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We recently published a new career review on becoming an academic researcher by Jess Whittlestone. It covers issues such as:
- Entry requirements and what it takes to excel.
- What are your chances of success?
- How to maximise your impact within academia.
- How to assess your personal fit at each stage of your career.
- Which field are best to enter?
- How to establish your career early on, and trade-off impact against career advancement.
- Review of the pros and cons of the path.
Check out our career review of academic research →
Here are some extracts from the full profile.
Research isn't the only way academics can have a large impact
When we think of academic careers, research is what first comes to mind, but academics have many other pathways to impact which are less often considered. Academics can also influence public opinion, advise policy-makers, or manage teams of other researchers to help them be more productive.
If any of these routes might turn out to be a good fit for you, then it makes the path even more attractive. We'll sketch out some of these other paths:
1. Public outreach
Peter Singer's career began in an ordinary enough way for a promising young academic, studying philosophy at Oxford University. But he soon started moving in a different direction from his peers, by seriously trying to change the views and behaviour of the general public on important moral issues.
Singer's first book, Animal Liberation, is one of the most widely-read books published by any philosopher. Many consider the book to have given birth to the animal liberation movement.
Singer has also argued strongly that we have a moral obligation to donate much more to those living in poverty. His writings on global poverty inspired the creation of the organisation Giving What We Can, whose 3,000 members have donated over $10 million to the most cost-effective charities, and pledged over $1 billion of future donations1
Early-career economist Max Roser made a website clearly presenting data on how the world is changing that now gets over a million visits a month and earned him introductions to politicians and philanthropists, as well as a large Twitter following.
Other academics venture far outside of their original fields of research. Noam Chomsky managed to convert an academic position focussed on linguistics into being one of the most prominent commentators on US foreign policy.2
As we argue in the career guide, advocacy seems like a promising approach in general to have a large social impact. And academia seems to be an especially good position from which to advocate for important ideas. Successful academics have developed the expertise required to understand complex questions, and the credibility to have people listen to what they say.
This is especially true if you want to advocate for issues concerning extinction risks, because some of them are emerging from scientific and technological progress itself. We need experts in the relevant fields to shape public understanding — to prevent the risks and benefits from being overhyped, while helping people to understand genuine concerns with, and the real potential of, these technologies.
However, it's important to be careful with public outreach – it wouldn't be that difficult to do harm by spreading slightly the wrong idea, in slightly the wrong way, to slightly the wrong audience. For example, writing popular articles about threats from artificial intelligence might lead to widespread fear and alarm, which could be counterproductive.
This suggests that getting the biggest possible platform for your ideas might not be the best route to impactful outreach – sometimes targeting communication at smaller, more influential groups might be a better approach.
For instance, academic macroeconomists have a great deal to say about appropriate use of monetary or fiscal policy, and are regularly appointed to decision-making roles in central banks. But communicating their ideas to the general public is difficult and likely to result in misunderstanding. As a result macroeconomists more often write books and papers aimed at a limited audience with the goal of influencing politicians or bureaucrats within government or central banks themselves.
2. Apply your research to problems outside of academia
John Beddington was a successful academic biologist, but his biggest impact seems to have come through his service as a respected science advisor to the government.
Beddington was the UK Government's Chief Scientific Adviser from 2008 to 2013, and played a key role in helping the government to navigate the challenges of the Fukushima nuclear disaster, eruptions of the Icelandic volcanoes, and ash dieback disease in the UK. He also pushed to establish a network of "Chief Scientists" across all government departments.
Often the people in charge of making important decisions — about how to allocate funding, or what the appropriate policy response to a given challenge is — won't necessarily have expertise in the most relevant fields. This means they need to call on external experts who do have this specialist knowledge, who can help them to make the best possible decisions.
These experts are very often academics, since academia is one of the best ways for people to develop the credentials needed to be taken seriously by policymakers.
And a need for guidance from academics isn't limited to government – you could do a lot of good if you have the relevant expertise to advise NGOs like the Gates Foundation or World Bank, or tech companies that have a large influence like Google or Amazon.
Policymakers in many countries often seek the advice of experts in some relevant fields such as economics, data science and machine learning, and some areas of social science such as behavioural science. That demand means it's not necessarily as hard to end up in a position of advising decision-makers as you might think.
What are the main downsides?
Highly competitive and low chances of progression
As we mentioned earlier, academia is highly competitive:
- A study by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics found that in 2010, less than 15% of new Ph.D.'s in science, engineering, and health-related fields found tenure-track positions within 3 years after graduation. For Ph.D.'s in the life sciences, the figure was a grim 7.6%.
- The NSF estimated that, in 2010, only 11% of PhDs in the biological sciences held tenure-track positions 3 to 5 years after graduation, down from 55% in 1973.3
- One way to measure how competitive an academic field is to look at its "reproduction rate": what is the mean number of new PhD students a typical faculty member will graduate during his or her career? This gives us an estimate of how many PhD graduates there are per faculty position. One study found that there is roughly one tenure‐track position in the US for every 6.3 PhD graduates in the biomedical sciences.4
- Another looking at engineering finds that "a professor in the US graduates 7.8 new PhDs during his/her whole career on average … This implies that [barring growth in academic positions], only 12.8% of PhD graduates can attain academic positions."5
- The situation seems similar in other countries. For instance, in the UK, for example, only 3.5% of people with a science PhD make it to permanent research positions in academia and just 0.45% of STEM PhD holders in the UK become tenured professors (though note that the title "professor" is awarded much less often in the UK as in the US, as it is reserved for senior academic staff). Only around 20% end up in any sort of research roles.6
However, these figures vary a lot by institution – a 2015 study of 19,000 faculty members in business, computer science and history found that 25% of institutions produced 71-86% of all tenure-track faculty depending on the field.7 This means that if you're able to do your PhD at one of the most elite universities, your chances of getting tenure will be substantially higher than 15%. (If we assume that all these universities produce the same number of PhD graduates, and that 15% on average get academic roles, then around 47% of graduates from the top 25% of universities would be successful but only 4% from the remaining universities. If the top 25% of institutions graduate twice as many students as the rest, then the figures move to 29% and 5%. This suggests your changes are 2-3x higher than the overall average at top institutions.)
Over the last 20 years, it has also become increasingly common to do one or more "postdocs" – temporary non-tenure-track research positions, normally lasting 1-3 years each – before getting a faculty appointment. According to the National Research Council's report, "Bridges to Independence", the share of recent PhDs in postdoc positions rose from 13 to 34 percent between 1972 and 2003.8 Scientists doing postdocs in the US spend an average of 3 years in this holding pattern and only about 17% ultimately land tenure‐track positions.9 A typical postdoctoral research associate salary is $45-55,000.
This seems to be a result of the fact that the number of PhD graduates has dramatically increased – in 1994, 7,800 people received doctorates in the life sciences in the US, whereas by 2014 there were 11,335 – while the number of tenure track and tenured professorship positions has stayed constant.
All of this comes after a large fraction of people who start PhDs fail to complete them. Between 41 and 78% of people who start PhDs have finished them after ten years, depending on their discipline. Computer and Information Science has among the lowest completion rates at (41%), Economics is in the middle (52%) and life sciences fairly high (63%).10 Though note completion rates are better among the most prestigious institutions.
What does it take to excel?
Track record
The best predictor of success in academia, as in many fields, will be your existing track record. If you have managed to publish respectable papers before or during your PhD, that is a great indicator that you could succeed in academia. Similarly, your ranking in your classes or the competitiveness of the graduate school you got into are leading indicators.
Below we will focus on other factors whose predictive value is not so obvious, and which don't require you to already have pursued a PhD.
How important is intelligence?
In general, high IQ seems to provide a significant advantage in doing scientific research. A study of 64 eminent scientists (physicists, biologists, and social psychologists) by Harvard psychologist Anne Roe found that their median scores on tests of verbal, spatial and mathematical reasoning corresponded to IQ scores well above the median IQ of PhD scientists (though some have contested this, as we discuss below).11 If IQ were irrelevant beyond a threshold, we'd expect this group of successful scientists to have average scores similar to the average population of scientists which are already very high. Another line of support for this comes from the fact that intelligence is correlated with job performance more generally12, and the correlation is stronger for more complex jobs13. Since research is among the most complex careers, this suggests intelligence will be strongly predictive of success in research.14
Beyond this, more specific abilities – in verbal, quantitative, and spatial reasoning – seem to be important predictors of which fields a person is most likely to succeed in. A more recent longitudinal study of "mathematically precocious youth" over 35 years found that ability level (as measured by SAT scores aged 13) contributed significantly to academic accomplishments (securing a doctorate, tenure-track position, patents or noteworthy publications), but that ability tilt (the difference between math and verbal SAT scores) was highly predictive of the kind of domain these achievements occurred in. Subjects who reached high levels of achievement in the humanities were more likely to score high on the verbal SAT relative to the math SAT, and the reverse for those whose achievements were in the sciences.15
Results from the same 35-year study of talented youth found that spatial reasoning ability (the ability to match objects seen from different perspectives, judge what cross-section will result when an object is cut in different ways, etc.) is predictive of academic success in addition to verbal & quantitative reasoning. A 2013 analysis found that verbal & quantitative reasoning jointly accounted for about 11% of the variance in the number of patents & peer-reviewed publications a subject had, and that spatial ability accounted for an addition 7.6%.16 David Lubinski, one of the study's co-directors, suggests that spatial reasoning "may be the largest known untapped source of human potential… no admissions directors I know of are looking at this, and it's generally overlooked in school-based assessments."17
However, this doesn't mean that you /need/ to have an IQ or test scores in the top 0.01% in order to have a chance of contributing valuable research. In A Question of Intelligence, Daniel Seligman reports that the correlation between IQ and elementary school grades is 0.65.18 This is a high correlation, but far from perfect – meaning how hard you work and other personality factors are also likely to be important, as we'll discuss below. Seligman points out that if becoming a tenured professor is a one in a thousand level accomplishment, then we'd expect the average tenured professor to have an IQ of around 150 if the correlation between IQ and academic success were perfect. But if the correlation is 0.65, then we should expect the average tenured professor to have an IQ around 133, with quite a bit of variability around that.
There's also reasonable variability by field – high intelligence, and high verbal/quantitative/spatial reasoning ability will be more important in some areas than others. Here are the average GRE scores of applicants to the following PhD courses:
- Physics (1899)
- Mathematics (1877)
- Computer Science (1862)
- Economics (1857)
- Chemical Engin. (1845)
- Material Science (1840)
- Electrical Engin. (1821)
- Mechanical Engin. (1814)
- Philosophy (1803)
- Chemistry (1779)
- Earth Sciences (1761)
- Industrial Engin. (1745)
- Civil Engin. (1744)
- Biology (1734)
- English Lang. / Lit. (1702)
- Religion / Theology (1701)
- Political Science (1697)
- History (1695)
- Art History (1681)
- Anthro. / Archaeol. (1675)
- Architecture (1652)
- Business (1639)
- Sociology (1613)
- Psychology (1583)
- Medicine (1582)
- Communication (1549)
- Education (1514)
- Public Administrat. (1460)
We worry about the reliability of this data, which is purportedly from 2002, and would like to find a better source, but so far it is the only one we have found.
We can also get a sense of how important IQ is in a field by looking at the age of peak performance in that field. Since IQ declines sharply with age, fields where researchers make their biggest breakthroughs early in their careers are likely to rely more on intelligence — in physics and pure mathematics, the age of peak output is around 30, for example, suggesting intelligence is highly important for contributions in these fields. In medicine and history, by contrast, the age of peak output is closer to 50 — suggesting that accumulated knowledge and effort play a much larger role in making contributions to these fields. Psychology falls somewhere in between.19


