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These awards recognize and honor remarkable California communities and board members who do exceptional work in their homeowner associations and support board education. For the inaugural awards, we are thrilled to honor an association and board member who have demonstrated steadfast dedication both to ECHO and to their association members.
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- Capital: Akril
- Primary Race: Human
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Cellular Thiols and Redox-Regulated Signal Transduction, C.K. Sen. Integration of Antagonistic Signals in the Regulation of Nitrogen Assimilation in Escherichia coli, A.J. Ninfa, P. Jiang, M.R. Atkinson, and J.A. Peliska. Regulation of Nuclear Import and Export, T.D. Sweitzer, D.C. Love, and J.A. Hanover. Regulation of Glutathione Synthesis, S.C. Lu. Superoxide Dismutase, Oxidative Stress, and Cell Metabolism, V.C. Culotta. Regulation of Axonal Neurofilament Phosphorylation, H.C. Pant, Veeranna, and P. Grant. Thio-Based Antioxidants, S.M. Deneke. Regulation and Role of Heme Oxygenase in Oxidative Injury, P.A. Dennery. Antioxidant Regulation of Genes Encoding Enzymes That Detoxify Xenobiotics and Carcinogens, S. Dhakshinamoorthy, D.J. Long III, and A.K. Jaiswal. Modulation of Vascular Cell Activation, Function, and Apoptosis: Role of Antioxidants and Nuclear Factor-gB, C. Weber and W. Erl. Calcineurin: From Structure to Function, J. Aramburu, A. Rao, and C.B. Klee. Index.
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This book explores the collaborative practices – both literary and material – that women undertook in the production of early modern texts. It confronts two ongoing methodological dilemmas. How does conceiving women's texts as collaborations between authors, readers, annotators, editors, printers, and patrons uphold or disrupt current understandings of authorship? And how does reconceiving such texts as collaborative illuminate some of the unresolved discontinuities and competing agendas in early modern women's studies? From one perspective, viewing early modern women's writing as collaborative seems to threaten the hard-won legitimacy of the authors we have already recovered; from another, developing our understanding of literary agency beyond capital "A" authorship opens the field to the surprising range of roles that women played in the history of early modern books. Instead of trying to simply shift, disaggregate or adjudicate between competing claims for male or female priority in the production of early modern texts, Gender, Authorship, and Early Modern Women's Collaboration investigates the role that gender has played – and might continue to play – in understanding early modern collaboration and its consequences for women's literary history
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Each week, technology reporters and columnists from The New York Times review the week's news, offering analysis and maybe a joke or two about the most important developments in the tech industry. Want this newsletter in your inbox? Sign up here.
Hello, It's Erin Griffith, reporting, happily, from my home base in San Francisco and not the carnival of virtual assistants, shiny screens, crowded smart homes and greasy VR demos in Las Vegas. Our correspondents made the CES maze of gadgets look almost fun, which anyone who has been there before knows is an impressive feat.
Back in the land of magical, billion-dollar start-up unicorns, things have been quieter, thanks to the federal government shutdown. No Securities and Exchange Commission means no progress on initial public offering plans of the larger start-ups, including Uber and Lyft.
Any other time in the last five years, this would not have mattered. The unicorns have been putting off their public market debuts for as long as possible — what's another month or two? But a volatile stock market and signs of a possible recession have fostered a creeping sense of panic.
As The Times reported in December, Uber and Lyft already accelerated their I.P.O. plans to try to get ahead of a potential market shift. This week, Dara Khosrowshahi, chief executive of Uber, tempered expectations, telling The Wall Street Journal that market turbulence was not likely to affect the company's plans, but "if it doesn't happen, it doesn't happen."
Uber shareholders would most likely be disappointed if the company does not go public in the coming year, he added.
The shutdown, volatility and recession fears are happening at a crucial moment. The start-up world's success hinges, in part, on its ability to use hype and "trust me" confidence to persuade people to believe in a vision of the future. It's easy to get caught up in the narrative of innovation, disruption and rising valuations (and ignore the lack of profits).
But not everyone has, and skeptics are getting louder. Chamath Palihapitiya, a prominent venture capital investor, recently called the entire start-up and venture capital system a "charade" and "an enormous multivariate kind of Ponzi scheme."
He's right in one sense: A Ponzi scheme relies on its creator's ability to persuade ever-larger crowds to buy into his or her vision. Same goes for start-ups that haven't proved they're able to turn a profit. A flash of doubt, especially among public-market investors, could spiral into a broader questioning of the entire start-up ecosystem.
