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Top 10 State EdWatch Posts in 2015: Common Core Is a Major Theme
Efforts to repeal the Common Core State Standards and the tests associated with them were big political news this year in education circles, and our list of this blog's top 10 stories reflects that. Across the country, anti-common-core activists challenged the standards as federal overreach. In the end, only three states ended up repealing the standards and replacing them with their own (some of which look oddly similar to the old ones, we learned).
But the fight isn't over. At least 19 states currently have task forces that soon are expected to deliver to their legislatures changes to their states' common-core-based standards. The new Every Student Succeeds Act prohibits the federal governent from coercing states to adopt the common core or any other particular set of standards.Whether states will continue efforts to rewrite their standards or move on to other pressing issues such as budget cuts and college readiness in their upcoming legislative sessions has yet to be determined.
Here are the top 10 State Edwatch posts of 2015:
1) Gov. Christie: Teachers' Unions Need a 'Punch in the Face' and Are 'Destructive'
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, who's also now a Republican candidate for president, has a long, contentious record when it comes to dealing with his state's teachers, including a public shouting match with an especially vocal one. But things reached a fever pitch during an August interview when he described unions as bullies who prioritize growing membership and increasing pay and benefits for their members over educating children. How does he want to deal with them? With a nice punch in the face.
2) Are Test Scores Proving Fears About Common-Core High School Math Correct?
My colleagues Andrew Ujifusa and Liana Heitin analyzed if the gaps between states' predictions and the actual performance of students' performance on the math portion of the Smarter Balanced test has to do with shortcomings in the common core math standards. It's an interesting debate. Liana has a more detailed rundown here.
3) As PARCC Sheds States, Is the Common-Core Test Toast or Tougher Than it Looks?
As states continue to ditch the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College or Careers test, some analysts predicted that the price of the test for states could go up.
4) Common Core and White Privilege: The Claim With a Long Internet Life
A New Hampshire private school teacher caused a storm when he said he helped write the standards to combat white privilege. A dormant video from May 2014 of his statements at a conference went viral after Fox News and some other conservative outlets began circulating it earlier this year.
5) A 'Common-Core Math' Problem: How Many States Have Adopted the Standards?
With all the debate around the use of the common-core standards, Andrew Ujifusa and Catherine Gewertz tabulated in June how many states were still using the standards. The vast majority were, as it turns out. But that could change this upcoming legislative session. For example, West Virginia's state school board just adopted modified standards. Beware, though—when states "replace common core," oftentimes their new standards end up looking the same as their old standards.
6) Where's the GOP Pushback to Wis. Gov. Walker's K-12 Agenda?
Scott Walker, a Republican, is widely praised in conservative education circles for his infamous push to end the rights of the state's teachers union. But Republicans gawked last spring when Walker, who had yet to enter the presidential race, tried to cut $127 million from his state's public schools budget. He also garnered pushback when he tried to make cuts to the state's higher education system.
7) Kansas Lawmakers OK Shift to Block-Grant Funding, But Court Fight Looms
After a Kansas supreme court ruling that the state's education funding formula was inequitable, the state's legislature shifted to block-grant funding of its schools. School districts still aren't happy with the move, and the governor recently said while it needs tweaks, it's not a long-term solution.
8) Principals Tell Scott Walker: Your War on 'Big Government' Isn't Helping Schools
Scott Walker makes our list for the second time for a letter 35 of his state's principals sent him protesting his education policies. While the governor said his efforts combating federal control over education will provide for more local control, the principals argued that his budget cuts, coupled with his efforts to make teacher pay more competitive, actually hampers local school boards' abilities to reform their schools and creates a system of haves and have-nots across the state.
9) South Carolina Adopts Standards Intended to Replace Common Core
South Carolina became the second state to replace its common core-based standards after legislators told the state board of education to do so. But a lot of the state's new standards look oddly familiar, Andrew reveals.
10) N.Y. Regents Boss Claims Too Many Opt-Outs Will Force State Into 'National Test'
At the height of New York's testing opt-out movement, New York State Regents Chancellor Merryl Tisch said in an interview with WNYC radio host Brian Lehrer that if parents kept opting out of their state's test, they'd be forced to adopt a national test. But a cursory look at the state's laws and interviews with a testing expert shows that's not true at all.


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Teetering on the edge of decor and art, kilim pillows pack a design wallop. Their unique colors and weaves create a moveable tapestry throughout your home, and their sense of history adds significant depth to any style of decor. Here you'll discover more about these decorative pillows, including a bit of their history and the prices you'll find on the market.
Kilim Pillows: Pillows That Pack A Real Punch
If you're the type of person that's always searching for the most unique home decor, kilim pillows must be added to your list. The simplest way to describe these pillows is that they are hand-woven beauties featuring distinct tribal and southwest designs that make them stand out from other decorative pillows. And as such they near works of art. But this description ignores the historic background of these pillows.
The art behind Kilim pillows has been around for many thousands of years. Kilim is a woven rug that has classic Persian and Turkish roots which gives you a sense of where its colorful and ornate design work came into play. Antique kilim rugs (those over 50 years of age) are highly sought after because of their beauty and history, and kilim pillows follow suit.
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Antique Kilim Pillows Vs. Modern Kilim Pillows
Any kilim pillow that uses antique kilim is going to be a highly sought after decorative pillow. Their popularity is only matched by their limited supply. There is only so much antique kilim out there, and the market for antique kilim rugs keeps many kilim pillows from being made from this material. The demand for these pillows (and the rugs they are made from) keeps the prices high.
There are, though, many modern kilim choices available. These are hand-woven just like the antique versions and look just as beautiful, though they may not carry the same historic cache as their older brothers. Still, as decorative pillows go, there are few designs as unique, and telling the difference between an antique and modern kilim can be very difficult for most people.
Where To Use Kilim Pillows
Kilim pillows almost transcend design motifs. There's something about them that allows these pillows to be used in nearly any style. Call it the "work of art" pass. Obviously Persian or classic European decor motifs are the natural fit for these pillows, but you'll be surprised by how well they fit in most modern designs and in nearly any type of room. They make excellent choices as bedroom pillows, couch pillows, or chair pillows.
These pillows are natural color boosters for any space. If you've got a neutral palette and need a splash of color, a few kilim pillows are an excellent way to deliver it. Plus, when you use pillows in this way, you can always adjust your room colors on the fly with no hassle. No need for repainting or heavy lifting when you tire of the colors in your room.
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Kilim Pillow Prices
For obvious reasons, there's a definite price divide between antique kilim pillows and modern kilim pillows. Those using the famous antique fabric can cost you $100 or more, but the modern kilim pillow varieties are a much more budget friendly solution, ranging around $30 to $60, depending on the size and intricacy of the weave itself. That's a lot of value for something that feels this vintage and high quality.
Either way, kilim pillows are a beautiful and artistic solution for your home decor needs. They've got a real sense of style and history that no other pillow can match. You'll be impressed by the quality of design that they bring to your home.

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The trophy and plaque case at Soddy-Daisy just received a new addition.
