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Talk at a meeting
You can attend any council or committee meeting. You're welcome to listen, but you cannot interrupt or make comment.
If you wish to speak at a meeting, you can either speak personally, on behalf of a lobby group, delegation, submission, petition etc. You need to let us know 3 working days before that meeting. If you would like to speak at a meeting contact us.
Where are the meetings held?
Council and committee meetings are held at the Gisborne Cosmopolitan Club, Derby Street, Gisborne. This is the temporary location until the administration building is rebuilt at Fitzherbert Street.
What time should you arrive
It's important that you arrive at the meeting at least 10 minutes before your allocated time. If we're ahead of schedule you may be asked to speak earlier than your allocated time.
Check meeting dates and times or contact the committee secretary.
Who will be at the meeting
You'll be there together with the Mayor, councillors and staff. Other members of the public and the media may also be there.
What happens before the meeting?
Let us know if you need any special equipment set up or if you have any special needs. If you would like to present your submission in Maori, please contact the meeting chairperson at least 2 working days before the meeting. We may need to arrange an interpreter.
You can bring written material. Please make sure you bring enough copies. Committee meetings require 10 copies and Council meetings require 20 copies.
At the meeting
When you arrive, sit in the chairs provided. If you have brought written material please give it to the committee secretary to hand out.
When it is your turn to speak the chairperson will introduce you to the councillors and invite you up to the table. Any equipment you have prearranged to use will be available for you.
When you have finished speaking councillors may ask you a few questions. The questions will be for clarification, no debate will take place.
Following your public comment, you may take a seat back in the public area to hear proceedings.
If the matter you've spoken about is not on the agenda then no resolution can be made on your presentation, but staff may be asked to prepare a report for consideration at a subsequent meeting.
Making a presentation
Projection facilities are available if you want to make a presentation.
The presentation must be emailed to the democracy manager by 3pm the day before the meeting.
Only the manager, or authorised assistant will have access to the file prior to the presentation. All presentations are held in the strictest of confidence.
Presenting a petition
Council's Standing Orders [PDF, 468 KB] explain how Council receives a petition, and some of the requirements and restrictions that apply when a petition is presented to Council.
What you cannot do at a meeting
Public comment sessions are not a forum to request information. The public may not make a disturbance during the meeting. The chairperson has the right to have disruptive people removed.
- These are public meetings you may attend and observe proceedings on any day the Council or Committees meet.
For any other enquiries regarding participation in meetings and meeting procedures, please contact us.
Public excluded meetings
A local authority has to provide a good reason if they wish to exclude the public from Council or Committee meetings - this also includes the media. Reasons for 'public excluded' include:
- disclosing trade secrets
- prejudicing the maintenance of the law (including the right to a fair trial)
- protecting the privacy of any person
- commercial confidentiality or legal privilege.
Public excluded agenda and minutes are not available to the public.
Resolutions to exclude the public are made under Section 48 of the Local Government Official Information & Meetings Act 1987(external link).
Appendix A of Model Standing Orders (NZS9202:2003) lists all grounds to exclude the public in terms of the Local Government Official Information and Meetings Act 1987.


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*Spoilers ahead for Netflix's "Master of None" so if you're not caught up on that show or haven't watched it (in which case, what's wrong with you?!), skip this post until you have*
At the end of Netflix's "Master of None" Aziz Ansari's character, Dev, makes fresh carbonara and this leads to the discovery that he's really good at it so he moves to Italy to learn how to make pasta. Ever since I saw that episode, the show premiered in November of 2015, I'd been craving homemade carbonara. I'd never even eaten carbonara but Aziz/Dev made it look delicious so I was like "I gotta get on that!" When we decided to embark on this project, one of the things I was certain about was I was going to make carbonara during Italian week. I had originally hoped to make the pasta myself, just like Dev (!), but after the ramen disaster, I decided to buy my spaghetti pasta and then just focus on getting the best ingredients.
Carbonara is considered a peasant's dish and due to that, it's very simple. It consists of pasta, eggs, cheese, and bacon. That's it. I guess some people add cream to it but from what I've read, that's a big no-no. Also, some people add peas? Gross. Peas are delicious but I don't think they would work with this dish unless you get fresh peas and who has fresh peas?! Anyway, I couldn't get fresh eggs because our farmer's market is only open on Saturdays and I planned on making this meal later in the week so the eggs would lose their freshness; same thing with the cheese. With all that, I made it my mission to get the best bacon possible! Most of the recipes I saw suggested using guanciale bacon and I was going to drive into central Austin and buy some but then I remembered my HEB sells pancetta, which is a decent alternative, and my HEB is only two miles away. Central Austin, with traffic, is a half hour away. I think you know where I ended up…Well I should have made the damn trek because my HEB didn't have pancetta, for TWO DAYS IN A ROW. I was very frustrated but not so frustrated as to actually drive into town so I ended up buying regular bacon.
The biggest obstacle in making carbonara is making sure the eggs don't scramble when you add the egg/cheese mixture to the pasta. The way to avoid this is to stir very quickly and add water when needed. I followed the recipe exactly and I did not end up with scrambled eggs. Look at that! I'm a mini-Dev!
It was so good, so, so good! It was saltier than I expected and even though I didn't used to be a fan of salty food, that changed over the course of the year. Because of that, I loved this dish, salt and all! It wasn't overpowering but just more than I expected. It was creamy and I loved the crunchiness of the bacon here and there. The girls gobbled it up but I knew they would because it was pasta. Those girls love their carbs!
Definitely check out Master of None and then celebrate your binge-watching by making this dish. It will make all that time sitting on the sofa worth it!

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Show Spotlight: Massive Art Attack at Scoot Inn : Friday (10/23)
This Friday, Massive Beacon (the people who brought you Andy Warhol's Birthday, ATX Emerge, and ATX Converge) will be hosting an extravaganza of art, music, and fashion at the Scoot Inn.
Runway show at 11pm with designs from Tina Sparkles, Hope Perkins, Noel Kristi Wells, Worksheets, and Jen from Team Fabrication (with hats from Classic Harlequin). Birds Barbershop will be doing the styling for select models in the show.
Artwork from Hot Pink Pistol, Vincent "Emcee Eats" Martinez, Brian Maclasky, Justin Prince, Bradley Oliver Wilkinson, Chris Holloway, Gerardo Arellano, and Cody Scrogum.
There will be DJ sets by Peligrosa DJs (Hobo D and Pagame) and Mexicans with Guns...and live sets by Butcher Bear and Charlie, Watch Out for Rockets, Machine, and Freshmillions.
Annie Ray is going to set up her photobooth There will be screen printers doing live garment printing on site and Pump Project Art Complex will have a booth as well.
$5 gets you in...