For the largest, most valuable start-ups in Silicon Valley, many of which plan to prove themselves and their unprofitable business models to the world by going public, there could not be a worse moment for that to happen. If Uber can't go public, what does it mean for all the "Uber for X" companies that followed its lead?
Cracks are beginning to show. This week, two high-flying start-ups experienced a reality check in their fund-raising. WeWork sought to raise $16 billion in new funding from SoftBank, its main backer. The company wound up raising just $2 billion — still an enormous pile of cash, but a steep step down from its original plan.
And Bird, a two-year-old scooter company that was so sought-after by investors last summer that they doubled the company's valuation in just a few weeks, is now raising funding at a flat valuation, according to Axios.
Some venture capital investors say they welcome a downturn, as I wrote this week. They're hoarding cash and making "downturn lists" of companies to invest in once valuations become more reasonable. And some companies have seen the venture-fueled madness and decided it's not for them.
Elsewhere this week:
■ Economists and investors are clashing over the health of the American economy. No one is debating the health of the Chinese economy, with concerns spreading to non-tech companies including Ford, FedEx, Starbucks and Tiffany, Matt Phillips writes.
■ Apple's biggest issue is not the Chinese economy, it's that people like the columnist Kevin Roose's mother don't feel the need to replace their phones every two years anymore.
■ That may explain the surprising news from CES that Apple struck deals with a number of hardware companies, including Vizio, Samsung, Sony and LG, to use its software. The deals — something the company has resisted in the past — show Apple's ambition to make more money from content and services, as sales of its cash cow, the iPhone, slow down, Brian X. Chen writes.
■ When the government asked Palantir and Oracle to share the number of women and minorities it employs, the companies tried to hide the numbers, citing them as "trade secrets." According to a report from Reveal News, the numbers are abysmal. (Palantir has no female executives and just one female manager.) The publication sued to obtain the letters the companies sent justifying their privacy around the issue. The Palantir letter cited fears that competitors would steal their lone female manager.
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Defending champion Cameron Meyer headlines an all-Aussie GreenEdge squad that will have huge pressure to win its debut stage race on home roads.
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Two-time champion André Greipel will headline Lotto-Belisol that includes the debut of Greg Henderson in the team kit.
Ryder Hesjedal returns to Australia for the first time since 2009, leading Garmin-Cervélo that also includes Heinrich Haussler, Robbie Hunter and new Kiwi rider Jack Bauer. Ex-HTC-Highroad sport director Allan Peiper makes his debut behind the wheel.
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Mark Renshaw will make his debut in Rabobank colors with a strong lineup that also includes Michael Matthews, Graeme Brown and Luis Leon Sanchez.
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About Dr. Rick Edwards
Dr. Rick Edwards was born and raised in Pocatello, Idaho. Around his teenage years, he realized he wanted to go into dentistry, inspired both by his mom's encouragements and his orthodontist neighbor. Originally, Dr. Rick intended to follow in his neighbor's footsteps and become an orthodontist; however, when he was at dental school, he found he was more interested in the oral surgery clinic and that the oral and maxillofacial specialty aligned better with his goals to help people.
During dental school, Dr. Rick went to Mexico to assist in cleft lip and palate treatment; after being able to truly help change people's lives, he knew there was nothing else he would rather do for his career. Dr. Rick enjoys working in a group practice with Dr. Carl, who he met and befriended in college, because it provides him with the opportunity to interact with and help several different communities. The ultimate reward for Dr. Rick is seeing patients out in public who remember being treated and thank him for the services he provided. He believes that helping people find solutions to their oral health problems and helping them start better lives is the best life he could imagine for himself.
Dr. Rick attended Brigham Young University for his undergraduate career, graduating in 1982 with his Bachelor of Science degree. Following BYU, Dr. Rick continued on to the University of Nebraska College of Dentistry, where he earned his Doctorate of Dental Surgery (DDS) in 1986.
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Read the introduction to Paul Simon's collection of generation-defining lyrics.
Nov. 7, 2008 -- Paul Simon's music has helped to define nearly half a century of American life.
From his 1960s-era folk hits like "The Sound of Silence" to his more recent "You're the One," Simon's music grew and evolved with the country and reflected the beauty and complexity of it all.
"Lyrics 1964-2008" is exactly what the title implies: a book of words from an incredible musical career that has spanned more than 40 years.