The Lady Trojans tennis team claimed the Power Division championship of the Big Bang tournament Saturday by defeating East Hamilton 6-0 in the day's final match. Soddy-Daisy coach Lorri Johnson wasn't sure, but it could be the first non-postseason tournament the girls' program has won.
"It's kind of neat to win," she said. "I hate that we lost to Walker Valley along the way, but hopefully the girls learned what they needed to learn to advance in the postseason."
The boys' Power Division championship went to Arts & Sciences (12-0), which earned that title with wins over Grace Academy and East Hamilton on Saturday.
"This weekend has been a test of endurance," CSAS coach Jerry Pate said. "We expected to do OK. You never know what could happen, but we were up to the task.
"I thought the guys performed well."
Soddy-Daisy (12-2) was one of two girls' teams to lose one match in the Power Division, but Signal Mountain finished 2-1, losing to the Lady Trojans. The champions finished 3-1, with their defeat at the hands of Walker Valley, who finished 2-2 with losses to East Hamilton and Signal Mountain.
Saturday's last match between East Hamilton and Soddy-Daisy turned into a championship match of sorts. Had East Hamilton won, Signal's Lady Eagles would have been crowned the champions.
The Lady Trojans made sure that didn't happen, sweeping the singles matches.
"I don't know when the last time was that we won a tournament, so I'm very pleased with our team," Johnson said.
East Hamilton coach Michael Jackson had reason to be happy about his team's third-place finish, as he mixed and matched his lineup over the two days with the absence of a couple of key players.
"It's a different format than what we're used to seeing, but there were a lot of good players here," Jackson said. "I thought we did well, and to go 2-2 against stiff competition is a good sign for our team."
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What was most surprising about the cows last April in Camden, Australia was that they didn't seem to care that what could have been a distant cousin to the Mars rover had strolled in from the lab and claimed authority in the paddock like it was the 4th rock from the sun. Apparently without allegiance to the humans who gave two hours a day moving them toward the milk barn or to the dogs who were cow-wranglers by trade, the robot that assumed the herding duties was simply accepted as a regular fixture in the daily routine of foraging, ambling, and evacuating milk.
The cows' blasé response was the best possible outcome for University of Sydney researchers from both the Australian Centre for Field Robotics and the department of Veterinary Science, who had spent months considering how to mod the general purpose bot for interaction with the slow-moving livestock. Rounding up cows to for milking isn't a particularly difficult chore for farmers, but it occupies an hour in the morning and another in the afternoon during an already jam-packed day. And in Australia, the task is often carried out on a quad bike, which is one of the leading causes of injury on a farm.
Kendra Kerrisk, an associate professor of veterinary science, whose work focuses the future of dairy farming, identified the cow-wrangling as ripe for automation: "In winter, it's freezing and in summer it's really hot and dusty. Farmers try to do the milking as quickly as possible and get the cows home faster than they'd go on their own, which is not a good situation." See, a cow's impressive 330-degree vision has a blind spot: the terrain just about to be explored with their hoof. Herded too quickly, and missteps could lead to stone bruises and lameness.
A day's most admired quality, according to a heifer, is predictability. If programed to herd at a slow, consistent pace, thought Kerrisk, a robot could give cows the time they need to change locations, while also freeing up man-hours. So Kerrisk asked the Australian Centre for Field Robotics if they'd help her use their "perception research platform" for a test run.
Although the robot had been in agricultural service before, its previous post was in the orchard, surveying fruit trees to make judgements about ripeness and disease. Apart from getting one of its four wheels stuck in lumpy terrain or misjudging its proximity to a tree trunk (both unlikely), it was pretty low risk work. Working with cows would introduce new challenges.
Cows are enormous, delicate animals, susceptible to any number of adverse conditions, none the least of which looks like Wall-E on steroids.
Cows are enormous (upwards of 1000 pounds), delicate animals, susceptible to any number of adverse conditions, none the least of which looks like Wall-E on steroids. So if there was some hand-wringing by researchers in advance, it was in considering how the research facility's cows would take the robotic disruption. It was important that no harm come to either. To protect both animal and machine, the researchers outfitted the robot with a metal skirt—a sort of bumper that a cow could scratch its back against should it mistake the robot for a shrub. The skirt also enforced some distance between the robot's expensive cameras and the cameras' living subjects.
For a machine built in 2009 with urban environments in mind, the transition from studying the movement of people and cars to interacting with grazing cattle was an easy one. The robot already came equipped with many ideal traits for the field. "The vehicles are much lighter than typical farm equipment, which is beneficial for reducing soil compaction, and they are electric powered, meaning they are quiet yet powerful," says James Underwood, a senior research fellow at the Australian Centre for Field Robotics at the University of Sydney.
When the bot was deposited in the farm in April, Underwood explains it was wearing all its best: "colour stereo video cameras similar to a hand held camera, yet also providing depth sensing like human eyes; thermal cameras that can remotely measure heat; 2D and 3D laser and RADAR ranging sensors to build real-time 3D models of the world; navigation sensors to help locate the vehicle; hyperspectral sensors to measure light in more sophisticated ways than regular cameras; and also soil radiation and conductivity sensors." Although autonomy is the ultimate goal, its first meeting with the cows was arranged via remote control.
So as not to spook the subjects, the 4-wheeled robot first tiptoed along the outside of the fence line in 10-minute intervals, offering the cows an opportunity to observe without entering their physical space. As it moved, scientists took a tally of how many cows approached the robot and how many fled. By the third lap, it proved to be an unremarkable show and the robot was ignored.
Upon strolling into the paddock, the robot performed a big figure-eight to make its presence known.
What happens when a robot strolls into a paddock? Remarkably little. The robot performed a big figure-eight to make its presence known. The first time it approached a cow, the animal would scurry away, but on subsequent loops, the cattle held their ground longer. They were rapidly desensitized the the machine in their midst.
The swoops and scurries were observed by researchers on a monitor from two football fields away. The robot's operator was steering it based on the 3D real time movements of the cows streaming from the mobile machine to the research station. "It was similar to playing a video game on a laptop," said Underwood. "It was actually quite fun!"
When it came to rounding up the cows, the robot excelled, herding 20 cattle out of the paddock on three tests. The robot was also able to herd a drove of 150 cows on two occasions! The cows made their journey at a comfortable and consistent clip, without a stone bruise incident or too much hemming and hawing.
The data gathered during the test—how the cows move in a variety of situations—will contribute to furthering the research. "There was a lot of promise for automating the test," says Kerrisk. The data collected will be used to design algorithms that dictate how the robot should respond to a straying cow or a cooperative group. The result could be a robot rounding up the cows all on its own. "We have a large amount of data for the initial dairy herding application, so the next step is to work out the opposite question: how little data do we need?" says Underwood. "Then we can design a next stage prototype specifically for this industry, at a much lower cost, while having the confidence that what we're trying to do is achievable."
