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Centra Named one of Nation's Top Cardiovascular Hospitals for 2018
Centra Health
Centra Named one of Nation's Top Cardiovascular Hospitals for 2018
Centra Lynchburg General Hospital has been named one of the nation's Top 50 Top Cardiovascular Hospitals by Truven Health, now part of IBM Watson Health. This annual study identifies the top U.S. hospitals for inpatient cardiovascular services in the nation. This is the seventh time Centra has been named. Notably, only two other hospitals in the state of Virginia have received this award that many times since its inception in 1999.
"This is a special honor for our Heart Center," said E.W. Tibbs, Centra President and CEO. "Our goal is to provide the highest quality cardiovascular care that can be found anywhere in the country. This award from Truven is a testament to the good work our cardiovascular team does every day for this community."
The Top 50 Cardiovascular Hospitals study is an annual, objective and quantitative study that identifies the nation's best providers of cardiovascular care. The study is based on publicly available CMS data and looks at clinical, operational and financial performance metrics. The study shows that top cardiovascular hospitals had significantly higher inpatient survival rates than nonwinning cardiovascular hospitals and had fewer complication incidences. Specifically, top hospitals also see lower readmission rates for heart attack patients, heart failure and heart surgery patients. And finally, they were found to have short length of stays for their patients and lower costs. ($1,333 to $5,745 less in total costs than nonwinners)
Part of the Watson Health Top 100 hospital program, this study uses rigorous processes to calculate and measure hospital services lines, leveraging industry-leading, risk-adjusted methodologies developed and maintained by IBM Watson Health scientists over many years. This study is widely regarded as the leading program for evaluating leadership impact in a hospital, as well as evaluating quality indicators and efficiencies.
"Recognitions like this are the result of the tireless efforts of our doctors, nurses and cardiovascular team," said Chad Hoyt, MD., Medical Director of Centra's Cardiovascular Services. "We continuously strive for excellence in patient outcomes, and this award is a product of our team's hard work. I am proud of the care we provide to this community."
This award comes on the heels of Centra receiving the highest rating for open heart surgery from The Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS) earlier this year. Centra is one of 11 hospitals across the country to receive the distinguished status of three-star performance in all three categories.
About Centra's Cardiovascular Program
Centra's cardiovascular team consists of 32 physicians and 21 advanced practitioners. These providers care for patients in 7 locations across the region. Centra's cardiovascular services are led by an integrated team of providers who are nationally recognized for their contributions in advancing patient care, positive clinical outcomes and research. The Stroobants Heart Center also includes a team of cardiovascular dedicated health care staff, who together provide care to thousands of patients annually.


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Stunning Transparent Thanksgiving Turkey Cliparts & Illustrations for Happy Thanksgiving Day 2019.
We have collected the most heartwarming transparent illustrations and clipart images for your Family Day.
September 13 is National Peanut Day, a day to pay homage to mighty and tasty peanut.
Summer is coming to an end and teachers from all over the country are preparing for the school year with welcome poster designing, course planning and classroom decorating.

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Carnation Cafe is a vital part of Disneyland. This small restaurant has been operating since the parks opening day, and its presence on Main Street USA is as important as any attraction. It's classic red and white motif is as charming as the carnations found on each bistro style table. Although a recent renovation has added indoor seating, the main draw here is al fresco seating along Main Street.
The staff at Carnation Cafe are super friendly, and have a sincere love for and knowledge of Disneyland. The hostess who walked us to our table informed us of firework, parade, and Fantasmic showtimes...completely unprompted, which I loved.
The Cafe is open for breakfast, lunch and dinner, and serves a menu that is diverse and vaguely american. The problem is, sometimes diverse, vaguely american food is well...meh...vague and not that great.
Lets talk about something real quick. Disney Parks has an epidemic of massive proportion. No, I'm not talking about Frozen, or selfie sticks...I'm talking house made veggie burgers. These patties have been replacing the standard veggie patties that have been prevalent in Disney parks for years. The problem is? They're pretty bland, taste wise...and have NO DISCERNIBLE PROTEIN. These are mostly made of potato and other starches. Meh. Imagine eating potatoes on bread. In theory, yes, its delicious. However the implementation is dreadful. This is a burger we didn't finish.
One menu item I was really looking forward to was the fried pickles. These, unlike most restaurants, are pickles spears as opposed to pickle chips. I'd enjoyed the fried spears at Sci-Fi Dine In...and loved that Disneyland had its own version!
These were as good as I could have hoped for. If I have any complaint, its that the panko breading wasn't holding to the pickles very well, but I enjoyed them none the less.
By far the highlight of our meal was the cherry malted shake. Instead of waiting until after dinner, we enjoyed this treat amongst the savory items...as a malted should be. This was the unifying item among a not so wonderful meal. Dunking my fried pickle spears in ice cream was basically the most exciting part of my day. As with most Disney restaurants that serve shakes, Carnation Cafe serves the "leftovers" in a metal tumbler, for your continued enjoyment. I appreciate this very much. :)
Overall, Carnation Cafe was kind of disappointing. The food was meh at best, and even the perfect view along Main Street USA wasn't enough to salvage what should have been a magical dining experience. Next time we will listen to the advice of Disney Hipster Jamie and eat here for breakfast, where we can watch happy families as they enter the park...


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LISTEN: Rocking out to The Strokes' Newest Track "All The Time"
By Staff on February 14, 2013
The Strokes have officially returned with their lead single "All The Time" released today. A few weeks ago, they gave us a taste of their upcoming album Comedown Machine by sharing "One Way Trigger" off the album, which made us think they were going with a different sound.
However, "All The Time" takes us back to The Strokes we all know and love and makes us more eager to listen to the rest. Comedown Machine is set to come out March 26 via RCA.