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This compilation is one of the most touching and enjoyable works that I have ever had the pleasure of owning. Something about the music on this CD, which acts as the culmination of a project by Tree records, touches you in a very relevant, and even poignant place. As corny as that may sound, listen to the CD, and songs like tracks 8, 9, 10, and 16 will stand out as very effective and beautiful expressions of the respective artists styles and feelings. Regardless of whether or not you like or have even heard of this type of music, which some might label "emo" or "folk"(but not to folksy), it's an excellent CD.
This is an excellent roundup of many different artists and styles. I admit I bought it only for the Jen Wood track, which is the best song on the album, but there are other gems on the CD that make it a great buy. The songs by Braid, Aspera Ad Astra, and Ida are all excellent, and most of the rest are enjoyable, or at least pleasantly listenable. The track listing makes the music swell and fall in two cycles, with the second spate of harder music (tracks 12-14) feeling a little out of place. The only complaint I had was with the closer: Tim Kinsella's 'A Picture Postcard' is somewhere beyond unlistenable.
This harkens back to some "emo" and "emo-core" stuff from the 90's that, though it was contemporary at the time, is still great to have cycling through your rotation. Most of the bands weren't privy huge success by mainstream standards, but all were known to many of my show-going friends who were in our 20's at the time, and in Iowa of all places! I have to disagree about labeling the Jen Wood song the "best on the album". It's good like all of the rest, but being such a subjective term...I mean it's probably one of my least favorite on the album, but that's not to say it doesn't fit well with the other songs, and I wouldn't say it's bad. Also, the Kinsella song I thought was really great - and I'm not a HUGE Joan of Arc fan. The Hal Al Shedad is a bit out of place, but I'm certain back in the day when I picked this up, that band being on the comp. was the main reason I bought it (I think all of there music is streaming online from an ex-bandmember - they split up several years ago, sadly), but even though it's definitely the loudest track, it's great like all of there music (if you haven't heard Ivan's Devil, you...well, you must). So relive some old favorite bands/musicians and discover some that went under your radar. Remember getting a mixed tape full of bands you'd never heard of, but ended up loving 3 or 4 of them after a listen or two? I see that in your future.Amazon Customer Reviews
1. Aspera Ad Astra - Black In The Eye (5:39)
2. Cerberus Shoal - A Lighthouse In Athens Part 1 (1:51)
3. Braid - Forever Got Shorter (3:46)
4. Ethel Meserve - Belated Blues (5:40)
5. The Get Up Kids - I'm A Loner Dottie, A Rebel... (2:55)
6. Compound Red - Building (4:01)
7. Rainer Maria - Black In The Eye (3:34)
8. Jen Wood - Sheltering Arms For The Birds (6:59)
9. Still Life - Looks Like Tommorow (4:37)
10. The Deadwood Divine - And Where Did I ... (4:04)
11. Giants Chair - Lost Daupin (3:13)
12. A Minor Forest - Inter Continental Stalker (2:52)
13. The Hal Al Shedad - Solitaire (4:29)
14. Sweep The Leg Johnny - Walking Home ... (5:01)
15. Haelah - Fallen Away (2:56)
16. Very Secretary - Nagarkot (4:31)
17. Ida - Post From Disorder (4:13)
18. Tim Kinsella - A Picture Postcard (3:03)


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Texas Medical Association (TMA) statement from TMA president William H. Fleming III, MD, regarding H.R. 3200, "America's Affordable Health Care Choices Act of 2009," Congressional legislation to reform America's health care system.
"The physicians of the Texas Medical Association believe our health care system is broken and needs reform. However, we have concerns about the current House proposal, H.R. 3200, 'America's Affordable Health Care Choices Act of 2009.' While it addresses some of health care's ailments, it leaves gaping wounds which do not serve Texas patients well.
"As physicians, our primary goal is to improve the health of our patients. We believe that patients and their physicians must be free to make choices that best fit their individual health care needs. This legislation severely limits those choices.
"Therefore, TMA cannot support a proposal to create another government-payer health plan while existing government-payer plans, such Medicare, Medicaid, and the military health care program, TRICARE, are failing patients. We are deeply troubled there is no fix to the flawed Medicare funding formula, which limits seniors' ability to see a doctor when they need to; and the absence of medical liability reforms, which provide greater access to care to Texas patients. We remain extremely concerned that the 'public option' will soon become the controlling payer in all health care, resulting in an unworkable government price-setting scheme like we now see in Medicare. TMA physicians also are concerned that this plan limits at which hospitals patients can receive care.
"TMA physicians will continue to review and analyze H.R. 3200, and pledge to work with Congressional leaders and the Obama administration in crafting legislation that truly would improve health care - the patient-physician relationship - in the United States and Texas. As physicians, it is our ethical duty to provide leadership on these public policy decisions."
TMA is the largest state medical society in the nation, representing nearly 44,000 physician and medical student members. It is located in Austin and has 120 component county medical societies around the state. TMA's key objective since 1853 is to improve the health of all Texans.
Click here to see TMA's letter to the Texas congressional delegation.
Texas Medical Association
TMA "Deeply Troubled" By Health Reform Bill
Texas Medical Association (TMA) statement from TMA president William H. Fleming III, MD, regarding H.R. 3200, "America's Affordable Health Care Choices Act of 2009," Congressional legislation to reform America's health care system.


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3dfx's quad-GPU Voodoo5 board offered to bidders
Never-released 6000 card eBayed
A never-shipped 3dfx Voodoo5 6000 AGP graphics card has popped up on eBay to tempt fans of historical GPUs. Speaking of fans, this boy has four of 'em, one each for the four VSA-100 graphics chips the board sports - along with 128MB of frame-buffer memory.
The full-length card requires a 3.3V AGP slot should the successful bidder care to try the thing out. It also requires a power feed from the host system's PSU. Later incarnations of the card were bundled with their own, external power supply brick. The GPUs are clocked to 166MHz.
The Voodoo5 6000 on eBay
3dfx was founded in 1994 and went on to define the market for dedicated gaming graphics engines. It launched its first product, Voodoo Graphics, in October 1996. It launched the Voodoo3 3500 in July 1999, with the Voodoo4 4500 and Voodoo5 5500 coming the following year. The much-hyped Voodoo5 6000 never made it to market.
By the end of 2000, however, it had run into trouble. In November, it said it was ending in-house card production, and the following month it closed its doors and its assets were sold to Nvidia for $112m. Nvidia had been named as a possible buyer for the stricken 3dfx earlier that year, after the two came to blows in a long-running clash over intellectual property.
The Voodoo5 6000 as it might have shipped
All that's left are dust and echoes - and the occasionally old Voodoo board on eBay, of course. If you want to bid for this piece of gaming graphics history, you can do so here. ®


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Gift the lovely couple our unique and beautiful Mr & Mrs © Personalized Wall Clock.
Gorgeous background with Mr and Mrs with the SURNAME printed underneath. Makes for a lovely gift for any couple.
This wall clock consists of high quality Canvas stretched on a lovely Wooden frame. It measures a generous 10" x 10", and runs on a single AA battery (not included). It hangs easily on any wall, and would look great in any room in the house.
Gift Designed for: Couple, Newlyweds, Mom & Dad
Occasion: Wedding, Anniversary
Want to put a photograph on this Clock? Click here.


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The new version of Vengeance r2, v2.2.4, has been released to the public!
New features include:
- Changed sv.lightstyles to a regular array to avoid trouble with the hunk
- Removed smoke changing to bubbles underwater (wha?)
- Added cubemap support (thanks Black)
- Added _gloss texture loading, laying the path for specular maps
- Added multiple skin loading to md3 loader
- Added skybox name parsing from entity lump
- Fixed bug in md3 model drawing when realtime lighting is enabled
- Fixed black models bug with r_fullbright 1
- Fixed bug in reflective water
- Optimized rtlighting world draw
- Cleanup and various tweaks and bugfixes
Get on over to the mod profile or website and pick up a copy!


