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East of Alexandria
- Raggle Taggle Gypsy
- Beast of Bodmin Moor
- Mary In the Silvery Tide
- The Navigator
- Origin of Fire
- My Friend
- The Rise and Fall of Mary Read
- Silver Linings
- Copper & Gold
- Just as the Tide Was Flowing
- East of Alexandria
- The Parting Glass
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The East of Alexandria Project
Recording began in Summer 2014, in the loft, with the blazing heat and unbearable recording conditions, it was decided to recruit the help of an engineer and allow Chris the chance to learn the full workings of Pro Tools and engineer techniques.
We spent five months working with Matt Pittori, behind the scenes, formulating our debut album, pulling together 8 original pieces inspired by traditional maritime and military themes and 4 traditional arrangements and we present East of Alexandria.
The name is based around the 'Battle of the Nile' which was one of Lord Nelson's most famous naval victories over the French which took place in the southern Mediterranean in the late 18th century. East of Alexandria is also one of our favourite tracks on the album.
For the project we have utilised close harmony singing, cello, guitar, ukulele, mandolin and percussion and the sound centres around a footstomping, vibrant and uplifting feel, even when the song describes death, heart ache and general misery, as many good folk songs often do. David took the chance to record on a full drum kit for the percussion and we brought in our friend Rachel to record some violin work.
Official Video
Thank you again to Jo Elkington Photography for the time spent producing this artwork.
The idea for artwork started with a long exposure photograph of us standing in the sea (in winter). We then superimposed a handdrawn (traced) map of Europe over the top and wrote the track names on various cities. Chris then added various drawings such as the pyramids, compass and sea monster (see if you can spot it).
East of Alexandria Songbook and Explanations
1. Raggle Taggle Gypsy
A lady is tempted away from the trappings of her gilded cage when she meets three wild and exciting gypsies and decides to leave behind her new marriage to create a new life with them attracted by the free and nomadic lifestyle. This is an arrangement of a traditional song.
2. Beast of Bodmin Moor
Original song describing the plight of a poor young maiden who rides across the misty fields to meet her secret lover but encounters the Cornish Beast of Bodmin Moor. Legend has it the beast is a large wild black panther-like cat. The poor young maiden is eaten by the creature and this begins the death theme so common in folk songs.
3. Mary in the Silvery Tide
Another arrangement of the traditional song telling the story of Mary, whose reluctance to give in to a Captain's advances, leads to a gruesome end. As a summary, the Captain loves Mary but as Mary loves Henry, the Captain murders Mary in a fit of jealous rage. In the original version of this song there are many more verses, detailing how the murderer was brought to justice having been identified by his monogrammed handkerchief. The song experiments with different time signatures. Most of the verse is in 6/8 timing except the third of every four bars being in ⅝ timing.
4. The Navigator
An original song telling a simple story of a navigator who recites memories of his family to help him through the early moments of his career in the RAF during the fighting of WW2.
5. Origin of Fire
A arrangement of a Native American traditional tale which describes how a fox accidentally discovers the secret of fire from fireflies and the original tale and lyrics would go on to tell how a fox has a bushy tail, why they are orange and why they are nocturnal.
6.My Friend
A traditional inspired original song with a moral tale, detailing the story of a man who is down on his luck and has lost his job, his family, his home and his friends. But after borrowing all the favours he can and recovering again to his normal life, he realises the importance of friends and giving back.
7. The Rise and Fall of Mary Read
Simply an instrumental song, inspired by an Irish set which comprises various Jigs and Reels.
8. Silver Linings
An original song in the style of a classic, perhaps cliche lovesong which encompasses the calm before, and the weathering of, the storm in a relationship with the moral of; things will work out in the end.
9. Copper & Gold
When you are poor and hungry, grab a guitar and go and busk. This is an original song, based on a true story of a friend of the band who, upon being very poor, busked for dinner and earned enough for three people to eat and drink all evening.
10. Just as the Tide was Flowing
Traditional song. Whilst enjoying leave onshore, a sailor chances across a pretty maiden enjoying the fair weather. She succombs to his advances and tries to tempt him back on his next visit.
11. East of Alexandria
Inspired by the famous 'Battle of the Nile' victory, one of Lord Nelson's three great naval victories. This one was significant because it was one of the most comprehensive victories in naval history and established Nelson's fame across Europe. We really liked the story and the history behind it plus let's be honest, who doesn't love beating the French?!
12. The Parting Glass
Traditional song. Before the rise in popularity of Auld Lang Syne, this song was commonly sung to wrap up parties and gatherings, sung unaccompanied in three part harmony live in a church in a single take.