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Wednesday, 18 July 2012
'Toxic Lips' Lip Transfers Review
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Centre for Civic Governance
The Columbia Institute's Centre for Civic Governance informs, inspires and connects Canada's locally-elected leaders. We do this by building and strengthening communities across Canada through the sharing of best practices, skills and tools development opportunities and timely research. Activities include policy research, a progressive governance forum and networking receptions at federal and provincial gatherings.
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Back in my review of Robin Thicke's album Blurred Lines, I mentioned why R&B as a genre doesn't tend to work for me as well as others, mostly because I've found the traditional topics in their songwriting a little overused. Now, you get this in every genre, but it got on my nerves a lot more in R&B because so many of the artists had a serious problem in having their songs be criminally underwritten, instead preferring to fill the verses with vocal gymnastics and other such elements that might sound pretty but don't really have a lot of substance.
Now I'll admit that my particular point of view has already been proven wrong once this year by Ariana Grande, but to be fair, she was using the conventional songwriting topics for R&B, just written with a little bit more wit and sharp poetry. But considering that I do like to be proven wrong when in the process I'm exposed to great music, I finally took the opportunity to get into the discography of Janelle Monae, an R&B act who has amassed some serious critical acclaim and who reportedly eschewed genres traditions in favour of weirder topics. And while I definitely was optimistic, I remembered the catastrophic example of 30 Seconds To Mars and I prepared myself for the worst.
Instead, I was blown out of the water. Folks, if you're not listening to Janelle Monae and her Afrofuturist sci-fi masterpieces, you should be. Not only are her high-concept topics of choice brilliantly realized in some of the most innovative and strikingly original ways I've seen in a long time, she's also an extraordinarily talented singer and songwriter, fusing a dozen genres of the past into a coherent, frequently beautiful whole that somehow remains catchy and emotionally evocative just the same. I'll admit that I'm a serious sucker for great space rock (and Janelle Monae is one of the best in the genre, hands-down), but I'm still stunned by how well she manages to make so many disparate genres sound distinctly fresh and new, breathing new life into them in a way I haven't seen since Daft Punk released Random Accessed Memories earlier this year (before that, I'd probably have to go all the way back to The Love Below from OutKast). People say that Justin Timberlake is innovating in R&B - all respect to Justin Timberlake, but he doesn't possess a tenth of the imagination, soul, and creative genius that Janelle Monae has.
And I could spend the next several hours raving about how the music is striking and unique and how Janelle Monae sells all of her material with well-chosen and incredibly heartfelt emotion and how she manages to get her guest stars swept up in her eclectic vision and how her Afrofuturistic themes are a perfect blend of past and future African-American art synthesized from multiple generations and how even with her high-minded ideals she still has that streak of populism to make her music compelling to a wider audience, but really, all I need to say is this: Janelle Monae is to R&B what Arjen Lucassen's Ayreon project is to metal. And if you're one of the three people who are looking at this and know what the Ayreon project is, you'll understand precisely how high of a compliment that is.
So to say that my expectations for her new album, The Electric Lady were high is a bit of an understatement. Continuing her ongoing space-epic saga from her 2010 album The ArchAndroid and recruiting guest stars like Miguel, Erykah Badu, Solange, and even Prince, one of the legends of R&B himself, I was incredibly excited to find out her newest album was coming out this month, and I was looking forward to seeing how her story would continue. So what does the next chapter in her story look like?
Well, it's definitely great, and most certainly something you all should check out - but at the same time, I can't help but feel a little underwhelmed by The Electric Lady, mostly because it doesn't quite manage to match The ArchAndroid across the board. Now do not get me wrong, The Electric Lady is still one of the best albums of the year and something you should all check out sooner rather than later (at least buy this instead of that wretched excuse of a record from 2 Chainz), but it's not quite as strong as The ArchAndroid, at least to me. Granted, I suspect I'm not quite the target audience, but I'll get to that a bit later.
Let's start with the instrumentation, which I'll immediately say is pretty much great across the board. Janelle Monae does a fantastic job revitalizing funk and soul and gospel and disco and modern R&B into a fusion that feels fresh and very exciting. I'll admit that since this summer has seen a modest disco revival, her sound isn't quite as unique as it was back in 2010, but then again, that's not entirely her fault, and she often does a great job making her sound distinctive all the same, with a lot of catchy rhythms and plenty of guitar solos just waiting for the right moment to spring out and add a bit of grit to the scene.
That being said, outside of a few exceptions (mostly 'Dance Apocalyptic', with its quasi-folk acoustic guitar), this album doesn't seem to have the same breadth of influences and experimentation that made The ArchAndroid so compelling. That's not saying The Electric Lady doesn't experiment, but it seems a distinctly 'safer' album than its predecessor, and for a guy who really dug the wide selection of instruments and odd divergences on The ArchAndroid, I was a little disappointed to find elements of The Electric Lady significantly more 'conventional'. In other words, there's nothing as ballsy as 'Come Alive (The War Of The Roses)' on this album, and that's frustrating for me. And once again, that's not saying that this album isn't funky or doesn't have really potent grooves that stuck with me - but at the same time, in comparison with the previous album, it seems like a much more conventional record and doesn't quite live up to its potential instrumentally, at least in terms of diversity.
Where I will definitely praise this album is in its choice of supporting stars, as everybody delivers here in a way that still keeps the spotlight fixed on Janelle Monae. Prince in particular contributes his best verse in years, and while Miguel doesn't really blow my mind, he's more than passable on 'PrimeTime' and delivers a great performance. Erykah Badu is also great on 'Q.U.E.E.N.', delivering a verse that is very much in line with the best of her material, and it's definitely an early highlight of the album for me. Where I will find an issue is in Janelle Monae's delivery - don't get me wrong, her voice is absolutely beautiful and she's still magnificent on all of her tracks, but I do feel with the lessened experimentation, we don't get to see as many facets of her vocal delivery as we did on the previous album.
Now some of you are undoubtedly a little annoyed that I keep pointing out that Janelle Monae really didn't innovate the same way instrumentally - well, I suspect the reason for that is that she chose to confine the majority of her innovations to her lyrics, which have taken a very different tone in comparison with her first album. So let's talk about the songwriting, themes, and narrative - because, since Janelle Monae is opting to continue her story from the previous albums, it's still relevant. What's a bit frustrating for me is that Janelle Monae's form of songwriting doesn't quite lend itself well to linear, coherent storytelling - but to be fair, it never really has, with her songs establishing more continuity based upon mood and atmosphere, with tantalizing hints dropped through her lyrics that reflected the larger story. With that in mind, The Electric Lady takes place where The ArchAndroid left off, with the separation of Monae's android character Cindi Mayweather with the human with which she fell in love. The story thus continues showing Cindi exploring her sexuality and place as an outsider as her cult of personality grows, with rumours that she is, in fact, the legendary ArchAndroid from the future (yes, there is time travel in this story).
Let me start by saying that the good elements of Janelle Monae's songwriting are still here - she's always been able to paint stark, vivid pictures with her songs, and she's a solid technical songwriter with a lot of great lyrical flow. And for the most part, this album has a good flow, showing how Monae's character is exploring her boundaries as opposition rises against her, and as with the previous album, The Electric Lady ends on another beautifully bittersweet note, with a sexual encounter that seems to lead to a wistful parting as the party ends (or they remain together, it's a little tough to tell - either way, I was left feeling distinctly melancholic at the end of the album). This is an album about desperately seeking new connections, and there are moments (like on the heartbreaking 'Sally Ride') where Monae seems almost ready to give up in the face of opposition.
Of course, the sexuality and gender of said partner has sparked some debate among critics, so let's get this out of the way. Yes, there have been numerous questions surrounding Janelle Monae's sexuality, and it would be extremely easy to read strong lesbian subtext into her songs on this album - hell, it's probably the most explicit parts of the narrative, almost most than the sci-fi premise. And some of Monae's comments on the matter, particularly regarding the feeling of the 'other' - whether it be as a black woman or as a lesbian - have raised plenty of other questions. But here's my conclusion - in the end, it's kind of irrelevant, sort of in the same way David Bowie's sexuality is kind of irrelevant at this point. It's clear that Monae identifies in some way as a sexual being - that's definitely an undercurrent throughout all of her material - and the overarching emotions and themes that's she's trying to evoke throughout The ArchAndroid and especially The Electric Lady are linked to that general identity, not one specific preference. It's also clear that love and passion and the sense of connecting with another are far more important to Monae than any stigma associated with said connection - in fact, there are moments explicitly on this album that show evidence of said stigma in her narrative's society against these couplings, and while she's aware of that stigma, she refuses to let it compromise her relationship. That's a powerful message, and while I don't think it hits me as hard as it'll inevitably strike others, I can respect the core thesis of the message all the same.
But here's my issue: while I can definitely respect and appreciate her message, I don't think it was delivered as well as the underlying themes on The ArchAndroid were, mostly due to a problem of execution. Instead of using instrumental cues or subtleties in the lyrics or delivery to imply her themes, Monae instead opts to use radio DJ interludes which feel imported from a hip-hop album from the mid-2000s - and man, does it do damage to the flow of this album. What's more aggravating is that they aren't subtle or particularly insightful on their own merits, instead just providing chunks of plot information with the same over-the-top delivery that's common to all bad radio DJs. And that's not even touching on the fact that this album - like all of Janelle Monae's albums - feels like it runs a little short on momentum near the end with a series of slower ballads. Don't get me wrong, the majority of them are solid as all hell, but it does mean the album drags a bit.
And this takes me to probably my biggest issue with the album, and that's linked to the ongoing narrative. While I do think that Janelle Monae's story certainly remains interesting and unique among the pop culture landscape, I do feel that The Electric Lady is a bit of a holding pattern. Instead of greater experimentation with new elements or the introduction of a villain into her story, Janelle Monae seems to have 'raised the stakes' through the introduction of 'controversial' subject matter regarding sexuality - that ultimately doesn't feel all that controversial, at least to me, especially considering the guest stars she recruited who have a reputation for singing openly about sexuality (Prince and Erykah Badu) and the fact that disco was primarily the music of the gay subculture until co-opted by the mainstream. Yes, I get that sexual politics are a much bigger issue in the United States and will probably ring with a lot more impact south of the border, but to me, it didn't feel like there was the same level of conflict and clash that was on The ArchAndroid, which doesn't help the tension in the overall narrative. I know this is the kind of criticism the vast majority of people don't give a damn about one way or the other, but it did still get on my nerves a bit, because it speaks of unused potential. Janelle Monae could have created a truly intriguing and riveting personality for a villain (even if it's just a strawman) or could have chosen to inject dramatic tension in her relationship that would have required an incredibly emotive performance... and yet, any conflict feels a little stunted to me, not really matching the layered and nuanced issues of which I know (from The ArchAndroid) that Janelle Monae is capable of exploring.
But then again, I can't deny that the conflict Monae does introduce feels more personal, at least to her. And I can definitely appreciate that it probably doesn't resonate the same way with me as it would with other audiences, who confront and struggle with these issues daily. Do I wish that it had resonated with me more? Of course I do, but to some extent, I'm not entirely surprised that it doesn't, particularly given the pervading sense of isolation among the crowd that Monae delivers. It's the concept of the other taken to its logical conclusion, that of the loneliness of the other who desperately wants a connection. I just wish that the narrative tension had been conveyed a bit stronger so I could have made that greater connection too.
All of that being said, I still highly, highly recommend The Electric Lady by Janelle Monae. While you don't need to have listened to the previous albums before listening to this (it does work as a standalone piece, another plus in its favour), I do recommend you check out Janelle Monae's earlier work just to get an idea of how Janelle Monae executes her material. On its own, however, it's one of the best albums of the year, rising up with Random Accessed Memories by Daft Punk as a great fusion of funk and disco (among other genres) with modern music, and I was thrilled to enjoy it.
And while I don't often like to be in the position of advocating on behalf of artists... people, Janelle Monae's competition this week for album sales is goddamn 2 Chainz. She deserves to win this. Go out and get this record - you definitely won't regret it.


