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This is a direct continuation of my last post, and if you haven't read that post yet, now would be a good time, especially if you want to make much sense of this one. In that post I was talking about "a reality based approach to life in that age of scarcity", which is the tagline for this blog. I talked about the end of that tagline, "the Age of Scarcity" and how it seems inevitable that if BAU continues on "as usual", it will lead to a collapse. Then I talked about the start of it, "a reality based approach". People, both BAU and Crunchy, buy into a lot of woo to support their ideologies. I'd like them to give up on that, accept reality and start talking steps to prepare for it.
If we do nothing, we may be "lucky" enough to survive and find ourselves coping with the devastating effects of randomly eliminating half or more of the population. That's certainly where BAU is heading and I would like to avoid having to picking up the pieces as part of the shell shocked remainder still alive after collapse is well under way.
To Life
And that leads us to the "to life" part of my tagline. As I've just said, I think the human race is about to fall on hard times. But unlike some, I don't think that mankind is about to be completely wiped out. Those of us who pull through will do so because we've found a way to adapt "to life in the age of scarcity" and keep going under very different conditions from what we are now accustomed to. We'll have to learn to be satisfied with "just enough" instead of always wanting more, and we'll have to get much better at working together in groups for mutual support instead of separately as lone individuals or nuclear families. And the sooner we start making these changes in our lives, the better off we'll be.
I find myself especially drawn to "working together in groups for mutual support". This idea has immense potential to insulate the members of such groups from the chaos in the world around them and to meet their human needs in ways that BAU does not do well even now and will do less so as time passes. Indeed I would say that the formation and operation of such groups is at the heart of the response we need to make to the collapse of BAU.
I think many different variations on this theme need to be tried in order to see what works and what doesn't. And even when it has become clear what doesn't work, there will still be many more or less right ways of doing it. I am a big fan of "dissensus", which is the opposite of consensus, and consists of agreeing to disagree and wishing the other guy well while he does so. In the coming decades, as energy become less available and the economy contracts and can no longer support the current level of centralization and complexity, we will be forced to decentralize, relocalize and simplify our society. Under these conditions, dissensus will become somewhat easier—we simply won't have the wherewithal to force our ideas on other groups, nor they on us.
Having said that, it is important within your own particular group to have a clear idea of what you are trying to do. As an example, here's a rough outline of what I'd like to try.
- The group should be small. Less than Dunbar's number , which is basically the largest number of people with whom one can maintain stable social relationships, between 100 and 250. I would aim for the lower end of that range at most.
- It should not be too small, since it needs to have people who are competent in the necessary skills to maintain a certain level of technology. More than a dozen, one would certainly think. What that "certain level" of technology will be is determined by the resources and skills available and what the people involved are willing to sacrifice to hang on to some particular technologies. Realizing that in the circumstances we will find ourselves, progress can be the enemy of prosperity.
- A larger group also has more purchasing power than a nuclear family, which can be useful when times are tough. They should plan on taking advantage of this.
- It's members should be people of like mind, roughly speaking. It would be best if they already know each other and know the community where they are setting up.
- They should be living in fairly close physical proximity. An internet group made up of widely dispersed people isn't going to work for this, although it might useful in getting things started.
- If not actually rural, the group needs ownership or at least access to some nearby acreage, with farmland, woodlot, water and things like clay, sand, gravel and stone. People who already own homes in a small town could form such a group and involve a nearby farmer. This would keep the capital required to get started down to a minimum. No doubt there are many other possible approaches, as dictated by your circumstances and preferences.
- I don't think large cities are sustainable in the long run, especially when energy intensive transportation is no longer available, so the group should not be in or near such a place. What's large? That's a judgment call and depends on geographic and social circumstances of the individual city. Obviously a city surrounded by farmland, with good water supply and good water transportation connections is more viable than one in the middle of a desert. And a city where the social fabric has already largely broken down should be avoided. The "zombie hoards" that survivalists talk about are not a realistic scenario, but big cities are still death traps.
- It should be in an area likely not to suffer too badly from climate change. Not near sea level, or expected to suffer too badly from drought or flooding.
- The group should be organized on a basis of small scale "socialism/communism", where the group supports its members, and the members support the group. It would provide meaningful work for people with a wide range of capabilities and cradle to grave security for people with a wide range of needs. It would not necessarily provide a very high standard of living (just enough), but the standard would be the same for everyone. One does what one can to help others and expect they will do the same for you, without any need for money or formal score keeping. Because this is a small group, everyone knows who is contributing and who is slacking off.
- The group needs to set up some sort of business to provide income. For a while yet it will still be necessary to interface with BAU and money is needed to do so.
- It should provide preparedness for and protection from disasters, especially infrastructure failure, economic recessions and social unrest. And, eventually, an alternative to BAU for when it ceases to function and can no longer provide us with the necessities of life.
- This group needs to do crunchy things but without the woo. Things that actually work and don't waste our efforts on solving fake problems.
- I would hope the group would be strong enough to welcome friends and family who are displaced from BAU, to adopt orphan children and take in homeless people and refugees.
There is no need to reinvent the wheel here, one can study up on intentional communities, eco-villages or as they are known among the "collapse aware"—lifeboats. If you do this, you'll see that there are some serious challenges involved.
There are, of course, the practical difficulties of finding a place, a business to start and capital to get this all going. This will be especially hard in a contracting economy, and if you insist on doing it to BAU standards, setting up an eco-village or lifeboat community can cost millions of dollars—the sky is the limit. But if you are willing to work to a "just enough" standard, it will be much more do-able.
I think the more serious challenges will be on the people side of things, though. Fortunately, as BAU gets to be less and less a hospitable place to live, we'll have more incentive to solve these problems. Currently only a few are interested, but that will change.
First, finding the people. I say this from the viewpoint of a fellow who is a Crunchy himself. I find myself looking among Crunchies for like minded people, because the BAU folks will just laugh at you if you bring up anything but their party line. And of course, I am looking for people who indulge in as little woo as possible. They can be hard to find. Unfortunately, it is easy to make this harder than it needs to be. If you want to get picky enough with your definition of "like minded", you can find a reason to exclude the whole rest of the human race. This cannot be our aim.
"As little woo as possible" is the key here. Aiming for no woo at all would guarantee failure—even the most rational among us has a few irrational beliefs. At this point let me say that just because I have a considered opinion on most everything, I don't think that I know everything for certain. I'm only human and while I've put quite a lot of effort into figuring out what's what, I have to admit that I may have made some errors. Keeping this in mind is, I think, a good start.
In many cases disagreement on a theoretical level is irrelevant to what you are trying to accomplish. People don't have to think exactly like you, as long as you can work together and share a common goal. People are not all of one piece and can be absolute fools about embracing woo in one area while being completely practical, reality based and highly skilled in another area. The woo may be aggravating, but the skills a person brings to the table can make it worth overlooking a certain amount of woo. If everyone in the group is thinking like this, regardless of what else they may believe, they can work together surprisingly well.
There are a number of Crunchy people who I do consider to be friends. They don't completely buy into my strictly materialist, science based approach, but neither do they completely reject it. We are willing to rub along and can actually work together.
There are also Crunchies I can't abide: alternative medicine practitioners who make a living pushing woo and activists who want to waste my time supporting bogus causes, for example.
