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Welcome to The Town of Shawangunk, one of the most unique areas of the Eastern United States. Located in the southwestern part of Ulster County, NY, Shawangunk includes the hamlets of Wallkill and Walker Valley, New York.
Shawangunk is an area of over 36,500 acres with exceptional industry, business, natural beauty, recreational opportunities and historic sites. We welcome you to our town and our website, and invite you to explore.
~John Valk Jr., Supervisor
Pronounced SHON-gum by most locals, the town's name is most likely a Dutch transliteration of the indigenous Munsee Lenape word meaning in the smokey air, a reference to the misty mountains.


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The future OpenMP 4.0 includes important features in the standard as the "cancel" instruction, the SIMD features and, above all (IMHO), the support for accelerators. Is planned a new edition of the book in order to cover this new capabilities?
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This keyboard from Smartfish tracks your typing patterns and adjusts itself to avoid stress and fatigue.
With the amount of jobs that require staring at a computer all day long multiplying like rabbits, plus our desire to continue typing on various coolest gadgets when we get home at night, the risk for stress and injury is no laughing matter. The Engage Keyboard ($150) from Smartfish uses ErgoMotion technology to help better the way you type. Its curved design and separated keyboard aim to eliminate the natural stress that occurs from typing, but the real design feat is in the company's ErgoMotion technology, which uses motion of the keyboard to prevent the stress that comes from constantly typing in the exact same position. The intelligent keyboard actually tracks your typing patterns and determines slight adjustments it can make to ensure that your hands are never in a fixed state. It can even adjust itself to help correct someone who types in a poor position. Considering we'd all like to use our hands into old age, an intelligent keyboard seems like something we could get used to.
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I would like to pass along an announcement about the New York State Family History Conference from the NYG&B July 2013 eNews:
The first ever statewide genealogical conference in New York will be held in Syracuse on September 20-21, 2013. Cosponsored by the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society and the Central New York Genealogical Society, this landmark event will present two days of lectures on key New York research topics by top experts. Detailed information may be found on the conference website, www.NYSFHC.org; purchase tickets in the online store at www.newyorkfamilyhistory.org.
Nationally known speakers Paula Stuart-Warren, CG, D. Joshua Taylor, and Michael Leclerc will give lectures, as will the top names in New York genealogy: Eric Grundset, Library of the Daughters of the American Revolution; James D. Folts, New York State Archives; Laura Murphy DeGrazia, CG, NYG&B Record; Karen Mauer Green, CG, NYG&B Record; Terry Koch-Bostic, National Genealogical Society; Ruth Carr, New York Public Library (retired); Maira Liriano, New York Public Library; Kathleen Roe, New York State Archives; Stefani Evans, National Genealogical Society; and others.
The registration fee for the two-day Conference (excluding meals and syllabus) is $140; members of the CNYGS or the NYG&B receive a $25 discount.


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A group of lucky bloggers and writers had the pleasure of dining with instructions by Olga Valentina at her private home in Venice, California.
We were greeted by Olga dressed in a fashionable festive outfit for the occasion. Fruity cocktails were served that were decadently created to satisfy ones taste palette, as well as a variety of delicious eats, including, organic roasted duck, the most amazing grilled cheese sandwiches dipped in a decilious spicy tomato soup and many other appetizers to eat to your heart's content.
"No need to fear" is her motto. Without training, her kitchen is a place where you can come and have fun trying new food experiments. Valentina shows you a new way to use that bag of frozen peas in the freezer. Add frozen peas, mint, salt & pepper in a food processor then just push blend and in seconds you will have a pea bruschetta, which she serves on a toasted piece of ciabatta bread. While this recipe looked simple it still requires a little of Olga magic.
"Don't make the kitchen a prison" states Valentina. She is inspired to cook more lately, "I got a boyfriend and ooh this guy likes to eat I have to win his heart!"
Visit Olga Valentina online to view her other recipes and cooking demonstrations (new recipe every Tuesday, and new video every Thursday).


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How to prevent motorcycle accidents..Ottawa lawyer David Hollingsworth
Ottawa Ontario Personal Injury Lawyer…www.ottawainjury.ca It's that time of year again when we will start seeing more and more motorcycles on our Ontario roads. Motorcycle drivers are much less protected on their vehicles and therefore need to take all safety steps possible to prevent accidents and personal injury. As well, all drivers need to be aware that we share our Ontario roads with motorcycles, bicycles and other vehicles.
Thankfully Transport Canada has reported that the rate of deaths related to motor vehicle is slowly declining; however, the rate of motorcycle fatalities is on the rise. There are many possible reasons why this may be so. There may be more motorcycles on the roads. Motorcycle riders between the ages of 45 to 54 are the most common ages amongst motorcycle drivers.
Ontario motorcycle helmet use has improved. Unfortunately3.1 % of motorcycle riders still drive their motorcycles without one. Head injuries are still the leading cause of deaths involving motorcycle accidents and motorcycle drivers without a helmet are 40% more likely to suffer a fatal head injury, and also 15% more likely to suffer serious personal injuries. A study that was previously done indicated that helmets saved 1,800 lives of motorcycle riders involved in accidents in 2007.
Please drive and ride safely …
—-The Ottawa Injury Lawyer Blog is written regularly by Ottawa Ontario personal injury lawyer David Hollingsworth. The Ottawa Injury Lawyer Blog reports on accidents in eastern Ontario, personal injury issues, local Ottawa news and events and various news that relates to Ottawa, accidents and personal injury. Visit www.ottawainjury.ca for more information.
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BOSTON — A veterinarian says acting like a flying squirrel may have saved a cat from serious injury in a 19-story plunge from a Boston high rise.
Sugar the cat had no broken bones or cuts, just some bruising on her lungs after the fall from a window owner Brittany Kirk had opened to enjoy the recent unseasonably warm weather.
The Animal Rescue League estimates Sugar fell between 150 and 200 feet.
Kirk tells WBZ-TV (http://cbsloc.al/GLkYuk) she thinks Sugar used up "one or two or maybe eight" of her nine lives.
Veterinarian Hugh Davis says in falls from high places, cats splay their legs in a "flying squirrel position" which slows their descent.
Kirk calls Sugar's survival a "miracle" and says building management has since installed a screen in her window.


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In its compact, tidy centre, late 19th century tenements sit next to Stalinist baroque official buildings, elaborate Orthodox churches, synagogues and mosques. Beyond the neo-Byzantine Alexander Nevsky Cathedral – the Balkans' second largest church – Sofia has few formal sights, but its café-filled Vitosha Boulevard, cheap markets such as the Zhenski Pazar ("Woman's Market") and eclectic architecture throughout the centre are worth seeing in their own right.
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Germany encapsulates Europe like few other countries – it's a place where cutting-edge modernity meets a rich history. The large cities of Germany, such as Berlin and Munich, have retained their bold cultural and artistic heritage and make excellent city breaks. Plus, the famed German nightlife is among the best you can find in Europe. For a change of pace, head to the countryside to see fairy tale castles in Saxony, quaint half-timber houses in the Black Forest or get cozy in the welcoming chalets found up in the Alps. Thanks to the nation's stereotypical efficiency and technological prowess, getting around Germany is a breeze.
Germans are typically a fun bunch who love a bit of a party. Throughout the year, look out for seasonal celebrations like mid-summer music festivals, Christmas markets, and, of course, the month-long celebration of Oktoberfest in Bavaria, when beer halls are packed to the brim and German folk culture is celebrated.


