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Martin McGowan is a top sea angling guide and founder of Ullcatch Angling Ltd. Martin has guided some of the biggest names in sea angling to their dream fish and is a genuine nice guy. Martin we're glad to have some of your time…
Me:Can you tell me about Ullcatch?
Martin: Where do I start? It's been an amazing venture to date, The company itself: Ullcatch Angling Limited is an Irish angling company focused on identifying, designing and developing premium practical solutions for anglers. The Ullcacth Webber will be in shops in 2014. We currently have a portfolio of nine new products. So 2014 we feel will be a very good year for Ullcatch exciting times ahead.
Me:When did you start fishing?
Martin: Fishing was brought to my attention by my father, at the younger age of 13. I think from my first ever outing, which was mackerel fishing, on a warm summers evening, I have never really looked back. I have the bug!
Me: How did you get into match fishing and how did your first match go?
Martin:I started match fishing at the age of 13 also through my father, who was a then member of Tralee Bay SAC. There I fished underage and still a member of the club today. My very first competition was on Barrow beach in North Kerry where I had my very first flatfish, which was a plaice. Following that came a flounder, that was enough to lift the trophy that's day.
Me: You live in Kerry an anglers paradise, Whats your favourite way to spend a day's fishing in Kerry?
Martin: Believe it or not, to me a good days fishing in Kerry, has always been trying a new mark, with some friends. With such an untouched coastline here we are spoilt for choice. We normally set of early on any given morning with Google maps at hand.
Me: Martin a lot of people would know you from the wonderful stingray fishing. can you tell us about the stinger fishing in Kerry?
Martin: We are very lucky, in that the stingray are on our doorsteps here, in Kerry. A ten minute drive, can have you on a stingray mark, ready to go. In total we have around 3-4 marks that will produce stingers on any day, with the right conditions of course. Last year was a very good year, for stingray fishing, with the hot weather bringing the stingray here in large numbers, on an average days fishing, between 2 or 3 anglers we would land 6-7 stingray, giving the conditions were right. So yes wonderful is sure is…
Me: Martin how do you tackle up for the stingers?
Martin : 20 or 25lb mainline, you don't have to cast too far. Some lads use a pennell pulley and some prefer a single hook to minimize damage to the fish. With hooks some go crazy, but a good 2/0 or maybe a 3/0 but no bigger really.
Me: Kerry has miles and miles of unspoilt rivers, lakes and coastline, have you seen much change over the years or has it remained unspoilt?
Martin:Being honest, when it comes to rivers and lakes no, I would not see much change, as I spend most my time by the sea, In respect to that, the coastline has stayed much the same, that was up until lately.
Lots of coastal damage been done with the surges, sand hills moved and wiped out in some areas. Beaches have become a lot steeper. Will it improve fishing? We'll have to wait and see.
Me: If you weren't fishing in Kerry Martin where would you go? Easy, you would find me somewhere along the Beara, in Co Cork You got to love the coast line down there, very easy access and great fishing lots of options and species to target..
Me: Tell me one of your favorite fishing memories?
Martin:Good question, so many lovely memories. One that springs to mind was not too long ago, when Myself along with 5 other anglers decided to do an all night session for stingray, undulate ray and Tope. Little did we expect the success we where to have that night. I think we had with us everything, but the kitchen sink. Part of the plan was to sit around the camp fire and tell fishing stories in between casts. But that was not to be! A few of the lads never had an Undulate ray before, and not from the want of trying. That night we had over 45 ray, mostly the lovely undulate ray, a fantastic looking fish. So the storeys had to wait for another night…
Me: What music do you listen to when in the car going fishing?
Martin: I would have to have some Wolftones with me. Other than that would be tuned into the radio… Finally, what are your hopes for 2014?
To land and record as many specimens as I can, and of course the weather gods are kind to us all. Tight Lines


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U.S. probe aimed at tracing arms to drug cartels lost track of hundreds, including two linked to agent's death.
A federal operation that allowed weapons from the U.S. to pass into the hands of suspected gun smugglers so they could be traced to the higher echelons of Mexican drug cartels has lost track of hundreds of firearms, many of which have been linked to crimes, including the fatal shooting of a Border Patrol agent in December.
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The main purpose of this letter is to remind the members of the staff in the department of the institution's policy on the use of the computers, networks and media. It is clearly stated that the staff will only use the computers at work place and the internet for official matters. Staffs are not allowed to use the department computers and internet for searching for personal reasons. Individuals found involved in using the computers inappropriately will be dealt with accordingly according to the institution's policy governing the code of conduct of staff.
All staff members are encouraged to pay attention to the rules and regulations as outlined in the staff manual and discontinue any communications or internet usage that might be against the institutions policy. Those found may be penalised from using the facilities and even have a long term consequences of being discontinued from their respective tasks and thus fired.
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The Scream 4 trailer that debuted at the Scream Awards was appropriately scream-filled. (Watch it below courtesy of an attendee.) But was it actually scary? For me, the most chilling scene from any of the Scream movies is still the franchise opener of Drew Barrymore on the telephone, when she's unable to yell out to her parents as they come home. That's what horrifying — not her mother screaming when she finally sees her daughter hanging from a tree, stabbed multiple times. Building that kind of stomach-turning suspense takes time that a trailer (at least one debuting at the Scream Awards) won't allow. But that's the kind of clip I can't wait to see. During daylight hours. Which is when I've seen all the Scream films.
For more on Scream 4, check out EW's Reunions issue, on stands now. As director Wes Craven says promisingly, "The first [Scream] was very much observing where horror had been for the last 10 to 20 years. And this is very much looking at where horror has been for the last 10 years. There's always somebody trying to figure out what the rules are to keep from getting killed."
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After completing several system deployments for the organisations I worked for, I came to the conclusion that this was by far my favourite bit of the job and set about forming my own consultancy specialising in process management and systemisation using FileMaker as the primary development tool.
I quickly took all of the FileMaker exams, becoming certified in 2007.
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It's the long-awaited return of a full episode of Dragonfly Ripple! And as a special treat, we record this one all together in person. Michael and David discuss Star Trek: The Animated Series and Carlin and Annaliese discuss Raiders of the Lost Ark. JetPack Tiger features the entire cast including special guest, Paxton Holley from Nerd Lunch.
We've got an exciting new full-length episode coming very soon. In the meantime, hopefully this odd little JetPack Tiger will tide you over.
Carlin and Annaliese checked out the local sci-fi and gaming convention. Here's their chat about it after the fact. What did Annaliese think of the convention? Does she want to attend this one again? How about another one? Would Annaliese ever cosplay? All those questions and more are answered on this Dragonfly Riplet!
Carlin, Annaliese, David, and Michael reconvene to talk about dinosaurs and alien Egyptians. After a quick discussion of the relative nerdiness of Carlin and Michael's spouses, Michael interviews Annaliese about the experience of watching Jurassic Park and Jurassic World. Then Carlin questions David about the original Stargate movie and the TV movie pilot that launched Stargate SG-1. We wrap up with a Dinner Table Question about the wisdom of dinosaur parks and what exhibits we'd want to see if we were foolish enough to visit one. All that and a Jetpack Tiger segment about Avatar: The Last Airbender.


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A Physics Web article on aggregated diamond nanorods [hat tip: Instapundit] contains the following contradiction:
The group created the ADNRs by compressing the carbon-60 molecules to 20 GPa, which is nearly 200 times atmospheric pressure, while simultaneously heating to 2500 Kelvin.Of course, 200 atmospheres is only 20MPa (roughly the pressure a mile deep in the ocean) -- 20 GPa (giga Pascals, i.e., billions kg / m s^2) is 200,000 atmospheres. For comparison, the pressure at the center of the earth is estimated at around 375 GPa.
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justice will die over and over again.