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Fayette County District Attorney
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Local Law Enforcement Agencies
Fayetteville Police Department
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Promise Place (Fayette County Domestic Violence Support)
Georgia Sheriffs Association
Georgia Sheriffs Youth Homes
State of Georgia Homepage
Georgia Sex Offender Registry
Georgia Department of Corrections
Georgia Department of Corrections Inmate Locator
Department of Family and Childrens Services
Georgia Department of Drivers Services (DDS)
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turns out, quite a bit. dammit.
Your days of holding the interpersonal dynamic at a breezy, easygoing, half-an-arm's-length distance are numbered, Libra. It's getting deeper, fuller, more intense and flavorful… and there's really no useful use in trying to defer the inevitable. I was also going to add that this heightening of involvement level (whether in a romantic, professional or other collaborative context) is due to occur whether you like or not, then thought better of it—mainly because I intuit that you will like it, even if this affectionate pull is unconscious (while your conscious mind continues to freak out about all the ramifications). But we all know there's only so long that two people can play a semi-detached game of nicey-nice with each other before it simply has to 'go there'. You know what I mean? As the next few weeks unfold, you will see that this is either the beginning of the end… or, perhaps more precisely, the beginning of the end of the prior initiatory phase and simultaneously the start of something more profound. Do not fear the tangled web you find yourself being woven into. There's an undeniable thrill to knowing that, though you'll soon have much more to lose should things go south, you'll also soon have much more to gain if and when they don't.
argh. astrobarry strikes again.
things i'm learning, over and over again, these days:
- there's nothing to be scared of, except of being cowardly.
- being afraid means you've got something to lose. having something to lose means you've got something at stake. having something at stake is brave, and good.
- strawberries taste exponentially better when the sun's out.
- i am really a very slow learner.
now wait until the sun goes down and light a sparkler. apparently it is our light, not our darkness, that frightens us. weirdos.


text: From Rockower Family lore. Rockower Brothers was a company that ran the Men and Boys clothing department at Woolworth's department store. It was a publicly-traded company. When my Grand-Uncle Budd found out Groucho Marx bought stock in the company, he sent him a tie as a thank-you. This was Groucho's response:


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Welcome to hillshirerealtygroup.com, a trusted source for market updates, neighborhood guides, and all things real estate in the Portland Metropolitan area. We offer a simple MLS Home Search that will help you find your place faster and with less effort. Hasson Company Realtors is a Real Estate Brokerage comprised of passionate and knowledgeable brokers.
Our goal is to provide you with cutting edge technology, up to the minute data, and detailed information so you can make informed decisions. We look forward to serving your real estate needs!


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Write some articles - 05/12/2017 11:48 EST
Budget $750-1500 USD
We require a copy-writer to write 10 articles per day (400-600) words, 5 days per week in exchange for $1,200/month ($300/week) plus performance related bonuses.
The content will be a mixture of health and alternative news stories. This is for a full time position.
Previous experience with Wordpress and correct image/content sourcing is necessary.
We are looking for someone to start ASAP,
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March Madness is one of the most exciting times of the year, in the world of sports. It's the time of year when the best college basketball players in the country converge to duke it out on the court. At the end of the month-long tournament, only one college is left standing at the top of the totem pole, with bragging rights for the rest of the year as NCAA Division 1 champs.
Each spring, 68 college basketball teams (including those from Ivy League schools) take part in the March Madness tournament. As with Ivy League football recruiting, only the best of the best student athletes make it onto the basketball teams. These teams are the cream of the crop, the highest-rated Division 1 NCAA teams culled from around the United States and chosen to participate in the championships.
The tourney teams include the champions from 31 Division 1 conferences who receive automatic bids, and 37 other teams who are chosen by a special NCAA selection committee. There are four regions into which the 68 teams are divided, and the entire tournament is single elimination, so one loss means the team is no longer allowed to play in tournament.
Each weekend in the March Madness lineup eliminates a full 75% of the teams playing, and the field narrows from a field of over 60 to the "Sweet Sixteen," followed by the "Final Four," out of which emerges an NCAA champion.
Recruiting for College Basketball
March Madness is the culmination of years of training and preparation by talented student athletes, most having been recruited to play at the various schools. Often, athletes will use a wide variety of tools, including recruiting websites, in order to help them get into the top-tier schools. Recruiting websites can, in fact, make cracking into the world of college basketball significantly easier. College basketball is a multi-million dollar industry, and March Madness is the year's biggest event.
How Are Players Recruited?
Players are recruited by basketball scouts, often from an early age. In order to be recruited at a top basketball school, a student athlete must show exceptional athletic and academic skill. In fact, at Ivy League universities, recruiters use a system called the Ivy League Academic Index in order to judge a player's recruitability according to their academic achievements. At Ivy League schools, especially, players must show significant basketball and academic prowess in order to be considered.
The Madness of March Madness
March Madness has become a phenomenon over the past few decades. With humble beginnings in the year 1939, the NCAA championships have since become one of the most watched and talked about sports events of the calendar year. Bets and pools have increased the madness of March Madness, and the games are televised and hyped to no end. It's safe to say that during the March Madness period, participating students can feel overwhelming pressure to succeed. That being said, doing well in the tournament could mean the opportunity for fame and fortune in the NBA.


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Who says books are not being read anymore?
The internet is immensely useful but the warmth of paper which flows from the tree that has roots in the earth still appeals to readers around the globe.
One of the young learners has commented, " The internet is a mile wide and an inch deep. Stick to the books."
As if just to prove him right the 19th New Delhi World Book Fair is to be held from 30 January to 7 February 2010. There will be about three thousand stalls of pubishers, printers and distributers. It is observed that almost twenty four stalls have a prominent display of Osho books, CDs and DVDs. Osho has become a fragrance that permeates the globe.
Osho Publications organized by Osho Media International, Pune, is one of the major book stalls that attracts a huge crowd as the demand for Osho literature is ever increasing.
The name of the stall : OSHO Publications, Pune
Pragati Maidan, New Delhi
Stall numbers 11-14 in Hall no. 1Timing : 10 am to 8 pm


