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When Joyce (Penton) Schnoor picked up a Press Gazette over 30 years ago, she read an article that changed the rest of her life.
The article was about how there was no business for Christmas trees or Christmas tree farmers in the south because no one wanted them during the annual holiday.
Those were the words of a former agriculture commissioner. But Joyce and her husband wanted to prove the commissioner wrong, so they started up Whispering Pines Christmas Tree Farm in Milton.
Joyce and her husband Dean started the farm in January 1980 after Dean retired from the U.S. Army in 1979. They attended an organizational meeting of the Florida Christmas Tree Association held at the Forestry School at University of Florida, and the rest is history.
�It looked really easy to do,� Joyce said. �Dean kept saying it looked easy, but boy was he wrong.�
Years later, they perfected their Christmas tree farm. But their only interest is not just the Christmas Tree as they are set to participate in the Beaches to Woodlands Tour.
�We do a lot more than just Christmas trees,� Schnoor said.
During the Beaches to Woodlands Tour, Schnoor and her family give out free hayrides on the weekend. They also do other fun activities that Schnoor described as �corny�.
�We have a cow calling contest�whoever gets the cows to come to the fence by calling them gets a free Christmas Tree,� Schnoor said. �It�s kind of corny, but that�s how we are out here.�
The cow-=calling event takes place at 4 p.m. each day during the Beaches to Woodlands Tour leading up to Christmas Tree season.
Along with the calling of the cows, Schnoor said the farm is also going to have a haunted hayride leading up to Halloween.
�The haunted hay rides start October 19 and 20, the 26, 27 and 28 and we have it on Halloween too,� Schnoor said.
The haunted hayrides will take people on a tour through the farm. The cost will be $5.
The free hayrides given out during the Beaches to Woodlands Tour take place at 10 a.m., noon, 2 p.m. and 4 p.m.
�If we have someone come by and they want to do it at a certain time, that�s fine too,� Schnoor said.
Also during the tour, Schnoor said she and members of her family demonstrate how to plant baby Christmas trees. Something the farm owner and her husband found was not so easy to do back in 1980.
�We used to do those demonstrations on field trips with the local schools,� Schnoor said. �We think if people come here, they should learn a little something about the environment.
�There�s a lot of work involved in it.�
Schnoor said the farm also plans on doing something else for the Beaches to Woodlands Tour, but it is still up in the air right now.
�If the weather is good on Friday and Saturday night, we wanted to do a sitting around the camp fire type of hayride where families can come out and watch the stars and sit around a fire,� Schnoor said.
Schnoor said that just because it�s not Christmas tree season doesn�t mean there�s nothing to do on the farm.
�You meet a lot of nice people doing this,� she said. �We love the outdoors, and that�s why we do it.
�And more importantly, it�s fun for the family.�
For more information check out the Whispering Pines Christmas Tree Farm website at floridachristmastree.com. The website will be updated with more information and activities for the Beaches to Woodlands Tour as it rolls on throughout the month of October.
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A large Midwest helicopter operator was a new client of SilverStone Group's Aviation division. This client was challenged by the insurance policy requirements that affected third-party recurrent training for flight crews in his turbine fleet. The requirement increased the organization's financial burden due to the cost of outside training but, more importantly, left the organization short-staffed because pilot training was conducted offsite.
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Hi! I'm Leah. I write books for teens (and adults who are teens at heart). I live in Loveland, Colorado and work out of a converted Tuff Shed with squirrels on the roof and a view of the Rocky Mountains. Welcome!
I grew up in California and Colorado and attended the University of Northern Colorado in Greeley, where I earned a bachelor's degree in Communications. While I was in college I worked as a news announcer at two radio stations and wrote theater reviews for the campus newspaper.
After college, I moved to California where I worked for a variety of companies, including Disneyland. Eventually I settled in Silicon Valley, where I edited technical manuals for a defense contractor and did freelance writing and editing.
I also wrote comedy sketches and performed with an improv comedy troupe in the San Jose Bay Area. My sketches and voice work were featured on radio and television stations in San Jose and San Francisco.
I am married to my best friend, Marvin. We met at an advertising shopper that we both worked for in San Jose. The company had a no dating policy so we snuck around for six months until Marvin left the company. On his last day, he dipped me backward in front of everyone and gave me a big kiss, just like in the movies. Then he left the building.
We live with my father, our teenage son, John, a cat named Charlie, and a dog named Luna.
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Bad girls do cry (1954)This triple bill features three lurid tales of good girls gone bad and the men who made them that way including the squeaky-clean gal in Girl in Trouble who visits New Orleans on a lark and winds up becoming a stripper in a seedy bar. In Good Time with a Bad Girl a businessman visiting Las Vegas gets a shock when his date takes him to an orgy and in Bad Girls Do Cry a young woman is drugged and forced to work in a brothel.
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Jaw joint pain and locking after root canal suggests a meniscal injury
I recently (2 within the past 4 months) had 2 root canals, side by side, lower molars. After the first procedure I did not experience any jaw pain but it did take a while for other pain to diminish.
I had the second root canal about 3 weeks ago. It took about 1h 45 to complete. I had no jaw pain until about a week ago and now I cannot open my mouth all the way (the pain stops me from this).
I also have neck pain and a protruding clavicle. I did go to dentist about a week ago and was told the jaw pain was from the injection that went into the muscle and caused some bruising etc.
Should I be concerned about these symptoms?
I am also clenching my teeth; I have a mouth guard but do not want to use until my root canals have healed and temporary caps are put in and using it will put pressure on my last back molar that rises above the rest (an old filling in the tooth).
I will welcome any suggestions you might have. This is a miserable feeling.
Thank you.
Hello Charisse.
Filling in a few gaps, I presume you had jaw joint issues before these two root canals; hence the bruxism.
What you are describing sounds more like a displaced meniscus in one of the jaw joints; hence you're unable to open your mouth fully. Does it click or pop?
Over opening of the mouth is one of the causes but it's relatively rare during routine dental work in the chair; you would have yelled before he could open your mouth that much. And I would have expected the locking to have started almost immediately, not a week later.
So, I'm thinking of an old injury, exacerbated perhaps by such prolonged dental work.
My best suggestion at this stage is to start of TMJ exercises; do them slowly and gently. They shouldn't cause pain.
If it doesn't help then you need to find a local chiropractor who works with the jaw joint; you'll have to shop around a bit.
The sensory nucleus of the trigeminal nerve that supplies the jaw joint lies in the upper cervical spine, so there is often overlapping neck pain. Are you getting headaches?
You might try gentle massaging the external pterygoid muscle in the so-called pocket; if it's red hot then it's part of the problem. Slide your index finger of the opposite hand into your mouth, pulp facing outwards, passed the upper molars into a little gap; poke around and see if there's an exquisitely painful spot. Your dentist will help you.