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We all love clean clothes: their smell, their look, their feel. We use copious amounts of detergent each year. However, aside from watching commercial dramatizations, we pay little attention to how stains are removed. To understand how detergents work, you must first understand the factors that come into play while washing. You have the dirty shirt and a stain that's made up of a "compound" that chemically bonds itself to the fibers of the clothing. Beyond that, the water that you wash your clothes with has charged metal particles like sodium, calcium and iron, floating around your water, which can make your cleaning agent less effective.
Detergent should not be seen as one substance, but its own "ecosystem" that affects the space where the water touches the clothing, to effectively remove stains. Most detergents have seven different components working together. Surfactants (short for "surface actants") act as "emissaries" between the water and stain areas, easing the tension between the two, eventually enveloping and dissolving the stain. Enzymes break down stain molecules into smaller components. Builders bond with the metals in the water, so that the surfactants can work efficiently. Polymers catch dirt in the water, making sure it doesn't settle back on the clothing. Lastly, bleach destroys molecules that produce color, optical enhancers absorb UV light and release the light that is the color of the shirt (to brighten), and lye or ammonia keep the pH balance steady (how acidic or basic the detergent is in water).
Just like Eastern philosophy, detergents are all about balance. Finding the right pH and the amount of surfactants or enzymes in the product all play a key role in its effectiveness. Too little surfactants won't get out the stain, and too many will leave a residue on your clothing. Although reading the washing directions on your clothing labels and the directions on the detergent bottle is common sense, it's important to help set the right balance for the pieces of clothing. It might be hard to gauge what percentage of a specific chemical is being used for the cleaning, so I would suggest improvising and adjusting the water amount, water temperature and detergent concentration, depending on your results for different loads.
You've all probably heard about phosphate versus non-phosphate detergent. Both can be used in the same way. Phosphate, a chemical that is sometimes used as a surfactant, is one of the key ingredients to life and is non-toxic. However, the problem is that when the phosphate enters the outside world it likes to promote life ― sewer and river life. It helps cells, like blue-green algae, grow exponentially, killing off fish populations in rivers. To avoid this, many companies now use a synthetic surfactant called zeolite, which is not as effective without the help of other chemicals. Phosphorous can be recycled, but a very small percentage is removed from sewage treatment (although some countries in Europe have been working on this). If you're environmentally conscious, you should steer clear of them.
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The VP type metering device is a sectional metering device. Its metering sections cover a metering volume per outlet and cycle of 0,1 cm³ (T-section = 2 outlets) to 1,2 cm³ (S-section = 1 outlet). All sections (inlet, intermediate, end) are tightened via tie rods. The delivery ducts are sealed by porting plates in-between the segments. A minimum of three intermediate sections is necessary.Features and benefits:
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This year's second annual Estes Valley Job Fair takes place on Tuesday, April 30, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Rocky Mountain Park Inn, adjacent to the Estes Park Conference Center. The Estes Valley Library is working in conjunction with several partners and businesses, and participation this year is already exceeding last year's inaugural event.
Jon Nicholas, the library's business services coordinator, indicates that employers are currently hiring for a wide variety of jobs in the fields of accommodations, restaurants, retail, health care and more. Hotels and accommodations are among the employers who will be well-represented at the Job Fair. Hotel employer participants include: Alpine Trail Ridge Inn, America's Best Value, Aspen Lodge Resort & Spa, The Estes Park Resort, Mary's Lake Lodge, Rocky Mountain Park Inn, The Stanley Hotel, Trout Haven Ranch and The YMCA of the Rockies. Accommodations' job titles include concierge, front desk, head housekeeping, housekeeping, maintenance and sales.
Participating restaurants include Mama Rose's, Peppers Mexican Grill and Poppy's. A number of hotels will also be hiring for restaurant jobs.
Healthcare and eldercare-related jobs are being sought by the Estes Park Medical Center, Good Samaritan Society, the Harmony Foundation and Innovage Home Care.
Retail businesses that will participate include The Christmas Shoppe, The Ore Cart Rock Shop, Plum Creek Shoe Store, The Spruce House and The White Orchid.
Other participating employers include the Park R-3 School District, Estes Park Lions Club, Rapid Transit Rafting, the Rocky Mountain Health Club, Photos by Dill and Organo Golo. Job seekers will also obtain information about services offered by the Larimer County Workforce Center and the Estes Valley Library.
Sponsors of the Estes Valley Job Fair are the Rocky Mountain Park Inn (as host), the Estes Area Lodging Association, Estes Park News, Estes Park Trail-Gazette, Estes Valley Partners for Commerce, Estes Valley Library and the Larimer County Workforce Center.
Employers can still register for a table, but the spaces are filling fast. For more information, contact Jon Nicholas at 586-8116 extension 832, or email email@example.com.
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I foresee a problem with the show.
AHH! So cute!
Okay, wait, wait. She was in Maryland, what, a day?
Hmmm…is Charlie proposing marriage, or just that it may be a good idea to go on with the reenactment? ;) Either way, I love it!
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D'awww!!! I know I keep saying that, but, MAN is this ridiculously cute.
Aww ^^ The first panel makes me think of Simba and Nala XD
They still haven't remembered. What's the next page going to be? Them trying to make up an excuse to the TV camera's and the governor? xD
Also, Charlie looks so different with short hair! o_0
Heee…. I can finally die happy now. And Stephen's right. They'll probably have to make something up about their characters being brothers or whatnot.
First panel = love.
The end. :)
Can't wait for tomorrow!
Does that count as bribery? ^^;
Wouldn't matter to him at this point i don't think
Coming back (from the future ooOOOoo), my grandmother used to essentially make Charlie's argument – better to have a higher position at a smaller institution, so you don't have to deal with all the craziness and ladder-climbing that goes on in the bigger places, but you're still on equal footing and get to hob nob with the people who do.


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Is your relationship headed in the right direction? Want to make sure it does? Learn how to get him
If you're like most women out there who are dating but not yet in a serious relationship, it's probable that you're curious about how to get your current guy to commit. Perhaps it seems like it's headed in that direction, but you want to be sure. Or maybe it's something new and you want to know if and when it will have a future.
It's really confusing when a guy acts like he's very interested in and cares about you, but he makes no steps to commit to you. Ladies, welcome to the club. The truth is that if you want your membership in this club to be temporary, it requires that you don't just "wait it out," hope it changes, or avoid the topic.
To get started, make sure you feel pretty darn certain that he feels the same way about being in a relationship with you. If you feel like you can't wait for him to bring it up first, here are some Dating with Dignity moves you can make right now into the land of committed relationships. Read on to learn how to get him to commit!
1. Take care of yourself first.
When you meet a guy you feel like you want to spend every waking moment with, it's an amazing feeling: an amazing feeling that you must counter with putting yourself first! Continue to do the things that make you happy, and make sure you keep dating other guys before you're in an exclusive relationship.
While this can be really difficult, it's also a great way to remind yourself what it is you're looking for in a man and that the new amazing guy really isn't the only fish in the sea. If you're finding yourself reserving all your free time for one guy, calling him, or breaking plans with friends the second he calls, take a breath. Put yourself first!
If you aren't in a serious, committed relationship with a man, you're free to do the things you like when you like, for however long you like. That isn't to say that once you're in a relationship you stop doing things you like! It's just that before you get there, be sure not to get too wrapped up in making someone your universe if you aren't his. Meet his energy. It's that simple.
2. Manage your expectations.
Are you, dear Dignity Dater, envisioning yourself walking down the aisle with your new guy…who you've been dating for three weeks? Stop right there. It's imperative you don't assume too much, especially too soon. You must stay in the moment!
When you have too many expectations for your future relationship with someone new whom you're dating, you are surely setting yourself up for disappointment. If you spend hours fantasizing about his proposal or the wedding and find yourself doodling the names of your imagined first born daughter, STOP it now. Take a deep breath whenever you notice this happening and ask yourself, "What's true NOW?"