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The impeccable James Pants (Stones Throw) and personified music library Hans Nieswandt joined Dublab regulars Joscha Creutzfeldt and TBRCK to share some music from their extensive collections. Technically everything went a lot smoother than on the first testrun we did, and listeners from all over the world got back to us with great feedback. Dankeschön!
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Bryan Ronald Dattilo (born July 29, 1971) is an American actor. He is best known for his role as Lucas Horton on the NBC daytime soap opera Days of Our Lives.
Dattilo was born in Kankakee, Illinois, subsequently moving to West Palm Beach, Florida after his parent's divorce. At the age of 7, he moved to Los Angeles. At the age of 9, he began taking acting lessons with his sister, Kristin. A short time later, he landed his first acting job in a re-curring role on HBO's Not Necessarily The News.
Dattilo has one brother, Brent, one sister, Kristin, and three half-sisters, Tiffany, Anna, and Tess.
In 1989, Dattilo graduated from Beverly Hills High School. He attended Santa Monica College in Santa Monica and majored in Psychology.
Dattilo was married to Jessica Denay and they have a son, Gabriel (Gabe), who has high-functioning autism. He is actively involved with Autism charities and "raising Autism awareness".
On July 12, 2011, Dattilo married Elizabeth Cameron in Palos Verdes, California.


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For the quick-pickled onions:
small red onion, sliced
tablespoons white wine vinegar
tablespoon sugar
For the dressing:
tablespoon whole grain mustard
tablespoons white wine vinegar
Salt and pepper to taste
tablespoons olive oil
For the salad:
pound steak, either flank (lightly pounded with a meat mallet), or skirt
tablespoons olive oil
A few big handfuls of micro greens or baby arugula (about 6-8 ounces), preferably organic, washed and dried
alt and pepper
For the quick-pickled onions: Put the onions in a small bowl with the next three ingredients and set aside, tossing once in a while for 20 minutes. After 20 minutes, drain the onions
For the dressing: While the onions are pickling, in a large bowl, whisk together the mustard and vinegar. While whisking, slowly drizzle in the olive oil. Season with salt and pepper.
Preheat grill to med/high.
Season the steak to taste with salt and pepper, drizzle with olive oil, and throw on your grill or pan for about 4 minutes per side until cooked to desired doneness (I like mine medium).
When steak is done, remove it to a cutting board and let rest for 10 minutes.
While the steak is resting, put your arugula and quick-pickled onions in the bowl with the dressing, and toss.
Once steak has rested, carve against the grain in thick slices, and plate on a large platter. Top with the greens and serve.
Notes: This makes enough salad for a large dinner for two, or 4 smaller servings. Would be delicious with some crusty bread, plain, or grilled with olive oil and rubbed with a clove of garlic before sprinkling with salt.
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His fans called him King of Pop and he really was the king of music and dance. Today fans of Michael Jackson celebrate his favorite singer's birthday - the famous musician and choreographer was born on August 29. He would have been 56.
Michael Jackson's heritage and his influence on the work of other singers are so great that his name has gone down in the history of world music, and his songs continue to please different listeners - regardless of color, faith, age. And Michael's uniqueness is that his music is out of time and out of bounds.
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EDMONTON—The man believed to have introduced the green onion cake to Edmonton decades ago has opened up a shop with a simple mission: to sell the best version of the snack in the city.
Siu To, 78, opened the doors to his new space, called Green Onion Cake Man, at 118 Ave. and 91 St., this weekend. The cosy space has two tables and a counter with barstools facing the window. The eating space is open to the kitchen, were customers are greeted by To and his wife.
"I hope this will be a little eatery place. Every item we are selling is under $5, but we guarantee quality. Hot from the grill and hot from the stove," he said.
To said it takes him five minutes to make the cakes, and if he sees too many customers walking in, he will throw a bunch on the stove.
"That's the only choice they have, right?" he laughed.
Right now, the store sells green onion cakes, and green onion cakes only, and To is banking on his version being hotter and fresher than the competition's.
"There are so many people making green onion cakes in the market right now … and they all make a big mistake," he said. "They premake a whole lot of the green onion cake and, waiting for the customers to come, they reheat again."
Read more: Siu To, 78, is believed to be the man who popularized green onion cakes in Edmonton
His golden brown green onion cakes have a salty, doughy flavour. Each bite is soft, but also flaky, a texture you only get from freshly made cakes.
Green onion cake, an Edmonton staple, is served everywhere from Chinese food restaurants to festival grounds. It resembles a dense pancake filled with green onions.
To made it his mission in life to teach people how to properly make the cakes, which is why he made a video showing the masses how to properly make a green onion cake and held cooking classes.
However, he believes many cooks fall short on delivering the true essence of the snack.
Disappointing, according to To.
He realized he couldn't convince the masses to change their ways, so he decided to take it upon himself to provide fresh, piping-hot green onion cakes to Edmontonians.
To, along with his wife, opened his store during Kaleido Festival, an annual arts happening that takes place on Alberta Avenue.
A staple at the farmers market, To says his regular customers are very excited about his store.
Because its opening has been a bit of a surprise, the number of customers has been slow and steady, but To prefers it that way.
"We just slowly opened and we tried to gain the experience, to see how the people accept this ... we like it that way, the slow pace, so we can correct lots of things," he said.
To came to Edmonton from the Chinese port city of Qingdao in 1978 and opened Happy Garden in Parkallen, considered the first restaurant in Edmonton to serve northern Chinese fare.
The cake's origins were tracked down to To by Salma Kaida, an Edmonton woman who launched a movement five years ago to make them the official dish of Edmonton.
"There was so much about him that was just larger than life that it just kind of gave the whole story a little bit of personality and life," she told StarMetro in April.
"He deserves to be up in the Edmonton history books."
To sells his green onion cakes for $3 each at his shop, which is open Tuesday to Saturday, 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.
When asked why he just focuses on green onion cakes, To said it wasn't his focus — it was Edmontonians'.
"They love the green onion cakes, so I just satisfy the market," he said. "So my mission is to supply the green onion cake."
Correction — Sept. 26, 2018: This article was edited from a previous version that mistakenly said Green Onion Cake Man is at 118 Ave. and 97 St. In fact, the shop is located at 118 Ave. and 91 St.