Though I don't believe in good and evil in any absolute sense, I have learned the hard way that there is a small minority of people who are best avoided—call them "evil" if you will. The trick is to learn to recognize these folks before getting too involved with them. One has to attain a balance in this, aiming neither to be too exclusive or too inclusive.
Having found some people who want to set up a group for mutual support we will be faced with the task of getting along with them. Or perhaps having waited too long, we'll find ourselves thrown together in a disaster more or less by chance with people who need mutual support.
In emergencies and disasters, this is known to happen and it can work amazingly well. I would recommend reading Rebecca Solnit's book, A Paradise Built in Hell—The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster, which examines how people behave in disasters and how different that is from what most of us expect.
As Solnit says, "In the wake of an earthquake, a bombing or major storm, most people are altruistic, urgently engaged in caring for themselves and those around them, strangers and neighbours as well as friends and loved ones. The image of the selfish, panicky or regressively savage human beings in times of disaster has little truth to it."
After reading Solnit's book I was skeptical—it just seemed too idealistic. So I did some studying and found it to be solidly supported by researchers in the field of disaster response. Unfortunately, the "disaster mythology" is a widely accepted and enthusiastically spread by the media. It would have us believe some very negative things about how people act in disasters, but they are simply not true. With the one except that when there is a disaster in an area where the basic fabric of society has already broken down, then things just get worse.
When working together in groups what you really need is a clear, common, immediate and practical goal and people who can do things to achieve that goal. It seems to me that this is why the victims of disasters have such success at working together to deal with their immediate problems. What they believe in is largely irrelevant, so long as they don't make a big deal about it, especially when it doesn't bear immediately on solving the problem at hand.
But there is reasonable doubt that this sort of "getting along" can work on a long term basis. When the disaster is over, things go back to normal. Within BAU, normal means that such relationships are monetized and you don't have to actually get along with these people at all, just pay them for what they do for you or accept their payment for what you do for them.
Throughout most of this blog I've been talking about resource depletion, climate change and economic disruption as the main challenges we face. But in another sense, our main challenge lies in the fact that growing up immersed in BAU we have not learned how to live together in communities and reach the sort of working agreement needed to keep a community functioning. The emphasis is always on individuality, being "right", being in control and getting what you are entitled to.
In BAU, about the closest you'll come to the kind of "getting along" that I'm talking about is in the kind of job where you work in a crew and actual teamwork is required. This can be a great situation and can give you a taste of "getting along". But often not so much. Someone is clearly in charge of such a team, appointed from above with the support of the organization behind him, and paid extra to do the job. And even though there are penalties for not playing along, there are lots of people who would rather make work miserable for their fellows (and themselves) rather than co-operate with the boss and their co-workers. In BAU, so much prestige is associated with leadership and individualism is so strongly encouraged that this is almost inevitable.
Even when people do share an ideology and a methodology that works (like the scientific method) there will still be communication problems, differences of opinion and personality issues that make it hard to work together. Or it may come down to each of us thinking that he should be the one running things. These sorts of things can be overcome with training and counseling, but only if the individuals involved want to overcome their differences.
I think it is important to see leadership as a burden rather than an honour. When you have someone who knows what he is doing in a certain area, let him lead when you're working in that area, and step back when it is done. General direction needs to come from the community as a whole, whether it is determined by formal consensus or by leaders who have worked out what the group's consensus is before taking the group in that direction. Consensus is foreign to most of us and as such we are not very good at, but it is a skill that can be learned.
For the first two or three million years of our existence as something more or less human, we did live in small groups and got along in exactly the fashion I am talking about. Indeed it seems likely that our ability to live successful in such groups evolved in parallel with the social structure of those groups.
Then about ten thousand years ago people at a number of locations around the world invented agriculture and not too long after that, re-organized themselves into states with a ruling class to run things, a working class to do the work and something more or less like money to mediate their relationships. Bluntly put, work to get money to pay for food—or starve. Or in the case of slaves, work or be beaten and starve—it simplifies things by eliminating the money.
This idea of "civilization" is great if you are one of the privileged few who are running things. Not so great if you are one of the rank and file workers or, worse yet, a slave. And indeed there is a long history of people leaving civilization when it got too oppressive. Sometimes this amounted to a collapse, with the civilization disappearing while the remnants live on in small groups with greatly simplified organization.
At other times, people left the state controlled area in smaller groups and headed for "the hills", areas too rugged for the state's enforcers to successfully track them down and march them back. Read James C. Scott's book The Art of Not Being Governed for detailed information on this. It turns out that a great many peoples who western science had originally thought were "primitives" who had occupied their area before civilization arose, are actually people who chose to escape the local civilization when it became too oppressive.
There may be something to be learned from these folks by those of us who are thinking about escaping BAU. There is also something to be learned by the few remaining hunter gatherers who are just now being "civilized" as they encounter BAU culture for the first time.
Of course, within BAU a great deal of effort is expended to distract people from looking at these examples of alternative ways of living and to make those ways of life appear inferior to BAU. I am sure that the mouth pieces of BAU will say that I am romanticizing primitive societies. But I am not suggesting that we go "back", but rather in a different direction altogether, beyond civilization rather than away from it. We may indeed find ourselves moving a level of energy consumption similar to what was common decades or even hundreds of years ago. But this does not mean that we have to adopt a similar level of social justice or scientific/medical/nutritional ignorance. We have learned a lot since then that can be successfully applied to a society that uses much less energy and gets by with much less stuff. There is no need to throw the baby out with the bath water.
And, beyond all that, I would say that they are romanticizing BAU, which is doing a poor job of caring for most of its members, and a good job of convincing them that there are no better alternatives.
Which brings us back to the alternative I was discussing above: living in groups providing each other mutual support in a way that BAU cannot do. And back to the major challenge of learning to live together in such groups, which life in BAU has left us woefully unprepared for. But, having evolved in such groups, we do have the innate ability to overcome this challenge. We need to throw off the bad habits we got from growing up in BAU, and learn some better and more human habits. For guidance, we can look to the few remaining people living in small groups outside of BAU. We can also look to the people who are living in intentional communities within BAU, and learn from both their successes and failures.
There is lots of literature on this. From my own bookshelf I can recommend:
- The World Until Yesterday, by Jared Diamond
- The Art of Not Being Governed, by James C. Scott's
- Creating a Life Together, by Diane Leafe Christian
- The Empowerment Manual, by Starhawk
- Beyond Civilization, by Daniel Quinn
- Communities That Abide, by Dmitry Orlov
- 150 Strong, by Rob O'Grady
In closing, I should just say that if I had thought of the phrase "Crunchy Without the Woo" four years ago when I started this blog, I would likely have used it as the title, instead of "The Easiest Person to Fool". I think it ties in better with the tag line "A reality based approach to life in the age of scarcity" which, as I've been saying here, is really the heart of the matter. Oh well, that's water under the bridge. And also a wrap for this series of posts on BAU, Crunchiness and Woo.
The books I've read during my life have done a great deal to shape my thinking. In my next few posts I'll be sharing some of those books with you. If my elementary school self had heard that I am volunteering to write book reports, he would have shaken his head in amazement. I guess we all change with time.