Even if you have to reality check yourself a zillion times a day, making sure you're interested in HIM versus interested in the possibility of who HE is as your future husband can be a game-changing shift in mindset. When you get disappointed about something that he doesn't even know you're thinking about, and you begin "leaking" hints about what it is you want, it can actually push a man away. So be in the moment, be your authentic self, and have a good time collecting data about him, his values, and yourself.
3. Don't give him all the "girlfriend privileges" before he's calling you his girlfriend.
This includes sleepovers (whether you have sex or not) and having sex. The reason you have to be careful not to give a guy you're dating "girlfriend privileges" before you're in a committed relationship is because he's going to think to himself, "Why should I be in a committed relationship if I can get all the things I want while still being single?!"
There's nothing worse than a man who gets girlfriend privileges without having to take boyfriend responsibility. Chew on that one for a while and make a conscious choice about how you want to proceed.
If you need to reference the old school phrase "Why buy the cow when you can get the milk for free?" well then, reference away. When it comes to committing to women, men report that it absolutely has to be the right woman at the right time. But if you can help him realize why he would want to commit to you by associating the utmost pleasure and positive feelings with a relationship, you'll be headed in the right direction.


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MIAMI (AP) _ Former President Bill Clinton will be campaigning for President Barack Obama in Florida.
Clinton will campaign Tuesday in Miami. On Wednesday, he'll be campaigning in the Orlando area.
The details about Clinton's events have not been released.
Clinton and Vice President Joe Biden are the Democratic president's chief critics of Republican rival Mitt Romney. Clinton stars in an Obama campaign ad. He also was a star speaker at last week's Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C.


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We used GCM to send the questions to the participants because we wanted to keep the app simple. GCM is the default push messaging solution for the Android platform and is maintained by Google as a free service with no quotas. GCM allows app developers to send push messages to Android devices from the server. As an alternative to GCM, we could have developed our app to maintain open TCP connections with the backend servers, but this would have made our backend design complicated and we would need many machines to be able to serve the need. Using GCM, we were able to send quiz questions as push messages easily, and can get away with using only one backend server to collect the answers from the app users. Another alternative to GCM was to deploy our messaging service, say using MQTT, but since we were developing this app as an experiment/prototype, we wanted to keep things as simple as possible.
After we deployed our app, we noticed that there were no studies or analysis of GCM performance, and we wondered whether GCM was enough to satisfy the real-time requirements in our application. Since we had a lot of users, we instrumented our app to timestamp the reception time of the GCM messages and reply back to the backend server with this information.
Our evaluation was done for both offline and online mode of GCM messaging. In the online mode, we send the message to the online participants that are playing the game while WWTBAM is broadcasting. That is, in the online mode, we know that the client devices are powered on, actively in use and have network connection. In the offline mode, we send the GCM message at a random time, so the server has no knowledge of whether the client devices are powered on, are in use, or have network connection. Table2 shows the number of devices involved in each of our experiments.
We found a giant tail in the GCM delivery latencies. Figure 4 above shows the message arrival time cumulative distribution in the online and offline modes. Note that the x-axis is in logarithmic scale. Table 6 shows message arrival times broken into quartiles. The median and the average message arrival times in the table indicate that the latency in the offline experiment is significantly high compared to the online experiment.
In Figure 5, comparing the GCM delivery times under WiFi versus cellular data connection in the offline mode shows that GCM delivery latencies are lower using the cellular data connection.
These results show that the GCM message delivery is unpredictable, namely having a reliable connection to Google's GCM servers on the client device does not by itself guarantee a timely message arrival. It would be worth replicating this experiment where all participants are in the US, to see how that changes the results.
Our experiments raised more questions than it answered. Delving deeper at the documentation, we found some information that may explain some of the problems with GCM in the offline mode, but we need more examples to test these and understand the behavior better. It turns out that both cellular and WiFi modes keep a long lived connection to GCM servers. In the case of deep sleep mode (where user does not turn on the screen for long), the CPU wakes up and sends heartbeat to the servers every 28 minutes on cellular, every 15 minutes on the WiFi. This causes the connection to drop in many cases, because routers and providers kill the inactive TCP connections without sending any info to the client and/or server. Not all users are affected by this problem, it depends on carrier and/or router they use.


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Develop Genealogy Tourism in Greece?
Today I was reading the Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter titled "Genealogical Tourism Redefining Leisure Travel Market". It made me start thinking about what Greece would need to do to develop genealogy tourism and encourage people to reconnect with their Greek roots.
In my dreams someone would put together a complete program (soup to nuts) - here are my initial thoughts on what this might look like:
- Travel arrangements to Athens, and then onward to any other cities or villages for research.
- Provide translators (fluent in English, French, German & Greek) - other languages?
- Guides available for Athens research sites - GAK (General Archives of Greece), LDS Family History Center in Athens, National Library of Greece in Athens
- Guides trained in Greek records: baptism, marriage, death, military, etc.
- Seminar on Greek culture shock - dress codes and appropriate conduct for visiting churches and cemeteries - burial customs, previous dowry laws, marriage customs, holidays, importance of family, different types of records that might be available.
- Guides/translators to either accompany people to the village, or contacts in each region that could meet up with the visitor and help them with their research.
- Have guides help make connections between visitors and their ancestors in Greece.
Wouldn't it be great! Would love to hear your thoughts.
Good luck with your Greek family genealogy research.