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Soft Skills for Success
Over the years several focus groups were conducted to determine the needs of Summit County employers. The overwhelming response was always the same, employers responded that they struggled most finding workers with basic job holding or "soft skills". This result prompted the development of the "Six Soft Skills for Success".
These top six desired soft skills were identified and ranked by a representative mix of Summit County employers during 2012. In order of priority they are Integrity; Work Ethic; Communication; Adaptability; Dependability and Critical Thinking. Please see the link below for the illustration and an explanation of each item under the Resources for Individuals page
See more here: Soft Skills for Success


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The follow set of scripts calculate the response of a specific single-degree-of-freedom system to an arbitrary base input time history, via the Runge-Kutta fourth order method.
The scripts also demonstrate the passing of numpy arrays to the function, which processes the the data and then returns the resulting arrays to the main Python script.
The scripts on this page require the utility module tompy.py
The function is defined in: sdof_rk4.pyx
The setup file is: sdof_rk4_setup.py
The function is complied in command-line mode via: python sdof_rk4_setup.py build_ext –inplace
The main Python script which imports the function is: arbit_rk4_c.py
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Video Display and Audio Control
SeQent's VideoSERVER (VS) product family provides a video display and audio control solution that allows for the control and customization of any fixed or mobile device. VideoSERVER displays real-time information and enables the ability to control and customize any display surface with text, graphics, and sounds while creating a common interface across all display types.
VideoSERVER technology is available in both a hardware appliance form or as a software license and allows you to connect standard LCD monitors, video projectors and Digital Signage to any TCP/IP network. In addition, the VideoSERVER Emulator can replace display software provided with full-matrix LED displays. The VideoSERVER TCP/IP enables any standard display device, providing both network connectivity and display formatting. Providing marquee-like formatting capabilities, standard VGA, DVI or HDMI based video displays can be used as small screen marquees. With a small format and standard-based interfaces, the VideoSERVER solution facilitates machine or station level ANDON at a very low cost. Using the VideoSERVER Web Emulator a mobile ANDON solution can be architected enabling mobile devices such as phones and tablets to see a real-time view of any Marquee Manager controlled display.
Combined with our Marquee Manager products the template-switching feature permits a single display to present data for many different applications (i.e., Facilities, Health & Safety, Maintenance, Production, Quality). Template switching may be timed, or controlled via external conditions or triggers. Having no moving parts and an embedded operating system, the VideoSERVER Appliance does not require OS service packs or virus scanning. Marquee Manager, supporting both VideoSERVER controlled displays, as well as traditional line and full matrix LED displays, facilitate the creation of a hybrid heterogeneous network of displays.
Purchasing the appropriate VideoSERVER license or appliance for each display to be controlled, and the appropriate Marquee Manager products, data from almost any source can be displayed in near real-time on one or many displays.
Key Features
Support for traditional ANDON LED displays and LCD panels
Template switching
Audio alerts and queuing
Object queuing
Support for up to 16 million colors
Collaging of data from multiple sources
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Components included in our solutions
VideoSERVER Emulator, video display control for LCD as well as traditional LED pixel based ANDON displays
VideoSERVER Appliance, no moving parts embedded processor preinstalled with the VideoSERVER Emulator
VideoSERVER Web Emulator, web-based rendering of ANDON displays for smartphones, tablets and other HTML5 web browsers
VideoSERVER Configuration Editor, a layout administration tool for designing display templates
VideoSERVER Gateway for WebSockets provides the communication layer for the VideoSERVER Web Emulator


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Turning information into meaningful healthcare data sets
The process of converting raw information into sets of healthcare data often decreases what can be learned from the data.
This tip is part of a series exploring big data in healthcare. Each story in the series will break down an aspect of analytics and where it fits into healthcare needs. This one explains how insight is lost in the process of converting information into healthcare data sets.
Many people today would agree that the healthcare industry has lots of data but not much information. I tend to disagree. Well over 70% of care-related information is not data but information. I would say that the health industry has lots of information but not much data.
The challenge we are faced with is how to synthesize such vast information sets to draw meaningful knowledge. To make this happen, we first extract interesting characteristics (attributes) as analyzable data sets. These healthcare data sets then are mined to discover interesting patterns of information and knowledge.
For example, images and genomics sequencers generate extremely large volumes of streaming content at terabyte scale. Tons of information is hidden deep in these monstrous content clusters.
The information is first converted to data structures that algorithms can digest to develop new drug therapies and personalize care. Present information synthesis techniques are still very data-oriented.
Similarly, social media is a rich source of healthcare information. Here too, we still have to first convert such rich content to structured data before running mining algorithms.
An interesting fact is that we first end up converting information to data sets, then use data to regenerate information -- and during such a transformation, we lose a lot of insight. Perhaps in the future, we will have smart algorithms that derive insights directly from such vast information sets without need to convert them to data.
Go on to the next tip in the series.
Naeem Hashmi is chief research officer at Information Frameworks, as well as an expert in healthcare data analytics, information management and data exchange. He is an active member of HIMSS, CHIME and AMIA. Let us know what you think about the story; email firstname.lastname@example.com or contact @SearchHealthITon Twitter.