When Kerrisk presented her research, farmers were excited. But both Kerrisk and Underwood believe that automating herding is just the first step in a long line of possible innovations. "Well, if you're going to have a robot bringing the cows home, it becomes a very expensive dog," says Kerrisk. "Some will be happy to pay for an expensive dog and some will not." The real value, says Kerrisk, are all the possible add-ons. What if the robot could tackle other farm issues, too, like spotting fences that are no longer electrified or monitoring the moisture or other environmental conditions in the soil? The robot could also figure out how well the cows have grazed the paddock and alert farmers if there seems to be a problem with a cow giving birth. The researchers think herding is just the baseline. "Our next prototype will be even tougher and more capable. We are in the process of putting together a next-generation platform that is even better suited to the often rugged terrain found in typical dairy environments," says Underwood.
Since leaving the dairy, the robot had traveled north to a tropical region of Australia, says Underwood, "gathering data on banana, mango, lychee, custard apple and avocado farms. A robot as flexible as this finds itself on a tight schedule."
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Today, more Georgia couples are opting for a legal separation as a strategy to avoid the pitfalls associated with divorce. Legal separation also allows couples in Marietta to address important issues such as alimony, division of debt, and custody or child support without going through an actual divorce. There are some who argue that a legal separation is a more fiscally sound choice than divorce, but it is important to also ensure that you protect yourself if you choose to separate.
One of the most important things a couple who is separating must do is to obtain a written separation agreement. Without an agreement, you will continue to be responsible any debts incurred by your spouse after the time of separation. As a separated couple is still legally married, debt collectors can contact the other spouse in an attempt to collect upon debt if there is no formal separation agreement. The agreement is also a legally binding document that can be used for the purposes of establishing a custody agreement and child support payments.
Child support, alimony, and other issues can be legally resolved in a separation, and this can also be the basis for a settlement if you do decide to divorce at some point in time in the future. Choosing a separation as opposed to divorce will allow you to maintain benefits such as insurance under your spouse's plan, as well as continuing to file joint taxes, that may have positive financial benefits.
If you are separated from your spouse and are considering staying separated without getting a divorce, make sure that you speak with a family law attorney that can craft a written separation agreement. This protects you and your assets, while also setting up legally binding guidelines for your separation.
Source: Forbes, "Legal Separation or Divorce: Which is Better Financially?" Jeff Landers, Jan. 10, 2012


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4. Do you believe that you'll be playing day to day or every other day?
5. Ruler name of the nation that recruited you?
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Middle Schools Results
Joe Denoyer - October 31, 2018 2:00 pm
The 7th grade A team Lady Warriors took on their cross town rivals the
Seymour Rogers Lady Apaches and came away with a 46-4 victory. The Lady
Warriors improve their record on the season to 3-0.
Leading Scorers:
Madalyn McCarter 23pts
Hailey Contreras 10pts
Paris Bond 6pts
Julie Vanwyhe 4pts
Leading Rebounder:
Paris Bond 8rebs
Tuesday night the Lady Warriors traveled across town to take on Seymour
Rogers. The A team made a statement winning 34-0. Hallie West has 2 points
and 4 assists. Rachelle Terrazas, Katie Classen and Jenna Ormiston all had
4 points. Lizzy Cisneros had 8 points and 3 steals. Naomi Macias went off
for 12 points nd pulled down 5 rebounds.
The Bteam came away with a victory winning 33-7. Gabby Echevaerria and
Martha Gonzales had 2 points each in the win. Lesly Avila had 3 points and
4 rebounds. Ella Friederich, Ashlynn Wagenseller and Sasha Ricks all put in
4. Aaliyah Luna scored 6 and Josie Hall rounded out the scoring with 8.
Next Tuesday the lady Warriors travel to Guymon to take on the Tigers.
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Oct. 18 (UPI) -- The government of a state in northern India is planning a record-breaking lamp display in celebration of a religious holiday.
Yogi Adityanath, chief minister of Uttar Pradesh, plans to break a Guinness World Record set by jailed Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh by lighting 171,000 oil lamps to celebrate the Hindu holiday of Diwali.
The record attempt is part of a series of events planned by the government to celebrate the annual autumn festival of lights.
College students and members of India's National Cadet Corps will light the oil lamps along a nearly 2-mile stretch along the Saryu river, Ram i Pauri river and Ram Katha park.
Uttrar Pradesh's governor Ram Naik will be present for the record attempt alongside Adityanath himself.
The original record was set on Sept. 23 of last year and featured a display of 150,009 lamps assembled by a group of 1,531 people.


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Perth will host the 2nd Australasian Exploration Geoscience Conference (AEGC) from Monday 2 to Thursday 5 September 2019 at Crown Perth.
The AEGC is the largest petroleum and mineral geoscience conference in Australasia, and incorporates the West Australian Basin Symposium (WABS) and the ASEG-PESA International Geophysical Conference and Exhibition.
The event will be jointly hosted by the Australian Institute of Geoscientists (AIG), Australian Society of Exploration Geophysicists (ASEG), and Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA).
The theme for the 2019 conference is "Data to Discovery". The AEGC technical program committee has a focus on Geology, Geophysics, and Geochemistry and how these are applied in exploration for both Petroleum and Mineral systems in Australasia and the wider Asia-Pacific region. The conference has major sub-themes encompassing but not limited to:
A vital component of the 2019 conference will be the inclusion of dedicated streams for Australian basins, discovery techniques, mineral mapping, and remote sensing applications.
On behalf of the AEGC 2019 Organising Committee, we look forward to welcoming you to Perth. Visit the conference web site for the latest information regarding the conference, accommodation, sponsorship and exhibition opportunities.
John Gorter and Tim Dean
Call for Abstracts Expression of Interest Closes: 31 January 2019 – submit your expression of interest now via the AEGC2019 website.
Early Bird Registration Opens: 1 March 2019
Call for Extended Abstracts Closes: 22 March 2019
Author Notification: 3 May 2019 or before
Registration Deadline: 31 May 2019
December 4 & 5, York Club, 99 York St Sydney, lunch, morning and afternoon teas provided. Two days of PowerPoint lectures focus upon mineral exploration for epithermal and porphyry ore deposits derived from Dr Corbett's 40 years field experience, including earlier short courses provided with the late Terry Leach from the early 1990's. Exploration and mining examples from over 40 countries are used to delineate the characteristics of different epithermal and porphyry ore types, and controls to mineralisation, using tools such as alteration, structure and breccias. The exploration implications are considered throughout and a final section considers geological features recognised in exploration marginal to ore bodies. Participants will be provided with a current draft to the notes to be published by Springer in 2020.
December 6 – A practical exercise held W B Clarke Geoscience Centre, Londonderry, uses selected diamond drill core referred to in the lectures (above) and a set of teaching specimens to provide hands on training in ore and alteration mineralogy and the use of geological models. It is run by Corbett and Stuart Hayward, who has over 30 years experience in epithermal-porphyry ore deposit exploration and mining. A return bus from the city and lunch provided.
Prices include lunch, morning and afternoon teas and transport to and from Londonderry.
Minimum of 20 participants required and limited to a maximum of 40.
The Short course registration form is available via the Corbett Geology web site.
Reported significant improvement earlier this year in employment prospects for professionals in Australia's exploration and mining industry has slowed, according to the latest Australian geoscientist employment survey results collected by the Australian Institute of Geoscientists for the quarter up to the end of June 2017.