Georgia Keilman nee Stryker (Stratigakos)


text: This year, our list of most popular stories was dominated by 2012's most famous robot, a long-sought subatomic particle, 10 billion exoplanets and an amazing new spider species. Above: Watch Live: Last Transit of Venus of Your Lifetime On June 5, a rare celestial event captivated our readers. Venus crossed across the face of the sun for the second and last time this century. We ran several live feeds of the event in our most popular post of the year. The next transit of Venus is not expected until 2117. If you missed this year's event, we have some great video and photos of the event. Read the full story.Spider That Builds Its Own Spider Decoys Discovered Every year, at least one story about spiders creeps onto our top 10 list. Just over a week ago on Dec. 18, we broke the story on a possible new spider species that builds decoy spiders in its web, and it became a huge hit and landed at number two. This intriguing Peruvian spider crafts phony arachnids out of leaves, dead insects and other debris, and shakes them, apparently to make them look alive. Some of the decoys even have eight legs. Read the full story.Physics Community Afire With Rumors of Higgs Boson Discovery On June 20, rumors that the long-sought Higgs boson had finally, really been discovered at the Large Hadron Collider began to circulate through physics blogs two weeks before the official news (that a particle that looks just like the Higgs but that scientists still aren't willing to officially dub the Higgs) came out of CERN. Our readers love the LHC and the Higgs boson, and they proved it once again by pushing this post to number three on our list of most popular stories. Read the full story.Video: Curiosity Rover's View of the Harrowing Descent to Mars On Aug. 6, NASA pulled off an incredible feat, landing its Curiosity rover safely on Mars through a series of incredible complex maneuvers including a contraption known as a sky crane. Our readers seem to love any news about Curiosity's adventures, but this video of the rover's white-knuckle thrill ride as it fell toward the surface was the favorite. Though this was the first video of the descent, a high-resolution version was released later, and then an even better video came out. Read the full story.Curiosity Rover's Secret Historic Breakthrough? Speculation Centers on Organic Molecules On Nov. 20, a comment made by the lead scientist on the Curiosity team to NPR about a historic finding on Mars led to a frenzy of speculation about what the rover may have found. NASA became very tight-lipped and said that nothing would be revealed before the American Geophysical Union conference two weeks later. So we talked to planetary scientist Peter Smith of the University of Arizona's Lunar and Planetary Laboratory about what the discovery was likely to be. "If it's going in the history books, organic material is what I expect," he said. While the actual story turned out to be a little less exciting than Martians, the rover could still find evidence that there is or was life of some sort on Mars. Read the full story.Curiosity Rover Finds Rock Type That's Never Been Seen on Mars Just about anything a robot does on another planet is awesome, but apparently finding a kind of rock that's never been seen on that planet before is one of the most awesome. On Oct. 11, NASA announced that after shooting a rock nicknamed Jake Matijevic with lasers and X-rays, Curiosity determined that it is of a variety that no other rover has ever spotted on Mars. Though previously unknown on Mars, the highly fractionated alkalic rock type is relatively well known to geologists because it is common in rift zones on Earth and island chains such as the Hawaiian Islands. Read the full story.How the Discovery of the Higgs Boson Could Break Physics In the run-up to the announcement of the Higgs boson discovery, we wondered what finding the elusive particle would mean for physics. Turns out that what was going to be great for the Standard Model of physics, could be potentially disastrous for another well-loved theory: supersymmetry. The problem is that the Higgs isn't strange enough, and the LHC was failing to turn up any other evidence of supersymmetry. Read the full story.Human Evolution Enters an Exciting New Phase If you could escape the human time scale for a moment, and regard evolution from the perspective of deep time, in which the last 10,000 years are a short chapter in a long story, you'd say: Things are pretty wild right now. Our story on Nov. 29 looked at a different aspect of a well-reported study from Nature on the most massive study of genetic variation yet, that as a species, we are freshly bursting with the raw material of evolution. Read the full story.10 Billion Earth-Like Planets May Exist in Our Galaxy Our readers love exoplanets, and one or more of them usually turns up in our top stories list. This year, 10 billion of them did. On Mar. 28, we reported that about 40 percent of red dwarf stars may have Earth-sized planets orbiting them that have the right conditions for life. This exciting prospect made this story a favorite. Read the full story.Curiosity's Latest High-Res Photo Looks Like Earth To round out our top 10, why not another story sent to us from Mars by Curiosity? The fourth rover story on the list from Aug. 14 features a high-res image of the surface of the Red Planet that looks a lot like the Blue Planet, specifically desert scenes like those found in Nevada's Basin and Range or California's Death Valley. Read the full story.


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Online data brokers know you surprisingly well
I'm a middle-aged guy who lives in a house that was built more than 50 years ago. I'm married, have a white-collar job and sometimes read financial newsletters for fun.
Those boring details are part of a digital dossier compiled by Acxiom, one of the nation's biggest commercial data brokers, as revealed on a controversial new website the company has created to let individual consumers review some - but definitely not all - of the personal information about themselves that Acxiom sells to clients for online marketing campaigns.
I also found a few surprises when I checked my file once the site launched last week. Along with such items as my ethnicity, annual income, number of credit cards and the month my car insurance is due for renewal, Acxiom says my "household interests" include sailing and boat ownership.
That's funny: Sailing makes me seasick; I get queasy just riding the Alcatraz ferry. The item left me confused, until my wife remembered she'd been shopping online for some boat shoes a few months back.
With a mix of mundane and slightly startling insights, the new site at AboutTheData.com provides an intriguing look at a business that's usually hidden from the public eye. And as with many aspects of the personal data business, Acxiom's site has sparked debate: Some privacy advocates praised it as a positive step, while others decried it as a cynical effort to forestall regulation and gather even more information by lulling consumers into updating information on the site.
Acxiom is promoting the site as an opportunity for consumers to view and correct the information it has in its files, or even opt out of future tracking, once they complete a free verification procedure that involves sharing several items of personal data. But critics are suspicious of the company's motives.
Acxiom is attempting to "sanitize" its practices, charged Jeff Chester of the Center for Digital Democracy, a nonprofit advocacy group, who complained the site doesn't make clear just how much "an individual consumer is relentlessly tracked" - analyzed, categorized and "auctioned off to the highest bidder."
In a statement, Acxiom CEO Scott Howe said the company created the website to show it supports "the responsible use of consumer data." By allowing consumers to review and correct information about themselves, he added, "this will result in more relevant offerings and better online experiences for the consumer."
If you're like most consumers, you may be vaguely aware that many websites and retailers keep track of your interests, so they can tailor the advertising, discount coupons or other offers they send your way. But experts say most people don't know the extent to which commercial data brokers collect and sell information about their Web habits, offline purchases, household income, family characteristics and other personal details.
The information comes from website "cookies," or software that tracks users' online visits, as well as product registration forms, retailers' loyalty cards and even property records and other public data kept by government agencies.
With a database of profiles on more than 700 million consumers, Arkansas-based Acxiom has worked with major retailers and Internet companies, including Facebook. While it's an industry leader, at least eight large competitors and smaller firms offer similar services.
Unlike credit reporting agencies, data brokers aren't governed by any laws requiring them to safeguard consumers' privacy, correct errors or even reveal what's in their files. While acknowledging that companies have legitimate uses for much of the data the brokers gather, the Federal Trade Commission and Congress have recently launched inquiries that many believe will lead to new rules governing Acxiom and its competitors.
Howe recently told the New York Times that his company's new website is evidence the industry can play a role in regulating itself.
The new website offers visitors the ability to "opt out" from being tracked by the company, but it also warns: "This will not reduce the number of ads and offers you receive, it just means that some of them may be less relevant to you."
One concern about brokers like Acxiom lies in the accuracy of its information, as well as its sources, said Paul Stephens of the nonprofit Privacy Rights Clearinghouse. Showing the data to consumers is "a great idea," Stephens said, but he would also like the site to disclose, for example, which retailer supplied a piece of information, so consumers could decide if they want to keep shopping at that store.
Other critics cite the potential for stereotyping or discrimination. Acxiom reports an individual's ethnicity based on surnames or voluntary surveys. The company also classifies consumers by social and economic traits, using category names such as "Savvy Singles," "Frugal Families" and "McMansions and Minivans."
The danger is that retailers, financial companies or other businesses may offer better prices or services to people in certain categories, while individuals in other groups may be targeted with high interest rates or predatory offers, said Pam Dixon of the World Privacy Forum, another watchdog group.
The new website doesn't list those classifications. It also omits references to sensitive information such as a person's interest in medical conditions, disabilities, gambling or smoking, which Acxiom uses in its commercial products. Critics warn those omissions may lull consumers into thinking the data broker's practices are more innocuous than they really are.
In a statement, Acxiom said it sought to give consumers "the most straightforward and direct control" by showing them the "core data" that it compiles, but not the "derived insights" that Acxiom also provides to its customers.
Security researcher Ashkan Soltani raised another concern after examining the site: Acxiom requires visitors to verify their identity by providing certain personal information to access their own files, including a home and email address, date of birth and the last four digits of a Social Security number.
That may not be enough to keep out fraudsters who might obtain those details from other sources, Soltani said, but it could help Acxiom link an individual to other information in its files. The company, however, said it uses those items only to verify identity and won't add them to its files if it doesn't already have the information.
Your data:
Here are categories of information that consumers can find about themselves on Acxiom's new website, with examples for each category:
-"Characteristic" data: Age, birth date, ethnicity, education level, marital status, political party
-Home: Owner or renter, type of dwelling, years at address, estimated market value, mortgage and equity
-Vehicle: Models owned, auto insurance renewal date
-Economic: Estimated household income, number of credit cards
-Shopping: Dollars spent at "selected" but unnamed retailers in past two years; no breakdown of purchases but indicates if you shop online, by mail or in categories like health and beauty, gardening, home furnishings
-Household interests: Lists consumer interests such as computers, cooking, gardening, pet ownership; also indicates if person donates to charity
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Vancouver Farmer's Market – Downtown - March 29, 2020
Event Category: Food and Outdoors
Vancouver Farmer's Market
The Vancouver Farmer's Market in downtown is Southwest Washington's #1 visitor attraction and home to over 250 vendors and the second largest in the State of Washington.