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Introduction by David Remnick
Even at the peak of his popular stardom, Paul Simon was armed purely with his talent for the American song. He played arenas and stadiums, he had platinum records and made his fortune, but he was never magnificently cool like Lennon, darkly beautiful like Elvis, implacably enigmatic like Dylan, or three-quarters crazy like a hundred others. Style, roguishness, bad behavior, self-conscious unpredictability were never his tools. Modest in manner, he did not boast a mysterious background or invent one for himself.
He came with less rock and roll packaging and tiresome self-invention than anyone in the business. And one effect of time has been to show how little the absence of theatricality mattered. Paul Simon's songs have become a part of life's fabric, an inner walking-around music. You stroll around New York and hear the echoes of his loneliness, his comedy, his passion, his ache, and his growing older.
Even now, as he writes new songs and immerses himself in yet another song form and rhythmic realm, he has secured his place in musical history. Simon stands with both the unpretentious masters of his own youth -- the Everly Brothers, Chuck Berry, Smokey Robinson -- and his greatest predecessors: Harold Arlen, Irving Berlin, Rodgers & Hart, the Gershwins, Johnny Mercer, and Cole Porter. As you browse through this book, the enormous (and unfinished) catalog of Paul Simon's art, you will see just how many songs he's written that rate with "How Deep Is the Ocean" and "Stormy Weather."
You undoubtedly know the story: Simon was born in Newark in 1941. He was raised in Kew Garden Hills, a middle-class area of Queens. His mother was an English teacher. His father was a professional bassist, but for a long time Paul had a limited interest in music. At a school production of Alice in Wonderland he became friends with Art Garfunkel -- Paul was the White Rabbit, Art the Cheshire Cat -- and, together with two sisters, Angel and Ida Pelligrini, they formed an a cappella group and sang doo-wop songs.
Dispensing with the Pelligrinis, the two boys performed as Tom & Jerry and wrote an ebullient pop song called "Hey Schoolgirl," which became a hit in 1957 for Big Records. As teenagers they were famous, appearing on a bill with Jerry Lee Lewis on Dick Clark's American Bandstand. In 1964, with Dylan and The Beatles now in full flower, and with college and years of apprentice work now behind them, the two young men re formed in full ethnic name (a rarity at the time) as Simon & Garfunkel, with Paul providing the songs and melodies and Art the harmonies. Their first LP, Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M. featured "The Sound of Silence," a number one hit on the American charts.
Many of Simon's earliest songs were the songs of a very young man, full of longing and self-exploration. The best of them -- "The Sound of Silence," "Homeward Bound," "America" -- are tender, anthemic, and inventive, but there was also a quality in Simon's early work, often overlooked, of New York wit. It was not the scornful and scabrous finger-pointing style of "Don't Think Twice, It's All Right" and "It Ain't Me, Babe," but a wry, gentler species of social comedy. In "The Dangling Conversation," Simon parodies a certain kind of wised-up Manhattan conversation in rapid quotation even as he expresses his sense of lost love:
Yes, we speak of things that matter
With words that must be said
"Can analysis be worthwhile?"
"Is the theater really dead?"
And how the room has softly faded
And I only kiss your shadow
I cannot feel your hand
You're a stranger now unto me
Lost in the dangling conversation
And the superficial sighs
In the borders of our lives
What a book like this neglects, unless you have a particularly acute memory and encyclopedic ear, is the musicality of the songs. The danger of such a book is that it seems to ask the reader to consider the lyrics as verse, written for the page. But even the best songs, Simon's included, are utterly linked to the melodic, harmonic, and rhythmic qualities that go along with them.
Simon was always a voracious consumer of songs and varieties of music -- he would eventually combine forces with forms and players from New Orleans, Jamaica, Africa, Brazil, and elsewhere -- but he was also a reader of English verse: W.B. Yeats, Wallace Stevens, Seamus Heaney, Philip Larkin, and, of course, his collaborator on The Capeman, Derek Walcott. He does not pretend to imitate those poets, but it is clear that he learned from them -- their imagery and economy -- as surely as he did from his musical forebears.
Take a song like "Duncan." Simon constructs a complicated narrative with incredible speed. Right away we get an autoportrait of the self-pitying boy in a cheap hotel room whose misery is compounded by the insatiably athletic couple in the next room ("Bound to win a prize"). We get his backstory in a few lines: the son of a fisherman and a "a fisherman's friend" ("And I was born in the boredom/And the chowder"). Penniless and on his own, he meets a preacher-girl, and, after the service, he creeps into her tent: "And my long years of innocence ended." Now, as an older man, he remembers that awakening with pleasure and gratitude as he plays his guitar under the stars: "Just thanking the Lord/For my fingers."