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In Spring 2010, the Allen School (then the UW Computer Science & Engineering department) introduced its Alumni Achievement Award. Each subsequent year we have selected two outstanding alumni with exceptional records of achievement for recognition during our graduation celebration. Renamed the Alumni Impact Award in 2018, the award reaffirms to current and future Allen School graduates that each contributes to a long, successful line of alumni whose impact reaches far and wide.
Yaw Anokwa
Yaw Anokwa has worked as an electrical engineer for Raytheon, a research scientist for Intel, an informatician for Partners in Health, and a software engineer for Google. He calls on these experiences in engineering, management, and academia to solve meaningful problems in developing communities. Since 2011, Yawhas worked at Nafundi, a software consulting company he co-founded to create technologies that improve the lives of underserved populations, with an emphasis on replacing paper-based workflows with mobile apps built on the Open Data Kit (ODK) platform.
Yaw co-created ODK, a set of free, customizable mobile and cloud-based tools for data collection, while earning his Ph.D. under the guidance of the late professor Gaetano Borriello and alumnus Tapan Parikh (Ph.D., '07), earning his Ph.D. in 2012. Organizations around the world have used ODK to collect and act on digital records for a variety of purposes, including public health, wildlife conservation, elections monitoring, and more. Thanks in part to Yaw's efforts to build a robust community within the ODK ecosystem, the ODK website has seen traffic from nearly every country, and millions of users are estimated to have used ODK or its derivatives worldwide. Yaw also contributed to OpenMRS, an open-source, electronic medical records system designed to improve patient care that is used in more than 50 countries.
Yaw was honored for his contributions with the UW College of Engineering's Diamond Award for Distinguished Service in 2015. He previously received the 2011 UW Graduate School Medal recognizing his efforts to combine academic expertise with social awareness to promote political, cultural, and social change. Before arriving at UW, Yaw simultaneously earned bachelor's degrees in computer science and electrical engineering from Butler University and Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis, respectively.
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Eileen Bjorkman
Eileen Bjorkman's career took off — literally and figuratively — following her graduation from UW. She earned her bachelor's degree in Computer Science in 1979. After a brief stint as a programmer, she joined the United States Air Force and earned a second degree in aeronautical engineering. She would become only the sixth woman to enroll in the Air Force's Test Pilot School, and subsequently notched over 700 hours of flight time in more than 25 different aircraft as a flight test engineer, instructor, and test squadron commander.
On the ground, Eileen combined her background in computing and aviation in a variety of staff and director positions involving modeling, simulation, analysis and joint testing. She was in charge of air-to-air combat modeling to evaluate how adjustments to a jet's aerodynamics and systems would affect the outcome of dogfights. She later commanded the 846th test squadron, overseeing the testing of high-speed missile delivery systems at the Holloman High-Speed Test Track, and the 746th, testing global positioning system (GPS) satellites. Upon her retirement from active duty, Eileen continued to serve her country in a civilian capacity. She is currently the Deputy Director of Programs, Deputy Chief of Staff for Strategic Plans, Programs and Requirements, overseeing the $605 billion Future Years Defense Plan for investing in technology, equipment, and personnel.
Along the way, Eileen earned two master's degrees — in aeronautical engineering and national resource strategy — and a Ph.D. in systems engineering from The George Washington University. In her spare time, she has clocked more than 2,000 hours of civilian flight time. An avid writer, Eileen has penned articles for Air & Space Magazine, Aviation History, the Daily Herald of Everett, and others. In 2017, she fulfilled a lifelong dream by publishing her first book, The Propeller under the Bed: A Personal History of Homebuilt Aircraft.
Read more about Eileen's career and achievements here.
A.J. Bernheim Brush
A.J. Bernheim Brush is a researcher in Human-Computer Interaction with a focus on Ubiquitous Computing and Computer Supported Collaboration. She is most well known for her research on technologies for families and her expertise conducting field studies of technology. Currently embedded in a Microsoft product group since January 2016, she spent the previous 11 years in Microsoft Research, where she co-led the Lab of Things project, a flexible, open-source platform for conducting experimental research on projects for the connected home, including home automation, energy management, and home healthcare. A.J.'s interest in cooperative work and field evaluation began during her time as a graduate student working with Allen School professor Alan Borning. Her Ph.D. dissertation, Annotating Digital Documents for Asynchronous Collaboration, focused on the role of co-author discussions anchored at a particular part of the document versus the document as a whole — pioneering work that required her to build systems as well as perform careful user studies of how those systems were employed in practice.
A.J. is a Senior Member of the Association for Computing Machinery and a current board member and past chair of CRA-W, an organization that works to increase the number of women in computing research. She received an Anita Borg Early Career Award in 2010 for significant contributions to her profession through her research and outreach to women. A.J.'s research has earned her a 10-year Impact Award, two Best Paper awards, and several Best Paper nominations. A.J. regularly serves on the program committees for high-profile conferences in the field, including UbiComp, Pervasive, CHI, and CSCW. Before her arrival at UW, A.J. graduated summa cum laude from Williams College in 1996 with a double major in Computer Science and Mathematics.
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Hakim Weatherspoon
Hakim Weatherspoon is an associate professor in the Department of Computer Science at Cornell University. His research interests cover various aspects of fault-tolerance, reliability, security, and performance of internet-scale data systems such as cloud and distributed systems.
Hakim earned his bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering with a minor in Mathematics from the University of Washington, where he also played in four consecutive bowl games as a Husky football player. He went on to earn his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, in the area of secure and fault-tolerant distributed wide-area storage systems. His Ph.D. dissertation, The Design and Evaluation of Distributed Wide-Area Online Archival Storage Systems, focused on systems that could store global data durably, verifiably, and with minimal maintenance. He and Berkeley colleagues built Antiquity, part of the OceanStore project, to create a simple storage service and interface for applications that used a secure log maintained on multiple servers to ensure data integrity — work that is credited with helping to lay the foundation for modern cloud storage systems.
Weatherspoon has earned a number of accolades for his many contributions, including an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship; National Science Foundation CAREER Award; and a Kavli Fellowship from the National Academy of Sciences. He serves as Vice President of the USENIX Board of Directors and is the Founder and General Chair for the Association for Computing Machinery's 2017 SIGOPS/SIGMOD Symposium on Cloud Computing. Hakim has also been recognized for his work to promote diversity, earning Cornell's Zellman Warhaft Commitment to Diversity Award in 2014. Since 2011, he has organized the annual SoNIC Summer Research Workshop to help prepare between 15 and 25 students from underrepresented groups to pursue their Ph.D. in computer science. Allen School Alumni Achievement Award
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Albert Greenberg
Albert Greenberg has worked on the front lines of grand scale networking and cloud computing for more than two decades, first at Bell Labs/AT&T and then at Microsoft. Albert earned his Ph.D. at UW CSE in 1983 working on the development of efficient algorithms for multiple access channels alongside professors Richard Ladner and Martin Tompa. Before his arrival at UW CSE, he earned his Bachelor's in Mathematics from Dartmouth College.
At Bell Labs/AT&T in New Jersey, Albert rose to division manager for network measurement engineering and research, and then to executive director and AT&T Fellow. He returned to Seattle in 2007, joining Microsoft as a Principal Researcher. For the past six years he has served as Distinguished Engineer and Director of Development for Microsoft's Azure Networking, the company's global cloud computing infrastructure platform that spans millions of servers around the globe and helps make Seattle the leader in cloud computing. Albert's responsibilities encompass physical and virtual datacenter networking design and management, overseeing teams in Redmond, Mountain View, Hyderabad, Dublin, and Beijing.
The UW CSE Alumni Achievement Award is the latest in a string of honors for Albert. Earlier this year he was elected to the National Academy of Engineering – the profession's highest honor. He is a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery and has received the SIGCOMM Award for his lifetime contribution to the field of communications networks, the IEEE Koji Kobayashi Computers and Communications Award, and multiple "Test of Time" awards for his research.
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Stefan Savage
As a leader in the Systems & Networking and Computer & Network Security groups at the University of California San Diego, professor Stefan Savage has tackled everything from computer worms and online scams, to distributed attacks, insidious global consumer fraud networks, and automobile systems hacking. He is being honored twice this month for his outstanding research in network security and efforts to fight cyber crime: tonight he receives the UW CSE Alumni Achievement Award, and tomorrow, he collects the 2015 ACM-Infosys Foundation Award in the Computing Sciences.
Stefan earned his Ph.D. from UW CSE in 2002 working with professors Brian Bershad and Tom Anderson. His route to computer science academia was unorthodox. Having begun his studies as an undergraduate at Carnegie Mellon University in physics and cognitive science, he wound up earning a degree in applied history instead. He then spent two years working in a computer science lab at CMU before following Bershad to Seattle, earning admission to UW CSE's doctoral program a year later.
Stefan received job offers from MIT, Stanford, UC Berkeley, CMU, Cornell, UCSD, and several others. He joined UCSD for the cultural fit and turned his attention to battling cyber drug crime and shutting down counterfeit software sales by tracking the flow of money. Stefan also co-founded the Center for Automotive Embedded Systems Security with UW CSE professor Yoshi Kohno to draw attention to the security vulnerabilities of modern automobile systems, and established the Center for Evidence Based Security Research in collaboration with the International Computer Science Institute at Berkeley. He won the SIGOPS Mark Weiser Award in 2013, earning plaudits for his "uncanny ability to ask exactly the right question, propose exactly the right solution, and see that solution through to impact.
Read more about Stefan's career and achievements here.
Kevin Jeffay
Kevin Jeffay received his Ph.D. from UW CSE in 1989 where he worked with Alan Shaw in the area of real-time operating systems. He has spent his entire 26-year post-CSE career at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he is now the Gillian T. Cell Distinguished Professor of Computer Science, and Chair of the Department of Computer Science -- the nation's second-oldest computer science department.
Jeffay helped build the real-time systems program at UNC and, to attract students, established a multimedia group working on the then radical idea of processing audio-video in real time on a computer. Current high-profile research in the CS department includes a partnership with the physics department in developing the nanoManipulator, a virtual reality interface for scanned-probe microscopes. It can visualize an individual atom or clumps, and measures the mechanical forces required to bend a carbon nanotube. Another current project focuses on a free-space optical airborne communications network that would provide Internet service to homes across the U.S. through equipment installed on commercial aircraft.
An additional point of pride for those of us in UW CSE is that Kevin has always been deeply engaged with students. He's won multiple awards for his teaching, and for many years he's coached UNC's team in the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest, including two trips to the World Finals.
Read more about Kevins's career and achievements here.
Tim Paterson
Tim Paterson's email address is DosMan @ PatersonTech.com. In the most succinct possible way, that tells the story. Tim was among the first UW undergraduate alums in Computer Science. He received his Bachelors degree in 1978.
After graduating he joined a tiny company called Seattle Computer Products (SCP) as its only engineer. Tim designed a single-board computer based on Intel's new 8086 processor, which SCP started shipping in 1979. The computer needed an operating system, so Tim designed a system called 86-DOS, which SCP started shipping in 1980. Microsoft came knocking around that time; Microsoft first licensed and then purchased 86-DOS from Seattle Computer Products. When the first IBM PC shipped in 1981, it was running that system -- re-branded by IBM as PC DOS. Tim worked on several additional releases of the system, both at Seattle Computer Products and at Microsoft.
His life has taken many interesting turns since that time -- from 8 years on the Visual Basic team to 5 years of competing in BattleBot tournaments.
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Jeff Dean
Jeff Dean received his PhD from UW CSE in 1996 where he worked with Craig Chambers on whole-program optimization techniques for object-oriented languages. He joined Google in mid-1999 and currently is a Google Senior Fellow in the Knowledge Group. His areas of interest include large–scale distributed systems, performance monitoring, compression techniques, information retrieval, application of machine learning to search and other related problems, microprocessor architecture, compiler optimizations, and development of new products that organize existing information in new and interesting ways. Products Jeff has developed for Google include AdSense, MapReduce, BigTable, and Google Translate.
Prior to joining Google, he was at DEC/Compaq's Western Research Laboratory, where he worked on profiling tools, microprocessor architecture, and information retrieval. Prior to graduate school, he worked at the World Health Organization's Global Programme on AIDS, developing software for statistical modeling and forecasting of the HIV/AIDS pandemic.
Read more about Jeff's career and achievements here.
Gail Murphy
Gail Murphy received her PhD from UW CSE in 1996 where she worked with David Notkin. My research interests are in software engineering with a particular interest in improving the productivity of knowledge workers, including software developers. She is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Associate Dean (Research & Graduate Studies) in the Faculty of Science at the University of British Columbia. I am also a co-founder and Chief Scientist at Tasktop Technologies Incorporated.
Gail has accrued a long list of honors since her UW graduate student days. Recent ones include the 2013 International Conference on Software Engineering award for "Most Influential Paper 10 Years Later," the 2011 ACM SIGSOFT Retrospective Impact Paper Award, and a 2010 double header with the ACM Distinguished Scientist and ISCE Distinguished Paper awards. UW Engineering recognized her early career achievements with a 2008 Diamond Award.
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Anne Dinning
Anne Dinning received her Bachelors degree from UW CSE in 1984, where she did research with Professor Richard Ladner. After working in Seattle for a year, she moved to New York and received her PhD in computer science from the Courant Institute at NYU. She turned down a number of attractive faculty positions to become an early employee of D. E. Shaw, the hedge fund established by Columbia University computer science professor David Shaw. Today Anne is "first among equals" on the executive committee that oversees D. E. Shaw's more than 1,000 employees, managing $26 billion in investment capital.
Read more about Anne's career and achievements here.
Edward Felten
Edward Felten, a Caltech physics undergraduate, worked for several years as an analyst with Caltech's Concurrent Computing Project before earning his PhD from UW CSE in 1993, where he worked with Ed Lazowska and John Zahorjan. He then joined the computer science faculty at Princeton University, transitioned to computer security as a research area, and developed a strong interest in public policy related to information technology. In addition to being a professor in Princeton's Department of Computer Science, he is a Professor in Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School of Public Affairs, and the Director of Princeton's Center for Information Technology Policy; he recently spent two years in Washington DC on leave from Princeton as the first Chief Technologist of the Federal Trade Commission. Ed was elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences in 2011, and to the National Academy of Engineering in 2012.
Read more about Ed's career and achievements here.
John K. Bennett
John K. Bennett (PhD '88) is an expert in the design, implementation, and evaluation of distributed systems. After teaching at Rice University, he joined the faculty at University of Colorado at Boulder in 2000, where he holds an endowed professorship in computer science and is a professor of electrical and computer engineering. He also served as associate dean of engineering and sciences, and now directs the ATLAS Institute, the Alliance for Technology, Learning, and Society - a campus-wide entrepreneurial catalyst and incubator for innovative interdisciplinary research, education, and creative work.
Read more about John's career and achievements here.
Wen-Hann Wang
Wen-Hann Wang's (PhD '89) educational and career odysseys have crossed four continents. Our man of the world is also our man at Intel, where he is vice president of Intel Labs in Hillsboro, Oregon, and director of circuits and systems research. A new area of responsibility is looking at how to apply circuit technologies to solve biologic challenges. During more than 20 years at Intel, Wang's assignments have included two postings to Shanghai and dozens of trips abroad to Russia, the Middle East, and Latin America. Closer to home travels include spring and fall visits to Seattle as Intel's liaison to the UW.
Read more about Wen-Hann's career and achievements here.
Anne Condon
Anne Condon (PhD '87) is a computer science theoritician whose research has moved in a purposeful direction from complexity theory to DNA computing and algorithms for biology. After twelve years at the Computer Science faculty at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, she moved to the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, where she will become head of the Department of Computer Science in July. Besides research— currently focused on predicting secondary structures of nucleic acid polymers— Condon has a passion for mentoring emerging researchers, particularly undergraduate women. She is an ACM Fellow and the recipient of the 2010 A. Nico Habermann Award for service.
Read more about Anne's career and achievements here.
Jeremy Jaech
Jeremy Jaech (MS '80) has founded some of the best-known and most innovative software companies in the Pacific Northwest, including Aldus (pioneer in desktop publishing), Visio (technical drawing software now part of Microsoft Office), and Trumba (web-based event promotion). In 2008, Jeremy assumed the CEO role at Verdiem (power management software), where he successfully turned the company around financially. He is currently in residence on the fifth floor of the Paul G. Allen Center, exploring his next move.
Read more about Jeremy's career and achievements here.
Greg Andrews
Greg Andrews (PhD '74) was one of the first PhD students in the program, working with Alan Shaw (now emeritus) on computer security and earning his degree in 1974. Over the course of a thirty-six-year career in academia, he has twice served as department chair at University of Arizona, authored three textbooks, and is a fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery.
Read more about Greg's career and achievements here.
Rob Short
Rob Short's (MS '87) remarkable professional journey began in his native Ireland, where he earned a two-year electronics degree from the Cork Institute of Technology, a trade school. Starting his career at Digital Computer Corporation (DEC) in Galway, he was invited to the US to work on the pioneering VAX families of minicomputers, first in Massachusetts and later in Washington State. Working with Hank Levy, he earned his MS degree in 1987 and joined Microsoft in 1988 to work on Windows NT (progenitor of Windows XP and Windows 7). By 2000 he was a corporate vice president. Rob retired in 2007 to devote himself to non-profit work, helping found See Your Impact, a pioneering philanthropic organization.
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Efficiency is the byword at Hines.
The Houston-based commercial real estate developer with several properties in San Diego County knows its tenants want to save money on rent and operational costs so they can concentrate on their day-to-day business needs.
"A lot of what we're doing is try to meet the needs of our tenants and listen to what they want," said Paul Twardowski, senior managing director for San Diego and Orange counties. "Clearly what they're looking for is efficiency more than anything else."
Background: Development company founded by Gerald D. Hines in 1957 has more than 259 million square feet in 800 properties in 59 U.S. cities and 18 countries. Currently controls assets valued at about $23.8 billion.
San Diego: Began renovating buildings in 1994; bought Golden Eagle Plaza, 525 B St., built La Jolla Commons office tower and constructing second tower; facilities manager for
In an office building that means well laid out office interiors, where unusable space is at a minimum, and low energy consumption through the use of efficiency heating and air conditioning and passive energy design.
Twardowski used Hines' 302,262-square-foot La Jolla Commons' Tower One, built in 2008 at 4747 Executive Drive in the University Towne Centre area, as a case study. The second tower is under construction with many of these and other features planned for the 13-story, 415,000-square-foot project due for completion in mid-2014. The LPL financial consulting group has leased the entire building.
- The 13 floors are laid out with a minimum of interior structural columns to maximize usable floor area. The ideal size is 20,000-30,000 square feet per floor.
- The narrow depth of 40-45 feet from the building perimeter to the elevator and restroom core allows for access to natural light to reach most workers sitting far from the exterior wall.
- Floor heights can be as much as 10 feet if the air conditioning and heating ducts are exposed. The Cushman & Wakefield brokerage space on the ninth floor has a combination of both exposed and drop ceilings that resemble something of an industrial or loft space popular in urban centers.
- Excess heat seeping in from the outside is reduced with the use of fritted windows -- fine lines in the glass to diffuse some of the sun's rays. Tinting in the windows also reduces glare and heat gain.
- Special power transformers lose only 2 percent as they deliver electricity to the building, down from a 15 percent loss in traditional transformers. Fuel cells also help reduce external power demand.
- Elevators are programmed to anticipate heavy usage at arrival, departure and lunchtime. This step saves office workers time and reduces energy demands. The elevators "learn" which floors demand use at certain times of the day are park at nearby levels instead of returning automatically to the top of the building.
La Jolla Commons doesn't include a huge lobby area, as was common in early generations of office towers. Instead, there's a common conference room available to all tenants. One tenant, the Paul James law firm, even operates a reception area at the first level in which clients and vendors can conduct business without having to travel to upper levels.
Amenities also figure into the office design. There's a workout on the ground floor. Gym rats can run on the treadmill while gazing outside, rather than be stuck in a basement or windowless space as is common in other office complexes. Lockers, showers and secure bike racks are located in the nearby parking garage, and plans are in the works to provide a place for tenants to store their surfboards.
There's also an outdoor patio area for breaks and lunchtime and a garden between the garage and the second La Jolla Commons tower to the west. Some offices incorporate coffee bars and other gathering spaces for employees -- a subtle way to keep them on campus rather than losing them to off-site lunch spots. Cushman & Wakefield personnel were gathered around the coffee one recent late afternoon rather than absent at a
All these features aim at attracting tenants and encouraging them to renew their leases.
"Some deals get overly focused on economics and forget some of the small issues which end up being very important to long-term longevity," Twardowski said. "Rates go up and down, but a tenant is making a decision once every five to 10 years and they need to be quite happy with that situation."
Happiness isn't only a goal of the company executives but their employees, as well.
"That's where all these quality issues come into play," he said. "Happy employees that like where they work, like the environment where they work, get sick less often because the quality of the air and access to fresh air is better. Therefore they are less like to go quit and find another job."