During the second quarter of 2017, geoscientist employment across Australia improved marginally compared to the previous quarter. AIG's latest survey indicates that the unemployment rate amongst Australia's geoscientists, at 30 June 2017, was 11.3%. The corresponding underemployment rate was 19.0%. This represents a very welcome but small decrease in unemployment, down from 12.1% at the end of March 2017, offset by an increase in the underemployment rate, from 18.3% to 19.0%, during the quarter.
Decreases in the unemployment rate are now evident in four of the past five surveys.
Australia's self-employed geoscientists, independent contractors and consultants, continue to face difficult times with only half able to secure one quarter of their desired workload.
The employment situation varies markedly between industry sectors. The unemployment in mineral and energy resource exploration in this survey was 14.2%, compared to 6.9% in mineral and energy resource mining and production. The unemployment rate amongst geoscientists working in other fields, such as environmental geoscience, groundwater resource management, engineering geology, education and agriculture, was 4.0%.
Unemployment and underemployment rates varied significantly between states. Unemployment was highest in Western Australia at 12.3%, the only State in which unemployment was observed to increase. South Australia recorded the lowest unemployment rate at 4.2% and the greatest improvement in the unemployment rate during the quarter. Underemployment was lowest in Western Australia, highest in South Australia and worsened in every State except Western Australia and Queensland.
Long term unemployment decreased but remains a serious concern, with more than 60% of unemployed and underemployed not confident of returning to work within the next 12 months. More than 13% of unemployed geoscientists regained employment during the quarter, but this was more than offset by geoscientists losing employment. Sentiment amongst geoscientists in employment, however, improved, with more than half indicating that they were confident of remaining in employment for the next 12 months or more.
Almost 20% of unemployed and underemployed geoscientists indicated that they were seeking to leave their profession, up 4% from the previous quarter, continuing an increasing trend.
Some 61% of respondents indicated that they were working, or seeking work in mineral exploration. 14% were working or seeking work in metalliferous mining, and almost 8% of respondents were working or seeking work in energy resource exploration, mining and production.
AIG spokesperson, Mr Andrew Waltho, expressed concerns regarding the slow recovery in employment opportunities for geoscientists in Australia, particularly in mineral exploration. "While our latest survey clearly shows that employment prospects for geoscientists are slowly improving generally, with four of the past five surveys recording a decrease in the unemployment rate, exploration activity remains low. "This has serious implications for the sustainability of Australia's mining industry by threatening the strength of our mineral resource project pipeline. "Both greenfield and brownfield exploration is essential if discoveries are to be made to replace, let alone expand, the resource base on which miners produce essential minerals on which our society and economy relies" he said.
"There are some very positive signs in the latest survey results," Mr Waltho said. "Unemployment is down, albeit slightly, and employment appears to be strong in the non-mining and resources fields, which represent a small but growing sector in Australian geoscience. "Employment opportunities in mining appear to be improving and while long term unemployment amongst Australian geoscientists remains high, the rate is falling. "It is also encouraging to see that higher rates of unemployment amongst geoscientists with more than 25 years of experience evident in past surveys have come back to levels closer to those for other experience bands.
"The lack of employment opportunities in exploration, however, highlights a serious and growing problem of insufficient exploration being undertaken to sustain our resource industries," Mr Waltho said. "Geologists and geophysicists are, without doubt, continuously improving exploration technologies and becoming more productive, but this alone won't make up for a lack of activity – the boots on ground search for new resources.
"Improving access to land, particularly for zero and very low impact exploration activities and addressing areas of sovereign risk that are increasingly being seen by investors as raising the risk profile of exploration, urgently need to be addressed," Mr Waltho said. "Addressing these two issues throughout Australia has the potential to make an enormous difference in both employment and the future of Australia's mining industry".
Kalgoorlie, home of the Super Pit, is the perfect location for the Australian Institute of Geoscientists (AIG) Gold14@Kalgoorlie Symposium to be held between 8-10 October. The symposium will be a truly international event, with delegates attending from Africa, the Americas, Asia, Europe and the Pacific and bringing together notable geoscientists from academia and the gold industry.
"This conference is shaping up to be the most important gold geoscience conference in Australia since Bicentennial Gold88 in 1988" said the symposium Organizing Committee Chairman and industry consultant Julian Vearncombe. The highlight is a 3-day conference of talks and posters on various aspects of gold deposits, provinces and exploration.
Keynote speaker, Ed Eshuys, known for his involvement in the Plutonic, Bronzewing and Jundee gold discoveries in WA in the 1990s, will open the conference with an address on the importance of exploration to the Australian economy.
"Australia's gold exploration story is one of great success" Neil Phillips, a consultant and Adjunct Professor with the University of Melbourne said. "Claims that gold exploration has not been successful are potentially dangerous and may lead to misallocation of exploration and research funding. The Government data shows that Australia is not only replacing the gold that it mines but systematically adding to the inventory."
"Since 1979, Australia has achieved what no other country has in this period, discovering 16,500 tonnes of gold at a cost of $40 per ounce. This low exploration cost is a measure of how Australia's exploration industry has been unequivocally successful in discovering gold, especially when compared to today's gold price of around US$1220." Professor Phillips said.
Recent Australian gold discoveries include DeGrussa copper-gold deposit (WA), Tropicana deposit (WA), McPhillamys deposit (NSW) and Andy Well (WA). The symposium will also hear of recent successes at Pegasus, and Invincible near Kalgoorlie.
In the last ten years Australia has added 6,000 t of gold to its Economic Demonstrated Resource (EDR, Geoscience Australia, 2012). At the end of 2012, Australia's EDR of gold was about 9,909 t. This figure suggests that there are enough resources for the next 30 years of mining at the current production rate.
Gold is currently a primary output of about 75 mining and processing operations in Australia; and these mines produce about 250 tonnes of gold a year, almost 10% of world production, and second only to China.
The goal of Gold14@Kalgoorlie is to present the innovative geological practices and technological innovations that are contributing to the continued success of an industry that employs 25,000 personnel across Australia. Neil Phillips sums up "The exploration industry's aim is discovering better quality gold ounces which are higher grade, easier to extract and better located". "Whether such ounces are in new areas (greenfields) or established areas (brownfields) is of secondary importance. Commonly being near to existing infrastructure can be a big advantage."
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The CSIRO Mineral Resources Flagship will hold two mining and exploration seminars in Mount Isa, Qld and Perth WA during November.
The first seminar on Monday the 10th November 2014 at the Ibis Styles in Mount Isa will examine the latest research into exploration concepts and tools being developed by the Mineral Resources Flagship in CSIRO. Presentations will focus on research in the Mount Isa Inlier or applications that could be used in Mount Isa. The diverse series of presentations are listed below. Additionally, the final session will be an open panel discussion to better understand exploration challenges in the Mount Isa Inlier and potential solutions through research.
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Your food and the Himalayas (the lesson)
Categorie(s): Agriculture, Food for Mankind, Water
Not many people will immediately think of food problems when watching pictures of beautiful mountain landscapes of the Himalayas. The truth is that a big part of the human population (40%) depends on these mountains for their food supply. And a big part of the other 60% depends on other mountain ranges. In Europe the Alps, in South America the Andes etc. Only, the Himalayas are the biggest, and the regions around them are very densely populated.