This is the sixth in a series of six (even though the title says "Part 5"):
- Business as Usual, Crunchiness and Woo, Part 1, Thursday, 12 May 2016
- Business as Usual, Crunchiness and Woo, Part 2: BAU and The Religion of Progress, Monday, 30 May 2016
- Business as Usual, Crunchiness and Woo, Part 2b: More on what's wrong with Business as Usual, Sunday, 5 June 2016
- Business as Usual, Crunchiness and Woo, Part 3: Focusing on the Woo in Crunchiness , Monday, 13 June 2016
- Business as Usual, Crunchiness and Woo, Part 4: A Reality Based Approach, Sunday, 26 June 2016
- Business as Usual, Crunchiness and Woo, Part 5: Life in the Age of Scarcity , Saturday, 2 July 2016


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Loretta Lynn
Van Lear Rose LP
For fifty years now, Loretta Lynn has fashioned a body of work as artistically and commercially successful—and as culturally significant—as any female performer you'd care to name. Except it was her song craft that established a sweet, clever, and combative lyricism that, when paired with her effortless melodies, inevitably helped define any and all relevant country music that emerged in its wake. Her music has duly confronted many of the major social issues of her time and ours, while her life story is a rags-to-riches tale familiar to pop, rock and country fans alike. The Coal Miner's Daughter—the tag refers to a hit single, an album, a best-selling autobiography, an Oscar-winning film, and to Lynn herself—has journeyed from the poverty of the Kentucky hills to Nashville superstardom, to her current status as an honest-to-goodness American icon.
Her most recent album, the Jack White-produced Van Lear Rose, has reminded the world yet again of Lynn's power as a vocalist and her prowess as a songwriter. As she puts it on "Story of My Life," the new album's closing track: "Not half bad for this ol' KY girl, I guess... Here's the story of my life. Listen close, I'll tell it twice."
- Number of discs: 1
- Label: Third Man
- Mono/Stereo: Stereo
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Monday, August 28, 2017
False Claims vs. The Facts
False Claim: The TPP Program is proven effective.
The Facts: The TPP Program is not working.
The TPP Program funded 41 rigorous evaluation studies of which 37 conveyed results for a 2016 report, available on the Office of Adolescent Health website. In summary:
- Overall, of the 37 funded and evaluated projects, 73% either had no impact or had a negative impact on teen behavior, with some teens more likely to begin having sex, to engage in unprotected sex, or to become pregnant. Very few positive results were sustained over time.
- Of greatest interest are the 18 funded projects that replicated curricula found on the TPP Program's approved list, and for which the TPP Program promised positive results. [i] These projects utilized nine separate curricula from this approved list. Fourteen of the 18 projects (78%) produced no impact or negative impact on teen behavior, 3 had mixed results, and only 1 showed sustained positive effect, (but the same curricula used in that program was used in a separate program that demonstrated no impact).
- Despite the results, these 9 curricula all remained on the TPP approved curricula list for the second round of replication grants, begun in 2015. Seven of the nine curricula evaluated in the 2010-2014 summary report continue to be replicated by grantees. Six of those seven did not demonstrate effectiveness in the 2010-2014 replication. Only one showed sustained positive impact – and in only one of two program evaluations. The second evaluation of the same curriculum showed no impact.
Given the strong evidence of negative impact or no impact for these programs, continuing the TPP Program in its current state is not a reasonable option. The evidence stands in stark contrast to the promised results, jeopardizing the youth who were served, while also proving to be a poor use of more than $800 million in taxpayer dollars.
False Claim: The TPP Program is responsible for the drop in teen birth rates.
The Facts: The TPP Program cannot be the reason for the drop in teen birth rates.
The contemporary rate of decline began in 1992 (prior to the start of the TPP Program).[ii] Further, the TPP Program only serves between 0.15% and 1% of the teen population. In other words, even if the program were proven effective, at least 99% of the teen population is not served by the TPP Program.[iii]
False Claim: The TPP Program is a good use of taxpayer money.
The Facts: Continuing the TPP Program as it is currently structured would be a waste of taxpayer money.
The evidence tells us that most of these programs are not working. It is precisely for this reason that HHS chose to end the current implementation of the TPP Program. The Department intends to follow the science, especially when the health of our nation's children is at stake. We have spent close to a billion dollars ($800 million) on these failed programs. This is a waste of taxpayer money.
False Claim: Cutting funding for the TPP Program is unprecedented.
The Facts: The TPP Program was created by prematurely ending the Community-Based Abstinence Education (CBAE) Program.
The Teen Pregnancy Prevention (TPP) Program was created by the U.S. Congress in FY 2010 by prematurely ending and then eliminating more than 150 Community-Based Abstinence Education (CBAE) Program grants and repurposing the monies. This action resulted in grantees losing their funding midstream in the grant cycle, thus permitting these funds to be diverted to the newly created TPP Program. Far from unprecedented, the TPP Program was literally created by hastily ending the CBAE Program.
False Claim: The TPP Program is good for youth.
The Facts: HHS is serious about helping youth, so maintaining the status quo cannot be an option.
At its core, the program should help students avoid teen pregnancy and other associated risks. Communities were promised consistent, positive results, but the program has failed to deliver. On July 1, HHS awarded 81 continuations for TPP Program awards, totaling over $86 million dollars. Current TPP grantees were given a project end date of June 30, 2018. This action gives the Department time to continue its review of the program and the evidence. Youth behavioral trend data and health research that identifies important predictors for youth thriving will play a key role in future discussions regarding the TPP Program. The good news is that the majority of teens have not had sex, far fewer in fact than 25 years ago.[iv] Teen birth rates are at record lows, but sexually transmitted disease and infections are at record highs.[v] Public health messaging must address youth sexual risk more holistically to ensure that teen pregnancy prevention is one, but not the only, goal of the program. Should Congress continue to fund the TPP Program, decisions by the Department will be guided by science and a firm commitment to giving all youth the information and skills they need to improve their prospects for optimal health outcomes.
[i] HHS (2017, April) OAH Initiatives: Teen Pregnancy Training/Curriculum. Accessed via web.archive
[ii] Child Trends (nd) Birth rates for females ages 15 to 19, by race and Hispanic origin: selected years, 1960-2014. Accessed at https://public.tableau.com/profile/childtrends#!/vizhome/BirthRatesper1000forFemalesAges15to19byRaceandHispanicOriginSelectedYears1960-2014/Dashboard1. Note: The recent peak was in 1991 and the drop began in 1992. There was an upward blip for one year in 2006 and then the descent continued the following year, indicating that 2006 was an anomaly. Therefore, the recent drop in teen birth rates began in 1992 and has been steady ever since. For more information, see Child Trends (2016). Data Bank: The birth rate for females ages 15-19 has fallen to historic lows among all tabulated racial/ethnic groups. Accessed at https://www.childtrends.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/13_Teen_Birth.pdf
[iii] In FY 2016, TPP served 65,788 youth, with 69% being age 14 and below. (FY2018 HHS GDM Budget Req.) A typical year serves between 300,000-500,000 students (ASPE). 2016 census data estimates 42,717,000 population between 10-19. Census data found 10-14: 20,677,000; 15-19: 22,040,000 = 42,717,000.