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Pixie Lott's Pineapple Dress Has Us Dreaming Of A Tropical Getaway
Pixie Lott wears a cute pineapple dress while leaving the Haymarket Theater on Thursday night (August 11) in London, England.
The 25-year-old actress matched her green kitten heels to her look after another night performing in Breakfast at Tiffany's.
"this dress, bag and shoes makes me want to go on hols asap," Pixie said about her Dolce and Gabbana look.
PHOTOS: Check out the latest pics of Pixie Lott
The next day, Pixie was spotted in a cute Ralph Lauren look ahead of arriving for work on Saturday (August 13) in some cute black cut offs.
30+ pics inside of Pixie Lott…
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In the colonial era, roads were the responsibility of local residents. Plantation owners and other landowners were required by the county courts to provide labor (usually when there was a gap in demand for agricultural labor) to improve the local roads. Minimal skill was required to fill in ruts - but the House of Burgesses funded contractors to build bridges on roads that were travelled by more than local farmers. The basic theory was that local roads were a local responsibility, and regional roads were the colony's responsibility.
After the Revolutionary War, road-based trade with the other states expanded. Population growth along the Fall Line and further inland increased the demand for state support for new roads. The General Assembly funded projects on an ad hoc basis until 1816, when it created the Board of Public Works to oversee the state investments in transportation infrastructure. Before the 20th Century, Virginia did not have a state highway department. Instead of creating a bureaucracy, the state bought 40-60% of the bonds sold by a private company to finance a transportation project. The private company then hired and managed contractors to build a road, canal, or railroad.
The industrial revolution in England triggered a series of very successful canal projects to carry manufactured goods and agricultural products to markets. Virginia's Board of Public Works made a major (and unwise) commitment to canal technology. The politics of pre-Civil War Virginia required simultaneous development of canals up the James and Potomac rivers, to satisfy the large number of voters who lived in those separate watersheds. Canals on the Potomac River would benefit Alexandria and farmers in the lower Shenandoah watershed, but do nothing for voters in Richmond, Lynchburg, Charlottesville, or the upper Shenandoah watershed. In a typical political compromise, the General Assembly financed both canals.
However, the interests of those living west of the Alleghenies were largely ignored. The General Assembly financed relatively few turnpikes, canals, or railroads in the mountainous western counties. The costs per mile (and per voter) were much higher on the Appalachian Plateau. In addition, financing transportation systems that improved access to the Ohio River would nt provide any economic benefits to Fall Line seaports in eastern Virginia - Alexandria, Occoquan, Fredericksburg, Richmond, Petersburg - or the Hampton Roads seports - Newport News, Norfolk, or Portsmouth.
That may have been logical to Tidewater politicians, but western Virginia residents considered their treatment to be grossly unfair. The Virginia state constitution was revised twice, in 1831 and 1850, in response to agitation by western representatives to have more-equal representation in the General Assembly. However, Tidewater counties continued to control the state, and eastern voters ensured that taxes on their "property" (slaves, primarily) were kept at a low level while taxes on western land and cattle were maintained at a relatively high level.
The westerners felt they were required to pay excessively-high taxes for transportation improvements that benefitted the eastern region, especially the Fall Line cities of Alexandria, Richmond, and Petersburg. Those living between the Allegheny Front and the Ohio River took advantage of the Civil War to secede from Virginia and establish the independent state of West Virginia. That ensured taxes from their region would be used for transportation improvements oriented towards shipping on the Ohio River, rather than spent primarily in the Chesapeake Bay watershed.
Virginia was a leader in adopting railroad technology. It built one of the first railroads in America in 1828, to haul coal from the Triassic Basin in Chesterfield to Richmond. That railroad was built before locomotives were perfected; the carts of coal were pulled on the rails by horses rather than a steam-powered locomotive.
However, Virginia made a terrible political decision in the 1830's to continue to invest in canals rather than shift to railroads. Worse, the Board of Public Works failed to examine the economic risks when it supported separate and competing projects. Virginia financed too many construction projects, and after the Little River Turnpike few of them made enough revenue to repay their investors - much less make a profit.
The effort to build a canal up the Rappahannock River failed in part because technology for construction in the 1840's was inadequate to the challenge. The engineers lacked the mathematical techniques we take for granted today, such as calculus, as well as slide rules or computers. Dynamite had not been invented yet, and hydraulic cement (which could cure and harden even when underwater) was scarce. However, the main problem was economic. The Orange and Alexandria Railroad reached the headwaters of the Rappahannock and Rapidan rivers before the canal. The O&A railroad provided cheap transportation to the port city at Alexandria, and there were not enough farmers in the Culpeper area producing crops for market to support both a railroad and a canal to Fredericksburg.
Virginia received prescient advice from the chief engineer for the Board of Public Works, Claudius Crozet. He recognized that railroads would be cost-effective even before locomotive technology was perfected, and that rail-based transportation could carry freight at a far lower cost per mile than canals. Crozet was forced to resign, however, and after the Panic (recession) of 1857, Virginia was headed towards bankruptcy.
After the Civil War ended in 1865, the General Assembly chose to pay most of its pre-war debts rather than "readjust" them and officially declare bankruptcy. Eliminating the debt took 50 years, during which the state's schools and other services were funded at a low level. The decision to invest excessively in transportation infrastructure in the 1830's and 1840's shaped Virginia politics in both the 1800's and the 1900's.
In the 1920's, Harry Byrd rose to power, getting elected first as governor and then as a Senator. He advocated a "pay as you go" approach to funding construction of the modern highway system. In a successful political campaign just as Virginia was committing to pave roads and "get out of the mud," he set the policy that Virginia would finance road construction and maintenance from current revenues rather than borrow money through bonds.
He also designed the taxes so road costs would be paid by road users (rather than general revenue raised from income/property/sales taxes) was not abandoned by the General Assembly until 1986, when the sales tax was raised by 0.5% and that revenue dedicated to the Transportation Trust Fund. How to share the road and the load (of taxes) is a continuing debate in Virginia politics.
|What do you think was the worst decision of the State of Virginia - so far, at least? How would you rate the decision to secede from the Union in 1861 and join the Confederacy, which resulted in massive social and economic dislocation? Virginia's decisions to make unwise investments in transportation, committing to build more turnpikes/canals/railroads than the state could afford, may be the second-worst political decision in the state's history. NOTE: Using today's moral values, many people might decide quickly that the initial decisions in the mid-1600's to create an official system of slavery was the worst mistake made by the political leaders of Virginia. However, the decisions to create a legal system that supported slavery were made in the 1600's, during colonial days. The "state" or Commonwealth of Virginia did not exist until 1776, so by a technicality the decision to establish a legal system of slavery can be excluded from the contest to identify the second-worst decision of the State of Virginia...