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Tonight kicks off an epic long weekend for me (and my awesome supportive husband, Cody) as we embark on a journey by bus, plane, car, foot and then do it all again in reverse. I'm running the Ice Age Trail 50 mile race in south eastern Wisconsin and so being from Wisconsin originally, this is my chance to come back to my home state and challenge myself while my whole family cheers from the aid stations. In the next 72ish hours we'll be traveling for over 20 of them and I'll be running for (hopefully under) 12 (through the rain, if not thunderstorms, all the way according to the weatherperson).
Considering the facts, I find myself wondering why I'm so giddily excited for something that sounds so awful. I guess some of that is explained here. As I was packing last night, I put on the Barkley Marathon documentary for the second time and felt slightly less masochistic (it's called "the race that eats its young" for a reason).
Anyways, here's what I'm packing for my first 50 miler, in case anyone out there is curious.
Wear (and backups)
- Running hydration vest with water bottles and reservoir
- Trail running shoes x2 (Altra Superiors)
- Running cap
- Goodr Sunglasses
- Ibex merino wool running shirt x2
- Ibex merino wool running shorts/skirt x2
- Ibex socks x2
- Arcteryx Windbreaker
- Arcteryx Rain jacket
- Garmin fenix 5x Running Watch
- GU Energy Gel x8
- GU Rocktane Gel x4
- GU Stroopwaffel x4 (mix of caffeine and no caffeine)
- GU Rocktane Energy Drink Mix (Mountain Tea flavor)
- ProBar Meal Bars x4
- ProBar Bolt Energy Chews x2
- BCAA Capsules
- Electrolyte Capsules
- GU Revovery Drink Mix (Vanilla flavor) x1
- Squirrel Nut Butter (Anti Chafe)
- iPhone (for photos)
- Chargers (for watch and phone)
- Charging block
And that ought to do it. Cody will be carting around all the stuff I don't keep on me while I run (the chargers and most of the snacks, change of clothes, etc). Did I mention that I have the best husband who's willing to give up a weekend to travel all this way to stand around in the rain all day and occasionally deal with a hangry me? Race report coming in a few days – here we go!


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To explain the -7.5....I wonder what run sequencing tells on that story.It seems to me that we have put up a lot of offensive numbers in games that were already lopsided.
This kind of thing happens to, or against, all teams from season to season.
The Twins are scoring 4.24 runs a game. There are 10 MLB teams below us; average is 4.40.
The Twins' cumulative OPS is .705. There are only 7 teams below us; average is .724. If anything, we may have scored a few more runs than we "should" have.
You could break down the OPS components, and see similar stories across the board. We're just a weak hitting team.
The Twins are giving up 4.70 runs a game. There are only 9 MLB teams worse than this; average is 4.40, as above.
The Twins' OPS against is .752. There are 8 teams worse. Unearned runs and FIP neither point to an excuse for the rate of runs scored against us.
Likewise, the component numbers are consistent. Despite the improvements compared to last year, we're still a weak pitching team.
The pythagorean winning pct would have us at 2 wins higher than our 35-47 record. But pythag looks at runs scored, and as I pointed out, we may have actually scored a few due to good sequencing. We're just a weak team, and if bad sequencing has played a role, it's a small one. You could look for a pattern but I doubt you'll find one that's different from other weak teams; we get shut down by pitchers having a good day, and feast on some guys who are scuffling too.


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To think this time last week I was travelling to Iceland and now I am currently sitting on my couch eating cheese & broccoli pasta watching Teen Mom OG is pretty depressing but I thought I would let you know what other things we got up to when we were away for the weekend.
We booked all our excursions through our hotel when we got there so when we booked the Golden circle we booked a ticket that got us to both the Golden Circle and the Northern Lights we were picked up by coach at 08:30pm and taken around a 40 minute drive out of town to the top of a hill where there wasn't any street lights. We arrived just after 9 to what felt like a dirt track in the middle of nowhere with a small coffee shop beside it. On the bus there our guide spoke a little about the Northern Lights what caused them, what colours were rare to see and also how to set up some cameras and what apps to download so you are able to take pictures of the lights to see them clearly so of course the better your camera the better pictures you will get (which I didn't have) our guide was also forever telling us it would be a 50/50 chance of seeing the lights as its never guaranteed basically its just your luck. We stood around for about an hour looking at what looked like a white cloud which was seemingly the start of it. If I'm honest I wasn't impressed so we went into the coffee shop where we got a hot drink and some chocolate we sat there for around an hour or more while waiting for the lights to come out. There was a lot of waiting about but just as we were getting ready to go on the bus just before midnight the lights finally came out and it looked amazing I managed to get a few good pictures but others were just blurred green lights in the sky we also were able to see red and purple lights which we were told was rare so it was pretty amazing to be able to tick this off the bucket list.
Overall I would recommend the northern lights however it was probably my least favourite excursion there was a lot of waiting about and for the majority of the night you pretty much spent it looking at what looked like a cloud in the sky. I may sound negative but its a lot of money and I also wasn't too happy about the fact you had to download apps or have a good camera on certain settings to be able to photograph the lights maybe I was a little naive but I expected to see the sky pretty much lit up bright green. Ofcourse you could see the lights moving around the sky which was pretty cool but i think I just expected it to be better than it was.
Have you been to the Northern Lights before what was your experience like?
Much love Lara x


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On November 14th with a thematic conference in Grand Hotel Sofia, GIS Alliance celebrated the World Day of GIS Technology. Traditionally, the event brings together professionals from around the world who use and develop geographic information systems.
The GIS Alliance conference has been part of hundred of similar events organized on five continents demonstrating how GIS technologies support and find wider application in all aspects of modern society. Special guests at the conference were Deputy Minister of Regional Development and Public Works Valentin Yovev, Chairman of the Management Board of the Union of Architects in Bulgaria Georgi Bakalov, Fernanda Lonardo and Gulnara Roll, representatives of the United Nations.
The presentation of "Geographic Information System-Sofia" Ltd. announced the newly introduced electronic services for citizens and businesses and presented the latest functionalities of the Internet application iSofMap.
The company's intention to implement new services such as Digital Data for Design - Layer Regulation, as well as a combined sketch with more than two layers was also announced.
At the same time, a conference "20 Years We Design the World Together" organized by ESRI Bulgaria was held in the Royal Hall of the Sofia Hotel Balkan (Sheraton). Representatives of GIS-Sofia Ltd. also took part in this forum, following the trends, developments and new applications in the products developed by ESRI.


