated in Braunau in Austria and Neszider in Hungary. The Serbian Aid Fund worked through the YMCA War Prisoners' Aid office in Copenhagen and the Serbian Red Cross.
Note 1: Serbian Section of the Bureau of Relief for Prisoners of War, The Other Side of the Trenches, New York, NY: Serbian Aid Fund, ca. 1917. Armed Services Records Box 55, Folder: "Prisoners of War-Pamphlets in Various Languages-ca. 1914-1918," Kautz Family YMCA Archives, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN.
Note 2: Serbian Aid Fund, Annual Report of the Serbian Aid Fund, May 1, 1917 to April 30, 1918, New York, NY: Serbian Aid Fund, 1918. Armed Services Records Box 55, Folder: "Miscellaneous Publications," Kautz Family YMCA Archives, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN.


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It takes a team to make our community better. This collective effort supports and improves services to all residents of Seaside.
"I listen to the residents and peninsula leaders who will promote stepping forward with an open mind and vision for a greater Seaside."
Community Awards and Recognition...
"It takes a team to make a community better. This collective effort improves services to all Seaside residents"
Re-Elect Dave Pacheco for Seaside City Council


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Selma's Cabin B&B
The cabin is the first one built at Pinecroft by Arthur "Art" Caverly in 1934. He built it so that his wife, Selma might enjoy her Sunday afternoons reading in the beautiful, peaceful surroundings of the cabin. We too felt that this might be the perfect spot to share with visitors the beauty of Pinecroft, and the idea of a bed and breakfast was born. We hope that people will enjoy it as a spot to relax and reflect. Selma's Cabin has been renovated to provide 2 guest rooms separated by a living room. The west guest room "Selma's Studio"is named for Arthur & Selma Caverly's daughter Selma, who with her husband Jimmie Clennell started the pottery, and gave Pinecroft its name. The east room, "Art's Retreat" is named for Arthur Caverly, who had the vision and foresight to create the serenity of Pinecroft by planting the trees, dredging the pond and building the cabin. The living room is known as "Dave's Den" in memory of David Caverly, Art's son, who helped to build the cabins and provide encouragement and guidance for his family to carry on the spirit and tradition of Pinecroft.
Selma's Cabin is an ideal retreat for those looking to escape the hustle and bustle of everyday life. Each guest room has its own ensuite bath, coffee maker, deck and entrance separated by a central living room with a view of the pond. The living room has a field stone fireplace that burns fire logs and Netflix for relaxing as well as a bar fridge and microwave. There are no cooking facilities in the cabin as we serve breakfast in the main restaurant every morning to our guests between 9am and 10am. The cabin has two rates for renting depending on how many guest rooms are required.
Bed & Breakfast Rates
One Guest Room $150.00 per night
Two Guest Rooms $210.00 per night
Check in is 3 pm and check out is 11 am
Breakfast is included and served from 9 am – 10 am
Arrangements can be made to accommodate most check in and out times


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If you're interested in reading more on ideas presented in the article below, I suggest reading Simple Steps to Foot Pain Relief. If you'd like movement instruction via video, start with Schoolhouse Series Snacks: Toes and Calves.
Last month on our Facebook page I posted a link to a great article by Nicholas A Campitelli on What Happens To Our Feet When We Wear Running Shoes because it had great images that show how athletic shoes have a positive heel (yes they do, yes they do)! Read it (here) when you have a chance.
Not unrelated to a discussion on shoes, the weather is beginning to warm. Not everywhere, but in some places, like where I am right now:
(I am fully accepting jerk status from those of you still looking out your window and seeing white.)
No matter where you live, pretend it's warm enough to start thinking about "spring shoes," but before you reach for the flip flops, read this: When you wear shoes that don't connect to your foot (flip flops, slides, mules, slippers) this is how your lower leg and foot are forced to respond. (I've left out some of the foot as I am also cooking breakfast.)
The "grip" to keep footwear on curls some toe bones up and some down, drives the end of some bones into the ground creating higher-than-normal pressure (hello fracture!) and drives the ends of some bones up into the top of the shoe (corn, calluses). I won't even mention the the tension down the front of the leg -- you'll find it yourself during this exercise:
This "top of the foot stretch" helps undo the chronic tension in both the toes and in the front of the ankle. Follow it up with our gait-specific calf stretch:
For funsies, check out this celebrity's flip-flop grip! Then, do your own experiment: Slow your flip-flop walk a bit and check out what your toes reflexively do in order to keep your flop on.
Now go do your stretches again and read my book for more foot-restoring exercises (including whole-body ones that get the weight off the front of the foot. That is all.
(P.S. Just like correctives for people who wear heels doesn't only apply to high heels (running shoes have heels too), "flip flop" correctives are for those who wear ANY shoes that don't attach to your foot. Any and every kind of slip on. M'kay? And actually now that I think of it, they apply to people who wear no shoes but wear their pelvis way out in front causing the same compensatory motions and loads in the feet and lower leg. Which means these exercises are for everyone, the end.)
Carl, T., Barrett S. 2008. Computerized Analysis of Plantar Pressure Variation in Flip-Flops, Athletic Shoes, and Bare Feet. Journal of the American Podiatric Medical Association Volume 98 Number 5 374-378.
Shroyer, J., Weimar W. 2010. Comparative Analysis of Human Gait While Wearing Thong-Style Flip-flops versus Sneakers. Journal of the American Podiatric Medical Association, Volume 100 Number 4 251-257.