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We're counting down to the start of pre-season with Maidenhead United this week, while Marlow and Burnham cricket clubs prepare to face off for silverware.
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A lovely holiday with a return journey on the Nordketten lifts in Innsbruck plus a visit to Meran in Italy
Welcome drink at the Hotel Troschana
Return journey on the Nordketten
lifts in Innsbruck
Free time to explore Innsbruck
Return journey on the Arosa
Train from Chur
Visit to Meran, Italy
Visit to Chur
6 nights with dinner, bed & breakfast
2 overnights with bed & breakfast Home Link included
Please note hotel bed tax maybe payable
locally in resort at a cost of between 1-5 euros
per person per night
We depart for Dover and the ferry to
France before continuing to our overnight stay
with bed and breakfast.
We arrive at our hotel in Flirsch for the
next 6 nights with dinner, bed and breakfast and
a welcome drink on arrival.
Enjoy a free day in resort, relax or use
the local public transport to visit the town
of St. Anton
Today we travel via the spectacular
Reschenpass to the town of Meran in Italy.
Enjoy a wander round the town, a meal or snack
at one of the street cafés before starting the
return journey to the hotel via Vipiteno and
Brenner with the Europa Bridge.
Today we travel through the Arlberg
Tunnel via the small principality of Liechtenstein
to the town of Chur in Switzerland. Enjoy a coffee
stop in the capital of Liechtenstein, Vaduz, before
continuing on to Chur. At Chur you join the Arosa
Train for a return journey to the mountain resort
of Arosa where you can enjoy spectacular views
and wonderful scenery before returning to Chur.
Today we visit the capital of Tyrol,
Innsbruck. Enjoy a stroll through the old town,
a coffee and cake at one of the street cafés
or visit the Swarovski crystal shop. We then
take the Hungerburg train and the nordketten
cable car to the Seegrube restaurant with its
spectacular views over Innsbruck, the Inn
Valley and down into Italy.
Today we travel over the Fernpass to
Schwangau, home to the spectacular
Neuschwanstein Castle. The castle has a breath
taking setting on a rock outcrop and is one of the
most popular of Europe's palaces and castles.
(NB. Entry to the castle is extra and will include a
lot of steep walking).
Sadly we must depart and make our
way back for our final overnight with bed and
We journey home via Calais and Dover.
Your Hotel
Hotel Troschana, Flirsch
Tucked away in the mountainous landscape
of the Lechtal Alps and the Ferwall mountain
range, this hotel will really make you feel at
home. You will be served traditional dishes
from the Tyrol region as well as international
All bedrooms have en suite bathroom and
satellite TV. There are also spa facilities
at the hotel. The hotel has a lift.
Please note hotel bed tax maybe payable
locally in resort at a cost of between 1-5 euros
per person per night.
Below is a list of pick-up points available on this tour.
Below is a list of pick-up points available on this tour.
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| Bath
Avon Street / Riverside Coach Car Park
| Bridgwater Mount Street Bus Stop
Rear of Angel Place Shopping centre
| Chippenham The Bridge
In Front of Johnsons Dry Cleaners
| Cirencester Little Chef/Burger King
Hare Bushes Services, A429 Burford Road, GL7 5DS
| Clevedon
Tui Travel Agency
|Exeter Services
| Exeter Services - M5 - Pickups from here may be
fed to Gordano Services M5-J19 to meet coach
| Frome
Market Place
| Gloucester outside the British Heart Foundation
Shop, Northgate Street, Gloucester, GL1 1SL
| Gordano M5 Services CAR PARK
| Highbridge, Church Street Bus Stop
Near to Church
| Ivybridge Leisure Centre Car Park - Pickups may be
fed to Gordano Services M5-J19 to meet coach
|Junction 27 M5
| J27 M5 - Burger King/ Travelodge
Pick ups maybe fed to Gordano Services
|Leigh Delamere Services
| Leigh Delamere - Outbound - Eastbound Side
Return - Westbound Side - Coach Park
|M5 Junction 13
| M5 Junction 13, Starbucks Formerly Little Chef
| Melksham
Town Hall.
|Midsomer Norton
| Midsomer Norton
Town Hall
| Minehead Railway Station
|Newton Abbot
| Newton Abbot Railway Station Lay By
Pickups may be fed to Gordano Services M5-J19
| Plymouth Railway Station SE Bound Bus Stop
Pennycomequick Hill/ Saltash Road
|Shepton Mallet
| Shepton Mallet Station Road Car Park
Bus Stop near Monument
| Somerton The Cross - Pickups from here may be
fed to Gordano Services M5-J19 to meet coach
| Street
Bayliss Centre
| Stroud
Merrywalks Bus Station
|Taunton Herons
| Taunton - Hankeridge Farm Bus Stop,
Herons Gate by Halfords Superstore.
| Thornbury
Aldi Lay-by
| Torquay Coach Station
| Trowbridge
Town Hall
| Wells
Princes Road Car Park
| Westbury
Haynes Road bus stop
| Weston-super-Mare
Locking Road Car Park
| Yeovil Bus Station - Pickups may be
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But today, in the midst of reading week, I've decided to set aside some time to get something published on this blog. My archive is cluttered up with half-finished and barely-started posts that I've optimistically set about writing in study breaks and after Food Place shifts. I suppose I'll finish them off sooner or later, but for now you'll have to settle for a mish-mash of work-related ideas that I've got running through my mind.
Revenge on Customers
Whilst helping out on the kiosk yesterday, I got talking to Debbie about scoring cheap victories over nasty customers. The conversation made me realise what a fairy I've become. Since becoming a supervisor, I've forgotten how fun it is to be subtly, or even pointedly, rude to stroppy customers. I'm far too nice to them; maybe I should return to the glory-days of being a not-a-care-in-the-world-part-timer who didn't give a toss about pissing off the nasty people.
Here's just a couple of things the conversation turned up:
- When a customer places cash payment onto the desk rather than into your hand. These days, I think to myself "how rude" and proceed as normal. In the olden days, I'd get irate and slam their change onto the counter in return. Sometimes I'd even omit to thank them for their custom.
- When customers sneakily bring 50+ items through the '10 items or fewer' tills. Nowadays, you'd be very lucky if I so much as offered a polite reminder of the item-limit for next time. Too scared of causing offense. Back then, I'd get revenge for their deliberate ignorance by hurling their shopping through so fast that we'd run out of space in the packing well before giving them the smug "this is why it's a ten-items only till" lecture.
- When customers ask stupid questions. I've become far too patient and tolerant of their idiocy. In yesteryear, if a customer asked where the frozen chips were I'd have said "well you could try over there in the freezers." The fairy-queen me of today would say, "oh, frozen chips just over this way, follow me, are these the ones you want? There's crinkle cut ones here too!"
- When customers lie. They do this a lot. In the past, I'd have came out and called a shovel a shovel. "No, you didn't ask for x, I clearly heard you, and you asked for y" or "you did not pick this up from the Buy One Get One Free Display because I watched you take it from the shelf over there!" Now, I go for the easy life and kiss their ass. "Oh, I'm so sorry I must have misheard you."
See what being a supervisor has made me? It's turned me into a customer-is-always-right freak! Well, not exactly. It's turned me into the type of shop assistant that holds it all in and blogs about it.
Food Place Catch-up
I'm not seeing nearly as much of the place, and I already feel a little cut-off from 'the crack'. I never seem to find out what's going on anymore and I don't even manage to catch the nasty customers.
About the only interesting event to note is the music-system malfunction. It usually does a very good job of playing a nice variety of tunes and not looping them round too often. But last week it decided to start playing a particularly long version of 'Kelly Watch the Stars' on a loop. For five days. Just when I was one more play away from learning every single note of the song, it unceremoniously launched into 'Whatever Happened to Corey Haim' and hasn't gone back to old Kelly ever since. Perhaps the system was updating itself ready to start throwing Christmas songs at us next week? It's bound to happen. It's usually on or around November 1st. So the next post I write is likely to be titled 'Stick the bloody partridge and it's pear tree where the sun don't shine!'
The cash office politics have flared-up once more. I'm once again in the position of being afraid to make mistakes, lest somebody else go poking through the paperwork looking for them. That isn't the worst part - I freely admit to making mistakes. It's only natural that the odd procedure goes tits-up when I'm rushing to get back to supporting the checkouts. What really bothers me is that certain individuals are taking their findings back to Terry and trying to make me look incompetent. I know it's unlikely he'll think any less of me for it. He's told me numerous times that he likes having a cash office supervisor who would rather be on the shop floor than locked in a lime-green-cell upstairs. All my mistakes ever amount to is money being in one place when it should be in another. And it's usually a case of one till being £10 down and another till £10 over. It's not as though I'm losing hundreds of pounds!
For a long time I thought our store was different. Other Food Places have their cash offices staffed by old Margarets and Joans who bicker and argue all day long and spend hours doing what can be achieved in 20 minutes. I always liked the way the cash office was a small-job in our store. All it ever amounted to was a couple of hours a day following laid-down procedures and it was operated entirely by younger staff and -unusually - three out of four of them were male. But now, people have left and bickering old women are back on the scene. You can imagine the rest.
I'd probably feel a lot better about things if I'd taken the time to vent some steam by blogging about it. As it is, I've bottled it all up and feel pretty depressed about work again. I'm thinking about speaking to Terry to find out whether he'll allow me to work my hours just supervising the checkouts. I don't want any of this cash office hassle now. Either that or I wait until there's a vacancy for kiosk staff and ask to be demoted.