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Northern safari by boat
Our tours and activities are based on the concept of "Safari" - "wilderness expeditions" into the nature of the north. Instead of the traditional big game hunting safaris of Africa - we hunt the nature experience with our senses and with our cameras. "Safari" meaning "journy" - Guide Natura will take you on a nature yourny where the experience of the northern nature is in focus. We are specialised in experiences at the Coast of Swedish Lapland - the northernmost archipelago of Bothia Bay, just south of the polar circle. Here the changing light of the north creats Seven seasons >> giving fantastic contrasts during the year.
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We are a welcoming, exciting, friendly school in Wallington and we pride ourselves on ensuring that all pupils have every opportunity to reach the highest possible standards in all areas of learning.
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Across Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2 , subject specific skills are taught, for example interpreting history, inquiry skills and chronological understanding are taught.
In Key Stage 1, children learn about the recent past focussing on things that happened within living memory. They also begin to look at significant individuals and events in the past.
In Year 1, the children take part in a toymaker workshop to give them an understanding of how toys are made. They also learn all about Neil Armstrong and the first man landing as part of their space topic.
In Year 2 the children study the causes and effects of the Great Fire of London and support their learning with a re-enactment of the fire. Here, they participate ins storytelling and drama sessions all about the Great Fire of London.
In Key Stage 2, each year group gets a wide scope of history. They study a period of British history before 1066, an ancient civilisation from around the world, and either an aspect of British history post-1066 or the local area. The British units are delivered in chronological order, from the Stone Age right up to the settlement by the Vikings, Normans and Scots, to build-up the children's understanding of the story of Britain and how it developed over time. They then begin to learn about the Tudors and the Victorians to get a picture of how their ancestors used to live.
By studying Ancient cultures such as the Greeks, the Romans and Indus Valley, the children begin to understand how foreign civilisations affected modern life.
Finally, by studying aspects of British history over time, such as leisure and entertainment, the children are able to see development over a much larger scale of time.
To really hook children into their learning, trips and theatre groups are booked at the beginning of units. It gives the children a good base for their knowledge and engages them with their learning.
In Year 3 the children learn all about the Ancient Egyptians. They then learn about the Stone Age and visit a replica settlement to see what life was like.
Year 4 begin by participating in some Ancient Greek drama and perform to one another. They then look at the Romans to build up their knowledge of historical events that have helped to shape modern life. When studying the Tudors, they explore Hever Castle - the childhood home of Anne Boleyn.
Year 5 immerse themselves into the history of the Home Front and explore what life in Britain was like during the war. The children kick-start their topic with a visit from the home front bus.
Year 6 learn all about the Victorians. To begin their topic, they go on a trip to the 'ragged school' to experience school life as a Victorian child.
Children are encouraged to consider the wider story of Britain, and the chronology of all history they learn. This is to ensure they understand how we, as a nation, have developed over time. They also develop their skills in historical enquiry and are encouraged to consider where historical knowledge comes from and the evidence, including artefacts, that supports it.
Year 4's Trip to Hever Castle
'It was a really nice trip. The grounds were beautiful and we learnt facts about Henry VIII' Martha
' I found out that Henry VIII adopted the Tudor Rose after his marriage to Anne Boleyn' Brian
'It was really cool. We even went into Henry VIII's bedroom. Rumour has it there was a ghost!' Shreenithi
Year 5's Visit from the Home Front Bus
' I enjoyed exploring the underground bunker on board the bus' Jack
'I got to hold an exploded bomb' Dara
'The whole day felt so realistic' Grace
'I enjoyed finding out about food and rationing' Troy
We are a welcoming, exciting, friendly school in Wallington and we pride ourselves on ensuring that all pupils have every opportunity to reach the highest possible standards in all areas of learning.
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Full Body HIIT Workout With Weights
Looking to get your sweat on with a full body HIIT workout with weights? As always we've got your back!
HIIT is great, but it's even better with weights. If you want to change your body shape weights are 100% the best way to go about it.
Yes traditional bodyweight HIIT is great for toning and burning calories but when you lift weights you instantly burn more calories.
Think of it as a supercharged high intensity interval training session. Which is perfect if you want to burn that unwanted belly fat.
I've been using this exact technique with my client for years and it's been super successful.
With the addition of weights to your training arsenal you can expect your overall body shape to improve compared to bodyweight only HIIT.
Why? You'll be able to do new exercises that target specific muscles that previously wouldn't have been activated as much. There are a whole bunch of exercises that target your hips, waist and butt that need weights to make them intense.
That's the reason my clients love the way we train. And that's the reason you should get on board and start adding weights into your HIIT workouts.
This workout is supercharged with compound exercises that use weights to burn extra calories. You can expect to burn up to 1000 calories during this workout.
- Related – Full Body Tabata With Weights
The Workout – Full Body HIIT Workout with Weights
What you need – Kettlebell, Dumbbells and Yoga/ Exercise Mat.
Intermediate – 35 on 15 off.
Advanced – 40 on 10 off.
- Kettlebell Swings
- Thrusters
- Renegade Row
- Burpee to Deadlift
- Squat Jumps
- Mountain Climbers
Rest 1 minute after each round.
Repeat for four rounds.
- Related – Melt Fat Tone Muscle Dumbbell HIIT
The Exercises
1. Kettlebell Swings
Kettlebell swings are a great exercise to elevate your heart rate whilst working under used muscles of the posterior chain. Aim to use an 15-25lb kettlebell.
2. Dumbbell Thrusters
An all time favorite and must have exercise in any HIIT workout with weights. I like to think of it as the burpee of weights.
3. Renegade Row
This is a great exercise to tone your core and back muscles. It's harder than it looks. If it hurts your hands simply place one hand on the floor while the other lifts and swap after each rep.
4. Burpee to Deadlift
It's always fun to spice up old exercises. Best done with heavy weights if you have them. If not just go faster!
5. Squat Jumps
Enough said. Put everything you have into these. Watch out for a forward lean. try to use your legs and not your back to push up on the jump.
6. Mountain Climbers
Climb that mountain! After you've burnt your legs out these will be interesting. Go fast for a cardio HIIT effect.
If you enjoyed this full body HIIT workout with weights please let us know what you thought in the comments below so we can keep making more like it! Quickly before the DOMS to set in.
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If you're interested in learning how to burn serious calories through diet and exercise then I suggest that you take a look at The 2 Week Diet.
The 2 Week Diet has helped thousands of women lose weight fast. It's a 2 week program designed to give you fast results and teach you healthy habits to continue losing weight long after.
They even offer a full money back guarantee if you are not satisfied with the weight loss.


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The Lube Stop High Mileage Oil Change is designed specifically for higher-mileage vehicles. It extends the life of the engine and protects against sludge and harmful deposit formations.
The Lube Stop High Mileage Oil Change is designed specifically for higher-mileage vehicles, typically with 75,000 or more miles. It extends the life of the engine by reconditioning aging seals to prevent oil loss and reduce engine wear, while also protecting against sludge and harmful deposit formations. This service uses either Lyden ProGuard High Mileage or Mobil Clean High Mileage motor oil.
The High Mileage Oil Change service includes our 20-Point Service, which consists of a complementary high-level vehicle inspection to ensure your car is running right.
* Completeness of the 20-Point Service is dependent upon accessibility.
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The Lube Stop Full Synthetic Oil Change is available in various viscosities, providing the best protection for today's modern engines along with our 20 Point Service.


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1st Choice Cleaners, the high-tech dry cleaning factory of STAI Management Inc. With more than 20 years of history.
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"This is a work of great ambition … above all it feels like a work of virtuoso narrative for its own sake; an Icelandic 1001 Nights."
The Sunday Times on CoDex 1962
Sjón (born in 1962) is an Icelandic writer whose novels have been translated into thirty-five languages. He has won several awards including the Nordic Council's Literature Prize for The Blue Fox. Sjón has also published nine poetry collections, written four opera librettos as well as lyrics for various artists, and was nominated for an Oscar for his lyrics in the film Dancer in the Dark. In 2017, Sjón became the third writer – following Margaret Atwood and David Mitchell – to contribute to Future Library, a public artwork based in Norway spanning 100 years. He lives in Reykjavík, Iceland.
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Psalm 7:12 warns: "If a man does not repent, God will whet His sword, He has bent & readied His bow". Although God is incredibly gracious and patient, we must not think that He will continually overlook our sin. He is patient, but this verse also reminds us that if we do not repent, God is preparing His weapons to use against us.
Envision the weapons described in this verse as aimed directly at you — weapons not wielded by man but by omnipotent God! It should be a deterrent to us: do not presume on His patience. Do not continue in known sin.
Remember the admonition of Psalm 103:9, "He will not always strive with us, nor will He keep His anger forever"; and of Proverbs 29:1: "He who hardens his neck after much reproof will suddenly be broken, and that beyond remedy." James 5:9 warns those who would continue in sin: "Behold, the Judge is standing right at the door." And Psalm 7 reminds us that if we do not heed the ample warnings God has given us, He is "armed & ready" to enforce His "do not trespass" laws!