Let me know how you get on.
Dr B
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Interesting challenges of the day
1. Mr S is a 76 year old man with neck pain of some 9 months duration. Luckily, most of the discomfort is upper cervical which is only rarely arthritic; his lower cervical spine is a degenerative mess that I have left alone. After seven treatments his pain and stiffness is 50 percent better, and he is happy in the circumstances. He can sleep through the night now and that makes a huge difference.
2. Mr P is 32 year old man with very severe lower back pain radiating to the big toe which is 30 percent numb. He had an episode three weeks ago, took anti-inflammatories and was soon better as is typical of the medial disc herniation. But before it healed, after a trivia it came roaring back, much worse. The characteristic crossed sign was evident; sitting in a chair, straightening the right leg provoked severe left back pain and tingling in the leg. He is doing well.
3. Severe lower back pain is scary; just ask Mrs P. Just watching her get out of the car I she was in trouble; she had a slipped disc at L4 making her lean towards the opposite side; luckily she had no pain in the leg. Despite family pressure that this was far too severe for a chiropractor, she persevered. Within five days she was standing upright, and after two weeks almost pain-free.
Despite a hectic job, she wisely took my advice and stayed home for what I call exercising bed rest.
4. Mr S has had lower back, groin and back of thigh and calf pain for fourth months.
He has a pincer deformity in the hip causing the stabs in the groin, and a degenerative facet causing the sciatica. Both are responding well to chiropractic and he is well pleased; sixty-five percent better after three treatments.
5. Mr T is a wise man; he has taken a warning TIA seriously and has lost 15 pounds, and has at least as much again to lose. A change to a low starch diet and half hour daily stroll has made the difference; but the walking is making his foot and back miserable. The expensive orthotic is hopeless; luckily his hips and back are fine, but he needs a simple heel lift; he has a short leg.
6. I too have had serious lower back issues, luckily fixed by my own chiropractor; so I too have to do my exercises, take care when lifting supers full of honey, gardening and using the chainsaw. Regaining the function of your spine is just as important as the pain.
7. My own granddaughter, only 7 is hypermobile giving her pelvic, knee and ankle issues. X-rays show a mildly dysplastic hip. Years ago we would have called it growing pains. She too regularly needs chiropractic care and luckily responds well. Increased range of motion is more difficult than too stiff in my opinion. Our care is for kids too.
8. This 65-year old lady is a serious gardener; every day she is bending, lifting and digging for 2 to 3 hours a day. It regularly catches her in the sacroiliac joint, so she has a treatment once a month that sorts it out. She does her lower back exercises faithfully.
9. This 88-year old lady is an inspiration; every day she is busy in the community. With a nasty scoliosis she manages very well with a chiropractic adjustment every six weeks and exercises faithfully done.
10. Mr X is a 71-year old retired man who wants to continue with maintenance care every six to eight weeks; he had suffered from two years of lower back pain when he first came a few months ago. He has no discomfort now after 8 chiropractic treatments, but is aware that danger lurks.
11. Mrs C has been having severe headaches, and taking a lot of analgesics. It is a non-complicated upper cervical facet syndrome, and she is doing well.
12. Mr D is a 38-year old year man with chronic shoulder pain after a rotator cuff tear playing cricket. It responded well to treatment, but he knows he must do his exercises every day; for two years he could not sleep on that shoulder.
13. Mr D, a 71-year old man, has a severe ache in the shoulder and midback since working above his head. Trapped nerve tests are negative but he has advanced degenerative joints of Luschka; after just two treatments he is 50 percent better. Can we reach 90?
And so the day goes; chiropractors should not be treating the elderly most medical sites state but that is so much bunkum.
Do you have a problem that is not getting better?
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Greetings, Dr B.
You helped me quite some time back with a soothing and professional response which turned out to be exactly correct. I now consult a local chiropractor. You write a superb newsletter, too.
Your own unresolved problem. Pose a question
Knowing that up to 70 percent of the time the correct diagnosis is made with no examination, no special tests, no xrays, but just from the history, there is a fair chance I can add some insight to your unresolved problem. But at least 30% of the time, I may be quite wrong. Give plenty of detail if you want a sensible reply.
You visited this chiropractic help site no doubt because you have a problem that is not resolving and want to know more about what a DC does.
The quickest and most interesting way is to read one of my eBooks of anecdotes. Described by a reader as gems, both funny and healthful from the life and work of a chiropractor, you will love them. Priced right at $2.99, though Kindle fiddles the amount without telling me.


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Saturday, May 12, 2007
Did Henry VIII father a child by Mary Berkeley, who took her husband's name Perrot? I understand he later became Sir John Perrot. Thanks
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The actual legend is that Mary Berkeley Perrot (d. 1586), wife of Thomas Perrot (d. 1531) had an affair with Henry VIII in about 1527 and subsequently gave birth to her third son, John Perrot, later Sir John and (after 1571) Lord Deputy of Ireland. That legend, hwoever, has been shown to be untrue.
Sir John Perrot's own wives were Ann Cheyney (d. 1553), Jane Prust (d. 1593). He had a large number of children, both legitimate by his two wives and illegitimate by a succession of mistresses, but all were born after Henry VIII's death in January 1547. Neither of his wives, Ann nor Jane, were mistresses of Henry VIII.


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On Everyone's Lips
The Ziller Valley is a legendary land of Milk and Honey. Everything pleasing to the palate is here including two new kitchen masters: Marcus Duchardt and Mario Herrmann. They recently joined our HeLeni Restaurant team at DasPosthotel and celebrate every night in good taste.
There are 2,000–8,000 taste bud receptors on the human tongue. We are all genetically coded for a uniquely personal taste experience, and with the addition of two new masters in our kitchen, we are confident this dynamic duo can easily target and excite all of them. In short, HeLeni Restaurant is climbing to new culinary heights.
From Bavaria with Love
New Head Chef Marcus Duchardt, formerly Sous-Chef at the Four Seasons Kempinski Restaurant Schwarzreiter – a Gault-Millau favorite with two toques – learned his craft at Hotel Schreiberhof. Following his passion, Duchardt cooked in France, Spain and Italy, exploring each region's cuisine. The Munich native has a close relationship to Austria that is sure to deepen on a culinary level. We share similar values; Marcus is especially interested in our commitment to sustainability. He is thrilled that the food culture in Zillertal is anything but provincial and he looks forward to creating flavorful experiences that reflect each ingredient's quality and purity.