[iv] CDC. (2015). Youth Risk Behavior Survey: US 1991-2015 Results. YRBS trend data shows the percentage of teens who have never had sex increased from 45.9 in 1991 to 58.8 in 2015. The same data shows that the percentage of teens who have never had sex increased from 53.2 in 2013 to 58.8 in 2015. Additionally, teens are waiting longer to have sex. More than half haven't had sex by 11th grade and 42% haven't had sex by 12th, up from 33% in 1991 for 11th graders and up from 27% for 12th graders in 1991.
[v] CDC (2017, September). CDC (2015, Nov). STD Surveillance, 2016. Atlanta: USDHHS. NCHHSTP. Accessed 10-11-2017 at https://www.cdc.gov/std/stats16/default.htm. "During 2015–2016, rates of reported chlamydia increased in all regions of the United States.. In 2016, 468,514 gonorrhea cases were reported for a rate of 145.8 cases per 100,000 population, an increase of 18.5% from 2015…During 2015–2016, the P&S syphilis rate increased among both men and women in every region of the country; overall, the rate increased 14.7% among men and 35.7% among women."
CDC (2016). Reported cases of STDs on the rise, some at alarming rate. NCHHSTP Newsroom. Acessed 8.15.17 at http://www.cdc.gov/nchhstp/newsroom/2015/std-surveillance-report-press-release.html. Although young adults (age 15-24) only account for about 25% of the sexually active population, the newest data shows that they account for nearly 2/3 of all reported cases of chlamydia and gonorrhea. "America's worsening STD epidemic is a clear call for better diagnosis, treatment, and prevention," said Jonathan Mermin, M.D., director of CDC's National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and Tuberculosis Prevention." The press release also stated: "Reported cases of three nationally notifiable STDs – chlamydia, gonorrhea, and syphilis – have increased for the first time since 2006."


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Thank you sooo much for replying! I moved to Ohio from Fl. a yr. ago- I was on Prozac from a Dr. there, I did go to Wal-greens the first couple scripts, but then started going to Wal-mart. I used my doc from there (FL) via faxes, but it was only a couple times, and I have had to go off the meds due to money, and no current Dr.- I have been medicating myself w/ alcohol, and I am at my wits end, I called to make an appt. w/ a Dr. I have never seen before, but I was so upset that I cant get in till, march 19th. I'll live, but I was sooo hoping to get in like nowish! I want to ask for Effexor. The receptionist says it will be a hundred bucks to see him, and then additions if he does anything, like - opens his mouth...she also spouted off 'bout blood test, ekg's....I know thats standard crap for a new patient, but I get pd. 7.25hr. And I just want a prescription for Effexor.....:(....if there were any walk in clinics here i would do that, but there arent and I think going to the Emerg. room is a little..much? I really do wish i could just walk in a place and get tthis specific help...any further advice....THANX a million, in advance!!
Hey sun!! You have no idea how nice it is just that someone responded to me! And I must admit not thinking of googling for that info in the first place was kinda...duh!
I'll keep in touch, I think I may have something to say -interresting- but it's kinda soon, don't want to jinx it. Would you do me a favor, and keep your fingers crossed for me :)
Take care nice sun girl :P


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Angelo Valente, Independent Candidate for the Hoboken Council at Large, released this week, the third of a series of campaign videos outlining the Valente for Hoboken common sense campaign platform. The video released at ValenteForHoboken.Com outlines Valente's plan for permanent cultural and recreational faculties in the city.
"For many years we have had the untapped and underutilized resources to implement my common sense plan for creating permanent cultural and recreational faculties. My plan uses the rooftops of municipal garages, the long dormant former YMCA and the existing Multi-Service Center to build a new senior center, and new recreational and cultural facilities for Hoboken residents of all ages," explained Valente.
Additional details on Valente's entire platform are available on valenteforhoboken.com.


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I need 200 cubic yards of sterilized topsoil to be delivered to 12726
That is a LOT of sterilized topsoil - I am curious as heck why you want so much unless this is for a commercial greenhouse or arboretum or such, or you have miscalculated and you mean 200 cubic feet or something like that. Remember, a cubic yard is 27 cubic feet or about 54 of the normal bags in the home center, so for 200CY you are looking at about 15-20 of the normal size dump trucks you see hauling stuff all the time, about 8-10 of the large sidedumper tractor trailers, or in store size bags about 10 normal tractor trailers.
Sterilized topsoil is generally only used for interior uses to prevent insects in the building, and in small quantities in planter beds to prevent invasive weeds. For outdoor use, sterilized topsoil is generally a mistake because you have destroyed the biosystem that makes the topsoil work and promote plant growth, so you are going to then amend it with non-sterilized soil to provide the biota - or wait several years for it develop by itself.
And if you are looking for this for a large new lawn, certainly sterlized soil is a waste of money and not as good for the job as regular topsoil.
Anyway, for that kind of quantity - couple of choices:
1) you can go through a local greenhouse / home center soil/rock product wholesaler to have it shipped to you
2) you can deal with a home improvement store to have a special shipment to you direct
3) you can google for nationwide sterilized topsoil manufacturers about a special shipment
4) you can hire a landscaping firm to provide the product and unload, move and place it.
For that quantity, your choices are (and bear in mind how you are going to unload and handle this at delivery point and at your location) -
- 30-100 pound bags - most commonly found are 40-50# - which is what stores and some wholesalers would be offering, so about 8-10 or more tractor-trailer loads - at probably about ballpark $80-100/CY in-store or delivered to you for those who do deliveries. For this quantity there should not be a separate delivery charge - the truckloads would just be delivered to you instead of the store, though would mean receiving shipments over many days - and if from a place that does not regularly deliver pallets so they bring a forklift or pallet handler and liftgate with them (like Lowes/Home Depot for instance) you would have to have a way to unload themn.
- 500# to 1 CY (roughly 1 ton) maxi bags - giant tyvek type bags, shippable by flatbed truck (so still about 8-10 truckloads or more depending on road weight limits along the way), at probably about $50-75/CY plus or minus
- bulk soil delivered by a couple of covered (to keep stray seeds and insects out in transit and keep dry) side-dump railcars to some local soil and rock products distributor, to then be loaded by them into dumptrucks to deliver to you, at probably about $50/CY ballpark
- bulk soil delivered to you by covered dumptruck or max-haul size side dumper tractor trailer (so about 10-20 truckloads) at probably about $40-60/CY, if you can find a local (within say 100 miles or less) manufacturer who will ship to you.
One other possible provider source - contact the Cooperative Extension Service or Ag Center at Cornell University - they might know of eastern/midstate NY sterilized topsoil producers. Ditto for Penn State since you are on the line. Local county USDA ag agent might well know of local ones too.