So, reasons enough to think further about the relation between mountains and (your) food:
First : Growing food, being rice or corn or chickens or fish, always asks for a lot ot water. Do you have any idea how much?
Second: A big part of our water, drinking water, water for washing or swimming, water for irrigating the fields comes to us from mountains, perhaps even far away.
Third: We hear a lot about climate change nowadays. During te climate conference 'COP15' in Kopenhagen (December 2009) the worlds leaders decided that the world average temperature should not rise more than 2ºC. But, when the world gets 2º C warmer, the temperature in the mountains would rise about 5ºC (also the North Pole would warm up 5ºC). Try to think what this wil mean for the glaciers and the rivers!
- Read the text 'Himalayan water stress' carefully. Make a short summary. Write down what questions you have about the text, and find the answers (ask your teacher, look up in books or internet).
- a. Make a list af the countries in and around these mountains, depending on water from them.
b. If you live somewhere else, and not in or near mountains, find out from which mountain range the river(s) in your region come.
- a. How can you explain that areas, normally covered with snow and/or ice are warming up more than other places?
b. What happens with solar radiation on dark surfaces and what on white surfaces?
(Tip: Experiment to show this: Place two identical paper boxes (shoe box or smaller) in a sunny place, after painting one black and the other white. Put a thermometer inside each box and control the thermometer every hour during one full day, from sunrise untill after dark.)
- What happens with the amount of water available for farmers in a valley when
a. a glacier gets smaller because of less snow falling in winter
b. a glacier gets smaller because of higher temperatures
c. the mountain sides are deforested because people need firewood
d. high altitude wetland are being drained (for agriculture and/or for grazing cattle)
- We all use much more water than what you see. Making a car, or a book or a pc, it all takes a lot of water. Do the waterfootprint (www.waterfootprint.org) to find your personal waterfootprint.
You can also find information on http://(www.waterfootprint.org)
- Rivers fed by mountain regions (Himalayas or others) are essential to feed people. Climate warming may change the patterns, probably there will be more droughts and more flooding. In some regions people have been used to droughts, in other places like Bangla Desh people have learnt to adapt to flooding.
a. How can farmers (and other people) adapt to drought? (Ask people in your community. Ask people who have been traveling, discuss in your class to find as many possibilities as possible)
b. How can farmers and other people adapt to regular flooding of the river (ask people in your community, maybe older people can tell!. Discuss in your class and find as many possibilities as possible)
- Growing populations, changing climate, deforestion and erosion, all these things can mean that there will not be enough food in the future. But there are many possibilities to prevent shortages
a. Nowadays much food is wasted (by pests, but also by the carelessness of people) – preventing waste can help to feed millions more.
b. Much of the waste people produce can be used again, recycled (like paper, organic matter etc). Wasted food can be fed to chickens or other animals.
Discuss in your class what you can do to make your community (or your school) 'greener' (less wasting, more recycling, etc)
Of course the problems of climate change and water management are enormous, as individuals we all feel powerless – but in fact big changes and improvements have always started as small actions. Who knows how your class can make a difference!
right: Adapted to flooding: house on stilts in de Mekong delta (Vietnam)
left: Adaptation to drought: Water storage in de Himalayas, (Nepal)
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I have improved, but I can promise you my stuff is not all together. When I am busy or overwhelmed or overtaken by the infamous mom-brain, auto-pilot often fails me. Just yesterday I was rushing around and stopped for gasoline.
I pulled up to the pump. I opened the door. I went to remove the gas cap only it was on the opposite side of the vehicle. My heart raced. I was going to be late. I needed to go. I had places to be and did not have time for this!
I jumped back into the car almost like one of those action stars in movies. Visualize the stunts, the grenade-dodging, the chaos. Picture a mom with hives and deadlines car-sliding as a bomb goes off just inches from her. She looks tough or in control right? Yeah, that is how effective I thought I was being.
The Ford was restarted and in gear faster than that imaginary bomb that had just gone off. Credit card between my teeth, I pulled up, reversed, and repositioned that SUV to the opposite side of the pump like Richard Petty, y'all. It was the stuff of legends.
I opened the car door. I went for the gas cap. It was where I left it on the other side of the vehicle! Yep, all that epic stunt work to make the same rookie mistake at the same gas pump in the same 5 minutes. I was rushing and I failed. I would have cried if I had been able to stop laughing at myself.
I do NOT have it all together.
For the last 2 months my family has faced a Goliath-sized difficulty. In the beginning it was easy to look at how everything we loved was covered by the shadow of this towering giant. Then something changed. I prayed. A LOT.
I remembered who God is. How big God is. How much He loves me. I also remembered that God doesn't have grandchildren and my family was going to be ok. Suddenly that shadow melted more and more and the giant became the size of a gnat. All we had to do was swat at the little bugger.
The more this giant threw at us, the more God's timing was at work. The more that this hideous beast of problem demanded our attention, the more scripture I read. The more people I talked to. The more prayers I said. I started prayer journaling. I did all sorts of things that fed my faith and starved the giant.
1 Sam 17:26
David asked the men standing near him, 'What will be done for the man who kills this Philistine and removes this disgrace from Israel? Who is this uncircumcised Philistine that he should defy the armies of the living God?'
Today we face this giant head on. My hope is that the beast will resemble something more human. I pray that my heart finds compassion and forgiveness and healing in a room half full of evil. I am reassured by my faith that my family's days of dealing with this issue are done. I trust my God with all of it.
Today we conquer our giant.
1 Sam 17:45
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The Greek Anthologies
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Early Chinese
"Carmen Circulare"
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"The Braggart"
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Robert Herrick
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"The Idiot Boy"
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'The drowsy carrier sways'
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"The Beginner"
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"The Bother"
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Directors worth keeping an eye on, part 6
This continues from part 5. The list contains 60 directors (or directing teams), and I think I'm going to call it done for now.
Graham Annable & Anthony Stacchi
Annable previously worked on video games while Stacchi worked on movies — coming together they produced a masterpiece.
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Susanne Bier
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Kenneth Branaugh
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This directing team has also directed music videos, commercials, and TV shows.
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Phil Lord & Christopher Miller
This directing team has produced two animated masterpieces.
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George Nolfi
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- Great movie
- The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
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The 3 movies in the X-Men series that Singer has directed are all worth watching.
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- X-Men: Days of Future Past
- Great movie
- X-Men 2
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- Superman Returns
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The Spierig Brothers
I've only seen one movie directed by Michael and Peter Spierig, but it was an astonishing one.
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- Predestination
The Wachowskis
Andy and Lana Wachowski's masterpiece The Matrix was way back in 1999, but their great movie Cloud Atlas was in 2012 — recent enough to hope that they may be back with a great movie despite their recent disaster Jupiter Ascending. They've also branched out into TV with Sense8.