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i have told myself never to get too much involved to anything that the media presents. because its either they are lying or i am believing. But finally reading the news about the acquittal of the convicted slayers of the 3 Viscondes made me sleepless. Yes, until 2am and not a bat from my long lashes.
Nineteen years. This is a case I almost grew up with. You know, being talked about in the news, movies and everything. The whole thing isn't vivid to me but the picture of a lovely lady who was grisly slaughtered, the Webbs' beautiful faces, the famous Jessica Alfaro glasses. They all seem to be a part of my past, of most of our past.
Well, i do not care if they are 8000 miles away or if Alfaro (where is she, anyway?) is lying. Who are we to know? Truth can always be tampered. Because there are people who has this gift of making themselves believe that what they are saying is true. Maybe, Mr. Vizconde is right; it's time to do away with the blindfolded lady. Everything seems to be a form of mockery, like the loss of the sample semen which God knows whose fault!
But you know to who i am so devastated with? This Gerardo Biong, who destroyed the evidence in the Vizconde case. There was once this big chance of getting in touch with justice but he, a man supposed to save the truth, took everything away. He just gave people another shot of disgust to the profession. For me, he should remain in jail until the culprit is caught. But then he was freed after serving 15 years in jail.
Nineteen years. And the long search for justice of a fragile man for his murdered family just ended up with an elusive dream of finding whoever the true slayers of the despicable crime are.
This broke my heart. And i can only pray for Lauro Vizconde's deep sorrow to be tightly embraced by God's grace. I think its not so far for this same thing to happen to the maguindanao massacre. (God borbids)
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This weekend at one of my events we had a little hiccup. The night was going wonderfully, everyone is calm and happy and then.......
A very intoxicated woman takes a tumble down our stairs (luckily we were not the ones who over served her) Here she is on the stairs, crying and confused and completely lost. I held her and rocked her back and forth as she cried in my arms - so sad :( Once 911 arrived Firemen do what they normally do with intoxicated people....5 firemen in your face asking you questions does not help matters - I know this because as the title of this post says, I was that girl. It took me back to a place I never want to go again.
As I come up on 7 years of sobriety I find myself forgetting what it was life. I NEVER want to underestimated the horrible shape I was in before I got sober - Losing my mind, in and out of institutions, driving drunk, wanting to die...It was horrible and going back there is not a choice for me.
This weekend I had a glimpse at the life I've left behind....probably just what I needed.
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It was nice to have someone you could feel safe with. Or, at least, you felt could understand who you were and accept you for it. It'd been a long day, and extremely interesting at that. She'd made herself a new friend she'd always cherish, and had helped her make a new friend in turn. It would have usually taken.......too long to think of.
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Lovers and singles alike will be encouraged to wear pajamas or sexy lingerie for the Valentine's Day soiree. The sleepover encourages guests to be bold in the face of love and interact with a live social media photo booth filled with Valentine's Day gimmicks. DJ Paradice & DJ Jim Green will keep the party moving with the hottest tracks for lovers and lusters to dance to all night long. The event features complimentary admission and is open to the public.
All singles who attend the party with their designated "Wingman" or "Wingwoman" will receive 2-for-1 drinks from 9 to 11 p.m. with a limit of one "Wingman" or "Wingwoman" per guest. All guests are invited to enjoy an open bar from 9 to 10 p.m. on sponsored by Stoli. Guests interested in the open bar must RSVP by e-mail at [email protected]
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Two years ago, in 2011, French magazine Le Nouvel Observateur published an interview with the perfumers Dominique Ropion and Anne Flipo, who regretfully mentioned, that their newest perfume creation called La Guerre des Nez (i.e. The War of the Nose), which costs 100 eur, actually costs 1,5 eur to produce. A little shocking, isn't it?
Even though the topic of prices in perfume industry is still a very sensitive as well as confidential topic, French perfumers are very open about it. They claim that advertisement and distribution is way more expensive than the initial product itself. Besides, perfumers only get a relatively small salary and it does not depend on popularity (or disgrace) of the perfume they create at all. The total price of La Guerre des Nez – 100 euros – is just the price of advertisement and distribution, mainly. The initial product, which is the liquid in the bottle, in perfumery world usually represents only 2-3 per cent of the total cost of producing it. Out of 100 euros one pays for the perfume in a boutique, money goes to VAT (19,6 eur), distribution (36 eur), advertisement (25 eur) and so on. It seems that the money we save to have the bottle of our favorite perfume doesn't actually reach the hands of creators; they rather reach hands of assistants and marketers instead.
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Given day may actually seem a little shocking, but it actually is not: science is partly to blame. Today, the great majority of perfumes are not coming from nice smelling gardens fulls of beautiful flowers. They are rather made in laboratories out of synthetic molecules. It actually takes 750 kg of jasmine flowers to create only 1 kg essential oil, which could be used for perfume. And it's even worse with roses: they must be picked by hand, flower by flower, at sunrise. The initial price of rose can cost up to 35,000 DKK, whereas its synthetic equivalent costs only 3,500. Therefore, synthetic materials are cheaper to make than it used to be, though a century ago perfumers would not spend that much on advertising, too.
An interesting fact is that successful businesses always earn even from such small amounts that they get in return. An advertisement of a perfume is a good investment into future sales. A good example of that could be Chanel: Miss Gabrielle has advertised her perfumes widely in '30, and the result of that is a very beneficial and positive Word-Of-Mouth even after more than 80 years have passed. In such cases, companies save advertising money (since they consider they're already well-known) and therefore earn more.
How to choose it, after all?
The only way to tell the quality in perfume is to smell it. You should not rely on prices as an indicator of better materials used. The retail price of the perfume bottle is largely determined by the environment in which it is sold; setting the price has literally nothing to do with the cost of an item. If it is branded perfume, it will naturally cost much more, but your nose is the only "detective" to check the quality and preference of perfumes you choose. Actually, the cheap perfume you like might be even better than an expensive bottle of branded perfume, since in this case the biggest amount of money you pay are for the brand, not perfume itself. As fragrance consumer, the only way to get better perfume is to train your nose to recognize the "best" materials. Try forgetting the labels, prices and brand knowledge you have prior to buying; try asking for testers in perfume stores (Magasin and Salling are usually up for that) and try perfume on your skin for a couple of days, until you are sure that is the perfume you enjoy. Don't forget that in perfumery the price does not reflect quality – only your senses do.


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Wabasso Causeway Park is one of those parks that you find all over Florida that look so appealing. It's a spot beside the road that connects the barrier islands with the mainland. And it looks out on the beautiful intracoastal waterway. Here you can climb on rocks looking at purple colored crabs. There is plenty of shade under tall Australian pines. You can even just stay in your car in the shade and look out at the water just a few feet in front of you. Families set up picnics on the sand here while kids swim in the murky water. Others enjoy kayaking or jet-skiing. The best part about this park is that there is shade plus a breeze off the water so it's a good choice on a hot day (most days in Florida!).
While in the area, take a drive along Live Oak Dr on Wabasso Island. The mansions and incredible trees are just lovely. Also stop to take a look at the Environmental Learning Center, a beautiful spot on Wabasso Island where you can do a lot of interesting exploring!
Another fun place to explore and find crabs among the rocks is the Sebastian Inlet Rock Pools.
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Shady spot to park and look at the water.
Two boys explore the rocks, while people kayak in the background.
Wabasso Causeway Park is located on the north side of the road on Bridge Blvd as it crosses from the mainland to Wabasso Island. The address is Bridge Blvd, Vero Beach 32963.
If you need an address for your GPS, you can use that of the Environmental Learning Center, on Wabasso Island (you'll pass the Wabasso Causeway Park to get there): 255 Live Oak Dr, Vero Beach FL 32963.