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Willesden Fast-Forward
Daniel Soar
- White Teeth by Zadie Smith
Hamish Hamilton, 462 pp, £12.99, January 2000, ISBN 0 241 13997 X
A woman at the counter of the newsagent I was in was charged £25. I looked over to see what she could have been buying. Twenty Benson and Hedges, a packet of crisps – and a clutch of lottery tickets. Not cheap. I picture her going into the same shop Saturday after Saturday, buying more and more tickets each time. At first it was just one: then it was two, four the week after, six the next – until it was twenty, and her chances of winning were multiplied twenty times. The trick with gambling is this: each time you lose, you raise the stake you put in so that when you win you cover all your losses. There's a catch: to be sure of winning you need to have a limitless supply of money. And you need to have enough time. If you buy twenty lottery tickets a week from the age of 18 you will, on average, be 700,000 years old before you win the jackpot, and if Richard Branson succeeds in his bid for the People's Lottery you're more likely to be a million.
The newsagent in question is on Willesden High Road, where every shop that isn't a newsagent is a takeaway. The streets of low-rise housing go on for ever and the main arteries are well supplied with buses. The people are from everywhere. At Willesden Green there's a shopping centre and a library. Willesden belongs to a part of the city that doesn't recognise a centre, where everything you need is in easy reach and you can move from suburb to suburb without ever seeing the London you read about in the guidebooks. There are estates and run-down stretches, but there are also trees, and it's fashionable, too: it lies just beyond Kilburn, and in the all-important hierarchy of London postcodes it has the respectable-sounding label of NW2; there are houses that go for £800,000. It's where White Teeth is set.
Zadie Smith won a kind of lottery: £250,000 in a two-book deal, and there's a £5 million BBC adaptation on the way. She was one of the deserving – just a step away from the prize-winning bus-driver novelist – only 23, half-Jamaican, half-English, parents divorced, resident of Willesden. So she did go to Cambridge, but then there's always a catch. Salman Rushdie called White Teeth 'fizzing' – and it's been called many similar things since – which may sound a little misplaced with its hint of champagne, but it captures something of the boldness and variety of a novel that is 462 pages long and peopled with a generous selection of Londoners, immigrant and otherwise, who are followed over two or three generations as they mix and marry, argue and succeed. It's been made to stand, particularly in America, for a multicultural Britain, one thing about this country that's not to do with Heritage.
The book has at its centre Samad Iqbal, a Bangladeshi living in Willesden, the great-grandson of Mangal Pande, who may or may not have been the catalyst for the Sepoy Rebellion, and whose nemesis, General Havelock, is commemorated by a statue in Trafalgar Square; and Archie Jones, resident of Willesden hailing from Brighton, twice married, who once came joint thirteenth in an Olympic cycling event. They are bosom pals, meeting regularly in O'Connell's Pool House, where there are no pool-tables and the owner and sole employee, Abdul-Mickey (whose relatives are all called Abdul with an Irish or English name tagged on), refuses to serve pork (except on one notable occasion), and reads handbooks on how to look after the customers, of which there appear to be only four. Archie and Samad were brought together by the war, and their particular war involved driving a tank around defeated towns, until it broke down and they were left without support in a Bulgarian village. Samad is Archie's teacher, his guru, his misguided conscience, and he lectures him on great-grandfathers and 'the East' and Englishness – his moment of greatest inspiration came in the Bulgarian village as they waited, unaware that the war was over, fuelled by morphine collected from abandoned medicine chests.
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Even as Borders announced today that it is borrowing $42.5 million from its largest shareholder, the bookstore chain's Brentwood outpost, which has been facing liquidity problems of its own -- namely a ruptured water main -- will reopen in early to mid-May.
"We announced our intention to seek strategic alternatives to fund our business growth in the long term," she writes in an e-mail.
Pershing Square Capital, a hedge fund, is Borders' largest shareholder. In addition to the loan, it has offered $125 million for Borders' UK, Australia, New Zealand and Singapore divisions, as well as the Paperchase stationery store.
Borders has until January 15, 2009, to make a final decision whether to sell to Pershing or another buyer, or not at all.
Meanwhile, work continues at the Brentwood store, which has been closed since a water main broke at approximately 3 a.m. on February 14, flooding the first floor. A notice on the door encourages customers to go to other local Borders stores, but the closest bookstore, the Ladue Barnes & Noble, reports an increase in business and recently extended its hours to match those of Borders. It has not, unfortunately, added any more comfy armchairs, which was a prime reason to read, er, shop at Borders in the first place.
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algin or alginic acid: a polymer composed mostly of B-1,4 linked D-mannuronic acid residues with variable amounts of L-guluronic acid. Alginic acid is present in the intercellular spaces and cell walls of the Phaeophyceae.
anisogamy: fusion of morphologically dissimilar male and female gametes, where the smaller motile gamete is male and the larger nonmotile gamete is female. (Vs. isogamy.) (E.g. oogamy.)
antherozoid: cf. spermatozoid
apical growth: growth by means of an apical cell dividing to form the thallus beneath it.
autumn seedlings: cf. autumn sporelings
autumn sporelings ( = autumn seedlings): sporelings which develop from zoopores collected in mid-October; used in the 1950's in China for sporeling cultivation in seawater
cell wall: algal cell walls are made up of two components: (i) the fibrillar component which forms the skeleton of the wall (cellulose) and (ii) the amorphous intercellular component which forms a matrix within which the fibrillar component is embedded.
cellulose: polysaccharide composed of B-1,4 linked glucose molecules that forms the main skeletal framework of most algal cell walls.
chloroplast: plastid with chlorophyll.
chromatophore: a chloroplast with some other colour than green.
connecting rope: thin polyester rope used for attaching culture ropes to raft ropes
cortex: outer part of an algal thallus.
culture mat (= sporeling curtain): sporeling rope wrapped around a wooden frame or woven between wooden end–pieces, used for collecting zoospores and raising sporelings in the seedling station
culture rope: thicker usually three-strand coir palm fibre rope to which seaweed sporelings or other sea organisms (mussels) are attached; culture ropes are suspended from raft ropes for grow-out
culture tank: cement tank used in seedling-rearing stations for raising sporelings
dioecious (= heterothallic): an organism that has male and female gametes borne on separate plants; vs. monoecious or homothallic
diploid: somatic cell produced through mitosis and possessing two sets of chromosomes or two genomes (2N)
egg: large non-motile female gamete.
epidermis: outer layer of cells in frond tissue.
eutrophic: term that describes a body of water that receives large amounts of nutrients, usually resulting in a large growth of algae. (Vs. oligotrophic.)
frond: cf. thallus, sporophyte plant.
fucoidan: a polysaccharide found in the cell wall and mucilage of the Phaeophyceae composed of sulfated fucose units
gametangium: structure forming gametes (female oogonium or male spermatangium)
gamete: haploid reproductive cell capable of sexual fusion with another gamete to form a zygote; gametes may be motile (planogametes or swarmers) or nonmotile (aplanogametes); vs. spore
gametogenesis: the formation of gametes by gametophytes; vs. sporogenesis
gametophyte: haploid plant generation that forms gametes
grow-out: the final stages of sporophyte growth following transplantation of kelp plants to culture ropes; culture ropes are suspended from raft ropes for kelp grow-out; grow-out lasts about 7–1/2 to 8 months, between mid-November and mid-July in northern China
haploid: sexual cell resulting from meiosis that has half (n) of the total gene complement; vs. diploid
hapteron: cf. holdfast
heteromorphic (antithetic) alternation of generations: the alternation of generations between small haploid plants (gametophytes) bearing gametes and large diploid plants (sporophytes) bearing spores. (Vs. isomorphic alternation of generations.)
heterothallic (= dioecious): producing male and female gametangia on different plants; vs. homothallic or monoecious holdfast: part of an alga that attaches the sporophyte plant to the substrate
homothallic: producing male and female gametangia on the same plant; vs. heterothallic
hydrophilic: water-attracting; e.g. hydrocolloid or phycocolloid
intermediate culture: period of 2–4 weeks immediately following seedling-rearing, during which sporeling culture mats are disassembled and sporeling ropes are suspended from rafts in seawater; the prupose of intermediate culture is to allow sporelings to grow in size to 10–25 cm in preparation for transplantation to culture ropes
isogamy: fusion of morphologically and physiologically similar male and female gametes which, because they do not show male and female characteristics, must be referred to as plus (+) and minus (-) gametes; vs. anisogamy
isomorphic (homologous) alternation of generations: the alternation of haploid (gametophytic) plants bearing gametes with structurally identical diploid (sporophytic) plants bearing spores. (Vs. heteromorphic alternation of generations.)
intercalary: in between two cells or tissues.
intertidal: occurring between the low and high tide marks
karyogamy: fusion of two gamete nuclei; vs. plasmogamy
kelp: a member of the Laminariales (Phaeophyceae)
kelp culture rope: culture rope with kelp plants attached
kombu: Japanese vegetable made from Laminaria plants
laminarin: high molecular weight secondary photosynthate, a food storage polysaccharide in the Phaeophyceae composed principaly of B-1, 3 linked glucans containing 16 to 31 glucose residues; laminarin occurs as an oil—like liquid outside of the chloroplasts in a vesicle surrounding the pyrenoid
laminate: flat, flat blade, flat part of the blade
life cycle of Laminaria: zoospore (N) → gametophyte → male and female gametes (spermatozoids and eggs) --> fertilized zygote (2N) --> sporeling --> sporophyte
littoral zone: zone from the water's edge to a water depth of about 6 m or the maximum depth of rooted vegetation mannitol: low molecular weight primary photosynthate, a phyol or sugar alcohol present in the Phaeophyceae
medulla: cf. pith
meiospore: zoospore (N) formed by meiosis
meristoderm: cf. meristem
meristem: dividing layer of cells
monoecious or homothallic: having male and female gemetangia borne on the same plant; vs. dioecious or heterothallic
neap tide: lowest monthly tide
neritic region: ocean region that extends from the high tide mark to a depth of 200 m
oligotrophic: term describing a body of water low in nutrients; vs. eutrophic
oogamy: fusion of a large non-motile egg with a small motile sperm
oogonium: single—celled female gamete
organelle: a membrane-bounded organ within a cell
ovum or egg: non-motile large female gamete
paraphysis: sterile structure found in sporangial sori
pelagic: living at or near the surface of the open sea
pith: inner part of algal thallus
tannin or fucosan: colorless acidic fluid found in physodes in the Phaeophyceae
photosynthate: organic product of photosynthesis
phycocolloid: polysaccharide hydrocolloid formed by algae; has the property of holding water in suspension
planogamete: motile gamete
planospore: motile spore
plastid: double-membrane bounded cell organelle usually containing the photosynthetic pigments plurilocular sporangium: many-chambered sporangium in the Phaeophyceae, each chamber forming one motile zoospore; vs. unilocular sporangium
productivity: change in biomass per unit time
pyrenoid: proteinaceous area of the chloroplast associated with the formation of photosynthates
rhizoids: rootlike filaments without vascular tissue which form the holdfast
raft rope: thick polyester rope, usually buoyed by glass or plastic floats, from which culture ropes are suspended in shallow sea waters during grow-out
seedling: cf. sporeling
seedling rearing: cf. sporeling rearing
seedling-rearing station: (= seedling station) glass house used for raising sporelings under artificial conditions using water cooled to 8–12o C; consists of indoor water circulation system, settling tanks, filtration tanks, refrigeration system and glass house with culture tanks
seedling station: cf. seedling-rearing station
sieve cell (= trumpet cell): cell in the pith of the Laminariales involved in active transport of photosynthates
sieve plate: end wall in a trumpet cell with pores through which the cytoplasm is continuous (plasmodesmata)
sorus: sac cluster of reproductive cells on the blade
spermatozoid (= antherozoid): male gamete produced by the male gametophyte
sporangial sorus (plu. sporangial sori): reproductive structures on Laminaria blades which produce zoospores
sporangium: spore-producing cell found in the sporangial sorus
spore: diploid reproductive cell which germinates without sexual fusion to form a sporophyte plant; vs. gamete
sporeling (= seedling): early lifeform of sporophyte plant which develops from the fertilized zygote; sporelings attached to culture mats are raised in the seedling-rearing station
sporeling curtain (= seedling curtain): cf. culture mat sporeling-rearing (= seedling rearing): raising of sporelings in the seedling-rearing station
sporeling rope: thin single-stranded coir palm fibre rope used for collecting zoospores and for growing sporelings in the seedling-rearing station
sporogenesis: production of zoospores by the sporophyte plant; cf. gametogenesis
sporophyte: diploid plant that forms spores
spring tide: highest monthly tide
stipe: stem-like organ between holdfast and blade
sublittoral zone: littoral zone between the low tidewater mark and a depth of about 20 m which receives enough light to support rooted vegetation
summer sporelings (= summer seedlings): sporelings which develop from zoospores collected in mid-July; used in modern sporeling-rearing in seedling-rearing stations
swarmer: a general term for any motile cell
syngamy: fusion of gametes
thallus or thallophyte (= frond = sporophyte plant): plant lacking true roots, stem and leaves; has holdfast, stipe and blade
transplantation: the operation of removing sporelings from sporeling ropes and attaching them to culture ropes in preparation for grow-out; transplantation takes place in early to mid-November in northern China
trumpet hyphae: drawn-out sieve cells, wider at the cross-walls than in the middle of the cells; trumpet cells form a network of connecting cells in the pith which transport photosynthates through the blade
unilocular sporangium: sporangium composed of a single cell producing zoospores usually by meiosis; cf. plurilocular sporangium
uniseriate: having a single row of cells
upwelling: an area of the ocean where nutrient-rich bottom water rises to the surface
zoosporangium: sporangium that forms zoospores zoospore: a flagellated planospore formed in specialized cells called sporangia which develop in sporangial sori
zoosporogenesis: formation of zoospores
zygote: fertilized cell resulting from the fusion of male and female gametes