You'll discover fresh and local produce, flowers, plants, baked goods, delicious food, pet treats, and accessories for yourself, home, or garden.
The downtown market is a pet friendly place where you can chat with people who have grown or made your purchase, grab a bite to eat, listen to music, stroll through the park, watch the kids play, and enjoy a wonderful, relaxing day in downtown Vancouver, USA.


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I grew up in a suburb near a GM town. However, even with growing up in that area, and driving mostly GM cars (and a Chrysler or two), my family history lies with Ford. My paternal great-grandfather was a racecar driver and mechanic who worked for Barney Oldfield, the racecar driver who made Ford famous. Great-grandpa was able to race at the Brickyard and later opened his own garage. I still remember visiting Auto World in Flint (a car themed amusement park—see the movie "Roger and Me" ) and going on the car history ride where my dad started getting animated. In the ride, there was a display on the ride of a cigar chomping, scarf wearing Barney Oldfield inside a car while it was worked on by a mechanic. My dad started excitedly pointing to the mechanic saying, "That's my grandpa! That's my grandpa!" as he almost fell out of the little amusement park car.
My dad later told us when he first heard his grandpa had been a racecar driver, he cracked up saying, "But Grandpa, you drive so slow!" To which his grandfather responded that back in the day, before the new cars could go fast, he once outran a cop on horseback in a Model T. I like to think Great-grandpa added, "Fresh-mouthed whippersnapper," after telling the story, but I can't verify that happened.
Ford also played a role in my maternal great-grandfather's life. He came to this country and took a job working in a mine in Pennsylvania. He worked there a few days before realizing that wasn't the life he wanted. He and his brothers packed up and left and Great-grandpa decided to go to Detroit where he got a job at Ford. He didn't speak much English, but he would never say anything negative about his workplace saying (in broken English), "Henry Ford pays a good wage."
Ford made Detroit what it is and gave it a rich history. As kids we all spent time at the Henry Ford museum or Greenfield Village, which showed us the life of Thomas Edison and encouraged us to not just dream, but to be like Henry Ford and Edison and dream big.
One of my favorite Christmas memories was visiting the Ford Home (Edsel's) all decorated for the season. Some of my family members have worked there over the years for the family. Plus, the Ford family (Henry II, Christina, etc.) made for some excellent gossip over the years. I once was seated next to one of the hairstylists of one of the Ford wives and I learned some fascinating things...okay, fine, good gossip, but I learned things! Mrs. Ford's driver however was loyal (yawn) and only spoke highly of her (Edsel's wife) although did say she could be demanding.
Dodge has also been a big part of Michigan and visiting Meadowbrook (the Dodge home) was also a big highlight for me as a kid. The Dodge's might not have had a gift wrapping room a'la Candy Spelling, but they had a section in the hallway devoted to it which fascinated me as a kid.
This isn't just about a few auto plants here and there going bankrupt. It's about the history of Michigan and the part it played in so many families' lives. I watched a man on TV who worked for Ford in Dearborn saying he was a third generation Ford auto worker. He said it was more than a job to him—it was part of his family legacy.
I agree with the arguments against bailing out companies, however the Big Three are asking for loans, not a bailout and there's a difference. Loans get paid back. Why is it okay to bailout Wall Street, but not give help the Big 3? If we don't help out the auto industry, we're only hurting ourselves. It's not just about a bunch of automotive companies, but it's about families, tradition, and a culture that helped make America what it is today.
Friday, December 19, 2008
The Big 3 and Me
I grew up in a suburb near a GM town. However, even with growing up in that area, and driving mostly GM cars (and a Chrysler or two), my family history lies with Ford. My paternal great-grandfather was a racecar driver and mechanic who worked for Barney Oldfield, the racecar driver who made Ford famous. Great-grandpa was able to race at the Brickyard and later opened his own garage. I still remember visiting Auto World in Flint (a car themed amusement park—see the movie "Roger and Me" ) and going on the car history ride where my dad started getting animated. In the ride, there was a display on the ride of a cigar chomping, scarf wearing Barney Oldfield inside a car while it was worked on by a mechanic. My dad started excitedly pointing to the mechanic saying, "That's my grandpa! That's my grandpa!" as he almost fell out of the little amusement park car.
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Monday, November 17, 2008
I have to admit I wasn't prepared for life here. The two people who gave me the best insight about military life were my friend, Jen B, and my cousin, Bill. Bill told me just when you get settled and make friends, either they'll leave, or you will and that's becoming the trend. In the last place I lived, I went to more farewell parties in less than a year and a half than I had in my whole life. But here it's a whole different story. Most people are here for only two years, unless they're single or unaccompanied, then it's 18 months. So by the time you arrive, a lot of people you meet are on their way out. I have already said good-bye to the people I was closest to when I first arrived. I didn't expect to make close friends in such a short period of time and then I did and, poof! Now they're gone, too. It almost makes me wonder if I would have been better off not getting as close so it wouldn't be so depressing when they all left. However, then I wouldn't have made the good friends that I did.
It kind of reminds me of a semester in college. You get to know people really well, see them day in and day out, and you're having lunch together every week day, and getting together on weekends. Then the semester ends and you hardly see each other anymore. You keep in touch, but your schedules are now so different (or they've moved an ocean away), so you're not each other's priority anymore. But they say everything has a season, and I think there are people who come into all our lives' for only a season. Maybe so we can both learn something from each other or they need someone like you or me in their lives at that time. Then there are the "keepers," the people you'll stay in touch with even if they move to Mars.
Now as I write out my Christmas card list, I'm seeing more and more addresses have changed from last year, but the most important thing is that the friendships stay the same.
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Monday, October 27, 2008
Haunted Bloggy Carnival is Here! Over $3726.00 In Prizes! International Too!
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Monday, October 6, 2008
New article
I thought I'd share one of my newer articles.
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Friday, October 3, 2008
Survey Says
I was sent this survey and thought I'd share my answers.
Survey says...
Current mood: animated
What does the last comment say?
=== It was from The Big Bopper--how awesome is that that the Big Bopper would write me from heaven? Shut up, that's my story and I'm sticking to it
So what do you want for your birthday?
===I'm still waiting for that pony I asked for at age 3
What color are your eyes?
===that's a very personal question. Are you phishing for credit card info? Police!
What are you thinking about right now?
===That it stinks in here and why do I hear a church organ? Are the angels coming to take me away? Or did I leave the TV on?
When is the last time you were embarrassed?
===When I thought this woman was somebody's kid, but she was the mom.
Are you artistic?
===I can mime like nobody's business
What was the last item you bought?
===A Fabrege egg that has a carousel inside with each member of New Kids on the Block riding a different horse as "Step By Step" plays. Why? What did you buy last?
What would you do if your best friend told you they were moving?
===Take me, please take me with you!!
Apple bottom jeans or hollister gift card?
===Isn't saying you have an apple bottom an insult? Like the Phat jeans. How do they get people to look past that?
At what age do you want to be married?
===I was going for 68, but married a little sooner than that
Where is your mom right now?
===Dort Hwy...if you're not from Michigan you won't get it, but those that do....
What do you currently hear right now?
===Construction workers in the hallway who obviously don't feel the need to use their indoor voices.
Have you ever had your heart broken?
===Reconstructive surgery can do a lot to help that. I know a guy if you need his number.
Have you ever not been able to get someone off of your mind?