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By air
You can fly by Air Asia, Nok Air and Smile (Thai) to Ubon. It's a 55 minute flight. Thai is the most expensive but you get a full baggage allowance and it flies frome the same airport you arrive at (Suwannaphum / Suvannaphumi). Air Asia and Nok Air fly from Don Muang Airport ; there is no problem if you have spent a day or so in Bangkok. You can book any of these online. Book on the airlines' own website for the cheapest fares and promotions.
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Jake Long of Annville, Democratic candidate for the 102nd State House seat, will kick off his campaign at 11:30 a.m. Aug. 12 in MJ's Coffeehouse at the Allen Theater in Annville.
Long secured the Democratic nomination in May through a write-in campaign after no Democrats had filed for the seat. He secured more write-in votes than former GOP candidate Wanda Bechtold, who was stricken from the ballot due to petition insufficiencies, along with Russ Diamond, who was the sole GOP candidate on the ballot.
In addition to Diamond, Long faces Independent Robert McAteer, a former senior assistant Lebanon County district attorney, in what is now a three-way race.
Lebanon County GOP committee last week asked Diamond to remove himself from the race over its concerns about his electability, but Diamond said he is continuing his campaign.


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Just an 80-minute train ride from Grand Central Terminal, Beacon, N.Y., home to the largest museum of contemporary art, Dia:Beacon, is a great option for a spring break getaway. This Hudson Valley town has become a renowned destination for New York City art lovers with dozens of art galleries that sprung up after Dia:Beacon's opening 10 years ago.
The sprawling museum of almost 300,000 square-feet houses a vast collection of contemporary art dating back to the 1960s, with installations from highly celebrated artists such as Andy Warhol and Richard Serra. The museum is open Friday through Monday and, because of the need for natural lighting in most of their galleries, is open from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Imi Knoebel's "24 Colors-—for Blinky" is on display, featuring a cycle of 21 differently shaped works of art. Other must-see exhibits are Warhol's "Shadows," a metaphysical approach to using shadows as a subject, and Michael Heizer's "North, East, South, West," comprising works that incorporate geometry, architecture and voids.
Aside from exploring the expansive museum, the town of Beacon has many dining, entertainment and art options just a half-mile walk from the museum. If you still have not had your fill of art, check out Beacon's mile-long Main Street, featuring dozens of notable galleries like Fovea Exhibitions and Hudson Beach Glass on its western end. All along Main Street are quaint cafes, coffee shops and restaurants like Homespun Foods, the Piggy Bank Restaurant and Cafe Amarcord. Or, for a quick bite to take on your train ride home, Yogo Waffle or Chill Wine Bar are both excellent choices.
To start your trip to Beacon, N.Y., Metro-North Railroad offers a $35.25 package deal for a round-trip rail ticket from Grand Central to Beacon Station as well as a ticket for Dia:Beacon as a part of their one-day getaway offers.
A version of this article appeared in the Thursday, March 13 print edition. Helen Owolabi is a staff writer. Email her at [email protected]


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After number portability on mobile phones, now government of India has plans to introduce account number portability for bank customers. With this customer of one bank will be allowed to switch between banks without changing his/her account number.
With the introduction of this service, bank customers can switch banks without changing their account number. Finance ministry and RBI is in discussion with banks and financial institutions to assess the feasibility of this service.
This service will be very useful for migrant workers, as this will allow them to shift their banks simply by writing an application to his home branch. Customers will also be able to take the advantage of 'Deregulation of interest rates' easily by switching banks easily with minimum paper work.
Few countries are already providing this service to their residents like Sweden, UK, Australia, Hungary and south Africa.


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How to Fix Multiple Instances of Svchost.exe
Having multiple instances of "Svchost.exe" in the task manager is only a concern if memory use grows to an unreasonable amount. Excessive memory use could mean corruption or some other conflict within the operating system. More often than not, Svchost is being used by Windows and multiple instances are normal because many services utilize it. Worst-case scenario, the file is infected with a virus, the last thing you need on your computer.
Right-click the task bar at the bottom of the screen and click "Start Task Manager."
Click "Show Processes for All Users" and enter the administrator password if User Account Control asks for it.
Click the "Processes" tab and scroll down to find "Svchost.exe."
Right-click on it and select "End Process." Click "End Process" again to confirm. Repeat for any remaining copies in the list that show more than 200,000K in the Memory column.
- Right-click the process and select "Open File Location" to see which folder it's in. If it is located anywhere other than "C:\Windows\System32\Svchost.exe," scan your computer with an anti-virus.
- Right-click the process and select "Go to Service(s)" to see which services are causing the memory spike. The service(s) in question will be highlighted. Disable services only if you are sure you don't need them.
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Is Wheat Bad for Dogs?
Moving on to the letter "W" in our dog food ingredient series. Today we are writing about wheat.
What is Wheat?
Wheat is a cereal grain that is the third most produced grain behind maize (corn) and rice in the world.
Common names for Wheat
Besides the generic "wheat", other names include wheat middlings, wheat mill run, wheat gluten, and wheat flour.
Why is Wheat in Dog Food?
Wheat is used as a lower cost source of protein, fiber, and some vitamins and minerals.
Is Wheat Commonly Used in Dog Food?
Wheat or one of its derivatives is in about 18% of all dog foods. The most common forms of wheat by far are wheat gluten and wheat flour which are in almost 13% of all dog foods.
Common Benefits or Risks of Wheat
A 3.5 oz. serving of wheat has about 330 kcals, 71 grams of carbohydrates, and 12 grams of protein. Wheat is rich in manganese, phosphorus, magnesium, zinc, and many of the B vitamins, including thiamine and niacin. Wheat is also relatively high in fiber.
However, a dog's body has no real nutritional need for wheat (and other grains) and dogs can be negatively impacted by wheat consumption (as can humans as well).
One of the risks of wheat is that it contains something called wheat germ agglutinin (WGA) which, even in small quantities, can have adverse effects on the body. Among other things, WGA may be:
- pro-inflammatory and linked to digestive disorders
- immunotoxic, lowering the body's ability to fight off disease
- neurotoxic, with adverse effects on the brain and nervous system
Wheat can also be a cause of food allergies. It is a common canine food allergen.
Read Dr. Mercola's excellent article about the side effects of wheat consumption for a good perspective on WGA. Dr Mercola sites Greed Med Info's explanation of WGA and its potential adverse impact on the brain, which is repeated here:
"WGA can pass through the blood brain barrier (BBB) through a process called 'adsorptive endocytosis' … WGA may attach to the protective coating on the nerves known as the myelin sheathand is capable of inhibiting nerve growth factor which is important for the growth, maintenance, and survival of certain target neurons. WGA binds to N-Acetylglucosamine which is believed to function as an atypical neurotransmitter functioning in nocioceptive (pain) pathways."
Slimdoggy Ingredient Comfort Level
Due to the fact that wheat is a cheap and suboptimal protein and fiber source, and it many health related risks, it gets the SlimDoggy Sad Face.
Miscellaneous facts about Wheat
According to Wikipedia, wheat is one of the first cereals known to have been domesticated, and wheat's ability to self-pollinate greatly facilitated the selection of many distinct varieties.