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I make art because it's fun. My skills come from my mother, who learned from her grandmother.
I make images of mythical creatures, people, warriors and objects.
I use markers and colored pencils and sometimes crayons. The straight line of a ruler which makes it easier to make the weapons.
I taped 4 pieces of paper together to make my piece. I can do detailed work.
I see details and perfection in my work. Others say it's very neat and awesome. It's different and always something different to see.
When I move to L.A., I want to design video games.
Movies inspire me, especially the Lord of the Rings trilogy and Harry Potter. Also TV shows inspire me. Anime also.


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The Boats
The "Glacier Chaser" is the only 6 passenger boat I Wrangell with walk upright into the cabin, forward facing seats, sliding glass windows, it is heated and with many of the features of the "Stikine Dream" or "Ocean Pro". Seating for 8 passengers but we operate it as a 6 passenger only vessel. Locally built to our specification it is a great general purpose vessel that operates well on any and all our tours.
Here is the "Gone Again" this is a throw back boat to the style that started the Jet Boat experience in Wrangell Alaska. It is a New Zealand style hull with a 175hp Mercury Opti-Max outboard jet... Forward seating on this boat also, single passenger seat up front then a bench, facing forward, for three passengers.. We only operate this with a maximum of 4 passengers... SO you ask what makes this special ? It is the boat of choice for many Wrangellites for their river running good times. With no roof or side glass windows in your way it is awesome for photo's and enjoying the great outdoors on you jet boat trip up the Stikine River... With the window up front, your protected for the most part, from the wind and the good old " Southeast drizzle". We provide for your comfort a full suit for your warmth and comfort.. REQUEST the "Gone Again" if you want to travel the way Wrangellites travel on the Stikine River when they are out for fun....This boat gets you to places when the big boats can't !
The "Stikine Dream" built in 2000 was the first boat in Wrangell with forward facing seats, glass sliding windows and bow ladder, which set the standard that pretty much every other company in Wrangell has since followed in their vessels. In 2019 it will have a restroom onboard and stadium seating which will again provide a improved viewing option for clients and the only boat in Wrangell with this feature other then our own "Freedom Chaser". When you want to do the Stikine River, and some of our other tours in comfort of a larger vessel this is your best choice.
Here is the "Freedom Chaser" 37'x13" with a restroom, table, sinks, forward facing seats and all one floor level from back deck to front of the cabin. This boat is pure luxury and sets the standard that is above all else in Wrangell. Great for groups that want to get to Anan Bear Observatory, LeConte Glacier and Petersburg and our Sea Otter / Sea Lion Tour...
Here is the "Ocean Pro" enjoying the scenery at Shakes Lake on the Stikine River. It is another of our boats with forward facing seats, glass windows, heated and a restroom onboard. This vessel also is a great all around boat for our variety of tours, up to 15 passengers, makes it great for small groups or individuals. Come enjoy the sights of Wrangell and Petersburg in our USCG inspected vessels.
Owner: Eric Yancey
P.O. Box 2107 Wrangell, AK 99929
Local phone: 907-874-2488
Toll Free 1-888-385-2488
updated : November 20th, 2018
P.O. Box 2107 Wrangell, AK 99929
Local phone: 907-874-2488
Toll Free 1-888-385-2488
updated : November 20th, 2018


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Discussion (2) ¬
Upon looking up the etymology of Wolfie's Old Country surname, I found no results at first. So, I instead looked for surnames with the meaning "wolf", and found two that were almost correct: the Italian "Lupo" and the Romanian "Lupu". Tracking down the origins of "Grigori" and "Anca" lead me to conclude that Romanian was the way to go. In order to determine if "Lupom" could be reasonably extracted from the Romanian word for wolf, I employed Google Translate, and got interesting results.
As you can see, the author of this chapter appears to have conflated the noun form of "wolf" with one of the verb forms, the verb form of "wolf" meaning "to consume a large quantity of food in a short amount of time"; given this chapter's emphasis on how much a were has to eat to maintain their metabolism, however, I am uncertain as to whether this is actually a mistake on the author's part, or entirely deliberate.
The point is, Wolfie is of Romanian descent, and therefore both Latin and Slavic, and that honestly explains a lot.
Semirelated, have the author's of the comic proper ever looked up the etymology of the name MacBride?
Oh for… here's that first link, only to somewhere that'll let you actually see it.


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In a quiet environment , this apartment (duplex) of 95 m² (about 1021 ft²), built in 1994 duplex, in a building of 3 floors comprises 3 rooms including 2 bedrooms, 1 shower room and 1 toilet. It is provided with a living room of 47 m² (about 505 ft²), with a terrace and with a garage. It's located on the 3rd floor. Heating : individual electric. Others : intercom.
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Top 10 All In the Family Moments
Season 2 • Episode 3
If a bride brings along crazy critical family members, she also risks bringing a ton of opinions. Whether it's dealing with an audacious aunt, a doting dad, or a jealous sister, Randy will count down the top 10.
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What are the Fannie Mae guidelines for getting a conforming mortgage with the new maximum loan amount?Answer:
Well, consumers in high cost areas were thrilled to learn about the possibility of taking a conforming mortgage with the new maximum loan amount, as of February 13, 2008.
However, their enthusiasm had to cool off as it was mostly related to a cash-out refinance, or to the chance of getting a jumbo mortgage with conforming rates in high cost metropolitan areas.
It turns out cash-out refinances to a conforming jumbo mortgage are cash limited and jumbos with conforming rates are not easy to find. Here are some guidelines for a conforming jumbo mortgage with the new maximum loan amount limit.
Fannie Mae Rules and Restrictions on Extending Conforming Jumbo Home Loans up to the New Maximum Amount
- The new jumbo loans are available only under very scrutinizing full documentation review. Also, a new appraisal with inside and out home inspection will be required.
- For a purchase of primary residence, a jumbo loan cannot exceed 90% LTV with a fixed rate mortgage.
- ARMs are allowed for up to 80% LTV and are appraised at the Fully Indexed Rate (FIR).
- For loans of LTV higher than 80%, you will need to pay private mortgage insurance (PMI), and minimum credit score required is 700. Lower LTV allows FICO of 660.
- For a refinance, the first mortgage cannot exceed 75% LTV.
- Combined mortgage LTV with a second mortgage/home equity loan cannot exceed 95% of appraised value.
- For second homes and/or investment properties purchase or refinance, allowed LTV is 60%.
- DTI (debt-to-income) ratio limit is 45%.
- Construction or Construction-to-Permanent financing is not allowed under conforming jumbo.
- Second lien holders have to sign a Subordination Agreement before a refinance occurs. That is, they have to agree to remain in junior position while the 1st mortgage is refinanced.
- Cash out refinance is not allowed. You could borrow only a little more than your existing mortgage balance to pay for closing costs. If the lender pays you rebates, or points you can't take more than $2000 cash from the transaction. Also, no cash-out refinance to pay down home equity debt is allowed.
- The property types allowed for a conforming jumbo mortgage loan with the maximized amount limits are single unit properties and condos. 2 to 4 unit properties, where the owner occupies a single unit and rents out the rest are ineligible.
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Mental Health Services
Contact: Tracy Haller, LCSW, ACS
Outpatient Services
Home and Community Based Treatment-HCT (Section 65)
Psychological Services
Specialized Services
Residential Care
Casa operates several adult Residential Care homes located in Portland, Scarborough and Windham. Each facility is home to two-to-six adults who live with 24-hour support services.
ICF/MR Nursing
Casa's Intermediate Care Facility for Mental Retardation/Nursing (ICF/MR Nursing) is home to 16 adults and children who have mental retardation or autism and intensive medical needs. The ICF is located in Scarborough, Maine, just south of Portland, and is often called the heart of Casa. Located in a wooded suburban neighborhood, the ICF is a state-of-the-art facility with comfortable bedrooms and 24-hour nursing service. It features a community room, sunroom, gazebo and nature trail for use by residents and visitors. Residents also spend time on outings, including visits to restaurants, movies, fairs and even the circus.
Supportive Living
Within Portland and Westbrook, Casa operates several Supportive Living Homes. Each is home to one-to-two residents who live with 24-hour support staff. Residents in these facilities are able to direct portions of their daily routines and are afforded services to assist them in all areas of need.
Private Duty Nursing
Casa provides nursing and home health services to both adults and children in their private homes.
Social Cognitive Therapy
Our therapists will be using an approach developed by Michelle Garcia Winner in conjunction with other proven approaches that will help meet the needs of each child or adult. The Social Cognitive Therapy groups are open to any child or adult with or without a current diagnosis of Social Cognitive Deficits.
In-Home Support Services
Casa provides support services to children with qualifying diagnoses of mental retardation and/or Autism in their private homes. For each child, an individualized plan is created with input from the child's parent(s)/guardian(s), case manager, therapists, educators and others, to address areas of habilitation need such as daily living, social and recreational skills and therapies. Each child is paired with a one-on-one Habilitation Assistant to work toward established goals in these areas. In-Home Support Services are provided in the following towns: Biddeford, Buxton, Cape Elizabeth, Cumberland, Falmouth, Freeport, Gorham, Gray, North Yarmouth, Old Orchard Beach, Portland, Saco, Scarborough, South Portland, Standish, Westbrook, Windham and Yarmouth.
In-Home Waiver Services
Casa provides In-Home Waiver Services to eligible children in Casa's Service Provision Area. These services provide in-home support staff to address all areas of a child's need.
Residential Child Care Services
Casa operates Residential Child Care Facilities in Portland and Scarborough. Each facility is home to two-to-three children with diagnoses of mental retardation or autism. Each home provides 24-hour support staff to assist with all areas of need, such as daily routine, habilitation, nutrition, recreational and social skills.
Behavioral Health Services
Casa's Children's Home and Community Based Treatment is an intensive service of the MaineCare system Section 65 HCT for children and their families in need of comprehensive, clinical mental health services. It is a strengths-based and time-limited service with a multidisciplinary approach.