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Thanks a lot to LCD for your fast response to my question. You took the time to give me such an extensive detailed explanation that for the time being will not deter me from trying to get the soil. All my local topsoil providor do not have good quality regular topsoil as they come with so many weed's seeds that it is impossible to fight. I have very, very big lawn are that the topsoil was washed out along the years and the tree roots are being seen all over the place. Four years ago I purchased a few yards of topsoil for my vegetable garden and I still spend about 2 days a week pulling them out. any more comments are very much appreciated
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I have never had a real problem with significant number of weeds in topsoil, but then to me fall weed-n-feed application to put pre-emergent weedkiller in the soil for spring weed killing is pretty much a standard procedure for lawns - without it you WILL have weeds with almost any topsoil, because by definition "topsoil" includes surficial growth matter and roots and weeds. About the only naturally mostly "sterile" topsoil you could get would probably be glacial windblown loess deposits from below the existing topsoil layer if you are in that part of the midwest, northern tier states or Canada - but then you would not have any organics in it either so you would need to seriously amend it to grow anything well in it.One thing to remember - longer lawn is healthier for it and crowds out weeds, so cutting it 3-4 inches long versus golf-course cutting it will choke out a lot of weeds - especially the low-lying ones like chickweed and ground clover and such - not so much effect on dandelions and sorrel and other tall weeds, though you want to be sure to kill or at least cut them before they can form seed heads. Not just before they actually go to seed - the seed heads, if mowed off, will still commonly produce some new plants even if not fully developed to the point of broadcasting their seeds - so like with dandelions you have to kill/pull/cut them before they form the yellow flowers, not just before the seed puffballs form. And of course some weeds spread by rhizomes and roots - the roots pop up new plants every so many inches, like clover and lupine and crabgrass and such, so those you basically have to poison or dig up the roots to kill.So - guess you are stuck with the high cost of buying heat-sterilized soil from a company that produces sterilized soil for sale by the bag or to greenhouses and such, using weedkiller, or keeping up the hand weeding at leat to some extent.Maybe check around with commercial grow operations (large greenhouses, ornamental plant nursery farms) on what they use and who they get it from to get a low-weed product - though many may use bagged product, or mulch to suppress the weeds. You could also contact local sod farms and see if they also sell topsoil from the areas where they have stripped the sod off - but most likely will not unless going out of business or selling out to land developers, because they want the topsoil there to grow another crop of sod on.


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The Politics of James Bond: From Fleming's Novels to the Big Screen
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The adventures and antics of James Bond have provided the world with many of the most gripping story lines of the last half-century. Fleming?s novels were bestsellers in their day, and the Bond films have been even more popular, becoming the most enduring and successful film franchise in history. By some estimates, half of the world?s population has seen a James Bond movie. A fascinating and accessible account of this global phenomenon, The Politics of James Bond uses the plots and characterizations in the novels and the blockbuster films to place Bond in a historical, cultural, and political context. ø Jeremy Black charts and explores how the settings and the dynamics of the Bond adventures have changed over time in response to shifts in the real-world environment in which the fictional Bond operates. Sex, race, class, and violence are each important factors, as Agent 007 evolves from Cold War warrior to foe of SPECTRE and eventually to world defender pitted against megalomaniacal foes. The development of Bond, his leading ladies, and the major plots all shed light on world political attitudes and reflect elements of the real espionage history of the period. This analysis of Bond?s world and his lasting legacy offers an insightful look at both cultural history and popular entertainment.
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The Later Bond Books
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The Politics of James Bond: From Fleming's Novels to the Big Screen
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UI College of Dentistry brings Project SEALED to Allamakee County
UI College of Dentistry brings Project SEALED to Allamakee County
Last year the University of Iowa's College of Dentistry established a community partnership with Allamakee County in an effort to bring dental hygiene and education to the county. With this partnership in mind, the College of Dentistry joined with the College of Education to create an outreach effort called Project SEALED (Service, Engagement and LifeCareer Education in Dentistry).
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From outside, it was impossible to hear the shouting.
Wednesday night passed clear and cool at the David L. Martin soccer field, and practices went on as usual under the lights.
But across the parking lot, inside the cafeteria at St. Cecelia Interparochial School, neighbors blasted city officials for making plans to move the field across the street and build a second one next to it in their quiet neighborhood.
"Why did you come up with soccer fields?" Sarah Davis asked. "Put them in an industrial field where no one cares."
Davis was among roughly 50 residents who complained the new soccer fields would bring too much traffic and too-bright lights.
Many said the fields would attract vagrants.
Ellen Schultz worried about strange men.
"I have a reason to be afraid of anybody in my neighborhood that I'm not used to seeing," she said. "You cannot protect my pretty 6-year-old blond girl."
The planned fields are part of a larger proposal to replace Glen Oaks Golf Course with a stormwater management site. The project would cost about $4.3-million and is aimed at reducing flooding and pollution along Stevenson Creek.
But the soccer fields have drawn opposition from the beginning.
Mostly, neighbors said they support the trail system, picnic area and playground planned along a 13-acre pond meant to serve as a drainage tool that would protect about 78 nearby apartments and homes.
On Wednesday night, city staffers set up four stations in the school cafeteria to answer questions. Easels carried conceptual drawings showing the soccer fields on high ground at the northern edge of the 22-acre property. Residents crowded around, shouting questions and, in some cases, hurling insults.
At one point, Schultz marched to the front of the cafeteria and seized a live microphone.
"I've been to three different ones and heard three different things," she said. "I have a feeling that they don't want to hear what we have to say. They're telling us what they're going to do."
City Manager Bill Horne, who attended the meeting along with Vice Mayor Whitney Gray and Commissioner Bill Jonson, said officials will consider neighborhood feedback before going forward.
"The commission wanted to get your input," he said. "They will then decide if they want to continue with the design or amend the design."
Outside, Francisco Tellez leaned against a pickup truck parked just off the field.
He hadn't heard about the meeting or the city's plans to build new fields.
"Wow," said Tellez, 45. "Is this for every player or just Americans?"
Tellez, 45, who moved to Clearwater from Mexico, said he plays at the field often. On Wednesday, he was there with a group of friends, including Irving Rimolo, 30, of Largo.
Rimolo, who moved to Clearwater from Costa Rica, said he understands neighbors' concerns about noise and traffic but still thinks the new fields should be built.
"It sounds like a good idea," he said. "All we want to do is practice."
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Although the blues is the most renowned form of early 20th century African-American music (other than jazz), it didn't dominate rural Black music to the extent that many listeners often assume. Black and White folk musics mingled extensively before the advent of recorded technology, and Black musicians often performed gospel, religious hymns, folk ballads, and fiddle tunes as well as what we now recognize as the blues. This compilation does a good job of illustrating the diverse ancestry of African-American music with 23 rare sides from the 1920s and 1930s, when records and mass media had yet to fully introduce elements that would standardize musical genres and approaches to some degree. Some of these performers would indeed become classified as blues artists (Mississippi John Hurt, Robert Wilkins, Henry Thomas). But most of these tracks are not explicitly rooted in blues forms, examples being B.F. Shelton's banjo ballad interpretation of "Pretty Polly," Taylor's Kentucky Boys' fiddle breakdown version of "Forked Deer," or the Seventh Day Adventist Choir's "On Jordan's Stormy Banks We Stand." Remastered from old 78s, this may be of more educational than entertainment value to most modern listeners, but it's well done, with extensive liner notes explaining the various forms of Black music preserved on the disc.