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Southern Hospitality BBQ is best known as a restaurant founded by Justin Timberlake that has since expanded to three locations in Colorado—and it doesn't plan on stopping here. This brand has its sights on becoming the first major fast casual barbecue chain in the country with a new concept called Carve. In terms of competition, Southern Hospitality BBQ is mostly up against Dickey's Barbecue Pit, since there are hardly any other restaurants that offer specialized cooking in the same manner.
Just as restaurants with menus with build-your-own pizza and burger options flourished a few years ago, this chain is hoping to have the same appeal. Carve will feature a smaller set of menu options than what's offered at Southern Hospitality, featuring dishes that will be paleo-friendly like a "barbecue salad."
Although meat will be a big focus of the menu, health-conscious options will be a staple of the fast casual Carve.
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PHILADELPHIA — Drew Hutchison showed a veteran's poise after blowing a big lead.
Juan Francisco's sacrifice fly in the 10th inning lifted the Toronto Blue Jays to a 6-5 win over the Philadelphia Phillies on Tuesday night.
Cody Asche hit a game-tying grand slam off Hutchison in the sixth to help the Phillies rally from a 5-0 deficit, but they were swept in a two-game portion of a four-game, home-and-home interleague series. The teams meet Wednesday night in Toronto.
Hutchison took a five-run lead into the sixth, but couldn't hold it. He stayed in the game after the slam, however, and retired the last seven batters he faced.
"It's really good to know he trusts me enough to go back out there," Hutchison said.
Hutchison allowed five runs and nine hits in eight innings in his seventh start since Tommy John surgery forced him to miss the 2013 season. Hutchison also got his first two career hits, both singles to left.
Jays manager John Gibbons was impressed with the way Hutchison pitched after giving up five runs.
"He showed us what he's all about," Gibbons said. "That's how you find out about a guy. He had two dominant innings."
Edwin Encarnacion and Colby Rasmus went deep for the Blue Jays. Marcus Stroman (1-0) pitched 1 1-3 scoreless innings for his first career win. Aaron Loup got the final two outs for his second save.
"It's an exciting feeling," said Stroman, who pitched in front of some friends and family. "It was a lot of fun out there."
Cole Hamels, stuck on 99 career wins, allowed five runs and 10 hits in six innings.
"He was not real sharp," Phillies manager Ryne Sandberg said. "He fell behind and they didn't miss his fastballs."
Melky Cabrera and Jose Bautista hit consecutive singles off Antonio Bastardo (3-2) to start the 10th. After Encarnacion popped out to second, Francisco's shallow fly to centre scored Cabrera well ahead of Ben Revere's weak, off-line throw.
Carlos Ruiz started the Phillies' rally in the sixth with a double and Chase Utley singled. Ryan Howard followed with an RBI single to cut it to 5-1. But Hutchison got the next two outs before pinch-hitter John Mayberry Jr. walked to load the bases. Asche then ripped a shot to the seats in right for his first career slam, tying it at 5.
"The biggest mistake was the walk," Hutchison said. "It's something I can't do again. A home run can happen, but a walk is in your control."
Asche finished 4 for 4.
Encarnacion drove one deep into the seats in left leading off the second to give the Blue Jays a 1-0 lead.
Jose Bautista led off the fourth with a double to left, advanced to third on Encarnacion's single through a shift and scored on Francisco's grounder for a 2-0 lead.
Rasmus hit a two-run shot out to right-centre to make it 4-0 in the fourth. Steve Tolleson's RBI double in the sixth put the Blue Jays up 5-0.
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Hong Kong-based architectural practice David Clovers have designed the House DE project. Completed in 2010, the contemporary property can be found in Clearwater Bay, Hong Kong.
According to the architects: "The contemporary Hong Kong property is an 'infill' townhouse, spectacularly sited on a hillside above Clearwater Bay. Combining two existing units into one, the design uses the volumes of three staircases to blend, burrow and interlock spaces vertically across four floors. Each 'interaction' is materially monolithic, using stone, wood and a series of delicate aluminium fins. Defined by these fins, the texture and form of the lantern-volume subtly changes shape and depth, casting shadow and emitting light in different ways throughout the contemporary house.
"Each stair-volume pries open the house vertically and horizontally, pulling in daylight and emitting artificial light. Thickening the existing building enclosure and stretching it across the front and rear, the bedrooms and new master suite on the upper floors are protected from the elements, yet opens up to views of the natural surroundings. Towards the south, the facade thickens and torques, providing shade for bedrooms and balconies; while on the north, the facade transforms into a garden trellis for an outdoor dining terrace."
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Design house Moxy Creative has teamed up with style experts Every Guyed to create a comic book series that features both the good and evil villains you would find in these make-believe worlds.
The White Knight/ Black Hat Guide by Moxy Creative is a free comic guide on how to obtain that superhero and/or villain swagger. Illustrator James Alexander Mathers creates the iconic outfits and accessories one would need to obtain in order to pull off that comic book character look. There's even tips on weapons and evil companions.
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Renaissance Place is a web-based teaching platform that hosts educational software created by Renaissance Learning. The software includes reading and math assessments and programs for children from kindergarten to high school. Renaissance Place also offers live chat support to teachers, students and parents as well as resources for classrooms. Its parent company, Renaissance Learning, launched in 1984 and provides services to more than 60 countries, as of 2015.