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text: An Introduction to the Theme of World Meeting of Families 2018 The theme for each World Meeting of Families is chosen by the Pope. In choosing The Gospel of the Family: Joy for the World, as the theme for the ninth World Meeting of Families in Dublin, Ireland, Pope Francis invites us to reflect on a theme that was central to the Synodal process that led to his post-Synodal Apostolic Exhortation Amoris Laetitia: On Love in the Family. 'The Church and The Gospel of the Family' was a key theme in the Preparatory Document for the III Extraordinary Assembly of Bishops in October 2014, a document that was the subject of unprecedented consultation among the faithful of the Church across the world. While the preparatory document does not give a specific definition of the term, 'The Gospel of the Family', it does convey at least three senses in which this relatively new phrase in the Church's tradition can be understood: The family, founded on the marriage of a man and woman, is part of God's plan from the beginning. The 'Good News' of the family is therefore an indispensable part of the joyful message of the Gospel that the Church proclaims. The family is the principal agent of evangelisation of its own members. As the first school of faith and love, the Christian family is often where we ourselves first come to know Jesus and his love. The family proclaims the Gospel to the World. The Christian family, by its witness to the life and love of Jesus, is a principal agent of evangelisation to the world. As Pope Francis explains in the opening words of Amoris Laetitia¸"the Christian proclamation on the family is good news indeed" (AL,1). The Christian proclamation of the family is an indispensable part of the 'Good News' of the Gospel. God's plan for the family, revealed in Sacred Scripture from the beginning, is joy for the world! The World Meeting of Families 2018 will explore each of these dimensions of theme the Gospel of the Family: Joy for the World and what it means for families and the Church today. We also invite you to follow various local and international contributors to our online Amoris programme who will help us to prepare for World Meeting of Families 2018 by reflecting on some of these themes over the coming year.