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Many Altcoins, in our opinion have radically unfair block reward systems, they simply create far too many coins too quickly, thus giving a huge advantage to those early miners. Many coins launch themselves as 'fair', and yet their block rewards might halve each week, and also payout mega block rewards causing the founders and early adopters to hold most of the mined coins.
With VegasCoin, we realized that many users of our coins in the future may not currently be involved in crypto currencies, and so with our Block Reward system of 30 coins per block, the minting of VGC will be slow and steady, not overly enriching the early adopters, and meaning that the mining should be stable for many years to come.
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The Sirius Passet Lagerstätte (northern Greenland) is an exceptionally well-preserved early Cambrian faunal community containing a diverse array of stem-group euarthropods, lobopodians, worms, sponges, and the iconic Halkieria. Material collected in situ during recent expeditions has yielded a range of fossil specimens that are preserved as two-dimensional, reflective films. Here we document in detail, for the first time from the Sirius Passet, compressed, kerogenous fossil films characteristic of Burgess Shale–type (BST) preservation. The carbon structure and the taphonomic mode associated with these films were investigated using Raman spectroscopy. Our analysis confirms that these reflective films are kerogenous, showing a higher D1 (disordered) band and G (graphite) band intensity and area, indicating a greater concentration of disordered carbon compared to the surrounding matrix. The spectral characteristics of the fossils denote moderately ordered kerogenous matter, indicating that the transitional Buen Formation that hosts the Sirius Passet was thermally altered at a peak temperature of 409 ± 50 °C. Phyllosilicate minerals are associated with the films, but they are not anatomical or taxon-specific, suggesting that the higher thermal maturation of the kerogen in the Sirius Passet produced a uniform distribution of minerals. This is unlike the kerogenous films in the Burgess Shale Lagerstätte (British Columbia, Canada) that have been metamorphosed at a lower temperature of 335 ± 50 °C and typically show an anatomically specific phyllosilicate distribution. Preservation as kerogenous films, however, is not continuous, and the presence of other taphonomic modes not indicative of BST preservation suggests that the Sirius Passet represents a unique and complex deposit.
The extraordinary snapshot of communities preserved in Konservat-Lagerstätten has significantly influenced our understanding of the early evolution of animal life in the Cambrian Period. Taphonomic investigations have identified several preservational modes in Lagerstätten (Briggs, 2003). In the Cambrian, the most celebrated deposits are those that exhibit Burgess Shale–type (BST) preservation (Gaines, 2014), defined as the exceptional preservation of non-mineralizing organisms as two-dimensional carbonaceous compressions (Butterfield, 1995). This preservational style occurs in fine-grained marine sediments and is characteristic of a number of early Paleozoic (Gaines, 2014) and Proterozoic deposits (Anderson et al., 2011). Despite nearly three decades of intensive research into the topic, the taphonomic processes that led to BST preservation is still a matter of debate. Several hypotheses have been proposed, ranging from the simple absence of bioturbation and dysoxic or anoxic conditions, to the role of clays in inhibiting autolytic decay, early aluminosilicate diagenesis, pyrite mineralization involving sulfate- and iron-reducing bacteria, Fe2+ ions adsorbing on organic tissues to delay degradation, and the sealing of sediments by pervasive carbonate cements (see the review by Gaines, 2014). However, the presence of clay minerals (or rather their greenschist facies metamorphic equivalents, such as illite and chlorite) is likely a result of diagenesis/metamorphism (Powell, 2003; Butterfield et al., 2007; Page et al. 2008), and the association of iron-bearing minerals in unweathered fossil material may be too sporadic to have been considered a key factor in BST preservation (Gaines, 2014), although resulting from related processes and microbial decomposition (Berner, 1984; Schiffbauer et al., 2014).
The Sirius Passet in Greenland, is one of the most important and potentially the oldest Cambrian Lagerstätten (Budd, 2011). The majority of documented fossils from Sirius Passet were collected as talus material, and preservation is variable (Peel and Ineson, 2011). Trilobites are preserved as complete molds showing a veneer of authigenic silica (Strang et al., 2016a), whereas other less-mineralized taxa are preserved in slight relief, replicated by silica and clay minerals, with some specimens displaying three-dimensional phosphatized digestive tracts, and a single taxon (Campanamuta mantonaeBudd, 2011) preserving three-dimensional muscle fibers (Budd, 2011; Peel, 2016). Remains of organic matter, on the other hand, were thought to have been lost, if originally present at all, as a result of the relatively high grade of metamorphism (greenschist facies) that the Sirius Passet has experienced (Budd, 2011). Some fossils however, collected both in situ and as talus during more recent expeditions (2009 and 2011), are seemingly preserved as thin, reflective films and resemble, at least superficially, fossil films seen in BST deposits (Vinther et al., 2011). The composition and mode of preservation of these films though have been given no attention. Based on 14 specimens, we have employed Raman spectroscopy and scanning electron microscopy with energy dispersive spectroscopy (SEM-EDS) elemental mapping to investigate the composition and the taphonomic modes of fossils from the Sirius Passet Lagerstätte preserved as two-dimensional reflective films. Raman spectra from three Burgess Shale (British Columbia, Canada) specimens (all from the Walcott Quarry Member) were also analyzed for comparison.
In hand specimen, organisms preserved as films from the Sirius Passet are notoriously difficult to recognize, and are best observed underwater with high-angle reflected white light, where they appear as reflective films and stand out conspicuously from the non-reflective sedimentary matrix (Fig. 1). Unlike the Burgess Shale (Butterfield et al., 2007), there appears to be no further distinction of individual morphological features in terms of reflectivity; rather, entire fossils are uniformly reflective and polarized light appears to have little or no effect. The majority of fossil films are covered to a varying degree by iron oxide and oxyhydroxide coatings (Fig. 1).
Raman analysis demonstrates that there was a degree of homogeneity across the host rock and the 14 Sirius Passet fossil specimens, with all spectra exhibiting a strong carbon signal (with the exception of some point spectra directed at the iron oxide and oxyhydroxide coatings). The majority of point spectra also exhibit vibrational modes at 200 cm–1 and 464 cm–1 attributed to quartz, and a vibrational mode at 262 cm–1 attributed to muscovite, suggesting that all fossils analyzed were closely associated with phyllosilicates. The vibrations of quartz and muscovite, however, were not fossil-specific and appear to be consistently present across both the fossil films and the surrounding matrix. Iron oxides are commonly observed here in association with kerogenous fossil films (Fig. 1). The mineralogy of the iron coatings is variable. The coatings contained a range of vibrational modes, although all were indicative of iron oxides and/or oxyhydroxides. For example, the coating on Isoxys (Fig. 1I) exhibits diagnostic vibrational modes at 220 cm–1, 296 cm–1, 410 cm–1 and 610 cm–1 indicating hematite (α-Fe2O3) while the veneer on Siriocaris (Fig. 1E) exhibits hematite in part, but also vibrations at 299 cm–1 and 385 cm–1 diagnostic of goethite (α-FeOOH). The pervasive presence of iron oxides and/or oxyhydroxides most likely reflects modern oxidative weathering of the samples.
After baseline correction and deconvolution, carbonaceous material (CM) from the fossil films can be resolved into five bands, D1, G, D2, D3 and D4 (D—disordered, G—graphite; Figs. 2A–2C). All Raman spectra from the fossil films display D3 and D4 bands and have a well-developed D1 band that is typically more intense (mean intensity ratio of D and G bands, ID1/IG, of 1.07) than the G band, and with a larger area (mean AD1/AG ratio of 1.26) than the G band. The mean R2 [AD1/(AD1+AD2+AG)] ratio of the reflective films is 0.527 ± 0.0106 (Table DR1 in the GSA Data Repository1). The CM in the sedimentary matrix can also be deconvoluted into five bands; however, the D3 band, which in amorphous CM emerges with increased disorder, is not identifiable in some matrix spectra (Table DR1). The D1 band is generally equal to the G band in intensity (mean ID1/IG ratio of 1.00); however, the D1 band generally exhibits a larger area (mean AD1/AG ratio of 1.18). The mean R2 ratio of the reflective films is 0.513 ± 0.015. In sample DH074, where acquisition times and accumulations of spectra were kept constant, the CM in the fossil films displayed a higher mean D1 and G band intensity and area compared with the CM in the sedimentary matrix (Figs. 2D and 2E). Statistical tests show that there is a significant difference in the intensity and area of the D1 and G bands in the fossil films and the sedimentary matrix (both Mann-Whitney tests with a p value <0.05). Using Equation 2 in the Data Repository [T = −445* R2 + 641 (±50 °C); Beysaac et al., 2002], the peak thermal paleotemperature calculated for the Sirius Passet deposit is 409 ± 50 °C. The kerogen in the Burgess Shale is less ordered than the Sirius Passet, with a higher mean R2 ratio of 0.686 ± 0.012, a higher mean ID1/IG ratio of 1.52, and a greater mean AD1/AG ratio of 3.20, all indicative of less-ordered material (Sforna et al., 2014). The peak thermal paleotemperature calculated for the Walcott Quarry Member of the Burgess Shale Lagerstätte is 335 ± 50 °C (see the Data Repository).
Raman spectra results were supported by elemental mapping analyses of taxa using energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (see the Data Repository). In many of the analyzed specimens, carbon of the fossil films is indistinguishable from the matrix, which is perhaps not surprising given the host rock also contains CM. Indeed, many elements (e.g., Si, Al, K) in the fossils were also indistinguishable from the surrounding matrix, supporting the relative uniform mineralogy suggested by Raman spectra. Some specimens, for example Isoxys (Fig. 1I; Fig. DR4A), and an element from an undescribed priapulid (Fig. 1H; Fig. DR4B), do show subtle elevated levels of carbon (Fig. DR4) in comparison to the surrounding matrix. Some films also show an increase in silica as well as carbon, although this is not so obvious for all specimens (Fig. DR4). Elemental mapping of a coating on a specimen of Siriocaris and Isoxys (Fig. DR4) shows elevated levels of iron and sulfur that most likely indicate the presence of pyrite or secondary jarosite, now largely altered to Fe-bearing oxides.
The preservation of fossils as carbonaceous remains in Cambrian Lagerstätten has been of considerable interest since organic remains were first liberated from the Burgess Shale nearly 30 years ago (Butterfield, 1990). Mechanisms that delay the degradation or destruction of organisms are viewed as one of the most important taphonomic factors that lead to the exquisite preservation seen in Lagerstätten (Gaines, 2014). However, perhaps of equal importance yet less frequently explored, is the subsequent metamorphic history and peak thermal paleotemperatures experienced by Lagerstätten. Organic matter is structurally susceptible to heating during burial and metamorphism, and an increase in temperature results in the irreversible maturation of organic matter into kerogens and eventually graphite in a process that potentially impairs the morphology of organic remains (Beyssac et al., 2002; Schopf et al., 2005; Schiffbauer et al., 2012). It has been suggested that the Sirius Passet experienced a metamorphic grade high enough to eradicate all signs of carbonaceous remains (Budd, 2011), but this has not been previously tested. Our results indicate that there is CM in the Sirius Passet and that the primary mode of preservation of these films was as carbonaceous compressions. The large majority of spectra acquired display a well-developed D1 band (full width at half maximum [FWHM] < 70 cm–1) that is slightly more intense than the G band. These spectral characteristics are indicative of moderately ordered CM (Sforna et al., 2014) bearing a metamorphic signature corresponding to a peak temperature of ∼400 °C. The low RD3 and RD4 ratios (0.015 and 0.02, respectively) calculated from the deposit are also consistent with a relatively high peak temperature (Sforna et al., 2014, Fig. DR3).
This carbonaceous signal is not necessarily diagnostic for the organic material in the fossil films, as the surrounding sedimentary matrix also contains CM. Although the spectra from the matrix generally show lower values of ID1/IG, AD1/AG, and R2, overall the structure and crystallinity of the CM in the matrix and fossil films is very similar (Figs. DR1 and DR2). This is not surprising, given that the structural order of CM at this metamorphic grade is predominantly controlled by temperature (Beyssac et al., 2002) and that the carbon in the fossil films and the sedimentary matrix underwent the same thermal alteration. However, in spite of this overall degree of structural homogeneity, some features of the collected spectra can give an indication concerning a differential abundance of CM between the fossil films and the surrounding matrix. The Sirius Passet fossil films consistently show a greater D1 and G band intensity and area in relation to the surrounding sedimentary matrix (Figs. 2D and 2E), suggesting a greater concentration of CM within the fossil.
The Sirius Passet has been considered to lie within the spectrum of BST preservation (Budd, 2011), although the lack of previously documented kerogenous remains and the presence of muscle fibers preserved in three dimensions has resulted in Gaines (2014) tentatively excluding the deposit from known BST deposits, awaiting further study. The presence of two-dimensional kerogenous films in the Sirius Passet does satisfy the umbrella definition of BST preservation (Butterfield, 1995), but there are distinct taphonomic differences. For example, the vast majority of Burgess Shale fossils preserve no significant third dimension, indicating a complete loss of cellular tissues (Butterfield et al., 2007). This contrasts sharply with the Sirius Passet where, to date, the majority of documented organisms are preserved in three dimensions (Budd, 2011). Fossils of the Burgess Shale also show tissue-specific variation in the elemental composition of phyllosilicate templates (Orr et al., 1998; Page et al., 2008). This anatomically specific phyllosilicate distribution was interpreted as reflecting differences in maturation pathways between morphologically specific kerogen types (Butterfield et al., 2007; Page et al., 2008). The reflective kerogenous films analyzed here from the Sirius Passet, on the other hand, show no specific tissue-related mineral variation and are instead homogenous (Fig. 1). The distribution of phyllosilicates and CM in fossils of the Burgess Shale creates a contrast that assists with the differentiation of morphological features within the fossil organism. In the case of the Sirius Passet, exposure to temperatures of ∼400 °C could have led to complete overprinting of kerogen maturation pathways; such that phyllosilicate minerals that arose during early diagenesis in an anatomically specific fashion were homogenized during progressive metamorphism producing a uniform phyllosilicate distribution and carbonaceous film, impeding the discrimination of specific anatomical features. Muscovite is consistently associated with carbonaceous films (also present in the host rock) in the Sirius Passet and it is a typical end-member mineral in a trend where clay minerals are progressively replaced by chlorite and eventually by the more thermally stable muscovite (Powell, 2003; Butterfield et al., 2007). As such, relative to the Burgess Shale, the reflective films in the Sirius Passet provide an example of organisms preserved as carbonaceous films that have been exposed to progressively higher temperatures during metamorphism.
Preservation as kerogenous films, however, is discontinuous and the presence of different preservational modes in the Sirius Passet presumably, to some degree, reflects differences in the general composition of the organisms' original tissues and/or their variable susceptibility to decay. For example, the silica death mask has only been identified in trilobites (Strang et al., 2016a), phosphatization may be restricted to digestive tracts (Peel, 2016; Strang et al., 2016b), replication by silica and phyllosilicate minerals with slight topographic relief appears to be predominantly observed in large euarthropods and lobopods (e.g., Budd, 2011), three-dimensional muscle fibers have only been documented from a single taxon (Budd, 2011), and kerogenization has only been observed in particular faunal elements (e.g., no large euarthropods have been observed preserved as reflective films; Fig. 1). The presence of compressed kerogenized films and phosphatized digestive tracts is similar to other BST deposits (Gaines, 2014). However, the combination of these films and the presence of organisms preserved in three dimensions exhibiting silica veneers and muscle fibers are unique to Cambrian Lagerstätten. Three-dimensional muscles, for example, have only been described from specimens of Myoscolex from the Emu Bay Shale in South Australia, where they are preserved by phosphate (Paterson et al. 2016). It is possible that the muscle fibers in Campanamuta were also primarily preserved by phosphate and secondarily replaced by silica during diagenesis. This is also evident in the gut of Campanamuta, where phosphate and silica are in close association (Strang et al., 2016b), with the former possibly representing residual material. Yet, the taphonomic processes operating in the Emu Bay Shale are not considered to be BST, as kerogenized fossil films are yet to be documented (Paterson et al., 2016). Thin sheets of phyllosilicate minerals have also been mentioned as potentially replacing organic matter in euarthropod taxa (Budd, 2011), although this remains to be documented in detail. The topographic relief of the fossils and their close association with abundant trace fossils (Peel and Ineson, 2011) is also unlike typical BST deposits. This combination of preservational styles, displaying similarities to BST and non-BST deposits, highlights the complex set of taphonomic modes present in the Sirius Passet.
Reflective films in the Sirius Passet Lagerstätte are preserved as kerogenous compressions. They display spectral characteristics that are indicative of moderately ordered kerogenous matter that was heated to a peak temperature of 409 ± 50 °C. The carbon in the Burgess Shale Lagerstätte is less ordered and was thermally matured at a lower peak temperature of 335 ± 50 °C. Phyllosilicate minerals are associated with the films, but are not taxon- or anatomically specific, suggesting that the higher thermal maturation of the kerogen in the Sirius Passet produced a uniform distribution of minerals. While the preservation of organisms as kerogenous films is reminiscent of BST preservation, the Sirius Passet exhibits a range of taphonomic modes, including silica veneers, large organisms with slight topographic relief, and three-dimensional muscle fibers that are not typical of BST preservation.
This research was supported by a Marie Curie COFUND action grant to Topper (Durham University, UK). We thank Carl Alwmark (Lund University, Sweden) for SEM assistance and Arden Bashforth (University of Copenhagen, Denmark) for assistance in perusing the collections at the Natural History Museum of Denmark, a visit that was funded by Synthesys Project DK-TAF-5432. Harper acknowledges a fellowship from the Leverhulme Trust and support from the Wenner Gren Foundation (Sweden). The 2009 and 2011 field campaigns were funded by the Agouron Institute, the Carlsberg Foundation, and Geocenter Denmark. We appreciate the constructive comments made by Bob Gaines, James Schiffbauer, an anonymous reviewer, and editor James Schmitt.