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Mario Hermann, the new Sous-Chef, made his mark at Hotel Hirschen in Schwarzenberg in the Bregenz Forest, where his honest and refined style earned them a Gault-Millau toque. After his education in Ratskeller Naumburg, he dazzled 4-and 5-star kitchens around Lake Constance and Switzerland. A passion for new challenges drew Hermann to Tyrol, where he is giving time-honored traditions a new twist, taking 'regionality' to the next level with heirloom vegetables from yesteryear. "Simple with an Aha-effect. That's my style," said Hermann who sources his organic ingredients locally – including the wild game from our private hunting reserve.
This new team is reinforcing Heleni's reputation as a small but distinguished restaurant. This is another step forward in ascending the peak of culinary perfection. Those who enter this wonderland will wish they could linger longer in the Ziller Valley…
HeLeni is located in DasPosthotel at ZillerSeasons and offers seating for 30. Regionality is the most important item on the menu: only that which is grown, harvested, milked or hunted locally deserves a place at the table. Organic, wholesome ingredients are turned into delectable masterpieces with international accents. The restaurant with panoramic mountain views is open daily from 6:30 p.m. - 9:30 p.m. Table reservations requested at +43 5282 2236
The hotel business was in her blood from birth. Christina Binder-Egger was literally born in a hotel. In 2009, she inherited hotel operations from her parents. With courage, finesse and a sense of design, she and her husband Reinhard have created an alpine oasis respecting their Tyrolean traditions. And the circle closes yet again on a 3rd generation: their two children were born and are being raised in the hotel.


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Well, if one thought that studying Computer Science meant that you didn't have to worry about sales, marketing, or even networking, well unfortunately the world doesn't work like that. For instance, how do you think people like Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates and what not managed to reach the peak of their game - it didn't just involve them sitting in a dusty garage banging away at the keyboard (well, not entirely).
Anyway, moving beyond the corporate behemoths, we come to an aspect of Computer Science that is pretty quickly dominating the field. When I worked in the corporate world, getting people into roles to sell stuff was much more important than getting people to actually do the grunt work. Why do you think a lot of office jobs have moved overseas? They don't make money, but they certainly cost a lot of money.
So, if you have browsed the job websites you might have noticed that two jobs seem to dominate - UI and UX, which stands for User Interface and User Experience. This is basically the role of creating flashy websites that not only keep people there but keep them coming back. The reality these days is that you could have the most killer app, great website, or awesome program, but if nobody visits or uses it then, well, it is development money down the drain. As such, User Centered Design has become one of the core topics (and doesn't always deal with having to make things look pretty).
The problem is that the field is so new that there isn't really a consensus with regards to how it should be approached, though one of the leading figures is a chap named Jakob Neilsen (whom we will encounter again). A colleague of his is named David Norman, who came up with the concept of the Norman Door. That sounds odd, but it really does make sense. So, if you come to a door with a handle on it, what is your normal reaction? Well, if you said kick it in then you probably are not one of the majority of society because people really don't kick doors unless all else has failed (and it happens to be their door). No, if there is a handle. the automatic reaction is to pull on the handle, which causes problems when you are actually supposed to push it.
This is what User Centered Design is about, working on the principle that people should be able to intuitively use a product, or at least use it with the minimal amount of instructions required. In fact these instructions need to be clear and correct, because in reality people generally don't think, rather they act on instinct, and in many cases instincts will tend to overwhelm that which is rational. As such, when designing an app or a web page we really need to play into that instinctual behaviour. So, when designing a product we need to ask ourselves a number of questions:
- How easy is it for the user to learn how to use the product?
- Once the user has learned the product, how easy is it for the user to perform a basic task?
- How well do the functions remain with the user when they don't use it for a period of time? Do they have to learn how to use it all over again, or does instinct take over?
- If the user makes an error, how easy is it for the user to back track or delete that error?
- Probably one of the most important aspects, and that is do the users actually want to use it?
- Finally, is using the product actually fun, or is it a chore?
The User
In the end I guess the user is the most import part of the product, much the same as the customer. The thing is that without the user there really is no product. I guess it provides the answer to the age old question as to whether a tree that falls in the forest without anybody to hear it makes a sound? Well, of course it doesn't, because sounds only exist when there are entities to be able to perceive that sound (you know, physics and all). It is the same with products, because without users, or without customers, there is no product. So, the first thing we need to do is to identity the user of the product.
Now, here is an interesting video that pretty much defines what it is to mean to be able to interact with the user:
Yep, users are pretty much like cats. You simply cannot force them to do something that they do not want to do. Sure, you can goad them, or bribe them, or give them a pretty good incentive to perform a task, but if left to their own devices, it is pretty difficult, if not impossible, to get them to do something that they are not particularly interested in doing. So, when we come to looking at a product, whether it be one in development, or one already on the market, we need to identify the users.
Defining a user is pretty simple, namely it is anybody that will be gaining value from using the product. However, there is a catch, not all users are equal, this is why we need to separate them into user groups. Each of these users have different reasons for using the product, and different things that they use the product for. For instance, an employee that uses Microsoft Explorer at work because the IT department will not let them install Firefox is vastly different to the baby boomers who use Explorer because that is what the computer comes with, and they wouldn't know the first thing about Firefox, or even know it exists.
So, when identifying these users, we need to generate some characteristics. We have the personal ones, such as age, gender, and ethnicity. We then have their skills, and while these may not necessarily relate to skills in using a computer, when designing apps, these play a major role. For instance, a Youtube content creator is going to have a completely different skill set to, say, a 60 year old author that only uses a type writer, and is already a number of years late in releasing his next book and the TV series has already overtaken him. Then there is the software developer - they are going do have a vastly different skill set once again. However, while these users might not necessarily use the same product, they do highlight how skill sets change.
Finally there is the domain experience, which basically comes down to the actual aspect of the website. For instance, if we were to run a site that sells computer parts, to what extent are the users going to understand the technical jargon. What type of people are we wanting to attract, and are we going to cater for the novice user as opposed to the professional one. If we want to cater to both groups, maybe we need to have an aspect where a novice user can type in 'I want the best mouse', while the professional user can be much more specific in their search, such as 'An AMD Microprocessor with simultaneous multi-threading'.
Finding Stuff Out
Well, this is turning out longer than I thought, but I guess that's what happens when you try to cram two lectures into a single post. Anyway, once we have identified who the users are (usually through guess work), we then need to get feedback from them, and this is done through a multiple number of methods. I'm sure, while we have been surfing the Internet, we have had the occasional annoying pop-up which asks us what we think of the app? Well, that is the UX team attempting to get feedback from us. There are a number of other ways that they do this as well - through interviews, online surveys, actual surveys, and even analytics such as Google Analytics and the like. Mind you, I wouldn't be sticking to a single method, and I certainly wouldn't be using the analytics in, say, Blogger, because they really don't give you all the information that you need to know.