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Fingerprints, photos give parents peace of mind
Maryam Tofighbakhsh was willing to set aside her pink sucker—briefly—while she swabbed the insides of her cheeks.
Her DNA sample became part of a free kit that includes her photo, fingerprints and a video interview, courtesy of area Masonic Lodges' Illinois Child Identification Program. Roger Hills spends time assuring parents the invaluable information is theirs to keep.
"We only keep the permission slip. The families keep the rest of the packet," the Urbana Masonic Lodge member said, explaining police could use the kits to help search for and identify missing children. "We hope they never have to use it, but we do hope it gives families peace of mind."
That's the idea behind Saturday's Playing It Safe—reducing injuries and even death by teaching families practical ways to stay safe. Like a few hundred others, 9-year-old Maryam and her younger sister, Fatemeh, experienced hands-on safety lessons inside while it rained outside during the 20th annual event at the Champaign County Fairgrounds, which Carle hosts with Safe Kids Champaign County, as well as partners WDWS/WHMS/WKIO radio station and Sonic Drive-In.
"While Carle stands ready to help children and families affected by severe injuries and other dangers, our goal is sharing education to keep children safe and out of our Emergency Department," said Henry Moore, MD, trauma surgeon and Playing It Safe physician chair.
"We want parents and other caregivers to know what to do in a host of situations so we can prevent accidents and save lives."
That message is reaching parents, indeed.
"I read the description from ChambanaMoms.com, and I knew Playing It Safe would be a fun and informative event for our family," said Zahra Tofighbakhsh of Champaign.
Her husband, Dr. Seyed Tofighbakhsh, is completing his medical residency in Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery at Carle.
They agree their daughters learned a lot about proper hand-washing to avoid spreading bacteria and how to handle strangers.
"It may not all sink in right away, but if the time ever comes, they will know what to do," their mother said.
Seven-year-old Fatemeh readily recited what stuck with her.
"To stay safe, I need to stick with my parents. And if I get lost, I need to ask the police for help," she said.
"And I need to keep wearing my bike helmet so my head doesn't crack and break."
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Child labourers poisoned on Zimbabwe tobacco farms, rights group
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Cash-strapped Zimbabwe has started selling this year's tobacco crop to international buyers.Tobacco is the country's top foreign currency earner. But a new report by Human Rights Watch (HRW) suggests the crop is being grown and harvested at a terrible price.
The HRW report says child labourers and other workers on tobacco farms are being exposed to acute nicotine and pesticide poisoning.
After a two-year study on farmworkers, including a significant number of children, Human Rights Watch found many suffered symptoms of acute nicotine poisoning – such as dizziness, nausea and vomiting.
Tobacco is harvested by hand in Zimbabwe and nicotine is absorbed through the skin.
In its report, A Bitter Harvest, the rights group says workers are also exposed to poisoning by pesticides sprayed on the leaf crop.
It says that those under the age of 18 work mostly on small-scale tobacco farms.
The land reform programme opened up the possibility of tobacco cultivation to tens of thousands of farmers often working as families or with a meagre workforce: this year there are 100,000 of these registered farmers.
Human Rights Watch called on multinationals to make sure the tobacco they buy is not produced by child labourers.
But with only 120 government labour officers to monitor the whole country, that's a tall order.
With the "golden leaf" now Zimbabwe's main source of desperately-needed foreign currency, the question is this: will the protection of children on tobacco farms be a priority for the new government of President Emmerson Mnangagwa?


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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Iconic 1960s band The Beach Boys will perform together for the first time in more than 20 years at the Grammy Awards on Sunday, organizers said.
Brian Wilson, Mike Love, Al Jardine, Bruce Johnston and David Marks will sing with Maroon 5 and indie rock band Foster The People in what Grammy organizers called a special performance at the televised awards show in Los Angeles.
The five musicians, who were all involved in various line-ups of The Beach Boys in their 1960s heyday, announced in December that they were releasing a new album later this year and going on a world tour to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the band.
Hits like "Good Vibrations" and "California Girls", propelled the Beach Boys to worldwide fame in the 1960s. The band was formed in Los Angeles by brothers Brian, Carl and Dennis Wilson, their cousin Love and school friend Jardine.
Johnston and Marks joined later versions of the band, and
Dennis and Carl Wilson died in 1983 and 1998 respectively.
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Wednesday, November 9, 2011
Jesse Reno Meets Jennifer Mercede
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- AnonymousNovember 9, 2011 at 12:37 PM
Oh, what lovely creations! I love the contrast between the background and the strong black lines on the animals. Great work! graceReplyDelete
Mary, these are wonderful. I love the animals, but I love the background just as much!!!!ReplyDelete
Mary I found Jennifer Mercede last year on a web surfing expedition and wanted to call her up and tell her how much her work inspired me. She is a great example of young, contemporary artists that are able to create new and fresh artworks AND earn a living doing it! Cheers to her and you for your inspired children's art projects.ReplyDelete
The lines, colors and textures are all beautiful.ReplyDelete
Thanks so much all! Pat, I agree! How inspiring to see someone carve their way into the tricky world of fine arts so successfully. I love how loose, free, and whimsical she is and how her work really runs the gamut.ReplyDelete
Wow! Love this lesson-caught my eye while trolling the blogs for ideas-I live in the greater Portland OR area and follow both these artists closely. Check out another Portland artist I know you'll love as well-Chris Haberman on Facebook, and also @ this link: http://www.opb.org/programs/artbeat/segments/view/830ReplyDelete
Thanks for the great idea-I'm going to do it with my students this week! Barb
Thanks Barb! I will definitely check him out. Portland is clearly a creative force lately. Love the free-spiritedness of the art.ReplyDelete