When was the last time you wanted to punch someone in their face?
===Right now
When was the last time you swam?
===Last summer. There are jellyfish here & someone I know got stung twice.
Plus Joey from "Friends" would have to twinke on me and that's sick
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Monday, August 18, 2008
Autumn Memories
Why didn't I go to Carleton College in Minnesota? Sure I just found out it existed like, this minute, but that's no excuse. It's all picturesque like someplace one of the Wakefield twins (probably Liz, Jessica's too wild for that town) would have gone. Or where Nancy Drew would have gone to college during brief breaks of crime fighting and mystery solving.
Instead, I went to school in the inner city just blocks away from the gang-infested ghetto and a stone's throw from Crack Alley, the sun dappled lane where all the drug/rehab meeting are so conveniently located near the drug houses. Brilliant planning on that one. Sure my school had it's perks, but it wasn't all cutesy. And, if I went down to the main campus that had more charm, well, let's just say that the old "charming" buildings stunk. They reeked of charm literally. And downtown Ann Arbor has never been my favorite place although if you want to try Ethiopian food and get a brownie from a place that reeks of incense and has a Wiccan symbol on the menu, then that's the place to go. Oddly enough I prefer my brownies witchcraft-free, but I'm a little stuck up that way.
Maybe it's because it's almost fall and I know that I won't have the usual red, yellow, and orange leaves to look at and there will be no hay rides or trips to apple orchards that I'm getting all nostalgic and wanting that new school experience in the autumn. Or maybe I shouldn't have gone to a school that had a river they once dragged for a body while I was in class. Ahh...memories.
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Friday, August 1, 2008
Don't Blog Angry & the Field trip
I haven't blogged in a while because I think, as a rule, people shouldn't blog while angry and I've been less than enthusiastic about life since the flood in our place two weeks ago. I had been so excited to move into a renovated apartment and then, just 2 hours into the move, water came up from the sewer drain in the laundry room. I would hold a funeral service for my clothes, shoes, books, and scrapbooking things, but I fear it would be too emotional. So we were eventually moved to a new place across the hall (not pleasantly, mind you) and then our neighbor's place flooded as well. So I'm trying to be positive and not wait for the other shoe to drop. So I'm not even going to mention that fact my bathroom stinks like Snuggle when my upstairs neighbors wash or the fact my new garbage disposal doesn't work or the lack of a drying cycle on my dishwasher. Not even going to bring it up.
On to more positive things that don't leave me weeping silently (or not so silently) in a corner. I went to a Portuguese Mass in downtown Praia today. There is a man from another island in the Azores that took us on a nice tour last month and today he offered to take us to Mass. I went with another woman and her two kids. One thing I've noticed about the churches here is that they seem enormous and then you go inside and realize much of the space is devoted to the altar and side altars. As big as this chapel was, there were only a handful of pews for sitting. It had two altars side-by-side and only one side was lit with candles. There were statues off to the sides, and when I got up close to the altar I saw a life-sized statue of Mary with Jesus carrying the cross. When I say life-sized I mean Mary standing was taller than me. The church was from the 1500's and had old paintings which had a strong aroma and not in the good way. I also noticed the statues of Jesus on the cross were more gory as the wounds were open and bloody opposed to how we normally see it depicted in the States. I witnesses two women go over to the cross and one woman kissed his feet and another kissed her hand and touched Jesus' hand. It reminded me of my wedding when I took flowers over to the Blessed Mother.
I had been wanting to go to a Portuguese service for a long time and had been told I'd get nothing out of it since I wouldn't understand anything. I have to admit the sermon was long (it went on forever and he had 4, yes 4 typed pages of things to say...single spaced) and I didn't understand it, but I was able to follow everything else since it was the same. And they even say a few words the same. It was also interesting to see the sacristy and read about the statues. St. Rita is very big here. I've found the churches here, even in poorer communities, tend to be quite ornate. Another local church is literally half altar, which is very different from American churches that tend to focus on seating rather than grandeur.
I'm really glad I went out and experience some of the local culture. Sure it meant kneeling on wooden planks (I miss cushioned kneelers), a 4-page sermon and the lack of A/C, but I also got to witness a lot of interesting things I would not have seen in the States. I hope we get to go on another "field trip" soon!
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Wednesday, July 2, 2008
The 80's --a subtle time for fashion
There have been so many reunion tours lately that I can't help reminiscing on those days and wondering if Debarge will go on tour...and whether or not that would make the Horsemen of the Apocalypse show up.
After the Spice Girls tour did so well I figured the NKOTB would tour again and now they're even doing a single with New Edition. NE was a little before I got into music and I didn't discover them until Bobby Brown went solo and then Johnny Gill came along and they kept talking aobut their old group. I loved Johnny's voice, so I became a NE fan by default. I even went to a New Edition reunion concert...along with a NKOTB one (before they felt too stupid to be called "kids"), a George Michael one, Color Me Badd (in my defense they were performing with Paula Abdul...does this make it better or worse?) and I even saw Tiffany in concert. Jealous? Thought so.
However what I wore to the concerts was a crime against humanity. I distinctly remember an outfit consisting of a short white ruffled skirt with suspenders over a NKOTB t-shirt and a black Samantha Fox/Debbie Gibson hat. (everyone called it a Debbie Gibson hat, but I thought I was more mature and sexy than that, so I used Samantha as my style role model. Really all pre-teens should look up to women who gained fame as topless models). Naturally I wore this with pairs of socks (red and blue with one folded over the other to pick up the colors in the shirt) with those loafers you didn't tie just wrapped up the laces. And no one laughed at me…probably because they were too busy bent over pegging their pants to notice my outfit.
I also had several pairs of colored jeans. My favorites were a pair of white jeans with flowers all over them that I either wore with a matching short sleeved jacket or s pink jean jackets. Add my slouchy Guess book bag (the one that looked like I washed it with a piece of hot pink chalk) and I thought I was hot. Hotter than hot. Hawt. Sadly I miss those pants. And my lavender jean tote bag. And my electric blue jeans. Frankly, if missing those things is wrong then I don't want to be right.
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Friday, June 27, 2008
Oh Boy
Well, they're not going to let Boy George into the country to tour. Sigh. A great lost for all of Americans. I'd wear a black arm band to protest, but I'm much too lazy to go find a piece of black material...cut it into arm band...I'm getting tired just thinking about it. Instead I will sit in the dark and listen to "Karma Chameleon" and "Bow Down Mister" until the neighbors complain. My only hope is that he'll be able to tour in the States in two years and then I'll be in the front row of the concert. Until then I'll just have to admire his talent for applying eyeliner (seriously, nobody does it better) and enjoy his music on my own.
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Friday, June 20, 2008
Why Now?
When do I leave the country? Except for a brief trip to Canada here and there, practically never. So why then are George Michael, New Kids on the Block (they only call themselves NKOTB because they feel stupid being called "kids" at 40-something) and now Boy George touring the U.S.? Answer: to be cruel. I would love to go to see all the acts on tour, but no, stick me on an island far away from society so I can't. I'd like to think that since all of George Michael's arrests came immediately after I got engaged and then married, that he was struggling to deal with the pain. That being said I do own some lovely real estate known as the Brooklyn Bridge. In my sick mind I can rationalize that it was too painful for NKOTB (especially Jon, he was my favorite) and George to tour with me out of the country because it would be too painful to see me now.
But really I'm owed a NKOTB concert. I did go to one as a kid, but at the height of their popularity my cousin, who as a former drummer for a band, (no need to mention which one--think 80s), had backstage connections and said he could get me backstage to meet the NKOTB. So I go to school and tell all my friends because my cousin's mom is telling me, "No problem." And of course, instead of being happy for me, the girls all get an attitude with me. So as the date of the concert nears (it was in January) and I'm drooling in anticipation, his mom calls to say he has just been promoted at work and that's his first night taking over the new job and it wouldn't look right...blah, blah, my heart broke, blah, blah."