One thing you need to be aware of is noise, and that can even come from your skewed perception. For instance, what you perceive as useful, may not actually be useful. Another thing is that some analytical tools do not necessarily give proper feedback. For instance, the Blogger analytics say that this blog gets heaps of hits, however when I go over to Google Analytics, the information that I get is generally 'this blog is crap' and they immediately leave. Mind you, my post on the Bar Girls of Phuket seems to be particularly popular.
|The Russians seem to really like this blog
This is one of the reasons why we have to separate user groups, because what one particular user tells us, such as a regular user that is pretty happy with everything, won't provide the same feedback as somebody who comes to the site, says 'this is crap' and immediately leaves. However, one key metric is that users really don't want to have to learn anything, and they don't want to have to remember anything. In a way what they want is plug and play, not like the old systems where to actually get something to work you had to install the correct device driver, and in fact when you get home you discover that there wasn't a device driver for your particular machine.
Mind you, we all need to take into account that sometimes you will get the odd one out. Sure, one person might say that he really likes the fact that Iron Maiden blares out over his speakers whenever he visits your site, but if everybody else hates it, well, you may want to ditch that. Hey, if you really want some Iron Maiden, well, there is always Youtube, and the embedded video below.
Look, you are also going to have some other things to deal with, such as the information overloader, who simply wants to tell you everything. or the control freak who gets incredibly pedantic. Then there is the devil's advocate who simply tries to pick apart every minor detail. While they can provide useful feedback, it is important that we don't get bogged down by them, Another thing is that while negativity may not be productive, and while receiving criticism is never fun, we need to embrace feedback, and remember that what we are trying to do is to develop something that everybody can enjoy.
So, finally, how many people should we survey. Well, the not particularly helpful answer is that it depends, and also who we are approaching. Once again, if we ask too many people then we just end up with information overload, however if we ask too few then we don't get enough data. Neilson suggests that 15 is the sweet spot when it comes to surveys, namely because he believes that this is where we are able to identify a bulk of the problems, and of course we are looking to get a balanced view across all of the user groups. Once again, if we ask too few, and not across a good range, then we are going to have the problem of not catching enough of the issues.
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How to wait for an AJAX call to complete in WebDriver
Many web applications built on Web 2.0 technology, contain AJAX calls. AJAX calls don't refresh the whole page, only a certain part of a page is refreshed. When an AJAX call is made, while the page is waiting for a response from the server, a waiting icon appears on the page to inform the user, the page is waiting for information, this could be either a rotating circle, or a loading horizontal bar, etc…
WebDriver is clever enough to wait for the whole page to load before doing any action and without the user having to specify a wait for page to load. However, in case of AJAX calls, because the whole page is not refreshed, WebDriver has no way of knowing something is happening.
In normal cases, the waiting icon has a css style attribute such as

for when the AJAX call is not started or already completed, and

when the section is waiting for response from the server. When the display is block the user sees the waiting icon on the page.
The css attribute changes dynamically when the user sends a request and when the request-response is completed. Luckily in WebDriver we can get the value of a tag attribute and check against an expected value. e.g.
This would either output "block" or "none" depending on the state of the request.
Before we can verify an automated check, we have to wait for the AJAX call to complete, therefore we need to have a waiting mechanism to check when the css attribute of a web element changes, before we start our verifications, otherwise the checks would fail.
The code snippets below shows how to Wait while the element contains a certain attribute value
public void waitWhileElementHasAttributeValue(String locator,
String attribute, String value) {
while(driver.findElement(LocatorStrategy.getLocatorMethod(locator)).getAttribute(attribute).contains(value)) {
int timeout = 10;
if(timeout > 0) {
try {
System.out.println(attribute + "t" + value);
} catch(Exception e) {
The above function will wait while the element contains the attribute value. It checks the page every second and once the value of the attribute changes, it breaks out of the while loop or throws an exception if it times out, in this case 10 seconds.
The LocatorStrategy class is a custom class that determines the By type of an element when we send the locator as string:
public final class LocatorStrategy {
public static By getLocatorMethod(String locatorMethod) {
String locator = locatorMethod.split("=")[1];
if (locatorMethod.startsWith("id")) {
return By.id(locator);
} else if (locatorMethod.startsWith("name")) {
return By.name(locator);
} else if (locatorMethod.startsWith("css")) {
return By.cssSelector(locator);
} else if (locatorMethod.startsWith("xpath")) {
return By.xpath(locator);
} else if (locatorMethod.startsWith("class")) {
return By.className(locator);
} else if (locatorMethod.startsWith("linkText")) {
return By.linkText(locator);
} else if (locatorMethod.startsWith("partialLinkText")) {
return By.partialLinkText(locator);
} else if (locatorMethod.startsWith("tagName")) {
return By.tagName(locator);
} else {
return null;
When we send an AJAX request, the attribute value of style changes from "none" to "block", therefore we have to wait while the element contains the attribute value "block" and then continue with our verification.
Using the above methods, we can simply call
waitWhileElementHasAttributeValue("css=div.rotating-icon", "style", "block")


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Worried about her pregnancy, Qi Sheng decides to move into her palace ward. Eunuchs bring his stuff to her place only to be met with a defiant Peng Peng.
What?? She says all flustered in English, No No No No NOoooooo and physically blocks the door thinking it will stop the eunuchs. lol.
Realizing she has to do something or else Qi Sheng really will move in and annoy her all day, Peng Peng cooks up a scheme.
Gathering all the concubines, she convinces them to donate their money and jewelry for a good cause. Seeing their good intentions, Qi Sheng will be so grateful- he will want to spend more time with them. But since there's so many of them, they will have to take turns. Don't worry though, Peng Peng will graciously give up her rotation, so the others can have more time. Ha.
Peng Peng brings the "donations" to Qi Sheng who scoffs at the idea of rotations and easily sees through her plans to keep him away. But after careful buttering and eye batting, Peng Peng eventually gets her way.
Paranoid as ever, Qi Sheng sleeps alone but makes his concubine on rotation stay awake to stake out.... just incase there are assassins even though there are guards and I'm sure the concubines are all martial arts black belts who can save him.
After several nights on duty, the concubines ask for a chance to sleep, or they can do more than that *wink* If he's having problems getting it up, no worries, she even brought the herbal viagra. lol.
Needless to say, Qi Sheng gets super angry at the mention of his potentially failing manhood. Luckily Peng Peng shows up to let the concubine leave but she can't help but also comment, he has so many concubines but refuses to bed any of them, does he really have trouble in the lower department?