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There are many great things about being a woman – you get to have Aunt Flo visit, you get to wear a harness every day, you get to have nine months of heartburn (the only negative for me when it came to pregnancy) and then! You get to go through perimenopause for FOREVER! This weeks theme is a retrospective on what it means to be me! Oh, and what part of the future is all about.
You may or may not know that in one of my lives I was a software tester at Microsoft. To be more specific, I was one of the first two or three that they hired, and I tested products in foreign languages. Even then my passion for travel and escape was in my blood. This was back in the mid-1980's. Many great things came from this, but the best was, this is where I met my husband.
|The spotlight is on Steve Balmer. The arrow is pointed on my hubby, Paul!
On Saturday night, I am proud to say that a couple friends persuaded Microsoft to hold a Windows 95 Reunion. Man it was fun. I think about a thousand people were there and it was the place to be! My husband worked on this project. It was amazing to see old friends greet each other, not in the platonic way thirty year old would, but with big hearty hugs and genuine affection written all over their faces. And these were men! I jest… but you know what I mean.
For me, and to my surprise, I was able to visit with a dozen or so people I hadn't seen since 1990 and they were some of my favorites! The era I worked there was epic, and to see these freakishly capable, multi-talented people made me so happy. Definitely a grand evening.
Who's my favorite new singer?
Music is one of my top five passions. I have three that run neck to neck, and if I had to make a choice, I couldn't. Music (all genre), art (in all formats), intentional and thoughtful design, are those. Writing in second. My family is first… just in case you are curious!
Anyway, music. What amazes me about music is that it moves the body and soul. Every part of you gets hooked in. And a great song… well, that is pure genius. Capturing someone's attention and emotionally moving them (in any direction) in three minutes or so, well, that amazes me. And makes me envious. There I've said it.
Anyway, I troll YouTube and other internet websites looking for newbie singers. This week I am all over Brit, Calum Scott. Watch these two videos to find out why…
… the friendship between brother and sister alone moves me, and when you hear him sing, and watch him lost in his emotions, I think you see the embodiment of music. It is the marriage of all that allows music to stir our souls.
Who is your favorite new singer?
Writing and reviewing books.
I read a lot of books. Sometimes about four a week. It used to be more, but writing has seeped further and further into my soul and occupies more of my reading time. Anyway, I am going to start posting links here to my NEW BLOG! called Celia Reads and Reviews. I have about 200 reviews on Amazon that I am going to move over, but for now, I will start putting the books I review there and you can click on the link and check them out.
As a writer, I think it is important to read your co-workers efforts. It isn't competitive, it is a show of support, an understanding of where the genre is heading, and the opportunity to let an author know that their book, their time, their emotional energy, was well spent. So click on the link and find some great books. (BTW: all my reviews are on Amazon and Goodreads as well.)
Can you really get to a point where you remove sugar from your diet, if you are me?Again, you may or may not know that I quit eating sugar and a number of other foods in June. I was a vegan for many years, which included eating no fats as well. So, no olive oil, no canola oil… you get the idea. THEN I started eating everything. I'll share this story someday.
Back to sugar. I quit eating it, for the most part, and it is single handedly the most difficult thing I have ever done, and if you've read any of my past blogs, you know I've done some challenging things. Most specifically, I find giving up ice cream hardest. I never even ate the stuff until I was pregnant with my son, and I craved it all day, every day. I broke the habit for years. It snuck back in a couple years ago, and while it wasn't a daily habit, I wanted it to be.
So, to replace this, I eat: non-fat, plain yogurt, with honey (natural sugar is okay), fruit, and a mixtures of buckwheat, hemp, chia, coconut chips and unsweetened cranberries. Now, it isn't a Dairy Queen Blizzard, but it gets me through.
Anyone have tips?
Whose turning 50 with me?
My 40's are drawing to a close and I have to admit, it freaks me out. I should also admit that for the last year or so I've gone through a relatively huge mid-life crisis. Small enough that I've kept it to myself, big enough that I've shed many tears and wondered, "What now?" It's weird turning 50. When I turned 40, I still looked young and could possibly live another 40 years. I had toddlers. Now, with college years insight for my teens, my skin a little (or a lot) more… flexible, shall we say… I am looking older. I'm not gonna lie, I don't like it. Am I going to accept it? Yes. But it's gonna take some more work.
But, and this is a BIG but, who I am and what I am doing, for myself, feels really good, feels right. I am more complete and content now than I have ever been. My fear comes not from what is happening now, it comes from the fact that I want time, a lot of it, to achieve and luxuriate in so many achievable goals: live in Europe, write twenty novels, travel to a new country every year, see more of the vast country I live in, spend time with friends near and far, play tennis with zeal, sing on a stage, finish some paintings, have a water feature in my garden, compete in professional ballroom dancing, walk a red carpet (okay, not as achievable as other goals), have my kids want me in their lives, babysit the grandkids… and do all this with my husband.


text: Yaaaaaasssss!!!!! Disney and Marvel have just released a brand new trailer for Captain America: Civil War, and the most important bit of new footage involves the official unveiling of Spider-Man. Check out the trailer at the bottom of the post. There are so many things in the trailer; starting with the one of Sebastian Stan's Bucky/Winter Soldier in that containment facility. General Ross (the baddie in Hulk – remember him?) shows the new Avengers lineup footage of all the destruction they've been a part of in recent years, which is hard for them to watch. We all know the basic story of the movie by now, but there's a setup between Steve Rogers (Chris Evans) and Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) that establishes where they stand on the issue of government regulation of superhero activity. We get a better look at the highway chase between Black Panther and Bucky, which looks like an amazing display of Black Panther's speed and abilities. Usian Bolt, watch out! A little while later, there's a montage of many of the team members in action, including new addition Ant-Man jumping off of Hawkeye's arrow, before Cap is decked by Crossbones. Then there's the official introduction of Tom Holland's Spidey into the MCU. It makes perfect sense that Tony would call Peter Parker "Underoos," too, so there's a nice lighthearted character moment amid all of these serious events. What do you think about the trailer? Captain America: Civil War arrives in theaters on May 6. Via GeekTyrant Marvel's "Captain America: Civil War" finds Steve Rogers leading the newly formed team of Avengers in their continued efforts to safeguard humanity. But after another incident involving the Avengers results in collateral damage, political pressure mounts to install a system of accountability, headed by a governing body to oversee and direct the team. The new status quo fractures the Avengers, resulting in two camps—one led by Steve Rogers and his desirefor the Avengers to remain free to defend humanity without government interference, and the other following Tony Stark's surprising decision to support government oversight and accountability. Get ready to pick a side and join the nonstop action playing out on two fronts when Marvel's "Captain America: Civil War" opens in U.S. theaters on May 6, 2016.