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To create an automatron, simply click in the grid square that you would like to place the worker
To select a worker, click on the worker and they will highlight in red
To select a worker, click on the worker and they will return to their normal colour
With a worker selected, click on the worker or adjacent to the worker to add to their path
Note: You must always click on or adjacent to the last grid square added to the path, otherwise you will deselect your worker
Press the space bar to start the game running. To stop the game running, click anywhere
With a worker selected, press the c key to clear the path
With a worker selected, press the d key to delete the worker
There are two main types of worker:
A reversed worker will go along its path and when it reaches the end, it will go back in the reverse direction
Note: All workers are reversed by default. To turn a worker into a reversed worker, select it and press the r key
A looped worker will go along its path and when it reaches the end, it will go back along the path again starting from its original location
To create a looped worker, draw a path that finished on or adjacent to the starting position of the worker, and press the l key
Note: When a worker is turned into a looper, the colour changes into navy blue
Note: If you keep drawing a path for the worker, if the end of the path is no longer on or adjacent to the start position then the worker will default to reversed
The aim of the game is to transmit (move) packets from their start position to their receiver (goal)
It is possible to move more that one packet at once
If you get a packet to the corresponding receiver, it will be removed from the game
A spawner will spawn a certain number of packages. You can tell where the package will spawn based on the position of the dot on the spawner itself
Note: This spawner spawned 5 boxes facing down
Every spawner will have a frequency for how often it spawns. This is based on how often your character moves
Note: The above spawner has a frequency of 3, meaning it spawns every 3 moves of your automatrons
The game will crash if one of two things happens:>
If a package collides with a wall the game will immediately crash
The game will also crash if two automatrons occupy the same grid square on the same tick
If the game crashes the background will turn red and the game will pause. To reset, press the space key
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Tuesday, 16 June 2015
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Love the look of the blush & bronze palette - I've got the blush palette that everyones raving about & I love it! This one is next on my list :)ReplyDelete


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|Sandy Barr
|Birth name
|Ferrin Charles Barr
|January 21, 1938
Oregon, United States
|June 2, 2007 (aged 69)
Portland, Oregon, United States
|Art Barr (son)
Ferrin Barr, Jr. (son)
|Professional wrestling career
|Ring name(s)
|Sandy Barr
|March 5, 1957
Ferrin Charles Barr (January 21, 1938 – June 2, 2007) was an American professional wrestler, referee, promoter[1] and trainer who spent his career mostly in the Western United States and Canada. Under the name as Sandy Barr, he was best known for his presence in the Portland, Oregon wrestling scene.
Professional wrestling career
Barr got his start in wrestling working with Cliff Thiede from Idaho Falls, Idaho. He wrestled his first match on March 5, 1957 in Hot Springs, Idaho against Treacherous Phillips to a time limit draw.[2][3] He spent his time wrestling Idaho, Utah, Nevada, Arizona, Washington, Oregon and Canada.
Barr began refereeing matches for Pacific Northwest Wrestling promoter Don Owen in the 1960s because it allowed him to spend more time at home with his family.[2][3] As a promoter, Barr was known as a person who would take care of the wrestlers. Tom "The Dynamite Kid" Billington said of Barr, "The only time he made anything was once a year when all the big names came in, like Harley Race and André the Giant, and then they'd do great business. Sold out every night. Sandy would be so excited about making all this money, after he'd paid the big names, he gave the rest of it to us, the wrestlers who were there every week. All year long he'd be scraping by, and, when he did make some money, he gave it away. But he was a very good, kindhearted man, a great man—especially for a promoter."[4]
Barr spent much of his later life as a referee, promoter, and trainer, training wrestlers such as Jimmy Jack Funk (Jesse Barr), Matt Borne (the first Doink the Clown), Art Barr, Velvet McIntyre[5][6] and Princess Victoria.[2][3] While largely retired from being an active wrestling performer, Barr continued to get back into the ring on occasion, wrestling his last match just a few days prior to his death.[7]
Personal life
After Don Owen bought an old bowling alley and converted it into the Portland Sports Arena, Barr worked out a deal with Owen where he would hold a flea market in the arena when it was not being used for wrestling.
He is the father of Art Barr, who would go on to fame in Mexico as American Love Machine, and Jesse Barr,[8] who gained some level of fame teaming with Dory and Terry Funk as Jimmy Jack Funk.
On June 2, 2007 he died of a heart attack at his flea market.[2] Following Sandy's death, his son Josh Barr continued running the promotion until the License expired later that year. Once the license expired, the equipment was sold and the Barrs left the Wrestling business.[9]
- ^ Royal Duncan & Gary Will (2006). Wrestling Title Histories (4th ed.). Archeus Communications. ISBN 0-9698161-5-4.
- ^ a b c d "Northwest mainstay Sandy Barr dies". 2007-06-02. Retrieved 2007-06-03.
- ^ a b c "Interview with Sandy Barr". June 2006. Retrieved 2007-05-11.
- ^ "Promoter Sandy Barr loved the business". 2007-06-04. Retrieved 2007-06-04.
- ^ "Velvet's WrestleMania memories". 2003-03-26. Retrieved 2007-06-04.
- ^ "Velvet McIntyre". 2005-06-30. Retrieved 2007-06-04.
- ^ Beaven, Stephen (June 5, 2007). "Portland wrestler, promoter Sandy Barr dies at 69". The Oregonian. Retrieved 2007-06-06.
- ^ "Art Barr: What could have been, Looking back at Love Machine's career". 1999-11-29. Retrieved 2007-06-04.
- ^ "Josh Barr keeps St. Johns bouts going after dad's death". Portland Tribune. 2007-10-02. Retrieved 2007-06-04.