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Performance CreditsSam Collins Vocals,Track Performer
Mississippi John Hurt Guitar,Vocals,Track Performer
Henry Thomas Guitar,Track Performer
Sylvester Weaver Guitar,Track Performer
Walter Beasley Vocals,Track Performer,Bottleneck Guitar
James Booker Fiddle
Buell Kazee Banjo,Track Performer
Joe Evans Track Performer
Robert Wilkins Guitar,Vocals,Track Performer
Little Hat Jones Guitar,Track Performer
Sam Brooks Vocals
Papa Harvey Hull Guitar,Track Performer
Lottie Kimbrough Vocals,Track Performer
Arthur McClain Track Performer
Charlie McCoy Mandolin
Bayless Rose Guitar,Track Performer
Willie Walker Guitar,Track Performer
Reverend Rubin Lacy Vocals,Track Performer
Blind Teddy Darby Guitar,Track Performer
Andrew Baxter Fiddle,Guitar,Track Performer
Dick Devall Track Performer
Taylor's Kentucky Boys Track Performer
Walter Coleman Guitar
B.F. Shelton Banjo,Track Performer
Weaver & Beasley Track Performer
Andrew & Jim Baxter Track Performer
Marion Underwood Banjo
Technical CreditsBo Carter Contributor
Joe Evans Contributor
A.P. Carter Composer
Huddie Ledbetter Composer
Arthur McClain Contributor
Bayless Rose Composer
Georgia White Composer
Don Kent Producer,Liner Notes,Annotation
Richard Nevins Producer,Liner Notes
Reverend Rubin Lacy Composer
Joan Pelosi Art Direction
Blind Teddy Darby Composer
Dick Devall Contributor
Taylor's Kentucky Boys Contributor
B.F. Shelton Composer
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Cincinnati Jug Band Contributor
Mississippi Mud Steppers Contributor
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Painting walls with a wax mixture to look like plaster uses a mixture of beeswax, resin and pigment. This particular blend of ingredients creates what is called encaustic paint. The encaustic technique is very old and dates back to the Ancient Greeks, where the first application was done on Greek warships. This old technique has seen a surge in popularity because of the ability to create a shiny sculpted surface with the wax paint. Clean the surfaces of walls prior to starting the encaustic or wax painting process.
Making Wax Paint
Place a No.10 metal can on a dry weight scale. Place 16 ounces of beeswax in the container. Pour the contents from the container into a bowl. Return the empty can to the dry weight scale. Set the beeswax aside until it is needed.
Place 1.6 ounces of Demmar resin lumps in the No.10 can. Remove the can from the dry weight scale and place it on an electric heat source with the temperature set to 250 degrees Fahrenheit. Melt the Demmar resin lumps while periodically stirring.
Add the 16 ounces of beeswax to the melted Demmar resin lumps. Occasionally stir the mixture until the beeswax is completely melted.
Turn off the heat under the wax mixture.
Add the desired amount of pigment to the wax mixture. Stir the pigment into the wax mixture. Evenly distribute 1 teaspoon of pigment at a time until the wax paint is the desired color. Keep track of how much pigment is placed in the batch so the same amount is added to additional batches.
Wax Painting the Wall
Attach a vice grip to the top of the can to help carry it. Place a hot pad on the step ladder's shelf. Set the wax paint on the hot pad.
Dip the paintbrush in the hot wax paint. Immediately paint the wall, starting in the upper left hand corner and work across and down the wall. The wax paint hardens upon placement on the wall. Repeat the process, placing the dipped paintbrush on the edge of the previous stroke.
Reheat the wax paint when the paintbrush no longer easily submerges. Place the No.10 can on the electric burner and reheat at 250 degrees Fahrenheit until melted. Continue with the process until the painting is complete.
Things Needed
- No.10 metal can
- Dry weight scale
- Beeswax
- Bowl
- Demmar resin lumps
- Electric stove, griddle or hot plate
- Stirring apparatus
- Oil pigment
- Vice grip
- Step ladder
- Hot pads
- Disposable paintbrushes, 3- to 4-inch wide
- The ratio for mixing Demmar resin lumps to beeswax is 1:10. Mix larger or smaller batches of wax paint as desired.
- Heat the outer 3 to 4 inches of the painted edges prior to adding more wax paint with a hair dryer or heat gun if the project is interrupted. Wax paint must be warm and tacky for the overlap to stick together and not form layers that separate.
- Several recipes for encaustic paint exist. Each uses beeswax with a type of resin, including Dammar resin chips, crystals and varnish. A wax that is substituted for Dammar resin is carnauba wax chips.


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area and volume formulas
|pythagorean theorem
|area of triangle
|A=1/2(base)x height
|area of rectangle
|A=length x width
|area of trapezoid
|A=1/2(sum of bases)x height
|area of paralellogram
|A=Base x height
|area of circle
|A=pi x r^2, If a circle has a radius of 4, its area is 3.14*4*4=50.24 If you know the diameter, the radius is 1/2 as large.
|surface area of pyramid
|SA=1/2(parimeter of base)x slant height + area of base
|surface area of sphere
|SA=4 x pi x r^2
|surface area of prism
|SA= sum of areas of the faces
|surface area of cylinder
|SA=circumfrence of base x height + 2(area of base)
|surface area of cube
|SA=6 x (length of edge)^2
|volume of cone
|V=1/3(area of base)x height
|volume of pyramid
|V=1/3(area of base)x height
|volume of sphere
|V=4/3 x pi x r^2
|volume of prism
|V=area of base x height
|volume of cylander
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Match Day: Middlesbrough vs. Aston Villa
Following the astonishing 5-5 spectacle at Villa Park midweek, it's off to the Riverside to take on third-place Middlesbrough. Boro are unbeaten in their last five, and have only lost twice all year, and the obvious statistic of interest is 22 goals scored versus 10 conceded. Villa have netted 36 times, by comparison, and conceded 30.


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Trump Tweets Temper Tantrum Over Vanity Fair Restaurant Review
'Way down, big trouble, dead!'
Donald Trump took to Twitter to complain again. But that's not news.
Today, however, he took umbrage with Vanity Fair's recent review of his Trump Grill restaurant, written by Tina Nguyen.
The review, published Wednesday, was full of undeniably sick burns on the Trump Tower establishment. The author said that the "bathrooms transport diners to the experience of desperately searching for toilet paper at a Venezuelan grocery store" while linking to a Vice video on the Venezuelan food shortage crisis.
She also documented how the steak filet was "slumped to the side over the potatoes like a dead body inside a T-boned minivan" and that it "might not have even been a filet at all."
Trump, expectedly, did not take kindly to the review. He used it as an opportunity to poke Vanity Fair's editor, Graydon Carter, once more.
Has anyone looked at the really poor numbers of @VanityFair Magazine. Way down, big trouble, dead! Graydon Carter, no talent, will be out!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 15, 2016
He also "slammed" Carter four years ago in a tweet, according to CNN Money.
The review isn't the first time Vanity Fair has poked the bear in Trump Tower's lair. Carter himself has used his pages to remind readers of Trump's less-than-perfect hand size, reminding readers that he'd called Trump a "short-fingered vulgarian" in Spy magazine more than two decades ago.
Whether it's poor restaurant reviews or Saturday Night Live impersonations, the President-elect has been using his Twitter account just as much as before. Which means that other Twitter users are also quick to point out criticisms like Nguyen's biting review.
Why did @VanityFair body him like this y'all go read the whole article pls pic.twitter.com/e0ZPRhImXr
— Jawn Snow (@KrissiScribbles) December 15, 2016
This comes at a time when many are concerned about a variety of topics surrounding Trump's looming presidency, such as the Russian security probings into the election, Trump's tepid approach to security briefings, and how he could possibly stay in command of his many businesses.
The media tries so hard to make my move to the White House, as it pertains to my business, so complex – when actually it isn't!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 15, 2016
To Trump, a very smart person, the darn media keeps getting it all wrong, especially that "no talent" Graydon Carter.