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– ORONO – Not all politics is partisan. Sometimes politics can be bipartisan, or, better still, not partisan at all. Gov. LePage likes to say that education policy and practice should always put students first.
While we can debate different approaches, who would not want to put students first? And if that is the issue, then the best innovations will be defined by the problems they are trying to resolve.
Over the last few years, Hermon High School, the United Technologies Center, Eastern Maine Community College and the University of Maine have worked together to develop the Bridge Year Initiative. The initiative began as a response to a proposal the governor made during the 2010 campaign, that Maine's high schools offer an optional 5th year of education that would lead to an associate's degree. This year the governor has proposed, with broad bipartisan support, that the Bridge Year approach become available in high schools throughout Maine.
What are the problems that have created a common ground? Over a lifetime, the earning power of college graduates is much greater than it is for those who do not graduate. More than 80 percent of Maine's students graduate from high school, fewer than 30 percent go on to college and many never graduate. According to the Mitchell Institute, the graduation rate in the Maine Community College System is only 26 percent after three years.
The graduation rate in the University of Maine System is only 48 percent after six years. Approximately 230,000 Mainers have begun without finishing college. They have accumulated debt without receiving an associate's or bachelor's degree. Even those who graduate are likely to spend years repaying student loans.
These problems are systemic, not individual, but the burden of failure is overwhelmingly borne by individual students. How to put students first?
For those of us who designed the Bridge Year Initiative, the successes of Maine's Career and Technical Education Centers (CTEs) seemed to offer an approach.
More than 95 percent of the students who attend Maine's CTEs graduate from high school. Of those who go on to college, the retention rate is well over 60 percent.
What do the CTEs do to achieve this success? At the CTEs, students work together in small cohorts. Teachers are mentors, students their apprentices. Pedagogy is hands-on. Students learn employable skills. They learn the discipline necessary for success in the workplace.
The first step in designing the Bridge Year was to create a partnership in which teachers at Hermon High School, teachers at the United Technologies Center and teachers at Eastern Maine Community College could create a college track.
EMCC and the University of Maine would assure that courses meet college standards and receive college credit, but the creativity and innovation would come from the teachers involved — from the teacher, and most of all from the students.
The program would offer vigorous training in the STEM disciplines and the liberal arts. Every student would learn a technical skill. Every student would learn the innovative practices that create successful businesses.
Students would be mentored. They would graduate from high school with a year of college credit and the opportunity to earn an associate's degree with an additional year at a community college.
They would save a year of college tuition. If they chose to go on to a two- or four-year college, their technical education would enable them to earn a degree. Maine's community colleges far exceed capacity, so the Bridge Year would offer an alternative from existing resources.
While credit transfer has been a perennial problem for the Maine Community College System and the University of Maine System, the Bridge Year would resolve the issue for all students involved.
These were the concrete goals that the Bridge Year Initiative set for itself, and this was a reasonable path that would help meet college costs. At a time when enrollments at community colleges are burgeoning, we can benefit from a pragmatic approach to the problems that brought us together. We have known for a long time that college can begin in high school. The Bridge Year Initiative is another way of doing it.
In Fall 2012, the first cohort of students began the program in their junior year at Hermon High School. In Fall 2013, the next cohort of Hermon students will join the program. Other high schools in Maine will join in. So far it is working because it puts students first.
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The Environmental Protection Agency and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration jointly finalized the regulations to be phased in through 2027, which the Obama administration estimates will save 1.1 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions and generate $230 billion in net benefits over the life of the program.
"We expect this will drive innovation as well as protect the air that we breathe," EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy told reporters, calling one of the final landmark regulations expected to be issued under the Obama administration "ambitious and achievable."
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The final action did not decide on whether to tighten nitrogen oxide emissions limits sought by a coalition of public health organizations, though McCarthy noted "there is a need to move forward" with additional reductions there.
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