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In 1994 Wim Wenders made a film called Lisbon Story, which I didn't discover until about a decade later. It's a simple but rich film set in Lisbon (duh) and, to many viewers, a spare and beautiful love letter to the place. To any image maker however, the film is a somewhat terrifying portrait of the interior crisis we often face over how to create a "true" image. In it, a photographer has gone on a somewhat cracked-up quest after finally becoming convinced that the act of looking at an image, never mind planning it, inevitable pollutes and distorts it. He's strapped his camera to his back and, unable to see what it's filming and thereby unable to frame or influence it, believes he's finally taking images in a truly objective way. Naturally, he's also storing all of the film away somewhere where it can never be viewed, because to view it would also alter and diminish it.
Or, uh, here's a summary by an online reviewer who manages to be more eloquent and simultaneously way more convoluted than I: "In the Year Zero of the fledgling megalorepublic of Europa, an ambivalent image-maker, world-renowned, resenting the idolatry of images and his own complicity in their propagation, has gone missing, lost on a quixotic quest to give birth to cinema again, blaming the eye itself for seeing images and after-images in the infinity of the cranial cavity."
Of course, this seems like a far-fetched character, but one I've always loved for the conversation he provokes (a conversation between myself and myself at least, in my head) about image making. When I first saw Lisbon Story, it spoke to the ex-photographer in me; photography was the first art form in which I trained, and extensively, but it's also one I abandoned a long time ago due to some of the same ambivalence. I haven't thought about the film in a long time, until today, while I sacrificed hours to a great gorge of research into art and documentary projects that have been made with Google Street View, one of my abiding obsessions.
How interesting to realize that the Google Street View car, which was "born" in 2007, 13 years after Lisbon Story was made, has essentially taken up the same cause as the film's captivating and mostly-absent main character. I often dedicate countless late-night hours to investigations of remote areas in Google maps (and Jay calls me out on my craziness when I claim to be "driving" the Google car, as well as "driving" the Google earth satellite), and find this genuinely exciting. I've had a profound desire of late to work this fascination into some new art projects, so I've been trying to figure out the irresistible appeal of the Street View images. I now realize that the Google Street view car, like the Lisbon Story dude, is fascinating for its seeming pursuit of neutrality. It documents, but in a completely automated way. It shoots with its nine lenses every 10 to 20 meters while the driver of the car, completely uninvolved with the camera, drives a pre-determined route. The camera may as well be strapped to someone's back; it seems as dispassionate and objective as a camera could possibly be. Ditto the Google Earth satellite, for I am not really driving it. It simply travels, capturing what it sees without intention or judgement.
Seems to me that this automation and objectivity is what leaves room for fascination, for us to feel as if we may use these technologies to truly investigate, and with the hope of seeing something that hasn't been seen before. Because who knows what was documented behind the google car, while the driver was looking forward? And has any human truly looked over the satellite imagery from this little corner of the forest? Or this one?
Unlike the images in Lisbon Story that end up hidden away, the Google Street View images end up on the internet, being viewed and interpreted and contextualized and altered by millions of viewers. A number of people have begun pushing this further, curating very striking images from Street View for artistic and documentary projects. Without getting into discussions about copyright or voyeurism or any of the other interesting issues these projects bring up, I just want to share them.
Aaron Hobson's "cinemascapes" of striking, remote areas.
…and a great interview about his project.
…and an essay about the 9-eyes project
Michael Wolf's "Unfortunate Events"
And that is that for now. Enjoy.


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Live-Action TITANS, YOUNG JUSTICE Return To Launch New DC Digital Service
Warner Bros. is launching a DC-branded direct-to-consumer digital service in 2018 with a new live-action Titans series and the previously-announced rejuvenated Young Justice animated series as its first shows.
Titans will feature Dick Grayson (no codename given), Starfire, Raven, and others to be named. The live-action show will be written and executive produced by Akiva Goldsman, Geoff Johns, and Greg Berlanti, with Sarah Schechter also executive producing.
"Titans follows a group of young soon-to-be Super Heroes recruited from every corner of the DC Universe," reads the Warner Bros. press release. "In this action-packed series, Dick Grayson emerges from the shadows to become the leader of a fearless band of new heroes, including Starfire, Raven and many others. Titans is a dramatic, live-action adventure series that will explore and celebrate one of the most popular comic book teams ever."
Back in February 2016 TNT announced that it had passed on a live-action Titans series from Warner Bros., with Johns responding at the time saying the project was still very much alive. Goldsman was the primary writer of TNT's Titans, so this new Titans seems to be a continuation of that project.
"We [at DC] have known about [Turner nixing Titans] for months and months and months. That's not new news to us," Johns, who coincidentally wrote the Teen Titans series for a time, told TVLine. "We have plans for Titans. It's a huge piece of DC and we have plans."
Furthermore, the includion of DC-CW mega-producer Greg Berlanti lends credence that this new live-action Titans would be in continuity with with those shows despite being on a different network.
The revived Young Justice will jump from the Warner Bros.-owned Cartoon Network to appear on this DC digital service under the new name of Young Justice: Outsiders for its third season.
"In Young Justice: Outsiders, the teenage Super Heroes of the DC Universe come of age in an animated world of super-powers, Super-Villains and super secrets," reads Warner Bros.'s press release. "In the highly anticipated new season, the team faces its greatest challenge yet as it takes on meta-human trafficking and the terrifying threat it creates for a society caught in the crossfire of a genetic arms race spanning the globe and the galaxy."
Back in November, Warner Bros. fully acquired the digital service Machinima, which had aired the animated series Justice League: Gods & Monsters and was previously pegged in 2015 to air a live-action Dial H for Hero revamp titled #4Hero and a contest show titled DC's Hero Project. Neither of those two projects were ever launched.
This new as-yet-unnamed DC digital service is described as "an immersive experience designed just for DC fans," and will be operated by Warner Bros. Digital Networks Group.


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An algorithm for simulation of concrete cable-stayed bridges built on temporary supports and considering time dependent effects
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The time-dependent phenomena effects might play an important role in the structural behavior of a cable-stayed bridge during construction and in service. In fact, because of these effects the target state of stresses (Objective Service Stage, OSS) can only be achieved at a certain target time. In the literature, a number of software have been presented to study creep and shrinkage effects during cantilever erection of cable-stayed bridges. Nevertheless, the effects of these phenomena in the alternative erection technique, the temporary support erection method, have received little attention. Furthermore, none of the presented software are able to: (1) Define a determined OSS for a given time including the time-dependent phenomena effects and the evolutionary erection of the superstructure. (2) Simulate the construction process assuring the achievement of a given OSS without the need of an overall iterative process taking into account time-dependent phenomena. (3) Provide the prestressing sequence in such a way that no additional tensioning operations are required to correct creep and shrinkage effects in service. To fill all these gaps, a new algorithm, the Forward-Direct Algorithm (FDA), is formally presented in this paper to simulate the construction process of cable-stayed bridges built on temporary supports. The main innovation of this algorithm consists of introducing the time-dependent phenomena effects into the unstressed length of the stays concept to calculate the prestressing strains to be introduced during the last re-tensioning operation. The application of the unstressed length concept has major advantages both in the simulation (as the OSS can be achieved without any overall iterative process) and in service (as re-tensioning operations to correct time-dependent phenomena effects can be avoided). To illustrate the creep and shrinkage effects during the construction and in service the FDA is applied to a real cable-stayed bridge. Furthermore, an analysis to define the optimum time to achieve the OSS is presented.
CitationLozano-Galant, J.A.; Turmo, J. An algorithm for simulation of concrete cable-stayed bridges built on temporary supports and considering time dependent effects. "Engineering structures", Novembre 2014, vol. 79, p. 341-353.