Although Simon first started writing hit songs in an era that had a tendency to mistake portentousness for meaning, his songs valued patient construction and a clear-as-gin transparency. This seems to be a conscious way of working for Simon. In 1990, when he was old enough to look back on his working method, he told an interviewer, Paul Zollo, "The easier it is for people to understand, the better it is, I think. As long as you're not sacrificing intelligence or insight or feeling in order to make it easier.
"If you can capture something that you feel is real and express it in a way that a lot of people can understand, that's rare and there's something about that that makes a piece have a certain kind of life. And if it enters into popular culture and it's not just about popular culture, then from a writer's point of view, that's a satisfying achievement."
Even as Simon's musical and rhythmical goals became increasingly complex, particularly with the Graceland album, his lyrical strategy retained its determined patience. "You Can Call Me Al" begins like a "three-guys-walk-into-a-bar" gambit: "A man walks down the street." And he begins to ask himself why he is "soft in the middle" when the rest of his life is so hard. Simple as that: a man in the throes. "You have to be a good host to people's attention span," Simon explained. "They're not going to come in there and work real hard right away. Too many things are coming: the music is coming, the rhythm is coming, all kinds of information that the brain is sorting out."
In this song and many others, the more abstract or ornate images come later, but the listener is prepared because by now "those abstract images, they will just come down and fall into one of the slots that the mind has already made up about the structure of the song." A similar thing, with a different tactic, happens in the title song, "Graceland," which opens with a clear simile: "The Mississippi Delta/Was shining like a National guitar." A National guitar, of course, is a steel-topped instrument that gleams like water. Two quick lines and we have entered a new world.
With time, many songs and their performers grow dated, as faintly ridiculous as an old fashion, a preposterous hat. We wonder, How could we have ever loved that? Simon's restless searching into himself, into forms of music undreamed of by the Everly Brothers, has been ambitious but always honest and unprepossessing. Maybe that is why Simon's best songs, whether sung by himself or by his most distinguished interpreters (think of Aretha Franklin on "Bridge Over Troubled Water"), do not date.
In the last pages of this book, you will encounter the songs of a writer no longer young, no longer at the top of the Billboard charts, but whose capacity for feeling and thought compressed into song has only deepened. In his maturity, he considers even the hardest thing with the serenity of the psalm writers. In "Quiet," Paul Simon is decades past youth, yet eager for the next chapter:
I am heading for a time of quiet
When my restlessness is past
And I can lie down on my blanket
And release my fists at last...
And I am heading for a place of quiet
Where the sage and sweet grass grow
By a lake of sacred water
From the mountain's melted snow.
-- David Remnick
Introduction copyright © 2008 by David Remnick


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Imagine going back in time to the 9/11 attacks, when not only TV ads but all TV shows went off the air. How would you have felt about a sitcom that ignored the national zeitgeist and kept to its regular airing schedule?
Accounts that continue posting to Twitter as if the event isn't taking place look, at best, clueless and at worst, uncaring.
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"You'd better come in and sit down, Mz Weathers," said Ted Renver. "This is going to take long enough that my legs and back are likely to start playing up." He opened the front door wider and stepped back to let the older woman inside. "The dining room is probably the best place. You know the way."
The dining room was focussed on a rectangular table set with ten chairs. The polished wooden surface was graced by a large lace doily surmounted by a vase containing a dried flower arrangement. By mutual agreement the two of them sat sensibly opposite each other across the width of the table. Ted spoke first. "In answer to your question, Mz Weathers, yes, someone who lives here has been hitting Yollie. That's one reason I'm helping her go away from here."
"Why haven't you reported the abuse to the police or to us?" The social worker tried to keep a neutral tone.
"It's not an adult who's doing it and I don't think a legal path is going to help." Ted rested his hands on the table. "I admit I was aware that a number of my younger siblings who are verbally challenged can be rough in their communication methods. I'm also more aware now, as I'm sure you have been since you did your case assessment of Karla, that because she's the only neurotypical one of us kids, people tend to treat Yolli as an extension of our parents or an additional carer instead of a kid with her own development and support needs."
"My focus in this family has always been Karla," Mz Weathers admitted, "so I'm aware that the girls share a room and that Yollie sees to Karla's needs that arise in the night."