So naturally half the people I told felt bad and the other half thought I made it up. Fast forward a few years to a funeral in 2005. I hadn't seen said cousin for a while since he had moved across the country. Meanwhile, every time the band was mentioned in the last decade, I bring up the heartbreak of that story. So, at the funeral he asks my mother, "I wonder if she remembers I was supposed to take her to a new Kids concert and had to cancel?"
My mom held her tongue and said, "You know, I think she might," which was the politically correct version of, "She only sullies your good name anytime you or the band is mentioned. And you're lucky she's showing restraint right now or else you'd find your brakes cut."
However, seeing as it was a relative closer to him than me, I didn't claw his eyes out because I am classy and reserved that way. Oh, but the pain will never die.
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Thursday, June 19, 2008
Who Has a Parade at 10:30 at night?
When we first got here we were told to explore the island and, "don't worry, you can't get lost on an island." Lies. You can get lost on an island especially when they have detours that take you down teensy tiny streets with no street signs and no indication if it's one way and, if it is, which way you're supposed to go. We've had a few issues trying to navigate around those narrow streets, but thought we were getting to know our way around. Then came Sunday.
One thing about this place is there's always a Portuguese holiday and there's always a festival. So on our way home from exploring some volcano rock (I used to go to museums, now I look at steaming rocks, what's wrong with this picture? And does my insurance cover volcanic eruptions?), we found the road we needed to take blocked by a festival. It was ten p.m., and this place doesn't believe in adequate street lights, so we took a tiny, narrow road, ran into traffic confusion (if it's a one-way street, how about marking that and letting you know which way it goes?) and, a half hour later finally found a main road to help us get back home. We thought we were home free...until we came upon a parade blocking the next street. Who holds a parade at 10:30 on a Sunday night? Back to the tiny side roads and gritting my teeth as we nearly sideswiped walls.
Since there are hardly ever street signs, it took us forever to get back and, without decent street lamps, we couldn't even see the part of the island where we were. When we did get back I started thinking that this was my kind of culture. Festivals all the time, parades that only start after dark, stay up late and sleep in...I might just fit in here.
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Sunday, June 15, 2008
I'm Moving Where?
When I first found out I'd be moving to the Azores my response was, "Where is that?" I'm not a geography master, but I had never heard of it. I even misspelled it when I tried to "Google" it. Then, when I finally found it, it appeared it was right off the coast of Portugal. I imagined myself taking a little ferry over to mainland Portugal twice a week where I could shop and wander around the downtown wearing fabulous European clothes and heels. Then I was at a furniture store and looked at a globe. Apparently much like mapmakers like to stick Alaska and Hawaii at the bottom of the page as if they're south of California and within yachting distance of each other, the map I saw was off...900 miles off. There is no way to take a ferry from the Azores to Portugal unless you have a death wish. So I found out the cruel reality that I was going to live in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean.
As for me wandering around downtowns in cute outfits and shoes? The downtowns on the island have hills and cobblestone. I, who once only owned one pair of sneakers (a pair of Sketchers I only bought because they were cute), now live in a pair of sneakers. I watch in amazement as the Portuguese women navigate the cobblestone streets in stilettos. It had become a sick goal of mine to walk the streets once in heels without breaking an ankle. The initial goal was to do it without breaking or spraining an ankle, but I'm a realist.
So I hope you'll check in to see how I'm handling island life.
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Laura Pradelska is a German actress, born and raised in Frankfurt, Germany. After several years in Los Angeles, she relocated to London in 2005 to join the Drama Centre. Since graduating in 2008 she has had several notable roles as an actor and voice-over artist. She has been acclaimed for her one-woman performances of an older play, The Stronger, and a new work, Still Life at the Sushi Bar. She played the role of Surly in a staging of The Alchemist which won a Time Out critics' choice award. She will be appearing in an upcoming episode of Doctor Who as a character called 'Greta'.
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October 3, 1947 - December 12, 2012
Warwick, NY
Kim Emmerich Green, of Warwick, passed away at home on December 12, 2012. She was 65 years old.
Born on October 3, 1947 in Framingham, MA, she was the daughter of Suzanne Emmerich and the late Leroy Adam Emmerich.
Kim was a loving wife, daughter, mother, sister, sister-in-law, aunt and grandmother. She was known to all of her grandchildren as "Nana".
Kim was married to her high school sweetheart, Frank Green, for 46 beautiful years. They have three children: Frank Green, Jr. and his wife, Laura; Carrie Rodriguez and her husband, Philip, and Jennifer Rodriguez and her husband, Emile. She loved spending time with her four grandchildren: Felicia, Alexis, Cody and Hunter. Kim had four brothers: Blake Emmerich and his wife, Jeffra, Scott Emmerich, Kurt Emmerich and his wife, Karen, and Christopher Emmerich and his wife, Ginny.
Kim fought a courageous battle against breast cancer for the past 25 years. She was a true inspiration to all who were lucky enough to know her.
Kim shared her husband's passion for sports. For 27 years she supported Washingtonville Wizards football and basketball programs as a fan, statistician and recorded game videos in support of her husband.
For 20 years Kim worked at The Harness Racing Museum in Goshen, NY. She loved her coworkers and enjoyed going to work there every day.
We would like to thank her doctor, Dr. Manuel Perry, for never giving up. They worked together as a team for the past 15 years and were unstoppable until recently.
To the nurses who cared for her during her chemo sessions at Crystal Run in Middletown you always made both Kim and Frank feel as comfortable as possible. We thank you for your compassion during our difficult times.
There will be no visitation. A Funeral Mass will be held at 10 a.m. on Friday, December 14, 2012, at St. Stephens RC Church, Warwick.
In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to The WEL Foundation, 18 Golden Hill Ave., PO Box 416, Goshen, NY 10924.
Arrangements were under the direction of Lazear-Smith & Vander Plaat Memorial Home, 17 Oakland Ave, Warwick, NY; for further information or to send an online condolence, see www.lsvpmemorialhome.com


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Family Weekend - BalletLORENT Rapunzel
Family Weekend is Sadler's Wells' annual two-day festival where the fun continues before and after the performance. With an array of exciting games and activities happening all over the building, this is an event that offers entertainment for all the family.
After sell-out performances at last Spring's Family Weekend, balletLORENT's Rapunzel returns to Sadler's Wells – the classic Brothers Grimm fairy tale re-imagined by Liv Lorent, written by Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy. Known for her cascading hair and entrapment within a tall tower, Rapunzel's story shows the darker beauty of this classic tale – from the parents forced to give up their child and the Witch who takes her from them to the Prince who comes to her rescue.
This colourful and enchanting production features captivating music by Murray Gold (Doctor Who) and beautiful costumes by Michele Clapton (Game of Thrones).
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Saturday, 19th April 2014
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The rite's emphasis on celebrations of the word seems to presume a gradual introduction to the Sunday Eucharist. In the US, most inquirers have some experience of the Mass before setting foot inside the door for their first precatechumenate meeting. Keep in mind that for many places in the world, Sunday Mass may not be the weekly experience we enjoy here in much of North America and Europe. Given all that, let's look at RCIA 83:
83. From the very beginning of the peiod of the catechumenate the catechumens should be taught to keep holy the Lord's Day.
1. Care should be taken that some of the special celebrations of the word just mentioned (RCIA 82) are held on Sunday, so that the catechumens will become accustomed to taking an active and practiced part in these celebrations.