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This recipe is totally home made and all ingredients are fresh. There are no artificial flavours, or preservatives, it can also be made to be "Dairy Free" I also prefer to make it into individual portions instead of a one piece tray which then has to be cut losing all its appeal and presentation.
This recipe can be made "DAIRY FREE' by substituting the milk in the bechamel sauce with soy milk, and the cheese is also available in a Soy and Herb cheese from your supermarket. Mild Chicken Tikka Masala Master Mix Spices are from Masterfoods and also available from your supermarket.
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2010-11 UMBC Men's Basketball Schedule
The UMBC men's basketball team opens its eighth season of America East Conference competition on Sunday, Jan. 2 when they host Stony Brook, one of the league's preseason favorites. The Retrievers and Seawolves.will tip-off at the RAC Arena at 5:00 p.m. That contest is the first of 16 America East clashes for UMBC as the conference recently released its schedule.
For the third consecutive year, all UMBC men's basketball games will be heard live on Fox 1370 Sports Radio and onwww.fox1370.com. Gary Stein, Paul Mittermeier and Troy Green will once again comprise the Retrievers' broadcast team.
Fox 1370 Sports Radio also broadcasts up to ten UMBC women's basketball and UMBC men's lacrosse games and will follow all three teams throughout their respective America East Championships.
After playing five of nine America East contests on the road in January, four of seven February games will be played at the RAC Arena as UMBC's students return to campus.
Pre-season favorite Boston University visits the RAC Arena on the evening of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, Monday, Jan. 17.
UMBC will hold its annual "RAC in Black" Night on Thursday, Feb. 3 when the Retrievers entertain Binghamton at 7:30 p.m. The Retrievers' final regular season home game is set for Saturday, Feb. 19 when UMBC hosts Hartford at 7:00 p.m. UMBC students will celebrate "The Last Growl" before and during the game that evening.
The Retrievers wrap up the regular season in Albany on Wednesday, Feb. 23. The America East Conference Tournament will be held at Hartford's Chase Family Arena for the second consecutive year and play opens on Friday, March 4.
For the fourth consecutive year, fans can watch every home UMBC basketball game onwww.umbcretrievers.tv. All-access passes, at a special discounted rate, will go on sale during the first week of November.
The "Randy Monroe UMBC Basketball Show" can be heard on Fox 1370 Sports Radio andwww.fox1370.com each Thursday evening from 6:00-7:00 p.m. The first show is scheduled to air on Thursday, Nov. 12. The initial show will emanate from the Skylight Room on the UMBC campus on Tuesday, Nov. 9 at 12:30 p.m.; all other shows will be hosted by Gianni's Italian Bistro in Halethorpe at 1:15 p.m. (see below)
The "Randy Monroe Report" with host Drew Forrester returns to WNST, 1570 AM andwww.wnst.net each Friday morning at 9:00 a.m. during the basketball season.
UMBC opens its 25th season of NCAA Division I men's basketball on Sunday, Nov. 14 as the Retrievers host VMI at the RAC Arena. Tip-off time for that matinee is 3:00 p.m.
For a complete schedule, go to www.umbcretrievers.com/sports/mbball/schedule.asp?SEASON=2010-2011
Fall schedule for Randy Monroe UMBC Basketball Show: Tue., Nov. 9 at UMBC Commons (12:30 p.m.); Thu., Nov. 18 at Gianni's*; Wed., Dec. 1 at Gianni's*l; Thu., Dec. 9 at Gianni's*; Thu., Dec. 16 at Gianni's*; Wed., Dec. 29 at Gianni's* (*all shows begin at 1:15 p.m.)


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I participated in NaBloPoMo 2007 and now I'm going for the ultimate blogging challenge from NaBloPoMo's sister site, Blog 365: to blog every day in 2008 and to have at least 365 blog posts...
Upcoming: 365 Days of Posts
2007's Holiday Travel, Dialysis Not Included
We spend every Christmas in Flagstaff, Arizona - as far away from the heat and humidity of Florida as possible. This holiday is the first time I've traveled post-transplant and the first time in over four years that I haven't had to make travel dialysis arrangements in advance.
I keep holding my breath as if (tomorrow, the next day, or the next) I'll have to be heading off to a treatment in the middle of vacation...
A story of Giving Life: Twice
If you know me, you know I'm not a publicly emotional person. In fact, I guard my emotions very carefully, especially when it comes to death - because I've lost so many close to me in the last few years. I've lost too many friends and fellow kidney failure patients who were waiting for kidney transplants... that didn't come in time.
I was surprised by my own emotions, today. Taken completely by surprise.
A few days ago my friend told me about a little boy who lived in her apartment building who had passed away. She didn't know many exact details of his death, but assumed that his life-long disabilities had most likely contributed to his passing. Even though she didn't know his family well, she recalled for me her memory of the boy: always smiling, saying "Hi! Hello! How ah'ya?" to anyone who passed, while he sat enjoying the outdoors in his chair. I got an immediate picture in my mind of this child and understood the positive energy he must've spread to anyone who passed him.
Today was the little boy's memorial service. I offered to watch my friend's two kids (she has a 6.5 year-old daughter and a 6 week-old son) while she attended the service in support of the family and others touched by his life and death. While I spent several hours at her home with her kids having fun, the thought occurred to me more than once how wonderful gifts children really are, how lucky we are to be parents, and how difficult it must be to lose a child.
After the service, my friend came home and we packed the kids up so she could drop me off at my next destination. While we drove she described the boy's memorial - filled to the brim with children and decorated like a kids party - complete with a special play area just for kids during the service. The way she described it seemed to mean that the service not only focused on the boy who had passed, but on ALL the children who had known and loved him. She said she wished she'd known it would've been so happy and kid-friendly, because she would've brought her own children.
Then she showed me the memorial program. On the front was a picture of the little boy with his full name, the dates of birth/death and the popular nick-name "Papi" that everyone knew him by. He had an enormous smile in the picture, and again I felt as if his very positive energy drew me in. I flipped to the inside and began to read the obituary.
This is the part where I burst into tears. The tears came so fast they stung my eyes with sudden emotion. All because of this, the most important part of the obituary and maybe, of Papi's life:
"Continuous prayers are requested for the 5 children who received hope through his organ donation."
To know that these strangers, who have loved and untimely lost their beautiful child, made the undeniable difficult decision to save the lives of five other children, speaks more to my heart than I can find the words to express. I'm emotionally stunned and numb, even as I write this post with the tears still streaming down my cheeks.
I think this is the biggest, hardest, jagged pill-of-a-lesson human beings should try to strive to understand: If parents can grasp how to unselfishly give, even during their most anguished and grief-stricken moments, then humanity still has hope. If we could collectively identify with these parents, and with the other thousands of loved ones in this country every day who make similar decisions, then we just might have a chance to understand the meaning of life.
Papi and his parents gave us a gift: Not only in sharing Papi with the world and all his life touched, but in the decision to donate his organs.
Thank you, Papi's parents. From an organ recipient, to the parents of a boy to whom they gave life - twice.
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Cancano Acqua del Gallo Val Mora
San Giacomo di Fraele, Passo di Fraele - San Giacomo di Fraele
This is a socalled Interreg Alta Rezia route connecting Italy to Switzerland through the Swiss and the Stelvio National Parks. The start is from Passo di Fraele I, which is the watershed between Adda river and SpolInnDanubio basins towards Grasso di Pra' Grata, a spectacular and solitary place surrounded only by the wild cliffs of Piz Murtarol and Monte Cassa del Ferro and descending to the wide valley bottom.read more
The fjord of Livigno lake appears all at once while heding downhill. After the climb you emerge from the vegetation in front of a landscape getting wider and wider. You descend into the marvellous Val Mora and come back to Italy crossing the Pass of the same name.You start from the car park in San Giacomo di Fraele 1952 m, which is situated at the end of Cancano lakes, and follow the dirt road n. 182 gently sloping down northwards. You get to Acqua Del Gallo 1925 m and find a crossroads on your right towards Switzerland, which allows you to cover the same route in the opposite direction. We instead turn left uphill to Val Bruna and then descend to Grasso di Pra' Grata 1889 m and cross the little bridge on the river 1860 m. From here on the long sideway to Livigno lake begins and above it the track becomes a narrow trail crossing the gravel steep cliffs bordering the basin: pay attention Once you have gone beyond the last small valleys, then the real switchbacked climb begins. You ride steadily uphill on the smooth path among the pine trees until you reach the wide Forcola del Gallo 2280 m and the Swiss territory at Doss del Termel 2318 m. Now begins a descent of 200 m on a very steep and bumpy trail requiring good technique and concentration. Then you get to Alp Mora 2084 m, whence the dirt road goes southeast downhill the length of the same name valley. You find a diversion to the right at 2062 meters, you turn back northwest and reach Passo di Val Mora 1934 m and San Giacomo di Fraele riding first on a wide road and then on a flat but narrow and technical trail. N.B. In case of no thoroughfare for vehicles on the stretch linking Cancano to San Giacomo di Fraele, you have to add these 8,7 km of dirt road to be ridden with your MTBs for the round trip.