"Karla's usual method of waking Yollie for help is to hit her. It's how she usually gets Yolli's attention if they're not actually talking to each other. Unfortunately, Yollie isn't allowed to show that she's upset or hurt when that happens because Mom and Dad are so convinced that de-escalation is the way to handle our individual outbursts." Ted sighed and his tic worsened again after having calmed, "Aside from Yollie's issues it's come to mean that Karla, Aubrey and Tim think that they're not hurting her because she doesn't get angry or upset with them."
Mz Weathers took a deep breath. "So what do you see as being Yollie's issues? Aside from being beaten up by her siblings, and not being allowed to react appropriately to that."
"She has no withdrawal space," replied Ted. "There's nowhere she can go when she's had enough of people and needs to be alone. That also means that when she's trying to withdraw to de-escalate, she's got nowhere to go. There are too many of us for the bathroom it be a good place for privacy; because she shares with Karla and can't lock Karla out, she can't go to her room; and often if she goes for a walk to destress, Mom tells her to take of us with her so we can get some fresh air – often it's the one person Yollie is trying to get away from. I think Yollie is that close to snapping," Ted held up a hand with the thumb and forefinger almost touching, "If she starts hitting back and doesn't stop, which is what I'm afraid of, then someone winds up in hospital and Yollie goes to jail."
Mz Weathers sat back in her chair and folded her hands in front of her. "I agree that is a suboptimal situation. So your solution is to send Yollie away while your parents aren't here to intervene?"
"Yes," Ted nodded just that bit more vigorously than he'd intended. "Now she's finished high school they think she's going to work at the grocery and give them her wages, help out with the others, and maybe do a few night courses – if she can be spared. I want her to have the same education chances Mom and Dad have worked to give the rest of us, but they seem to forget she needs then too."
"Your parents have always been very focussed on getting you and your siblings all the help they need," agreed Mz Weathers, "but you think that they overlook Yolanda's needs?"
"I think they've got her in a box that says 'neurotypical therefore doesn't need help'," replied Ted. "One of the things I want for my little sister is that she gets to think about what she could do without the people who are now telling her what she will and must do overtalking her thoughts all the time."
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'And the Mountains Echoed'
By Khaled Hosseini.
Riverhead, 416 pp., $28.95.
Reviewed by Ronnie Crocker
Khaled Hosseini has written a novel that, if his two previous works are any guide, millions of people will rush out to buy and countless book clubs will parse and praise.
The author, presumably, will put the profits and attention to worthy use, expanding his philanthropic efforts in his native Afghanistan.
So I join the global reading community — literally, as more than 38 million copies of Hosseini's previous novels, "The Kite Runner" and "A Thousand Splendid Suns," have been sold in 70-plus countries — in declaring these all very good things.
The book itself, I'm more ambivalent about.
"And The Mountains Echoed" is haunting story that drew me in with an inviting, lyrical opening:
"So, then. You want a story and I will tell you one. But just one. Don't either of you ask me for more. It's late, and we have a long day of travel ahead of us … ."
This tender scene takes place the night before a father and two children embark on a difficult journey from the countryside to the capital that was 1950s Kabul.
The trip has a heartbreaking purpose, however, which Hosseini presents in as compassionate and understanding a light as possible. The father, an impoverished Afghan laborer, desperate in the face of a brutal winter he fears his family may not survive, turns his daughter over to a wealthy couple.
Only in the most dire circumstances would a parent give up his child, Hosseini writes: "The finger cut, to save the hand."
Readers will feel at least some sympathy for the father, but they will ache for the devoted older brother, Abdullah, whose excitement during the trip to Kabul is mirrored by his devastation returning home without his beloved Pari.
"Mountains" then marches through the years at a funereal pace, from the Middle East to Europe and on to Northern California. Abdullah is doomed never to know what became of Pari. And she, who was so young when her life was upended, is nagged by a sense of something lost.
The wealthy couple part ways and Pari is taken to Paris by her "Maman," who is gorgeous, glamorous and spirited, a talented poet but cruel parent who never tells her daughter the truth. Pari grows up believing the photos of Maman's ex-husband, the one they left behind in Kabul, was her father who died before her memory of him could gel.
It's a compelling premise, but the spell is quickly broken:
"Seeing her father's face in those photos stirred an old sensation in Pari, a feeling that she had had for as long as she could remember. That there was in her life the absence of something, or someone, fundamental to her own existence. Sometimes it was vague, like a message sent across shadowy byways and vast distances, a weak signal on a radio dial, remote, warbled. Other times it felt so clear, this absence, so intimately close it made her heart lurch."