2. Gradually the catechumens should be admitted to the first part of the celebration of the Sunday Mass. After the liturgy if the word they should, if possible, be dismissed, but an intention for them is included in the general intercessions (see RCIA 67 for formularies of dismissal).
Of course, not all newcomers come to Mass first, and then are inserted into the life of the catechumenate. In non-Christian cultures, I can see the importance of easing non-believers into liturgy. It wouldn't be helpful for the Mass to be seen as more of a spectacle. From the beginning, as the rite instructs us, the importance of Sunday and Mass should be stressed.
In the next section, we are advised to consider framing teaching sessions in the context of prayer.
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UPDATE: 1:20 PST. The Guardian has been reading through the emails and has made an important clarification... All the emails have the same time stamp as those originally released in 2009. So essentially this is the part of the same batch of originally hacked "Climategate" emails. Originally there were only 1,000. There are several thousand more in this batch.
It appears as though the University of East Anglia has not yet learned its lesson about cyber security. Despite being dragged through the mud for close to two years over the "Climategate" scandal, which has new been repeatedly disproven, a hacker using a Russian server was able to find and release additional new emails in an attempt to revive the manufactured scandal just a few days prior to the upcoming U.N. climate conference, COP17.
Here's the scoop on what is now being called "Hackergate":
Most All of the emails are more than 5 years old (and we're part of the original "Climategate" email release). Some of them are newer, but All of the issues raised have been investigated fully, and the scientists involved both at the University of East Anglia and elsewhere have been cleared in not one, not two, but nine independent reviews.
2. The science of climate change has been corroborated even by climate skeptics. The BEST (Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature) report was funded in part by the Koch brothers. Hoping to use a major university to cast doubt on the essentially unanimous consensus about climate change, the report did quite the opposite. Confirming the veracity of previous findings (such as the "Hockey Stick Graph") made famous by the University of East Anglia.
3. Clearly the timing of these emails smells of a conspiracy. The U.N. climate talks will resume in Durban, South Africa, next week, and it's clear the attack is timed to derail the process by falsely undermining the science used by climate negotiators.
4. Interestingly, the hacker made a statement that we should use money to alleviate poverty instead of cutting emissions. When in fact climate change is now considered one of the leading drivers of poverty, food scarcity and reduced access to clean water. At TckTckTck, we wrote up a brief explaining the deep connections between climate change and poverty. You can read it on the Tck website.
5. Here is an example of one of the emails that the skeptics would love us to take out of context:
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I am afraid that Mike is defending something that increasingly can not be defended. He is investing too much personal stuff in this and not letting the science move ahead.
When you read something like this, you have to understand two things. First off, scientists get really worked up about some of the tiniest minutiae, details like benchmarking taxonomies for clustered algorithms. In this case, it is likely referring to one of many methodologies for projected global temperature anomalies, which takes me to the second point...
The IPCC reports factor in hundreds, and hundreds of different studies. The truth lies in looking at all these reports together, and seeing the mean results of their predictions. That is how science works, so even if (hypothetically) one scientist gets overly attached to one particular methodology that is out of the norm, the hundreds of others reports will balance it out.
After a year that broke nearly every temperature and extreme weather record, and the now incontrovertible link to climate change as a primary driver, the whole world has made the connection. By releasing these emails now, the well-funded climate skeptic industry is getting more desperate in its attempt to mislead the public. But it's already backfiring. Even the conservative Daily Mail in the U.K. dismissed the latest attempt as "hot air" to drum up controversy.
These measures by climate skeptics if anything will serve to make the public more concerned about climate change as they ask questions like "Why are some people working so hard to negate the science in the first place?"
Climate change is happening now. It's a fact. And millions of people, the world's poorest, are suffering. That is why we look to the United Nations COP17 conference for hope — that we can come together to forge a new way forward, one that offers a sustainable, livable and peaceful future for all of Earth's inhabitants.
NOTE: As the holidays are coming up, I encourage you to read MNN's handy guide on how to discuss climate change with your cranky uncle. Good read!


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Coming back to Mallorca once again has been a really good thing! My trips here before each have been different, and this one is no exception. Some things remain the same: the beauty of this place and the warmth of those who live here - and some things change: almost all the students I knew here in 2003/4 have (thanks to their efforts) graduated and moved on to new things in their lives. I miss them, and wish them all the best.
I'm living in an apartment that is one floor down and across the stairwell from where I lived in Bunyola last time. The Bar Paris is still about 30 meters from the front door of the building, but my friend Jaime (the owner) is no longer running the place - he is renting it to a new team. It has a different ambience, now, without Jaime. I ran into him over the weekend in Cafe Central - he drives a taxi on weekends and I suppose he is in a position similar to mine: semi-retirement. One of his friends told me he has a room just chock-full of money!! I wonder if he's actually well-to-do. I hope so!!
I'm still in the process of settling in, and likely will do some traveling about with my camera as time permits. I hope to swim in the Mediterranean this time - since most of my trips here have been in winter, I've not done that yet!
It is such a great thing to have a chance to be with my UIB friends again: Arnau Amengual, Romu Romero, Victor Homar, Sergio Alonso, Clemente Ramis. It's as if no time at all has gone by since last we met. Although I did see Victor's family on my first day here - Tony is growing up fast and Annie is a beautiful new addition (born nearly the same time as my granddaughter, Teresa) - so I can see the passage of time clearly. But my friends have aged well, and nearly look the same.
This lovely island will always be special to me! You can never completely re-create experiences of the past, but new experiences are inevitable, and I look forward to those!
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Wow … we just got back from our mission awareness trip to Guatemala a couple of days ago. (ìWeî being my parents, a group of teens and adults from the Church of the Risen Christ parish in Denver, Colo., and myself.) Before we left, I thought about what I wanted to get out of the trip. I really had no idea what to expect, except that we were going to be going to a very poor country, and I wanted to keep an open mind so that I could experience everything to its fullest. In the end, I decided that my goal was to see how different cultures interact with each other, as well as to learn about the culture and people of the country. I had no idea what an eye-opening, educational and wonderful experience this trip would be!
After we arrived in Guatemala City, we drove about three hours to San Lucas Tolim·n. During the drive, it was almost a culture shock going from our air-conditioned houses in Denver, to seeing banks guarded by men with guns in Guatemala City, down to the little shacks that people call home in each of the cities we passed.
The staff at CFCA in San Lucas Tolim·n was extremely friendly and accommodating to our group. They made us feel like one of the family at once. On our first day of work, we took a boat to Santiago Atitl·n, the city where we helped build a house. Walking up the streets of Santiago and looking at all of the stores and homes, I realized just how poverty-stricken the country is. At the same time, I realized how incredibly wealthy the people are through their relationships with their families and with one another. Back at home, itís so easy to get attached to your Blackberry, iPod and other gadgets that you neglect your relationships with the people around you and with your family. One thing that really stood out to me was that everyone was so incredibly happy even though they had little money and next to nothing by ways of physical possessions. What they do have is an exceptionally deep understanding of how their communities work, as well as a connection with the people around them.
When I was packing my suitcase at CFCA in San Lucas Tolim·n, I was truly embarrassed by the amount of physical possessions I had in one suitcase. While packing for the trip, I was fretting about which pair of pants I wanted to sacrifice as work pants. After being at the work site for four days, the pants I wore really did not matter. What did matter is that I spent an invaluable amount of time with my parents.
I also realized that happiness does not depend on the newest electronic device that I just bought. Happiness is strengthening the relationships around me. This trip has really got me thinking about the amount of ìstuffî around my home that I do not need. In the next couple of months, my goal is to purge myself of things that I donít need and donít use. Also, I really want to strengthen my relationships with the people that mean the most to me.
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