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An Evening of Entertainment 2017 in aid of Macmillan Cancer Support
An Evening of Entertainment 2017 is an independently organised fundraiser concert in aid of Macmillan Cancer Support. The show will be returning to The Whitty Theatre for a second year after last year's audience were thoroughly entertained, but this time, will feature an even bigger variety of acts. Focusing on showcasing the talent of musicians, singers and dancers from the local area such as…
Vicki Sayers – Singer/Songwriter
Urban Stylez – Award Winning Streetdance Company
RASPO – Reading All Steel Percussion Orchestra
Iain Bailey – Member of the the Magician's Circle
Students from Virtue School of Gymnastics
In addition to the talent on display, there will also be a raffle and a cake stall to help raise that little bit extra.
The money raised will help fund Macmillan's increasing range of services, including their Macmillan nurses, a range of cancer information services, practical help at home and help with money.
Doors open at 6pm and the show starts at 7pm. Tickets cost £12.50 for Adults, £6 for children and under 5's are free. Family tickets also available
The Whitty Theatre
Luckley House Road
Always check with event organisers before travelling


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This is one of my favorite pictures.
I am 5 or 6 and we are on the balcony of our apartment in Pinetamare,Italy.
I haven't changed much - Cake, yummmmm!
The boys enjoyed the rides and the food. Next time we will remember to put on the SUNSCREEN that we had in the car! Laird discovered a new love - ELEPHANT EARS! He thought he had died and gone to heaven - it was HILARIOUS!
Laird's favorite ride was the trampoline, Larry J liked the rock climbing and Landon LOVED the slide.
Lach loved everyone looking at his smiling face.
The tulips were amazing! Color, color EVERYWHERE!


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Rapper Iggy Azalea insists she is "good" with her fiance Nick Young since his recent cheating scandal.
The Fancy rapper was hit with fresh allegations the Los Angeles Lakers player had been unfaithful in March (16) when a video was leaked online showing him confessing to cheating on her.
It seemed the scandal had not rocked their relationship when Iggy wore her engagement ring to the iHeartRadio Awards in California on Sunday (03Apr16) and she has now spoken out about the scandal, telling a Twitter user, "nick and i are good babe" after they offered to help Iggy clear his belongings from their house.
After another person weighed in and called the rapper "tragic", she replied, "When youre (sic) grown and actually build a life with someone you might understand... yeah, thats life... youll f**k up in your own ways too, relationships are hard work (sic)."
Iggy, 25, also blasted New York Post reporters for a story they wrote about Nick's dwindling sports career, following a decision to remove him from the basketball team's active roster on Sunday.
In her response, she acknowledged Nick's cheating, but denied suggestions there are problems at home, claiming the media were "trying to turn it into a breakup".
"hey, i know its a sexist world we live in and all," she wrote directly to the site's Twitter page. "But how about you not blame the women for a mans self professed unfaithfulness... oh and ps. things a (are) great at home."
Nick, 30, popped the question last year (15) and they were planning to marry this year (16) but the couple pushed the big day back so Iggy could embark on a tour.
The sins of London have followed them home. After throwing Owen Shaw (Luke Evans) out...
The cast of 'Furious 7' talk about their favourite moments from the 'Fast & Furious'...
There's ever more death-defying stunts to be had with this crack team of vehicular warriors,...


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Today's Advent reading from Isaiah confirms that we need to let children be leaders in the church – or does it?
This phrase from the book of Isaiah is often quoted out of context as a proof text to encourage us to involve children in leadership. But as D. A. Carson said, "a text without a context is a pretext for a proof text." and this demonstrates that principle – it ignores the context of the verse. The whole verse reads,
"The wolf will live with the lamb,
the leopard will lie down with the goat,
the calf and the lion and the yearling[a] together;
and a little child will lead them." (Isaiah 11:6 NIV)
So the verse is about a child leading animals, nothing to do with leading people let alone the church! The wider context is a prophecy of the coming kingdom under the reign of the Messiah, Jesus. Hence why we read it during Advent as we await the birth of Jesus. It's a vision of a ruler anointed by the Holy Spirit, ruling with justice, righteousness and faithfulness and peace will prevail. The sign of that peace will be that animals will live in peace, instead of devouring one another and those that are most vulnerable, like children. Instead the child will play and even lead these animals.
It is this wider context though that may allow us to argue for understanding this verse as an argument for the leadership of children in our churches.
First the imagery reminds us of the Garden of Eden, that first paradise, the first image we have of the kingdom of God. In the garden there was no harm or destruction, no killing, enmity or strife but animals and humans were created to live in harmony under the leadership and authority of Adam and Eve. And of course Adam and Eve were children, leading and playing with the animals.
Of course? Well that's if you take the view of Irenaeus, one of the founding fathers and theologians of the early church (c. 125-202AD, Bishop of Lyons). Irenaeus stated that Adam and Eve were young and child-like, that they needed to grow in wisdom and maturity. The important thing is that they and we, are all expected to grow up, there is an order to creation of development as we grow older. We are all becoming, journeying and learning as we go. Jesus came as a baby – maybe to emphasis the point – as for Adam so too for the second Adam. We note that Jesus 'grew in wisdom and stature and in favour with God and Man' (Luke 2:52). Our calling is to grow up, to become more like Jesus and so more truly reflect the image of God imprinted on us.
So while we live in the 'now and not yet' of the kingdom of God, we recognise that children are vulnerable and not fully mature but the future kingdom is one of shalom; where children are safe from harm and where they will lead those who offer most threat. If the Garden of Eden was entrusted to children and Isaiah's prophecy recapitulates that vision, then surely we can say that the coming kingdom of God involves children leading as well as adults. The wider context of scripture therefore allows us to read this verse not as a proof-text but as a call to enable children and young people to take their rightful place in our church communities that seek to demonstrate the coming kingdom. Here they can be leaders and learners alongside those of us who may be older but are also learning and becoming.


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We've Got $10,000 That Says Teachers Are Appreciated In Nevada.
National Teacher Appreciation Week is upon us. If you're scrambling to deliver an original, heartfelt gift for the amazing teachers in your child's life (or want to thank a teacher who's made a profound impact on your life), check out Pinterest. There's a plethora of good, crafty, appreciation-filled ideas there for sure—but perhaps not $10,000-good. That's where we come in.


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The second book of the Shooting Stars series has finally got it's cover. The cover was released thanks to Rock Stars of Romance and on author Aurora Rose Reynold's social media websites. In the second book of the series, we follow Zack as he tries to make up mistakes that he's made in the past with Shelby. We had met Zack in the first book of the series as he was a friend of Austin's, so it's likely that we will meet back up with him and Leah.
That moment your life changes.
That moment that changes your life.
That moment you love someone more than you love yourself.
That was the moment we gave our son up for adoption and the moment I was left bare. A wide-open space that would forever be empty.
There are moments that define you as a person, moments that prove just how strong you are, moments you push yourself to keep going forward when all you really want to do is give up. It was in one of those moments when I reached out and found him waiting for me.
When Shelby Calder left home fifteen years ago, she never planned on returning to the Alaskan town she left behind. But after the death of her grandfather and a bitter divorce, she hopes going home will be a fresh start for her and her ten-year-old son.
Zach Watters has made a lot of mistakes in his life. But when he sees Shelby Calder, looking more beautiful than ever, standing outside her childhood home, he promises himself that letting her go won't be a mistake he ever makes again.
Some things never change and love is one of them.
Wide open spaces Is a second chance romance.
Does this book contain cheating? NO
Will this book make you cry? YES, Well if you have a heart it will.
Is the hero alpha? Absolutely
Not all love stories are easy, sometimes the road to a happily ever alpha is full of bumps.
You can add Wide Open Spaces to your Goodread's page and get ready for it's 2016 release date. There is no official date, but will update as it gets announced.
What do you think of the cover?