Such heavy-handedness of the pen is a recurring problem, and every clumsy passage left me wishing that a literary work destined to be this celebrated would be more … literary. Hosseini's prose can be quite good, but is more often pedestrian, overly dependent on pop-cultural references to provide a sense of time and place. For example: "Back in the States, Timur owns a real-estate mortgage company, and Idris is all but certain that he is waist-deep in some kind of mortgage fraud."
Then there is the structure that is often predictable and inhibits genuine surprise.
Not that these issues will keep people from buying and enjoying "Mountains" or having a nice cathartic cry at the end. Had I felt any of the novel's intended emotional tug, I would have done so myself.
It has some genuinely fine moments, even for those of us not inclined to recommend it.
The best ones revolve around Pari's Maman, Nila Wahdati, an Afghan-born, half-French woman whose intellect and frank sexuality set her apart from many women of her generation.
Nila is best revealed in a series of excerpts from a magazine interview shortly before her death, in her 40s. Hosseini is strongest when writing in the voice of the journalist.
While never admitting her treachery, Nila explains, over several glasses of wine, why she took Pari out of Afghanistan:
"I didn't want her turned, against both her will and nature, into one of those diligent, sad women who are bent on a lifelong course of quiet servitude, forever in fear of showing, saying, or doing the wrong thing. Women who are admired by some in the West — here in France, for instance — turned into heroines for their hard lives, admired from a distance by those who couldn't bear even one day of walking in their shoes. Women who see their desires doused and their dreams renounced, and yet — and this is the worst of it, Monsieur Boustouler — if you meet them, they smile and pretend they have no misgivings at all. As though they lead enviable lives."
Nila saves Pari that fate. Hosseini deals with the consequences.
Ronnie Crocker is a Chronicle assistant business editor who blogs about beer at Beer, TX.


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Just found some time to set this guy on fire to get rid of insects and stuff hiding inside. Turns out there was nothing much to begin with. Stripped off most of the bark and set it out in the sun to dry.
I picked up this large block of wood at Depot Road. It was lying there for quite a while in the recent rainy weather and had a good amount of critters, ants and grubs. I flipped it a couple of meters in the morning in the hope that the insects would leave by the time I got back in the evening and they did!
When I arrived 10 hours later, the log was relatively insect free but with soggy bark and in really wet condition. I stripped off as much bark as I could with a flat screwdriver and double bagged it with trash bags before dumping it in the car. Pretty happy! This piece is probably going to be sanded and sealed with polyutherene. I might add rebar handles if I can find out some way to bend them 90 degrees and attach them securely. First, I have to dry it for a couple of months 😉


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This is a 17th Century oak-beamed holiday cottage full of character and atmosphere with many original features retaining the original stable door on which the Stable Hand wrote his diary and the window sills chewed away by the horses that used to pull the Coach!
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State Bank of India, which has an exposure of Rs 1,600 crore to grounded airline Kingfisher, on Friday said it is exploring ways to declare promoter Vijay Mallya as a 'wilful defaulter'.
"We are looking at various ways to declare Vijay Mallya a wilful defaulter and trying build a strong case in that regard," an SBI source said. The source said that as per RBI guidelines, it would have to be proven that the borrower had diverted funds which he taken from the bank and not paying up despite having the ability to pay.
"If we are sure on these two points, then the bank will declare Mallya a wilful defaulter," the source said.
A person declared wilful defaulter would lose directorships in companies and would never be able to borrow further. SBI leads a 17-member consortium of lenders that is trying to recover dues running into over Rs 7,500 crore in principal alone from Kingfisher Airlines. SBI has the maximum exposure of Rs 1,600 crore to the airline, which has been grounded since October 2012. The loan to Kingfisher Airlines had become bad, forcing the bank to go for provisioning of the loan amount.


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13 Spook-tacular Steps for Keeping Kids Safe on Halloween
A child's risk of getting hit by a car doubles during this holiday. Here's how to help keep children safe from cars and other hazards
Every year, millions of children dress up like pop stars, super heroes, ghosts, goblins and ghouls and go door-to-door to collect candy at Halloween. While this holiday is often a favorite for kids, it poses some risks, from the increased likelihood of getting hit by cars to potential fires from Halloween decorations. Keep kids safe with these 13 lucky tips.
1. Make sure drivers can see kids in
the dark, because
twice as many kids are killed while
walking on Halloween than any other day of the year, according to SafeKids Worldwide. Make them visible by
choosing bright costumes, adding reflective tape to costumes, and having
them carry flashlights and/or glow sticks.