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text: Our Very Dear and Missed Martin Horsey. Martin was an incredible friend, actor, and talent. His sudden passing in 2016 was a true loss to all of us whom loved him dearly. His wit and infectious joy made almost all things seem possible. With an ever positive expression of true humility and positive exuberance, Martin was a joy to have on set and always brought his "A" game, even when the cameras were not on him. When he wasn't helping people or writing his own scripts of hope, you could contact him and find out he has been playing checkers with a person in a retirement home, or going for a run. Ever youthful, it seems God was antsy about bringing Martin home to Heaven. He is thought of most every day here at Blue Mariah Pictures, but his talent and spirit live on in our hearts. We miss him dearly.


text: On this installment of ST, we offer the third and final interview in our three-part series of conversations with the leading candidates to be Tulsa's next mayor. As per changes to the City Charter that were enacted in 2011, the current race for mayor will be non-partisan, with a primary scheduled for Tuesday of next week: June 11th. If no candidate receives 50 percent of the vote in this primary, the top two vote-recipients will meet up in the general election, in the fall --- and if any one candidate gets more than 50 percent of the vote in this primary, that person will become our next mayor (to serve a three-year term beginning in early December). Earlier this week, we heard from Kathy Taylor and then Bill Christiansen; on today's edition of StudioTulsa, we hear from the current Mayor of the City of Tulsa, Dewey F. Bartlett, Jr., who was elected to be the city's 39th mayor in November of 2009. Mayor Bartlett has long been an active political figure and oil executive in the Tulsa community; he served on the Tulsa City Council from 1990 to 1994, representing District 9. Mayor Bartlett is also the President of the Keener Oil & Gas Company, a multi-generational family business.


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Why FEL (Front End Loading) is Necessary
Looking for a "quick quote" for a modular process system? Or a fixed bid that guarantees your project to be completed successfully on time and on budget?
You might start with a drawing or basic spec sheet. Once you have thought through your own system, you would reach out for bids from several Engineering consulting firms who could complete process systems engineering and even possibly build your system.
Based on the "quick quotes" you receive, you would select a company to build your system, usually the lowest bid. On the surface, this may sound like the right path you need to take, but in reality, you are taking a rugged journey in the wrong direction.
Don't settle for quotations based upon equipment pricing that has resulted from incomplete specifications.
You deserve a better engineering consulting firm than that!
Be aware that "quick quotations" are based upon numerous unknowns. The number could be too low because of unknown information, or the number could be loaded unnecessarily with contingency because of the unknowns. However, many chemical engineering consulting firms or Turnkey Engineering Firms will bid low to secure the order and then blame the lack of detailed written specifications as additional charges accrue through change orders. Unfortunately, you're stuck with them at this point.
Guaranteeing Success with FEL– Front End Loading
When you contact EPIC for a quote, our process systems engineering team is solely focused on providing you an accurate bid based upon fully extracting your requirements, ultimately resulting in a successful project. The key to this WIN-WIN outcome is front end loading (FEL).
The FEED process guarantees a successful project outcome because:
- Risk is minimized
- Contingency is drastically reduced by experienced chemical and mechanical process engineers
- Peer reviews ensure issues surrounding technical feasibility are uncovered early
- Accurate project schedules based upon actual equipment lead time results in high probability that your system will be producing the product on the agreed-upon date
Doesn't it make sense to allow your chemical engineer to thoroughly extract details during this critical stage to allow him to confidently stand behind the performance of your process system? By asking the right questions during front end loading, we ensure your project will be successful from the start. These questions include:
- Workforce Characteristics: Are the employees who will be working with the modular process system skilled or unskilled? What kind of process systems do they work with currently? Will your employees need training?
- Desired Production: How much product do you need to produce each day? How many shifts do you run a day and how many hours per shift? Are different products being mixed in the same system? How long will each product need to run? How much time does it take to switch over to the next product?
- Material Specifications: What chemicals are being used in your process? What hazards are associated with these chemicals (flammability, health, reactivity)? Are these chemicals solvents, acids, oxidizers, etc.? What are the characteristics of the finished product? Is it a liquid, gel, powder or granule? Is it hygroscopic?
- Material Compatibility: Are you planning to run multiple chemicals through the system? What are the other chemicals, and are they compatible? Is 316L stainless steel adequate or are higher alloys required? What are the sanitary requirements for each product? Are cleaning cycles required between product changeovers? How will you wash out the equipment? Do washouts result in waste byproducts?
- Boundary Limits: What equipment is included and what equipment is not? Do we need to supply any additional pieces of equipment other than the equipment needed for the process system? Do we also need to supply the utilities?
- Modular Design: What is the physical layout of your plant? What utilities are available on site? Where are the utilities located? Will new utilities need to be provided under the project scope? Where will the module be placed in your plant? Will it be located in a flammable area?
- Understanding of Standards and Guidelines: Do you need to comply with GMP, FDA and BPE regulations?
- Future Goals: Are you planning to run different products on the same line in the future? Do you foresee a need to increase production in a few years?
Peer Reviews for Front End Loading
After all the specifications are extracted, PFD's and P&ID's are developed, and major equipment is selected, EPIC's engineers perform a peer review. This review is crucial in side-stepping landmines that could cause problems later in the project. During the peer review, the project is evaluated by process, electrical and mechanical engineers. The engineers comb through the project and discuss any major or minor concerns that may have been initially overlooked. Uncovering any safety concerns or general issues that could under-mind the success of the project. If these issues are left undiscovered, it could not only add hours to the project later, but it could result in the system not working.
Ruling out the biggest threat of the system not working is why it is important that we do our due diligence during front end loading and capture 90% of potential issues during the FEL process rather during the later stages of the project.
Front End Loading (FEL) Levels and Deliverables
EPIC realizes that not every client is in need of a fixed bid quote upfront. Your project may be scheduled for the next year, and you just need a rough order magnitude (ROM) quote for budgetary reasons. It is also possible that you just need a +15%/-5% bid instead of a firm +0%/-0% fixed bid. If you are unsure of which FEL method would be the best fit for your project, EPIC will guide you in the best direction.


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EDF Energy has raised expectations of widespread cuts in household power bills from other "big six" firms by reducing its gas bills for 1.4 million customers by 5%.
The move – to come into effect on 7 February – came on the day that an investigation by the consumer group Which? showed the top firms received 4m complaints last year.
EDF has become the first of the big six to make cuts after hefty increases last year. It said the price cut was in response to declining wholesale prices, which are down 9% since EDF put prices up last November.
"We know customers are finding it difficult, particularly during winter. So I am pleased we have been able to make this announcement now and help our customers at a time they use more gas," said Martin Lawrence, managing director of energy sourcing and customer supply at EDF.
EDF raised its gas prices by 15.4% and electricity bills by 4.5% last year. This compared to rises by British Gas in August 2011 of 18% for gas and 16% for electricity, and similar moves by all the other major suppliers.
But EDF's electricity prices will not come down next month. A spokesman for the company said this was because customers had already been protected against the full rise in wholesale electricity prices. Electricity had gone up by 14% between March and September 2011, he said, but the EDF increase in November had only been 4.5%.
Which? executive director Richard Lloyd welcomed the EDF cut but added: "Now the pressure is on for the rest of the major suppliers to follow suit."
The Which? investigation showed that last year there were 4m complaints to the big six (E.ON, Scottish Power, British Gas, Scottish & Southern Energy, npower and EDF) in 2011, with tens of thousands of problems still unresolved after eight weeks. Which? said this was a large number for an industry "where very little should go wrong with the product itself".
An annual customer satisfaction survey showed EDF bottom only npower in terms of the big six; with the smaller Good Energy topping the table. The biggest problem area was incorrect meter readings and mistakes on bills but Which? said many consumers do not bother to complain and they may be missing out on £4m of compensation per year.
On 6 January small energy supplier Ovo announced it was cutting its gas and electricity prices by 5%. It said the average UK household on its New Energy fixed tariff would face a bill of £1,061 a year.