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Recently, when picking out a tie for a formal event, I was overcome with sadness. So many of the ties are gifts from my mom. She always knew what I might need to look professional, and she kept at that for decades. She was mostly right all of the time. She knew my taste—basic but proper. Now, she can't even remember a conversation that happened five minutes ago. I wasn't ready for that. I still feel that well of feeling when I see my ties hanging in my closet. It's not just a tie. It's a connection to a relationship that has been disappearing now for years, and that journey is not over.
An Unhappy Birthday, Celebrated Apart
Today is my sister's birthday. She is celebrating it in a sick bed, in a large hospital in St. Louis. I am 1,800 miles away in Portland. I wish I could be there with her.
It must be scary to be alone in a hospital, not knowing what may happen tomorrow, knowing that your health is bad. Maybe there will be a respite, but things could get far worse. That is a heavy weight to carry for my older sibling.
My sister and I have now shared more than five decades of birthdays. This was the saddest I can remember. We perhaps had six happy years together, until that tumultuous time when my parents divorced and our worlds turned upside down.
After that things never were quite the same. There were good times, yes. But I never saw my sister smile the way she used to when we were young and far more innocent. She still smiled, but it was not a child's carefree smile of joy. It was a little different. I changed a lot too. I don't really talk about that stuff.
There were times in my life when she was the only person who had my back, particularly after the divorce. We were alone, in situations I refuse to share as stories with others. They are my secrets. They were terrifying moments, and not in a "make you stronger" way, but in a "wow, this is pretty damn bad" way. Because we were a team, we pulled through, many times. I can't ever forget those days. I guard them as treasures.
Those memories have kept me invested in the bond we have shared over the years. It hasn't been the gentlest of rides. In the end, the journey was not as easy on my sister, I think. A series of decisions led to forks in the road, and then other decisions, and then, finally, a visit to the hospital.
I wished her a happy birthday today. I had sent her a card. It probably didn't arrive before she was admitted. It was a way I expressed love, as much as I can in a card. It was a strange feeling, wishing your sibling the best as they faced uncertainty over the days ahead.
While we were talking, I could still hear her laugh with the hospital staff. Machines and monitors attached to her made noises in the background. Nurses popped in her room to check on her. I asked if she was aware she could contact a hospital chaplain if needed. She said she was. That comforted me. I don't know if she would do that.
I don't know what will happen tomorrow, the day after, or the weeks ahead.
I tried to remember our youth, and all I could find were a few pictures of our innocence. That seemed like a different life. We are different now, and we lost our innocence a long time ago.
I realized that I too will one day face the end. I realized that I too may not be ready. I realized that I too need to change while there is still time. This felt like a paltry consolation prize, and nothing compared to my sister's experience on a cold, February day.
Confronting the void, with a friend
In the more than the three decades since I graduated from college in Portland, I have maintained a good friendship with classmate of mine. He now lives in southern California. I have been visiting him periodically in Utah and there now for nearly 30 years.
As we have aged together, we have encountered different and also similar challenges. I stayed single. I moved to more locations. He got married, got divorced, raised his daughter, became a river guide, succeeded professionally in a grander way than me, and always stayed true to his curious, creative self.
Though we were raised in very different circumstances—him in a Jewish family in the West, and me in a Lutheran family with a single mother in the Midwest—we had more in common than I would have thought possible when we first got to know each other at our college library steps on long evenings.
Last night we caught up on the phone. I was sharing my feelings of loss concerning people I am close too, including my mother. She is still mostly well, but her issues are ones I will not share in detail here. My friend also shared stories of his mother, who has passed away.
During that call, we experienced a moment of understanding that transcended our distance of nearly 1,500 miles and the time we have spent not seeing each other in person the past few years. I learned things about him I did not know. I also shared things about myself I seldom share with others.
I am by nature private and stoic, and I have learned how to control my negative emotions and also my public displays of sadness or anger. I also realized during our talk about life and its inevitable end with death that my embrace of existentialism has given me the ability to confront these challenges I face more clearly.
I told my friend that in suffering, we really can find purpose and meaning. And whatever I did as a result of these circumstances, I would be making choices to respond to the challenges before me. Those actions would be mine alone, and freely chosen. I was mostly telling myself these points, as I considered those actions yet to come with my mum.
That is pure Viktor Frankl. But it is also how I can face up to what is inevitable on the road ahead. I shared these thoughts with my friend, and he listened in the right way. He did not need to do much other than let me know he listened.
Mostly, I felt relieved to know I could unload to a friend and share my fears and also my resolve. Facing the world alone is not easy for anyone. Maybe it will be easier because I will have friends there to listen when the moment of the void arrives in full force.
Me, Mum, and the Wisdom of Time
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Regret is not an emotion that we like to speak of. Speaking of it is an admission of failure and lost chances. By saying one regrets something, we diminish our standing in the eyes of others and ourselves.
But I do have regrets. They are sharp as hornet bites on a hot, muggy day. For me they stemmed from my foolish pride and my familial disagreements I should have risen above.
These thoughts accompany me now whenever I visit and speak with my mother.
Because of her illness, she cannot remember the past in its full richness. There are fleeting, diaphanous moments that she can recall good and bad moments. But these are fragments, not fully formed memories.
I feel this loss especially now, as I get older, and I want to hunt down stories of my past that only my mom would have. But they are now lost forever, because she cannot recall them.
Me and Mum, the Good Days:
My mom and I have had our fierce challenges. I do not intend to share them here. I always did my best to not let them cloud the possibilities for the future, even if the bargain may not have been a fair one, from my perpective. But as we both grew older, so did our friendship.
Between 2010 and 2012, when I was in graduate school earning my MPH, we hit an impasse. We once went more than six months without talking. The rifts between me and my stepfamily and my mom widened during the rough time, when I was not in a good place.
When we did talk, it was not pleasant. I was, in essence, estranged from my "unique" family when I probably needed them the most. It was not until I finished my imperfect masters program at the University of Washington—quite drained fiscally and likely spiritually—that we made amends.
My mom flew out to see me in July 2012, and we found our old routine.
At that time I was living in Seattle, and I was doing contract work while still looking for full-time employment right out of graduate school.
So we had time. We visited the Ballard Locks, where I took one of the best pictures ever of my mom. I brought her to Discovery Park on a glorious sunset, where we could see the sun slip behind the Olympic Mountains and light up Puget Sound in the soft summer light. We rubbed our toes in the sand at Golden Gardens Beach. We ate out for dinner and laughed. We saw Shakespeare in the Park, outdoors, in Seward Park at Lake Washington.
These reminded me of our other precious times we spent together, without my step-dad or others around. We could confide in each other. I could hear stories about her first husband, my father, that she seemed to hide inside for years, and for good reason. That 2012 trip was a lot like one she made in 2004, the summer before I went to Alaska.
She also flew out in July that year, and we spent great days walking around Greenlake Park, attending a Wooden Boat Festival, and being happy-go-lucky tourists in Seattle. Both times were transition periods for me. In 2004, I was getting ready to leave Seattle for a job in Alaska, unsure what living in the True North would be like. I needed to know we were still connected.
On the last day of her 2012 trip, I realized something was not right. She was having trouble remembering things and feeling more anxious than normal. I was still able to get her safely to the airport and on her plane. Not long after I learned that the issues I let slide by were more pronounced. She was not going to be the same person when I saw her again.
I would no longer be able to have a conversations with someone who could listen to me and knew me. That new person would never be the confidant I once could share my stories with, in confidence.
Facing Tomorrow, Today
The loss from a half decade ago is more pronounced today. It is July. I think of our past summer walks, in Seattle, in the Missouri Botanical Garden in St. Louis, and in Forest Park in St Louis, where we spent many great hours together.
Today, my foolish pride for two years from 2010 through 2012 seems like my greatest squandered opportunity. Why did I allow that?
Perhaps the stress of doing my degree and spending my savings on an expensive and imperfect professional program clouded my thinking. They likely did. Now, at a more calm place in life, I can fool myself and say, I could have done better.
Maybe I really would not have been able to do things differently. But I still wish I could have those days back. I wish I could have spent my precious dollars and flown from Seattle to St. Louis on a short trip to have conversations that would have been more important than my money in my bank today.
I will fly off to St. Louis to see my mom again in two weeks.
When I visit her, I won't be able to ask her about our brief time spent in Detroit, when I was a baby and we lived as a model middle-class American family, in a city just before it started sputtering to economic decline.
I can't ask her about her life in college, when she struck out on her own and left New Jersey as a beautiful, smart young woman.
I can't ask her how she and my father decided to adopt two children, or what it was like for my father and her to move from Saginaw to Detroit in the early 1960s.
I wish we could have back those past Julys, walking and talking and sharing stories about our lives. They were some of the best times I ever had. I wish I had known that when I was living those moments.
Who is that kid in the photo
I recently obtained a childhood picture of me, dating from the time I was about 1.5 to 2 years old. I do not really know when it was taken, but I know where it was done, just outside of Cleveland.
I had never seen this photo before. I do not have many pictures of that period of my life. That is because technology for consumer cameras was note widely dispersed. My family used Polaroids and a crappy Kodak Instamatic. My adoptive parents also were lousy photographers with no storytelling sensibilities. Mainly I think there was so much going in their lives that was sucking their time and energy that capturing "happy times" on film was a waste of time.
Half of the pictures from this time of me are in black and white. None are well composed. They exist as an afterthought. There was no clear intent to capture the story of my family or my childhood.
They were more holiday and event pictures. They likely were meant to be put in an album and provide a mirror to lives of what a middle-class American life should be like, not what it was actually like.
This one picture, however, was different. I am engaging the camera. I am wearing overalls, something that my adoptive parents liked to dress me in, maybe because they were German-Americans.
I have an innocence in this picture that I have never seen in other pictures. I actually have a decent haircut. About five years later I would go somewhat feral and wear long, unkempt hair, particularly after my parents divorced and things went amazingly sidewise. I looked a bit like a heavy metal rocker in a tiny body.
However in this shot, the hair is tidy. My ears stick out. And you can see my nose is big and will soon grow bigger. I have the physical traits that I carry with me today. However, I became a skinny kid and stayed thin my whole life, when it appears I could have gone a little chubby.
The man in whose lap I am sitting on an outdoor lawn chair is my adoptive father's father. I never knew we were photographed together. My adoptive grandfather died in my childhood, when I was less than 4, and I have almost no memory of the man. The dog is his Brittany spaniel, who I remember more, actually.
This was about three years before things went truly off the tracks for my family, with my father at the center of the storm—the storm itself. I am left to wonder, what did my adoptive grandfather think of this child in her arms. Did he know who his son was, and what he had in store for his adoptive grandson, me, and his adoptive granddaughter. Did he really care about me, someone who was not related to him biologically.
I will never know the answers to these questions. All I can do is wonder and think about a moment in time I never knew happened until a few days ago.