Recent findings estimate the first domestication of wheat occurred in a small region of southeastern Turkey and archaeological sites in Jordan provide evidence of domesticated wheat as far back as 7,500 BC.
Sources and further reading
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Interesting to hear more about it, but we aren't on a wheat free diet. It is in our food and many treats, but since it doesn't seem to bother any of us, we don't plan to change right now. We don't think it is a good thing in large amounts.
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Wheat doesn't both my gang nor I, I know a few friends that have gluten allergies as well as a bunch of dogs that come to the clinic.
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We avoid food with wheat, I'm not allergic but it sometimes has bad aftereffects… literally :o) My dad read this post to my mom and she misheard it completely, she thought it's a post about "weed" … I should borrow her one of my ear cleaning pads :o)
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When I'm reading these posts, one thing stands out. When you include the phrase "cheap source of…" it's probably not going to be a recommended ingredient.
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Our pack eats wheat-and grain-free only 🙂 Lots of fish, however, and it shows in their beautiful coats!
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Say no to wheat! hehe
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It seems that gluten has recently become such an ugly word in the world of marketing.
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Wheat doesn't bother my boys, but my Golden Retriever couldn't eat it.
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Very interesting. I found out 2.5 years ago I have a gluten intolerance, didn't know my dogs could have issues too. We seem to rotate between wheat free and wheat full food. Haven't seen any physical differences in them, but will watch.
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SlimDoggy, you get four paws up for this post! Lots of health benefits from cutting out wheat and grains from the diet! *wags* – Gilligan from WagsAhoy.com
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Yes! My Mama and Papa believe in this "paleolithic diet" stuff, so we're big on this philosophy in this house! 😉
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I try to limit the amount of wheat Harley eats – but it's so prevalent in so many pet foods and treats. Don't get me started about human food 🙁 Makes little to no sense to me. Thanks so much for this post.
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STRAIGHT MAN: Wavy Gravy shall judge the 'Hippie Toss.'
Had your fill of golf, softball, 10Ks and bike racing? Indeed, we're almost a decade into the 21st century, and even the most extreme sports are beginning to feel a little mossy. So how about some new sporting challenges aimed at taking advantage of the quirks, characteristics and attributes unique to our own North Bay? After all, true Bohos are, by definition, a superior, innovative and daredevil lot. So here's a short compendium of sports designed specifically for these North Bay environs.
Abaleavealone Diving Simple rules, no risk of death.
Egg White Skid Ever run like hell, sliding as far as could be on solid ice or down a retro '60s Slip 'N Slide? The Egg White Skid simply substitutes Chickaluma organic grain-fed, free-range, cage-free egg whites for ice or running water.
Find-the-Republican Kinda like hide-and-seek, with a twist. Bleeding heart, investigative and search-and-rescue teams compete, racing throughout the North Bay attempting to locate a living, breathing Republican. Once one is found, lucky team members must convince said person to admit to his or her party affiliation. First team to return to the starting point with a signed affidavit attesting to Republican Party membership wins tickets to Cincinnati's Creation Museum and a security-guided tour of Diebold Corporate headquarters in Canton, Ohio. Find-the-Republican is an exhaustively challenging game that can be played year-round, the exception being those three weeks each midsummer when thousands of Grand Old Partiers invade the Russian River, making this game just too damn easy.
Hoeup-Down Contestants hoe 100-yard rows of Burbank potatoes, all while clogging to live Cloverdale fiddlers. First to complete his row is spared the embarrassment of accepting any prize.
SebastaBall Also known as biodynamic baseball. Gravenstein apples sub for hardballs. Each team fields a pitcher, a catcher and as many batters as it so chooses. Runs are scored each time a batter makes contact, thus eliminating both fielding and base running. Following nine innings of play, all resultant debris gets scooped up and pressed into post game refreshments.
Sewering A noncompetitive sport for spelunkers lacking nearby natural cave options.
Trust Fund Triathlon An especially popular Marin County event. First, select lucky spermers pit Beemers, Jags and Ferraris in the Daimler Demolition Derby. Next, contestants navigate their chauffeurs to a favored jeweler, rare collectables dealer, preciously nuanced boutique or ponzi broker in order to purchase what judges determine to be the single most egregious waste of $1 million. The triathlon's final leg has entrants cutting rugs and sipping 1979 Krug Clos du Mesnil at a black-tie marathon affair at Belvedere's San Francisco Yacht Club. The grand prize winner is assigned an actual purpose in life, along with the handy pamphlet "101 Pithy Responses to the Question: What's That You Do for a Living?"
Way-Far-Out Hippie Toss Friends gather around a stout psychedelic blanket on any North Coast beach. Volunteer hippie reclines in the center of a blanket. Following a group meditation and sacramental ingestations, friends "om" loudly, laugh, chortle and pitch the volunteer stoner up toward the heavens. Everyone wins at this game, as officiated by Peter Coyote and judged by Wavy Gravy.
A few other up-and-coming neo-Bohemian sports include fog chasing, surfball, vegetable sprinting, E-walking, tug-of-class-war, tourist trapping, salmon spotting and the unusual and oft forgotten sport of quake surfing.
And finally, no list of neo-Bohemian sporting opportunities would be complete without giving a nod to our region's signature competitive event, SoNaMa's Annual Oyster Slog, in which challengers slog through an Olympic-sized pool brimful of shucked Drake's Bay oysters. First contestant to reach the far end gets to shower first.


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The Irish Kidscreen Pilot Project of the European project KIDSCREEN: Screening for and promotion of Health related Quality of Life in children and adolescents – A European Public Health Perspective (QLRT-2001-02925). The Kidscreen international co-ordinator in chief is Ulrike Ravens-Sieberer of the Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany.
The Kidscreen project is a European collaborative effort to develop a questionnaire of health-related quality of life for children and adolescents (8-17years). The Kidscreen questionnaire will be of a generic nature, will reach quality standards in instrument development and be practical for use in public health settings throughout Europe. This cross-cultural project assesses children's opinions about their perceived health. The project aims
(a) to increase understanding of children's subjective health,
(b) to monitor health status over time,
(c) to assess public health interventions and finally
(d) to identify children at risk in terms of their subjective health. Best Health for Children are coordinating the project on behalf of the Child Health Indicators Working Group with support from both the South Eastern Health Board and the Western Health Board.
Dates: May 2002 – February 2003 (Pilot)
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Businesses in Kaikōura are celebrating now the state highway to the town has reopened.
The road was closed for more than a year, following the November 2016 magnitude 7.8 earthquake, and businesses struggled, as the flow of tourists into the town dried up.
Economic recovery leader Mel Skinner says some businesses have gone from one extreme to another, but the road can be a bit delicate.
"I spoke to one shop about four days after the road opened and they had done the same turnover as the previous six weeks, so it's definitely making a huge difference to turnover of businesses," she told Newshub.
"The road is very dependent on weather, so if we have a nice dry summer with minimal rain, it should be fine for the road."


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It's the end of an era. And the beginning of another.
I've been feeling that way all year, as I see a restaurant and farming community where — once—everyone knew each other transform into one that has become so large, so varied, so successful that knowing everyone is hardly a possibility anymore. After a text conversation with a good friend last week, I think that's even truer today.