Qi Sheng crawls over her and shows how healthy he is as a man. Realizing his intentions, Peng Peng runs away. lol. Aww, he only wants to do the hanky panky with Peng Peng.
Tired of insomnia and dealing with the king, the concubines cry for Peng Peng to help them... or else they will become nuns.
Calling their bluff, Peng Peng tells them to just go be nuns, she will pick a monastery for them. As easily as they started crying, the concubines sopped up their tears and immediately left saying never mind then, Pfft
Confused over Qi Sheng's behavior, Peng Peng asks the only man she can, Zhao Wang for advice. He straight up tells her that means he likes her but she refuses to believe it.
Lu Li tells her the same thing which makes Peng Peng furious. She will never forget that he tried to kill her in Jiang Bei. Even if he likes her now, it doesn't change anything.
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**** PM O'Neill Welcomes Green Climate Fund Opportunities ****
January 30, 2017
The Prime Minister, Hon. Peter O'Neill CMG MP, has welcomed the commitment by the Green Climate Fund (GCF) to provide finance for addressing the effects of climate change in Papua New Guinea.
In a meeting this week with the GCF Chairman, Mr Ewen McDonald, the Prime Minister highlighted the need for finance and capacity building to enable Papua New Guinea to implement its obligations under the Paris Climate Change Agreement.
"Our nation and the region faces serious threats from extreme weather exacerbated by climate change," the Prime Minister said.
"Developing countries did not cause climate change, but we all suffer because of climate change.
"It is important that industrialised countries contribute to projects that will help to protect our communities from the affects of climate change.
"The Green Climate Fund provides important opportunities to implement climate change projects that will help our communities.
"As part of this it is essential that funding be streamlined to enable climate change projects to be rolled out around the country."
The Prime Minister said an important focus for current GCF engagement is to work with Pacific countries to develop project proposals before submitting to the GCF Board for deliberation.
"The process of identifying and developing projects is driven by individual countries and ensures that projects are developed that are specific to the dangers faced by our people.
"Papua New Guineans know what we need in our communities to deal with damage brought about by extreme weather.
"Through the GCF process we have the opportunity to identify and develop these projects."
Mr O'Neill thanked the Green Climate Fund and the Australian Government for their continued support on dealing with the consequences of climate change as a shared concern.
"Papua New Guinea is a signatory to the commitments arising out of COP 21, in Paris in 2015, and we look forward to receiving capacity building and financial support from GCF to enable effective implementation."
GCF officials have already conducted a number of workshops for participants from government entities, businesses, NGO's, foreign donor agencies and other interested individuals.


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How are you doing these days?
A Message from Mira from the Pleiadian High Council through Valerie Donner May, 2017
Dear Ground Crew,
How are you doing these days? The past couple of months have been challenging for many of us. We are in the throes of ascension. We are watching the actors on the stage of the Greatest Show on Earth. The actors are performing their roles well, don't you think? We are observing the transparency of the darkness with which we've been living for a long time. We also get to clean up our own emotions and issues. It is about getting rid of that which no longer serves us.
We have been going through over three weeks of Mercury in retrograde which began April 9 and ends May 3. This has been a time where flexibility and patience have been necessary. Trying to force things to happen simply doesn't work anymore and particularly during Mercury retrograde. The energies feel like they are clearing and opening up now. This should begin to give some of us more energy than we have had because we have been busy integrating the energies that have been coming in.
I don't know about where you live but certainly here in the San Francisco bay area people are driving crazily. I have never seen it like this. They make right-hand turns from the left lane; they are running red lights; they don't see stop signs and they don't always see you. So please stay awake and aware when you are driving. Be especially careful. Be grounded and centered and balanced. Get into your body.
We have had a lot of ships over our area in the past couple of weeks. They came twice the week of April 17, and then again the following week. They must be getting ready for something big to happen. I know they are monitoring us, cleaning up from chem trails (There is plenty.) and doing whatever is needed to help us at this time. Allergies are much improved.
Most of you know that I am a voracious consumer and disseminator of information. This past weekend I attended the New Living Expo in San Mateo. Although I am still processing what I learned, I want to share some salient information with you:
Foster Gamble from the "Thrive" movie gave an inspiring talk about breakthrough healing and energy technology for the world. The Thrive movie has now been seen by more than 70 million people from around the world. They are working on "Thrive Two". "Mexico has cleaned out Monsanto." . . . Foster has some connections with the White Dragon Society. They are working on releasing gold they have been holding for humanity. This is part of what is called the RV for the re-evaluation of currency. He said that they tried three times to get the gold out. The first time it was given to a certain bank and it disappeared. The other two times they have done this, people have been killed and the process has been interfered with. He is not confident about this money getting to the people for the high exchange rates. There is a lot of secrecy. He is hopeful that humanitarian projects will be funded.
Gordon Asher Davidson, author of "The Transfiguration of our World," is still optimistic that the Day of Revelation (when all of this love energy comes to the planet) "Is not long off." He stressed the importance of us continually "raising our frequencies through meditation, clarifying your intentions, asking for guidance, expressing gratitude for everything that supports you, letting little things go, blessing other people silently, and finding people with whom you can serve. Use the matrix of love in your energy field."
Futurist, public speaker and author, and president of the Foundation for Conscious Evolution, Barbara Marx Hubbard (She ran for vice president in 1984 with part of her platform being to include a peace room in the White House.), gave an inspiring talk at the age of 87. She is still as sharp as she was when I first heard her in the 90s. She mentioned that "Crises precedes evolution." She suggested that we, "Connect and build community. . . Evolution is a natural process and from dysfunctional systems mutations occur along with increased innovation and changes. The changes are exposing what's happening and they are intuited through our nervous system. . . There is a planetary awakening in love and we are becoming new humans. . . . Barbara stressed the importance of self-rewarding work in service in your uniqueness as an expression of the desire to say "Yes." When one is expressing their vocation the cells in your body turn on and express at a different level. Say 'Yes." This raises your vibrational frequency and even more when two join together to express their own uniqueness. . . "I am evolution becoming conscious." "There's no such thing as powerlessness." "Everyone is called at a time of planetary shift." "Reality needs your service." "Imagination creates."
The ascension panel included Gordon Asher Davidson, William Henry, Meg Benedicte, Laura Eisenhower, and David Christopher Lewis. Meg discussed the need to be on purpose in our lives. Gordon said, "We are all being birthed as Christ." William Henry quoted from "Revelations" in the Bible . . . "At the last trump we will be changed within a blink of an eye." He mentioned that "Silicon Valley is trying to do the ascension through technology. We are the ones who will be making the decision on how to ascend." Meg suggested some ways to assist your ascension; "Watch what shows up in your outer reality and ask what do I need to heal? We will be able to live in crystalline light. Work with sacred geometry. Be selective with whom you spend time." Www.newEarthCentral.com Laura suggested using reflexology, drink water first thing in the morning and recommended using herbs, cayenne, garlic, keeping oneself inspired, and the importance of deciding boundaries and composting what doesn't serve you www.LauraEisenhower.com (President Eisenhower's granddaughter.) Gordon talked about "remembering that we are our Higher Selves and work with the spiritual Masters to let them help us. Be willing to serve humanity."