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An Excellent Unconscionability, Adhesion, Rescission, Unenforceability and Arbitration Appeals Court Case
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This appeals court case, FOR PUBLICATION, provides an excellent discussion of unconscionable contract terms. Although this case does not relate to mortgage loans, it does discuss this as a contractual issue.
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Turning to the case at hand, we first address petitioners' argument the mandatory arbitration provisions contained in their franchise agreements were unconscionable and therefore unenforceable. The doctrine of unconscionability is a judicially created doctrine which was codified in 1979 when the Legislature enacted Civil Code section 1670.5. (Armendariz v. Foundation Health Psychcare Services, Inc, supra, 24 Cal.4th at pp. 113-114.) That section provides in relevant part, "If the court as a matter of law finds the contract or any clause of the contract to have been unconscionable at the time it was made the court may refuse to enforce the contract . . . ." (Civ. Code, § 1670.5, subd. (a).) While the statute does not attempt to precisely define "unconscionable," there is a large body of case law recognizing the term has "both a procedural and a substantive element, both of which must be present to render a contract unenforceable. [Citation.] The procedural element focuses on the unequal bargaining positions and hidden terms common in the context of adhesion contracts. [Citation.] While courts have defined the substantive element in various ways, it traditionally involves contract terms that are so one-sided as to 'shock the conscience,' or that impose harsh or oppressive terms. [Cit ation.]" (24 Hour Fitness, Inc. v. Superior Court (1998) 66 Cal.App. 4th 1199, 1212-1213.)
Both elements need not be present to the same degree. "[T]he more substantively oppressive the contract term, the less evidence of procedural unconscionability is required to come to the conclusion that the term is unenforceable, and vice versa." (Armendariz v. Foundation Health Psychcare Services, Inc., supra, 24 Cal.4th at p. 114.) Additionally, a "claim of unconscionability often cannot be determined merely by examining the face of a contract, but will require inquiry into its [commercial] setting, purpose and effect." (Perdue v. Crocker National Bank (1985) 38 Cal.3d 913, 926.) Continue reading "An Excellent Unconscionability, Adhesion, Rescission, Unenforceability and Arbitration Appeals Court Case"