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Senate Democrats are fighting among themselves over whether the federal government should exert even more control over education in order to make a stronger statement on civil rights and education for minority children, or back off due to the testing frenzy such federal control has already produced.
According to Politico:
The Senate bill [Every Child Achieves Act], which has support from many Democrats who consider themselves strong proponents on civil rights, has lost the support of the county's [sic] largest civil rights coalition, the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights. The group wants changes to the bill in the form of amendments, which are being hashed out behind closed doors by Democrats including Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.). Warren and others are clear — they want stronger language requiring states to track performance of poor and minority students and do something to improve schools that are falling down on the job.
"Politically, it's cannibalism," says Charles Barone, director of policy for Democrats for Education Reform, a group that supports annual testing.
The battle within the Democrat Party over education will be coming to a head shortly as both the House and Senate are considering their rewrites this week of NCLB – the current version of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) which was first signed into law by President Lyndon Johnson.
Many grassroots groups of parents and teachers — Republicans and Democrats, liberals and conservatives among them — have become increasingly involved in education issues over the past several years due to the controversial Common Core standards and their associated tests and student data collection. Will Democrat members of Congress move ahead with an even stronger federal hold on education with further restrictions on schools for what they perceive — from their perch in Washington, D.C. — to be a benefit to minority children, or will they go with their constituents who want their children to have relief from the flood of standardized testing and data collection federal control requires?
It's worth noting that in the half-century since the ESEA was passed as part of Johnson's "War on Poverty," billions of dollars have been spent – by both Democrat and Republican administrations – on education and so-called "helpful" programs for "disadvantaged" children, and yet Democrats are still fighting for more federal control and federal programs and subsidies in order to "close the achievement gap."
The Senate bill does not have the support of the Obama administration, though no veto threat has been issued as has been over the House NCLB rewrite, dubbed the Student Success Act.
Heritage Action for America is urging Senators to vote "no" on the Every Child Achieves Act (ECAA), which was introduced by Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-TN), who chairs the Senate committee that oversees education, and ranking member Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA).
"[T]he 792-page bill represents a missed opportunity to show a clear contrast with the progressives' failed big-government education agenda," states Heritage Action.
Lindsey Burke of the Heritage Foundation observed in December four critical problems with the Senate bill (S. 1177):
- 1177 does not eliminate programs or reduce spending.
- 1177 does not eliminate all the burdensome federal mandates.
- 1177 does not enable states to completely opt out of the programs that fall under No Child Left Behind.
- 1177 does not provide states the option of full Title 1 portability.
Similarly, writing at Townhall, Jane Robbins, senior fellow of American Principles Project, and Heidi Huber, founder of Operation Opt Out Ohio, observe that ECAA "maintains NCLB's requirement of administering annual assessments in English and math in grades 3 through 8 and once in high school" and actually "adds language that effectively encourages the states to lower the boom on noncompliant students and parents."
"ECAA also continues to mandate that results of high-stakes assessments be used in state accountability systems," write Robbins and Huber, noting that the measure "requires states to use assessment scores, progress toward readiness for 'college and the workforce,' and high-school graduation rates as a 'substantial' portion of a school's grade."
"So not only must states ensure 95% participation in the assessments, they must use the results to rate their schools," the authors point out.
Other amendments to the ECAA include the establishment of a new federally funded preschool program, and federal childcare subsidies.
As the Heritage Foundation observed in June, the federal government already runs 45 early learning and childcare programs, the largest of which is the Head Start program – which costs taxpayers $8 billion and has a rather deplorable track record.
In February of 2013 the Obama Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) published a study that found that students who participate in the Head Start program actually fare worse, in some ways, than students who do not.
The large-scale study found that children who participated in the Head Start program actually did worse in math and had more problems with social interaction by the third grade than children who were not in the federally funded program.
Furthermore, teacher reports provided as part of the study demonstrated strong evidence of the Head Start program having an unfavorable impact on the incidence of children's emotional symptoms, and possible effects on both ability to have close relationships and positive relationships with teachers. The study concluded that, even when some positive effects of participation in Head Start are found in preschool age children, those effects disappear once children enter early elementary school.
"Now is the time for Congress to restore federalism in education, empower parents and students instead of bureaucrats and unions, and remove archaic obstacles that have prevented true opportunity for all," Heritage Action urges.


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November 29, 2019
uLean Topical Patches Review
Losing weight can be difficult, and so can taking hard-to-swallow pills, even if they'll help you lose weight. Knowing this, I was curious about other options. Then I heard of uLean Topical Patches, which is an adhesive patch, not a pill. This piqued my interest to learn more.
After searching extensively through reliable sources, here's what I found.
What are uLean Topical Patches?
uLean Topical Patches are also sold as the uLean Weight Management Kit. This kit includes 30 patches, a meal plan, and an exercise guide. I found this combination impressive. The meal plan and exercise guide can help maximize weight loss results.
An adhesive patch applied to the skin, uLean Topical Patches release all-natural ingredients to help you lose unwanted weight.
What's In the Sauce?
There are two ingredients listed on the packaging for uLean Topical Patches, they are:
• Raspberry Ketone (100.00 mg). Raspberry ketone is the primary aromatic compound found in red raspberries. It regulates the protein adiponectin, which in turn regulates metabolism. Raspberry ketone also breaks up the fat within cells and turns it into energy.
• Green Coffee (400.00 mg). Green coffee extract has amazing weight loss properties that will reduce dietary fat absorption, increase metabolism, and burn fat with thermogenic technology.
Will uLean Topical Patch Cause Any Side Effects or Harm?
There has been limited research on the two main ingredients in uLean Topical Patches. Both are said to have little to no side-effects.
Yet, according to WebMd.com, "There are some concerns about the safety of raspberry ketone because it is chemically related to a stimulant called synephrine. Therefore, it is possible that raspberry ketone might cause feelings of jitteriness, increase blood pressure, or rapid heartbeat. In one report, someone who took raspberry ketone described feelings of being shaky and a pounding heartbeat." [1]
I found this to be the only negative response about raspberry ketone.
On WebMD Health News, Kathleen Doheny wrote about a study performed by Joe Vinson, PhD, professor of chemistry at the University of Scranton. In this study he evaluated 16 overweight people who took a 700-milligram dose of green coffee bean supplement.
None of those who participated in the study reported any negative side effects. In fact, the results were all positive. The average weight loss was 17 pounds. [2]
How to Use uLean Topical Patches
It's important to always read the directions and speak with your physician before using any weight loss product. uLean Tropical Patches are not recommended for women who are pregnant, nursing, or children 12 and younger.
Manufacturers also note that it's important to not use it if you have any sensitivity to iodine.
For best results, apply the patch on a clean, hairless part of your upper body. One uLean Topical Patch lasts 24 hours.
Drink 8 glasses of water per day to flush toxins out of your body.
You can stop using uLean Topical Patches after 120 days, or after you've reached your weight loss goals.
According to manufacturers, utilizing the meal plan and exercise guide will produce maximum results. This will also create a healthy lifestyle to maintain long after you've lost the unwanted weight.
uLean Topical Patches are affordable. Here are a few places to purchase from:
• Truderma.com: $44.99
• GMC.com: $32.99. With Gold Card Purchase: $26.39
• Amazon.com: $32.99
Click here to buy uLean Patches for $44.99.
Customer Service
I had a few questions about the uLen Topical Patches formula. I emailed the company on two different occasions. I was impressed with how quickly they responded and answered the first email. With their quick response, they also gave me a code to receive 30% off my next order.
However, the second email was different. While going over the ingredients, I realized the only two listed are green coffee and raspberry ketone. Yet, it's warned to not use the uLean Topical Patch if you're sensitive to iodine. I emailed the company asking why, and if there was iodine in the patch along with any other ingredients not listed…I am still waiting for a response.
End Results
After extensively researching uLean Topical Patches, for the most part, I'm impressed. I appreciated the additional meal plan and exercise guide included to assist in weight loss.
The ingredients they list have proven to work. And it's always a plus not to take a pill and use a convenient patch instead.
My only concern would be the ingredient profile. Especially since my email was not answered, I have to wonder if something is being hidden.
Despite the potential for hidden ingredients, overall I think uLean Topical Patches can help you lose weight and live a happy, healthy life.
[1] WebMD.com (2005-2012). Raspberry Ketone Side Effects & Safety. . www.webmd.com/vitamins-supplements/ingredientmono-1262-RASPBERRYKETONE.
[2] Kathleen Doheny (2012). Green Coffee Beans May Aid Weight Loss Supplement Linked to Weight Loss in Small, Early Study. WebMD Health News. www.webmd.com/diet/news/20120328/green-coffee-beans-may-aid-weight-loss.


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On September 19th, our Patient Care Technology students hosted a Haunted House themed blood drive.
Congratulations to Ms. Birch and our PCT students on another successful blood drive - 59 pints were collected! These pints can help up to 177 hospital patients! This is one more example of how Auburn helps to enrich our community.


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A digger used as part of the construction of the Rampion Wind Farm has been stuck in the sea since Tuesday.
With no concrete date set for the 800-tonne digger to be rescued, our staff thought it needed a name.
Vote for your favourite name in our poll!
The winner will be announced in the coming days.
The digger has been stuck in the sea off the coast of Worthing beach since Tuesday.
Read the updated story about the digger's predicament here.


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