Sean David Morton, a psychic, remote viewer, radio personality and past television show host, told us that when we have the lunar eclipse on August 21, that crosses part of the whole northern part of United States, that we will have another galactic alignment like the one we had on December 21, 2012. According to Sean the power outages that have been in the US lately such as San Francisco and cities on the East Coast, have to do with a new type of high-voltage circuit breaker that was installed in the power companies that are sensitive to solar flares. He predicted previously the stock market would go to 20,000 and is now predicting that it will go to 28,000. He claims that the only way for the powers that be can make money is through war right now. The Federal Reserve cannot print any more money.
The weather has become spring-like and even hot here in the San Francisco Bay Area. The other morning when I was meditating I heard the birds singing. It was music to my ears. I began to think about what it's going to be like when all this the love vibration comes to the planet. I knew for sure in my heart that the birds would be singing, so will the angelic choirs, and that we would be outside in our new glorious world, dancing, singing, celebrating being in this divine light and love. Take a minute and feel what it might be like for you. This is how we will create our new world.
Our New World
By Valerie Donner
Can you feel our new world?
Can you taste it with your lips?
Can you touch it with your fingertips?
Can you walk it with your hips?
Can you sing it into being?
Can you write it in to seeing?
Can you watch the old world fleeing?
You are creating our new world.
Can you breathe it into your heart?
Can you make the new world your art?
What can you do to do your part
To create our world?
© 2017 The Ground Crew
A Channeled message from Mira from the Pleiadian High Council
through Valerie Donner, May 3, 2017
Greetings, I am Mira.
I'm speaking to you today with joy in my heart due to the progress that you are making with your ascension. Your work has assisted us and you are doing an exemplary job with your light work and in working with the energies. We understand this is challenging for many of you. You may be living in the fifth or higher dimensions at one moment and then get taken back into the third dimension. This is part of the ascension process. It requires you to be able to walk up the ascension ladder and sometimes you have to revert back to take care of matters that are still in the third the dimension.
Although the ascension process is a step-by-step process it requires flexibility and patience. It is important that you listen to the body because it is going through a lot. If you recall, this is the first time that a planet will be going through an ascension and still have life on it. This is a bit of an experiment for all of us. We are testing your abilities to physically receive the energies and love that are coming. We are also assisting you. We are noting what is working well and what is necessary for us to do differently. You are fully in the process.
You are also in the shifting timelines with overlapping realities. Time can feel stretched out or it can feel as if everything is in the now moment, which is how you will be living. Much of what has seemed important in the third dimension such as paying taxes and doing regular jobs, feels less relevant than before. For many people this is a huge time of awakening. The masses are confused with the changes, distracted, and are out of balance. The things with which they have mostly preoccupied themselves are also becoming trivial yet many are hanging on to the familiar as best they can.
As you proceed with your everyday lives you will begin to find a different areas of interest and meaning. You will feel like you need to focus increasingly on what is most important in your heart. You are learning to let your heart lead the way so that you can comfortably move into the higher dimensions and live from your heart. New focus brings new opportunity. Most of you are preparing in the dream state for the higher work that you will be doing to be of service to life to the earth. Your true purpose is around the corner.
We marvel at your accomplishments, your dedication and your commitment to the earth. Please notice as much as you can about your shifting reality. Share it with others. Give them reports on your shifting consciousness. Observe some of the quirky situations that you are beginning to experience. Everyone needs inspiration. This is partly how the lightworkers can serve.
Your galactic family is all around you in preparation for our reunion. Pay attention to us in the sky and on the planet because we are here. Give little energy to what the dark forces want you to believe. They want you to stay in fear, to believe that war is imminent, and to keep you under their control. Know in your hearts the truth and read between the lines about what is going on. There is a much more than what meets the eye. The light is everywhere.
We send you love, joy, and peace.
I am Mira.


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Posts tagged with "Drones":
NYC considers drones for building inspections after deadly facade collapse
We have the solutions we need to move our city forward. Drone inspections are cheaper, faster, and safer.We can't let antiquated thinking or laws get in the way of progress. Thanks @JustinBrannan, @RCornegyJr, and @BenKallos for their partnership. https://t.co/Phw0019RkJ — Eric Adams (@BPEricAdams) December 23, 2019
Flash Forest plans to combat global deforestation with drone technology
A fleet of drones will try to shut down London's Heathrow Airport next week
A French startup is using drones and AI to save the world's architectural heritage
Spy Games: Herzog & de Meuron and Ai Weiwei explore surveillance and selfies in new installation
Take a drone tour of Herzog & de Meuron's Hamburg concert hall before it opens
Striking drone footage over Cape Town reveals its divided landscape
Aerial photography, by nature, usually reveals patterns that are hard to comprehend as a pedestrian. Large-scale features such as infrastructure, landscape, and human geography can be put into perspective and thanks to Google Maps and other online satellite mapping services, this is information is all readily available at our fingertips.
However, as one photographer has pointed out, much still goes unnoticed. A resident of Cape Town, South Africa since 2012, Johnny Miller has captured the city's housing landscape and highlighted a problem that's still plaguing post-Apartheid South Africa. As his project title Unequal Scenes suggests, Miller's images portray the scale and proximity of inequality still present in Cape Town.
"There's a very uniquely South African form of spatial segregation that was developed during the apartheid," said Miller in an interview with The Architect's Newspaper (AN), adding how city planning and infrastructure carved Cape Town's social and racial demographics. "So, for example, roads, rivers, train tracks: the apartheid government did very well at separating people through architecture," he continued. "You see just in the way that the city is designed, it's going be pretty difficult to redistribute wealth and facilitate the free movement of people."
Miller said he likes how his detailed images facilitate long-term viewing. The physical structure of communities becomes visible, allowing the disparity to be instantly apparent. The homes of the wealthy are arranged in a clearly structured and planned fashion. The "townships" of the poorer, black community however, show roads—if they can be called that—meandering in every which way. As a result, keeping track of dwellings, keeping them on the electric grid and part of the plumbing system, is difficult though most visibly, however, is perhaps the change in color from one side to the other. For instance, one township is adjacent to a golf course: a wealth of greenery covers the wealthier area while the township shows only shack rooftops and dusty dirt-tracks.