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Note : This post was updated on 11 of november 2016 due to recent change : DirectAccess No Longer Supported in Microsoft Azure
I was expecting this news for a while. Until a few days, DirectAccess was considered as unsupported scenario in Azure according to KB2721672. On the 14th of July this year, this KB was updated. The Remote Access feature is not longer listed as unsupported and appear in the supported features list But the DirectAccess Feature remain an unsupported scenario.
Hosting a DirectAccess infrastructure in Azure introduce a new way to build IT. Everyday that pass, the need to a local IT infrastructure is reducing. Soon, we could consider building a complete IT infrastructure hosted in Azure and connect computers to it using DirectAccess.
Dear, I have other wishes about DirectAccess :
- ARM template to build a DirectAccess infrastructure in Azure (using a certificate located in Azure Keyvault of course)
- Having DirectAccess as a VPN gateway scenario choice
Thank you for the news Richard and for the update.
BenoîtS – Simple and secure by design but Business compliant (with disruptive flag enabled)


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Ilia Nicoll was in Gros Morne for the Inkwell Songwriters Session at the Woody Point Heritage Theatre on a warm day in August of summer 2016.
During some downtime before the concert, Ilia joined us at the historic Roberts House to record this performance of her song In Your World.
Video by Tom Cochrane. Recorded live on August 12, 2016. Thanks to HM Audio for the microphone used for this session.
Find out more about Ilia Nicoll on Bandcamp. Find out more about the Woody Point Heritage Theatre at their website.