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Many people simply wish to complete the milestone of cycling around Taiwan, but I say you will miss a lot if you are not planning it right.
Plan it well if you have limited time for the trip!
Don't plan at all if you have nothing but time!
After more than one year of assisting visitors to plan their bike tours in Taiwan, I have heard several complians that riding in the westcoast is extremly boring and gets nothing but polluted air and madness city views. 🙊🙉🙈
And I say, of course, there are more than 23 millions people living on this small 36,000km2 island and most of them do live in the westcoast, so what do you expect. 😅
But if you consult or read more information and have a little bit more time to detour around the places, you may find beautiful places to visit as this one. Then your tour of Taiwan may not be so boring and tiring.
Talk to people, and you will find your trip more joyable because this is how you experience and bring memories back home. A local grocery shop is the best place to start, and do not worry about language barrier. A big smile 😊 and body/sign language can solve them all. 👍
Next time, I hope your biking expereince could be as fun as ours. Have a good time in cycling tours everywhere.
Seeking for advice on cycling route planning in Taiwan ~ http://www.bikingtaiwan.com/
Trying to make your own bike map for traveling in Taiwan ~ Biking Taiwan Bikemap Routes


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Perfecting Deals over Meals WorkshopJules Hirst
In the world of business it is common to conduct interviews and/or meetings in a professional dining setting.
The way you present yourself can either make or break the deal. Empower yourself with the confidence to land the "perfect deals over meals." Join us for a 3 course meal as Jules Martinez Hirst of Etiquette Consulting Inc guides us through perfecting Deals over Meals
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Host Duties
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The Dining Experience: Tools of the Table
American vs. Continental Styles of Dining
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When to Talk Business
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She has worked with corporations such as Northrop Grumman, Ernst & Young, County of Los Angeles Libraries and universities including UCLA Anderson, USC, UC Davis, Mount Saint Mary's.
Jules has been interviewed by a variety of media outlets including NBC Nightly News, ABC World News, Good Morning America, Bravo TV, KNX 1070.


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Wallenberg professorships
The Royal Swedish Academy of Agriculture and Forestry international guest professorships – Wallenberg professorships
On the occasion of the 200th anniversary of the foundation of the Royal Swedish Academy of Agriculture and Forestry, the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation has decided to fund seven one-year guest professorships of the highest international standard. The series of professorships started in 2014.
Ian A. Fleming is the first holder of the KSLA Wallenberg professorship.
Dan Binkley is the second holder of the KSLA Wallenberg professorship.
Dagmar Haase is the third holder of the KSLA Wallenberg professorship.
Barry A. Costa-Pierce is the forth holder of the KSLA Wallenberg professorship.
Scott Creel is the fifth holder of the KSLA Wallenberg professorship.
Tobias Kuemmerle is the sixth holder of the KSLA Wallenberg professorship.
Christine Watson is the seventh holder of the KSLA Wallenberg professorship.
The purpose of the Wallenberg professorships is to establish ties with prominent foreign scientists, who can be expected to contribute towards the renewal of Swedish science in the green sector, and to universities and academic institutions. In this context, the green sector is defined as forestry, agriculture, horticulture, care and breeding of domestic animals, veterinary medicine, hunting and reindeer herding, urban green areas, fisheries and aquaculture, but not the industries and service sectors based on these.
The Wallenberg visiting professorships should bring a unique contribution of skills to the Swedish host institution, and the holder shall have the ability to significantly contribute to the activities conducted there or to provide assistance in the organisation of new prioritised areas of expertise. The potential to utilise the Wallenberg visiting professorship to establish cooperation between Swedish and foreign research is welcomed. It is important that guest professors can be expected to enhance the competence of academic institutions in the longer term – a plan for this will be of interest in the assessment.
The holder of a Wallenberg professorship must combine scientific excellence with a multidisciplinary way of working. The Wallenberg professorship may be used for research as well as for graduate and undergraduate tutoring. The intended profile of the holder's activities should be described in the proposal for the holder of the professorship.
The Academy Collegium will appoint the holder of a Wallenberg professorship. Proposals received will be processed by a separate panel specially set up by the Academy Collegium.
The Wallenberg professorship runs for a full academic year, i.e. for a duration of some nine months. However, if there are special circumstances, the professorship may run for a maximum of three terms. The holder of a Wallenberg professorship may, if deemed appropriate, divide his/her time between several seats of learning. One of these shall however have administrative and financial responsibility.
The Academy will provide a lump-sum grant of up to 1.2 million kronor for the professor's salary, living and travel expenses, while other costs such as costs associated with the university/academic institution will be covered by the seat of learning. The institution that hosts the Wallenberg professorship takes full responsibility for all practical issues (housing, schools, insurance, tax, etc.) that may arise. The stay must be well prepared so that it can be fully utilised for the Wallenberg professor's research and teaching. The host institution shall provide clear information regarding scientific activities as well as practical arrangements.
Holders of a Wallenberg professorship are proposed initially by means of a 'pre-proposal' – the university/university college submits proposals for holders of a professorship who will work in areas of importance for the institution and the country that are of definite benefit, and in a high calibre research environment, see template below. Each institution may submit proposals for up to two candidates (the institutions may nominate their candidates several times), after which the Academy will nominate those candidates for whom the institutions are invited to submit a formal application on a special form.


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dunnhumby is the world's leading customer science company.What does that mean, exactly? We know customers. And we help companies know them, too. In fact, we can help you know your customers so well that you'll meet their current needs, predict their future ones, and keep them coming back, again and again.
This rotation programme supports and develops our most talented technical graduates through a structured two-year induction designed to provide a variety of opportunities to learn and grow skills in all technical aspects. It begins with an intensive five-week jump-start training, where you'll develop your understanding of our business and ways of working, our tools and capabilities, and the CPG and Retail industries, and receive technical training on the products and programmes we use to customise our work for clients.After this initial training, you'll start on your first of four six-month role rotations, which are managed centrally over two years to provide consistency and continuity. During your first two years, you will experience two rotations in our Product Development and Management team and two rotations in our Data team. Each rotation identifies opportunities that encourage learning alongside delivering value to the business. With offices in the UK, US, and India, it's possible that each graduate on the GP&S scheme may have an opportunity to travel abroad during at least one of their rotations.In addition to these four rotations, there are many planned opportunities to develop your skills, in areas such as networking, presentation, managing communications and projects, and working with new graduates coming into the business. Upon completion of the programme, our graduates will be equipped to jump start their career and continue on to build a successful technical path within dunnhumby.


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Stitch your star-sign on this beautiful starry envelope purse.Stitch your own zodiac constellation while learning about the traits of your star sign. Includes this 'how to stitch' template for all 12 astrology zodiac signs and needle & cosmic gold thread. An ideal birthday gift, it is ready to be sewn with your star sign.The purse opens out fully – creating an easy-to-stitch canvas, suitable for those new to sewing.This starry envelope pouch makes a perfect coin purse or card holder, to carry for infinity.