Recently, price comparison website Energyhelpline predicted cuts of up to 10% were "just around the corner". Its marketing director, Mark Todd, said: "This would mean the average annual dual fuel bill falling by as much as £135."
Price cuts, however, will do little to appease customers faced with energy suppliers' notoriously bad service.
In October, energy regulator Ofgem proposed a "radical reform" of the energy market and simpler tariffs, revealing that utility companies had increased their profit per dual-fuel customer by 733% – from £15 to £125 – from June to October 2011.
British Gas then announced it would simplify its tariffs to gain customer trust, but the move has meant consumers will pay more for its cheapest deals.


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HOK is set to astonish its detractors by winning planning permission for its highly contentious Barts and the Royal London PFI proposal in Whitechapel.
In what will be seen as an amazing architectural comeback, the practice's London office has now won the partial support of CABE and is understood to be confident of picking up the support of Tower Hamlets planners.
The turnaround is a direct response to a major design review of the Skanska-led project that resulted in highly significant changes to the 'super hospital' proposals.
These alterations - instigated after both CABE and the Greater London Authority savaged the original designs (AJ 12.8.04) - include the demolition of the existing listed East Wing building, with the support of English Heritage, and the creation of a massive new public space.
Other changes take in a series of new entrances, a reorganised accident and emergency department,
and a thorough rethink of the site's circulation.
And a letter from CABE senior design review adviser Ben van Bruggen welcomed the changes. 'It is to the credit of the [NHS] Trust, Skanska and HOK that they persevere with consultation and continue to seek ways of improving the design, ' it says.
'We congratulate all on proposing the strategic move that fundamentally improves the urban scale of the scheme. We hope that this bold thinking will continue on the elevations, ' the letter adds.
A source inside HOK told the AJ that they feel the 'corner has now been turned'. 'This is great news and we feel that we may now be on the way, ' the source added.
The London Borough of Tower Hamlets said the revised scheme was to go in front of the council's planning committee on 24 November but insisted that planners had not yet made a decision.
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Since learning about how diet can drastically affect oral health and the need for minerals in the body for oral health, I've increasingly turned to homemade mineral-rich natural toothpaste options.
Why Use Natural Toothpaste?
I'm not a dentist or a doctor, just a mom who has tried a TON of different toothpaste options and read a TON of books and medical literature. I first started making my own toothpaste after getting frustrated that I couldn't find a store bought brand that didn't have questionable ingredients, including:
- Sweeteners: Sorbitol, sodium saccharin and other artificial sweeteners are often used in toothpaste to improve taste, even though there is no evidence that these sweeteners are beneficial (or even safe) for use in the mouth. Xylitol has shown some positive benefits for oral health in some studies, but it remains a controversial ingredient in toothpaste.
- Fluoride: The most controversial toothpaste ingredient. I personally have to avoid it like the plague because with my thyroid disease, I can't take iodine in any form. Iodine is known to neutralize the affects of fluoride so it is easier for fluoride to build up in my body. Additionally, fluoride interferes with my thyroid hormone uptake. Our family doesn't use fluoride toothpaste and we filter it out of our water, but there is definitely research on both sides. You can read Mark Sisson's take here and Dr. Mercola's opinon here. Whatever your opinion, fluoride does come with a warning to call the poison control center immediately if ingested and after seeing a close friend's scare when her son ingested some fluoride, it isn't something I keep in our house.
- Triclosan: A chemical used in antibacterial soaps and products. Triclosan was recently found to affect proper heart function in a study at University of California Davis and the FDA is currently re-evaluating it for safety in human use.
- Glycerin: Another controversial ingredient, glycerin is found in many toothpastes, especially natural toothpastes. Glycerin is a sweet, colorless liquid and some research says it can coat teeth and prevent them from benefitting from the minerals in saliva. I know that when I used glycerin toothpaste in college, my teeth started to yellow, but the research is still mixed on whether glycerin is harmful or not. Especially when I was working to remineralize cavities, I decided that it was better to just avoid glycerin.
- Surfactants: Many toothpastes contain surfactants like sodium lauryl sulfate, which gives toothpaste its foam and lather. Some research shows that SLS can cause mouth ulcers and canker sores.
Many toothpastes also contain artificial colors/dyes or synthetic flavors. There are a few good natural toothpastes out there, but after looking at the ingredients, I realized I could make a similar concoction at home… and the toothpaste experiment was born.
I admit, I had several failed attempts before I figured this recipe out. I originally tried mixing coconut oil and baking soda in equal proportions which makes coconut tasting salt. I also tried using pure ground stevia leaf, but my husband and kids couldn't get past the green color.
I finally made a concession to use stevia powder (the most natural one I could find) though I would like to try xylitol too, as it has some supposed benefits in dental health.
I finally found one recipe that tastes pretty good and that the kids don't spit out!
Natural Toothpaste Ingredients
- About 1/2 cup coconut oil
- 2-3 Tablespoons of baking soda
- 2 small packets of stevia powder
- 15-20 drops of peppermint or cinnamon essential oil
- 10 drops myrrh extract (optional)
Natural Toothpaste Instructions
- Melt or slightly soften coconut oil.
- Mix in other ingredients and stir well. If using semi-hard coconut oil, use a fork, if not, use a spoon. If you are using completely melted coconut oil, you will need to stir several times while the mixture cools to keep the baking soda incorporated.
- Put mixture into small glass jar (I make different ones for each family member)
- Let cool completely.
- To use: dip toothbrush in and scrape small amount onto bristles. Could also use a small spoon to put on toothbrush.
Does Homemade Toothpaste Work?
We have been using this natural toothpaste for a while now, and it seems to work great. I've noticed less plaque when brushing our teeth, and my teeth feel smoother. I will keep you updated after our next dental checkups, but I have several friends who have used similar concoctions for years and never get cavities.
More Toothpaste Recipes
Since I originally wrote this post, I've created a few additional toothpaste recipes which are even easier to make! I still love this recipe, but you may also want to check out these:
Pre-Made Natural Toothpaste Options
If you don't want to make toothpaste yourself, thankfully, there are several pre-made natural toothpaste options that are both effective and safe. Some of my favorites are:
OraWellness Brushing Blend
I use OraWellness Brushing Blend as an ingredient in many of my homemade oral health products, but I also just like using it alone. It is great for traveling, even for flying since it comes in a small bottle and since you only need a few drops, it lasts forever.
We also use OraWellness Bass Toothbrushes regularly at our house.
Earthpaste is another favorite at our house. The kids like the lemon flavor and my husband and I like all three mint options (cinnamon, peppermint and wintergreen).
I haven't found it locally, so we buy a four pack online every few months.
What do you think? Up for making your own toothpaste, or is it too much? Tell me about it below!


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Saviance Technologies is a US Healthcare IT Service provider focusing on Patient Engagement with Innovative Products and Solutions like Patient Intake Tablet, iHealthConnect Wellness Portal, Mobile Applications, Actionable Analytics and ICD-10 Testing Services. Incorporated in 1999 in New Jersey, with over 15 years of excellent industry track record, Saviance offers services & solutions that enable enterprises to achieve critical objectives.
Saviance is a Gold Category Corporate Member with Healthcare Information Management Systems Society (HIMSS), member of mHealth Alliance and Corporate member of NJ-HITEC. We are awarded by INC. 5000 as one of the fastest growing privately held companies in North America. Saviance is also ranked among the Fast 50 Asian American Businesses in the United States by USPAACC (US Pan Asian American Chamber of Commerce) and selected as a 2014 "Top Business" recipient byDiversityBusiness.com.
A certified Minority Business Enterprise recognized by NMSDC, Saviance is also partner with leading global brands such as Microsoft, Amazon Web Services, Apple, Samsung and Red Hat.