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Makes 6 servings; each equal to one 5 A Day serving
4 cups cooked black beans
1 Tbsp olive oil
1 Tbsp cumin
1 cup chopped onions
1 cup sliced carrots
2 cloves garlic
1/2 cup chopped red bell pepper
4 cups vegetable stock
1/4 cup chopped chipotle chiles (or green chiles)
1/4 cup plus 2 Tbsp lime juice
Heat olive oil in a nonstick or heavy-bottomed frying pan over medium heat. When hot, add whole cumin and brown it. Take caution not to burn it.
Add chopped onions, carrots, garlic and bell pepper and cook slowly until browned.
Puree the beans with 4 cups stock in a blender or food processor.
Add the vegetable mixture, 1/2 canned chipotle chiles, 1/4 cup plus 2 Tbs lime juice, and salt to taste.
Process until velvety smooth.
If the soup is too thick, thin it with more stock.
Garnish each serving with a slice of lime floating in the middle and a sprinkling of finely chopped cilantro.
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To say that British adventurer Richard Francis Burton (1821-1890) has seen the World would be an understatement. His journeys took him all across the globe from Africa, Asia to the Americas when much of it was still unexplored.
Columbus plays God and saves his crew
In 1503, Christopher Columbus (ca. 1451-1506) and his crew had to abandon ship in North Jamaica and were stuck there for a year. The natives quickly started to dislike the foreigners, most likely due to their terrible behavior (stealing supplies, raping and even killing natives).
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In 1493, Christopher Columbus first laid eyes on the beautiful Caribbean island of St. Martin. He never set foot on it, but claimed it for Spain.
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Senators Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) and Rob Portman (R-OH) have reintroduced their energy efficiency bill, S. 761, the Energy Savings and Industrial Competitiveness Act. A earlier version passed a Senate committee vote, but received criticism due to a provision to expand a DOE loan program. That provision has been removed and the bill is receiving bipartisan support that suggests it might make it to a full vote this time. Provisions include improved building codes and advance of efficiency measures in the federal government's operations, as well as business operations. Over 200 organizations are backing the bill, including the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. The Senate Committee on Energy & Natural Resources has scheduled a full committee hearing on the bill for April 23rd.
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5 Apr
The Mayflower Impact
A town in Arkansas may have become a black mark against the Keystone pipeline project. The recent ExxonMobil Pegasus pipeline rupture and oil spill in Mayflower, Arkansas involved several thousand barrels of oil spilling into a residential neighborhood and potentially into the local water supply via a storm drain. Keystone opponents are pointing to this incident as a small-scale example of what can be expected if the project moves forward. Keystone allies, meanwhile, point out that the Pegasus pipeline is sixty-five years old and does not contain many standard safeguards in more modern pipeline designs that would be included in the Keystone construction.
14 Feb
Keep The Frack Out
Hydraulic fracturing seems to be the ultimate method for getting a reluctant genie out of its bottle. But stories of earthquakes, contamination, and flaming water underscore the old adage that you should be careful what you wish for. A number of towns and cities seem to be taking this to heart, as they enact or consider bans on fracking at the municipal level. Several towns in Colorado are trying to establish bans. In Sanford, New York, you aren't even allowed to discuss it because the town board passed a resolution barring further discussion on the topic. And to the north, in Nova Scotia, Inverness County is considering a ban in an area where no drilling has even been planned.
7 Feb
Obama Taps REI CEO for Secretary of the Interior
You may recall our recent coverage of the departure announcement of Secretary of the Interior, Ken Salazar. On Wednesday, the Obama administration announced its choice for his replacement – Sally Jewell, CEO of Recreational Equipment, Inc. While Jewell has never held a government position before, she has previously worked in both the oil industry (as a petroleum engineer for Mobil) and the financial industry (as a commercial banker with Washington Mutual). So Beltway insiders who want to question her credentials will have to choose their words carefully, especailly since she is the first woman nominated for a Cabinet position this term. Of course, Jewell will still have to be confirmed by the Senate, but after climbing mountains in Antarctica, the confirmation hearings will probably seem like a walk in the national park.
24 Jan
Coming Down the Pipe
Just days after the pomp and circumstance of the Inauguration, President Obama is being confronted with a renewed push to make a decision on one of the more divisive environmental issues of his presidency – the Keystone pipline. On Tuesday, Governor Dave Heineman of Nebraska approved new revisions to the pipeline route through the state, which became the last of the six states along the route to approve the plan. The President had previously delayed the approval process due to concerns about the Nebraska route, including possible effects on nearby water supplies in the event of a spill. A group of 53 Senators sent a letter to Obama encouraging swift approval of the new plan.
One piece of the puzzle is still missing – an environmental review of the plan by the State Department is still underway and is expected to be completed sometime in March. While that review is separate, the approval from Nebraska at the state level has increased pressure to resolve the situation.
17 Jan
What the Frack?
The Associated Press revealed on Wednesday that it discovered the EPA had evidence indicating that a major drilling company was responsible for contaminating drinking water at homes near its operation. When the EPA moved against the company, however, it threatened not to cooperate in a large-scale study of fracking within the industry. Soon after, the EPA ceased investigative activity directly targeting the company. Yet at one point, the agency was so concerned about the local water quality that it issued an Imminent and Substantial Endangerment Order regarding the situation. The order was later retracted.
10 Jan
It Flows Downhill, and the Supremes Approve
On January 8th, the United States Supreme Court unanimously held that water flowing from an "improved portion" of a waterway into an "unimproved portion" of the same waterway is not a "discharge of a pollutant" under the Clean Water Act. The case, Los Angeles County Flood Control District v. Natural Resources Defense Council, affects dams as well as sewer and storm systems. This reverses a previous decision by the Ninth Circuit of the U.S. Court of Appeals that caused some concern among hydropower stakeholders. The opinion was delivered by Justice Ginsburg.