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"In far away lands, or wherever you be/ Friendship is welded by a good cup of tea." This sentiment was echoed by Japanese Ambassador Masaki Orita during his visit to the Bramah Tea & Coffee Museum.
According to Edward Bramah, Founder and Director of the Bramah Tea & Coffee Museum, the English caught the tea-bug from the Japanese. However, while the Japanese have been drinking tea – largely of the green variety – since the 8th century, it was only in the mid 17th century that the habit caught on in England.
To celebrate the history of tea, Mr Bramah has introduced a Bramah City Tea and Coffee Walk. This two and a half hour loop takes the visitor across the river and through the City. The Thames by London Bridge, just three minutes north of the Bramah Museum, is lined with wharves and warehouses where the tea clippers once docked and unloaded their fragrant cargoes – including one called the Boston Tea Party Old Tea Warehouse.
Just across the river, the financial heart of London is still home to insurers like Lloyds, which grew to prominence thanks to the tea and spice trade. The original auction houses are also here – on Leadenhall Street and Mincing Lane – as are coffee houses (the original 'cafés') and tea gardens (now lovely parks) dating back to the 1600s.
The Bramah Tea & Coffee Museum, just a hop-skip-and-a-jump from other visitor attractions like Shakespeare's Globe Theatre and Borough Market, really is the ideal place to spend an hour or two before or after the walk, educating and indulging oneself.
On the one hand, the Museum provides a wealth of information on the history of tea and coffee between 1600 and 1950, ranging from China and Japan through India and Ceylon to Europe, the Americas, and Africa – as well as highlighting developments specific to London. Seminars covering the history of tea, a tea tasting, and practice in preparing the perfect pot of English leaf tea are also on offer, and Mr Bramah runs a tea auction for tourists once a month. (1998 was the last year a commercial auction was held in London.)
On the other hand, the Museum is fronted by a large tea room where traditional afternoon teas and coffees are served – the tea being exclusively of the orthodox slow-infusing variety. Mr Bramah expresses horror at the advent of the teabag in the 1950s, and sells only the best loose leaf varieties at the Museum. Teabags are to leaf tea what instant coffee is to fresh-brewed. "Who wants a quick brew?" asks Mr Bramah. "Not me. There are no better things in life than tea and time."
Aside from launching the Bramah City Tea and Coffee Walk, the Museum has also introduced a group package whereby a tour of the museum, a talk and a cream tea can be included in a standard price.
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They talk about the global economy. About research that will change people's lives. About emerging trends and world politics and influencing policies.
During the past year, USF has played host to an impressive list of thought leaders, entrepreneurs and people who are making a difference. The conversations curating here are benefiting students, faculty, researchers and the public.
"These are all people who are players in the world," says Karen A. Holbrook, senior vice president for global affairs and international research. "Global is the context for everything we are doing at USF. We need to make sure it's embedded in everything we do."
USF has more than 200 signed agreements to partner in academic programs and research with other colleges, universities and institutions in more than 60 countries across the globe. There is a constant flow on campus of visitors and delegations meeting with counterparts at USF, attending events or spending time with students to share knowledge and culture.
USF World recently launched the Center for Strategic and Diplomatic Studies, headed by Mohsen Milani, an internationally-recognized expert on the Middle East. The center will focus on researching critical international issues and formulating policy for those issues. When Holbrook took the reins at USF World in 2010, she envisioned a world of global connections and collaboration between USF students, faculty and researchers with counterparts in other countries; an entity that would be critical to exploring and solving some of the world's complex problems through research and international relationships.
"We have a lot of good connections," Holbrook says. "They grow out of relationships that faculty have developed, that the colleges have developed."


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ownerAlbert Seltz
founded in1557
- Vineyard Area: 12 ha
- Soil Type: Clay-limestone
- Varieties Cultivated: Pinot Blanc, Pinot Gris, Gewurztraminer, Riesling, Sylvaner, Pinot Noir
- Annual Production: 80,000 bottles
- Country: France
- Name Of Proprietor: Albert Seltz
- Winemaker: Albert Seltz
- Topography: Hillside
Albert Seltz is situated in the heart of Mittelbergheim in the Lower Rhine. Seltz, the 14th-generation owner and winemaker, took over from his father in 1980 when he was only 19 years old. At that time, Albert had already developed a sense of the potential of his estate and a passion for the Sylvaner variety. He immediately cut production by two thirds, reduced yields, and converted to strictly organic practices. In the cellar he practices minimal intervention, employing indigenous yeasts and sur lie aging.
In Alsace and beyond Albert is known for his love of Sylvaner—so much so that he was instrumental in the decision to grant grand cru status to Sylvaner from the Zotzenberg vineyard. An ebullient and articulate champion of the leaner wines of his area, Albert Seltz explains "the Upper Rhine is like a pretty girl with makeup; the Lower Rhine is the pretty girl who doesn't need the makeup." He talks of his wines as if they were people whose talents had been underestimated: "being from a modest background doesn't mean you're not interesting."


text: India's first QR Code virtual shopping wall has opened in Terminal 3 of New Delhi's Indira Gandhi International Airport (image below). Online and on-air retail marketing and distribution company HomeShop18 calls the venture 'Scan N Shop' and currently displays QR Codes for clothing, fashion jewellery, consumer electronics, perfumes and mobiles. HomeShop18 are hoping that the terminals 45,000 passengers departing daily will make use of what for them will be a new mobile shopping format from a household name company.


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Had such a wonderful time meeting Kaffe Fassett, Brandon Mably, Tula Pink, Allison Glass, Art Gallery Designers, and more. Taking in their School House, Demo Alley, Book Signing, and of course seeing their new collection of fabrics. Check Facebook and Instagram for pictures.
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Few parents have attended a court-ordered programme to help reduce the harm their children suffer from family splits - more than six months after judges were given the power to make them take part.
Since December, judges have been able to order separated parents embroiled in court battles over their children to go to parent information programmes. These classes, which teach parents the long-term effects of their warfare on their children and give them tips on how to avoid conflict with their ex-partner, have proved highly successful in other countries, including the US, Canada and Australia.
In a pilot programme in Australia, 88% of parents said they found it useful, reporting that they learned communication techniques and dispute resolution skills, and gained greater understanding of their children's experiences.
The reform in England and Wales was backed by fathers' groups. A poll last week by charity Families Need Fathers found that nearly 95% of its members felt they were not adequately supported by the family courts and the Children and Family Court Advisory Support Service (Cafcass) in staying involved with their children after separation.
Judges' slowness to embrace the new tool is causing huge frustration to the 55 agencies - many of them charities such as Relate, Family Action, and the National Youth Advocacy Service - that have contracted with the Department for Children, Schools and Families to provide the programmes and have trained their staff to deliver them. The dearth of cases poses a threat to their funding because they budgeted to be paid for hundreds of referrals .
Salli Ward, chief executive of Pro Contact, one of five providers in Greater Manchester, says they have had only two referrals, both so recent that nobody has yet taken the course. "The parenting programme is relevant to 90% of parents in court proceedings, so we should be getting swarms of them coming," she says.
The four-hour course, which parents attend separately, helps them to understand that conflict can harm their children, and that putting them in front of the TV while they argue is not enough. Ward says: "What they don't realise is how easy it is to damage children through just very subtle displays of conflict. You don't need to be scrapping in front of them."
A survey of providers by Cafcass, which is responsible for the programme, has revealed only 23 referrals to date, and 11 of those were in Bournemouth, where Relate is actively promoting the programme.
Judges say they welcome the new powers, but were unaware that programmes were available in their area, or unsure how to access them. Some said they would expect Cafcass officers to put clients forward in appropriate cases.
Bruce Clark, director of policy for Cafcass, admits that the use of the new provisions has been slow to start, but says: "Both Cafcass and the courts are now starting to make more frequent use of the parenting programmes."
Ashif Jivan, from Ealing, west London, whose wife left him with a baby and a toddler, attended a programme as a volunteer while it was being piloted. His eyes were opened by a video showing how children caught in the middle of their parents' emotional maelstrom can be badly affected. "All of a sudden, it hit me that what I was doing was wrong, and what she (his ex-wife) was doing was wrong."
The course, he says, changed the way he and his ex-wife communicate. "We speak respectfully," he says. "We don't argue in front of the kids, we talk like civilised adults. I would say we're friends."
Sue White (not her real name), a 35-year-old mother of three, is one of the few parents who have taken the course following a court order. She was reluctant to participate, but is glad she did. "I didn't think I needed a parenting class," she says. "But if I was talking to another mum, I'd say go - learn not to be in that bitter place, work out how your kids will feel. I got a lot out of it. The course has helped me to understand how to deal with conflict around contact arrangements, and I've understood how to listen to my kids better."