The Saviance Center of Excellence is a hub of technical activity where our experts improvise on the latest in technology SMAC stack: Social, Mobility, Analytics, Cloud. Our professional and technically proficient team ensures that the unique requirements of each client are addressed comprehensively. Saviance's Client Success Model succeeds because of its consultative approach, robust methodologies, rigorous communication and commitment to client success. This enables us to offer highly competitive pricing and deliver on-time on-budget engagements to our clients.
At Saviance, we believe in partnering with our customers and providing them with end-to-end services and solutions that help them to achieve their holistic goals. The team at Saviance works along with you and assists you to achieve your business objectives by delivering services that simplify and streamline your IT environment for operational excellence.
All our products and services are aligned to cover strategy through implementation services for our clients. Our services include:
The Saviance end-to-end services help our customers meet their objectives, retain their competitive edge, keep pace with the ever changing demands of businesses and deliver products and services that satisfy their clients' demands.
Saviance has a firm footprint in addressing the unique challenges of the US healthcare industry especially in the area of Patient Engagement. We have expertise in this arena through our innovative and technologically advanced products & solutions at our Global Development Centers in Houston, Gurgaon and Chennai.
By providing cost-effective healthcare IT solutions built on a secure model for integrating disparate healthcare systems, we are changing the nature and speed of interaction between consumers, physicians, healthcare organizations and other stakeholders. Our professional and technically proficient team ensures that the unique requirements of each healthcare client are addressed comprehensively. This approach has enabled our healthcare clients to meet many emerging IT challenges in this era of healthcare transformation. Moreover, our partnership with leading global names such as Microsoft, Amazon Web Services, Apple, Samsung and Red Hat help us to offer customized avant-garde services for the healthcare industry.
Our clients are distinguished hospitals, healthcare institutions and manufacturers of consumer healthcare products. Saviance has enabled them to achieve critical objectives such as increased projects visibility across the organization, improved knowledge management, enhanced technological prowess, improved productivity, better return on investment and therefore the ability to make value-added business decisions.
Cloud based, customizable and cost-effective are the 3 principles that form the core of our every product and solution. The integration of the Saviance products and solutions is done at different stages according to the specific requirements of the client with regular feedback and quality checks.
All our products are built on scalable technology and deployed in cloud, which gives an organization the complete freedom to choose the integration process and optimize cost on hosting and hardware. They come with a comprehensive set of features which can be easily customized according to specific requirements of the client. The flexibility of the product also enables us to work on customizing the look and feel of the product according to the client's brand guidelines.
We, at Saviance Technologies, have always endeavoured to achieve and maintain the trust of our clients, partners and employees. One of our most important guiding principles is to secure the confidence of these stakeholders and to deliver services that are impeccable at all times.
Saviance Technologies is certified by the States of New York, New Jersey, as well as by Georgia, Houston and Dallas/Fort Worth as a Minority Business Enterprise (MBE). These certifications are awarded under the bigger umbrella of the National Minority Supplier Development Council (NMSDC).
The NMSDC has awarded Saviance Technologies this certification basis the products/services as defined by the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS). The NAICS codes for Saviance Technologies are 541511; 541512; 541612; 541613 and 561311.
The National Minority Supplier Development Council assures the consistent and identical review and certification of minority-owned businesses through standardized procedures. These businesses are certified by NMSDC's affiliate regional council nearest to the company's headquarters. A minority-owned business is defined as a for-profit enterprise, irrespective of size, physically located in the United States or its trust territories, which is owned, operated and controlled by minority group members.
Small and Minority Businesses are necessary to preserve free competitive enterprise in any country. Corporates, as the flag bearers of social responsibility, today understand the need to foster diversity crucial for their relevancy and economic vitality. It is no longer just "the right thing" and sound public policy to do business with diversity suppliers. It is a strategic imperative.
Diversity-owned businesses contribute to over $1.4 trillion in sales to the US economy. Businesses must appropriately manage multicultural workforces and look for ways to become more inclusive in their work culture. They need to resemble the community they serve in order to provide its members with high quality customer service.
Diversity Business, the nations' leading multicultural B2B online portal, has consistently named Saviance as one of the top diversity-owned businesses. We promote diversity amongst our suppliers and are committed to making our work environment more robust and balanced. Saviance Technologies is registered with several companies in their Supplier Diversity Program and we encourage MBEs in the US to work with us as our Partners and Suppliers.
To learn more about how you can become our Partner/Supplier, please write to us at email@example.com
The NMSDC has awarded Saviance Technologies the MBE certification basis the products/services as defined by the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS).
The Saviance milestones are indicative of its growth as an organization and as a unit of people who are committed to achieving the company's common objectives. The Saviance milestones are not just dates in the past but are strong signs of the progress we have made in the past 15 years as an organization dedicated to adding value to our clients, partners and employees.
Global, innovative, research-oriented, technologically advanced and professional are just some of the phrases that define our savvy organization. We truly believe in enabling our clients to win and grow. Our people, our resources and our technology unlock the potential of each client which enables them to reach new planes of success.
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decided to transfer an old VHS to my computer today, but thought I'd watch it first. It was a documentary made in 1985( at a guess) about an outlaw motorcycle club called the Outcasts MC (check out outcasts MC on Bykuz.com). I remember at the time thinking the programme was a bitfunny as they came across as amusing and almost a spoof.........
but then as the incidents at Battersea town hall a few years later showed , tragedy waited round the corner for this club.
I remember going to an 'London' Outcasts MC bike show at Mile End in the nineties - they had their own pub as a clubhouse....very cool.
In some ways the documentary showed a bunch of motorcycle obsessed guys, like myself and the crowd I grew up with, who rode got stoned and had a good time irrespective of societies norms. There is a lovable naievity about the whole thing which is only tainted by the 'modern'interpretation of what a Motorcycle club is and should be.I suppose times do change and the world has become a lot harder and everyone has to take life a lot more serious than they used to.
Outcasts MC in Uk ceased to exist and I believe ( not confirmed) that some members became Hells Angels whilst others eventually became members of the Outlaws MC worldwide brotherhood.
I'm sure the MC world stories will still play out into 2010.
Friday, 1 January 2010
Old BBC documentary about the Outcasts MC
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Sand and Gravel Beach
Sand and gravel beaches occur along the shorelines of the Great Lakes and on some of Michigan's larger freshwater lakes, where wind, waves, and winter ice cause the shoreline to be too unstable to support aquatic vegetation. Because of the high levels of disturbance, these beaches are typically quite open, with sand and gravel sediments and little or no vegetation.
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Global Rank: G3? - Vulnerable (inexact)
State Rank: S3 - Vulnerable
Landscape Context
Sand and gravel beaches occur along the shorelines of the Great Lakes and on some of Michigan's larger freshwater lakes, where the energy from waves and ice abrasion are adequate to maintain an open beach. Natural communities occurring adjacent to sand and gravel beach include open dunes, interdunal wetlands, wooded dune and swale complex, cobble shore, bedrock lakeshore, and lakeshore cliffs.
The dynamic nature of open sand and gravel beaches greatly inhibits soil development. Uprooted trees accumulate on some beaches, fostering localized sand accretion and often vegetation establishment. Finer organic material also builds up seasonally on beaches, and can include plant debris, algae, and dead lake or wetland organisms such as insects, fish, and zebra mussels (Dreissena polymorpha), a small invasive bivalve mussel. These aggregations can be large, greatly increasing the nutrient availability and changing the sediment characteristics of the beach, although these changes are often temporary due to the dynamics of the shoreline environment. Storm waves and winter ice typically prevent permanent vegetation establishment and soil development. Where organic sediments are protected from erosive forces, vegetation can establish, stabilize the shoreline, and thus eliminate portions of the open beach.