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text: International Symposium on Ubiquitous Virtual Reality (ISUVR) is an international symposium for emerging new paradigm on virtual reality in ubiquitous computing era, which accelerates the convergence of multidisciplinary technologies to enrich the quality of user experience. With this trends, for the past years, ISUVR has been a successful event where participants exchange research ideas about "Ubiquitous VR" with other researchers from different backgrounds. Thus, it would be timely to initiate a forum to discuss and share ideas on "Augmented Experience in Ubiquitous VR" which combines various AR/MR/VR related technologies to enhance human's ability.


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Rope Workout
After which a number of weeks in the past I got here across one other magical e book about skipping rope… The Fox Wish by Kimiko Aman. One of the best factor in regards to the skipping rope is that it forces you to work primarily on method and balance as you push up the pace and get an increasing number of drained. There are two main world organisations: International Rope Skipping Federation (FISAC-IRSF), and the World Bounce Rope Federation (WJRF).
Making use of a jumping rope affords loads of benefits it is arduous to list them in a single single, quick, article however listed below are a number of of the main ones to present you an idea as to simply precisely how highly effective jumping ropes will be!
Skipping ropes come in a wide range of materials together with PVC, leather, arduous plastic beads and wire. Nevertheless, this is the very most cost-effective manner of getting exercise, as a skipping rope can value as little as £5 or $7. I prefer an actual rope one, which is costlier.
Store for a good high quality bounce rope at a sports activities or fitness store in your neighborhood. Leap ropes could also be used for college and membership sport amenities, private train use or for aggressive sports occasions. You too can select to pay cash on delivery if you're not snug with banking on-line.
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Red, White & Blueberry Bread
I love a good sweet bread. Who doesn't? Especially when it's super moist on the inside and has a really thick crunchy top. This bread has definitely got that… and more! Take a peek inside and you'll find a thick ribbon of cream cheese. It's what takes this red, white & blueberry bread to a whole new level of yum!
A few weeks ago our local grocery store was having a huge promo on berries. I couldn't resist snatching up a few cartons of raspberries, strawberries and blueberries. We ate about 90% of them but as the week went on we had other ripe fruit out on our counters and completely neglected the berries in the fridge. Stephen ate the raspberries and I used the blueberries in my oatmeal, but we had a handful of strawberries that needed a little extra tlc. That's when I decided to make this beautiful red, white & blueberry bread (corny, I know) or strawberry cream cheese bread with blueberries.
As soon as I was gathering up ingredients I couldn't help but feel silly for using up the fresh blueberries in my oatmeal. If you're wondering why the bread looks a little funky in spots, it's because the frozen blueberries colored the batter when I folded them in. If it bothers you, stick with fresh, not frozen berries. Anyway, I couldn't help resist making this sort of "patriotic" if you will. I'm not the biggest fan of white chocolate so I whipped up a cream cheese batter to create that lovely little swirl. Best idea ever. Trust me, it'll have you wanting to add cream cheese to all of your sweet breads. It's addictive.
Speaking of addictive. I think we gobbled up this bad boy in just 2 days. The hubby was just as obsessed with it as I was. That's kind of a big deal around here. But enough jibber jabber, let's get baking! To start, toss in all of the ingredients for the cream cheese swirl into one smallish mixing bowl. If your cream cheese is at room temperature (or has sat out for at least 20 minutes) you should be good. Mix it all up and get it nice and smooth, then set it aside.
For the bread batter, start by creaming the butter, sugar, cream cheese, vanilla and lemon zest until it's light and fluffy. Side note: I always add vanilla and zest to the bowl before creaming, I think it helps enhance the flavor in the recipe. Now add the eggs and then let it stand while you whisk together the dry ingredients in a separate bowl. Whisking (or sifting) is essential in all recipes! Or at least in my opinion. It evenly distributes ingredients, adds air to them and ultimately creates a better baked goods [end rant]. Incorporate the dry ingredients until you can't see anymore streaks of flour, then fold in the fruit by hand. Add half of the batter to the prepared loaf pan, then pour the cream cheese over the top. If you want to get fancy you can use a knife to swirl it in a bit, but I left mine alone and it swirled on its own. Pour the remaining batter on top of the cream cheese layer and then smooth it out with a spatula or by gently shaking the pan back and forth and side to side. Finally add a sprinkle of coarse sugar on top. I used Zulka® Morena® pure cane sugar. Not only is it less processed, but it has more natural flavor and sweetness to it. It's a great alternative to cane, sanding and turbinado sugar.
Bake for 50-60 minutes or until the top is set and a cake tester comes out clean. Let it cool and then slice it up and enjoy! I can't tell you enough how good this red, white & blueberry bread is! We're smitten! Bursting with berries and cream cheese, it doesn't get much better than this!
- ½ c. butter, room temperature
- 1 c. granulated sugar
- ⅓ c. (3 oz.) cream cheese, room temperature
- 2 eggs
- 1½ tsp. vanilla extract
- 1 tsp. lemon zest
- 2 c. all-purpose flour
- 2 tsp. baking powder
- ½ tsp. baking soda
- ½ tsp. salt
- ½ c. milk
- 1 c. strawberries, chopped
- 1 c. fresh or frozen blueberries
- Cream cheese swirl:
- 8 oz. cream cheese, room temperature
- ⅓ c. sugar
- 1 egg
- 1 tbsp. all-purpose flour
- 1 tbsp. coarse sugar for topping (optional)
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Spray or line a 9x5 inch loaf pan, set aside.
- In a small mixing bowl combine all of the ingredients for the cream cheese swirl. Using a hand mixer blend until smooth, set aside.
- In the bowl of a stand mixer, cream the butter, sugar, cream cheese, vanilla and lemon zest until light and fluffy, about 2-3 minutes. With mixing speed on low, add eggs one at a time until incorporated.
- In separate mixing bowl, whisk together the flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt. With mixing speed on low, gradually alternate adding the dry ingredients and milk, mixing just until no flour pockets remain. Remove the bowl from the stand and fold in the fruit.
- Pour half of the batter for the bread into the prepared loaf pan. Then pour the cream cheese "swirl" on top. You can either leave it as-is or carefully swirl it with a knife. Pour the remaining batter over top and sprinkle with coarse sugar if desired.
- Place in the oven and bake for 50 to 60 minutes or until the center of the loaf is set. You may need to tent the loaf with foil if the top is getting too brown (around the 40-50 minutes). Remove from the oven, allow to cool in the pan for 30 minutes, then turn onto a wire rack to cool completely.
-Although I have never made these in muffin form, I'm sure it can be done! I'd say it would make 12-14 muffins and that they would take anywhere from 18-22 minutes to bake, but just watch and test 🙂
Recipe source: adapted from Food.com, Strawberry Cream Cheese Bread


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Alumni Visits
Alumni wanting to visit da Vinci during school hours, need to make arrangements BEFORE coming. Please do not show up at school unless you have pre-approval.
Contact the teacher(s) you want to spend time with and see if they can 'sponsor' you. You can find teacher emails on the staff page. If a teacher gives you the approval to visit, they will let the office staff know when to expect you.
Sponsoring you means during class time you are with them, not wandering the halls, chatting and waving at friends in the halls and classrooms.
When you arrive, be sure to sign in at the office and get a visitor's badge before heading off to your sponsor's class. While you are visiting, please follow the da Vinci rule of no cell phone or other electronics usage in classrooms and halls.
If you are more interested in visiting with students, wait until 3:15 to meet them. This a fine time to drop to visit staff, too. Thanks.