With the rise of the Nelson Mandela, the apartheid government lost power in 1994. More than twenty years on, Miller explains that change hasn't been easy. There's been a failure in communication between the government and its people, leading to mistrust in state power. "There's a lot of inequality, disenfranchised people who are really angry," said Miller. But he's is hopeful his project will finally spark a constructive dialogue between the authorities and the population. "I'm trying to promote a peaceful dialogue where people can share their opinions and become aware…. I think awareness is the only tool to defeat the fear that I see as really the root problem," he added.
Miller hopes the legacy of his project will be the government's response to the questions that arise from his photography. Already, government officials have responded to his work, remarking on their awareness of the issue and stating that they are working on the problem. "What gets me excited about this project... you start to hear those answers, which is really what people want to hear," Miller implored.
Merely photographing the from above, though, isn't Miller's only ambition. He estimates that very few individuals within these poorer communities have even heard about his work. Despite his doing the rounds in South Africa's printed media, mobile-media remains the dominant form of communication for many in townships. Cellular data tariffs can be pricey. Miller subsequently intends to display his work to residents within the photographed townships, providing what he thinks is an unseen perspective on where they live. "I think it would be really fascinating to show the person on the rich side and the poor side, just see what they have to say."
In light of the responses Miller's work has drawn, especially in comments on his Facebook page, it seems that his photography illuminates what appears to be an inconvenient truth for many. "In my opinion, I think it's a lot of fear that drives these negative comments. Fear of the other, not understanding the person on the other side of the fence."
"Perhaps it takes flying above people, two to three hundred meters, to take away that humanity and reduce humans to mass clearings, or agglomerations, for people to pay attention," he continued, noting how some may have become desensitized to the traditional imagery of poverty: the African child with a bloated stomach looking into the camera. Indeed, "that face" can come from anywhere in the Third World, whereas Miller's drone images illustrate that poverty literally is on their doorstep, something which is arguably more personal.
What is apparent from Miller's work is that the drone provides a new perspective that, in Miller's words, "people really respond to. Seeing something they thought they knew in a different way" is evidently something that resonates—with the wealthier side for now, at least. If you want to follow Johnny Miller's project, you can do so through his Twitter feed, here. You can also find more videos here.
Photographer Andy Yeung uses drones to capture the density of Hong Kong
Photographer Andy Yeung has been documenting the built environment ever since 2005. Eleven years and several awards later, he's using drones to amplify how we can can see his home city, Hong Kong.
This series of photographs, titled Urban Jungle, highlights the sheer physical mass of Hong Kong's urban environment while showcasing the array of colors used for its residential high-rises.
Prior to this, Yeung had been taking pictures from the opposite perspective. In his Look Up series, dizzying images show towers stretching up into the sky, amplifying their daunting qualities.
Other photos reveal facades in a different light, with repetitive patterns often being the focal point of his work.
Another series BeeHive again showcases the density of Hong Kong but from another different view point.
Yeung's work can also be found via his Facebook page, Instagram, and Google+ profiles.
Impossible Architecture imagined by Turkish Photographer Aydın Büyüktaş
Inspired by the notions of varying dimensions and surprise Edwin A. Abbott's Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions, Turkish digital artist and photographer Aydın Büyüktaş has created a fanciful Istanbul in his latest project. Aerial depictions of the city turn the landscape on itself—literally.
Using a drone, his photographs have been digitally manipulated to appear as if the city is doubling back over itself creating a fantastical curved world.
Büyüktaş's images can appear disorientating at first sight with the viewer's eye naturally following what should be linear forms that end up being viewed from alternate perspectives. The scenes resemble those from Christopher Nolan's Inception and Interstellar movies where cityscapes are curvaceous, both in dreams and in space.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRT0GGTWYnM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dG22TcpjRnY Creating the curving montages in a flat world was no easy task. Drone's were sent up into the skies, but Büyüktaş had to rely on the weather and wildlife to be on his side.
"So many times I had to turn back without a picture because of bad weather, technical problems, or birds attacking the drone," he said.
Once he had collected all the images, Büyüktaş adopted the much more grounded approach of editing and patching them together in Photoshop.
"We live in places that most of the times don't draw our attention, places that transform our memories, places that the artist gives another dimension; where the perceptions that generally crosses our minds will be demolished and new ones will arise," Büyüktaş says on his website. "These works aims to leave the viewer alone with a surprising visuality ironic as well,multidimensional romantic point of view."https://www.instagram.com/p/BAQCOYCF8IT/


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No one's been better than Ann Beattie at dropping a couple of brand names, book and movie titles or references to food and fashion to conjure a particular time and place and circumstance. The smart young denizens of the '70s and '80s who populate her best-known fiction tend to be clever, artsy types who, if they haven't attended a notable university or law school, are taking night-school courses in poetry. They smoke joints, drink wine spritzers, eat ramen noodles, underline Russian novels and quote Wallace Stevens. They wear jackets from L. L. Bean, listen to Lou Reed, make mixtapes and know things like how to identify a Limoges plate without looking at the back.
In her slim new novella, "Walks With Men," Ms. Beattie conjures New York in the 1980s, though it soon becomes clear that her narrator is looking back at that archaeological era through a rear-view mirror. It's a time when hipsters looked for jazz albums in the Village, browsed paintings at the Mary Boone gallery and "contextualized" their angst "by quoting Proust, Rilke, Mallarmé and Donald Barthelme." The Trump International Hotel on Columbus Circle was known then as the Gulf & Western Building, and Chelsea was still less than fashionable. When you were put on hold on the phone, you were likely to hear a Muzak version of "Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head."
A kind of distillation of Ms. Beattie's narrative techniques from both her early minimalist stories and later, more full-bodied ones, this intriguing but flawed tale chronicles the relationship of a naïve young writer named Jane with an older Svengali of a lover named Neil, who promises to explain the world to her and change her life.
"The deal was this," she explains. "He'd tell me anything, anything, as long as the information went unattributed, as long as no one knew he and I had any real relationship. At first it didn't seem like much of a deal, but my intuition told me he knew something I didn't yet know about the way men thought and back then, I thought understanding men would give me information about the way I could make a life for myself."
The pieces of advice Neil dispenses are less life lessons than pretentious instructions on how to be a snob: "purchasing only the finest brands" (like Burberry scarves and Barbour jackets) "or shopping at thrift shops was the only way to acquire things anything in between was bourgeois and pathetic;" only "dumb people bought cars instead of leasing them; crystal wineglasses were for morning orange juice, and grappa was best sipped from the bottle; Turgenev was a greater writer than Dostoyevsky; using an exclamation point for punctuation was interchangeable with eating food and drooling."