Natural Processes
The openness of beach vegetation is the result of the unstable sediment conditions caused by wind, waves, and winter ice. Beaches tend to accumulate sand during less windy spring and summer periods, and lose sand through erosion during strong fall and winter storms. Gravel movement along the shoreline is generated completely by wave or ice movement, while sand can also be moved by wind after its deposition on the beach, often leading to dune development farther inland. While many species of plants are able to establish on sand or gravel beaches, the extreme conditions of desiccation and erosion allow few species to reach maturity and set seed. Severity of desiccation increases as particle size increases, but on many gravel beaches vegetation can establish because finer particles of sand are trapped among the gravel. On sand beaches, successful vegetation establishment causes an increase in surface roughness, slowing both the wind and movement of sand, and resulting in the accumulation of sand in the form of coastal dunes. Vegetation cover increases with distance from the water's edge due to decreasing levels of erosive wind and water energy. Because water levels fluctuate on many lakes, vegetation cover can increase during periods of low water. Sand beaches regularly migrate with changing water levels and shoreline configuration.
Sand and gravel beach is characterized by both a low diversity of plant species and low levels of plant cover. A wide variety of plants can develop at the inland margin of sand and gravel beaches, but few establish and persist on the active beach, where there is often intense wind and wave action, resulting in almost constantly moving sand. Among the few species able to survive the dynamic beach zone are sea rocket (Cakile edentula), seaside spurge (Euphorbia polygonifolia), Baltic rush (Juncus balticus), silverweed (Potentilla anserina), beach pea (Lathyrus japonicus), and marram grass (Ammophila breviligulata). The rare Great Lakes endemic Pitcher's thistle (Cirsium pitcheri, federal/state threatened) occasionally establishes on active sand beaches during low-water periods. The community typically contains a zone of open sand along the water's edge, with only scattered stems of the above-mentioned species. Farther from the water, marram grass is able to stabilize the sand with its extensive roots and rhizomes, allowing for the accumulation of sand into a beach ridge above the zone of active waves. Many more plant species can survive in this zone of sand accumulation, including many herbs, shrubs, and tree seedlings and saplings.
Noteworthy Animals
Sand beaches are favorite feeding grounds for shorebirds. Insects, birds, and other fauna feed intensively on dead and decomposing organic materials that accumulate along the shoreline. Large numbers of aquatic insects, such as midges, live in the sediments and provide important food for migratory songbirds during spring migration. In addition, butterflies often gather on the beach for moisture and nutrients during migration. Gravel beaches, especially on islands, are used by nesting gulls, terns, cormorants, and other waterbirds.
Rare Plants
- Adlumia fungosa (climbing fumitory, state special concern)
- Beckmannia syzigachne (slough grass, state threatened)
- Calamagrostis lacustris (northern reedgrass, state threatened)
- Cirsium pitcheri (Pitcher's thistle, federal/state threatened)
- Elymus mollis (American dune wild-rye, state special concern)
- Iris lacustris (dwarf lake iris, federal/state threatened)
- Listera auriculata (auricled twayblade, state threatened)
- Polygonum viviparum (alpine bistort, state threatened)
- Potentilla paradoxa (sand cinquefoil, state threatened)
- Salix pellita (satiny willow, state special concern)
- Senecio congestus (marsh-fleabane, presumed extirpated from Michigan)
- Sisyrinchium hastile (blue-eyed-grass, presumed extirpated from Michigan)
- Tanacetum huronense (Lake Huron tansy, state threatened)
Rare Animals
- Charadrius melodus (piping plover, federal/state endangered)
- Trimerotropis huroniana (Lake Huron locust, state threatened)
Biodiversity Management Considerations
Off-road vehicles can destabilize beach areas, especially those areas farther from the shore where vegetation is becoming stabilized. Eliminating illegal off-road vehicle activity is a primary means of protecting the ecological integrity of sand and gravel beaches. Raccoons and unleashed dogs are a major threat to piping plovers, and high levels of human visitation to plover beaches can also result in low breeding success. Many parks actively maintain open beach conditions by mechanical grooming, eliminating the natural flora and fauna of the beach.
There is considerable variability in sand and gravel, based on the rock from which the sands and gravels formed. In portions of the Keweenaw Peninsula, sand-sized mine wastes form broad beaches of dark sand, especially along the Portage Shipping Canal, but because of their anthropogenic origin, these areas are not considered a natural community.
Similar Natural Communities
Open dunes, limestone cobble shore, sandstone cobble shore, volcanic cobble shore, and wooded dune and swale complex.
Relevant Literature
- Albert, D.A. 2007. Natural community abstract for sand and gravel beach. Michigan Natural Features Inventory, Lansing, MI. 7 pp.
- Faber-Langendoen, D., ed. 2001. Plant communities of the Midwest: Classification in an ecological context. Association for Biodiversity Information, Arlington, VA. 61 pp. + appendix (705 pp.).
- Komar, P.D. 1976. Beach processes and sedimentation. Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ. 544 pp.
- Mackey, S.D., and D.L. Liebenthal. 2005. Mapping changes in Great Lakes nearshore substrate distributions. Journal of Great Lakes Research 32 (Supplement 1): 75-89.
- Packham, J.R., and A.J. Willis. 1997. Ecology of dunes, salt marsh and shingle. Chapman & Hall, London, UK. 331 pp.
- Ritter, D.F., R.C. Kochel, and J.R. Miller. 1995. Process geomorphology. Third Edition. William C. Brown, Dubuque, IA. 546 pp.
For a full list of references used to create this description, please refer to the natural community abstract for sand and gravel beach.
More Information
Kost, M.A., D.A. Albert, J.G. Cohen, B.S. Slaughter, R.K. Schillo, C.R. Weber, and K.A. Chapman. 2007. Natural Communities of Michigan: Classification and Description. Michigan Natural Features Inventory, Report No. 2007-21, Lansing, MI.


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text: Its back....... 01 December 2004 Thats right, we all though it had dies quietly in background but good ol faithful is back and coming to a operating system near you soon. I am of course talking about the Netscape browser. Incase you havent heard the news browser is rising from the ashes with help from Firefox. Mozillazine has an article taking a first look at Netscape new offering, and from the screen shot its looking heavily skinned but very polished. The good news for us developers is that its based on Firefox so at least its not another browser to download, install and check the site in


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If only for this life we have hope in Christ, we are to pitied more than all men… For as in Adam all die, so in Christ all will be made alive.
1 Corinthians 15.19, 23
Too True to Be Incredible
Before the Church left its cradle, a Greek schism fell back into pagan disbelief in resurrection. For this group, Christ's resurrection posed no problem; He was divine. But mortals? That every Christian will be raised from the dead was too incredible to be true. It appears this resurrection debunking caught on, because in 1 Corinthians Paul exerts great effort to debunk the debunkers, unequivocally defending resurrection as the linchpin of Christianity. He builds his case carefully, first citing 500 eyewitnesses who saw the resurrected Christ. No one doubts that. Next, with dazzling agility, he flips his argument. "If it is preached that Christ has been raised from the dead, how can some of you say there is no resurrection of the dead?" he asks in 1 Corinthians 19.12. Then he flips it again in verse 13. "If there's no resurrection of the dead, not even Christ has been raised." Finally, he nails the crux of the matter in 14: "If Christ has not been raised, our preaching is useless and so is your faith."
Questioning resurrection questions other essentials. For example, in John 3.16 Jesus says He came to ensure "whoever believes in him will not perish but have eternal life." (John 3.16) In verse 20 of his treatise, Paul confirms Christ arose as "the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep"—His victory over death secures our immortality. And what are we to do with Jesus's own statements? In Luke 14.14, He advises His host to welcome the poor and disabled to his table, saying, "Although they cannot repay you, you will be repaid at the resurrection of the righteous." Why would He say such a thing? Thus, Paul's logic: without trusting what Christ taught, what good is faith? If Jesus says the dead will be raised, resurrection is too true to be incredible. Knowing his opponents might dismiss this as sophistry, Paul serves up an airtight theological defense of resurrection.