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Group: : Boston Terrier x Beagle
Weight: Male and Female 10-25 lbs
Height: Male and Female 10-17 inches
Life Span: 10-15 yrs
Coat: Short Smooth coat.
Temperament: The Boggle is a cross between a Boston Terrier and Beagle. They best way to determine their temperament is to look at both breeds characteristics. They could 50/50 or 40/60 or even 30/60. They make great family companions.
Living Environment:
They will do well living in an apartment with plenty of exercise. They are not as active in doors and a small space outside to run around will be fine.
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A private club featuring a 19-hole Fred Couples Signature golf course and a myriad of exceptional amenities and experiences. With panoramic views of the Sea of Cortez and the surrounding desert landscape, this invitation-only club elevates the traditional game of golf for its members, their families and their guests in addition to offering a variety of opportunities to discover the unique Baja desert.
As the centerpiece of the club, the Twin Dolphin clubhouse is an intimate, well-appointed gathering place for members, featuring a grill with a bar and indoor and outdoor seating, fully equipped golf shop and private men's and women's changing rooms with day lockers.
On the course are two Red Doors, designed as thoughtfully curated on-course amenities providing an added level of service and convenience to members. The Red Door at Hole 5 offers a fully stocked kitchen, while the Red Door at Hole 12 features a Palapa bar and grill with spectacular views.
Hone your game at Twin Dolphin Club's state-of-the-art practice facility featuring a driving range, short game chipping areas, putting greens, and a fully stocked bar. Members will also enjoy our four cabanas and fully stocked bar located on the practice tee.
Twin Dolphin Club is designed to be enjoyed by everyone, so all family members have the same privileges and access to the club as members without any additional dues. Niño's Tee boxes are located throughout the course to enable families to enjoy the game together as well as encourage beginners and youth players, featuring special tee markers and yardage plates to identify the Niño's Tees on each hole as well as a separate Niño's scorecard and yardage book.
Exploring the Baja desert is right at your fingertips at Twin Dolphin Club. Choose from hiking and mountain biking the 10 miles of trails that traverse the property, or enjoy a cruise aboard Twin Dolphin I, a custom 56-foot VanDutch day-yacht. The club also offers members access to the outdoor archery course featuring a variety of different targets and outdoor paintball course with multiple stations. The club's secluded Dos Arroyos campsite, outfitted with a cabana, a permanent tent, and a personal butler offers you and your family an unforgettable camping experience.
A robust schedule of club events, member programming and instructional clinics ensures your social calendar is always full at Twin Dolphin Club. From Night Golf to Ladies' Day Clinics to Sunday Family Scrambles, Twin Dolphin Club offers a variety of activities for everyone to enjoy.
Membership at Twin Dolphin Club includes many other benefits, including no required tee time reservations or restrictions on the number of holes members can play. Family members and guests enjoy the same access and privileges to the club and its facilities as club members, and all members and their guests are invited to participate in the club's dynamic year-round programming and events.
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Alcons Celebrates A Decade Of Excellence At ProLight+Sound
Alcons Audio, which marks its 10th anniversary of exhibiting at ProLight+Sound in 2012, will showing a number of new products and updates to existing models on Stand G60, Hall 8.0.
The highlight of the company's presence at the show will be a completely new product group, the R-range, which takes Alcons' legendary pro-ribbon cylindrical projection and coupling behaviour in new and different directions and brings the benefits of this unique technology to applications not previously served.
Another innovation is a new Q-series model. A completely new pro-ribbon transducer platform has been developed specifically for this system, which will bring the modular line-source column concept to acoustically challenging rooms in a new form.
The production version of the BC332 self-contained cardioid subwoofer system will be on show, which features newly designed woofers - direct-radiating 18" front and 15" back - both with four inch voice-coils. The same acoustic principles have been deployed on this model as on its bigger brother, the BC543, the 18" speaker being V-vented and the 15" speaker flank-vented. These ensure optimal breathing, increasing overall output while minimising port-compression.
ProLight+Sound 2012 also sees the official introduction of the Sentinel 12 amplified loudspeaker controller. The main focus with this proprietary-designed, four channel, DSP-based controller was bringing Alcons famous pro-ribbon sound into the digital amplification domain, while increasing the system's performance even further. Thus the unit features a four input/four output router, high-end hi-fi Class-D amplifier stages with 192kHz capability, AES/EBU inputs and is AVB network-prepared. Full-intuitive control is achieved via a large, full-colour touch-screen and illuminated multi-colour encoder.
The LR24 - Alcons flagship system - will be on show in its final guise. Utilising the company's pro-ribbon technology to set a new benchmark in terms of SPL, projection control and sound quality, the LR24 delivers the same levels as equivalent products in the same category, but with 15dB less distortion. No less than five new patents have been included in this mid-sized line-array system making, for the first time, the holy grail of 'Hi-fi at concert sound pressure levels' a reality.
Finally, in what has become a regular feature on its ProLight+Sound stand, Alcons will exhibit a new 'design study', providing a glimpse of its R+D activities by displaying assembled prototype developments, some of which may be applied to future products. This year sees a study on a scalable line-source system, combining full-range frequency response with very sharp directivity and very high output capability.
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Customized solutions complete with our robot solutions and the integration of additional manipulators made by standard robotics, providing tailor-made productive cell design.
We design and build engineered turnkey assembly solutions for the medical device industry, covering an extensive range of solutions to aid brings your device to market: inhalers, syringes and catheters, pen systems, diagnostic devices, infusion products and ophthalmic products.
Our experienced team is at your service to design, build and manage turnkey tailor-made solutions to suit the needs of your project. Our responsibilities can include both drug handling and medical device assembly thereby offering a truly unique turnkey solution.
We offer highly technological platforms and innovative technical solutions both for in-line assembly of several components and for the handling of individual products that require additional operations, as: folding, welding, inspection, printing, packing. We also offer customized production cells that integrate both assembly and inspection and packaging operations.
Our skill in the use of lightweight and composite materials enables us to offer side-entry robots with state-of-the-art speed and precision performance in the picking up of components, even with high-cavitation molds.
The strong synergy with primary I.M.M. and Mold Makers and our skill in developing control software enables us to develop robots perfectly integrated into the process and to achieve top-class performances.
We integrate a wide variety of technologies in our assembly systems thanks to partnerships with the primary manufacturers of control and process instruments. Furthermore, we are able to develop ad hoc solutions by optimizing and customizing the add-on technologies integrated in our systems.