In 2009, I co-hosted a conference connecting chefs and farmers. At its close, I walked outside the ramshackle ski lodge where it was held to find my good friend, chef Bruce Wieszala, moving tiny, pink, squealing baby piglets from one vehicle to another. He'd been enlisted by a tall, dark-haired man whom I'd seen earlier in the day at Bruce's class about whole animal butchery.
Wieszala is a Buffalo native who trained under some great chefs in Atlanta and was, in WNY, a very early adopter of what we've come to know as the farm-to-table movement. In 2009, he was the only chef in the area who had a lot of experience with whole animal butchery and charcuterie—his trouble was that he struggled to find an owner who understood and appreciated the value of the concept. I'd hoped his leadership at the conference might convert a few others (and it did!). During his lecture, Bruce made friends with a Niagara County farmer, a hobbyist, really, who was raising heritage pig breeding stock. Some of these piglets made their way to a well-respected downstate farmer, Jen Small, who, in turn, raised and "finished" those pigs and then sold them to some of Manhattan's most lauded restaurants. She'd attended the conference as a guest speaker, and the local farmer had killed two birds with one stone by using it as an opportunity to transfer some livestock to Small post-lecture.
That Niagara County farmer was Rich Tilyou. He's a public school teacher who'd purchased a long and narrow densely-covered plot of farmland in Newfane in 2005. While researching ways to clear the land of its massive poison ivy problem, he learned that certain breeds of pigs not only eat brush and foliage but clear entire trees. These pigs also happen to thrive while living outside in challenging weather conditions. In no time, Tilyou's property was clear and he had fat and happy hogs on his hands: too many fat and happy hogs on his hands. He became familiar with the particular breed he was using, Gloucestershire Old Spot and its variants (of which there are four), and began to breed pigs as a side business, hoping, as he told me then, to increase the strength of the breed here in America. Those that weren't quite up to standard as breeding stock were sold to farmers raising hogs for market.
This was where Rich was at in 2009, when Bruce and I met him, his wife Bonnie, and their sons. They had maybe a dozen pigs or so. But over time, with tremendous effort on the part of the Tilyous, their processors, Wieszala, and his fellow chefs (Carmelo Raimondi and Steven Gedra), it seemed that by 2011 or so, the whole WNY universe knew about and wanted to buy T-Meadow pork.
At the height of T-Meadow's production, they were caring for two hundred and fifty hogs at a time. But over the years, the effort of small farm ownership began to take its toll. Rich suffered some health issues. The weather would destroy the grounds, with wet springs or not-cold-enough winters turning the farm to mud and making it impossible to use machinery. Grain prices went through the roof. There was the never-ending grind of a fleet of live animals needing attention every single day, something that's hard for fulltime farmers to manage, let alone part-time farmers. The family took on more help and tried to scale. But anyone who is familiar with the bottleneck of meat processing can see that—no matter what obstacles the Tilyou's faced and overcame—processing was always going to be the one insoluble problem.
When Rich texted me last week to tell me that he and Bonnie had decided to retire form hog farming and sell their stock to Kindred Kreek Farm, I knew we had to explain the situation to all the local T-Meadow fans. Below you'll find the Q&A I sent him, along with one I emailed to Steven Gedra, co-owner of The Black Sheep. The Sheep and its former incarnation, Bistro Europa, have easily butchered, cured, and sold more T-Meadow pork than anywhere else.
Christa Glennie Seychew: Why have you and Bonnie decided to sell the farm?
Rich Tilyou: This was not an easy decision, as we put so much time and energy into the farm. Several things evolved in our lives, and in my two son's lives, which made it very difficult to keep up the pace of farrow to finish, markets, and restaurant orders. The biggest reason is that I was hit with vertigo in November of 2015. I'm still having issues with it, and it has slowed me down. It's hard to describe, but I have had to adjust many things in my life to make it tolerable. Large groups of people moving around, walking on uneven ground— all are tiresome due to the concentration involved in not falling over. We have not sold the farm; we will continue to live here, and we are only selling the livestock and equipment.
I know this has a long and complicated answer, but what are the general hardships a small-scale livestock farmer in the US/NYS experiences?
One of the biggest issues we had is finding processing of cuts for resale, or under USDA inspection. The demand on processing dates makes it hard to be able to provide product at critical times, or with short notice. We ended up using several different processors to meet the demand. Scheduling and balancing inventory and taking on new customers is a lot of work.
You're selling your stock to Kindred Kreek. What made you choose them? How do you know them?
The guy with the biggest heart in the world, Steve Gedra, listened to my concerns about selling our stock. He introduced Jeff of Kindred Kreek to me. Jeff came out to the farm, and we came to an agreement. He and his family have a beautiful farm, and it is great that we can help each other.
What advice would you offer laymen thinking about farming or raising livestock?
I would suggest visiting as many farms as possible. Take ideas from the farms you like and visualize how they can be incorporated into your farm. No two farms are alike, so make your farm unique to you. Also, learn your product. I appreciate how all facets of farm-to-table have to work together to help each other. For instance, cutting pork gave me a complete understanding of the pig, and how specific instructions from customers could be conveyed to the processor. Communication is so important, too.
What could change in WNY to make more local livestock readily available to chefs or the dining public?
This is a simple question. We need more processing facilities in Erie and Niagara counties. The time and cost of processing and travel add quite a bit to the price of the finished product.
A talk with Black Sheep owner/chef Steve Gedra:
CGS: How would you quantify the impact of your relationship with T-Meadow on your business?
Steve Gedra: T-Meadow has been a lynchpin of our business and a focal point of our food philosophy for almost a decade. The quality of the product is second to none, and the Tilyous are just awesome to be in business with. As sad as this is, I'm glad that Rich is going to focus on his well-being because he's a way better friend than he is a business asset.
Do you remember the first time you tried Rich's pork? What was the circumstance?
I'm not totally clear on this, but I know Bruce Wieszala had something to do with it. I just remember how flavorful and rich and delicious it was, and I was immediately smitten.
You're the one who suggested he work with the folks at Kindred Creek farm? What about Kindred Kreek makes you feel confident about their ability to handle the T-Meadow legacy?
Yes, I suggested that they work together. Rich wanted to get out, and Jeff of Kindred Creek was looking to expand so it seemed like a natural fit. Considering we already do business with Jeff, I was really excited to retain the genetics Rich has worked so hard to cultivate over the years. It really couldn't have worked out better for anyone who is a fan of T-Meadow. I'm glad I could connect the dots. I know Jeff has his own plans for what he'd like to do with the pigs, but he's really a smart and kind person who will continue to carry on the T-Meadow legacy for hopefully a long time.
How do you know Jeff and Kindred Kreek?
Jeff from Kindred Kreek just came into the restaurant one day and blew me up with a bunch of samples. Lamb, rabbit, duck, chicken. His stuff is really high quality, and he's a great guy who clearly cares a lot about animal husbandry.
Bottleneck (problems with processing)
Spree article on Bruce Wieszala by Lizz Schumer
Christa Glennie Seychew is Spree's former food editor and a current contributor.


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