Undoing Adam's Deadly Deed
"You gotta give 'em hope," Harvey Milk famously said, and that's the basis of Paul's defense—hope. "If only for this life we have hope in Christ, we are to be pitied more than all men." (v19) It's a given Jesus has no rivals among philosophers. His purity of wisdom and thought clarified the most opaque, unwieldy concepts into transparent truth. Yet Jesus was not a moralist or sage. His mission superseded dispensing tips for better living. Everything He did and every word He said flowed with eternal value. Paul says all that Jesus did centered on undoing Adam's deadly deed. We were not created to die; Adam's disobedience introduced death to our species. Jesus expressly came to correct that and return us to eternal life with God. "For as in Adam all die, so in Christ all will be made alive," verse 22 says. Before Christ, there was no point in believing in resurrection—and, indeed, many Jewish sects (e.g., the Sadducees) rejected the notion outright. Basically, existence came down to hanging around as long as possible. When the curtain fell, the show was over, a gloomy outlook on life. Christ's proof of resurrection's reality changed that. He gave us hope.
A New Elephant
Modern science and logic bring a new elephant to this discussion. Many Christians striving to balance natural facts with unnatural faith actually fall behind ancient resurrection debunkers. Before considering resurrection for all believers, they have to squeeze past elephantine doubts that Jesus actually arose from the dead. There are any number of rational reasons why resurrection of a corpse three-days dead is medically impossible—i.e., too incredible to be true. Yet these arguments strike me as moot, based on one basic, theological understanding. The body taken off the cross on Friday and the one that leaves the tomb on Sunday are radically different. Resurrection involves more than returning to physical life; it's transformation into a new life form. In John 20.17, when Mary Magdalene mistakes the risen Christ for a gardener, she touches Him, to which He says, "Do not hold on to me, for I have not yet returned to the Father." This implies He's protecting His resurrected body from physical corruption. Paul's explanation of resurrection in 1 Corinthians 15.52-53 supports this: "We shall be changed. For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality." (KJV)
Just as belief in spiritual transformation defies natural logic, hope in physical transformation balks at natural science. We shoo the fact-fed elephant out of the room. Faith in redemption and resurrection are all of a piece, a spiritually progressive process that starts in our beings and eventually overtakes our bodies. Resurrection is the final step. In verse 54 Paul teaches this ultimate transformation occurs so the prophecy of Isaiah 25.8 "will come true: 'Death has been swallowed up in victory.'" Believing in this eventuality gives rise to hope for every day we live. Mortality—the only inevitability none of us can escape—will be defeated. By comparison, daily challenges we face look like small potatoes. Knowing our last and toughest battle with flesh ends in victory transforms how we see ongoing struggles with mortal weaknesses and desires. They also will be swallowed up in victory. That's the real purpose and strength of resurrection. Hope we will live gives us hope to live.
Resurrection is a matter of faith, not science—transformation to new life, not return to life. To gain the hope it brings, we shoo the fact-fed elephant out of the room.
Postscript: Hi-Ho, Hi-Ho, Off to Work I Go
Alas, professional commitments take me away for the next few days. As I've done in previous absences, I've combed through previous posts and selected a few to revisit while I'm gone. In the past few weeks, Straight-Friendly has gained quite a few new readers, encouraging me to think the reposts will likely be new to them. And for the veterans, I pray the reposts will also prove worth a second look. While I'm away, I'll continue to stay in touch via email, comments, and Facebook. Until I return, I hope you'll continue to come by, share your thoughts, and pray for me as I travel.


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The director of the company Nikolay Minkevskyi worked more than 20th years in the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine. In 1994 has begun work in business.
N.Minkevskyi long time was the head of company "Guardian". Is the authoritative person, advises less skilled colleagues on business. Its interviews (comment) are printed in a press.
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Inspire Me Selflessly
Today, I sat next to a man that I once was very inspired by. He was so selfless towards others [it's not my SO]. He said many things that even my children would have called him on for being so wrong. After the conversation, I started to wonder if he was ever selfless, or has he always been selfish and I just couldn't see?
I am inspired by people who are "selfless." It is difficult to be selfless, because many are only looking out for themselves. This man is blinded by what he thinks is appropriate and from there expects others to see things his way. Even to the point that he too believed his own excuses. I am not talking about being the world savior here, just within the little circle of our influences. I had suspected my respect for this person faded many years ago, and today it was very much confirmed. His excuses were lamed. As if he was saying: "I am who I am, accept me for who I am." You know the last person that I heard this from, is still a loser. That saying is good for people who have mastered the art of humanity, otherwise we all have things we can improve on.
Now, besides the inevitable, admirable, worthiness people in this world, my children inspire me, Dustin inspires me in how much he wants to do with his young life, always pushes to better himself. MattLove inspires me to be kind, realistic and honest. To be true to myself no matter what people thinks. Trinity inspires me to be independent, friendly, and courageous.
Those things might not mean very much to many people, but for me it will be wonderful to see how these characteristics mature in these young people.
They are growing and learning each day. They want so much to do the right things, and that is beautiful. They are eager to please and they are so very innocent. Their hearts are pure, their minds not so twisted. They thrive with new ideas and want to learn to better themselves, while some adults are just done trying. I guess that is why I find such inspiration in children, the effort is admirable.
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To satisfy my occasional craving for Saskatoon Berry Pie I headed out to the old Berry Barn were these decadent desserts are on the menu.
Never heard of a Saskatoon berry?
The berry is native to the Canadian prairies and the berries grow on trees that reach heights of 15 feet.
Known for their Saskatoon "MUST HAVES" when visiting, these delectable berries are grown in this area and known world wide for their sweet and distinct flavor.
Tucked away on Valley Road, and located on the beautiful banks of the South Saskatchewan River, this must see destination presents most breathtaking views in the area. Accentuated by its brilliantly landscaped grounds and carefully manicured berry orchards, the Berry Barn is an ideal location to get away from the hustle and bustle of the city and enjoy everything wonderful that this province has to offer.
Here is a picture of a little "make shift church' in the Berry Patch were weddings take place.
The Berry Barn grounds play host to a 28 acre Saskatoon berry orchard the oldest in Saskatchewan. It is here that thousands of pounds of these distinctly flavored berries grow, waiting to be used in various desserts and preserves that are made right on site.
In the past I used to enjoy an afternoon of picking my own berries in the U-pick area to make my own preserves.
I am drawn to this area and the river for its historic beauty, its old fashioned hospitality and colorful countryside, were Canola blooms a brilliant yellow in high summer and golden barley shimmers in the sun.
I've learned the hard way that one should take photos while you can. Here is a picture of the old barn before the new renovation.


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MU Law professor announces bid for Missouri Attorney General
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COLUMBIA - A University of Missouri law professor and former U.S. Supreme Court clerk announced his campaign for Missouri Attorney General Thursday.
Josh Hawley, of Boone County, sent a video announcement to supporters across the state.
"In legislatures and agencies at every level of government, radical liberals are passing laws and regulations that attack every constitutional freedom we cherish," Hawley said. "We have to beat them at the Supreme Court."
Hawley is a native of Lexington, Missouri, and a graduate of both Stanford University and Yale Law School.
He was a co-counsel for Hobby Lobby in the Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Stores Inc. Supreme Court ruling, in which the court ruled Hobby Lobby had the right to claim a religious exeption from the contraceptives mandate of the Affordable Care Act.
Hawley is a conservative and recently has spoken out against the Supreme Court's gay marriage ruling.
"This summer we watched as the Supreme Court took America further from its founding principles and you know the liberals will only keep pushing," Hawley said. "As Missouri's top lawyer, I will push back."
Hawley's campaign said this is his first campaign for elected office.
Hawley authors Op-Eds for the Wall Street Journal and USA Today.