It's quickly obvious to the reader that Neil is a complete jerk a self-congratulatory poseur who says things like "When you travel to Europe, never wear a fragrance from the country you're in. In France, wear perfume made in Italy." Or who urges Jane to "think about the world as if" contemplating it "from the perspective of a figure in a Hopper painting. Maybe the collie."
Jane, however, is smitten, and she leaves her old boyfriend Ben for Neil. Though Neil, not so surprisingly, turns out to have a secret he's married! Jane is undeterred. She leaves Neil for two weeks, listens to a friend's advice to dump him, and then promptly returns to him in the middle of the night, wearing a raincoat over her nightgown and high heels. Three months later, after Neil obtains a quickie divorce, he and Jane are married.
As for Ben, he finds religion, changes his name to Goodness, comes to New York to open a meditation center and dies, after being pushed under a subway train coming into Union Square station.
Things happen abruptly like this in Beattieland. Although she's made a concerted effort in her later fiction to connect the dots sometimes resorting to ridiculously contrived plots, as in the unfortunate 1997 novel, "My Life, Starring Dara Falcon" Ms. Beattie's most famous work tends to renounce causality and consequence. Accidents and random events plague her characters, and many of them, like Jane here, are oddly passive, drifting or going with the flow, trying to live willfully in the present, as if past choices and mistakes never piled up.
Specialists in irony and emotional hibernation, Ms. Beattie's people are prone to alienation and disengagement. And Jane is no exception: no doubt she did not need Neil's advice to try to contemplate the world from the perspective of a figure in a Hopper painting that's something she already knew how to do. She tells us that she sometimes plays "a little game" in which she thinks of herself "as 'Jane.' "
"It's a good game," she explains, "because it really does give you some distance from yourself, and it lets you sort out what's important and what's not. If a character named Jane does this or that, you are only a kind of reporter. And you can report on something any number of ways."
This is as good a description as any of Ms. Beattie's early and widely imitated technique: a cameralike recording of the things that happened to her characters; glittering bits of their funny, rueful conversations; and a reluctance on her own part to analyze or comment.
In her best recent stories, like the ones in {ldquo}Follies,{rdquo} she's demonstrated a greater interest in exploring her people's emotions and giving us a wide-angled take on their romantic and familial histories. Middle-aged now, her men and women can no longer look back on their experiences as a series of non sequiturs or discontinuous incidents; whereas many of them once "just sailed through situations," they've now been forced by age and illness and loss to survey the overall arc of their lives. And readers, who were once handed strobe-lit snapshots of these characters' pasts, are now given something more like a movie.
In "Walks With Men" Ms. Beattie seems to want to give Jane this sort of retrospective outlook on her life, using her excursions into the third person (describing how "Jane" coped with Ben's death and the outcome of her relationship with Neil) to illuminate both her own need for detachment to understand her life, and the alchemy of the fiction-making process. Unfortunately, Ms. Beattie doesn't fully commit to this perspective, refusing in the end really to delve into Jane's psyche and resorting in the volume's last few pages to a hasty summary of events and an anecdote from later in Jane's life that may or may not have anything to do with what has gone before.
In the end Jane, like so many Beattie characters, comes across as vaguely shell-shocked, but in this case it's not clear to the reader whether she got this way by trying to forget her past or by trying to remember.


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"My name is Dawn Mantle & I don't ride a motorcycle, but I'm still a fundraiser for the Grand River Motorcycle Ride for Dad as well, as of this year, the Registration Coordinator. You may be wondering why I'm a part of this charitable event even though I don't ride, and I have an excellent reason – my dad died on November 21st, 2015 from Prostate Cancer. He had been a huge part of the Ride for Dad, even becoming an honorary Ride Captain when he could no longer ride. I wasn't about to let all his hard work of raising money and more importantly bringing awareness of this disease just stop because he was no longer alive. He will always live in my heart and keeping what he was so passionate about going helps keep his spirit alive within me.
You don't have to be a rider to raise money for a great cause or to spread awareness about Prostate Cancer. Heck, you don't even have to be a man – all you have to be is passionate about the cause and helping raise money that will be used to fund research into better testing, diagnosis and maybe one day a cure.
We all have men in our lives, whether it be a father, brother, uncle, grandfather or a friend so I recommend to everyone out there male, female, rider or non to get out and participate in your areas Motorcycle Ride for Dad event."
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text: Objective: Coding variants in the GBA gene have been identified as the numerically most important genetic risk factors for Parkinson's disease (PD). In addition, genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified associations with PD in the SYT11-GBA region on chromosome 1q22, but the relationship to GBA coding variants have remained unclear. The aim of this study was to sequence the complete GBA gene in a clinical cohort and to investigate whether coding variants within the GBA gene may be driving reported association signals. Methods: We analyzed high-throughput sequencing data of all coding exons of GBA in 366 patients with PD. The identified low-frequency coding variants were genotyped in three Scandinavian case-controls series (786 patients and 713 controls). Previously reported risk variants from two independent association signals within the SYT11-GBA locus on chromosome 1 were also genotyped in the same samples. We performed association analyses and evaluated linkage disequilibrium (LD) between the variants. Results: We identified six rare mutations (1.6%) and two low-frequency coding variants in GBA. E326K (rs2230288) was significantly more frequent in PD patients compared to controls (OR 1.65, p = 0.03). There was no clear association of T369M (rs75548401) with disease (OR 1.43, p = 0.24). Genotyping the two GWAS hits rs35749011 and rs114138760 in the same sample set, we replicated the association between rs35749011 and disease status (OR 1.67, p = 0.03), while rs114138760 was found to have similar allele frequencies in patients and controls. Analyses revealed that E326K and rs35749011 are in very high LD (r(2) 0.95). Conclusions: Our results confirm that the GBA variant E326K is a susceptibility allele for PD. The results suggest that E326K may fully account for the primary association signal observed at chromosome 1q22 in previous GWAS of PD.


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This Sunday, Third Rail is bringing you a roller coaster of romance and world class performances with a double header of A Streetcar Named Desire and Skylight. If you've never experienced a National Theater Live screening before, come find out what you've been missing!
A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams (FINAL PERFORMANCE) at 2 o'clock
First, our final showing of the Young Vic's record-setting production of A Streetcar Named Desire. Gillian Anderson takes the lead in a performance that has been described as "otherworldly". Think you can tell the difference between her role as Blanche and her acclaimed turn on X-Files?
Skylight by David Hare (SNEAK PREVIEW) at 7 o'clock
In the evening, we are presenting a special preview showing of Skylight, starring Bill Nighy and Carey Mulligan. David Hare speaks about the challenges and joys of bringing back a production 18 years after it's original run. Be the first to see this production before its run on Broadway in the spring!


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