2. Slow down when you drive on
Halloween, and expect numerous kids to be walking through neighborhoods; in
their excitement, they may run out in front of a car. Also, be sure to remind
your teens why they need to be hyper focused if driving, especially on
3. Skip the masks, because they can limit kids' sight, and also because it makes it difficult to tell who's in the costume.
"In addition to limiting kids' sight and making them more likely
to trip or step in front of traffic, seeing the kids' faces and to know their
identity is important for parents and neighbors answering their door on
Halloween. Avoid masks to let people know who you are," says Barb Guthrie, UL VP.
choose nontoxic makeup. Try it on a small area
of skin first, advises the American Academy
of Pediatrics. Be sure to remove all makeup before
bed to prevent skin and eye irritation.
4. Props are tons of fun, but consider leaving them at home because they can pose a tripping hazard or, if sharp, can injure someone, advises the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Besides, between a flashlight/glowstick and a candy bag, kids have plenty to carry.
5. Choose
flame-resistant costumes. Although "flame resistant" does not make these fireproof,
the flame resistance will provide enough time for a child to immediately stop, drop and roll
if their clothing catches fire to put it out. Look for "fire resistant" on the label.
6. Avoid
candles on Halloween, as candles are responsible for 8,700 home structure
fires a year, according to the National Fire
Protection Association (NFPA).
"Halloween is such a busy festival time that it's easy to get distracted
and accidently leave candles unattended. So why worry about candles?" Guthrie
says. "Use alternatives instead."
Instead of candles,
choose flameless lights like battery-operated candles or glowsticks in jack-o-lanterns.
Also, don't put decorations anywhere near heaters or light bulbs (or anything
that gives off heat), as this causes numerous house fires each year, according
to the NFPA.
7. Only give out
candy that is store bought and wrapped, which is best from a safety and allergy
standpoint, Guthrie says. Then, after trick-or-treating, check your kids' candy to
be sure there are no signs of tampering, advises the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC). Also be
sure to read ingredients if your child has an allergy.
"You can also consider sending some of the candy to the troops,
which we do at UL," Guthrie says. "There are pickup locations in municipalities
around the country." Here's one example.
8. Check your
neighborhood's and municipality's rules for trick or treating. Some communities have
curfews and other guidelines.
9. Consider alternatives to going door to door, such as taking
the kids to Halloween trick-or-treating parties at community centers, shopping
malls, fire departments, museums, etc. Check your local newspaper's website
for local information.
"Any of these are a great safe alternatives to going door to door
in strange neighborhoods or walking around at night," points out
10. Go with kids
under 12. That way you're there to make sure they look both ways before
crossing streets, and cross at intersections, not mid-block. You'll also be
there to ensure you go to houses of neighbors you know, and all get home
11. Let teens have
their fun, too. Help them to be responsible for themselves and their smaller
siblings by reminding them of the curfew you set for them, and planning out a
route with them beforehand in familiar, well-lit areas where you know your
neighbors. Additionally, teens should go as a group, never alone, advises the National Safety
12. If a
house's porchlight is out, that household is not participating in the giving
out of candy on Halloween, so it's best to skip it.
"That's following common Halloween etiquette," Guthrie says.
13. Prepare your home for trick-or-treaters. Add appropriate lighting along sidewalks, and be
sure ahead of time that walking areas and stairs are well-lit and free of
obstacles, advises the CDC. Also, keep pets safe and calm.
Think you've got all these tips down? Then test your knowledge
with this Halloween costume quiz and candy
Have a safe and happy Halloween!


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I spent last summer almost entirely away from home. It all began with our wedding at St Abbs, took in our honeymoon on the Isle of Lewis and two family get togethers in the south of England, before concluding with a three week house-sit in London. That was a great summer, probably our best yet. And I thought there wasn't a spud in a chip shop's chance of this one getting close. I had hoped to get some funding for a visit to a small Scottish island to do the research my novel needs, but that was as far as my hopes went, then our children jumped in.
First up, a package arrived from my son, Bob, in the US. Inside was an apron and two notes, one on a vintage looking postcard from Glacier National Park, the other on a slip of paper. The postcard note wished me happy birthday and explained the apron. It's from Bob and his wife Reg's favourite breakfast spot, where they go most weekends with a group of friends they met on a trip to a comedy festival in Canada. The note said that they all have the aprons, and now I can be part of the gang. You'd think it couldn't get better, but the second note said that as this was the year of our 'Paper' anniversary they thought they'd get us paper tickets to visit. Thus, at the end of August, Dave and I are going to America for three weeks!