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A bestiary, or bestiarum, is a compendium that describes animals, or animals. In the Middle Ages it was a special category of book collecting short descriptions of animals (real and imagined), together with moralizing explanations and references from the Bible. Other types of collections focused on other aspects of the natural world, though the concept was similar. The lapidaries collected descriptions of the properties of rocks and minerals collections focused on other parts with a similar theme focused on the supernatural and moral properties of rocks and minerals. Herbaria described the virtues of plants from a medical perspective, but they too strayed into the realm of morality and legend, and were of little botanical or medical value.
The remote origin of these texts, which have no scientific value, is to be found in the ancient Greek work, Physiologus (meaning "the physiologist"; that is, the student of nature) that offered a symbolic and religious interpretation of the animals and their characteristics. So, for example, the lion - the king of beasts, is associated with Christ. The text was translated into Latin and throughout history has been enriched by details and images developed in later bestiaries. Other sources are to be found in Latin authors such as Pliny the Elder, Gaius Julius Solinus (a Latin Grammarian), and Saint Ambrose. Although birds were usually included in the bestiaries, they sometimes formed the subject of separate books dedicated exclusively to flying animals, both real and imagined. Books dedicated to the description of birds were called aviarii. As with bestiaries, the aviarii contained a great deal of fanciful descriptions; even when a real bird was described, the medieval authors would often ascribe imaginary behaviours or qualities to it.
Bestiaries were published primarily in France and England during the twelfth to fourteenth centuries, although there are later examples later. These more recent bestiaries are not as elaborate and are of lower artistic quality. One of the best known and most beautiful bestiary is The Aberdeen Bestiary a Twelfth Century illuminated manuscript.
Bestiaries were an attempt to describe the natural world through a moral lens. Although the descriptions bear little resemblance to any real natural history, bestiaries are nonetheless an important artifact serving to cast light on the beliefs and superstitions of the medieval mind. It is important to note that bestiaries were not written as works of fiction or fantasy; the authors and their readers believed them to be true descriptions of unicorns, dragons and other bizarre and often grotesque monsters and beasts -- for just outside the narrow ambit of the walled village or hamlet, the world was an unsafe and frightening place. Men and women rarely traveled more than a few miles from their homes during their entire lifetimes, and so their knowledge of the outside world depended on the stories from stories and tall tales from travelers, that had been embellished by many retellings.
During the time period that bestiaries were most in vogue, most people in France and England lived in small fortified villages which were surrounded by dark forests. These forests supplied the inhabitants with firewood, herbs and venison, but at night the people retreated to their villages and abandoned the forests to their inhabitants, wild animals and men. Forests and their inhabitants were held in dread, and animal noises were attributed to demons and other creatures of the night. In such a pre-scientific world, in which the majority of people were uneducated and illiterate, it was easy to imagine that all sorts of incredible creatures lived only a short distance away. But since all animals were part of God's creation, the tendency was to regard them as part of God's plan - for this reason, animals were regarded not just as living creatures but as metaphors or symbols of divine lessons. In this sense, bestiaries shared a common view with Aesop's Fables in which animals such as the tortoise, the hare, the fox, and the wolf are used to convey moral lessons based on the stereotypical characteristics of these animals and their behaviours.
Bestiaries also influenced the decoration of illuminated manuscripts. Medieval illustrated manuscripts often featured animals, drawn from bestiaries, or scenes from Genesis in the margins.
Bestiaries died out with advancements in scientific knowledge, and as explorers opened up the unknown corners of the earth. However the tradition of bestiaries has enjoyed a sort of revival in modern times. The Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges published The Book of Imaginary Beings, containing descriptions of many weird and wonderful animals from folklore and fiction. Bestiaries also continue to be a rich source of inspiration for fantasy writers and even games such as Dungeons and Dragons.
Our modern fascination with cryptozoology and unknown animals such as the Sasquatch or the Mokele-mbembe, a dinosaur supposedly still roaming unmapped parts of the Congo, suggests that our fascination with weird and wonderful animals and terrifying creatures living just beyond the pale of civilization have not disappeared in the harsh light of scientific knowledge. It is comforting to know that we have not conquered our world so completely that somewhere there may still be a dragon or two.
Perindens, a magic tree and keeper of the birds. From the Oxford Bestiary
A Unicorn


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This will be my last post for my Mendoza, Argentina blog and thought it would be fitting to conclude it with some of the culinary discoveries in my final week.
Thanks to everyone who followed my blog and for the new friends I have met along the way who enriched my experience! I will think of Mendoza with warm thoughts and look forward to promoting their wines!!
In a previous post I wrote about the Asado, an Argentine ritual of eating grilled beef which is very important to the locals. My first Asado experience was within 48 hours of arriving by the end of my four week visit, I can say I have never eaten so much red meat in my life. Of course, I'm not complaining:) But, after I left my internship at the winery, I had one week in Mendoza city to seek some variety in my diet I came across some places worthy of sharing. I had an abundance of wine bottles from my previous wine touring and most places welcomed serving one of my bottles for a reasonable corkage.
Ciebo Restaurant
What a great night (and a late night) with some new friends from Mendoza City that work in the wine industry. Meet Andrea, Santiago and Jose. Jose was one of my references for my internship. This night we indulged in an Argentine classic, Empanada's!! Stuffed with different meats or vegetarian. We finished the meal with a Malbec Grappa to prepare us for some zzzz's ;)
This is a place that I found in my tour book. Is funky, eclectic and serves up quality food. I have seldom had opportunity to eat any seafood since I arrived in Argentina so I was delighted to enjoy and entree of salmon.
Bute Plaza
This is a meal that has stayed etched in my memory. Outstanding service with the classic pairing of empanada's and t-bone beef, which was done to perfection! Hmmm..... maybe its time to introduce some salads into the meal plan???
Maria Antoineta
It was here at this French themed bistro that I found some refreshing options: green salad with vinaigrette, white fish and beautiful baked bread.
The Libations at the Hyatt
I had been on the hunt to find this distillate, Pisco, native to South America and extremely hard to find in Canada. It is mixed (3 parts pisco) to 1 part simple syrup and 1 part lime juice to make a Pisco Sour. It is also possible to add egg white and a sprinkle of bitters.
Vines of Mendoza
Across the street from Marie Antoineta restaurant is a tasting room called Vines of Mendoza. What a fun way to spend a couple hours in the afternoon with a blind tasting and a supply of tasting sheets to make your notes and conclusions.....after seeing the results, it was evident I needed more practice;)


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text: How To Home Theater How to Live Stream the Grammys Online Will your favorite singer or group win the golden statuette? Share Pin Email Print Home Theater Guides & Tutorials Basics Installing & Upgrading Tips & Tricks Key Concepts Cut The Cord Music For Your Life by Jeremy Laukkonen Jeremy Laukkonen is tech writer and the creator of a popular blog and video game startup. He also ghostwrites articles for numerous major trade publications. Updated December 13, 2019 The Grammys are set to air on CBS again in 2020, with additional red carpet pre-show coverage expected from CBS, and possibly other sources like Billboard. Live streaming the Grammys is easy if you follow a few important tips. Since the 62nd annual Grammy Awards are on CBS, you'll be able to catch the entire ceremony, and some pre-show coverage, on your local CBS channel, but you can also live stream the entire event online. 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