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APCA UK raises funds for APCA's life-changing work across Africa, through grants from trusts and charities and sponsorship from individual supporters. We work to help fund particular APCA projects—improving a hospice, for example, or training nurses. And we help support key programmes, such as advocacy to get palliative care into African countries' national health plans.
A small group of voluntary trustees based near London, we also promote awareness of the urgent need for palliative care in Africa. Our individual supporters raise funds through sponsored events, from running to dinner parties, or make generous donations—often having benefitted from palliative care within their own families. Their support proves that each of us can make a real difference in the lives of people who live far away.
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Greetings pony card players!
We just wanted to provide a quick update regarding what's going on with the MLP plug-in considering that the official card list v2 was released today, featuring errata for all existing cards and the card text for the new Canterlot Nights set. A new version of the plug-in with all of the cards from this list is currently in testing, and should become available around the Canterlot Nights street date. This will add in all the recently released promos along with the full Canterlot Nights set.
If you feel like you could contribute to testing the new build, please email firstname.lastname@example.com and provide your Skype name.
In the meantime, we'd like to wish everypony much fun at the Prereleases happening this weekend! Remember to support the creators of this great game and your local stores – this tool is intended purely as a way to aid in playtesting and deckbuilding, not as a replacement for the actual game which wouldn't exist without card sales.