Secondly, Dave's daughter, Jo, won a weekend glamping trip to Weymouth, but with two small children – one just over a year old – couldn't go. Actually, she hoped to be able to go with Dave, but couldn't get that particular weekend off work. So she asked Badger Beer (the prize givers) if it could be transferred to us, and it could! So at the end of July we are off to stay in a bell tent at a place called Rosewall.
The things I always want to do when I go somewhere new are: eat good, local food; find out a little bit about the culture and history; see as much art as possible; and experience the landscape and its nature (Dave tells me Dorset's a good place for butterflies, and this is a good butterfly year). I like to just absorb a place, feel it, smell it, taste it, walk, clamber, and sit perfectly still in it.
I'll be googling like mad over the next few weeks, especially for America, a country I know only from movies and books, but a little bit about Weymouth too. For instance I'm anxious to find out where I can get a cup of good coffee in the morning, and the best place for an authentic Dorset Cream Tea.
Mostly I want to spend my time there pootling around rock-pools and staring out to sea, though I do want to visit Hardy's cottage. Thomas Hardy was the writer who opened the door to classic English Literature for me, I read everything of his I could get my hands on in my late teens, and I still love him. It will be marvellous to be in the place he wrote Far From the Madding Crowd, and, possibly, return imbued with some of his inspirations.
When it comes to food, apart from the iconic Cream Tea, I'm hoping for the freshest, tastiest fish. So if anyone can recommend a good fish restaurant in the Weymouth area, please do. And a farmers' market, I don't plan to do any cooking, no camping stove, but browsing food stalls is one of my favourite activities, so if you know of a good one…
Part of our prize is a voucher (£50) to spend in the Smugglers' Arms which, the literature says, is a short walk from the campsite. It looks pretty gorgeous, but I'll let you know once we've been. I expect we'll want to eat there on our first night.
Now, when it comes to America I hope to try both traditional regional dishes, and updated ones. Bob has already promised to take us to Vatan where, he says, they keep bringing you food until you tell them to stop. Dave loves Indian food, and is a vegetarian (or flexitarian, he'll eat the odd sausage or haggis), so this will be a big treat for him. I'll be interested to see if the food is as good as my mother's (she grew up in Burma with Indian cooks), and to taste what they say is authentic Gujarati fare. But what else?
I want to try authentic New York Jewish food, and to eat in the kind of Italian restaurant Serpico would have. And New York isn't the only place we're going, and I haven't even started on all the other things I want to explore; I need to make a list…
Header image granddaughter, Charlotte, and me in St Abbs: Dave Dick (otherwise known as Husband)


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The Enigmatic Tsar and His Empire
Russia under Alexander I. 1801–1825
Edited By Alexander Kaplunovsky, Jan Kusber and Benjamin Conrad
In many ways Russia under Alexander I was an epoch of exploration and revision of empire and state-building. The authors of this volume explore the Alexandrine-era Russia not from the traditional vantage point of the emperor and his inner circle but from the point of view of experts and elites. These «men on the spot» drafted «maps» of the empire and its collective subjects and constructed social, political, and economic imaginaries of the empire. All these revisions and projects did not necessarily lead to an immediate and consistent (re)organization of the political, social, and cultural structures of imperial space. The Alexandrine Russia may be interpreted much more as a «laboratory» in which different potential scenarios for modernization were designed, discussed, and tested—but also rejected and forgotten.
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The DMK and the PMK in Tamil Nadu Tuesday expressed concern over the likelihood of shelving of the Rs.1,800 crore elevated expressway in the state capital.
In a statement issued here, PMK founder S. Ramadoss said: "The conflict between the centre and the state government has threatened closure of projects worth around Rs.6,000 crore in Chennai alone."
He said the lack of cooperation by the state government delayed seven highway projects worth thousands of crore of rupees, which would affect the state's economic growth.
The foundation stone of the 19 km expressway was laid by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in 2009 when the DMK was in power in the state and the project is being implemented by the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI).
In May 2011, the AIADMK government came to power and the project started facing hurdles.
According to Ramadoss, if the elevated corridor project is dropped, it would affect other projects like the Rs.3,686 crore mega container terminal at Madras Port and the Rs.415 crore dry container terminal at Sriperumbudur.
DMK chief M. Karunanidhi said in a statement that attempts were being made to stop the Sethusamudram Canal Project and the state government was planning to shut down the expressway project.
He said the NHAI was planning to exit the project as it does not want to incur further losses.
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